Still waiting for clean air in N.S. schools - Halifax Examiner Why are we letting our children breathe contaminated air, when there are proven solutions?

Still waiting for clean air in N.S. schools
Commentary by @sujo.bsky.social

This behaviour is repugnant.

May I ask why only one of this group of colleagues is wearing a respirator during an ongoing airborne pandemic? Are there mitigations in this space that aren’t visible in the photos?

This sound wonderful!

The next leap forward: Clean air for Canadians “Weak productivity is making life less affordable for Canadians and beginning to strain our government’s finances and starting to put at risk the social programs on which Canadians rely,” Prime Minist...

Vaccines are an important second line of defense, but we also need to clean the air we breathe just like we clean our drinking water - instead of trying to vaccinate against whatever pathogens might be in it, and hoping we get lucky.

If it can't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

My elementary school library would let us borrow as many books as we wanted over the summer. Almost as good as Halloween.

Hey provinces! Lookie here!

If any other Western country were doing this, we - and their citizens - would be freaking the F out.

Yes, cracked! A seminal memory for me, as I’d never heard her curse before. ; )

I remember my friend’s mother ruining a batch - and her glass casserole dish - when she put it outside to cool in the snow.

Is honeycomb what we call sponge toffee in Canada?

Sadly, Covid has shown that many are “weak” but don’t know it until it’s too late.

Clinics are the one place patients should be SAFE

Colds, flus & coughs are the #1 reason why Canadians see a doctor

…so where did masking in healthcare go?

It’s political.

All they have to do now, is stir in the climate catastrophe, fascism and a little genocide, and the recipe will be perfect.

Why should I get vaccinated if most people survive the disease anyway? 1. Because any number of deaths is worth preventing. 2. Because getting vaccinated also protects others. 3. Because dying isn’t the only risk. Many people who survive infections with illnesses like COVID-19 & measles live with long-term health consequences, incuding: COVID-19 Measles Deafness Intellectual disabilities Immune amnesia SSPE, a progressive brain disease that is almost always fatal And more Vaccines protect long-term health for you and others.

“Why is it worth getting vaccinated if the disease isn’t usually deadly?” Any death is worth preventing if possible, and it’s not only about whether you live or die, it’s also about helping you and the people around you prevent chronic illness and disability and live the healthiest life possible!

As far as I can Google, there has been no media coverage of the AI chat bot yet. This is a great opportunity for media in NS and Canada wide, especially independent media to ask some good questions and inform the public.

I hope people in NS fight back against this, and win. NS Health is marketing an AI chat bot as a RELIABLE source of info to PREVENT infection. This is straight from the marketing. But it was trained on droplet dogma and claims COVID spreads by droplets predominantly. This is unacceptable. /1

Last Stand in Bird Flu Ostrich Land The BC ostrich convoy enters the "find out" stage of FAFO and so have we all

As the accursed ostrich situation continues to get simultaneously more stupid and gravely serious, I decided to write up a very long analysis of many of the key issues. Bottom line: so long as this flock lives, it is a threat to Canada's national security. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The petition to draft legislation that would create actual consequences for politicians knowingly spreading misinformation is nearing 30,000 signatures in Canada. In general I don't think petitions get much done, but this is worth it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Ford government says it will ban speed cameras across Ontario | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the traffic enforcement tool a "cash grab" at a news conference in Vaughan Thursday. He said his government will introduce new legislation to ban speed cameras.

Doug Ford: cities can do speed cameras

cities: good, we will

police, schools, cities: speed cameras have now been shown to work and therefore will reduce deaths

Doug Ford: my friends yelled at me about speeding tickets so more deaths it is

I've been reviewing attendance statistics re: student illness for September.
There was a confirmed case of COVID reported in my classroom (never disclosed to me - I had to look it up myself😓).
Even with a +ve case in my classroom, our free N95s & desktop #CRboxes prevented rampant spread...

“Cash grab” aka the publicized consequence of breaking the law.

Paying a fine is one of the best things that can happen to someone who is driving too fast.

Yoohoo! Any Canadian PH bodies want to take notes?

salted brown butter crispy treats A forever favorite in which two minor-seeming things — flaky sea salt and brown butter — transform crispy treats from a “kid thing” to a thing-that’s-hard-to-share-wit…

Yes! Like this:

smittenkitchen.com/2009/11/salt...

Or, put another way:

Asshole who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets is a scofflaw too narcissistic to comprehend that he lives in a civilization inhabited by other people, that laws apply to him, and that breaking the law has consequences.

An adult and three young children sat round a camp fire. The caption reads: "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Literally doing the meme

Let this be among the first of many steps towards thinking about the air we breathe, in the same way we think about the water we drink.

Does this quote refer to the leader of Russia as fries with gravy and cheese curds?!?

Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action Join global leaders, policymakers, scientists and health experts for Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action – the inaugural High-Level Side Event on indoor air quality, to take place on the sidel...

1/4 Today global leaders gather in New York to push for action on healthy indoor air, at a high level side event at the UN Assembly. Meanwhile, tomorrow in Scotland Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray @scottishgov.bsky.social takes questions...
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Putting clean air infrastructure into the built environment (in schools, daycare, long term care homes, shopping centres, offices, airplanes, buses, taxis, cruise ships...) is more important than ever.

Because giving people the "choice" has led to lower vaccination rates and a refusal to mask.