Blake Murdoch

This is every Institution right now. Unironically.

Economically. Politically. Culturally.

They're all bending the fucking knee b/c Neoliberalism has taught them no survival skills beyond desperately toady for those in power.

We could have done this. But Bonnie Henry put BC babies in the control group.

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A few individuals doing their best to carry the rest of the profession are not enough. The silence is deafening.

Medical leadership in particular has not merely been AWOL, it is actively part of the problem, seeming to care more about guarding power and privilege than duty to patients.

I saw the writing on the wall when COVID was normalised 😩😩

#COVIDHegemony

People keep commenting that I think "everything is eugenics" that might be because it is increasingly acceptable to openly espouse such ideas and any pushback is framed as an over reaction or as "incurious" or "unscientific"

It is amazing how angry medical experts get when aerosol scientists build a standard that would reduce or prevent hospital acquired infections.

The latest Canadian standards association guidance for universal use of respirators for preventing respiratory infection in healthcare is based on actual science (rather than dogma) and has generated a predictable response from predictable quarters

Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West." Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about. In fact I know you do." Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."

lol

1/ Respiratory protection (including respirators)

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.

For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.

Good News!

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

Truly one of the most absurd and banally evil things going on right now, but ignored in the mass far right bullshit machine because this is propagated by status quo virtue signallers.

🥷= good?
😷 = bad?

I’ve spoken to so many people (ok, women) who say they immediately were treated better at work and in public when they switched from a white respirator to a black one.

Our society loves ninja vibes.

But it hates healthcare vibes. That triggers their unprocessed trauma.

Vaccines, air purifiers and respirators: three miraculous life-saving technologies to which, increasingly, society is saying “nah, thanks, I prefer the viruses”

Bouvier in yard

Bouvier in yard

Was told being on social media, reading about what’s happening in the world and writing articles about it will make me depressed.

That narrative totally pisses me off - it culls those who care,

We all have good in our lives to hold close, making us strong enough to care.

#DoNotLookAway
#BeFeral

How much has burned so far this year in Canada Estimated cumulative hectares burned in wildfires from satellite-detected hotspots

I've seen multiple people say that the smoke isn't bad this year when this is certainly going to be the second-most hectares burned of all time in Canada. People have lost the plot.

Hypernormalization.

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Good luck to anyone in Pinehouse Saskatchewan today.

1119 PM2.5 reading.

Can we stop calling antivaxxers vaccine skeptics? There are people who understand science & medical progress and there are anti-vaxxers, anti-science propagandists & disinfo spreaders. Because of the second people, we keep doing & redoing & redoing research showing that vaccines do not cause autism.

So someone came on CBC this week to say 20% of Covid infections result in long COVID & it's just business as usual. No one realizes how dire this stat is.

And CBC keeps on forcing its staff to work in offices with no mitigations

There is no “After Covid”

Given the mortality rate on hospital acquired infections... the whole situation is heinous. I dont know how they can rationalize it

@ipaccanada.bsky.social : “Unmasking the Future”

Reality: n95s and equivalent are the single most powerful mitigation against respiratory-pathway infections.

I’m sick and tired of reading adverse event reports about people dying of preventable hospital-acquired infection.

Some folks who identify as leftist/progressive have literally not posted about Palestine once in this ongoing genocide

If your position is that not wanting to catch a dangerous disease is the CrAzY position & you work in medicine ... Hmmmm not sure what to say about that, but maybe you should go join your friend Joe Rogan to talk about psychedelics. 🤣

Hmmmm so not wanting to catch a dangerous disease & getting vaccinated to assist in that goal is rational & good, but not wanting to catch a dangerous disease & getting vaccinated & using physical mitigations to assist in that goal is CrAzY? 🤣🤣🤣

Come on people. You HAVE to be smarter than this. 🤣

Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley, 87, passes away after catching Covid The actor is best known for starring in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as Admiral Piett, an imperial officer in command of Darth Vader's flagship.

"He had been admitted after a fall with an injured arm, however he quickly contracted Covid which developed into pneumonia."

Star Wars star Kenneth Colley has died at 87 of hospital-acquired Covid

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

People talk so much about preventing falls / breaks in the elderly because hospitalization so often leads to death but they don’t lift a finger (wear a mask) to make hospital stays safe.

Mapping brain changes in post-COVID-19 cognitive decline via FDG PET hypometabolism and EEG slowing - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Mapping brain changes in post-COVID-19 cognitive decline via FDG PET hypometabolism and EEG slowing

“Brain fog” post-covid infection should really be called “brain hypometabolism” - that is, neurophysiological brain changes where neurons are consuming less sugar and not functioning properly, across multiple lobes of the brain.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vaccine policy in the U.S. is entering uncharted territory A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

Vaccine policy in the U.S. is entering uncharted territory www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc... via @ScienceNews

"I am very concerned that we are going to lose policies and recommendations that save babies, infants, children and adults..."

#VaccinesWork

Every week someone tells me they had to put Covid aside to focus on bigger issues like fascism. The thing is, eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

Historically pandemics have ignited fascism & normalized eugenics & indifference