Canadian Long COVID folks! Long COVID Web have launched a new study on improving access to virtual healthcare for long haulers. Any self-identified Long COVID patient based in Canada that is 16 years or older can fill out their self-paced survey here by July 1: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/2ZW2NHV

Please sign and share. Cleaning the air we breathe dramatically reduces viral transmission. Imagine rarely getting sick and how much better you and your family would feel. We all deserve to breathe air as clean as the water we drink.

Please read our public statement regarding the recent news of a COVID-19-related death of a New Brunswick child under 5 years of age. protectnb.ca/POPNB-March-...

We have launched a new petition demanding an update from GNB on promised clean air initiatives and for government to acknowledge airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Public Health has a press conference tomorrow morning. Please sign and share: chng.it/HTf9NZfMsk #nbpoli

As promised, I sought to find out why NB redefined Covid-19 deaths and how that redefinition impacted reporting, and the response is frightening. They changed the definition based on vibes, resulting in 2 of every 3 covid-caused deaths not being reported. #nbpoli #covid19

Still wrapping my head and my words around this, but here is a peak at what I've uncovered. In addition to spurious rationale for abandoning the nationally established definition of a Covid-19 fatality, NB's reporting change led to approximately 44% of Covid-caused deaths to go uncounted in 2023.

"A Day in the Life of a Longhauler" is a photography project that captures the daily life of individuals living with Long COVID. Longhaulers are invited to share up to 6 photos from their everyday life which will be showcased at the Museum of Vancouver in the Fall of 2025. We love this initiative!

Snow is on the way which means we’re all going inside. We have kids and adult respirators available in a variety of sizes. We have rapid tests as well. If you would like to continue supporting us we accept EMTs at [email protected] Link here t.co/loNoAXw9oe

Look, we all hate Trash-Stat Tuesday, none more than myself, but we're here now so we may as well just get it over with. #nbpoli #covid

Il y a des actions simples et efficaces que vous pouvez entreprendre pour aider à améliorer la situation du SARS-CoV-2 au Nouveau-Brunswick et assurer votre sécurité ainsi que celle de votre famille et de votre communauté.

If anyone reads this far, there are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

"SEASON" SUMMARY (*subject to change) • 1305 PCR cases • 501 "hospitalizations" (11 under 19) • 37 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 30 "deaths" • 131 lab confirmed outbreaks

Congratulations @popnb.bsky.social ! 👇is doable! Now let’s go! #PH #PublicHealth #needPH #needPublicHealth

Our work is paying off. So many thanks to @ryan-murphy.bsky.social for documenting this monumental success!

Our work is paying off. Today, Mandate Letters from Premier Susan Holt incoming Ministers were shared with the public. The Hon. Chuck Chiasson, Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure, will take the lead on the party's commitment to improve the air in public buildings.

With so many new people arriving, it's a good time to repost this dive into our FOI/RTI work which exposed how every provincial and territorial public health office knew about the severity and prevalence of Long Covid in July 2020 and did nothing. #cdnpoli #longcovid #covid #COVID-19 #SARS-CoV-2

Please continue to be safe and continue to cultivate your interest in the safety of others. Fight to strengthen your impact. Rest to strengthen your resolve. Let care be your radical act. Let community be your foundation. And I will see you next week.

Comme toujours, il y a des actions simples et efficaces que vous pouvez entreprendre pour aider à améliorer la situation du SARS-CoV-2 au Nouveau-Brunswick et assurer votre sécurité ainsi que celle de votre famille et de votre communauté.

There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

Updated sequencing to January 12. We see JN.1 and its ilk now making up almost 42% of cases, up from a max of 6% of cases in December. JN.1 is thought to be more immune evasive and has fuelled recent C19 waves globally.

I'd like to pause here and note that our official Covid-19 death count is 999. 999 New Brunswickers have been killed by this virus in under four years. What should be an atrocity is broadly accepted as normal, inevitable and not worthy of active mitigation. god help us.

"SEASON" SUMMARY (of the demonstrated-to-be-incorrect numbers) • 2643 PCR cases • 1154 "hospitalizations" (20 under 19) • 76 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 64 "deaths" • 283 lab confirmed outbreaks

Despite influenza being prevalent, we can still see that C19 is not just a flu. The impacts of C19 are deeper and more deadly by orders of magnitude.

It is wishful thinking that the posted data represent what is in our communities. It may or may not. Current NB C19 "data" are unburdened by reality. They are poorly sampled and questionably analyzed and represent only what is happening in particular buildings in the province.

Wake up, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. The bad news is the virus and its associated gruesome impacts, which have been thoroughly and successfully normalized, continue to kill and disable NBers. The good news is, according to the fake numbers, the virus is slowing down a notch. #nbpoli #covid19

All my investigative pieces to date about all that was known in B.C since Apr, 2020 about #LongCovid -including in kids- as per B.C’s own post-C19 interdisciplinary clinical care network, B.C F.O.I documents & PopNB’s @hallwayorchard.bsky.social @popnb.bsky.social comprehensive RTI work.

There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

So... We protect each other. Power does not want people helping people. Communal care emancipates us and fosters a security in opposition to the widespread, manufactured precarity leveraged against the public by systems of oppression and extraction.

Here's some not-wrong data which is likely why NB PH steadfastly refuse to provide it to public or media; updated sequencing to Dec 27. HV.1 and HK.3 (related to Omicron EG.5) account for over 50% of cases, while their progenitor accounts for approximately another 10% of cases.

"SEASON" SUMMARY (of the demonstrated-to-be-incorrect numbers) • 2412 PCR cases • 1066 "hospitalizations" (15 under 19) • 64 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 54 "deaths" • 254 lab confirmed outbreaks

May auld mitigation be forgot and never brought to mind... it's Trash-Stat Tuesday 2024 edition. Fake numbers continue to be higher than the previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. Some fake numbers are pretty shocking maybe question mark? #nbpoli #covid19

As we approach the holidays and are presented with the weight of our cultural traditions, consider which of your decisions and actions have occurred because of a desire to please and which have occurred because of a desire to protect.

No one survives alone. No one can hold the space necessary for perpetual crisis. No one can be expected to achieve normalcy in the midst of abject physiological, psychological, and social precarity. We need a community to achieve the capacity necessitated by our grief.

Comme toujours, il y a des actions simples et efficaces que vous pouvez entreprendre pour aider à améliorer la situation du SARS-CoV-2 au Nouveau-Brunswick et assurer votre sécurité ainsi que celle de votre famille et de votre communauté.

So, as always we continue at the expense of our own sanity and faith to do our best. There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

A peculiarity here is that, with the exception of deaths, those totals, gleaned from the most recent respiratory watch report, exceed the sums of the individual reports since August. Seems as though NB PH is updating hospitalizations, ICS admissions and outbreaks.

For the "I just have a flu" crowd, and the "Covid is just a flu" crowd... doubtful and no it isn't.

Please note that NB Covid "data" is poorly sampled and questionably analyzed and represents only what is happening in particular buildings in the province. All pretence of representing reality has been wholly abandoned at this point.

O come, all ye spiteful, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. Fake senses of calm prevail as fake numbers remain roughly the same as previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. #nbpoli #atlCanada #covid19

Recognize and name deathmaking wherever you see it and recognize within yourself that while you are not solely responsible to abolish them, neither can you turn a blind eye to their work. Don't abandon your strength and don't abandon yourself.

No one survives alone. No one can hold the space necessary for perpetual crisis. No one can be expected to achieve normalcy in the midst of abject physiological, psychological, and social precarity. We need a community to achieve the capacity necessitated by our grief.

NB PH steadfastly refuses to provide sequencing breakdowns, so we have to do it ourselves. Sequencing is updated to November 24. HV.1 and HK.3, related to Omicron EG.5, account for approximately 40% of cases, while their progenitor accounts for another 30% cases.

For those of you with contacts who are positive they "just have a flu," the stats suggest otherwise. If they're not testing, but are labouring under the misconception that whatever is going around is just a flu, or that Covid itself is just a flu, see below.

You better not cringe, you better not bray, you better not disassociate, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. Fake numbers remain high compared to previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. #nbpoli #covid19 #atlCanada

Covid is the third leading cause of death in Canada. More than accidents. More than flu. Most of these deaths are preventable. When will Tim Houston act to save lives? Make your #TellTimTuesday call, Nova Scotia! 902 424 6600

Why do people seem to be getting #sick more often now? For yet another year we are already seeing earlier and significantly higher #hospital #admissions for #respiratory #illness than pre-pandemic levels. Are there new mysterious #pathogens starting to attack us now? 🧪🧵1/

Breaking News: Health Canada approves Novavax. canada.ca/en/health-ca...

We will not counteract abandonment and dismissal by working in isolation. We won't overcome by trying to destroy the system through the system. We must create alternatives in which we enact the reciprocal care and solidarity we are denied, and we must grow in those places.

The ongoing pandemic is only one of the many facets of a larger, overwhelming crisis of abandonment. The solutions to the problems we experience here are tied wholly to those needed to address the organized abandonment we encounter from all quarters.

If you haven't heard me say it yet, Public Health do not exist to support the health of the public. They exist to provide the implication of medical and scientific rigour to policy decisions made by those who retain the absolute least concern for the health of the public.