I agree, except for the huge part of being maskless at a bar.

Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 CANADA High [No change] About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~7.2 higher -Long COVID ~7.7 higher -Hospitalizations ~10.7 higher -Deaths ~10.9 higher

A *lot* of people I know in the US have Covid right now. Again. All are reinfections. Please #MaskUp and stay safe out there.

Excellent video about it here freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

1/ “Long COVID, the long-lasting effects of COVID infection, has emerged as a global concern, especially among school-aged children": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The saddest thing is watching once good people, slide into conspiracy rabbit holes and when they reappear they’re hate-filled, rage fuelled, brainwashed shells who can’t think critically💔 And vehemently believe they know “the secret truth”

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

It’s not okay to carelessly spread SARS-CoV-2/COVID—no matter what NPR, the New York Times, or the Atlantic tell you. Resist forced infection. Refuse to be a link in the chain of transmission. Remind yourself to be a caring, responsible member of your community—especially now.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Between…the ability to dysregulate the immune system and the ability to cause systemic damage throughout the bloodstream, you have a very dangerous novel virus on your hands.” www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Teared up, watching my dog - sit, sniff the air & enjoy life. His back had been sore this week so he was happy to sit outside. Listening to the birds. Remember to breathe and find ANY moments of calm & joy.

Uhhhh 😒Grant on Temptation Island is diabolical and IMO, dangerous. He could destroy a partner. Need a crash course on how to avoid being gaslit, manipulated & DARVO’d by a grandiose narcissist? Watch TI! On Netflix. #temptationIsland

Thank you @rollingstone.com for the front page coverage Make the invisible visible. Long Covid is REAL and a growing crisis

“With zero approved treatments for the condition, little public knowledge, almost no effort to prevent new COVID infections, & the Trump administration now moving rapidly to shut down medical research, the situation remains dire.” @juliadoubleday.bsky.social reports on the risks of Long COVID.

Today is Long COVID Awareness day! #MEAction has been fighting alongside the Long COVID community for recognition, treatment & care since 2020 - we know that our futures are inextricably linked. www.meaction.net/2025/03/14/l... #LongCovid #PwME #MECFS *Ribbon by Tracey Thompson

It’s Long COVID Awareness Day, and I want to thank @zeteo.com for inviting me to write about it! Politicians & media can’t keep pushing endless COVID reinfections as an acceptable condition of our “new normal”- while failing to communicate the risks. zeteo.com/p/denying-th...

“Imagine that this disease comes from a common virus – one so common you might catch it at the supermarket, at school, or on the bus. Imagine that recent studies have shown that this virus – the one that’s everywhere you go – can linger in your body for more than a year after infection.“

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

The media forgets (or hope people forget) too fast. This was how the NPR covered our research not long ago. Today is International #LongCovid Awareness Day, by the way. Let's not forget to fight for the millions worldwide who never recovered after a #COVID infection.

Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us. healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

Good question, @kityates.bsky.social 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/kityates...

We know from early in the pandemic that opening windows and using hepa filters reduced transmission by 50%. Mask use for a couple of months would have done the rest. This would be an eradicated disease (2.4 x 0.5 x 0.4 =0.48, which is << 1)

If only they’d listened when we suggested applying the precautionary principle. www.bmj.com/content/369/...

Some bright news on the 5th year anniversary of Covid being declared a pandemic. The Canadian 🍁 AeroVax inhaled vaccine is moving to Phase 2 trials & hopes to recruit 350 participants across Hamilton, Ottawa & Halifax healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-mcma...

The Sick Times: “A lack of provider literacy is straining people with Long COVID. Training programs for doctors could help.” thesicktimes.org/2025/02/28/a...

This: over the last four years we went from “we are in this together” to “everyone for themselves”, and constant illness the new normal. We *know* that there was a massive amount of disinformation flowing from malicious actors. How can we expect that we will withstand ongoing pressure now?

If you're not paying attention to the excellent reporting by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social, author of The Gauntlet newsletter, I highly recommend it. Smart, thoughtful, deeply researched, she's doing the in-depth analysis for all of us and reporting back.

My latest: What Finland Can Teach Us about Preparing for Disasters via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Folks, this is a great group of folks who fight for social justice, public health, and a more fair & equal world. Highly recommend these folks. go.bsky.app/4dXVNkw

I previously pointed to one of my pandemic map tools and predicted that the areas with lower covid vaccine uptake would also be more prone to new ID outbreaks. That seems to be playing out now with the current Ontario measles outbreak in SW Ontario. (orange is lowest vax rate, yellow is next lowest)

You may have seen my recent posts on an Ontario measles outbreak that includes a lower vaccination area represented by Leslyn Lewis, a conservative MP. She is one of several CPC election candidates who have undermined vaccines. www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-n...

“Never have Canadian children been used as shields for adults,” she lamented on Twitter. “Parents question vaccinating kids 5-12 without long-term data, a low risk of fatality, and cautions echoed around the world, when the treatment neither prevents transmitting or getting the virus.”

I've written something about the absolute poverty of left wing analysis and discourse on the pandemic and the failure to defend the broadest expansion of the social safety net in our lives and how that helped created Musk, DOGE, etc substack.com/home/post/p-...

Cool, can you pls stop referring to us as alarmists then, @nytimes.com?

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

Cats that became infected with #BirdFlu might have spread the virus to humans, according to data that *briefly* appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished. #H5N1 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h....

You got manipulated & played by the far right. They convinced you that being a TERF was for Women’s rights. And somehow banning 0.02% of high level athletes, protected women’s rights News flash: You’re gonna be pretty pissed when the Handmaid’s Tale portion of this program hits

Call to action #E3 #USprotests #endimpunity #5050

Every few decades there is a movement somewhere to burn books. We are watching it now again, but instead of books we are burning crucial digital health files.

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

Remember this. Alex Jones, the Orange Dictator, etc call PP “Our Boy!” To fight fascist US takeover of Canada — we must fight against the “Mini-Trump” first.

Read it again: The COVID death rate of our elderly in aged care is DOUBLE that of the pandemic peak. We're seemingly fine with just sacrificing these people. Where is the Aged Care minister? Where are the families? The answers are simple: clean air, masks mandates, paid sick leave for staff.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Here’s something easy you can do today. Block USA Today on Blue Sky. If thousands of us can do it, we can have an immediate impact on their reach on social media.

Things are about to get VERY dark, VERY quickly in the US. We need to protect Canada. We are next on the list. Never underestimate PutinMuskInc

How dare I….

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