Did Carney and the Liberals run on an austerity platform? I don't recall this, but suddenly there's no money for the things we should be "Elbows Up" about. While there's abundant money for the military, surveillance and security.

What we can’t lose sight of in all of this discourse is the fact that they’re targeting Autistic people - just like the Nazis did. This is a form of eugenics. Don’t get caught up in the minutiae, and miss the bigger issue at hand.

There are some scientists starting to look into the connection between people with migraine and autism/neurodevelopmental disability (Migraine, like Autism, also has strong genetic links.) Suspect that even if acetaminophen was taken for migraine pain, it still wouldn’t be cause of Autism.

We also know that parental illness in months prior to pregnancy is also indicated in higher rates of Autism. Suspect that it’s underlying genetic likelihood, triggered by viral illness. Not analgesics. But Dr Oz is gonna make bank on this, and scientists are losing funding… so…

For example, we know that COVID can cause neurodevelopmental disabilities - if acetaminophen is the only thing a pregnant person can take to reduce pain and fever during infection, is it the medicine or the infection causing them to take the meds?

I’ve just done a quick glance thru that study. My question is: were the studies ref’d looking only at Tylenol use, or why the pregnant person was taking it in the first place? We know that fever & other illness can induce neurodevelopmental disability. Were they taking Tylenol b/c they were sick?

🇺🇳 UN Gaza Update | Sept. 18 ▪️ Collapse of Lifelines: OCHA warns Gaza City’s last lifelines are collapsing. Eleven UNRWA shelters for 11,000 displaced Palestinians were hit in last five days. Over 1M displaced since March, 56K since Sunday, many sleeping in streets or tents. 200K displaced from...

We don't deserve her

And is now fired. Like...

"The most privileged can recognize both the harm our indulgences already create and the chance that harm will boomerang back in our direction: the COVID denial that excludes [LC] patients and COVID-responsive people from public life also heightens everyone else’s risk of “falling by the wayside.”"

Literally begging all of you to make the same connection with SARS2/COVID.

Whomp. Whomp.

This hire is pretty OnBrand™️ for the BCNDP.

finally, an overpaid consultant from Ontario! I was worried that the government might actually talk with the people who live in the neighbourhood about their collective future PHEWF crisis averted

how did *we* let that happen? when we stopped advocating for remote opt's to be made avail for high risk, disabled, marginalized & vulnerable ppl when we decided it was 'too hard' (yes, VSB parent "advocates"'ve said that to me) we said it's ok to exclude some ppl some eventually becomes any/all

begging ppl to understand this is where we ended up b/c they refused to make COVID accoms there is NO reason @reddyforchange.bsky.social couldn't attend virtually in fact, they usually have at least 2 tech ppl dialled in via TEAMS precedent was set when we let them remove COVID protec'ns

Making a thread here, too. It's impt for VSB ABC Trustees and ALL residents of Vancouver - who helped to elect these people - to understand that behind the 270+ emails complained about in this week's mtg agenda, are at least 270 KIDS being failed by this district. OG is here: x.com/jaclynmacrae...

And every hospital, thanks to @ipaccanada.bsky.social treats Covid with droplet precautions rather than airborne.

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Note: This is coming from the federal government. THEY aren't publicly disclosing this info. And there's no way people like Bonnie Henry, David Eby, Josie Osborne, et al, aren't also aware of these findings. But they aren't telling us - or MDs so they can diagnose. And they refuse to protect us.

"our government traumatizes people. we exclude people from health care. we enforce legislated poverty. we haven't changed housing policy to reduce barriers. we got rid of the harm reduction dispensing machines, kicked users out of hospitals & refuse to meet with @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social

"The most problematic jurisdiction may be British Columbia. Its publicly disclosed data has been incomplete, inconsistent and on occasion, seemingly contradictory." -Mario Possamai, Senior Advisor SARS Commission, 'A Time of Fear,' Fall 2020 Possamai was talking about Henry. tinyurl.com/n8u4ktkv

It’s a good thing that airplanes and cars can’t go from Ontario to BC, amirite, BC Public Health? 🙃

Back to back in my feed. But Poilievre isn't like Trump. Ok.

When you read this article, keep in mind that the Vancouver SD underspent their 2023/24 inclusive ed budget by $2.8 MILLION dollars, while disabled kids were: denied EAs, denied SLP support services, given iPads as babysitters in class, etc. VSD rolled that money back into their general accounts.

Chuck Schumer, probably: "We care about kids, and their ability to avoid viruses in their schools, but only when the other guy is in office."

Where was this energy when it was his guy: Removing masks, removing access to vaccinations and other mitigation tools, removing data and access to what little data remained, removing access to supports so that people didn't go into schools sick with a novel virus, etc, etc? 🎶hypocrisyyyyyyyyyyy🎶

[If Chuck Schumer replaced Viggo Mortensen in LOTR: Return of the King] "The day has come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship"

If this is true, shouldn't our PHO just be learning in Canada - in one of the two provinces where French language features? Those are the more common dialects here, anyway. Presume this is on taxpayer's dime? Why, exactly?

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

Lives still being lost. Every BCer who dies or is disabled due to COVID is a choice. An active choice. One that Bonnie, Dave, & Josie are actively making, and that John & Adrian actively made prior. Those deaths are acceptable, to meet whatever political ends they seek. Consider who is dying.

Canada is full of extractionists in yoga pants. We pay lip service to the environment...before digging it up for profit. I wish that our leaders would not allow the actions of the U.S. government to override our conscience on matters of climate health.

"Implementation of FFP2 respirators resulted in a remarkable 13-fold reduction in viral dose, underscoring the effectiveness of personal protective equipment (PPE)." This remarkable 13-fold reduction, can be yours, and has been available all pandemic long.

And this is why ventilation alone will never be enough. Vent and relax ignores source control. And if we're not doing society-wide source control (test, trace, isolate, support), so that COVID doesn't get into spaces in the first place, we need masks. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The major hurdle to direct action and civil disobedience is hopium. The status quo won't cut it at all. Most people don't know it yet.

"An 8h exposure in a poorly ventilated office can equate to the risk of a 15 mn face-to-face." Reading this part is pretty funny (not funny) when you consider contact tracing here didn't start until you were face to face with someone for 15 minutes and 1 second. lol

Maybe when WaPo adopted the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," it was less of a warning, and more of a promise.

This is fucking gross.

CBC: we can’t fact check O’Leary in real time, the audience can do it after the show CNN: 👇🏻

"...the CBC sucks when it comes to normalizing bad ideas." Including: √Never ending COVID √Abortion bans √Private healthcare √MAiD √The Convoy √Threats of annexation

I can't agree with this more. Cross Country Checkup is a phone in show which asks cranks and random uninformed people to comment, live, on the radio, without fact checking. But people commenting on Twitter and BlueSky are treated with derision and described as "extremists".

A whole ass cabinet minister is resigning over this stuff... ...but Mraiche is getting away with a SLAPP suit against The Breakdown? Really?

Six children die of hypothermia amid freezing conditions in Gaza. The deaths come amid a harsh cold snap in Gaza and Israel’s blocking of shelter from entering the enclave. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Reading about Black female cinematographer Jessie Maple, who passed away in 2023 at 86. www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/m...

We still don't know what "fast-track," "expedite" or "accelerate" really mean for energy & resource projects in B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey has said the plan does not guarantee projects will get greenlit while First Nations warn that consultation can't be fast-tracked #bcpoli My latest:

CBC: we can’t fact check O’Leary in real time, the audience can do it after the show CNN: 👇🏻

Recognizing that BCCH =/= adult hospital. My child has been on the urgent cancellation list for surgery for 12+ weeks. We don't have "special" space in our healthcare system to accommodate privileged sports people, if we don't have needed healthcare space for average British Columbians.

HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaa No.

Question: Were there any COVID-19 outbreaks at the Texas-based TB hospital?