What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

“COVID-19 was associated with a 49% increased risk of new-onset autoimmune-related diseases” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/

Not everything is Covid but currently we have a situation with constant false narratives, where it is never COVID. It’s absolutely unscientific.

I read a new study on “Altered brain tissue microstructure and neurochemical profiles in long COVID and recovered COVID-19 individuals,” but if (as the study found) Covid induces lasting changes in the brain it certainly seems that no one has truly recovered from Covid.

1/ As the voice of 365,000+ 🇨🇦 teachers, @ctffce.bsky.social, what are you doing as a #Union to protect teachers from an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus, now in its 7th year & still ignored by all tiers of government?

Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid

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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...

COVID wastewater charts for the Halifax area as of 2025-12-14 Halifax: High

2026 will be another year of masking, cleaning the air, and opposing genocide because all lives are sacred and mass denial is for babies.

Covid-cautious queers of Halifax – the Mask4Mask New Year's Eve party is starting now! 🎉 see mask4mask_queers_hfx on IG for details.

Catching COVID is causing immune damage, it’s not building children up. It’s weakening them to other infections.

Fellow Covid-aware, whenever you feel like the only one still masking, still trying to protect yourself and those around you, read the quote posts on a post by someone who’s also adapted & thriving, like this one. It will strengthen your resolve and help you see there are many of us that still do 🫶😷

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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

friends, Nova Scotia always has the advantage of seeing what's coming & this flu season is promising to be pretty rough. Even if you can't mask consistently, wearing a well-fitted N95/KN94 when possible will reduce your viral load.

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With Canada's ER problem that is now in the global public eye, we can't afford to be flippant about preventable infectious diseases like COVID & influenza, because they contribute to surging capacity in ER. Airborne mitigations now

In an update shared to social media on Wednesday, IWK Health said the flu is now here in the Maritimes, and that while most kids can manage it at home, children under five and those with underlying illnesses are at a higher risk of serious illness.  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance: bsky.app/profile/mama...

The Covid forecast for Nova Scotia is high and we've entered an early flu season. Wearing a well-fitted mask can break the chain of transmission! Free masks are available at: ▫️Venus Envy ▫️Cape & Cowl Comics ▫️HFX Community Fridge ▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge ▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge

“We have been asking them and insist that they invest in measuring the air quality in those spaces, schools and school buses, and not leaving it as something for which school boards have to pull from an already overstretched budget,” @mjnabuurs.bsky.social says. ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

COVID-19 increases your risk of heart attacks, blood clots, strokes, & more. The risk of heart problems from COVID-19 infection is significantly higher than the risk from vaccines. Protect your heart by getting vaccinated & taking other steps to avoid COVID & Long COVID. See the data: bit.ly/4kl36Mz

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As a physician who masks in public spaces to avoid getting and transmitting COVID, it has nothing to do with anxiety & everything to do with science: not acutely killing the elderly I love & those I serve, not transmitting serious chronic autoimmune and vascular disease to 10% of those infected 1/2

Workplace exposures tied to higher risk of long COVID CIDRAP December 18, 2025 By Laine Bergeson stillcoviding.ca/en/news/work... #COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #research #LabourRights

Psst - the BC government is currently finalizing #BCBudget2026 (which will likely be presented in February). This gives us ONE LAST CHANCE to make sure that BC invests in key public health priorities in the coming year! donoharmbc.ca/bc-budget-20... #BCpoli #BChealthcare #CovidIsAirborne

To be blunt: if you are doing anything at all right now to reduce your risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2, you're being smart. As a result of the current high prevalence of flu, masking is back in the media. Ignore anything negative said about it. Political nonsense is irrelevant.

Masks on. Infections down. Masks off. Infections up. Masks on. Infections down. Masks off. Infections… If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here. #maskingsaveslives #masksinhealthcare #commonsenseinhealthcare #HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness

"Some specific workplace conditions were tied to amplified risk: working onsite during the pandemic (57% higher risk than telework), inconsistent use of high-filtration respirators (52% higher risk), and regularly commuting by public transportation (58%). The highest-risk included HCWs, teachers..."

Heck yeah! Mandatory masking is coming back to Nova Scotia Health facilities tomorrow. COVID-19 never went away, and mandatory masks in healthcare shouldn’t have either.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

This will result in more effective infection control! If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at: ▫️Venus Envy ▫️Cape & Cowl Comics ▫️HFX Community Fridge ▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge ▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge

Effective December 18, Nova Scotia Health is requiring everyone to wear a mask in their facilities. 👏👏👏 Please protect yourselves and others during this season of illness by wearing a mask, staying home when sick, getting vaccinated, and increasing ventilation & filtration.

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It's criminal that Nova Scotia won't consider transmission and risk of inflection an occupation health and safety issue.

"'It's about reduction. Having experienced Covid since 2020, we should really be learning the lessons,' he said. 'Cleaning the air in hospitals and having more of a culture of mask wearing among healthcare staff makes a massive difference to infection control around viruses'"

THIS.

It's good to see Nova Scotia Health finally recognize the need for infection control. However, this is a half measure that will do little to effectively reduce illness. Why not require masks for everyone? We're entering year 7 of learning next to nothing.

@mswcreations.bsky.social is having a free Winter Solstice virtual retreat for COVID-conscious women and gender diverse folx on December 12th at 6:00pm EST. www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-covid...

As a senior-age teacher, I wear N95 daily in the high school science classroom, perhaps I'll make it to retirement with a modicum of health intact?

We’ve created the perfect sickness storm because whether you have covid or not right now, whatever sickness you have is probably worse because Covid damaged your immune system or other organs. But still we do almost nothing to prevent or reduce multiple Covid infections.

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Teachers and students are starting to realize that wearing a well-fitting N95 DOES help reduce airborne pathogen spread. Dozens of people stopping by my classroom this morning to pick up free @donatemask.bsky.social N95s. Thank you Donate Mask🙏

NYC gets it. Wouldn’t it nice to have such public health messaging in NS? Alas, Dr. Strange is still MIA. @nsgov.bsky.social #nspoli

Great reminder that a layered approach is necessary for infection control.

Hi everyone, Drs. Tara Moriarty and Stef Christensen will be holding a special Data Discussion session on Dec 9th to provide information on and answer questions about COVID-19 testing devices and methods in advance of the holiday season. #StillCoviding #COVID19 covid19resources.ca/discussions/

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

It’s not inevitable that we get sick over the holidays! We can take steps to keep each other safe. Wear a well fitting respirator mask like n95, kn95, kf94 or better starting now! Use hepa filters to clean the air. Open the windows!

“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...