YES! BC will be getting Novavax this fall - ONLY in select pharmacies and at low levels. It needs to be equally accessible and clearly communicated. I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand Novavax Accessibility in BC for Fall 2026. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

In my opinion, the dismantling of USAID by the current US administration is a large part of why the current Ebola outbreak was not detected earlier. There are likely people dead and dying right now who would otherwise not have been. Politics is the greatest biological risk.

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With all of this talk about the possibility of the next pandemic it is essential that you not forget about the persistence of the current pandemic. * A compendium of the 323rd week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/p...

Please, consider this and share if so inclined. “Once you fill out your info and click Send Letter, you'll be able to edit the letter and add a subject line.The letter will be sent to the Federal Minister of Health, your province's Provincial Minister of Health, and your local MP. #HeartbeatOfCare

An increasing number of Canadian parents are saying no to newborn vitamin K shots - a troubling trend say doctors. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social

"Shocking" (said no one ever) to learn that major retailers are found to be guilty of "maple washing" non-🇨🇦 items & Sobey's, apparently, is longer bothering to identify 🇨🇦 products at all. "Federal regulator has identified 127 cases of maple washing by retailers since the start of 2025."

"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.

Is this the end of America? Or its transformation? Change often looks like decay at first. The old way dying out often feels like the death of everything. But it's not. What rises from the ashes, what bursts from the chrysalis is up to us.

Exhibit #154,539 Why we keep yelling, angrily. (Exhibit #154,540 in next post) h/t @barryhunt008.bsky.social these are the CURRENT measures for ebola. Utterly, criminally negligent. Paging CPHO @jossreimer.bsky.social 🤬 #DropletDogmaKills www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

If you got this far and are still wondering how this can happen, it's not an accident. Baked into medical guidance making, the attraction is that it entitles people who don't understand science to pretend to be authorities in it. The deaths are just collateral damage as they build their empires.

And the shortages of respirator stocks are often discussed as if they were a completely separate failure, but they are linked to the same underlying causes. We didn't have enough respirators because of misinformation circulating inside medical institutions that claimed they aren't needed.

With hantavirus in the news and policies echoing the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand basic scientific concepts and provide adequate PPE (quoting the UK COVID Inquiry), it's worth revisiting the general lack of integrity in the medical literature underlying those policies. 🧵:

🔥🎯 I think often about the fact the best bang for the buck re: infection prevention would be to target schools and hospitals, and how in most countries 1) those are government funded and 2) have a workforce dominated by women.

Re: kindness In parenting, kindness isn't always giving your kid what they want. If a kid wants Pepsi for breakfast every day, saying yes wouldn't be kind. Public health is similar. Real kindness means applying the precautionary principle when the stakes are health & survival

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Denise Brown (@caregiving.bsky.social) at Caring Our Way has developed an exciting and simple tool that puts a dollar value on the work you do. I am excited to share this and hope you can do it as well. Here's the link: www.careyearsacademy.com/caregiving-r... #MyCareValue

Measles is a vaccine preventable illness. Canada lost its measles elimination status in 2025 in part due to rising numbers of people refusing to get vaccinated. Traveling for the World Cup? Get your booster! Also, wear a mask! N95s are very effective at preventing airborne disease transmission:

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Our nurses and healthcare workers deserve much better than they get. And they tirelessly work to give support and comfort to their patients. Do better, BC and Canada for that matter!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Premiers in Canada along with party ideology have failed our health system. What are Canadians willing to do about it? #cdnhealth

I feel the same way about preventing COVID infections. If you aren't masking right now, then you aren't really fighting for democracy. Democracy is intersectional. The fight must be for all marginalized groups and we must be allies for one another. 😷

Bhattacharya needs to read advice from International Hantavirus Society: “human-to-human transmission of ANDV should ... no longer be regarded as... unproven”. They caution against “overly categorical statements that transmission can occur only after clear symptom onset." zenodo.org/records/2007...

It is encouraging to see WHO update its Andes hantavirus guidance on May 8 to recommend respirators rather than medical masks for symptomatic individuals. Recognition of airborne transmission risk and respiratory protection are important for effective outbreak response. www.who.int/emergencies/...

I really respect statements about shouldering our responsibility and showing solidarity, however, dying in solidarity is not required for infectious disease outbreaks. Will @who.int make it clear to use airborne precautions for emerging and novel diseases?

Think I'm gonna start one of those betting pool thingies: 1) all viruses can transmit by aerosols 2) most viruses (if not all) cause contagious infection on a spectrum from asymptomatic to severe. 3) most viruses cause long-term harm (see 💡 vaxxes ⬇️ dementia, etc)

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

Something that stung at end of being on Infinite Monkey Cage were frequent backstage invites for various anti trans activists - including to our small party for 201st episode - people who wrote vicious things about me & then lies about me after resignation. It was really rotten. www.robinince.com

HCWs should follow this Infection Protection and Control advice rather than that of the WHO, please. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...

📣 Novavax now! Canadians need access to the Novavax vaccine Some good news! The vaccine will be available in British Columbia, PEI and New Brunswick. ✉️ Send letters to health ministers: stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti... #NovavaxNow #COVID #CovidIsNotOver

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No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

Asymptomatic spread continues to be an elusive concept to grasp, I see. Boy oh boy. Well, let’s try again to review: Asymptomatic infection means you are infected, actively spreading virus capable of infecting others, and do not realize you are infected.

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ps. Please sign my petition to put an end to this grift and establish real care for complex illness in Canada: bsky.app/profile/aria...

I repeat: patients are dying from medical neglect, this is a crisis. It’s only going to get worse with every passing year that Covid runs rampant and causes endless new cases of post viral complex illness. People don’t get better from this stuff, especially not without immunotherapy.

If we can’t, we get labelled non-compliant or with psychogenic illness and dumped in psych to be psychologically terrorised with this pseudoscience, and if we refuse we get blacklisted from accessing real medical care. If you suffer iatrogenic harm due to malpractice? You’re cooked.

People with severe Dysautonomia, post viral inflammatory neuropathy, Neuro Sjogren’s, GI motility failure, EDS, etc. are literally dying and doing MAID due to medical neglect in BC and this is what they push on us. They psychologise these illnesses and want us to magically cure ourselves.

#Care4Complex Rant du jour: What passes as medical care for complex illness in Vancouver includes “group medical visits” (paid for by MSP!) like: - Improving Parasympathetic Tone by Group Singing - What's the Science - Change your Brain: Using Polyvagal theory to regulate the nervous system

As a Medical Microbiologist (now retired) trained and experienced in working with Biological Safety Level 3 (BSL 3) pathogens, such as Hanta virus, I would strongly disagree with the WHO in their recommendation that a medical mask is sufficient protection! Need N95 as minimum, N99 or PAPR better.

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

It's not "Women were given the vote", it's "Men withheld enfranchisement until they forced to give it up"

Good luck contact tracing more than 80 people with a virus where the majority can have a >3 week incubation period If we want things like air travel and cruises, we need to adopt pro-social behaviours including masking insiderpaper.com/who-tracing-...

So much of history is young people asking for a better world and being met with violence

I have never understood the allure of cruises, especially ever since Covid has been aggressively ignored

An important piece for all client/patient-centred health care practitioners to read. thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/w...

“As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it. “This is crazy,” he remembers telling his boss.” Absolutely eye opening article a/b the damage from even mild Covid and the rise of stroke among a much younger cohort. #missingmillions #longcovid

You know what phrase I hate? “Shark-infested waters”. No, you dumb fucks. Sharks LIVE in the water. The waters are human-infested just like every other part of the planet. HUMANS are the problem, not animals.