Infant mortality in the USA

kind of incredible...what masks, distancing and school closures did to influenza activity early in the pandemic. Dashed line is pandemic onset in Ontario. Red=flu B, blue = flu A. Masking and closures are not sustainable population level strategies, but cleaning indoor air (same result) is.

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

It seems to me that a "comprehensive overview of cardiovascular prevention strategies across all stages of COVID-19" should start with the most important one: "try to not get covid". It's weird that this step is not mentioned, given all the other things they talk about.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

"However, he said that for people not in at-risk groups, vaccination against COVID-19 and the flu "is not a step we necessarily recommend." Apparently Quebec's government is anti-vax. Welcome to the dark ages of kakistocracy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ah, well

This is worth 15 minutes of your time when you have it. My goodness youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8

Most people don’t realize that “Love You Forever” was written for Robert’s two precious stillborn children.

But you didn’t wear masks in 2019! Yeah that’s because we learned to adapt our behaviour during an ongoing pandemic, you should try it.

“During COVID” = September 2025 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

A well done study by a group that I think are probably the major ipac thought leaders in Ontario demonstrates that clean indoor air in hospital rooms reduces sars-2 transmission. The tide really is turning. Kudos. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Poor indoor air quality costing New Zealand a billion dollars each year, researchers say www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A very big thing indeed We literally didn’t have to have a pandemic. Don‘t @ me; that’s what the math says, and I don’t think it’s wrong

The guidance changed over the Summer for #NHSStaff to wear ffp3 respirators to protect themselves from airborne transmission. This is vital, especially with 13 million clinically vulnerable unvaccinated this Winter. Would Labour like to explain why there has been no messaging on this?

Same anti-mask bullshit we saw from public health at the beginning of the pandemic. Some of the same reasons as well - they don't want to admit it's as dangerous as it is.

Here's a glimpse of what diphtheria was like before the vaccine. My great grandmother lost 3 children over three days - she was pregnant with my grandfather at the time.

Here’s diphtheria, where the effects are so huge that we needed a log scale on the graph

Apparently the Florida surgeon general says pertussis vaccine doesn’t reduce transmission. The data would like a word…(whole cell killed vaccine introduced in the early 1940s)

“We need better air quality in our public spaces,” Vipond said. “We need to be treating our air they way we treat our water, not just because of COVID but to prepare for the next airborne pandemic.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I can't open my windows in the morning without checking the air quality report first, but I'm just glad Carney is focusing on what's really important: protecting the auto industry from its own failure to adapt to the present.

Masks are back at my hospital but I don’t see any staff wearing them 🙃 #nbpoli #CovidIsAirborne There is already a Covid outbreak though on a unit 👍 gosh could @ipaccanada.bsky.social ‘s refusal to acknowledge airborne transmission and respirators be connected to hospital covid outbreaks?!

Medical culture: 30 hours shifts? Pfft, in my day we used to do 72 hour call and you didn't see us complaining. You're a doctor, not a weak human. Also medical culture: Now just remember masks are hard to wear so no judging! Masks give you pimples and fog your glasses. We're only human after all.

Hospital network to advise using seat belts again as vehicle collisions rise

The more frightening thing about this data is that 10% of Democrats also believe this 💩 and about 1/5 aren’t really sure that the vaccines actually saved more lives or not…

OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.

Polycrisis, but make sure you ignore it and remain in your routines of labour and consumption

Maybe because it’s not actually “post-covid”, given covid continues to circulate and many places are experience surges at the moment. No matter how much we *want* it to be over, wishing something doesn’t make it so. But actual layers of protections could make it so… www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Some people in my life are very upset I went to a Covid cautious club night because that breaks their narrative of me as a 'hermit living in fear'

In the spirit of grace and humanity, I’d just like to take a moment to share a giant middle finger with all the privileged fuckos who normalized this 🖕

True. And in Canada, NACI’s and the Canadian Pediatric Society’s “you do you” unwillingness to strongly recommend COVID vaccination for children despite @jamapediatrics.com declaring long COVID a leading chronic childhood disease has carried water for the restriction of vaccine access in Alberta.

We no longer have the kind of public health infrastructure that allows you to be blasé about your and others’ health (if we ever did). Will you reconsider masking now?

True post about the current goings ons with the US CDC

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

#Z94.4 The Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition put out a statement supporting CSA’s revisions to Z94.4. Over 1,700 individuals and organizations signed on to the statement - including unions representing over 3 million workers in 🇨🇦. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Unbelievable but believable. Ugh. Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump... Yet another discredited voice using a discredited “study” (while ignoring a large body of evidence) used to support harmful BS. Dark Age 2.0

To @mark-carney.bsky.social I know you want to stay out of #AlbertaPolitics I do too But Albertans are still Canadian and as a Canadian I have a question- Are Albertan children entitled to healthcare, including access to vaccinations? Asking for #Alberta #cdnpoli #ableg

I went back over the 22 Aug press release, and Blake is correct - it says more than once that "all Albertans" not eligible under phase 1 will be part of phase 2. Journalists, please question Smith and LaGrange about limiting covid vax to those under 12. Also, ask if the CMOH endorses this policy.

The press release says phase 2 is "all other Albertans", but the guidance posted for phase two says "all other Albertans aged 12 and up." They are banning covid vaccination in most children under 12 while hiding it in the press release! www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...

I am absolutely livid right now. The UCP is now excluding kids below the age of 12 from getting the COVID vaccine. I have a nine-year-old who will no longer be eligible for the vaccine because our Premier is an anti-vaxxer. I hate it here.

The UCP in Alberta have quietly announced a ban on covid vaccination for most kids under 12, please report on this and do anything you can to stop it. They have revised to a two phase rollout, neither of which make kids without severe medical eligible for vaccination. www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...

Just need to get sick more to be healthy folks

To decide between these claims, everyone will simply apply their best scientific analytical lese to this. That is: which hypothesis means I can still have brunch and also that I don't have to do anything or change anything?

COVID is definitely not doing anything to the immune system guys. Ashish Jha said so which makes it true. Ignore doubling risks of some HPV-related cancers: idp.springer.com/authorize?re...

A familiar refrain to anyone trying to challenge the status quo dogma of MDs, even when their dogma is highly incongruent with the latest good science.

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

I remember someone else had said this as well, that the right is very good at making spaces welcoming and fostering immediate comradery. It was a key strength to the “freedom” convoys. People kept coming back to march for ???? every week because it became their main social circle and support

Of note to Albertans, whose government has cited the current CDC recommendations to justify its own COVID vaccination policy: