Nothing to worry about.

For all those who call us "Covid doomers" for continuing to post about the harms of long Covid - just know that the @who.int also posted yesterday about how this crisis isn't over

"Post-COVID", my a** USA COVID Jul 1 '24-Jun 30 '25 Deaths Children <18: 187 😭 Adults 18-64: 3,781 Adults> 65: 30,923 "During October 1, 2024–July 5, 2025, COVID-19 was associated with an estimated 10.4–16.7 million illnesses" www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

This is a slightly technical article but the message is important and simple. An N95 blocks outward aerosols best. This protects in the near field (close up) situation. The far field aerosols are best managed by good ventilation rates of 5-20 air changes per hour. This helps design best protection.

“Effective control therefore pairs low-leakage devices (preferably non-valved N95s for source control, or valved devices with filtered/covered exhalation) with adequate equivalent clean air (e.g., 6–12 ACH for patient care), rather than relying on deposition.

Super article. Gravitational settling is minimal. That finding alone blows droplet dogma to pieces. The elastomeric valved with such high outward leakage was a surprise. 82-88% But believe it’s consistent with prior studies that said valved respirators were about as poor as surgical Masks.

“Women make up just 12 per cent of AI researchers and female founders receive only 2 per cent of venture capital funding. We are not the ones building this new world. But we will have no choice about living in it.” www.ft.com/content/60e2...

EXCLUSIVE: In my latest @rollingstone.com investigation, new documents/20+ sources reveal a controversial vaccine study's unusual path to CDC approval, and irregularities in the only ethics review done, in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1 🧵👇

Ole Skøtt, U. of Southern Denmark's health sciences dean, tells @rollingstone.com: “Your enquiry contains new information in relation to the validity of the ethical approval. I have decided this should be investigated. The Hepatitis B project has been put on hold to assess the new information." /6

A new study out of China found that first-trimester #COVID19 infection is associated with a 2.25x higher risk of birth defects. Prospective parents must be as committed to protecting their child's health before birth as after. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes, I know. It seems impossible to imagine that medical training could be nearly a century out of date. The level of sheer incompetence it would take for a medical school to be that out of touch with reality, and be allowed to cover it up successfully, is almost inconceivable. It gets way worse:

Those top two lines… 😒

#MedSky If you don’t like using antibiotics “unnecessarily”… then you should also not like spreading viral diseases that cause secondary bacterial infections unnecessarily. And it is unnecessary to live in dirty air and force people to work when sick.

Here's one example of the warnings provided by the SARS Commission. Unfortunately, this just triggered the gigantic, fragile egos of medicine's management class, who refused to admit they have anything to learn and focused on shutting science out. Source: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

Dear #MedSky If you celebrated masks off; told a parent they were anxious re: concern about COVID; advised kids need to get infected to build their immune systems; said schools were low transmission; flogged 'learning loss; celebrated Omicron &/or endemicity YOU - yes YOU - are guilty of mass harm

I almost forgot. Some doctors used your generation as a disease reservoir to “top up” immunity of your household by spreading disease in schools. This resulted in your illnesses, and illnesses in your household… and probably some deaths too.

We also made little to no attempt to make your classrooms safer, or to teach you to wear masks. This is because we thought that a comfortable untruth was better for your health… than actual good health. We thought you’d prefer to believe in the tooth fairy version of the pandemic.

Dear Young People. This post is written for you… Our generation of doctors decided to let you all get infected with a novel virus without even protection from vaccines in many cases, and we already knew that some of you would be killed or disabled for life when we made that decision.

Welcome to 2026, where readers of 👉the New York Post👈 get a better education on the science of airborne disease transmission than an MD who just graduated from medical school at the University of British Columbia. This is not hyperbole. People need to go to jail for this. #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli

1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees: 'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '. Please click on the paywalled link first, archived link in next post. Also consider sharing. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Well this is wild. The British Columbia shooter's ChatGPT messages were flagged by the automated system, and then a dozen OpenAI employees reviewed and debated them before deciding not to report it.

Really got into it last year on Discus, summarizing Henry's reign over 2 viral outbreaks. I never named her—figured most wouldn't recognize her by name & wanted to focus on the horrific absurdity of it all—but someone else from Vancouver who responded did, saying she'll never forgive Henry. SAME!

Reimer was also on a recent (Jan) episode of The Big Story saying a lot of nice words and some disappointing/boring ones and my prediction is we’ll just have more of the same. I was surprised this show host even asked about immune dysfunction and long covid tho podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Zoinks. This doesn’t sound like a good idea. Anyone paying attention to the @carolecadwalla.bsky.social? @theresisters.bsky.social @coopspeak.bsky.social

The Tumbler Ridge shooter had used OpenAI to discuss scenarios involving gun violence. It was bad enough to get flagged and reviewed by employees, who warned the company & suggested alerting law enforcement. The company said No. This tragedy could have been prevented. Gut wrenching.

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Ontario wastewater released today…be careful out there, folks! wwater.ca/Ontario

🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social about research that has now moved from preprint (~5 months ago) to published in JCI insight: "Pediatric long COVID is characterized by myeloid CCR6 suppression and immune dysregulation..." Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20247...

Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above: Pediatric long COVID is characterized by myeloid CCR6 suppression and immune dysregulation (Feb 19, 2026) insight.jci.org/articles/vie... [ FREE PDF available ]

From 👆 "We are presently limited not by a lack of technicology to reduce COVID transmission, but by a lack of collective willpower. The more that the false idea that COVID is 'here to stay' is repeated, the worse this problem becomes."

🥳🥳🥳 that Canada's new CPHO is NOT Bonnie Henry! Now, who's got the inside scoop on Reimer? Airborne-aware? Health supremacist or actual equity seeker?

Here tern highlighted D40.0 Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of prostate. It is showing a clear pivot to strong growth from 2020, in the UK x.com/1goodtern/st... 🧵

For 5-9 and 10-14 year olds, 63% and 48% of the cumulative increase in mortality since 2019 took place in 2024, respectively. For both age groups, the 2024 increase is higher than either the 2020 ir 2021 increases. For these age groups, the pandemic may be just beginning. 4/x

For young people that are surviving repeated infections… it’s absolutely only just beginning for them. Continued survival means continued exposure… and we will see what that does in terms of life expectancy, ability to live independently, earnings and health costs etc.

Spot the one that is struggling to meet the dotted line.

A recent scientific paper compared excess death rates among countries, using the pre-pandemic period 2015-2019 as a baseline. A few years ago I integrated the same dataset they used (STMF from HMD) and built my own excess death analysis. I was reassured to see quite similar results. 🧵

I've interviewed moms like this—moms who won't vaccinate, reassuring themselves that if their child dies, it's God's will. It's almost impossible to change their minds, because they believe God won't let them into heaven if they vaccinate their kids, since vaccinating means not trusting God's plan.

🔥 letter from Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating to New South Wales government. #AskAnEngineer #COVIDisAirborne #ClimateCrisis #PandemicPrepared www.airah.org.au/Common/Uploa...

"The obtained findings align with results from similar studies and show that neurological manifestations after COVID-19 infection appear more frequently in school-aged children, predominantly in female patients." NEUROLOGICAL. Not fucking lockdown. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"41 biomarker were identified by selected studies, consistent with expected physiology behind reported symptoms. The body of data suggests the presence of physiological phenomena behind pediatric Long COVID patients." NEVER forgive the infectionists. NEVER. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Not much about #bcpoli #bced I'm happy about lately. But I'm grateful to live somewhere where this is the message after a horrific school shooting like Tumbler Ridge, versus being under a government that would accelerate the hate and provide a discount on child-size bullet-proof backpacks.

Podcast Jay's ratings are sinking to ridiculously low levels. 10 subscribers with 85 total views.

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 Part 2 doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

🚨🧵 by Vipin Vashishtha aka @vipintukur on XTwitter: "A three-year follow-up study shows that some people continue to have immune system changes long after recovering from COVID-19. ➡️ Researchers found ongoing low-grade inflammation and reduced recovery of..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20244...

Here's Zdenek's take on that same research: 21-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20245...

Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and ventilation for avian influenza control in Schools: A comprehensive review Oh, no, sorry. It's about protecting chickens, not children. I suspect #FluIsAirborne only until it hits school & hospital walls? #H5N1 #MedSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not much about #bcpoli #bced I'm happy about lately. But I'm grateful to live somewhere where this is the message after a horrific school shooting like Tumbler Ridge, versus being under a government that would accelerate the hate and provide a discount on child-size bullet-proof backpacks.

New Transcriptomic Clock Unveils T Cell Aging in COVID,HIV "Patients with acute COVID, they found two clear effects. First, COVID altered T cell composition, including significant reductions in naïve CD8 and naïve CD4 T cells. Second, the infection increased the biological age of naïve CD8 T cells"

This is from Nextdoor in my neighborhood. We had a snowstorm yesterday right after a string of usually warm (~50 F). That made the roads icy under fresh snow and would delay help if none were there. Noem's Nazis are monsters.