Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off. Why? It was hurting their profits. They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved. Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy. Profit over people.

I fully realize that a lot of the crap going down in the States affects us here in Canada, and I feel horrible for the people living that nightmare, but omg I have to stop doomscrolling US politics.

Why did I go in here? Downvotes for common sense, I guess. 🙄 #covid

If only there was some kind of mitigation that could be used to help limit the spread of influenza. I mean, it’s not like we eradicated a flu strain in the recent past or anything. Oh well.

Is this what they meant by “applying what we learned from COVID to future pandemics”?

Wtf

Pretty cool to have two albums (that I created art for) get nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards. Feeling very fortunate to get to work with such talented and lovely people.

I feel like there’s a COVID meme here

lol.

I heard rumblings about this in the spring but then nothing. Glad this is a thing!! Thank you @breatheteq.bsky.social !

Remember when this didn’t happen all the time? Like, prior to 2021? Weird.

Do you feel like the only one who still wears a mask at home in 2025 when people are still sick? Well guess what? You're in good company - thank you, Christina Applegate!

Stating the obvious, but man, there’s some disturbing shit going on in Chicago. The US is fucked up.

Just keep referring to Covid in the past tense, I guess. Whatever gets you through the night.

Addison Barger has to secretly be from Halifax or something, right? He feels like such an east coast boy. #bluejays

Great thread here on navigating COVID as a parent as well as the media’s complicity in mass infection. The CBC has been hugely disappointing throughout the pandemic. (Looking at you, Ian Hanomansing and buddy Bogoch). You may not have marched with the freedumb convoy but you might as well have.

With a few exceptions, CBC has been a huge disappointment throughout the pandemic. Sycophantic towards authority, hostile to those of its own reporters who stepped up, choosing clinicians with no advanced science training (but close ties to senior CBC staff) to displace actual experts, and worse...

I get that the vax helps to blunt the acute stage of COVID infection. It may also help slightly in avoiding long COVID. But we know it doesn’t prevent infection & that damage is cumulative, even if symptoms are mild, & increases LC risk. A vax-only approach is just another form of denial.

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Oct 26. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

A Blue Jay won a Gold Glove, I guess? Even this is kind of a letdown.

"Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm" "Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo, seem to be misleading people and hoping for the best." Source: archive.li/aKlzJ

The fact that Ernie Clement spoke more about losing his friends than losing the World Series tells you he should be a Blue Jay for life. #bluejays #jays

Woke up with The Hip’s ‘Long Time Running’ stuck in my head. Then I remembered why. 💔 That was certainly a choice, Sportsnet. #bluejays

Seeing all the posts from a few hours ago is rough. #bluejays

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Just watched that interview. Bassitt. 💔💔💔

100%. Easier to process and mourn with your people.

I think I will love this version of the Toronto Blue Jays forever. 💙

Make it so. We have unfinished business. #bluejays

Instant heartbreak. :(

You can tell how much they genuinely love each other. Never seen anything like this. Such a special group. Can they replicate this next year? So sad that we probably won’t be able to experience this again. #jays #bluejays

Having a late night scotch to send off the Jays’ amazing and heartbreaking run. Cheers, folks. #jays #bluejays

Shit. Ernie is gonna make me cry. 😭

They played their hearts out. They didn’t go down easy. They went down swinging. ❤️‍🩹

I think the lights got a little too bright for some of the boys. Lukes, Varsho… Now they’ve been battle-tested. You have to sign Bo, right? There’s unfinished business here. #jays

This. He’s been so good this postseason but that home run in the 9th did not come as a complete shock.

It hurts because it was So. Damn. Close. Ugh.

Sigh. 😔

Yes.

Welp.

I can’t do this. Lol

Baseball is pain.

FUUUUCK

This game is going to kill me

This is not good for my health.

Ernie Clement now owns the all-time MLB record for most hits in a single postseason, with 30. "Ernie! Ernie! Ernie!" rains down as the Dodgers make a pitching change. The #BlueJays' breakout star of the 2025 World Series run.

Ernie. Fucking. Clement.

“Low IQ Canadian fans”

Bend but don’t break, boys!!! #jays

WHEW THANK GOD NOW SCORE