I've been off Twitter for a few months, but just a brief note to confirm that I've completed my secondment to the Victorian Dept of Health and will be resuming my usual roles at Alfred Health and Monash University.
The last few weeks across Australia have been a reminder that COVID isn't close to over yet, and I'm sure there will be many challenges to come as we navigate our way through the next stages of the pandemic.
But I'm happy that I'm leaving a Department that is much better equipped to handle what will come and will continue to improve how things are done.
A shout out to so many of my colleagues from the infectious diseases and infection prevention community who have contributed in many different ways to the public health effort. @ASIDANZ @ACIPC
For those of us who were drafted in, it's been quite a learning curve, finding out how government works, keeping an eye on evolving evidence and epidemiology, formulating policy and trying to explain it all to the public.
My thanks to everyone at DH who have supported us all over the last year - not least @VictorianCHO and @euan_wallace, but also the many public health physicians and public servants who have made us all welcome.
While press conferences are the most visible part of my job, I was always conscious that I was representing the work of thousands of people in government.
I don't think I'd fully appreciated the meaning of 'public service' before this - the dedicated army of people who try to make things better for Victorians.
Not everything goes to plan, but what matters is that we learn and that the system improves over time thanks to the tireless work of thousands of people.
My thanks also to Premier (@DanielAndrewsMP), A/Premier (@JamesMerlinoMP) and Ministers (@MartinFoleyMP) for the faith they have put in the public health team to guide Victoria through this challenging time.
Thanks for all the nice comments - was reminded of how far I've come as well!
https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1411467109662482437
Adele Komorowski, a 26-year-old graduate student at Hamilton, Ontario,'s McMaster University, "attractive and popular among staff and students," became the school's first campus homicide, her body discovered off a woodsy trail and down a slope on May 15, 1973. She had died from strangulation.
Police considered a range of suspects, including serial rapist and American serial rapist and spree killer Robert Garrow, and investigated
>1) An undergraduate student Adele taught: He was in love with her; psychological issues; "not sexually normal."
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>2) Professor Robert Van Dusen: 44, single, small build, meek demeanour, nicknamed "whispering Bob" for how quietly he spoke in class. Infatuated with his student Adele.
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>3) Alfred Eric Petzold: Classmate, 38, 6-foot-3, "sexually normal" β¦ involved with many women in his life. Claims he was at home at the time of the killing, but there is no corroboration.
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>4) Walter Kubryn: 28, 6-foot-4, sociology student. Serious boyfriend until they broke up.
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>5) Unknown stranger: A sexually misfitted psychopathic type, his motive one of thrill killing
Years later a case review led by Hamilton Police Det. Andrew Coughlan concluded that Petzold was the killer - but he had died in his German homeland in 2005. The professor, Robert Van Dusen, also a serious suspect of longstanding, died in New York City in 2007. Robert Garrow was shot to death following his escape from a New York prison in 1978. Thus, the case will remain open, with no arrests expected.
The article linked below, a longread from the Hamilton Spectator, is a fairly thorough account of the 45 year-old crime, though it cannot really answer the two key questions of the case: who killed Adele, and why was she killed?
Hello ,
I am trying to come up with a thesis for the poem the Love Song by J Alfred Prufrock. My main ideas are:
-It is better to make a wrong decision than to build up a habit of indecision
- In order to really live life one must take risks
-Trying to make the best choice results in no choice at all. There is no such thing as perfect timing or decision making. If you keep waiting to make the right choice you will become paralyzed
How would I take these ideas and turn them into a thesis statement?
