MeetJess

Looking to connect with a Canadian health reporter.

Several provinces, are no longer offering the COVID vaccine to kids under 12.

This decision needs public attention. DM if you're interested in covering the story. #cdnpoli #covid19 #healthnews

Aaron are you aware that kids in this province are being denied the Covid vaccine this year? I would love to talk to you about this. It’s a human rights violation. We need you to help the parents by calling this out

So nice to see you !!! Hope you and your daughter are doing well 🩷 I’m trying I’m trying

Let’s stop pretending this is just about “comfort” or “personal choice.”
Masks aren’t about fear.
They’re about duty of care.
They’re about science.
They’re about respect for life.

Living in 2025 is just scrolling through apocalyptic headlines in between emails that say “hope this finds you well.”

Soooo sweet

Self-care is hard when the world is in collapse and your brain is like “should we spiral or just doomscroll with snacks?”

To the mothers who are no longer with us, the soon-to-be mothers, the mothers with babies up in heaven, the step-moms, the chosen moms, the moms who adopt, who foster, who surrogate, the women yearning to be moms, the women in mother roles, even the fur moms
Happy Mother’s Day 💝

Happy Mother’s Day to the ones who’ve kept their families afloat in a storm no one wanted to name. You are the definition of love in action.

If you’re one of those moms: I see you. I honor you. You are not forgotten. You are the reason someone is safe, alive, and breathing easier today.

And still, they love. They protect. They show up. They keep doing the work that should never have fallen solely on them.

Some are caring for children with long COVID. Some are dealing with it themselves. Some are grieving. Quietly. Because the world moved on.

These moms faced isolation, judgment, and exhaustion—and still found a way to hold space for their kids, their communities, and each other.

They were never “too anxious.” They were prepared. Focused. Brave. Doing the impossible in a world desperate to pretend it was over.

They filtered their air, packed rapid tests in backpacks, canceled gatherings, stayed up reading studies—while being told they were “too anxious.”

The moms who masked up when no one else did. Who got the eye rolls. The sighs. The questions. But they kept going, because love looks like protection.

The moms who learned about aerosols and airflow, not because they wanted to—but because they had to. Because no one else was coming to protect their families.

This Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about the moms who’ve carried more than most people will ever understand 🧵

Yessss 💕💕💕

So yeah. Be mad. Be loud. Call it what it is.
Misinformation kills.
And we have to fight it like lives depend on it—because they do.

We had eliminated measles.
Now it’s back.
This isn’t just a public health failure—it’s a failure of trust, of media, of leadership.

Science isn’t perfect.
But “doing your own research” by watching YouTube videos from chiropractors and political pundits isn’t research.
It’s a shortcut to disaster.

If your "personal choice" endangers a classroom, a hospital, or a baby—it’s not personal.
It’s public.
And it’s a problem.

And here’s the kicker:
The same playbook that brought measles back is being used to undermine every public health measure.
Masks. Air quality. Vaccines. You name it.

Misinformation doesn’t just make people wrong.
It kills people.
It tears down herd immunity. It sabotages public health.
It turns preventable diseases into outbreaks.

Now we're seeing outbreaks in schools. Babies too young to be vaccinated are getting exposed.
Doctors and nurses are being quarantined.
All because someone on Facebook “didn’t trust Big Pharma.”

Let’s be clear:
Measles is not a mild childhood illness.
It can cause pneumonia, brain swelling, permanent hearing loss, and death.
Before vaccines, millions got sick and hundreds died every year in the U.S.

Fueled by junk science, grifters, and conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism went mainstream.
And people cheered it on—TV hosts, politicians, influencers.
“All I’m saying is do your own research!”
Sure. Research your way into an ICU.

In 2000, measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.
Not reduced.
ELIMINATED.
We had a safe, effective vaccine. Public trust in science. Basic public health infrastructure.
Then came the anti-vaxx movement.

Measles. Is. Back.
A disease we had basically eradicated in the U.S. is now spreading in schools, hospitals, and communities.
Why?
Because misinformation kills.
🧵