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It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

A tangled tale they weave: At this Toronto store, Afghan war rugs illustrate shifting conflicts The wares arriving at Lashar Rugs, woven mostly by women, carry the history of conflict, displacement and survival.

A tangled tale they weave: At this Toronto store, Afghan war rugs illustrate shifting conflicts

There’s one thing we should remember every time a severe snowstorm hits Toronto has botched its approach to protecting vulnerable people during extreme weather.

There’s one thing we should remember every time a severe snowstorm hits #Opinion

I don’t like all the year end wrap-up stuff (I know what I listened to) but I always look forward to these headlines.

Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.

If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.

There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.

Help break chains of transmission

Portugal’s history reminds me it is always, always ordinary working people with the most to lose, who fight fascism. The solidarity between students, feminists, anti-racists, and trade unions. The bravery of clerical workers, shoemakers, bookkeepers, clockmakers

Kathie from Kids in the Hall wearing a 90s Toronto Blue Jays sweater

I cannot stop laughing at this.

A person wearing a thick fur coat and boots standing in a snowy landscape with mountains in the background, next to a tripod-mounted camera, with a small boat and other equipment visible nearby, in a black-and-white image.

Peter Pitseolak spent his life preserving the knowledge of the traditional ways of the Inuit through his writing, sketching and photography.
Learning photography using borrowed cameras, he captured over 2,000 photos during a period of 20 years.
This is his story.

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For all Americans who want to settle—or who have settled—in Canada, learn the history of Indigenous and Black communities in Canada
Read about the Indian Act and the Report on Indigenous women and girls gives a fascinating reveal of the history of Canada.

Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media.

Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.

Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.

Depends on the province. I’m in Ontario & the last 2 autumns I’ve received a COVID shot at a pharmacy for free at the same time as a flu shot. Seniors can get it twice a year for free. I don’t think anything will change this yr in Ontario, but in Alberta many will have to start paying for the shot.

Beware of any politician doing this. It’s a major red flag of the most cynical political opportunism, weaponization of lies & misinformation, and manipulation of some consultant’s idea of a “wedge issue.” It would waste public money, risk or even cost lives, weaken the city, make traffic worse, etc.

1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:

'There's no need to test'.

Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.

Ignorance might be bliss, but at most, only in the short term.

“By not knowing if you've had Covid, you absolutely will not connect any subsequent new-onset chronic health issues you experience to the 'cold' or 'flu' you had previously. And neither will a doctor.”

Yikes! COVID leaves evidence of DNA damage compared to those people not infected. The extent of the DNA damage correlates with the severity of the COVID infection.
COVID is bad for you.
COVID is preventable.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public settings.
Clean the air we all breathe.

The silent legacy of COVID-19: exploring genomic instability in long-term COVID-19 survivors - BMC Infectious Diseases Background Persistent symptoms and complications reported by many patients for more than four weeks after contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are referred to as post-COVID-19 syndrome. The...

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!!! This is the first time I’ve seen a recall for potentially radioactive food. I hope this is a one-off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t.

Diminish a band name:

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dirt

N95s are the protections that experts have identified as necessary to protect patients and staff in healthcare settings. If anyone's wondering where the astroturfing MAGA-bro campaign to block them is coming from, here you go:

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...

That's...one way to pick sides I guess.

The CSA and the world's top experts on PPE and aerosol hazards (COVID, measles, TB etc) on one side, 🤣Brian Lilley 🤣 and some infection control rando who memorized a bunch of misinformation in med school and thinks that makes them a PPE expert on the other.

If you need a resource to send to family and friends to try and enlighten them about the dangers of COVID, this is a terrific, comprehensive one that’s still regularly updated. Thank you so much for this, @durianliftoff.bsky.social.

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Life Expectancy in California Has Not Rebounded After Covid

The problem with the phrase "causes of death other than COVID" is that, according to these studies, long-COVID and related complications are causes of death other than COVID.

1. I firmly believe that *the* future revolution in our understanding of human health engendered by research into Long Covid will be that pathogenic infection plays a far, far more significant role in the development of chronic diseases than we currently understand.

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

The most disturbing thing I saw during the pandemic was the look on the face of the father of the pregnant 20-something year old who we shocked ≈20 times over 2.5 hours but couldn’t keep in a perfusing rhythm while that patient’s mother wailed.

I have never seen a man so broken in my entire life.

I will never understand the objection to masks in healthcare.

It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive.

People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid