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kylie March 28, 2022

We were out for lunch recently, and my youngest son needed to go to the toilet, so my partner took him - the lady behind me said to me “oh what a great dad leaving his lunch” - he is a great dad, but not for taking his son to the toilet 🙄🙄

kylie October 13, 2021

@sharma llama ding dong yes me too!!! With my second I was soooooooo happy to be having another boy, they couldn’t be more different, but they are such good mates. 

kylie August 9, 2021

@guest2 maybe it is ageism, but the health advice is that it’s safe for over 60’s and that’s what they should take. We don’t have the luxury when we don’t have enough vaccines to be choosy - but I don’t believe in forcing people to take the vaccine, I’m just never going to agree with people eligible for AZ and not Pfizer holding out -it’s just a decision that affects everyone. 

kylie August 9, 2021

@hopey I agree that we should never mandate vaccination and everyone has a choice what they put in their body (although I do support business owners refusing service and employers refusing applicants who are not vaccinated)

I also don’t have issue with younger people waiting for Pfizer, if that’s the health advice they’ve been given (such as yourself)
But I also feel like for some of us - we don’t have choice really - we don’t have enough Pfizer to go around, and we won’t have enough Pfizer / moderna to go around until next year, and it’s not a good argument to say “my body my choice” or “we’re a free country” because every single person who is eligible for AZ due to age, and not taking it, is making a decision that affects the health and livelihoods of those around them - maybe they think “I’m just one person” - but there are so many of them, and it puts our opening up further and further back. 

kylie August 9, 2021

@guest2 but it IS ill informed - every single medical and scientific body in Australia agree that it’s an effective, safe, vaccine - and if you’re in Sydney in particular, the best vaccine is the one you can get, regardless of age. Yes, there are very rare side effects,  but the risk gets smaller with age - which is why it is frustrating and selfish when we see the low vax rates of older people, many of whom are waiting for Pfizer - when those jabs would be better placed in a younger persons arm. 

Personally, I’m off to get AZ tomorrow - I’m sick of waiting, and I’ll be doing my bit to get us open sooner. 

kylie July 24, 2021

@dangerk  The BLM protests in Australia were also discouraged and condemned at the time due to covid concerns, the behaviour of those protesting was clearly better than what we’ve seen today, and the covid situation during the BLM protests and today, was completely different - it was June 2020, most areas were out of lockdown with a smattering of cases - today we have 3 states in hard lockdown with a new, harder to contain variant.

However, in my opinion  - there is a difference between people protesting for equality and the end to systematic racism to people protesting against vaccinations and lockdowns - which are universally accepted measures to save lives. 

kylie July 15, 2021

I’m slightly more positive this lockdown, than last time that we’ll come out of it on time.  And I’m also not doing any of the above either, and I’m thoroughly enjoying a glass or two of wine tonight. 

Covid SUCKS and we need more vaccines - only then can we live without this constant lockdown anxiety only Victorians (and probably soon enough Sydney Siders) really understand. 

kylie May 28, 2021

The hysteria over the side effects of astra Zeneca is just another of the federal governments vaccine mistakes -  and the media’s tendency to pounce on the very few people who have sadly suffered side effects rather than the vast improvement the same jabs have made to life in covid riddled counties overseas is just ridiculous.  
To think this way of life In Australia is sustainable is ridiculous. Just because we have avoided the worst of covid doesn’t mean we should remain unvaccinated and cut off from the world - the only way out is vaccination - I encourage mamamia to publish more articles on vaccinations from experts 

kylie May 6, 2021

@cat yep - 100% I agree 

kylie May 6, 2021

@guest2  I’m not suggesting we do away with quarantine and open up to let everyone in quarantine free - but I think our hotel quarantine is working OK, we’ve only had a relatively small number of leaks and we’ve coped OK with them. But we’re 18 months into this pandemic, we should, by now, be able to handle even more travellers through the system. The thing that for me makes it racist is the double standards towards the EU\UK\US, when they had hundreds of thousands of cases per day the planes still (painfully slowly) kept coming - and theoretically, by now, our hotel quarantine  system should be even tighter, however - because this is India, and the majority of Australians over there are of Indian descent - people seem much more eager

to shut the border to them, and the government know that it won’t face the same backlash (though pleasingly they might have been surprised) than if it were a western nation.
It doesn’t matter how many more people from India are covid positive when they arrive here - we should be able to handle it, and I think we could - but given our vaccine rollout has been so poor, and the uptake on it is going to continue to be low - the government has chosen to react to India with fear and that’s what’s so disappointing and typical. 

Not a moral high ground - just an opinion that we should be doing better, for our overseas citizens, whatever their background is. 

kylie May 5, 2021

I really worry about Australia’s standing in the global community once covid is finally over - we’ve ostracised ourself in order to keep covid out, which for the most part has worked, at the expense of humanity and empathy at times. I can’t think of another democratic country who has been so solely concerned about their own standing in this pandemic without much concern for others, or indeed it’s own citizens. It’s embarrassing and disappointing - but not entirely surprising from our xenophobic governments.

kylie April 30, 2021

#18, Christie hit the nail on the head - let’s stop competing on how we birth our babies - we don’t need a race to the bottom, let’s elevate and celebrate positive experiences, no matter how they happen. I’ve had 2 c sections, one not planned and a little shit,  and one planned and perfect - the recovery is no joke, but I can’t imagine it’s great for a vaginal birth either. 

kylie April 8, 2021

@mamamia-user-556745246 We all obviously wish that Khloe felt comfortable to publish more realistic photos - but the fact is, it’s her decision what gets posted of her. I don’t know anyone who posts photos online where they don’t feel good about themselves, it’s all about the lighting and the angles. So whilst it’s disappointing, it’s not really Khloes responsibility to post natural photos instead of the edited ones, just so we can all feel better about ourselves. 

kylie February 6, 2021

@anonymous I understand hesitation, it makes sense, especially when our kids are involved, but....vaccines are such a privilege - there are so many countries that kids are dying of all the dozens of things you rightfully say our kids are vaccinated against. 

This vaccine is the coming together of all the worlds best scientists, researchers and doctors - and it’s our way out of this mess (so long as those poorer countries are also vaccinated at an equal rate).

kylie November 18, 2020

I had zero sex - not out of choice, but out of fear of vomiting in the first four months or putting my hip out in the last five months due to PGP 😩😩😩 

kylie September 7, 2020

@cat you’re right - young people, and some of the lowest income earners in retail and hospitality are the sacrificial lambs of this pandemic -  I don’t think anyone is questioning that we needed to lockdown in order to protect our hospital system, but now I think the question now is surrounding the trigger points at which we open up, and whether they’re achievable.

 If we get to the low numbers NSW is able to contain it at, which we will in the upcoming weeks -  then our death rate from new infections will be much much lower - however retail and hospitality still won’t be able to open which for many of those business owners is likely to be the final nail in the coffin.
 If the Andrews government doesn’t feel they are capable of maintaining low numbers without lockdowns - then they’re not fit for service (and I say this as a former supporter - would never vote for the other guy) 

kylie July 31, 2020

There are a lot of stories of employers essentially telling sick employees they come in or they don’t come back - staying home when you’re sick seems like a pretty easy thing to do when you’ve got access to sick leave, or work for a responsible employer who will take you back when you’re well - but for people living pay to pay, what is $1500 pandemic pay when you don’t have a job to come back to? I’m not saying it’s right, I’m not making excuses - but the blame shouldn’t be placed solely on the individuals and we should be asking more questions of the employers and the laws surrounding casual labour. 

kylie July 4, 2020

I assume there’s just as many people across the country  who believe such conspiracies - so perhaps the reason for the test refusal is more to do with the Victorian governments poor communication to immigrant and vulnerable people throughout the whole pandemic which has resulted in a lack of understanding In these communities about the importance of testing in wide numbers.

kylie June 20, 2020

@guest2  Other states had protests with no uptick in cases.  Dan Andrews and his experts chose a path early on that was separate to other states and the federal guidelines - they got it wrong and need to take some of the responsibility - which isn’t Dan Andrews strong point.  NSW opened restaurants and cafes etc prior to increasing private gatherings - social distancing is easier to control in a restaurant than in someone’s house, with the added economical benefits. 

Kylie April 27, 2020

So true. They’re also being guided by their unions and, in Victoria particularly, state governments who seem to be amplifying these fears.