Notices by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)

The colours in this image are not there for shits and giggles.
Heroiam Slava!
#SlavaUkraini

So roughly 1 in 100 unvaccinated measles cases were fatal here. 1%. Plus the serious illness and hospitalisations in others, and the immune amnesia in many.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/health/texas-measles-death/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-02-26T20%3A25%3A25

An overview of a new study in adults showing the Abrysvo respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine preventing lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) caused by RSV infection among older adults, a group at high risk of severe disease.

https://virologydownunder.com/a-good-news-rsv-vaccine-story-for-adults/

Here's to all the mediocre and subpar white men everywhere.🍻 Finally, you get the epic validation you deserve. It's everyone else's fault! Never yours. No need to be better.
How great to have better, harder-working & more capable humans blamed for eveything just so your ego can get stroked🎉

"What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

@samhainnight @Infoseepage Conjunctivitis has been common among the bovine>>human H5N1 cases.

@Infoseepage Without PPE?

@Infoseepage They're saying 6+ months *from now*

@Infoseepage The avian influenza outbreaks here occurred in June last year.

"Six months on from the avian influenza outbreak, why hasn't production been able to catch up?
Director of The Splendid Egg poultry farm in South Australia, Liam Brokensha said increasing egg supply on the farm would take around six months."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-01-10/australian-egg-shortage-avian-flu-supermarket-limits-2025/104795000?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Australia will hear much about the evils of minority government in 2025.
I think they're a *better* thing.
Big parties aren't in it to lead for *us*, they're in it for them & the game.

"Those who don't like minority government include the major parties which prefer a two-party system with government alternating regularly between the two. They each get a turn in the lolly shop."

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/minority-government-fear-campaign-20160518-goxm5u.html

And also...
“the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.
Amazing.
Oh and also, also...
“But as far as sheep grazing goes, solar is really good.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/farmers-who-graze-sheep-under-solar-panels-say-it-improves-productivity-so-why-dont-we-do-it-more

"Ohhh we're losing all of our land to solar panel farms... "
No. We're not. This is a lie. And it's meant to deceive us into sticking with fossil fuels for longer.
Excellent data-driven, graphics-based story from the Australian ABC at..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/survey-of-the-worlds-solar-shows-global-boom/104006096

Vaccine time!
The new JN.1 -containing #Covid19 vaccine is here, and this vial's in my arm!
They even put my initials on it. How did they know?
Thanks chemist!
#VaccinesWork #Australia #ATAGIapproved

A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-08/australian-life-expectancy-covid-19-decline/104578134

"And at the heart of Professor Howarth's finding was not carbon but, rather, methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas"
-CO2
-CH4
-C2H6
-C3H8
It's all carbon. It's all fossil fuels. You can read about the slight differences here, but understand:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-19/gas-emissions-worse-than-coal-study-finds/104481570
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On PASC versus long COVID – and the potential for confusion,
via @croakeynews from Feb, 2024.
https://www.croakey.org/on-pasc-versus-long-covid-and-the-potential-for-confusion/

@Developmentdoc @brianvastag This is not HIV. If that's what you're alluding to.

"Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds."
"Tress of the Emerald Sea" by Brandon Sanderson

Part of being a leader is mentoring your replacements and then stepping aside before you're too old to be effective, innovative and flexible.