What if we hadn't eliminated testing for SARS-CoV-2 cases? What if we just had accurate case counts?

Most people are now heavily committed to their own irrational denial of the irreparable harm that results from repeated infections of Covid-19. That denial blinds them to the truth and prevents them from taking necessary action, such as wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces. #COVID19

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Why is putting money into Canada Post each year considered a bailout and not just the cost of an essential service? (Not actually asking.)

With up to 5.8M Canadians waiting in pain, we want solutions but “This is a deep systemic problem” confuses everyone. We need more: operating room time, diagnostic equipment and specialists. Nebulous solutions are useless - define the fix and do it. #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Our sewers and sidewalks really haven’t been profitable these last few years. Time to stop wasting money on them, remove them in rural locations and some areas will need to start using communal plumbing where you just walk a short distance from your home to find a toilet.

Life Labs 2025 Patients: 4 respirators Staff: 0 respirators Patients shouldn't have to lead by example. Pretty embarrassing in 2025 for healthcare workers not to understand aerosol science

Every anniversary, those of us living with #LongCOVID make a bargain with ourselves: next year I'm going to get better, we say quietly. We are the "lucky" ones, not bedridden, still dwelling in possibility. And every year, another year trundles past, & we still aren't better. #KeepOnKeepingOn

Didn’t know pre-2022ish that so many ppl don’t know abt post-acute illness, where bad health outcomes occur years or decades after the initial infection, like HIV—>AIDS. Or they’re in denial? In any case, society’s gotta snap out of it. This isn’t a world you want to be sick in if you can help it.

What if rather than making decisions to degrade the service Canada Post provides, you made decisions that improved their vital public service? Certaunly degrading service and driving away potential revenue is not the way to improve their balance sheet.

For the non-biosecurity people out there: 1. Sick is bad. 2. Look! Anti-sick tools. 3. Use tools. 4. Sick goes bye-bye.

The same is true for public health & disease prevention. Young Americans will grow up not realizing that the government is supposed to contain outbreaks, protect their long term health & inform citizens of dangerous viruses in the air. #COVID

Get the facts and beware of myths in order to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases are still high, so be sure to know the facts and avoid the myths in order to protect yourself and others.

Finally a public health org is laying out the brutal truth: that every COVID infection increases your risk for permanent organ damage. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll experience it months after an infection, but years. Protect yourself & others. Wear a good mask where you can get or spread it.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve heard people tell me they’ve had COVID but they’re relieved that their lungs feel fine. We are failing to get the message across that COVID is a vascular disease 🤷🏽‍♀️

“Since its appearance …COVID-19 has been investigated as a respiratory disease, … However…clinical evidence demonstrate[s] its…effects far beyond the lung & employs pathogenesis mechanisms related to endothelial dysfunction, microvascular injury & immune dysregulation” www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/5/...

Any chance, Tom, you know an economist who'd be willing to work with you to lay out the truth about, not just #SARS2Economics, but the broader economic upside of mandating #VirusFreeAir for our indoor spaces? The business case is undeniable, but has yet to be made formally — that's what we need. 👍

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

NYU researchers studied 3525 adults and found that 2 years after COVID, 80% who reported smell loss still had impaired function. Even 66% without reported issues showed hidden deficits, suggesting many underestimate lasting smell damage. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“The winter of 2020 to 2021, when most people were complying with mask recommendations, we saw almost no flu or RSV infections,” Hirsh said. “In 2022, when that mask recommendation was lifted, we had a huge surge which we called the 'triple-demic.' It was RSV, flu and COVID all at once.”

Are droplets and close contact the product they are referring to?

Tess Finch-Lees in the Irish Independent: "'Immunity debt' doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air."

Hey @ipaccanada.bsky.social, are you done Unmasking the Future yet? Or do you plan on dithering for a while longer before pretending you knew all along and giving yourselves more awards? I realize it's embarrassing to admit you screwed up, but it's only going to get worse the more you delay.

Anyone in Canada want to establish a rule for honesty in politics? 🇨🇦 Sign here ⬇️⬇️ www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Worth voting in this poll if you #Mask www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

"Children are our future but we won't do dick to protect them from covid" is a hell of a message for young people, who are going to quite rightly be unforgiving.

It is so sad to consider that nearly every child has had multiple infections now. Future studies will have to use historical images for controls. We’re all living in an experiment at this point.

Your junk science is not better than theirs.

Listening to 'supposed' experts argue about short and long term risks of vaccines while nothing is being done to curtail an ongoing SARS pandemic where each infection has short and long term risks is a real mind-f.

Wow. My experience is in oil & gas & actually oil companies have done similar for decades. Buying up alt energy research & shelving it for a later date to transition from oil companies to energy companies (which they've already transitioned to). This is what happens when power accumulates.

'NO' government has a plan to mitigate this wildly contagious virus.

#COVID will become the biggest scandal we have ever had. It has been hugely politicised.

Sci fi / horror conventions are requiring masks in 2025 while disability related conferences continue to refuse to consider masks & some even refuse to have virtual options If you refuse to accommodate #immunocompromised people, you’re not as “inclusive” or “accessible” as you think you are

"Make training spaces" translates to "spend money on", which Canadian governments are insanely reticent to do unless it directly aids and abetts party insiders and their cronies.

Frighteningly Public health messaging is so poor that I often chat to pro vaccine folks who think they have had enough vaccines, when they only have had two. Many still assume they work like a Measles vaccines, when they start to wane at 3 months. Vaccines alone are also not protective enough from

Re: fomite transmission, "...final step is contaminated hands touching nose, mouth or eyes...despite this assumption being at heart of global IPC policy...no satisfactory physical mechanism exists to explain how virus particles transfer from hands to..receptors in nasal cavity & respiratory tract"

9/ "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair" - C.S. Lewis

2/ If the only way to stop #LongCOVID is to stop #COVID, how do we do that in the 6th year of an #OngoingPandemic (which is ushering in #Fascism, as pandemics do) - while no government lifts a finger to stop #Reinfections?

Preach.

The latest variant of the endemic-pandemic is making it's rounds. The uneasy public health silence that descended over it in 2021 continues. Will we ever do something to prevent airborne transmission in all workplaces?

"COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: If my last COVID-19 illness was mild, it will be mild if I get it again.. Fact: Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of serious illness, Long COVID, and permanent health consequences like organ damage."

Oh, there was a choice? Now you tell me! Okay, I choose for our government, health authorities, & media to honestly address the COVID pandemic and take reasonable measures to combat it. I don’t choose the reality where they lie about it & 98% of people then go into denial. That would really suck!

You would think people would be more knowledgeable about viruses and airborne transmission after living through a pandemic for over five years. You would think. #COVID

You know why you are unsure if you know anyone still suffering long after a Covid infection, maybe even yourself. Guess what, they don't hand out business cards for that either.

You know who else goes everywhere, doesn't wear a neon sign, or hand out business cards saying "infectious" - people who are infectious with Covid. It's why a respirator needs to be worn proactively to prevent infections. Healthcare has not caught up with this detail yet.

further, you may be in this category and not even know it. believe me when i say that no doctor ever handed me a business card that said i’m high risk either—you find out by trial and error, ie: getting really sick. it doesn’t have to be like this. prevent it. mask up.

guess where high risk people go? EVERYWHERE. we don’t wear neon signs saying “autoimmune” or whatever you expect to see that tells you hey, it’s time to do the thing you said you’d do n mask when high risk people are here. we don’t hand you a business card. we just exist. and we deserve to be safe.

Maybe, just maybe, meeting them "where they were" was a really bad idea.