Blake Murdoch

Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...

Not one fucking word from any quoted health expert on cleaning classroom air.

Yes, talk about vaccines, ofc that's important.

But there's something else we could talk about here: a measure that protects everyone but doesn't trigger endless debates on the choice to vaccinate.

Clean classroom air!

Like many Canadians, his death was hastened by Covid. Because of ableism, some may say "oh he had underlying conditions," but he was happy & living at home. The last pic he sent me was him smiling with his new kitten. After getting Covid, he couldn't text anymore & lived between the ER & LTC

Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.

We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.

Checks out.

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie

reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

WTF, @theatlanticpr.bsky.social ?

Why give this anti-science, lying, grifter this kinda positive framing?

He is a disaster. Period.

False balance disaster👇

My highly controversial two prong solution for fixing healthcare in Canada

1. Tax the rich
2. N95s in all healthcare settings

To highlight Mark’s call out here, EBM acts in a way that reflects underlying colonial values labelling some types of knowledge as ‘savage’ and others as pure and holy.

When used to control information this is colonialism manifest.

Same strategy used to place Western knowledge over Indigenous.

Please read. -YB. All proceeds from the GoFundMe will go to cover funeral costs and as temporary replacement of loss of income.

This is YB, @stuffhedoes Leslie’s spouse. I am sad to share with you the tragic news of his passing on Monday, November 10th, aged 43. Leslie Lee III was a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew, and friend. He left us much too soon. I appreciate your kindness at this time, while we process our grief. If you wish, you can donate directly to his gofundme linked in his profile, any later news I will post from this account. A private service for family is being held this week with a memorial service to be held at a later date in NYC. He was to me, my everything. He was an advocate for others with Long COVID. He was an amazing writer and passionate podcaster.

i'm sorry to have to relay this, but Leslie Lee III has passed away. if you can help with his family's expenses, please read on. they need the help right now.

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

Guess what has mediated EBV reactivation in millions of people?

Screenshot of a Tweet from Covid minimizer Ashish Jha "Saying this again Line between chronic disease & infectious disease is artificial HPV causes cervical cancer Increasingly looks like EBV may cause Multiple Sclerosis or even Lupus We need to refocus on new vaccines to prevent or even treat many chronic diseases"

Looks like he forgot to mention Covid. Oops, what a surprise

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically includin...

A new @ca.theconversation.com article, co-authored by @juliamwright.bsky.social (FRSC), explores how updated CSA standards for respirator use can better protect health-care workers and patients — and why adopting evidence-based safety measures is vital for all Canadians. #RSCVoices

Infants Bear the Brunt of RSV Hospitalizations, UBC Study Finds | The Tyee Researchers say the province should do more to protect the very small and vulnerable.

Infants younger than six months old get hit the hardest with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, making up almost half of all patients hospitalized for the illness in Canada, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

Hey look, there goes the Overton Window moving again. "Progressive" parties won't even talk about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Surely if you just move a little more to the right all problems will be solved.

The state of societal and moral regression:

It's been truly stunning to me the amount of scientists and doctors who think we can just wash our hands of a novel pathogen first encountered 5 years ago. I used to believe these were data-driven experts who put health concerns first. That illusion has been trampled many times over.

I just want to make this *abundantly clear*.

When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids…

THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE.

A photo of a projection screen reading "Long COVID Web Impact Poster Awards: 1. Mark Ungrin 2. Kayli Jamieson 3. Kriti Agarwal 4. Jill Cameron

This poster contains too much text to fit in the ALT text box, or to condense to a meaningful summary that would fit. The full text is accessible in the PDF linked directly from the post.

The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!

PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...

MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...

Got off the plane and walked into a drug store in Ottawa and got my COVID vaccine in under 5 minutes. No line up. No appointment. No cost.

Was even asked if I wanted Moderna or Pfizer.

It’s unconscionable that we can’t get this same level of service in Alberta.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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Commentary: How Amazon provides a marketplace for worthless stem cell supplements Supplement promoters claim their products can enhance your stem cells. Don't believe them

Piece on our new study....👇

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Me: "Take an area of science that has ... a foothold in culture, and you use that language to give your product a veneer of legitimacy.”

Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help. Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants

www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...

I wrote this one

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3. They definitely don't want to mask because they want to have brunch, etc and deep down, they care about their convenience more than the lives of other people. They want to engage with the plethora of late stage capitalist pleasure distractions

See also similar behaviour regarding climate change.

Yep. For clarity, here's why 'leftists' make unfounded antimasking claims:

1. They feel icky when forced to confront how their actions don't reflect their stated moral code.

2. Admitting they aren't an expert about COVID, eugenics etc. opens up the possibility of being convinced they should mask.

Heads up, this guy has done the risk assessment and he’s positive that kids can be serially reinfected with COVID forever with no serious consequences!

To suggest otherwise is fear, just ignore that JAMA Pediatrics has declared long COVID more common than asthma in kids 5 years into its existence.

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