This is not quite accurate. In NB, only facilities under the anglophone regional health authority, @horizonhealthnb.bsky.social reinstated masking. The francophone regional health authority, @vitalitenb.bsky.social has not reinstated masking, had not done so last year either...

This excellent video builds out the case for public grocery stores. This idea is landing super well with Canadians, who are tired of trading their paycheques for overpriced food so corporations can line their pockets. It’s the kind of populist offer the NDP can win with! Join us: lewisforleader.ca

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

According to a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, the special will likely be “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television.”

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

💯 @susanholtnb.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social

Un petit thread

1/ Likewise, I shouldn't have had to spend my own money on making 12x #CorsiRosenthalBox air cleaners, which were donated to #YukonSchools & immunocompromised #Yukoners - because the @yukon.ca was doing exactly diddly-squat to protect Yukoners from #COVID -

I presented our work at the national public health conference and the number 1 thing people said to me was “you shouldn’t have to be spending your own money on respirators and tests for the public!” Yeah, we shouldn’t. #nbpoli

Our conservative run neighbour has rapid tests for free. Please take a minute to ask the @susanholtnb.bsky.social government why it is not possible for us to have the same. (That’s it)

Harvest is over. School is in. Illnesses spreading like crazy. We do not have any rapid tests, and we’ve decided we’re not going to be fundraising for more. It’s not fair to you to be funding things like this. (1)

PSA: The fact that RFK Jr doesn’t believe that healthy children need the COVID19 booster doesn’t change the fact that previously healthy children are continuing to have devastating outcomes from COVID19 infections.

Would love to see the Venn diagram between this group and therapists who will admit Covid is still a thing.

New Bansky

I know, I know. Covid is (not) over. So we need the tools. Remember? The tools? Rapid tests. Masks. Paid sick days. Clean air. Antivirals and monoclonals. But we’d settle for some RATS that aren’t expired. @susanholtnb.bsky.social @popnb.bsky.social

We are unfortunately removing rapid tests from our request form temporarily as we’ve exhausted our stock. We have plenty of masks. It sure would be cool for the government to step in as the back to school illnesses really make it out to the community.

There are some people so memorized by white bankers they can literally invite a nazi to a sleep over and people will excuse it. I will never understand that level of sycophancy, I am physically incapable of it.

Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

10/10, no notes

Related: school is back in and we have received the usual menacing memos about the importance of attendance. Funny, though, that this is the start of the SIXTH school year *following* the year that Covid initially disrupted and school IAQ in #nbpoli is no better than it was in fall 2019. 💔💔💔

#Z94.4 The Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition put out a statement supporting CSA’s revisions to Z94.4. Over 1,700 individuals and organizations signed on to the statement - including unions representing over 3 million workers in 🇨🇦. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Running a small private practice is no small feat. The end. That’s the skeet. Or whatever this is.

Hoping for a NOVAVAX 💉 BOOSTER ? IT'S NO LONGER AVAILABLE in Canada because 1. Only 5,500 doses were administered from the 125,000 ordered last year ➡️119,500 doses WASTED 2. Novavax requires a minimum order (not disclosed) that FAR exceeds demand globalnews.ca/news/1079206...

A recent resource for #SevereME by WMEA and Severe ME Advocacy Group. Does anyone know if/what local advocacy groups are supporting Sanne? worldmealliance.org/wp-content/u...

This mf’er

This piece took about 11 months from pitch-to-publish, and more advocacy than I expected. Before my pitch got picked up, I was first told there was "no story here." Another person's reaction was to try and discredit my grasp of the literature based on my background as a nurse. (3/5)

Researchers told me that, compared with pre-pandemic times, people are living with more inflammation and immune disruption now, whether they have long COVID or not. Months later, Akiko Iwasaki's final line still echoes in my head: “the entire world is pretty much the convalescent control.” (2/5)

The most important part of this article, to me, is the end. It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.” Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5) www.bmj.com/content/390/...

“Recent studies suggest that slow, tactile tasks, such as knitting, may activate brain systems in ways that support long-term cognitive health in various ways, including engaging memory, attention, and motor function, while helping to regulate stress.” 🧶

🎯 And NO, President Macron, you’re being an honest realist. Unlike at least one of your “Allies”🇨🇦

"is there a summer flu going around""anyone else have a cough that won't go away""i can't shake this""my kids have been sick all month""i gotta strengthen my immune system""my immune system's low" "something's going around" COVID It's COVID. I need people to stop gaslighting themselves. I'm tired

Mask up. We’re coming into a wave 🦠 🌊. #maskup #covidisairborne #respiratorsforeverybody

We can absolutely feel it. Poverty is violence. Poverty is an ongoing societal choice.

The Oval Office now looks like it was set decorated for a Monty Python film.

Nope, he's doing great!!!!!

Hi everyone. Very time-sensitive ask here from your friend in NB. Two parts, relating to the CSA standard #Z94.4. The Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition has written a statement in support of the revisions to Z94.4. You or your organization are welcome to sign on in support, deadline tom. /1

“You have the tools” Well yes, but that’s because we educate ourselves, fundraise, and and have formed a grassroots community outreach team that has the tools. Not because of any effort of the govts with our taxes.

To @susanholtnb.bsky.social and all others running this province. Please consider giving us the tools we need to stay safe in the face of this quickly changing climate. The fact that we STILL don’t have clean air, a plan towards or mitigation measures in place instead is absurd.

A well fitted respirator can also help reduce the smokes impact on your body. We have free respirators in kids and adult sizes. They are free to anyone in New Brunswick. We can deliver, arrange a pickup or even mail them if we don’t have a volunteer close.

My elderly aunt is convalescing at a hospital in the GTA with a broken foot. She’s had a roommate who has a trifold screen around her bed with a sign saying “isolation” on it. That’s not how communicable illness works IPAC of North York Reactivation Centre.

We have a Prime Minister who was briefed on Israel’s starvation of literal infants in Gaza and has made word salad since then. A man who can look at starving children and then send weapons hidden in air Canada flights to shoot them, should not be Prime Minister. #cdnpoli