As I have said before, podcasters/performers might do well to learn why some people are still masking before they wreck their instruments 🤷🏾‍♀️

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

If you go into hospital, you shouldn’t have to worry about getting more sick. Unwrap a new special episode: “Beyond Baggy Blues—How to Stop COVID in Hospitals” with Dr Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social, Board Chair of the Canadian COVID Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social. Prevention is possible!

I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding [cholera/typhoid/dysentery] and only drinking ‘clean’ water

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

“It’s one thing not to be prepared for the unexpected. It is another thing altogether to be unprepared for the entirely predictable.” If you think that BC hospitals should be preventing illness outbreaks instead of playing catchup, add your voice today: donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-hea...

Seems fine, mild even?

"Here we go again. December is upon us and B.C. health-care leaders are about to be surprised, yet again, by influenza season." -Dr. Lyne Filiatrault Co-signed, Nova Scotia where the health authority still hasn't reinstated masks.

Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10. “He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..." bit.ly/44MICG4

The sheer dedication to avoiding any mention of COVID when talking about things that we know for certain are heavily impacted by COVID is...impressive. The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.

Love this latest Public Health is Dead episode from @DaniAtomicus with @juliadoubleday.bsky.social & @wanderingkayli.bsky.social A perfect breakdown of how media manufactured consent for mass disability, death & the "vax and relax" Covid narrative 🎯 www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

Sadly, my health has worsened, w my daily step count halving to 300 a day on avg. I’m often crashed w severe migraines. Your continued support as I struggle through LC means the world. I am offering a 35% discount link for new subs: www.thegauntlet.news/2d3df80d

I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured. I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

Such an honour to be a part of this episode in my favourite podcast with such an incredible production team! I shared a few findings from my Thesis research on news discourses on COVID. Amazing insights from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social & narration from host Daniella really tie it all together 🦠

How has the media contributed to manufacturing consent for COVID to be “over” (and the decline of public health in general)? New episode ft. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social and @wanderingkayli.bsky.social as well as some comments from former COVID-19 Technical Lead at the WHO, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove

Not to flog a dead institution but... Captured by corporate interests, embraced eugenics (“only disabled/old/vulnerable people are going to die, don’t worry”) & ran full tilt into offloading collective responsibility onto individuals. And now we are, predictably, here 😐 This is going to kill people.

HCWs are developing Long Covid and leaving the workforce, which worsens working (and patient) conditions, and worsens access to healthcare. And patients are getting Covid in hospitals and dying.

As Canada loses measles elimination status…there’s a lot we might learn about public health approaches from other parts of the world. African countries are doing some things well. Public health leaders & politicians really threw us into Victorian-ass times over here www.afro.who.int/countries/ca...

😕 so we don’t HAVE to do this, actually. If there was one crumb of public health leadership… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On a personal note, I just set up a monthly donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice's memory. chuffed.org/project/crip...

We were truly so grateful and honored by her support of The Sick Times (especially of the Color of Long COVID series that she proposed & funded), and are going to do our best to be a small part of carrying forward her immense legacy. thesicktimes.org/tag/the-colo...

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

May Leslie and Alice rest in peace. Thinking of their loved ones. They each clearly meant so much to so many people 🩷 I didn’t know them well but both were super encouraging about the podcast and that meant a lot to me. We will keep fighting for the future they were fighting for

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the show!

“To me, it’s a collective failure at many levels of government, public health, the health-care system to address what we saw as declining rates of vaccination…that got much worse since the COVID-19 pandemic and really set the stage for measles to spread like this..." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🫠 WELP. Public health is dead and buried. Congrats everyone! Xoxo

so back down to zero possessions, then friend gifted old phone. but I need to pass the hat if anybody could chip in, I appreciate you all e-transfer: [email protected] hey I found this GIF that I made and forgot about

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In a statement, CBC told me: "After reviewing the interview, we concluded that it needed to be re-edited and re-posted to include further context and questions around the procedure and treatment Deacon experienced. That has now been done." Will update the story with this soon.

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I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

Filtered air for chickens, but not for students, workers or patients: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🪦 Public Health — “Canada overall has recorded more than 5,100 confirmed and probable measles cases in 2025, and two deaths of babies born with congenital measles who were infected in utero. The country hasn’t seen this scale of measles transmission in decades.” www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

30 if it won’t do what’s right to keep its own people safe at work, how can you trust it to tell you how to protect yourself at yours, and to demand better of your government? i loved my job. and i still i believe in the public broadcaster. but you can’t compromise with COVID. or the truth.

29 and that’s how the CBC has not only failed me and the rest of its employees, it has also failed you and the rest of canadians. it has failed to protect us and our families from the real harms of COVID. and it has failed to adequately inform you and all canadians of the risks of this disease.

27 but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it. like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo. it can only follow.

26 this is known science. what is still unknown is the cumulative impact of dozens of COVID infections over a lifetime. but on most days, that’s not the messaging you hear on CBC or other legacy media. the quirks episode was an exception, not the norm. for the most part, it’s business as usual.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

the police want $17,000,000 more for THIS YEAR'S budget something shady is happening with this process cc @isabellazavarise.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social council.vancouver.ca/20251105/doc...

Ontario has stopped hosting the report of the SARS Commission. It looks like it is still available via archive-it, but this is a reminder of how vulnerable digital records that embarrass powerful people can be. wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

In the editing room! 🎙️ Bad Press: how the media manufactures consent in the era of COVID. Public health is often in the news but it’s not always covered well. Power influences the narratives we hear from outlets and journalists. Coming soon w/ Julia Doubleday + Kayli Jamieson. Don’t miss it! 🩷💚💀

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🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2

Some important reporting in this @rollingstone.com article on the lack of school accomodations for LC kids, but really disappointing to see #LongCOVID denial given so much space. You don't need to quote denialists and minimizers. Good journalism doesn't both side established fact!

Amazing to see one of my favourite podcasts getting the recognition it deserves! Wahoooo, keep killing it Daniella!

Daniella’s podcast has won a couple more awards. This is a well researched and wonderfully produced podcast that discusses the current state of public health. Interesting, timely, and award winning. Great job!