With all of this talk
about the possibility
of the next pandemic
it is essential that you not forget about the persistence 
of the current pandemic.

Infection Control Experts Unsure Of Hantavirus Transmission Mode, Advise Public To Use Only Precautions That Feel Comfortable

Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests "About 28% of older people in England who died of COVID-19 in the first 2.5 years of the pandemic would likely, if uninfected, have lived at least another 5 years" Source: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/man...

Canadian COVID Forecast: May 9 - May 22, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB HIGH: CAN, BC, MB, NL, North, SK MODERATE: NS, ON, PEI, QC About 1 in 188 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Oh FFS

Before we even get into these slides, we’ll be very honest here. We get it, there are a lot of reasons to doubt certain agencies and institutions when they say the risk of a virus to the general public isn’t that high, but it’s currently true that the public is at very low risk from hantavirus.

Officials Mildly Positive About Progress Of Andes Hantavirus Spread

Bonnie Henry at it again. #FireBonnie

Trolls: "No one knew what to do about a novel coronavirus in 2020." Reality: There was a provincial commission in Ontario following the botched response to SARS-CoV-1 in 2003. It had specific recommendations for dealing with such a virus. Those were ignored in 2020. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

New version of our infographic on airborne diseases. We've added the Andes virus (hantavirus), which appears to be airborne. R0 is the degree of contagiousness: the higher the R0, the more contagious the disease. The R0 of Andes virus is not yet known, but it is certainly low.

I blame the global leadership of public health and infection control for an unnecessary pandemic, caused by their greed for power and the fact that they were - and in many cases still are - nearly a century out of date. I blame them for the millions of deaths their ignorant arrogance cost.

#MaskUp #CleanTheAir #MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky

I'm seeing multiple MDs, including those high up at the WHO, repeatedly say the public need not worry about hantavirus, you need close prolonged contact to get the illness, it's not airborne, and most worryingly, the WHO advising HCWs to use inadequate respiratory protection. Here's the problem. 1/

Were they wearing an N95 for the entire flight? Were the other passengers? We need to know.

Why Has No One Figured Out How To Stop Airborne Pathogen Transmission? Not That There Is Any, Of Course.

We Decide Whether Your Health Problems Were Avoidable, Not You

Hantavirus Definitely Probably Not A Serious Threat Maybe

HCWs should follow this Infection Protection and Control advice rather than that of the WHO, please. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Public health messaging we need to hear: "We acknowledge that we were wrong about COVID not being airborne. We've learned from that. We no longer assume the same with new outbreaks and we employ the precautionary principle until we have clear evidence that airborne mitigations are not required."

Why does WHO advise "medical masks" for those on board with respiratory symptoms? Why don't they advise FFP2/N95 respirators? Even for healthcare people? Their latest on the outbreak refers to 3 types of precautions: standard, transmission-based & airborne: www.who.int/emergencies/...

Very important statement. TL;DR Human to human transmission documented if in limited numbers. Be careful. Numbers may not remain low if we aren’t. Aerosol transmission mentioned indirectly (ventilation).

Getting “restaurant in China in January 2020 where people across the room were infected by the Covid virus traveling through air conditioner“ vibes. 😬 Quote post image with Alt text:

"Should I start masking again because of #hantavirus?" It's been a wise preventive behavior to mask the past 6 years. The U.S. has twice annual COVlD waves. We've dipped into a "lull" after the 12th wave this winter, but we're still at 180,000 estimated new daily infections.

This is a brilliantly thorough thread about how to build trust in health authorities vs the automatic minimization of a hazard by those authorities. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

So covid is #airborne now? "The #WHO &health officials... have stressed that the risk of the outbreak spreading to wider populations is low & #hantavirus is only transmitted through close contact, unlike #airborne diseases such as #Covid19 " www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with April 26 data - Kingston, London, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NS, PEI, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

#PublicHealthIsDead #IDSky #EpiSky #CleanTheAir

It’s so mild.

Getting ready for the workweek and not feeling well? Staying home is best for you and others, but we know, unfortunately, not everyone has that choice. If you have to go out, take steps to protect your health and the health of others.

Precautionary Principle Stepping Down To Spend More Time With Family

Fascinated by these articles saying Andes hantavirus is only transmitted through prolonged close contact, when Dr Gustavo Palacios says that the 2018 Andes outbreak taught them that you are *highly* contagious but only for a VERY short window, like a day. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/h...

Of course CTV asks for the opinion of deranged idiot Isaac Bogoch on the hantavirus outbreak.🤦‍♀️ #AirborneAware #IDSky #MaskUp #CleanTheAir www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Publ*c health’s main job has become to tell people “don’t panic” and “trust us” without doing much to make those things possible and it’s really sad. But they won’t do better because too many people put saving face (and “the economy”) over saving lives.

Panicking Everyone Not Required During Initial Inaction Period, Says WHO

Hantavirus Only A Risk To Those At Risk From Hantavirus, Says CDC

How to Stop an Epidemic: There are some answers in the past. In March 2003, one SARS patient showed up in a Vancouver emergency room and another went to a Toronto emergency room. But two very different sequences of events unfolded.

Since we're on the topic of new disease outbreaks: Again sharing an excellent podcast that discussed the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE, by @sharpflower.bsky.social and featuring Dr. Lyne Filiatrault: www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/how...

I beg to differ. 1. Don’t go on cruises. 2. Wear respirators. 3. Require air cleaners in all cabins and shared spaces.

World Health Organisation Completely On Top Of Things

#MedSky #IDSky #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver

I want to point out how deeply this impacts Indigenous Peoples, as we are disproportionately represented within prisons. Book programs brought Indigenous voices to our incarcerated relatives. They are cutting us off from one another and it is on purpose.

#NeuroSky #MedSky #LongCovid

There have been plenty of examples in the “we’ve learned absolutely nothing over the last 6 years of ongoing pandemic” category, but this one is really top notch. www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/a...

Long COVID advocates interrupted a recent research conference in Paris. We spoke with the two organizations behind the action that went viral on social media. "We will attack all the projects...that psychologize Long COVID," they said. thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/l...

Hantavirus Probably Not Airborne, Say Experts, Though Not In The Same Sense Covid Was Not Airborne

#RedDressDay #reddressday

Nothing is wrong. Everything is fine. #CovidIsntOver

Isn’t It Time You Started Feeling Better

Experts Confident World Is Ready For Next Pandemic, As Long As The Pandemic Pathogen Responds Well To Handwashing