John de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @deNew_John@qoto.org

@deNew_John:

I was really not looking forward to today. COVID deaths are as expected UP!

Just two states data so far, Vic 156 dead, NSW 131 dead.

This is no surprise. Utter tragedy but not a surprise when nation given up caring!

Graph from: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/jan/20/australia-news-live-90000-students-failing-basic-naplan-tests-prison-failures-risk-un-blacklist

A great story about Jacinda Ardern and a painting in her office

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1615929855274811392.html

how it started... how it's going

Swabbing both the nose and the throat improves the accuracy of #COVID rapid tests:

“… combining the results of nasal and throat swabs or using a combined single swab… resulted in increased detection of #SARS-CoV-2 using a rapid antigen test, in an asymptomatic population. Importantly, no false positives were detected…”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35762772

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/4544 🇬🇧🇺🇦UK to hand over 12 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, first 4 immediately - The Sun #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Luftalarm im ganzen Land: Russland verstärkt Raketenangriffe auf Ukraine https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Russland-verstaerkt-Raketenangriffe-auf-Ukraine-article23844760.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=dlvr.it&utm_campaign=ntvde&utm_term=ntvde

Окланд вітається
#Auckland #Skytower #Waitematā

"In five momentous years Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most important postwar prime minister"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/19/in-five-momentous-years-jacinda-ardern-became-new-zealands-most-important-postwar-prime-minister

Chestnuts

11 January 1901 | A Polish woman, Honorata Urzyczak, was born in Warsaw. A teacher.

She was imprisoned in #Auschwitz on 30 July 1942.
No. 13163
Evacuated to Bergen-Belsen and liberated there.

Learn more about women at Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #women #teacher #Warsaw

Die ukrainische Verteidigung im Donbass zeigt sich weiter robust gegen russische Angriffe. Doch auch bei einer Einnahme Bachmuts ginge die Schlacht in der Ostukraine weiter.
Bachmut entscheidet nicht Schlacht um Donbass

Guy Picciotto of Fugazi at Maxwell Club, Hoboken, New Jersey, September 8, 1989.
Photosource : Dischcord Record

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #fugazi #guypicciotto #history #punkrockhistory

Vor fünf Wochen hat die chinesische Regierung ihre strikten Corona-Maßnahmen beendet. Seitdem sind offiziellen Angaben zufolge 60.000 Menschen im Zusammenhang mit Corona gestorben.
China: Fast 60.000 Corona-Tote seit Dezember

Tausende Menschen haben in Lützerath gegen die Räumung der Ortschaft protestiert. Am Rande der Kundgebung kam es zu Ausschreitungen.
Zusammenstöße bei Demo für Erhalt von Lützerath | DW | 14.01.2023
#Lützerath #Braunkohle #Räumung #Klimaaktivisten #GretaThunberg

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/4632 🇬🇧🇺🇦In addition to transferring 14 units of Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, the UK also announced the delivery of 30 units of 155-mm AS-90 self-propelled guns at once. It is reported by Sky News. (PHOTO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia