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🎯 post by @1goodtern.bsky.social:

"When governments told people that they were ill because they hadn't been ill enough, the wheels fell off modern medicine."

OP: x.com/1goodtern/st...

The Science Behind Long COVID Brain Fog Cognitive impairments from Long COVID, including brain fog, affect quality of life. This article reviews research on its causes and potential interventions.

“Numerous studies have demonstrated using animal models that even mild COVID-19 infections can lead to sustained microglial activation, which disrupts neural networks and impairs cognitive function.”
www.news-medical.net/health/The-S...

Sign the Petition Reinstate masks in Yukon healthcare

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With public health messaging like this, it's no surprise that a petition to get masking reinstated in Yukon healthcare settings, only garnered 149 signatures in 16 months, out of a Yukon population of nearly 47K -

www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

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It's worth noting too, that this otherwise excellent appraisal of Long COVID in Canada ("What we know, what we don’t know, and a framework for action"), by Canada's Chief Science Advisor - does not feature a single mention of masking or respirators:

science.gc.ca/site/science...

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...who just the previous year, and in a pandemic, had infamously fretted about masks causing acne - rather than advocating for the protective role of masks in preventing infections of an airborne, neurotropic, vascular virus -

www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5994889

2022 CMA Awards Recipients The 2022 CMA Award winners are doctors Conly, Lemaire, Rashid, Wieman, Ogunyemi, Ruzycki, Arsenault, Persad & Smith, as well as Army Alam, Angela Huynh & Mehul Gupta.

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The writing was on the wall when, in 2022, @cmadocs.bsky.social awarded its highest honour to Dr. John Conly -

www.cma.ca/get-involved...

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...in the 6th year of an ongoing pandemic that continues to kill & disable Canadians - has yet to advocate for masking, N95s, or ventilation & filtration to mitigate against COVID & Long COVID in healthcare/hospital settings.

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That Dr. Filiatrault had to write an article like this, more than 2 decades later, shows that no lessons were learnt.

This is also reflected in the current adherence to Droplet Dogma by @cmadocs.bsky.social, which -

Opinion: Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic It's time for preventive action, four health experts write.

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Herewith a recent caution by Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, the doctor who successfully contained SARS in BC - while Dr. Bonnie Henry (now BC's incompetent Provincial Officer of Health) failed to contain airborne SARS in Toronto, which led to the 🇨🇦 SARS Inquiry -

www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/o...

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...Targeted N95 use might be a cost saving measure, rather than evidence based policy, but all health systems must adequately cost occupational safety measures for their staff".

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...The evidence from healthcare supports N95 use, but continuously rather than occasionally in self-identified situations of risk.

This will require a major paradigm shift because guidelines to date recommend targeted use of respirators in very select situations.

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...Unfortunately, that lesson was not learnt during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic 17 years later, where the same disagreements about masks and respirators occurred and many healthcare workers died.

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...By contrast, Vancouver, where healthcare workers were provided N95s, did not have an outbreak, despite Toronto and Vancouver having their first SARS case at the same time.

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Drawing on Canada's history with SARS, they write -

"The precautionary principle should be used during serious epidemics, a key lesson articulated in the aftermath of SARS in Canada, where a large, fatal outbreak occurred in Toronto, with healthcare workers refused N95 respirators.

The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...

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An excellent paper on "The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings", notably authored by, among others, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & Dr. Raina MacIntyre (@globalbiosec on Twitter/X) -

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Some of the authors of this research are here on Bluesky. Links in Tania's post below:
bsky.app/profile/tani...

The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...

Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above:

The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings | The BMJ (Feb 27, 2025)
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

🎯🧵by @prognosticchats.bsky.social on Twitter:

"This State of the Art Review on the role of masks & respirators in preventing respiratory infection coming out in the BMJ is worth a deep dive. So I've done that for you..."

threadreaderapp.com/thread/18954...

#Masks #Respirators #Airborne

My mind drifts back to the people who told me that "all politicians are the same" and that it made "no difference" whether Harris or Trump won.

One thing about the Starmer and Macron visits, and what just happened. They gave every opportunity to Trump to be the good guy. We saw what happened next, but that just clarifies the manner of this White House. A friend to dictators.

Transgender Service Members Aren’t the Problem The problem is people in high office who can’t recognize bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice.

"Maybe Hegseth will have enough respect for those still in uniform to at least give them a smooth reintegration into civilian live as he musters them out. I have more sincere doubts about the draft-dodging felon who gives him orders." New from Will Selber:

The US has been taken over by private equity run ostensibly by a man-baby.

Why humanoid robots are missing the point Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when it could be any shape at all, asks Leah Crane

Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when it could be any shape at all, asks Leah Crane.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

A piece from 2018 showing the alleged links between Trump and Putin nymag.com/intelligence...

Would love to see someone create a Miro board of the updated connections

Especially with Musk, Thiel, Vance and Rumble media network

No Elon Musk you have destroyed any illusion of independence you had.

All 3 of you are just puppets for Netanyahu and Putin.

I'm coming at this late. Just seen this. It might be the single worst moment in intentional politics that I have ever witnessed.