Long-term neurological & cognitive impact of C-19…125 studies, 4+ million participants. Findings included: fatigue 43.3% memory disorders 27.8% cognitive impairment 27.1% sleep disorders 24.4% concentration impairment 23.8% headache 20.3% depression 14.0% pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I’m old enough to remember when protecting children was considered a moral, social, and political imperative. 😷

🚨🚨🚨 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... “These findings suggest that approximately 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 develops postacute sequelae, predominantly chronic conditions currently invisible to surveillance systems, representing an accumulating rather than resolving health care burden.”

So for anyone in Ontario wondering why infection control practice is so backwards here even away from the usual suspects, it turns out there's misinformation embedded directly in the CPSO infection control guidance, which incorrectly directs physicians to wear a medical mask for airborne pathogens.🙄

Public Health officials should not generate mask phobia and mask aversion in the public. (Even if personally they have a mask aversion). It’s horribly irresponsible.

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

"Individuals with SARDs [systemic autoimmune disease] were more likely to have SARS-CoV-2 antigen positivity at months 3 and 6 following COVID-19 infection compared with individuals without SARDs, not explained by demographics, variant, vaccination, or treatment."

Excellent work by @cape-acep.bsky.social, demonstrating the value of the labour movement not just for workers, but for everyone else as well. A good hard kick at the "Don't Look Up" narrative being sold by the people who let #longCOVID run wild and are now trying to bury it (and their victims).

Outstanding submission by the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, representing 27,000+ members, to the Auditor General - no head-in-the-sand here; this union is clear that COVID-19 remains a threat to employees (w & w-out disability) & they want action! www.acep-cape.ca/en/news/subm...

“The pandemic continues to pose a risk to workers. Indoor air quality, ventilation, and infection prevention are fundamental workplace safety issues.”

Great to hear from others who see the variety of issues surrounding this trial & potential for issues with similar ones. Rigour is always important, but esp when results are disseminated during a global public health crisis, potentially impacting the health and well-being of those who heed them.

I spent my first couple of years as a Senator, pre Covid, with a near-perpetual cold. I flew twice every week, and hosted a viral buffet. Now, I mask every flight, and so far - touch wood - I’ve gone all winter without a sniffle. People laugh and even yell at me sometimes. But my nose isn’t stuffy!

So listen. We have this data. Showing hospital admissions for ‘resp’ infections 2x pre-pandemic. But ALL school absence discussions - see CBC! See the National last night! IGNORE growing illness as biggest absence factor (or ANY factor!). This is horrible reporting/journalism. /1

Meanwhile, one more nail in the coffin of MAHA's "overdiagnosis" / anything-but-COVID moral panic. Keep the receipts from all those negligent medical influencers who insisted there was no need to worry about letting kids get infected, that COVID isn't airborne and that respirators don't work.

Well yeah, cleaning the air would probably make kids and teachers less sick, but it’s ToO eXPenSIve. Would it be less than $28.9 million per person? Less than $28.9 million in total?

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Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day

How much of “learning loss” is actually cognitive dysfunction due to neurological injury?

What does attendance in 2026 have to do with COVID-19? A 🧵

"Current IPC guidelines (as in the National IPC Manuals) should be revised." "The airborne route is dominant via aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that the droplet paradigm was adhered to inappropriately along with fomite transmission."

Percentage of Ontario high school students missing 10% or more of their classes: 2017-18: 40% 2021-22: 47% 2022-23: 64% 2023-24: 59.5% 2024-25: 59.8% ON's proposed policy solution? Award grades for attendance. Forget addressing root causes of increased absences. globalnews.ca/news/1180158...

Really taking this undermining the experts thing to a holy new level, huh?

Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario? That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale. @globalnews.ca apple.news/A59EHd4IQS-O...

With Long COVID now being the most common chronic childhood illness, can we see how forced attendance policies are a special kind of cruelty? They punish kids further for adults’ failure to protect them.

1/ Two years ago, this British school introduced high-efficiency particulate air ( #HEPA) filtration units into classrooms - "According to the school’s attendance data, the impact has been striking": Via @kathrynas.bsky.social www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

How to ensure that sick kids show up to school so everyone else can be infected too.

As funded disinformation was for tobacco, funded disinformation is for climate change and COVID.

Can anyone think of any reasons for this?! 🤦🏻‍♀️ “Speaking on attendance, Calandra said he has seen absenteeism “creeping up” before the COVID-19 pandemic, and has yet to return to normal levels.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

💯 agree with this. I see so many people and orgs acknowledging the absence problem and blaming it solely on youth mental health. There is a problem with mental health in youth too but this policy change won’t address that either.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Absences have increased on a global scale, with illness the most common cause. Politicians have responded to decreased performance & ‘absenteeism’ by calling for attendance policies, based on the assumption that morality & discipline are at fault. Same old bias w/ no evidentiary basis. 🧵

A reminder that any analysis of pandemic impacts on kids / education / economy that does not include a serious examination of the effects of #longCOVID is worthless, and one that does not even mention it should be assumed to be deliberately deceptive unless there's a good reason to think otherwise.

For #Vancouver #immunocompromised airborne-aware gang, this dentist www.4thavenuedental.ca has special immunocompromised patient days, N95s, HEPAs, minimal staff, no other patients (h/t @chantzy.bsky.social, I think?) I was able to book within a week. Currently, no long waits :-)

Looks like we’re just going to crank up the puppy mill about it. apple.news/Ap1akgrQDQuK...

A worthwhile read 👇 “Reconstruction has to do three things at once: rebuild the constraint pipeline that connects evidence to consequence, address the humiliation and exclusion that drove defection in the first place, & build infrastructure that works at the speed the current environment demands.”

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

ITS US YOU GUYS!!!!

This is why no one trusts the revolving door of medical self-regulation except the insiders it protects. Medicine requires community oversight just like policing. As the Great Aerosol 🤬-up proves, the Thin White Line and its coverups are a threat to us all. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... 🧵:

"No people were involved in the creation of these opinions." 🫠

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

Please say Airborne. Measles is airborne. It transmits via aerosols. Inexplicit messaging is a form of misinformation. It’s ‘misleading by omission’. #StopMisinformation #StopMeasles #MeaslesIsAirborne

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Respie'd at ONCOLOGIST. Dr: You aren't sick are u? Me: No. I follow Health Can & CSA standards. Hoping to start PhD in Mech eng & infection control. U are gonna see lots changes next few yrs. Doc: Re? Me: mitigation of infectious aerosols Dr: God I hope that doesn't mean masks all the time

The sooner we normalize wearing respirators the better 👇 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

At some point we have to come to terms with the fact that life will give us lemons, and we can’t just “I don’t wanna…” our way out of it. And media has a big role to play in this.

Yet another study blaming children's developmental delays on so called "lockdowns," rather than the neuroinvasive virus that we have been re-infecting children with for the past 6 years that has been shown to cause brain damage and cognitive impairment. #CovidIsntOver #LongCovid #MedSky

Study finds serious drop in children’s executive functioning scores since pandemic start. Researchers guess that it’s because of lockdowns, probably. No mention of the new executive function-impairing 🦠 that infected nearly all children in this period. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/kid...

“Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 burden was strongly associated with pandemic-era iGAS incidence. Cumulative streptococcal exposure did not support the immunity debt hypothesis.” Once more: “did not support the immunity debt hypothesis.”

The quote-reposts on this particular instance of #malpractice are bang on. Please spread this all over #medsky - misleading patients like this is unacceptable. No different from RFK's anti-vax disinformation. Professional associations must take a really hard line on this.