For Long Covid Awareness Month, sending love to everyone who has friends, family and/or partners who have no awareness that it's Long Covid Awareness Month

Cuba's health care system pushed to the brink by US fuel blockade, Cuban minister says https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/cubas-health-care-system-pushed-to-the-brink-by-us-fuel-blockade-cuban-minister-says/article_3e64d687-919b-5b03-83d9-fcbab1dd486d.html ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

By Gilly @profesh_baby: "Wearing an N95 mask (or better!) is the easiest way to protect yourself and everyone around you. It's an act of solidarity." Source: x.com/profesh_baby...

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-review-highlights-growing-evidence-diabetes-drug-metformin-can-prevent-long-covid ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Sorry, re-posting because I accidentally mentioned the wrong stat. If your kid starts smoking in front of you and smokes their whole life, they have *15%* of developing lung cancer. If an adult gets three covid infections - just three - their risk of developing Long Covid is up to 40%

Should be bigger news that the bureau chief of Toronto Sun is celebrating an unarmed woman being executed in the street

If by bad cold and flu season you mean that lots of people have immune dysregulation from covid infections and viruses are hitting them harder now, then yes.

Small earthquake felt across Central Okanagan #Kelowna

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025 Severe: NL, PEI, SK Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON High: QC Moderate: none About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Ugh. Canadian content creators making posts about their quick trip to Trader Joes. How about staying on this side of the border and supporting Canadian businesses instead? How about not supporting a fascist regime?

Canadians: elbows up! No more travelling to the United States. Also Canadians: well apart from that trip to Vegas, Disneyland, a hockey game, that concert, and maybe some shopping.

Friendly reminder, The Bible has more bullshit in it than any book they are trying to remove from schools.

So upset about this. Their products are staples.

1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

Everyone asks if Pepsi is ok but nobody ever asks how Coca Cola is doing

You can’t assert the former without the latter also being true.

From The New Yorker today:

B.C.'s life sciences sector is the fastest growing in Canada. Home to life-saving mRNA technology pioneered at UBC, we're leading the way in science and innovation. Ready to invest? Come to British Columbia🍁 We're open for business.

What kind of asshole still supports a politician after it becomes glaringly obvious they’re a pedophile?

"We can 'follow the science' even when it scares us, instead of insisting that 'we have to live our lives' until those lives go up in flames." Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼 yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

The air is poisoned. The oceans are collapsing. The virus never left. But go ahead—post your smoothie bowl and pretend that’s wellness.

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected. That's not something you get over.

🫡🇨🇦🦫🏒 youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?...

More fun.

Sigh. Penticton Regional Hospital. Full of senior volunteers and not a mask in sight other than mine. It’s gonna be a long winter.

[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing: “We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. “It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. “The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”

Is this 🇨🇦 data correct??? Disability among 15-24 yo ⬆️ 54% ? Disability among 25-54 yo ⬆️ 33% ? And that data is 2 years old? So things may be worse in 2024? Two years after The Great Unmasking, aka "let 'er rip"? Huh 🤔

New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults "On an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older." #LongCOVID

Saw one other person in a mask at Superstore this morning. Sigh.

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