the longer we keep this up and institute mask requirements in hospitals only after the consequences become severe, instead of proactively establishing preventative mitigation policies in the first place, the more we’re just like. playing whack a mole and continuing to miss every single time.

Good thing we're monitoring bird flu oh wait the GOP killed that

France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals" "Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6." archive.li/ZeKtJ

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Republicans fighting to increase pollution and make blue-collar jobs more dangerous.

Yes. It's the usual one-dimensional assumption that vaccines are the only weapon in our arsenal. They should be educating the public about the need for clean air and respiratory protection (N95 / FFP2/3). But we don't talk about that, because it's more important to bury the "very big mistake".

My latest at Canada Healthwatch: "Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)" canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...

I'm reading a history of the 1918 influenza in the US and learned that early work on the effectiveness of masking was rejected by the physicians at the time as quickly as they could get away with it. It's been a century. Time to accept the science or get out of the way. My angry account of the past:

Saw possibly the funniest comment in a while on a video where a lady was sternly saying that she’d never eat food made by people that were taking drugs, smoking, or drinking. I have some possibly uncomfortable (for her) news about food she may have gotten from restaurants in the past.

True in many places, including Euro-American cultures. AIUI not in Hinduism, where high caste Brahmins are more vegetarian, nor for 1200 years of Japanese history under Buddhist restriction, though they did eat seafood.

If Evidence Based Medicine has a poster child, it's the 2015 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control study claiming N95s interfere with breathing in pregnant women. Here's their setup, which they described as "simulating the actual wearing of an N95 respirator". The RCT "gold standard" 🤣

Canada loses its measles elimination status. Will the U.S. be next? Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday, because of its inability to control an ongoing outbreak of the virus for at least a year. A World Health Organization group…

BicycleDutch: protected intersections don't need more space www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAp...

remember when the Roko's Basilisk concept broke nerd-crank containment and someone effortlessly dismissed it as "imagining in the future there'll be a boot of such enormous size that you have to start licking it today"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd... its a long one and I'm only halfway through but #notjustbikes slaps again with this super thorough & well-researched video. I'd heard of John Forester before but of course he seems to be an even bigger asshole than I thought. 🤬

Yet another "incoming CEO" making life worse for his employees.

👇 For those of you who don't want to end up sick this Fall/Winter it's as easy as donning an N95. I've been wearing an N95 at work, when shopping and in airports since 03/2020 and haven't had so much as a single cold since 2019. Respirators WORK, and you can reuse them so the cost doesn't add up.

Now do deaths. It is shocking to me that despite learning that significantly less people (mostly our kids and grandparents) died in the US from the flu while we were all wearing masks, no one bothers to wear a mask.

When the data speaks for itself (source: www.alberta.ca/stats/dashbo... ):

Reminder that having a flu season is a societal choice. We could use NPIs, including mass masking, to not get sick and save tens of thousands of lives in the US. We choose to let people die instead.

Nice analogy.

#Hand #Foot and #Mouth #Virus is on the rise in #USA. 4-5x the usual rate. No #vaccine, no #cure. Highly #contagious by air, surfaces, and touch. #N95s and tightened sanitation recommend. Small #children especially vulnerable and spreaders. 🏥⚕️🩺💉😷🚨🧼🚿💦🫧 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/h...

All the fake reasons chuds have given for losing their shit over face coverings, from burqas to N95s, are perfectly fine when it’s cops doing crimes

The collars last year collected a combined $193M in @rtachicago.bsky.social sales taxes. They spent less than 2% of it on a loose web of fledgling transit services. The rest went to roadway engineering and — thanks to a legal loophole — law enforcement. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/RLcPS/7/

"These Counties Spend Transit Tax Money on Ride Services. They’re Lifelines for Thousands of Residents. Fledgling dial-a-ride networks are filling gaps in public transit in the collar counties, but they struggle to meet demand." illinoisanswers.org/2025/10/28/c...

Insurers see continued excess deaths from covid, 120,000 North Americans a year. Also, long covid a real problem for children. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine. n.pr/4onXnXP

1/ it used to amaze me that smoking was once so approved in our world. my mom told me about sitting in lecture halls as a young doc—built-in ashtrays in every seat & clouds of smoke so thick you couldn’t see clearly. since COVID, i realize nothing’s really changed—comfort still trumps common sense

We've never stopped masking, and sometimes it gets surreal. Thursday as Pardner was getting chemo, a nurse was telling a patient in the next chemo stall how important it is to mask in public. But not a single nurse in the chemo ward was wearing a mask. Not one. That is, of course, beyond insane.

I am not allowed to put up an ADU on my own property but the robot burrito taxi can use the already limited pedestrian space in my neighborhood

the american mind loves driving so much they would rather avoid doing it themselves and wanna pay a lot for people to do it for them casual dining is much less about quality and more about convenience, you can’t beat a burrito taxi op

Prices do vary, but this website was very helpful when I meal prepped and was teaching full-time: www.budgetbytes.com For meals: frozen vegetables, beans, rice, and if you’re able to, a ground/ meat or meat replacement works well You can change up the spices, vegetables, beans etc. each week

good point! That's even better than my anicdata www.bikede.org/delaware-yie... According to the Delaware State Police, crashes involving bicycles specifically at stop sign – controlled intersections fell by 23% in the 30 months after Governor Carney signed the Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act into law"

Requiring cyclists to come to a full stop at stop signs just slows drivers down. I know because I, the canonical rule follower, come to a full stop, and then I have to slowly accelerate when it's my turn. Same with making cyclists dismount to cross the crosswalk - much slower than riding across.

No joke an M1 Abram’s tank has better forward visibility than some of these American pickup trucks old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/c...

oh here's the actual image of the kids lined up. lol.

All Japanese hospital staff tend to still wear masks now at work, and if you’re a patient and show up at a clinic not wearing one, you’ll get one handed to you by the receptionist. Proper thing.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

isn't it so weird that the FDA and CDC has been gutted and regulations everywhere have been rolled back, meanwhile there's been a ton of food recalls and outbreaks of shit like measles and listeria? hmmmm weird coincidence

Bird flu is simmering again as seasonal migration occurs, and: “At USDA, the cupboard is pretty bare when it comes to human resources," said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory”.

COVID's Hidden Killer: 🚨3x Heart Attack Risk Looms Larger Than Ever!🚨 Mask Up, Get Boosted, and Protect Your Heart Before It's Too Late A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease. #COVID infections often lead to #heart attacks within a year.

I tell them, Thank you but no, it's too late. Covid can linger like cigarette smoke in the air for hours. And then they give me a shocked Pikachu face.

I went to the endocrinologist on Friday, wearing a mask like I always do. He walks in without a mask and says, "You're not sick are you?" And I wanted so badly to be like, "If you're worried, wear a fucking mask."

it’s funny how both the far left and right don’t understand how supply & demand work. the right assumes supply is completely inelastic so increased demand always raise prices while the far left assumes demand is completely inelastic so increased supply will fail to reduce prices

🪦 Public Health — “Canada overall has recorded more than 5,100 confirmed and probable measles cases in 2025, and two deaths of babies born with congenital measles who were infected in utero. The country hasn’t seen this scale of measles transmission in decades.” www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

N95s can prevent more than just Covid! They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness. They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers. Many maskers haven’t been sick in years. Respirators are pretty amazing.

Making big batches of rice and freezing it into individual servings has been a huge innovation for me. Used to buy various microwaveable pouches, but then I realized that with a rice cooker, it's really easy to just do it myself. But also: the pouches are great and I still use those sometimes too!

is this the first proship media!?