Even for 16yo? They’re told not to get a booster here in Australia as too young.

FWIW I’ve done 7, chasing the XBB but apparently they won’t give it to me here as I’m too young… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Probably not old enough to be in the at risk group is my guess… Everything we do has risk, and the vaccine itself is not risk free - are you more likely to have side effects from the vaccine, or from catching covid19?

You say you look “pretty” white, that’s like how “not really” isn’t a “no”.

When my white colleagues get asked “this”, it’s more “are you a local boy/girl?” (just country things…). When my non-white colleagues get asked “where are you from?”, they’re not satisfied with a location somewhere in Australia.

Apparently, for a lot of white Australians, you need to be white to be Australian.

It’s Brother: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

We went with their black and white MFC which also does double sided ADF scanning… and I recently had a bit of FOMO when a colour MFC went on sale (ofc, for like three-four times the price, and at that price I might as well just print colour at a local print shop).

Quite a few here in Australia.

Acknowledging the truth means accepting that we’re fucked, that even if we weren’t individually responsible (maybe) we are still going to have to deal with the ramifications… And that’s scary. It’s far more comforting for there to be a secret cabal controlling everything and that really life is gonna be ok and you don’t have to change anything at all.

At least here in Australia parents were using the kids at the playground to socialise (standing right up in each other’s space, holding empty coffee cups to justify no mask), and so there were multiple vectors of infection. That and multigenerational households are more common in some parts of the world, so if the kid brings it home, whole family gets sick, hospital system overloads.

It wasn’t specifically kids suffer so oldies don’t die, but the continuation is that if the oldies are healthy, if anyone needs the hospital, there’ll be staff to look after them.

TL;DR people are taking the piss and making the jobs of HCWs harder… Not like that’s anything new 🙄