Canadian COVID Forecast: Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

🚨 Holy s**t. I just went and manually pulled the annual flu totals in Canada. Almost like something happened to make us less able to fight off the flu. @nicktsergas.ca @spichaksimon.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @barryhunt008.bsky.social @jvipondmd.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social

Our executive director sent a happy holidays email out to everyone and some people are replying all 💀

Sick and tired? Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating. These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in! But it doesn't have to be this way!

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...

She's at 92% of her goal if anyone wants to do a good deed today!

Deep thoughts

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they won't recommend wearing masks to prevent catching COVID or the Flu, but they will scold parents who bring their kids to the emergency room. as if anyone is voluntarily spending hours in emergency

Anyone else remember when Kieran dropped the mask mandate and said that we could always bring it back if needed and now we’re in a huge flu spike and supposed health experts won’t even mention masks or cleaning the air.

So I know this guy who is really smart and hardworking and is being laid off this month. If anyone has a lead on an intermediate/senior graphic design job, please let me know?

It’s only December 15th and already 3 children in Ontario have died from influenza A-related complications. Most of the winter respiratory spread pathogen season is still ahead. NOW is the best time to practice a layered approach to protecting yourself and others. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Don’t miss the opportunity to cast your ballot for Worst Person in Tech! Will Elon Musk and Peter Thiel find themselves facing off again this year, so will another asshole move into the top spot? You will decide.

Proud of the nugget who offered masks to all her classmates today as the entire school went to see a production of The Nutcracker.

someone in the replies looking up this property and realizing the price is so low because it was a meth lab is such an amazing commentary on right-wing delusion simply perfect. chefs kiss. 10/10. no notes

The snow removal crew for the funeral home next door has been doing their plowing at 3:00 AM. It snowed a few cm this morning and still hasn’t been plowed. I’m gonna be so pissed if I get woken up by them at 3:00 again.

Four kinds of Christmas cookies prepped. Plan to do two more tomorrow while baking these up.

Don’t forget to make your bread price fixing claim today! veritaconnect.ca/canadianbrea...

Every winter the snow removal company for the funeral home next door completely blocks the sidewalk with snowbanks and it fills me with rage.

At this point I think we can probably just replace the entire Doug Ford government with an AI chatbot.

Had to pick the nugget up from school this morning because she threw up in class 😭😭😭

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

Okay, so the medium fits me great (too small for @smoggyrandall.bsky.social who is the one who really needs a new brand of masks). And oh boy, do they stink! I wonder how much harm I’ll be doing by inhaling the off-gassing vs inhaling airborne viruses 😬

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The nugget is getting her haircut and is making her stylist time how long it takes to dry her hair. She also just asked her stylist if everyone keeps their name when they grow up. Gonna have to leave a good tip.

Is anyone in Ottawa or nearby looking to buy a Sony camera, lenses, lighting set, and stands? Or bits thereof? I'm selling the video pod equipment I bought last year, hardly ever used, because I gave up on trying to do TikTok and YouTube because I hate them.

It's also time to stop using the naturopathic term "natural immunity" and replace it with "disease-acquired immunity" to emphasise all of its disadvantages.

In a democracy, it's actually good to hold the government to account. The government is the one in power. They're the ones who may affect who wins, who loses, who suffers, who thrives. They can lock you up. They can side with fascists or not. So, yes, pretty important to criticize them.

Call me a grinch but I think it’s irresponsible that my kid’s elementary school is going Christmas carolling at retirement homes on the last day of school before Christmas break.

The nugget wanted to get doughnuts for snack and told me that if I didn’t get one she would cry.

Sometimes, someone throws something out that hits a nerve so irritating to me that if I'm totally honest with myself I put trying to be funny second and my desire to deal with the irritating things come out as top priority.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

youtu.be/-AUE4ZrMItI I forgot about this Christmas classic. So good.

Was thinking just the other day that I won’t be making my favourite chocolate pistachio sablés this year. Not worth the risk.

Lots of flu A around right now and norovirus has just entered the chat 🤢

Gaming friends, I need help- Recommendations for WIRED over the ear headphones with a mic that will connect to a PC?

GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that

Apparently my 6 year old has a boyfriend.

the replies to @clairewillett.bsky.social’s prompt are incredible there’s no shame in not knowing how to do something but when you know you don’t know how to do something AND you don’t check??

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.

call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report

My favourite part is when Dr Oglaza suggests that public health may be even more present in communities where offices are closed. www.intelligencer.ca/news/southea...

New BreatheTeq headstrap black mask WITH NOSE FOAM!!! 😍😍😍 @canadastrong.bsky.social can you please make XS for kiddos? canadastrong.ca/products/hea...

Just love to have my child infect me with a new virus before I even recover from the previous one.

Imagine having a public health body that recommended masks first as a way to protect against airborne viruses 😍

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 2 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NS, PEI, SK wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Major yikes m.youtube.com/shorts/6jf7H...

Snuggle season has arrived.