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1. “I saw her messages too late.” Grieving Gold Coast mum’s message to bullies after her 13-yo daughter took her own life.
After months of online, physical and verbal abuse, 13-year-old Gold Coast student Emily Stick decided her only escape was to end her own life.
She tried calling her mother, Sharlene Scott, and eventually sent a message that read, “I’m going to kill myself”.
Speaking to Nine News, Sharlene said she didn’t see her daughter’s messages until it was “already too late”.
She said she felt “sick to her stomach” when she realised what had happened, and said she felt like a “hopeless parent” after her daughter – who she described as “fun-loving and caring” – ended her life in February.
Sharlene said her daughter was relentlessly tormented, at times hiding out in her school’s toilets to avoid going to class and seeing her bullies.
“She couldn’t escape it, they followed her everywhere,” she told Nine News.
“She had a couple of girls tell her they were going to bash her until she wasn’t breathing any more. Thirty of them tried to attack her – male and females.
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I find it disturbing how pushy we have become with the flu vax.
It is not very effective ( on a good year 40-60 % and that’s if the select the right strains which they did not last year).
It has adverse effects( usually very uncommon admittedly) and they have found that those receiving it for the first time has a better response then those that get it every year.
I would rather wait for a time I am more vulnerable to the fly to have the vaccination ( ie pregnant,sick, working in the hospital for the first time in years etc).
There is talk of making it compulsory for all health professionals which is not evidenced based and is a terrible invasion of personal rights.
Already all NSW health workers in hospitals are forced to have it . They should offer it for free yes but not force it.
I pro vaccination - I have l the usual shots and sometimes I get the flu vaccine but the aggressive push with it the last few years with no EVIDENCE to support it I find very disturbing.
It seems to me we are being marketing to aggressively due to pharmacy’s and GP’s turf War.
'There is talk of making it compulsory for all health professionals which is not evidenced based and is a terrible invasion of personal rights.'
Already a practice in NSW.
So wrong, on so many levels yet perfectly legal. Where is the feminist movement on this issue? This was introduced without so much as a peep from anyone.
# I Do NOT Consent.