"Don't worry, stay calm" leaders say about current infectious disease outbreaks Also leaders: "everyone excited for the FIFA World Cup in a couple weeks??"

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"Targeted" masking, what a joke! All through the winter the ER is always way less than half masked and I've seen unmasked in Oncology which blows my mind even more.

"We really need to start from a precautionary position ... and assume that [airborne transmission] is part of what's going on, and then we can back off as we get more evidence," @donmilton.bsky.social said.

Yes, choosing not to stop the outbreak, but also worsening it actively by imposing racist travel bans “"public health theater” that essentially punishes the countries and doesn’t actually stop cases" @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🚧 Mactaquac Dam Closure Alert 🚧 The dam will be fully CLOSED to traffic on Friday, May 22 at 9 am until Sunday, May 24 at 9 am Please plan ahead. Thank you for your patience.

Lab tests confirm first case of hantavirus in Canada The Public Health Agency of Canada says one of the four Canadians isolating in British Columbia who had been on a cruise ship where there was an outbreak of hantavirus has tested positive.

Any onward transmission from this presumptive Andes hantavirus case in BC will represent a major systems failure - and likely negligence. At-risk were prospectively identified, and we know how to stop transmission - including an obvious requirement for precautionary assumptions that it is airborne.

Canadian in B.C. tests “presumptive positive” for hantavirus B.C.’s provincial health officer says one of the four Canadians who had been on board a cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak has received a “presumptive positive” test.

Well worth the read 👏

UPDATE: The @who.int is advising all who contact MV Hondius ship evacuees to wear respirator masks (n95 or FFP2/3 equivalent). This is amazing and I hope this is extended to advice to all HCWs when seeing undifferentiated unwell respiratory viruses www.who.int/publications...

Almost all of my friends are developing Long Covid. Cardiac issues, exhaustion, cognitive issues, fibromyalgia. I had read all the research. I knew repeat infections would lead to long term effects. I had warned them and they didn’t believe me. Brunch was more important.

I'm seeing multiple MDs, including those high up at the WHO, repeatedly say the public need not worry about hantavirus, you need close prolonged contact to get the illness, it's not airborne, and most worryingly, the WHO advising HCWs to use inadequate respiratory protection. Here's the problem. 1/

If public health expects trust they’re going to need to come clean on aerosol transmission and long covid

Here's my bit on CTV "Your Morning" earlier today, re: hantavirus www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDIe...

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

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Dear Reporter that asked WHO the question “What does close contact mean?” It has various definitions but overall it means that the disease transmitted over short distances… often over longer periods of time HOWEVER

Hantavirus is *well known* to spread by the airborne route. Mainly, airborne rodent poop and pee. Congratulations to all the mainstream media outlets that have already managed to flat out lie about hantavirus transmission.

Have you wondered why unions have not confronted COVID denialism? CAPE just has. The Disability Caucus at CAPE - a Canadian union representing over 27,000 federal workers - is here to tell the world that the pandemic is NOT over. Share wide #covid www.acep-cape.ca/sites/defaul...

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NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

to paraphrase a true poet of a friend: being COVID-aware is not living in fear it’s living in care

How often does this happen? It reinforces that administration doesn't listen to staff and that negative publicity raised by patients/care partners and the public might be the lever for change. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

COVID-19 was still the largest driver of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases in 2024 www.cihi.ca/en/priority-... via @cihica.bsky.social #VaccinesWork

POPNB filed FOI requests in 2021 & 2022 and found out that CMOHs and public health in EVERY province were being WELL warned about long COVID. But the Globe and Mail has never cared about that story. protectnb.ca/rti.html#2848 (security certificate expired - will get on that)

If a few folks could take a moment to reach out to your local news agency/reporters, your provincial government/school boards, etc and just share this news article and remind them of the huge role ILLNESS is playing and how we can reduce transmission - that would be very kind.

So listen. We have this data. Showing hospital admissions for ‘resp’ infections 2x pre-pandemic. But ALL school absence discussions - see CBC! See the National last night! IGNORE growing illness as biggest absence factor (or ANY factor!). This is horrible reporting/journalism. /1

Linking attendance to grades when you willfully make them sick and don’t do ANYTHING to make life easier for them is fucking cruel. Read that on the radio. Turned the radio off to avoid this shit last night and here it is waiting for me on infoam. No attendance convos until the air is clean.

Once again @susanholtnb.bsky.social I am asking, for HEPA machines in every New Brunswick classroom. Children do not have a voice or a choice. It is up to us to speak for them and the research is clear. Our kids are currently at risk. Please make evidence based decisions!

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This seems like a no brainer to me so why do we have to fight so hard for clean air? @susanholtnb.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social

Hey @susanholtnb.bsky.social this is why we need these in every classroom in New Brunswick. EECD claims "attendance matters" so why arent we picking the lowest hanging fruit to drop absentee rates by 20%? The ripple effect savings in healthcare alone would be worth it.

Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds CBC News April 16, 2026 By Lauren Pelley stillcoviding.ca/en/news/hosp... #health #COVID #influenza #RSV #CovidIsNotOver

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: How Covid spreads, Plague parallels, Long Covid underreported, Heart disease, Pandemic stress & grief, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Vaccine uptake, respiratory illnesses, and hospital burden are issues I have attempted to share through charts and advice. A population that vaccinates less is going to face more serious illness risks more often and impact our healthcare system. Vaccines work. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Actually, most of us outside of the U.S. are still looking for an answer to, “How did they elect him the FIRST time?”

The dech ER is actually so bad at masking that people are under the impression they don’t have to mask there. The OPH ER continues to enforce masking fairly strictly. Why the big difference between the two? What gigantic shift in culture occurs on the highway in between?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Judge orders pause on signature validation process for Alberta independence petition | CBC News “The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and the Blackfoot Confederacy have been seeking a stay on the petition campaign pending a final ruling.”

Here you go, America. You were looking for a new model of masculinity I think.

Two Americas One group (my fave) is doing cool, inspiring science, like save lives with vaccines or send people to moon The other is doing everything possible to defund science, corrupt science agencies, destroy trust in vaccines, endanger lives, demoralize scientists, attack universities

I love this for us!!

This is your brain on anti-vaccine propaganda.

If you’re just waking up, here’s a summary. No, the geopolitical situation is not OK.

Another big concert cancellation due to illness.