UPDATED: #Alberta #SARSCoV2 variants. Of 109 samples from 9/14 - 9/21 (vs. 129, 9/7 - 9/13; 124, 8/31 - 9/6): NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): 11.9% (⬆️ 10.1%; ⬇️ 12.1%) XFG.* (incl. QK.*): 78% (〰️ 81.4%; 〰️ 82.3%) ratnegative.tumblr.com/ABVariants #COVID19

A lion ignores the COVID-asleep sheep and (keeps) wear(ing) a respirator in the face of this new and dire threat.

I will never forget the story of “Cara”, a 16 year old who was bullied into removing her mask at school. Staff and kids bullied her. Her mom was immunocompromised and undergoing chemo, and Cara was trying to protect her. She caught Covid & her Mom died. We must be better than this.

There’s a difference between anxiety and preparedness. There’s a difference between health stress and adaptation. Taking proactive steps to avoid repeat Covid infections is a strength. It’s something to be applauded, not psychologized. Constant reinfections are not sustainable. Mask up.

My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social

UPDATED: #Ontario #SARSCoV2 variants. Of 30 samples from 9/14 - 9/16 (vs. 347, 9/7 - 9/13; 376, 8/31 - 9/6): NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): 16.7% (⬆️ 13%; ⬆️ 10.4%) XFG.* (incl. QK.*): 83.3% (⬆️ 77.5%; 〰️ 75.5%) Note: XFG.* colors tweaked. ratnegative.tumblr.com/ONVariants #COVID19

Just as a new wave starts, the BCCDC / Metro Vancouver has reduced their wastewater monitoring to 8 stations (from 12), one time (from 3) per week, and updated every 2 (instead of 1) weeks. THEY ARE HIDING THE EXTENT OF THE ONGOING PANDEMIC. PROTEST IT.

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

"Governing vs activism" is a totally false dichotomy, Andrew. Especially now, when massive inequality has predictably produced oligarchs, fascism, social fraying, & democracy in retreat as Emily Lowan said in her acceptance speech as new @bcgreens.bsky.social leader. "Activism" is loaded 🧵 #bcpoli

And everyone knows it's not really about the comfort of the staff - it's about sacrificing patients and staff alike to protect a few selfish, egotistical Wakefield-but-for-PPE types from having to admit they made the worst medical error in recorded history and killed an enormous number of people.

Oh fuck no, not him...

"...we would like to inform you of a recent report of threats targeting a Canadian research institution and scientific researchers. These threats, driven by anti-vaccination rhetoric [🤬]... escalated to include a death threat." email from Public Health Agency of Canada #cdnpoli

The irony of people unmasked and sending aerosols into the air signing a pledge about keeping the air free of infectious aerosols.

1. Superb article by Tess-Finch Lees published today. 'Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal. Coronavirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage children’s immunity, blood vessels and organs,... Link in next post

🚨 COVID UPDATE: New Stratus (XFG) variant now dominant 🚨 Stratus is behind nearly all new infections as of September 2025, with some unusual symptoms emerging. ⚠️ KEY SYMPTOMS: • Hoarse or raspy voice (often appears BEFORE traditional #COVID symptoms) • Sore throat • Nasal congestion • Fatigue

Finally a fucking W.

Brain Microstructural Alterations in Children Post‐COVID‐19 Infection Through VBM, SBM, and Structural Covariance Network Analysis - Wang - 2025 - Brain and Behavior - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just had another look - they: a) demonstrated the majority of COVID transmission is necessarily airborne b) have been sitting on the data since October 2022, *before* the Loeb N95 study several of them co-authored was published c) won't share the data c) still have these COIs: osf.io/preprints/me...

Australia: Brett Sutton admitted some pandemic rules were “probably never necessary,” like wiping groceries, avoiding handshakes or droplets spread. He said, “Through a 100 years of understanding infectious diseases, we overemphasised surfaces or droplets, when the reality was, it’s in our breath”

#ME #Disability #Psychiatry #Biopsychosocial @meassociation.org.uk @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @thelancet.com @nhsengland.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social @davidjoffe64.bsky.social @drjoepajak.bsky.social

HI CANADIANS ARE YOU ANGRY ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S FURNERAL ON CBC? Yeah, me too. The guy who’s helmed CBC during this pivot to the right is [email protected]. Complain to the CRTC, the government division responsible for overseeing the CRTC about what was ostensibly KKK rally: www.crtc.gc.ca

There is a really good study recently that explores deeply how COVID-19 infections causes insulin resistance/glucose intolerance. Essentially diabetes. Sadly I can’t post it because it contains the word “vaccine”… 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sars2 causes insulin resistance/glucose intolerance.

💯💯💯💯💯💯

UPDATED: #BC #COVID19 variants. Of 11 samples from 8/10 - 8/18 (vs. 52, 7/27 - 8/9; 23, 7/13 - 7/26): NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): 27.3% (〰️ 26.9%; ⬇️ 30.4%) XFG.*: 36.4% (⬇️ 59.6%; ⬆️ 13%) LP.8.1.* (incl. NY.*, NW.*, QM.*): 18.2% (⬆️ <2% †; ⬇️ 30.4%) ratnegative.tumblr.com/BCVariants 1/2

Wastewater surveillance has been greatly reduced in Australia too

How it started, and how it's going. No one buries their successes.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

Me too.

And NEED I REMIND YOU? that THIS is how the most recent graph looked like. These people KNEW that #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 is on the rise. These people KNEECAPPED monitoring on PURPOSE. This is the dastardly work of the people (the BCCDC) who are supposed to MONITOR disease threats!

Attention #Vancouver STOP THIS You need this data. We all need this data. #BCPoli #CDNPoli

Evidence should speak for itself. It should never be smothered.

Just as a new wave starts, the BCCDC / Metro Vancouver has reduced their wastewater monitoring to 8 stations (from 12), one time (from 3) per week, and updated every 2 (instead of 1) weeks. THEY ARE HIDING THE EXTENT OF THE ONGOING PANDEMIC. PROTEST IT.

UPDATED: #Alberta #SARSCoV2 variants. Of 95 samples from 8/17 - 8/24 (vs. 82, 8/10 - 8/17; 85, 8/3 - 8/9): NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): 22.1% (⬆️ 12.2%; ⬆️ 9.4%) XFG.* (incl. XFG.2): 68.4% (〰️ 67.1%; ⬇️ 72.9%) LP.8.1.*: 2.1% † (⬇️ 4.9% §; ⬇️ 7.1%) ratnegative.tumblr.com/ABVariants #COVID19

7/24: “The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight… When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.”

My coworker wonders whatever happened to people having empathy for one another, so I asked him if he was planning on starting to wear a mask again and with a bewildered look he asked me why he would do that.

1/? everyone has their own beef with charlie kirk—mine has to do with his misplaced hype for my lupus pills, but he wouldn’t have been up to that, nor much if his schtick, had it not been for the christian nationalist coordinating body he was part of: the council for national policy. #ShadowNetwork

Media are starting to pay attention to the BC Greens shenanigans with voter verifications, weak responses, or in fact no response at all @emilylowan.bsky.social taking the high ground, calling them out, supporting members #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/b-c-gre...

While this is an older graphic, my friend in the local COVID-aware community is still in need of funds. Currently, they are $750 short of making rent for October, and need $250 for a year's supply of the only respirator that will fit their face. Donate: chuffed.org/project/supportfore

aaaaaand this also is why i’ve spent days creating a [so far] nearly 25 minute video tracing charlie to the council for national policy. plenty of people are doing the essential work of repeating his quotes, so the layer left is the why and or how. i truly hope the algorithms are kind 😮‍💨

Damn I like the cut of her jib.

One thing that kinda blows my mind: I spoke to national French-language media all morning about this. I did three separate interviews before 10am. I was interviewed for the U.S. publication WIRED about it. But English-language Canadian media? Crickets. It’s just so odd!

A HK artist has been handed another three-week suspended jail sentence for tagging "freedom" graffiti in Chinese. In full: buff.ly/bs3CSLi

🧵UPDATED: #BritishColumbia est.'d #COVID19 cases, the same per 100,000 pop. by health authority. According to #BCCDC wastewater #SARSCoV2 data: on average, from 8/28 - 9/3, there would've been 929 cases/day in #BC (〰️ 941, 8/21 - 8/27). ratnegative.tumblr.com/BCWastewater 1/5

Happening this Sunday from 1-7pm - The 3rd Annual Clean Air Festival in Vancouver. How has it been three years already? This is a Covid safer hybrid event with respirator masks required 😷 & available free onsite. Lots of prizes & music too! 🎶 Register here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/clean...

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social said “LNG Canada is not only a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions, but also drives destructive fracking, further threatening our lands, waters and communities" www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n... #DrawTheLine #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Carney is privileging those supporting fossil fuels, while violating the standard of FPIC for those who do not. Nations who oppose LNG will be subjected to costly legal battles and militarized police violence, while Canada invests in a dwindling LNG market and risks being stranded in a global glut.