It's odd to find myself in total agreement with Rand Paul, but he's on the money here and I’m glad he’s speaking out.

Proud to be part of this new book!

We have some mask distro news. As of Jan 1 2026 we will no longer be using the request form. Instead, we will be offering pop ups in cities across the province. We’re busy volunteers and we’re burning out. If we’ve helped you, please tell @susanholtnb.bsky.social. Masks should be free for all

Influenza A sweeping thru Ontario now. Classrooms are emptying. Consider vaccinating your children. This little one was too young to be vaccinated.

Similarly for indoor public spaces, especially if you plan to be in a very small, underventilated space for a long time (e.g. train trip). If unmasked, you'll continue to exhale viral particles which will remain suspended in the air and viable for some time. Even after you've got off the train. 2/

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

And lastly, if children, but especially girls, are told that our bodies are not only shameful but *inherently* sexual, then it feeds the narrative that we invited the abuse. We see this in dress code violations, for example, which overwhelmingly frame girls & women's bodies as obscene & enticing.

Furthermore, ALL sexual violence, but especially sexual abuse of children, relies on shame. If we teach kids that having genitals is a shameful thing we only talk about in code or whispers, then a predator can easily exploit that. It shames victims rather than abusers.

As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts. If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet

Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews. Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.

This study is amazing, it demonstrates that close contact is slightly, but far less risky for respiratory infections than total exposure time in congregate settings & poor indoor air quality (basically, airborne long distance transmission). Engineers can solve this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very well explained! This is great public health communication.

A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

What foods should you eat during flu season? OMG! Get your flu vaccine, wear a N95 in high risk situations and clean your air because food doesn’t protect you against a virus. #🦠

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise." But sure, keep basing your life on the idea that it's fine to get reinfected annually.

Here is what I wrote in 2020, once again exhausted at people's refusal to name the problem for what it is - misogyny.

I have absolutely nothing new to say about this day. So, I'll just repeat what I've said before. Here is what I wrote right after the Van Attack where I drew a through line through all this horror:

Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.) There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.

'Tis the season!

This is a disturbing article on how the Canadian government uses a loophole to allow weapons to the United States that are used to kill people in Gaza. Parliament voted to end military shipments to Israel. We need to insist that our government follows through. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...

The government of Canada and Ontario should ensure N95’s are used at all times in healthcare settings to protect patients and healthcare workers. This is what the Canadian Standards Association new standards tell us to do!

ONTARIO FOOD BANK 2025: Highest demand on record 🧸 1 in 3 is a child <18 yrs ♿ 1 in 3 has a disability 😨1 in 4 has a job but can't make ends meet Food banks were meant to be a STOP-GAP measure ...NOT a solution. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Public health: "We must do something about all this disinformation out there" Also public health: "Here's a bar of soap to handwash your way out of COVID"

Today Dr. Elaine Ma is appealing to the Ontario Divisional Court the $600K fine the province hit her with for vaccinating 35K ppl at the peak of COVID. For that amazing success, Ontario is garnishing her wages. Shameful. @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social @canadahealthwatch.ca #medsky #onhealth #onpoli

Online Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H), the longest-standing course of its type in Africa www.wits.ac.za/course-finde...

These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta

Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine. The idea is that if you could just... “Change your mindset” “Live naturally” “Eliminate toxins” (with supplements) “Resolve trauma” ...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.

“In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.” Hegseth appears to have crossed a line even the GOP can’t ignore.

“They told you COVID wasn’t airborne - they lied. They told you COVID doesn’t affect children - they lied. They told you that for most COVID infections are ‘mild’ now - they lied.” They are still lying. Quote from @sleepyjim.bsky.social on a different platform

Want to avoid #LongCOVID? Wear a #mask! 😷 Don’t have any masks? Find some at Donate A Mask’s Black Friday sale. 🛍️ 🛒 buymask.ca #StillCoviding #BlackFriday #WearAMask #BlackFridaySale

How consumed by off-the-rails anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theories is the Alberta UCP? Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇 - Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB? - provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)? - educate about "vaccine injuries"? Dark Age 2.0.

Important point: this ISN'T about willpower. It is about our food environment. 👇 The ultra-processed foods problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it theconversation.com/the-ultra-pr... by @philbakernz.bsky.social et al.

BOTULISM is an EMERGENCY 🦠 CAUSE: Nerve toxin - Clostridium botulinum 😟SYMPTOMS -Weakness: Face→Neck→Arms→Legs -Poor feeding, weak cry, constipation, floppy tone 🍼 INFANTS = 7 in 10 cases​ TREATMENT Airway support, Immune globulin TIME is CRITICAL nationalpost.com/life/food/by...

Thank goodness some experts talk about ventilation and masking because these are not on the table in our @govnb.bsky.social healthcare discussions. Science please!

It’s shaping up to be a rough flu season — time to layer up that protection. 💪 Need some inspo? Check out what others are doing to stay healthy this season 👉 tinyurl.com/SUFScienceChampions #ScienceUpFirst #LaSciencedAbord #TogetherAgainstMisinformation

If you or someone you know is being stalked, I'm so, so sorry. I created this PSA a few years ago which lays out safety planning information and tips on being a good ally.

Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was. Stalking is femicide in slow motion. Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.

90% of deep fake images online are non-consensual pornographic images of women and girls. And yet, these images are not yet illegal in Canada.

How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering. snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.

Widower breaks down at Brampton, Ont., city hall amid cries for hospital reform “He launched an online petition demanding sepsis screening and early prevention reform, which has amassed more than 15,000 signatures”

I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Thank you, @dansinker.com for this wonderful resource on whistles. Our community is trying to figure out how to better organize. This will be a big help!

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