an actual conversation i actually had just earlier today, actually

“a knight of the seven kingdoms” is the scooby + scrappy doo phase of the GOT franchise (= no bueno)

my son’s entire childhood. cool cool

signs that the RSV outbreak in your geriatric rehab facility is over: •no smoking 🚭 •no entering if “feeling unwell” •no masks required •no problem! oh! and uh … •sanitize your hands

the real & only difference between masked me & unmasked you is that you don’t accept that COVID is a serious threat. you wouldn’t dismiss masking in favour of “living your life” if you knew catching it repeatedly could wreak havoc on the rest of it. or on those with their whole lives ahead of them

it was training ground for COVID www.concordia.ca/news/stories...

why does the CBC defer in its coverage to the trump administration’s relabelling of the department of defense the “department of war”? do they now refer to the gulf of america too? this is a political choice. historically CBC has not been so accommodating with its terminology. see: palestine

but sure, the only relevant data point is the dramatic drop in COVID-related deaths since ‘22, which means it’s cool to talk about COVID as if it’s over. and don’t you dare suggest that vaccines alone are less than stellar in reducing transmission you explicitly anti-vax nutter 🙄

*if you’re getting sick to get strong, you’re doing it wrong”

if i saw this on veep i’d consider it too forced

data? bonnie don’t need no stinkin’ data!!!

dim-witted representative of the people working overtime on the taxpayer dime to appear extra dim-witted

quoth the cuckoo

all who of course extend far beyond america

glad she got a settlement. but it should never have come to this. you can’t put a price on health, and her employer robbed her of hers—indefinitely. for what? a senseless policy. return-to-office (RTO) mandates in an era of unmitigated COVID are a violation of workers’ right to refuse unsafe work.

NPI = non-pharmaceutical intervention… IE, masking, cleaning the air, ventilating as is appropriate, testing before gatherings, etc. we have the tools to stop the spread of things like the ongoing, mass-disabling #covid pandemic. we just have to actually use them!

This (2020) is fascinating to read now: "What is about to be unleashed on American society will be the greatest campaign ever created to get you to feel normal again. It will come from brands...from government...from each other...from the left and from the right." archive.is/uiC06

see: the nytimes op-eds on COVID lab leak conspiracies, esp. the featuring of alina chan

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say what you will about jean chrétien—he was “elbows up” long before it was a winning political slogan. this ain’t that

he’s not even bothering with “strongly-worded” anymore

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

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Why are large BlueSky liberal accounts complaining & punching down to people advocating for more health mitigations & fewer long COVID cases? Aren't there more important things to be angry about right now?

“explicitly anti-vaxx”? wow. any arguable downplaying of vaccine efficacy on her part is greatly eclipsed by this wild aspersion. she’s not anti-vaxx, she’s pro-layered measures. saying she’s “explicitly anti-vaxx” is akin to claiming michael is “explicitly anti-mask”. which is to say it’s untrue

“The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) Infection Surveillance Program provides the weekly percentage of admitted patients who were infected with COVID, influenza or RSV during their hospitalization for another medical reason.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

how to turn a half-century-in-the-making victory into abject shame in under three minutes:

convincing people that COVID leaked from the wuhan lab played a big role in the success of this disinformation campaign

reminds me of the time a highly-credentialed anthony fauci admitted he caught COVID because he couldn’t stand feeling out of place among his unmasked alumni kval.com/news/nation-...

reimer says a key priority for her in her new role as canada’s CPHO will be combatting misinformation. i hope she begins *loudly and clearly* with the notion that we are through with COVID (or more precisely, that it is through with us). nothing could be further from the truth.

before COVID i woulda been shocked to learn that people do this—let alone proudly share it online as a clever life hack. now i only have to glance at the sea of naked faces inside any given public space to remind me of the utter self-absorption most people are capable of

“oh i guess there were a few more times that i casually disparaged the medically vulnerable & their socially-conscious allies fighting for more inclusive public spaces so that those who’ve been consigned to isolation & rendered invisible for the past six years can safely rejoin society. “oh well”

you wouldn’t wait with a baseball bat to take on an intruder in your home while leaving your front door wide open. nor should you rely solely on vaccination while not bothering to cover your mouth & nose with a well-fitted respirator (n95). COVID is insidious. #maskup www.bmj.com/content/392/...

the only way i can make any sense of it is to view it as the mother of sunken cost fallacies—ie a collective wishful thinking gets eagerly reflected back & sold to you by your govt, public health & media. to admit you’ve been duped means asking “what have i done to myself? my loved ones? my *kids*?”

update: my mom’s isolation has been lifted, but she is still coughing & won’t be re-tested for infectiousness. the facility is still officially under outbreak. # of staff in N95s: 0 # of staff in baggy surgical masks: most # of staff with masks under nose and/or mouth and/or chin: many

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JFC apparently there’s a new sub-genre of non-fiction: pure fiction

not to the money ‘n’ power people! pro athletes are assets, you’re a liability!

here’s will featured on a recent episode of @thebulwark.com. his response (2nd image) actually sounded fairly reasonable next to tim miller’s ridiculous assertions about masking being “unneighbourly”. but i guess he’s not “enough of a libertarian” (transcript slightly wrong here) as he thinks he is

“there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it …” lol

germs:

article date: sept 9, *2020* effectively six months into the pandemic intelligent people were saying what public health and government leaders can’t bring themselves to say six *YEARS* into this shit. paging dr. henry … dr. moore … anyone?!

indeed, government won’t support you when you can’t work, and won’t protect you when you can bsky.app/profile/stai...

This is just straight up incorrect. “Lagacé-Wiens said that unlike with COVID-19…masks do little to protect someone from contracting it.” Respirators (masks designed to block airborne pathogens) are incredibly effective against measles. Why is CBC publishing easily disproven nonsense?

same goes for you, CBC … “how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID”: bsky.app/profile/stai...

look at these cowards letting fear stop them from living their best lives!

know what else was historical precedent in your country until 1962, gino? segregated transportation. just one example.

i am taking the extreme measure of not clicking on this horseshit headline

also pulling out this old chestnut of a phrase to bolster the idea that restrictions of any sort are never the solution