“Getting sick frequently at school is not inevitable, and it isn’t because kids are just harbingers of viruses. It’s more because the buildings they inhabit do not have adequate ventilation and filtration systems to reduce illness transmission,” @mjnabuurs.bsky.social said. (Archive 🔗 in next post)

After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays… and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal. #VaccinePlus ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

Three kids dead this month, just in our region. It's never too late to start masking again, get your vaccinations and clean the air. Get a HEPA for your home this holiday season (if you can) and crack a window/run a fan. Wash your hands religiously. All these measures prevent Covid, too!

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year... A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

What a terrible, irresponsible headline. The answer is infection is *far* more of risk than vaccination. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too. Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

Hello everything sucks right now and you might be wondering what you can do to fix it. The short answer is the same as it was last week: Help people. Build community. And fight the attempts to divide us.

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air

A case of measles has been identified by #Ottawa Public Health with potential exposures to the virus for others in the community. Further spread could occur 21 days following exposure. #Measles is preventable. MMR vaccine is safe and effective. More info re Ottawa sites: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

“Yet instead of investing in cooling infrastructure, Premier Doug Ford’s government has taken to blaming school boards for excessive classroom heat. Meanwhile, kids are left with a patchwork of protocols to help them cope”

I’ll never forgive Biden and the Democrats for lying and saying the pandemic’s over & caving so quickly on clean indoor air & the need for continued masking. It’s because of them that the vast majority of otherwise “sensible & reasonable” people mistakenly think COVID’s a cold.

The anti-vaxxer playbook: - Fire Chief Medical Officer and leave position vacant. - Appoint anti-vaxxer ministers. - Actively campaign against vaccination. - Complain that no one is getting vaccines. - Cancel public funding for vaccinations. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Now toddlers have #longcovid Some from ‘two years’ which means they never went through lockdown or had vaccine access. Heaven help us, clean the air.

In its announcement, the Alberta government pointed to new guidance from the U.S. FDA, which stopped recommending routine COVID vaccines for pregnant women and most children. What will Alberta do when RFK starts coming after other vaccines?

RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

When we know that vax + mask + clean air = trifecta vs airborne diseases, but don’t implement these measures, the potentially life altering impacts on children getting preventable illnesses are entirely our fault. We KNOW how to keep kids safe and we’re NOT doing it. Inexcusable. Criminal.

If convincing people to get the measles vaccine is ‘slow going’ this calls for a vaccine-PLUS approach. Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk. Vaccine-PLUS means: +masks +air filtration +ventilation +more! globalnews.ca/news/1117224...

"If Covid damaged our immune systems, we would be seeing record outbreaks of other diseases." That was the argument in 2022. Three years later, we're having the worst resurgence of flu, tuberculosis, measles, and whooping cough in generations.

The Whig-Standard asked the Ford government what it is doing to reduce transmission of measles in Ontario schools. The only response was an automated email from the Ministry of Education, which provided a link to the Ministry of Education Homepage. #Measles www.thewhig.com/opinion/lowe...

We crossed quite the tragic landmark on Measles cases in Ontario this week: 1000 cases in this outbreak. I thought my clinical experience 🌍 was unique & that I’d never have to see measles cases in Canada, where it was previously eliminated. Now this lethal childhood disease seems has a foothold.

The Beaverton demands same debate invitation as The Rebel, even though we’re not as big a joke

The simple metal box that could change the world. This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social, @davidelfstrom.bsky.social, Zack Deis healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social #COVID19

Reminder as we watch measles rates climb in Canada that *this* is Poilievre's attitude towards vaccination during a public health emergency. MMR vaccination has long been mandated for health care workers. Would a Poilievre govt ban the MMR mandate in health care during a huge measles outbreak?

As I warned repeatedly last July, the foolhardy cancellation of the world class and inexpensive Ontario wastewater surveillance program was a mistake. I cautioned that we would be less prepared as new infectious disease risks rose during the winter. #measles #H5N1 www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Yet more data showing that COVID is far from a nothing-burger for kids although it is widely perceived to be, as this, & the next linked paper, shows. We can & should be doing more, esp. on the vaccination & clean indoor air at school/public transport/home fronts. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" own this. ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario...

as a cis guy, this what I mean when I say that the future of trans people is one of the few things I am not pessimistic about in the longer term. The cat is out of the bag and there’s no forcing it back. All the pain and evil being inflicted today are by monsters who know they’re losing.

Trans rights are human rights. #TransDayOfVisibility

Poor ventilation is a worker health and safety issue, especially during an outbreak of an extremely contagious disease.

This is with whom the likes of Danielle Smith and Jordan Peterson comfortably share a stage. In fact, they seek him out.

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

Dear media: Every time you platform an infectious disease minimizer, or promulgate the idea of "immunity debt" you make yourself more complicit in the downfall of public health and the return of preventable diseases.

What ex-security officials think of Pierre Poilievre’s top secret security stance, @alexboutilier.bsky.social reports. globalnews.ca/news/1098961... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

🏫 All kids deserve clean air. 🧑‍🏫 All educators deserve clean air. 🧑‍💼 All school staff deserve clean air. 🚌 All bus drivers deserve clean air. It’s time to prioritize clean air in schools and on school buses in Ontario. Everyone deserves to breathe clean air. #OntEd #Vote #OnPoli #CleanTheAir

Assuming I stay on Spotify this year, this 100% makes my wrapped.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

And just out of frame are the calm-mongers and infectious disease minimizers and their media enablers telling everyone that infections are fine.

I wish it weren't necessary to keep writing about this. But it is. www.surreynowleader.com/opinion/anal...

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

Health Canada proposed a 1,000 ppm (avg) CO2 exposure limit in 2020, just because bad air is bad for you. I assume the work predated COVID, and was killed to let Team COVID Infinity continue to pretend air quality can't be fixed (so their negligence didn't matter). www.canada.ca/en/health-ca....

If you think you might have Covid - or you’re just feeling sick - stay home this holiday season. Don’t be the reason someone’s loved one ends up in the hospital (or worse). If you absolutely can’t stay home - wear a well fitted respirator. You could save a life.