'It often seems that in their eagerness to consign Covid-19 to the past, many people are overlooking the fact that the virus is still widely present in society and the damage that can be done by repeated infections'

re-upping this ‘cuz it’s such a good read. wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.? @juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...

Could have increased taxation on the rich but instead, he chose to sunset important programs and dump millions and millions into AI - a piece of tech that we're all expecting to bust any minute. The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!

These three are pure fictions and i have no doubt they lead to some deaths and much suffering. 0 consequences for propogaring these lies and no real effort to correct the misinformation publicly. 'wash your hands' is still somehow standard advice instead of wear a mask. unforgivable leadership

"No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus" Published: 14 August, 2024 "The left image shows that SARS-CoV-2 propagated to most organs, whereas the right image shows that influenza was mostly confined to the liver and lungs" Source: whn.global/scientific/n...

I guess "equity correction" is the phrase people who spend their lives trading imaginary money use instead of "acceptance of reality" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

the idea that kids or teens 'don't get bad covid' is a stupid wrong lie based on casual observations that first infections don't seem to end in as many critically accute infections. dismissing their need for coverage, while also refusing to clean air in schools, will carry a higher cost than vaxxing

This finding emphasizes that chronic disease management must be aligned with effective infection prevention and control to protect this growing at-risk population. One more reason to adopt enhanced respiratory protection standards, particularly as outlined in the new draft of CSA Z94.4. 4/4

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Do those who accuse scientists & others of being too focused on COVID appreciate that part of the reason we read & critique so many studies is that we really want to find high quality evidence that we're wrong? Nobody wants this current reality, but here we are. 😷💉 🪟💨 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨post by Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056 on Twitter about "cognitive issues after COVID" which quotes from a Minnesota-based integrative & functional medicine doctor. Link to article (Nov 2025): mindbodyneurology.com/post-covid-b... OP: x.com/Yash25571056...

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

⚠️ BREAKING: Newfoundland & Labrador Reinstates Temporary Mask Mandate in Hospitals and Long-Term Care as COVID-19 Cases Rise A temporary mask mandate is returning to Newfoundland and Labrador’s hospitals and care homes as COVID-19 cases rise and vaccines roll out.

Nova Scotia Health says COVID-19 infections on the rise #NovaScotia Wear a mask, get vaccinated. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

So many of my colleagues laughed at me for saying this… but… a few colleagues didn’t… and I think they saved a LOT of lives in the first few years.

I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.

From my good friend Dr Asad Khan. Why do health and care professionals turn everyone taking infection control seriously into a neurotic? Why are there so many people labelled and self labelling as mentally ill?

"health-care workers and patients should not inhale airborne bacteria or viruses. Measles, influenza, COVID, tuberculosis and other pathogens can float in the air, carried inside tiny aerosolized particles that we all produce when we breathe, speak, cough or sneeze"

"Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles" i will die on this hill, masking is worth it

It is important to understand that the reckoning on Covid is not about feels, it’s not about fears, and it’s not about fuzzy ideas of social justice. It is real people being forced out of their jobs because their workplaces refuse to acknowledge the scientifically proved risks of Covid.

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

University of North Dakota researchers found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein drives brain cell aging by triggering TLR7 in human astrocytes. This could explain lingering neurological symptoms in long COVID. jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚨🧵 by Jammer aka @acrossthemersey: "American College of Cardiology: COVID triggers prothrombotic state persisting beyond acute stage, pulmonary embolisms can occur weeks, months later. ‘We’re just beginning to see the cardiovascular aftermath...’" Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19850...

'Vaccination continues to help protect against severe illness, hospitalisations and deaths arising from COVID-19.' according to @ukhsa.bsky.social, source: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w... COVID-19 vaccine surely should be available for all, free of charge, based on their individual health needs.

Here's a recording of my 10-minute presentation about addressing shared indoor air as an accessibility barrier in our learning environments. Feel free to share! youtu.be/HD0wVoN7Pr8

Institutional medicine has these giant PR budgets to throw around to convince people to trust them - which is generally viewed as a good thing in the 2D "medicine vs antivax" world view. But those are now being used as slush funds to push science (viewed as a competitor for power) aside too. 🤦‍♂️

A big part of why I believe this is about maintaining a delusion that Covid is over is that nothing behind it resembles logic. If you say masking is just paranoid, you’re pretending disabled people don’t exist. If you say Covid can’t hurt higher risk people, you’re denying like, all of the science?

i will never understand how a new and poorly understood virus appeared, afflicted us all with a myriad of seemingly unrelated symptoms, displayed rapid mutation and so many just shut their minds off to the possibility of long-term consequences as soon as they could and while it is still spreading

Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below newsroom.heart.org/news/some-ac...

Weird because I could have sworn the NYT told us we shouldn't worry about these viruses and should just get back to brunch

Let those who have the greatest confidence in generative AI be the first to deploy it on their Phoenix Payroll System. Let's see what happens there, inside the house, before we start using it for tax returns.

same for anti-masking policies/habits. Vaxx in canada has been paywalled in a lot of provinces because governing bodies aren't paying attention to years of evidence all pointing to the long term cumulative damage from repeat infections. vaxx AND mask when ypu can

It’s great to see people getting vaccinated, but some are using this as a license to pretend Covid is over. Protection from infection fades within months & is modest to begin with. Protection against long COVID is only about ~25–40%, not high enough given the severity of the condition

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Medical masks were never designed to protect the wearer — and leading safety authorities are finally saying so. Only respirators (like N95s) qualify as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Read more: whn.global/whn-joins-in.... #PublicHealth #N95 #MaskUp #Masking

it seems that a lot of never-maskers claim that covid conscious people are all or nothing because of precautions, yet it is the former who seem to have decided to do nothing at all while complaining a mask is simply too big an ask. okay, try something- ANYthing else! get a putifier. do one thing!

🌍 We, #LongCOVID orgs & advocates worldwide, release a collective declaration. 🔗https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/ ✍️ Advocates living with Long COVID, orgs & researchers who agree with its principles: contact us to sign for fair representation, urgent action, research & prevention.

In 2025, Manitoba detected/reported 0.3% of ~538K infections, 10% of ~4K hospitalizations, and 13% of ~740 premature deaths from COVID-19. In Canada, ~0.3% of infections, ~14.0% of hospitalizations and ~5.7% of premature deaths from COVID-19 were detected/reported in 2025.

'COVID-19 is not an ordinary infection. It’s a virus that reaches the body’s command layer - the epigenome - and rewires how immunity forms and behaves' idk sounds bad. maybe worse than masking

Data c/o @1goodtern.bsky.social Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!! Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds. These are AIDS-defining conditions. “There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.” Suuuuuure 👌

SARS-CoV-2 interferes with p53 signalilng. That may not mean much to non-specialists, but as a PhD in that area, it's the biggest possible red flag, and the flag is also on fire. We don't yet know how bad it'll be, but with public health asleep at the wheel (as usual), there's no real upper limit.

5 yrs after the start of the worst health crisis in memory, there is a national conversation waiting to be had about the roles of the individual, society and the state in such a crisis. What is my responsibility to myself and to my community, and what is the responsibility of the state towards us?

I work in a cardiac hospital and it blows my mind that we aren’t masking or teaching patients how to avoid Covid infections/reinfections

“Even one infection can compromise the immune system’s capacity to respond to new challenges, raising the concern that repeated infections may have cumulative detrimental effects.“ #COVID

This is insanely bad for anyone doing game development. Who the hell knows what Gaming Copilot is doing with your screen captures, but it almost certainly isn't compliant with your NDA.

"It's parents' fault that healthcare professionals still haven't been adequately educated about pediatric #longCOVID" is what you get when you've scraped right through the bottom of the excuses barrel and start pulling mouse turds off the floor.

This. None of us actually expect that we’re going to see society wide masking anymore. Masking in medical facilities should be the bare minimum. A few more people choosing to mask up might save a life. Every infection is a dice roll with disability and some of us are too sick to take the risk

Health Canada puts out guidelines recommending N95s and clean indoor air! Let’s do this! Yes it’s overdue, and no it doesn’t address every risk factor, but we can significantly curb COVID with respirator use and clean air. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

The studies are already out, peer-reviewed ones by reputable epidemiologist and scientists, even a recent mainstream article which refers to it, not inaptly, as Airborne AIDS. "You have to live your life" has become a thought terminating cliche which gets otherwise wise folks to ignore reason.