@k40mac.bsky.social

I’m a Bluenoser in Toronto doing what I can to breathe clean air, encourage good government and raise smart, healthy, empathetic kids. #Covidconscious

281 Followers 457 Following 214 Posts Joined Oct 2024
3 hours ago

We need to demand the Government of Canada fully fund the #CBC. It is as important as the drones, likely more.

@marcmillermp.bsky.social, @mark-carney.bsky.social #DefendDemocracy & Canadian #Sovereignty

#CBC #RadioCanada #NoMoreAds
#israel #propaganda #WarCriminals #StopTheBombs #CanCon
#Lebanon

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10 hours ago

“Proactive, risk-based public health planning” is exactly what we need! Thank you. Can you advise how this will be implemented, for example, to limit the spread of communicable diseases (particularly airborne ones like measles and Covid) when the world comes to Toronto for FIFA this summer?

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21 hours ago

For the late evening crowd -

Please call Ford if you object to his brazen move to block FOI requests

Note:
- there's a nonpolitical staff person ready to take your anonymous call NOW.
- public outrage has made Ford reverse decisions in the past

Ford ☎️ (staffed 24/7) : 416 325-1941

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50 reasons to mask, The harms of Covid, Accumulating damage, Immune compromise, and more Bonus Some books to check out

50 reasons to mask, The harms of Covid, Accumulating damage, Immune compromise, and more

johndupuis.substack.com/p/50-reasons...

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COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students To date, 770 million people worldwide have contracted COVID-19, with many reporting long-term “brain fog”. Concerningly, young adults are both overrep…

We cannot stay silent about this as to do so is to be complicit in the illogical & amoral approach of facilitating brain damage as part of the learning experience.

“37 % of the undergraduates exhibited impaired cognition up to 17 months post-infection.”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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1 week ago
Wastewater virus signals for Toronto, for the 52 week period ending Friday March 6 2026 showing a drastic spike in COVID-19. RSV, Flu A and Flu B are also shown. The second highest spike was Flu A which peaked mid-December and was present for about 8 weeks, while COVID-19 has been at elevated and mostly growing levels since last spring.

"There's something going around"
Yeah. It's COVID.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

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1 week ago
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a woman with black hair and bangs is sitting at a table with her mouth open . ALT: a woman with black hair and bangs is sitting at a table with her mouth open .
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1 week ago

Don’t let the door hit you (again) on your way out (again).

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2 weeks ago

Did you know this? Well, now you do.

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2 weeks ago

My kingdom for panned eggs!

Sometimes called marshmallow eggs, they look like oversized jellybeans with a white centre that dissolves in your mouth. Discontinued in Canada, and maybe, elsewhere, too.

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3 weeks ago

Beautiful and heartbreaking.

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1 month ago

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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1 month ago

And yet Toronto Board of Health continues to ignore requests to address this issue.

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We’re treating COVID like a memory instead of a continuing risk. Data exists, but governments aren’t translating it into clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, or avoiding crowded indoor spaces. Public health messaging has drifted into silence just when we should be preparing for the next pandemic. We need honest communication, resilient data systems, and a culture of everyday risk literacy — or we’ll be surprised by predictable events.

Messaging has faded but COVID hasn’t.
Data keeps warning us, yet without clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, and indoor risk, people navigate blind.
Treating the pandemic as over weakens readiness for the next one.
Honest communication and resilient data systems are needed now.

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1 month ago

A crime against humanity.

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1 month ago

While awaiting my turn to depute virtually, I see Toronto city councillors (who are also attending virtually) walk away from their screens or have conversations with people off camera. It does not suggest that they are giving deputants their full attention.

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1 month ago

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?

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1 month ago

Bsky must be dreaming, too.

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1 month ago

Are we dreaming? Well, then, Doug Ford mandating clean air in all public spaces, publicly admitting to his many boondoggles and then resigning.

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1 month ago

Wastewater surveillance is a more accurate measure of viral prevalence than testing patients or self-reporting, both of which represent only a fraction of what's happening at ground level.

Let's repeat: you can't have good policy without good data.

#healthcare #pandemic #COVID #flu #publichealth

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1 month ago

And acknowledgement of the new Health Canada standards, too!

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1 month ago

Progress! Congrats!

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1 month ago

@durhamhealthnc.bsky.social continues to provide the honest, effective public health messaging that we should’ve had since 2020. Imagine the world we might inhabit now if this had been the case. #COVID

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New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID

The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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🧵 When my colon lets me, I sometimes like a bowl of Total cereal with a banana & some raisins for breakfast.

Today, I happened to glance at the back of the box.

This is what happens when RFK makes people scared of anything in pill form.

The vitamins in Total aren't naturally occurring in the

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Sign this Petition - Petitions

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...

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1 month ago

Covid! Covid in the media! Hey everybody, come look...a newspaper published an article about COVID!! AND THEY'RE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY!!!!

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1 month ago

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable.

food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

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