Kristin Meekes
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ICU RN, reader, cyclist, pug + cat mom Still š·
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The Haunted Bookshop
about 7 hours ago
No. Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling". It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask. And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
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Jessica Ellis
about 11 hours ago
People are VERY huffy and stompy about this post but just as an inside opinion from someone in LC community, Itās hard to believe there is solidarity with the disabled and high risk people who need to avoid covid when our one primary ask is met with accusations that, hey, maybe weāre just CRAZY?
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Julia Doubleday
about 20 hours ago
Iām sorry that THE SITUATION feels unreasonable. Itās fair to say that the situation is unmanageable, a situation that all the ppl who already have contracted long covid and who canāt afford more infections have been thrust into. That is something to take up with the govt - a reason to be furious
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Matthew Cortland (they)
about 15 hours ago
Itās really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid
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Jessica Ellis
about 14 hours ago
Iām very very tired of āliving in fearā being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they canāt wear one because no one else around them is. Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because youāre terrified of not fitting in.
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Frybread Riot
2 days ago
Happy Indigenous People's Day! If you're inclined to donate to Indigenous mutual aid today, I am housing insecure and saving while also trying to pay some medical debts. Venmo/cashapp: napeskanskan ko-fi: ko-fi.com/hoppingmagpiedesigns Pilamayaye
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Mark Ungrin
4 days ago
The fundamental disconnect is that the steps required by both science and patient safety are the steps hospital infection control leaders foolishly dismissed in 2020. They have to choose between killing patients, and admitting a very big mistake. Turns out their egos are worth more than your life.
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āWe are now in a new reality, and we can no longer rely on the institutions and policies designed for the old oneā āā¦a new approach to governance is needed.ā Paging Mark Carney
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Prisonculture
2 days ago
That's all I'll say. Palestine deserves to be FREE.
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Prisonculture
2 days ago
Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.
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Anneke
2 days ago
A few weeks ago there was a
#Covid19
outbreak on my Momās memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a residentās room, they were reqād to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.š”
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I spent this afternoon reading about ER closures across rural Canada and it is really wild to follow that up with mainstream articles normalizing illness and encouraging infections
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This is horrifying
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Al Jazeera English
3 days ago
BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza Cityās al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israelās war began in 2023. š“ LIVE updates:
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Ify Nwadiwe
4 days ago
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base donāt even know thatās what it stands for.
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Meg Pillow
3 days ago
And more pointedly, we know the right hates disabled ppl. But liberals and the left have a massive ableism problem that is so deeply rooted and that the pandemic highlighted so clearly that we largely feel like weāre out here fighting alone
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NB COVID info
4 days ago
Once again a reminder that Canada does not have a lot of this infrastructure and relies on the US version for info, etc. And layoffs have been happening in PH in Canada. We donāt have our own NIOSH or MMWR. I spend every day finding health evidence for docs, managers, directors, etc. /1
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N.P. Thompson š
4 days ago
Was all set to cheer and then I read it. "It's not all the time, it's just when you're in that six-feet distance." While I applaud any measure that increases mask usage in health facilities, I would REALLY like for the people making these policies to learn how AIRBORNE spread happens.
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbitās Revenge
5 days ago
Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.) If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFKās US. That is not too much to ask. It really isnāt.
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Gregg Gonsalves
5 days ago
What does it mean? COVID may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic; policymakers should consider expanding interventions & data collection efforts to address the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the labor force. 5/
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Gregg Gonsalves
5 days ago
Our latest paper in
@jamanetworkopen.com
where we asked: Following the
#COVID
pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits?
@yaleemd.bsky.social
@princetonecon.bsky.social
@brookings.edu
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Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market
This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2839932
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The Daily Show
6 days ago
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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tru
6 days ago
āItās here to stay.ā āItās not going anywhere.ā āGet used to it.ā Notice the robotic repetitive propaganda that tech billionaires spit into the mouths of proponents like a mother bird feeding babies is never about ethics, always about force, while pretending the force is natural not man made.
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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie*
6 days ago
Bread and Jam for Frances
#MUTUALAIDšøš
I've been housing insecure for months. I found an apartment but need help for rent/deposit. I can handle monthly if I can get the first $1500 payment. Anything helps. I'll hug you the next time I see you. Pay QR codes below. Mvto!
#settlersaturday
#helpsky
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#Cdnpoli
#USpoli
#COVID
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The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
https://healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topic/simple-metal-box-covid/
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Mark Ungrin
7 days ago
For those who haven't been following this story, COVID is unambiguously airborne, routinely transmitted in tiny aerosols that float in the air for hours. Every relevant scientific body has known this for years, but some senior docs with ego problems blew the call in 2020, and now have *huge* COIs.
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George Monbiot
7 days ago
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...š§µ
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Scientists develop first āaccurate blood testā to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients ā but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/08/scientists-say-they-have-first-blood-test-to-diagnose-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me
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Step one is getting IPAC and public health to acknowledge aerosol transmission and step two is getting them to actually do something about it. I had an email exchange with someone from IPAC Canada a couple of years ago where she acknowledged airborne transmission but then concluded that
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Carl Quintanilla
7 days ago
#WarRavagedPortland
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The Conversation Canada
9 days ago
Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism is on the rise in Canada
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Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism is on the rise in Canada
Two years into the Israeli war in Gaza, racism targeting Palestinians or pro-Palestinians continues rise ā and now thereās new data that delve into this alarming phenomenon.
https://theconversation.com/anti-palestinian-and-anti-arab-racism-is-on-the-rise-in-canada-266637?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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NB COVID info
7 days ago
I hope people in NS fight back against this, and win. NS Health is marketing an AI chat bot as a RELIABLE source of info to PREVENT infection. This is straight from the marketing. But it was trained on droplet dogma and claims COVID spreads by droplets predominantly. This is unacceptable. /1
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Iām thinking of the fire safety demo that took place in my ICU last winter where the unmasked Occ Health worker made sure to emphasize that using a fire extinguisher is an AGMP. In an ICU where everyone had Flu A and no one was masking.
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NB COVID info
7 days ago
Holy F. NS health is using an AI chat bot called Nova and their recent Facebook post encourages people to ASK THE AI CHAT BOT about their SYMPTOMS. This is absolutely wild.
www.yourhealthns.ca
#nspoli
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YourHealthNS
https://www.yourhealthns.ca/
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Conor Browne
7 days ago
4. This utterly mistaken but seemingly widespread belief that Covid-19 has somehow gone away is precisely the inevitable result of declaring the pandemic to be over and tacitly allowing people to take that declaration to mean that SARS-CoV-2 has magically disappeared.
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Seconded. I get a lot of shocked looks and surprise from healthcare workers in particular when I tell them Covid is still around. People have no idea.
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Conor Browne
7 days ago
1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.
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āTesting is only available at the direction of Occupational Health for staff who have had a high risk workplace exposure to Covid 19ā I would love to know how hospitals are defining this and Iāll say Iām nearly certain that wearing a surgical mask means you were ānot exposedā
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Meanwhile, in healthcare, infection control policies have HCWs using surgical masks even when caring for a known Covid positive patient. And our unions arenāt saying a thing.
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NB COVID info
8 days ago
I feel fortunate to be alive at this time when I can learn from people like Link, and pass down these messages to my children. Community and caring and protecting others are the most important things.
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Drop Site
9 days ago
āI urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...
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Drop Site
9 days ago
Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel⦠continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
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Da(N95)iella
10 days ago
Disappointed but not surprised that the only person not wearing a mask at the packed Long COVID exhibition event in Vancouver yesterday was the doctor who runs the pan-Canadian Long COVID network. I guess āmasks requiredā didnāt apply to her.
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Julia Doubleday
10 days ago
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
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When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-the-lion-concern-himself
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Love this idea
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C.H. Romatowski
11 days ago
Want to pull out this slide: people deserve to know thereās a growing mountain of evidence finding more Covid infections = more likelihood of being left chronically ill. Thereās a temptation to think that if you recovered ok last time, then you will next time too, but thatās not what the data say.
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Da(N95)iella
13 days ago
There are many other important things happening but Public Health is Dead took home Gold at the W3 Awards in Science & Tech for our work on Somethingās in the Air: The Airborne Transmission Error with
@ukhadds.bsky.social
and Katie Randall. Feel free to let a public health leader near you know.
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Tim Onion
12 days ago
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Thanks for this important book
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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@peterhutchison.bsky.social
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart
12 days ago
Iām on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.
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