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💡SO, LET'S ENSURE EVERY CHILD HAS AT LEAST 10 COVID INFECTIONS BY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION!

Daylight saving time causes lower productivity and higher health care costs, studies say A vast body of research shows that every year, the shift to daylight saving time needlessly exacerbates various health risks, disrupting millions of Americans’ sleep and increasing the likelihood of a...

It's bad idea for public health

www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

Daylight saving time causes lower productivity and higher health care costs, studies say A vast body of research shows that every year, the shift to daylight saving time needlessly exacerbates various health risks, disrupting millions of Americans’ sleep and increasing the likelihood of a...

Studies have found that adopting permanent standard time could prevent up to 5,000 suicides annually by reducing seasonal depression"

Studies show early morning light is important for mental health

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Selfie in front o blue microphone in my office. I'm wearing a headstrap black zimi

I'm neither an astronaut nor an Olympian, but I did do a podcast this week & with people sick at my home wanted to ensure I didn't lose my voice

I masked all week & avoided another transmissible virus

Oh no, wait I don't think it's good lol

Daylight saving time causes lower productivity and higher health care costs, studies say A vast body of research shows that every year, the shift to daylight saving time needlessly exacerbates various health risks, disrupting millions of Americans’ sleep and increasing the likelihood of a...

Data doesn't support this

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It's always capitalism

This won't result in more sunlight, it'll just shift the hours of exposure

Excerpt from City News article: Hall warns it will have negative consequences for an already struggling health-care system. "There's research that indicates people with mental health problems, particularly bipolar, depression and major depression, benefit from good morning light because it helps reduce their symptoms. They do not benefit from more exposure to evening light. There have been some studies in counties in the U.S. that have shown teenagers who are on permanent Daylight Time have lower graduation rates and poorer outcomes at school. We know kids that have short sleep

Experts slam B.C. moving to Daylight Time for good Not everyone is on board after the provincial government announced B.C. would be changing its clocks for the last time this weekend.

Good article. As a parent of a teen, it makes me uncomfortable to think of all the kids who will end up walking and biking alone to school in the dark.

I wish kids were centered in health policy decisions

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Agree. It's ridiculous

And the pandemic & COVID denialism continue thru NOW—as the ensuing mass disability & early deaths will into the future. It’s easy to complain abt Trump followers who wouldn’t wear masks in 2020. But what about everyone who doesn’t mask in airports & in medical settings TODAY? The fight continues.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

there is a lesson for the Democrats here

These folks never seem to read the whole paper

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This % is hospital-diagnosed LC - the tip of the iceberg. Registry data miss non-hospitalized & uncoded Long Covid cases, which multiple cohort studies show are higher

Registry incidence does not equal true prevalence in general population

My quote of the day

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I hear you! And as the mom of a teenage girl I'm suddenly really uncomfortable with her walking 20 mins to school in the dark. New fear unlocked :-( all these teens walk and bike

Our school is already in a high traffic zone with a couple near miss incidents this year. I do not think this bodes well for kids' safety

In Victoria, Elementary School starts at 8:45AM. Under a permanent daylight time regime, kids arrive to school *before* sunrise from December 2 to January 29th. Permanent standard time please.

I get DST is popular socially because more people can golf at night or whatever, but studies link daylight saving time to increased risk of stroke, cardiovascular events & metabolic issues

Me too. Sleep & circadian experts recommend permanent standard time, not DST, because it better aligns with human biology

In BC, permanent DST means very dark winter mornings - worse for sleep & mood. More kids commuting in full darkness = higher traffic risk.

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lol

we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later.

we will do nothing with this information as a society

Totally understand 🫂

But there's community that is further ahead in terms of Covid science & disability justice than blue sky libs

It's wild isn't it?