Bety Rodriguez-Milla

My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.

My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.

My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.

Ontario takes control of York Catholic school board, keeps Peel under supervision | CBC News York Catholic District School Board is now the eighth board under provincial supervision due to what Education Minister Paul Calandra calls significant governance issues.

Two more $350,000 a year jobs for Ontario PC insiders!

#OntEd

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also, covid and long covid can make you suffer and change your life completely without killing you (immediately).

Text says "Have you heard of Immune Amnesia?If you haven’t (and even if you have), we’ll tell you about it.” In the corner is an image of a man scratching his head.

Important to understand first: When your body is exposed to certain germs that can cause diseases, your immune system builds a “memory” of them, so if you’re exposed to these germs again, your immune system recognizes them and knows how to fight them off. Your immune system also builds this memory when you get vaccinated, so you don’t have to get sick in order to protect yourself from future infections. Graphics show a shield with arms holding a sword and fighting off germs. Another graphic shows a vaccine vial

text says "Important to understand first: Immune amnesia means something has caused your body to lose, or “forget,” its memory of germs you’ve been exposed to before, meaning you’re more likely to get sick and to experience severe illness if you’re exposed to it again. Measles can cause your immune system to forget up to 73% of its memory. In other words, after having measles, you will be immune to measles, but may be at increased risk of other serious illnesses. Did you know? Measles is not the only virus that can harm your immune system. COVID-19 has also been found to cause long-term harm to your body’s ability to fight off illnesses, making you more likely to get sick and experience severe illness.” Graphics show a stick figure shivering with fear because the shield in front of him is broken, and now germs are reaching him. Two pie charts: one says “100% memory before” and the other shows “73% memory lost after"

Unfortunately, there’s no way to predict whose immune system will be most harmed by being sick. It can happen to anyone! The best way to avoid immune amnesia is to get vaccinated & take other steps to avoid getting sick So please remember, it is not a good idea to expose yourself to these viruses on purpose in order to build immunity! That is what vaccines are for. Getting sick makes you much more likely to hurt your immune system! Graphics of a vaccine, a mask, and an air purifier and open window symbolizing clean air

Did you know? Certain illnesses, like measles & COVID-19, can harm your immune system & make you more vulnerable to sickness later. Protect your immune system by getting vaccinated & avoiding getting sick! Learn more about measles & immune amnesia: www.healthychildren.org/English/tips...

No Canadian soldiers should be endangered for Benjamin Netanyahu's 40-year-old fantasy and the Epstein Files.

"One can never categorically rule out participation," Carney replied. "We will stand by our allies when it makes sense."

Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs > off

Insane that this isn’t the default, but turn it off manually

Yesterday, Carney fans were telling me I was wrong, that he didn't support the war. A day later, he confirms that he does support it (though "with regret") and he won't rule out Canada getting involved. I know there's no red line for his loyalists, but this will go over very very poorly with others.

1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵

Not enough people are talking about this sudden increase in disability.

LitCovid LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.

If you need a reason to do whatever you can to avoid COVID, here’s about a half million of them…take your pick.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

So, stay the course on continuing to infect and re-infect the kids, right?

Let them enjoy their childhood and youth then drop dead at 30? Maybe leaving small children behind to grieve while consigned to same fate?

The vaccines do not meaningfully prevent transmission after the first few months. You should also get the vaccine, at least 2x per year if you can. Both of these things are true, and the real misinformation here is conflating covid conscious people with anti-vaxxers, which is purely insidious.

Three-panel meme showing a woman speaking and a man listening from behind a wall. In the first panel, she says “Masks don’t work,” and the man replies “Be honest.” In the second, she says “I don’t want to wear one,” and he again says “Be honest.” In the final panel, she says “I just don’t wanna be reminded of the scary pandemic,” and the man responds, “Thank you.”

This is what it really comes down to.

Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over.

🔹COVID is airborne
🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk
🔹Long COVID has no cure
🔹The pandemic isn’t over
🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others

Stay informed. Stay safe.

We don’t need more evidence. Anyone with a once of clinical acumen knows where this all goes.

Inflammation, heart dysfunction/failure, possibly even fibrosis. Not overnight… but way sooner than anyone expects these things.

Why your kids are sick all the time. Less than 9% have been vaccinated for 2025-2026.

Most schools are refusing HEPA purifiers bc parents & staff are getting involved. We had 122 BILLION for clean air that expired back in Sept. 2024.

Should we keep joking about the all sick kids or do something?

Abstract In a preliminary cohort of children recovering from asymptomatic or mild coronavirus disease 2019, subclinical cardiac contractility alterations were associated with reduced regulatory T cells, shorter telomeres and elevated inflammatory markers 3 months post-infection. These findings suggest that immune dysregulation may contribute to silent post-coronavirus disease 2019 cardiac dysfunction and warrant confirmation in larger cohorts with long-term follow-up.

We keep infecting and reinfecting ALL the children 😭

Impaired Treg Response and Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction in Children Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection

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Letter of the day: Let's clear the air on respiratory infections "Handwashing helps prevent gastrointestinal infections but will not protect your child and you from leaving the emergency department with influenza or COVID."

Great letter from Dr. Filiatrault on clean air and need for respiratory protection in hospitals.
montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

THANK YOU. And, *omg*... 45% of people admitted to Canadian hospitals in January *for other things* ended up getting infected with COVID while there?! There is NO excuse for that. It literally verges on criminal that hospitals are infecting people with a virus that causes brain damage.

By sharing facts and science about COVID infections, I’m not trying to numb people into further depression or anxiety. I just feel strongly that everyone should know the full extent of all the many risks. Our government and media have completely failed to adequately inform the public.

Strong editorial from the Globe this morning. I hope @evansolomon.bsky.social reads it. Canadians will never forget that children died and were grievously injured when OpenAI made its own decisions about safety.

Never again. Act now, Minister.

#CdnPoli

So many social service cuts by Carney. We wont be able to measure them all because Stats can has been gutted. Harper is loving what Carney is able to do.
The Overton window has shifted so far right.

Carney remains popular, in part because Poilievre is so awful by comparison and because he gives a good speech. Eventually these cuts are going to affect his supporters directly, though, and then they may be less keen to rationalize them. Also, all it takes is the next scandal to shift things bigly.

Why do they always emphasize hand hygiene if clean air is so important?

Because the air is their responsibility, and your hands are yours.

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

Explicitly capitalist media is telling you that getting/continuing to get COVID is really bad for you and is, mortifyingly, still doing more to warn you than most public health leaders are.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

🎁 Link below

Differentiating COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events from long COVID: A comprehensive review of clinical manifestations, pathophysiology, and diagnostic approaches The global deployment of COVID-19 vaccines has introduced diagnostic challenges due to overlapping symptoms with long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of…

A recent study found a 40% risk reduction with JN.1-targeted vaccines - maybe that's ok for you to risk going back to normal. I know many exceptions disabled by LC despite vaccination so it's not high enough for me to.

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It was a long ETFO peel meeting tonight.
Both motions I presented were approved unanimously🙏
Next step to lobbying the Ministry of Education to invest in cleaner indoor air, better monintoring & education re: IAQ in all schools is to present these motions for approval at the AGM in the summer.

Christina Applegate tells Jimmy Kimmel, “It might be Covid, I’m just super duper sick and you’re gonna have it."

#WTF 🤬

This is why we can't trust anyone.

Mask 😷 up. Wear a respirator to avoid infections. Test everyone close to you.

A few weeks ago, one of my best online writer friends (Richard Crim) died from an infection that that might've been "the flu, or Covid." I miss him, and when I see this, it reminds me that what I said a few months ago is true. These people don't care about us, at all.

text says "There’s no way to know which COVID-19 infection will cause long-term illness. Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of organ damage, Long COVID, and disability, even if you have no other health conditions that you know of, and even if your previous COVID-19 infections were mild or had no symptoms. Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19, no matter your age or health history. Wear masks. get vaccinated. keep indoor air clean.” Graphics on the side illustrate people getting sick repeatedly until eventually they end up with long-term illness.

Every time you get COVID-19, your risk increases for Long COVID, organ damage, disability, & more, & there’s no way to know which infection will be the one to cause it! Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...

Very few people are willing to have a real conversation about why everything feels off.