"The past year shows infectious diseases no longer follow predictable patterns, with waves of illness emerging unexpectedly and becoming harder to anticipate."

Rep. Yassamin Ansari: “The oil companies were informed about an act of war before it happened, Congress was not. That, my friends, is what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.”

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.

#Canada needs to prepare for what is coming.

I’m starting to think maybe they need to get rid of that damn peace prize. Seems like it causes more harm than it’s worth. We got peace prize recipients offering to trade it to imperialist regime changers who murdered her countrymen in exchange for political power.

The highest rate on record. It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward. abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...

Or because they didn’t take Covid and the several other common airborne viruses seriously enough.

Of course these doctors aren’t just linked to what Trump does with vaccines, but to everything else as well. sciencebasedmedicine.org/doctors-who-...

RFK Jr. Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children. U.S. now recommends children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in some other wealthy nations, by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h... via @nytimes.com

QP to highlight that even the draft plan formerly at this link has now been hidden. As I understand it, the fix is in and this absolutely catastrophic (but very profitable for some!) plan to hand control of medical guidance to GRADE pseudoscience will be implemented in April 2026. Transparency? 🧵:

Elbows all the way down. Appeasement will not work. All Carney is doing is normalizing Trump's imperialist aggression, which is very very bad news for Canada. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Come on, @mark-carney.bsky.social be more like the PM of Denmark and less of a wuss.

The government of Canada did not stand up with our Nordic allies, whuch is patheticand shameful. Rest assured that come the time, the people of Canada will stand up for democracy and the rule if law. We're deeply tired of this shit, and our quisling "leaders".

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Well, some weird calls, bad luck with posts etc, and they played a good game under a lot of pressure, but the Czechs played a better one. Particularly, identifying where the puck was going next, and getting there first. Ivankovic deserves more recognition for keeping Canada in that game though.

The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh

The sincere response to a concern for mental health would have been a major expansion of access to mental health services, not forced exposure to a virulent contagion. The bullshit was always baked into the call for acrion.

Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health. It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will. That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.

There's been a lot of talk about Canada's AI strategy lately. Priority One has to be the section on "Trump installs Poilievre as puppet Prime Minister, government uses AI and all available records to automate persecution of political opponents". We all know they're already asking him to invade.

Poilievre knows no election will ever make him PM of Canada. This is him campaigning for the job on a Quisling platform, to an audience of one. Compare this "socialism" rhetoric to how the Conservative party talks about Canada. They're probably already trying to make an invasion of Canada happen.

❤️Open to all signatories❤️ Deadline Jan 12 Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance: bsky.app/profile/mama... No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial 🙏✍️&share Thank you

1/3: @scalzi.com, just reading The Collapsing Empire, and reflecting on the whole "human tendency to ignore or deny facts" until it's too late bit (p280). With H5N1 and avoidable, collapse-level mass casualties on the horizon, I have a PDF slide deck that would benefit from your comms advice.

CBC ‘News’ framing the US bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping its’ president saying “it may have been illegal” 😤😤 so tired of them carrying water for war crimes. Shame on the anchors for having zero integrity and the imperial clapping seal producers behind the scenes. #cbcnews

AI: <reports officer has transformed into a frog> AI: <demonstration traffic stop "turned into a disaster"> Police Sgt: "I’m not the most tech-savvy person, so it’s very user-friendly" 🫠 Reminds me of that old joke about a business taking a loss on every sale "but we make it up on volume!"

This retired suburban grandmother is feeling a sudden interest in joining a drone club. 🧐

This would be a really good time to start a Canadian national diy drone building, racing and obstacle course league. Clubs in every town, riffing off a few basic plans but without constraints on innovation. Maybe hire some Ukrainian experts to advise, I hear they're good at that stuff.

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

"Ukraine faked the death of the head of the Russian Legion so as to collect the $500,000 reward from the Russians." sums up why Ukraine is going to win this war no matter what Agent Orange does. The only question is whether the USA will come out of this with any scrap of its honour intact.

To be clear, "WE" here means "public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) physicians" and the reason why the did nothing is because what needs to be done is admit this is an engineering problem the way clean water is, and they aren't willing to do that b/c it costs them power and status

Brought to you by the Francesco Schettino school of infection control.

So just to recap the 2025/26 influenza season. 1) We knew months in advance it would be bad. 2) We knew/know that basic airborne respiratory spread protection measures have profound impacts on influenza. 3) We did nothing. 4) Hospitals continue to struggle with load.

In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection. Ignore the ridicule.

for those tired of politics, the words of your childhood dentist might be worth recalling -- Ignore your teeth and they'll just go away.

Just wear an N95. See that spewing from the mouth? Smaller particles don’t fall to the ground. They linger in the air. www.wired.com/story/cold-a...

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.

Families were fined and still are for keeping children safe from an airborne virus with poor vaccine access. Where is the inclusion? The care? The empathy? 200 children lost!

Why wasn’t this front page of every newspaper in the country. The whole evidence goes against everything we were told. That schools were safe.

This is insane - the UCP is deliberately sabotaging public healthcare so that they can use the suffering and death they create as an excuse to privatize and hand it all over to their cronies. Yes, the mismanagement of COVID is burning up staff and making people sicker - but they could fix that too.

Inclusion is very important and another vital reason for #CleanAir in our schools and more understanding. Plus of course, all children are at risk from long covid. In the UK nearly 200 children have died from COVID it’s an ongoing preventable tragedy. www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/if-she-...

shop.evidencebased.ca Has some great mask sales on right now, but not for long, Canada! 440 1870+ ~$80 (rounded) 500 Eclipse Arc Can-N95 ~$76 27 mask sampler on sale. And Readimask silicone large discounted. Plus many more.

metro.co.uk/galleries/sc... Candida auris has a 50% mortality rate with treatment. What could possibly be weakening immune systems to allow this to spread? So mysterious …

Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.

#ImmunityTheft Some of our business press didn’t buy into immunity debt.

The first thing authoritarians need you to lose is hope. It’s never hopeless. How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#OneOfTheTwo Jon Stewart (2011): “The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.” Jon Stewart (2025): <sensationalism, conflict, and laziness> 🤷 If someone can get him to put down the laziness long enough to watch the talk below, maybe it'll help.