Barry Hunt

You mean "profitization"

We currently have publicly funded Healthcare delivered by Canadian private not-for-profit companies & registered charities

Most Canadians object to the public funding of private for-profit companies, often foreign-owned (the U.S. model)

Sorely needed

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Agreed! 😊

The Brown Shirts are coming

Canada's $2 coin, the "Twonie" (pronounced too-nee)

Our "twonie" is twice the fun. 🤩

Canada has a "loon" on our $1 coin

Now the U.S. wants one?

😂

It sounds like Canadians should avoid the Super Bowl this year

I look forward to the day the cult-like devotion to RCT dogma finally succumbs to science, logic & reason

Especially in ID / IPAC World

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1. Superb article by Tess-Finch Lees published today.

'Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal. Coronavirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage children’s immunity, blood vessels and organs,...

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Anyone in Canada want to establish a rule for honesty in politics? 🇨🇦

Sign here

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I think a lot of Covid aware followers came over from X

And there were ppl putting together Starter Packs around subjects like Covid aware early on

Good! 👍

👏👏👏

Thx Conrad 😊

According to Perplexity, X has 200 million daily users, 50% bots, & BlueSky has 4 million daily users, only 5% bots, so about 1/25 the daily interaction of X

And hopefully growing

11,600 followers. Top 0.01%

That's crazy

No wonder it feels like there is little reach on BlueSky

Maybe ppl are passive here?

Maybe there are a lot of Bots here?

75% have fewer than 6 followers

99% have fewer than 400 followers

Is that why the app doesn't show number of impressions?

Huh 🤔

Huh 🤔

But I do agree with him,

"Behind each case is a patient story, many of which are so sad"

😢😢😢

I'm not sure that quite captures it

According to Dr Jon Otter,

"The answer is not clear, & will vary with pathogen, but antimicrobial stewardship, vascular access, the ever-increasing complexity of care, & the general squeeze on hospital capacity & the demands on the time of frontline clinicians are likely contributors."

Hint: the sudden increase started in late 2021 / early 2022 after a sudden decrease beginning in 2020 🤔

Gee,

I wonder what's causing this sudden increase in UK Hospital Acquired Infections?

gov.uk/government/sta…

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Still waiting to see if this 🇨🇦 platform gets going

gandersocial.ca#early-access

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Background and how you can help 🧵:

Yes, I removed the existing filter first

So, the question is...

Who benefits from not fixing it?

And how do we overcome the obstruction?

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We just need to fix healthcare and schools to make it happen

Easy-peasy

From an engineering perspective

So, obviously it's not for technological reasons it hasn't been done

And, it's not like patients & visitors & parents & kids don't want it fixed...

Canada named second safest country in the world from violent crime Canada has been named the second safest country in the world in relation to violent crime.

“Norway and Canada are two of the world’s safest places statistically when it comes to violent crime.”

Canada named second safest country in the world from violent crime

Sigh. Even with clean indoor air, the contact is just too close.

Iff everyone wears a respirator correctly it's better, but there are still things aerosolized & re-aerosolized from surfaces, past occupancy, water sources, etc

Easy for regular nasal CPAP users - newbies would require practice

"Necessity is the Mother of invention"

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Ps - when I was a kid, my grandfather jokingly added "and Laziness is the Father" when he showed me his homemade gravity fed automatic potato grading table he built in the 1930s

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