An autopsy has found that Jose Guadalupe Ramos Solano a 52-year-old ICE detainee died from Covid, “after suffering from the illness for days while in custody,” and while the autopsy found he “died from Covid,” it is also the case that this society killed him.

I heard a doctor say “Ebola is a terrible disease because you often catch it while caring for someone you love,” and while you can get sick from caring for those you love, so many of the sicknesses of this moment are the result of people caring only for themselves.

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Okay, I admit it, I hate sports. Not because I don't like being active, but because it's just so numbingly boring. (I make an exception for swimming in oceans.) But even for a Churchillian sports soul like me, this is hilarious:

Coronaviruses just caused common colds. Until one didn't (SARS 1). And then another one didn't (MERS). And then another one caused a global pandemic (SARS-2). Hantaviruses didn't spread from human to human. Until one did (Andes). Not every swan is white.

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If you think that a disease *might* not involved much spread because aerosol can infect while being inhaled, but you think people don’t exhale it out… Norovirus. Just sayin’. Don’t underestimate vomit and poop aerosols.

Air Transat with a clever advertising campaign comparing the cost of World Cup tickets to that of actual travel. This comes amid reports that bookings for travel to the football matches & in cities hosting them are substantially below expectations. By the way, Air Transat is a Canadian airline. 😉

Quino.

This illustrates why I'm far more concerned about Ebola than Hantavirus. In addition, this particular strain (Bundibugyo) has a high false negative rate with testing. Don't forget the super spreader event coming up either.

We tolerate indoor air in 2026 that would have horrified sanitation engineers in 1926. We just don’t see what’s killing us.

Funny how every outrage gets wall-to-wall coverage… On May 29th there is a province-wide “Fight Back Now” event happening across Alberta — and strangely almost nobody in mainstream OR independent media is talking about it.

It’s vascular and airborne. It became mild and handwashy.

Germany has ended mandatory reporting of Covid for surgeries. Wastewater analysis shows infection levels are low. At the same time, respiratory illnesses are the main cause for sick leave notes. Without testing/reporting for Covid, how will we analyse & tackle the no. 1 cause for nationwide illness?

"The implication: hospital-acquired COVID looks both more common and more deadly than strict surveillance definitions suggest. How we count it shapes whether we treat in-hospital respiratory transmission as a measurement footnote or a safety priority."

Do #vaccines work? Comedy: dandocimo [Insta]

Spoke to a US colleague. First holiday with their 6 month old baby. They mentioned they were going to Florida to visit their family. I asked them if they knew measles vax and other vax are optional now in Fl. They never thought about it. They were shocked. They are now going to Vernon.Yay baby!

Bollywood movies are similar, minus the blonde hair.

Society should be set up so that the elderly do not HAVE to live in poverty. Why is everything so damned expensive? Well, I think we all have some ideas.

Oh gosh this is so distressing. Found an ad on FB marketplace - someone is selling 9 Samsung Ax90 air purifiers as the local school no longer needs them. All that investment in clean air just .....thrown away. Leaving so many kids and teachers disabled.

Shot: "Unlike Ontario, where public health officials released a detailed Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment flagging measles and other infectious diseases as risks at mass gatherings, B.C. [Bonnie Henry] has not yet provided comparable guidance."

May have to skip my usual Monday yarn shop visit today as I’ve got a busy day 😱 🧶 #knit

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Canada Tracking Sharp And Disturbing Rise In Personal Protective Equipment

This person shared the graphic from the WHO presentation on the right… on the 🪦🐦 site. Which is pretty cool.

I’m sorry, but if you dread PPE and are in charge of infection control of serious outbreaks… 😬 It’s like fire fighters dreading the hose… or me being terrified of a stethoscope.

Positive tests incoming... and one passenger has been allowed to isolate at home. I hope they have no family at home with them. Self-isolation in such circumstances is insanely naive and trusting, I can take a call twice a day on my cell phone from my local pub and say "Yeah, I'm home"

This sound like AIRBORNE, Contagious and pretty “catchy” to me! What part of Public Health’s job description chooses to minimize risk?!! “Henry said the four Canadians isolating in the Island Health region had no known direct contact with the people who fell ill on the ship”

A fountain of disinformation from doctors who specialize in it.

Dear @who.int Amoy. Gardens. Like. I. Said. No further evidence was required. Please apologise for the decision you made to not inform the public. Millions are dead. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vir...

As we discussed the news
I told the old punk
that when I was young
I remember being told
to look for the helpers
but these days I see so few of them,
and with a laugh the old punk replied: you are no longer young, so now it’s your responsibility 
to be one of the helpers.

Aren’t you all glad you listened to the TV doctors and infected your kids with every virus going as much as humanly possible?

Well done Canada 🇨🇦! . It is so weird to see that people who do horrible things face consequences and dishonour. Now please Canadians mining companies that destroy the rest of the world. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/bd91d92...

My guess. It costs the wrong people money. Just a guess though.

I still recall the relief I felt when I was told respirators would be used for C19, and then waking up to THAT TWEER from WHO saying it’s not airborne… and immediately having to start the fight to regain that protection that we had already painfully earned after SARS1.

It took me only a moment to find this information. A moment of googling. Look at the date. Look at how many people were saying hantaviruses don't spread from person to person at that time. Dear Journos, please don't ask people who don't read evidence questions. It's unfair to the public.

Will an asteroid destroy the world on Monday? No, an asteroid will not destroy the world on Monday. For that asteroid will pass 56,000 miles from the world. On Monday what will destroy the world (on Monday what will keep destroying the world) is our indifference.

The contrast of the BUS DRIVER with NO PPE, sharing air in a bus with a potential Hanta Virus carrier and a person in full hazmat gives ME zero confidence that the people in charge are public health professionals! . Why do I read the news?? !!

Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Sent Home To Self-Circulate For 45 Days

12 hospital staff in the Netherlands are now in precautionary quarantine after treating a hantavirus-positive passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship. Reports say mistakes were made handling blood samples and disposing of urine. Source: archive.md/QQeIE

Mild Patient Mildly Tests Mildly Positive Mildly For Mild Hantamildvirus

Excellent question: what about the rodents from the ship? Did they even bother looking for them? Containing them? #hantavirus

NEGLIGENCE

Apparently one of the passengers from the hantavirus ship (who is returning to the US) “tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” so if you are wondering what it means to have “tested mildly PCR positive”? Just know it means that they have tested positive.

Before we even get into these slides, we’ll be very honest here. We get it, there are a lot of reasons to doubt certain agencies and institutions when they say the risk of a virus to the general public isn’t that high, but it’s currently true that the public is at very low risk from hantavirus.

The same people who failed on Covid are still in their jobs.

Dr Henry giving us assurances that Hanta virus exposed BC residents will not be facing the public. Reassurances from the Dr that has never acknowledged that #covidisairborne makes me feel less confident www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Hantavirus Definitely Probably Not A Serious Threat Maybe