You're sick. You go to a clinic. People are coughing, sneezing & blowing their noses. ...and no one is wearing a mask. Time to bring masks back into healthcare facilities. 🎧 8 min listen www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Love how they declared Covid over because 'hey we have vaccines now!' but then they block & restrict access to those vaccines

Great news 🎉, David has now posted this 🎯 blog article on his website too: COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again (Sept 7, 2025) www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...

🚨🧵 by @david.notesforfriends.com about Covid's damage & a cigarette metaphor: "Your Body Is Keeping Score Here’s the thing nobody gets: COVID doesn’t give a shit about your positive thinking. It’s not checking your Instagram to see..." Full🎯thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19645...

“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...

#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...

It should be a straight-forward conclusion that we need universal precautions. We’ve done it before, i.e. wearing gloves routinely for any potential blood or bodily fluid exposure risk. We just need universal precautions for airborne illnesses, especially as some spread without symptoms.

Come ON, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. Are you going to cover workers' right at all in the #AirCanadaStrike, esp rights of underpaid women workers? Or are you just going to bang on about stranded passengers day after day after day? Why not ask callers what they think of unfair labour practices?

Text from a friend just now: "Why are “travel disruptions” the only part of this Air Canada story the CBC deems worthy of coverage? What about union busting & expecting a whole cohort of women workers to perform unpaid labour? WTF. How do these people think strikes work?" #cdnpoli #aircanadastrike

Last chance! Deadline tomorrow!

Remember: if anyone says, 'we need to live with Covid' but doesn't also talk about vaccines, therapeutics, and mitigations, they're not actually saying we need to live with it, they're saying, 'I want to ignore it'.

1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:

We need all hands on deck for this. Please submit your comments to support the technical & ethical leadership CSA sets out in this new respiratory protection standard. The Conly-led IPAC Droplet Dogma SARS1 AND SARS2 murder 🤡 are pushing back hard 🤬 Stand up for science!

Let me put this another way: Top reasons why Cdn-US tourism is down as seen by Canadians: 1. Forced annexation threats 2. Fear of arbitrary ICE arrest 3. General dismay @ new US 4. Tariffs, levied despite USCMA deal Top reasons as seen by US media/govt: 1. Tariffs generally 2. 51 State 'jokes'

Clean the air. We cleaned the water when we found out dirty water gave us cholera & other issues. But we refuse to clean air in buildings or what we breathe even though both air pollution & airborne virus are known to be bad.

Kennedy doesn't help, but Canada owns this. Med colleges have been weak & slow to sanction quack docs. Public health, esp provs, pushed PRO-infection Hybrid Immunity & immunity debt 💩, 🔥 anti-vaxxers. And public health refuses to use airborne protections to stop spread, telling public to wash hands.

I dunno about you but I want to fight for a world where we share knowledge, try to be better and act with humility. Anything else will lead to ruinous outcomes.

It's actually not "ok when we do it."

Hey so even if you're on the left, turning to disinformation to try to push forth objectives is not a mean that will be justified by the end and it's going to destroy the opportunities to actually move things forward beyond the current hellscape we're living in. I am disappointmentmanda.

They have not led our country 'through' the #COVID19 pandemic. CoVID-19 SARS-CoV-2's mode of transmission was exhaled airborne aerosols not fomites, droplets and close contact. Not dealing with reality has led to endless waves of infections, long term illness, deaths and massive social upheaval.

Naming Dr. Henry to the Order of Canada spits in the face of every serious scientist, healthcare worker, public health practitioner, and victim of COVID. She botched SARS-CoV-1, botched the Seven Oaks investigation, and botched SARS-CoV-2. She has so much blood on her hands. This is *vile*. 🧵

Anti-vaxx is one aspect. The refusal of DAVID EBY and others to mandate clean indoor public air consistent with ASHRAE 241 is at least as important. If Eby and others had done that, we'd be half way out of this already. "Vaxx-only" is a death cult whose policies have a "sadly predictable outcome"

Our asks are: 1. Boosting funding for science & Long‑COVID research 2. Upgrading ventilation in schools, hospitals & LTC 3. Novavax procurement & manufacturing 4. Federal guidelines on airborne precautions (N95s) year‑round in healthcare No strong economy without public health 🙌🏼

New: Our open letter to PM Mark Carney on the urgent need for COVID-19 mitigations 🍁 @mark-carney.bsky.social - We’re calling for action in 4 key areas to protect public health 📝 Read the full letter & share: protectbc.ca/open-letter-lettre-ouverte-pm-mark-carney 

This has encouraged me to bump up my order of headstrap Powecom KN95s from 50 to 100 (currently on sale for 25% off at Bonafide Masks), and continue to wear them whenever I am indoors, while riding public transportation, or navigating crowds outdoors.

Covid taught us so much about airborne transmission It provided an opportunity to adapt & build a “new normal” that was safer for all Had we invested in clean air, normalized masking (especially in healthcare) and pushed for paid time off, we could have beaten the virus We would all be healthier

Gaslighting public and world: "You think EVERYTHING is Covid now, eh?! You extremist conspiracy theorist!" www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Here's where the thread started: this simple, truthful claim. In order to protect people in an under vaccinated population, you need to vaccinate, wear respirators, filter the air and ventilate buildings. bsky.app/profile/stut...

Being wealthy isn't a virtue. Being poor isn't a character flaw.

But that happens invisibly, with no awareness by users (or by experts like public health or infectious disease) that the lack of illness is happening b/c of a mostly invisible engineered system mitigating a large portion of their risk Article on epistemic changes needed. ebm.bmj.com/content/27/5...

engineers in building a safer world that continuously improves safety. And like we’ve always done ventilation standards are adapting to aerosol disease mitigation, ASHRAE 241. The next generation of buildings (once the code systems adopts 241) will be better mitigated against aerosol transmission.

It’s also a direct repudiation of history and the clear role that engineers have played in radical improvements in public health throughout many decades of history. So the next time you drive, fly, ride, walk, sleep, think about all those invisible safety systems enfolding you and the role of

Why are several major world health agencies still mired in 19th-century ways of thinking about infectious disease? My review of @carlzimmer.com’s Air-Borne and other important new studies in @psychologytoday.com. #MedSky #LongCovid #CovidIsAirborne www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Did you know the Canadian Covid Society created a fantastic document in an effort to keep you safe in medical settings? Please take a look, print a few to have handy, and have a few N95’s to hand out to clinicians if they only want to wear a surgical mask. covidsociety.ca/priorities/s...

Canadians, please put the pressure on @mark-carney.bsky.social to replace our healthcare leadership with individuals who take airborne transmission of viruses seriously. This will be essential as the next pandemic is looming

I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.

Dear Canada, I felt compelled to make something. To stick up for, and to honour. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy, light & heart. It's made with deep gratitude for the people and places of this beautiful land. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪 vimeo.com/1056619122/f...

"The research uses a value pluralistic framework to explain why mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 is still not occurring, five years into the pandemic; provides forecast scenarios for the pandemic to 2030, and provides a checklist to ensure widespread adoption of mitigation technology." nodentibiorisk.co.uk

If you do not already know about the Timeline Cleanse Feed: trust me, you need the Timeline Cleanse Feed bsky.app/profile/did:...

tldr: Kids are getting sick at unprecedented rates because covid is damaging their immune systems, while governments fail to take the necessary steps to reduce viral infections by making indoor spaces safer.

Web shareable version. open.substack.com/pub/notesfor...

Your chances of being able bodied your entire life are slim to none. It’s always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world.

In this piece, my co-authors Lyne Filiatrault, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, Dorothy Wigmore, and I argue that the stakes are too high with #BirdFlu for those in charge to get it so terribly wrong again (like #SARS in Toronto & #COVID19). www.coastreporter.net/opinion/opin... (a few quotes next...)

"If we’re only focused on individual change and not on the systemic issues that actually have a larger impact on health, like poverty and lack of access to medical care, then what we’re doing is not really about health." www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

There’s a lot of great Covid related starter packs out there - but here’s one more! We’re seeing unprecedented growth here at the friendly skies - and I want to help connect as many people as possible. Looking for clean air, covid cautious mask advocates to join the pack! go.bsky.app/ALai9U

I've made a Covid conscious starter pack called "Salting the Vibes" - voices on advocacy and/or science 🧬 go.bsky.app/5871Mhv

And 🤬People go to hospitals when they're sick. You are more likely to encounter sick people there. 🤬People in hospital can't go anywhere. They are trapped in wards for days on end.

🤬You *cannot* choose *when* you go to hospital. 🤬You *cannot* choose *which* hospital or healthcare setting you go to. 🤬You *cannot* get home delivery of healthcare, and even if you did they'd probably refuse to mask.