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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Feb 2019

      Health Nerd Retweeted Trickle down prejudice is the war on the poor.

      *Epidemiologists everywhere scream* Seriously, this statistic by itself is totally meaninglesshttps://twitter.com/bugwannostra/status/1096539431874355200 …

      Health Nerd added,

      Trickle down prejudice is the war on the poor. @bugwannostra
      I'll just leave this here. *776 Aussies under the age of 45 died after receiving a #Robodebt from the Australian government Canberra. It makes the Pink Batts scandal look like playschool. #insiders #auspol
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    2. NotMyDebt‏ @not_my_debt 17 Feb 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      Thank you! The source data is here, although it doesn't, as you point out, include the overall total — around 410,000 #robodebts — or cause of death. https://www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/downloadattachment?attachmentId=320c24fa-915f-40c1-8d8d-d816dd35f95b …pic.twitter.com/Q3bXwMbmFQ

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Feb 2019
      Replying to @not_my_debt

      That's a more useful figure. So 2,000 deaths in a population of 410,000 over 3 years? That's very roughly equivalent to the Australian average, but without a lot of analysis hard to extrapolate further

      1:52 AM - 17 Feb 2019
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      • Dr Vyom Sharma (ethnic mum) L Graves 💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology" 🍩 Musgrave
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        2. NotMyDebt‏ @not_my_debt 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @GidMK

          DHS don't go out of their way to be useful with figures 🙄 We'd want comparison data for non-debt Centrelink recipients to dig into the gender discrepancy, for instance, but that's still crude — current & former recipients aren't differentiated, & that may (or may not) matter.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @not_my_debt

          Pretty much. You'd want a matched cohort of current centrelink recipients with age, gender and the like to even come cost to establishing causality. In my professional opinion, it's likely that there were some deaths caused directly by debt notices but probably not that many

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        2. L Graves‏ @LGSentinel 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @not_my_debt

          That was my first question; how much above the norm is this? Did you know that most people die in a bed? Perhaps, then, if we just kept them out of beds, they would live forever. ;)

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        3. NotMyDebt‏ @not_my_debt 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @LGSentinel @GidMK

          Well, #robodebt has pushed people — including families with children — into #homelessness, but sadly we’re not convinced their lack of beds is going to improve their longevity. You can read some people’s stories here: http://notmydebt.com.au/stories/notmydebt-stories?field_payment_type_value=All&field_contesting_debt__value=All&combine=Homeless&field_date_debt_issued_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmin%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bmonth%5D=&field_period_debt_occurred_value%5Bmax%5D%5Byear%5D=&field_amount_owed_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_amount_owed_value%5Bmax%5D= …

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