maybe one day he’ll at least get to here. probably the best we can hope for

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

man, this virtual-signalling poser crap from our former leader is so nauseating. can’t believe he didn’t work his poppy into the shot WHERE’S HIS POPPY

re-upping this ‘cuz it’s such a good read. wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.? @juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...

This is a critical thread for every Canadian to read. I began the pandemic as an avid CBC listener. I can't listen anymore. The lack of journalistic integrity, the dangerous anti-science rhetoric, the simping & attacks from @ianhanomansing.bsky.social destroyed my faith in it. #cdnsky #canpoli

scientific consensus: every COVID infection increases the risk of LC and other longterm health issues everyone:

anyone still remember this? good times (from april, 2021) theconversation.com/doug-fords-f...

“MMs were created solely as splash guards: to protect from a patient’s blood or other body fluids from inadvertently spraying into [the wearer’s] mouth or nose. Since they are loose-fitting … gaps, however, allow infectious bioaerosols to be inhaled by the wearer.” whn.global/whn-joins-in...

what a concept 🤯

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

This is a really good thread.

It is important to understand that the reckoning on Covid is not about feels, it’s not about fears, and it’s not about fuzzy ideas of social justice. It is real people being forced out of their jobs because their workplaces refuse to acknowledge the scientifically proved risks of Covid.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

nov. 1, 1959 jacques plante dons his face mask after suffering a puck to his nose that broke it & required stitches. he knew he’d face backlash, but he also knew the next hit might disable him for life—or worse. nov. 1, 2025 is today the day you don yours, or do you risk another blow from COVID?

truthier: it’s *still* more than pretty bad, we’ve been woefully underreacting to it since at least 2022 when biden declared it over and we dropped all precautions except an inadequate once-a-year booster, and it’s probably gonna turn out much worse than most people think

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

“how dare we?” what greta thunberg famously said about climate change inaction also applies to COVID inaction. we are failing the next generation because of our stubborn denial of inconvenient truths. “long-term harm from COVID, especially in children, is now undeniable.” (yaneer bar-yam)

yes yES YES every damn(ing) word of THIS 👇🏼👍🏼🙏🏼 thank you @teachrprecarity.bsky.social for writing and @chantzy.bsky.social for posting

more like LOSS angeles dodgers amirite

66 years ago this saturday, NHL goalie jacques plante changed hockey forever—in the face of extreme pressure from his coach *not* to, & scorn from fellow players & fans alike. he did it because he knew it was the right thing to do, & would protect him & in turn other goalies too #elbowsup #maskup

ALT image text: a split screen of two black-and-white photos of greg bovino—seemingly taken shortly one after the other—waiting in front of an elevator wearing a heavy black slicker reminiscent of the kind worn by hitler and other high officers of the third reich

joado flop sweating fredo vibes, waiting for a chance to hit back on his dumbass mask take

this nov. 1st, be a jacques plante—the 1st NHL goalie to wear a face mask in a game (‘59), against the bidding of his coach, & despite reproach from teammates & fellow players. then be a plante every day after, & continue to #maskup to protect yourself & others from COVID youtu.be/yMbXU4njAw4?...

à propos of nothing, here’s a kickass song by canadian singer/songwriter danny michel, with 0% nazi references or insinuations (but a cool nod to claude rains as “the invisible man”) “and i feel like an old tattoo something you once believed now you hide under your sleeve” youtu.be/Is6_F4SblBc?...

winning what, exactly?

macedo admittedly chose to write on the subject—among several—he “knew least about.” but there’s a reason for that old adage “write what you know”, certainly when it comes to non-fiction. he and lee could have spared the world what they didn’t know by doing what most of us do—reading it.

dang you mean dropping elbows to vigorously rub them with the narcissistic-sociopath-in-chief in the cabinet room was all in vain? zut alors

i recall seeing this film, “remember”, ⭐️ing christopher plummer a few years ago and thinking it was really good—all except for the dean norris character, an idaho state trooper/closet nazi with a cache of third reich memorabilia in his home. struck me as over the top—sweet, silly child that i was

Me too. I find it hard to take people, especially medical experts—seriously when they downplay the ongoing pandemic, act like it’s over, and then talk about “preparing for the next one.” #COVIDisNotOVER #OngoingPandemic Source: x.com/DcrInYYC/sta...

if you’re posting a maskless selfie while getting your COVID/flu shots, colour me unimpressed

RTOs harm kids. they are pro-pediatric long COVID policy

Louder for the people in the back: "It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage #COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)." The image below is based on data collected from 80,071 kids and teens:

if you think it’s ridiculous in 2025 for your government to suggest that fighting climate change is a matter of personal choice and individual risk assessment, it may be past time to rethink what you’ve been sold on COVID

“whichever figure you use, the numbers are enormous …” ‘LONG COVID IS REAL — AND IT’S CHANGING AN ENTIRE GENERATION’ 👇🏼 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

would be amazing if this nov. 1st, PM carney extended his winning #elbowsup metaphor—to encourage folks to protect themselves & others from COVID—with #maskup, on the anniversary of jacques laplante’s brave decision to wear a mask in goal, in face of much derision from coaches, players & the public

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Heads up, this guy has done the risk assessment and he’s positive that kids can be serially reinfected with COVID forever with no serious consequences! To suggest otherwise is fear, just ignore that JAMA Pediatrics has declared long COVID more common than asthma in kids 5 years into its existence.

“in 2022, i shocked my cultivated circle of friends when i not only began brazenly farting loudly and stinkily in public whenever the opportunity arose, but also bragged incessantly about it. why are they now cancelling me simply because of who i have chosen to become?”

progressives will wax poetic about the importance of being strong allies and advocates for the marginalized—until it comes to putting their money where their mouth (and nose) is, because masking interferes with their weekly brunch plans

yeah! grow up! like i did, you know—by coming around to lavish love on the felon i once declared was “america’s hitler”

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

i’m an able-bodied person (for now 🤞🏼). the importance of masking, given the overwhelming evidence that it works to prevent spread of an often debilitating, even fatal disease, is not difficult to grasp. what is confounding is that so many normally astute progressive voices like jamelle can’t seem to

what does that even mean, “the ask is not reasonable”? by what & whose metric? it’s superseded somehow by your implicit “ask” to rawdog your possibly disease-ridden halitosis on others and possibly debilitate or even kill them? and invoking solidarity in service of it is “ridiculous”? go eat ass sir

especially since COVID has

Look, if you don't want to mask in public, that's your deal. My point is don't call yourself a leftist & pretend to care about disability justice

pumpkin pie was so good tonight i turned into jeff goldblum

may there yet be a comprehensive accounting of the theft of this man’s freedom and a reckoning for all who have abetted it

he continues to spend his life paying for others’ continuing crimes against him just staggeringly cruel

“Lenny Bruce: arrested for using profanity & satirizing Catholic church George Carlin: went to Supreme Court to defend his right to say every word he wants (including 7 you can’t say on television) Richard Pryor: took on network censors & cut short lucrative NBC variety show” heroes 👆🏼 zeros 👇🏼