In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers 1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid 2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks 🙏

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Today is Disability Day of Mourning, remembering disabled people murdered by caregivers/family. Any journalist who portrays these stories as anything short of murder is doing serious journalistic malpractice, yet it happens so often. disability-memorial.org

March is Long Covid Awareness month, because March is a lot like long covid in that every time you think it looks nice enough to go be active outside, you quickly regret it.

So someone with measles can spread it before they have symptoms, it can float in the air for hours and years later, they can develop new health complications?

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Be kind and wear a respirator mask. 😷 Avoiding illness benefits you and everyone around you. 🦠 If you don’t have any masks, send us a request or visit Donate A Mask’s charity fundraising store. 🫶 donatemask.ca/request 🛒 buymask.ca

Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Violent acts like crashes into crowds, shootings, bombings- they aren't caused by mental illness. No systematic causative link. Violence is frequently rational even if rooted in aberrant beliefs or ideology. Those with psych diagnoses are more likely to be targets of violence than those without.

NDP MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social has a petition in the House of Commons calling on Canada to cancel subsidies, grants & public funding to Canadian companies who have contracts w #ICE, revoke permission for ICE to operate offices on Canadian soil, etc: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #cdnpoli

Canadian COVID Forecast Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 SASKATCHEWAN SEVERE [no change] About 1 of every 81 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 15.9 x higher -Long COVID: 6.9 x higher -Hospitalizations: 17.9 x higher -Deaths: 22.4 x higher

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 SEVERE: AB, MB, NB, PEI, SK VERY HIGH: CAN, North, NS, ON, QC HIGH: BC, NL MODERATE: none About 1 in 122 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Canadian COVID Forecast Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 CANADA VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 122 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 11.0 x higher -Long COVID: 6.3 x higher -Hospitalizations: 13.4 x higher -Deaths: 14.9 x higher

Good morning #TeslaTakedown folks. Here is Step 1 in taking on Canadian businesses doing business with #ICE. We are asking Canadians to contact their Member of Parliament and the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology to investigate these company’s contracts.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jan 17 - Jan 30, 2026 SEVERE: MB, NS, SK VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, NL, North, ON, QC HIGH: BC, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Have we learned nothing? Hitler’s annexation of countries was initially met with appeasement, encouraging more annexation; after WW 2 the United Nations was created to prevent WW 3 by outlawing annexation. Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”

So spot on, lol.

In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

Canadian COVID Forecast Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 SASKATCHEWAN VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 39 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 14.3 x higher -Long COVID: 6.4 x higher -Hospitalizations: 13.3 x higher -Deaths: 14.3 x higher

How fitting it is that the heavily mutated (and aggressively spreading) Covid variant BA.3.2 has been nicknamed "Cicada," for what better way is there to react to this mutated subvariant than by wanting to emulate the humble cicada by screaming?

Heads up, Saskatoon and area folks! Blizzard on the way! #Saskatchewan #Saskatoon

Getting sick is not inevitable. There is no benefit to getting sick, despite the capitalist fairy tale that getting sick strengthens your immune system. It does the opposite. There are long term health consequences to contracting most viruses, in fact. Mask, clean the air, vaccinate, wash hands.

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead. There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere. This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying 🧵

Did you know? Donate A Mask’s Free Request Program sends #masks to mask blocs around the country. 😷 🇨🇦 Help us continue this work by donating today. 💙 donatemask.ca/fundraiser #GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskDistro

1️⃣ Visible Health has launched a local clinical trial feature. One of the first surfacing to users is an ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) trial led by Trudie Chalder, a researcher whose work has been highly controversial in ME. This raises important patient-safety concerns.

Daily Tism just calling me out yet again. 🤣😅

The @canadiananglican.bsky.social statement denouncing Christian nationalism #Anglican www.anglican.ca/news/stateme...

Vestibular disorders affect people's balance as well as their visual perception of their world around them. Don't make animations, sliders, videos, or rapid movement start automatically, as autoplaying elements could trigger a bad reaction in people who have vestibular disorders.

Christine Smout, 46, will reportedly do anything to avoid sitting through 30 unsolicited seconds about the fucking postcode lottery including, but not limited to, turning the volume right down, playing exactly 30 seconds of a gem-swapping game and clawing her own eyes out.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

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We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!

Yeah I have all but 3 of those symptoms to some extent and trust me, folks, you don't want this. Long Covid suuuucks. Mask up! Advocate for clean air! Fund the research! #LongCovid #MEcfs #POTS

As a minister I strongly condemn the odious actions by conservatives in this province. Invoking the Notwithstanding clause is a curtailment of democracy. But foremost, it advances the American far-right agenda rooted in diminishing trans lives in this province, notably trans youth. #abpoli #ableg

For those of us who became disabled as a result of the pandemic, Alice was a bright light walking us through the experience. She did so much to show many of us what it meant to see disability as a beautiful part of who we are, not something to resent.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SASKATCHEWAN VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 99 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 8.8 x higher -Long COVID: 6.0 x higher -Hospitalizations: 13.0 x higher -Deaths: 17.3 x higher

💯 And this goes for the ongoing pandemic, the multiple genocides, the ecocides happening world over. The pandemic could have helped us come into healthier relation with the preciousness of life, but we memory holed it, forgot the dead, ostracized the walking wounded

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025 SEVERE: NB, NS, SK VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI HIGH: QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.