Evanna Simpson

Evanna Simpson

@simpsone.bsky.social

Canadian, birder, geologist (retired).

552 Followers 905 Following 51 Posts Joined Dec 2023
21 hours ago
Reddit post on Climber Girls sub:

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I've never posted here but I'm a lady climber and climbing is/was my life.

Endless trips, endless training. My friends. Impacted the jobs I took... My whole world. My whole world.

I was chipping away, trying to get to V12. Going through a rough life patch because I had to move away from a city I liked for a job. But climbing my hardest yet.

I got COVID for a third time in 2025 (I'm vaxed and boosted and took paxlovid)..... Boom long COVID. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year. I even learned I was having some remnants of long COVID from prior infections (things like hives, or some sleep stuff, and deficiencies which I learned COVID can cause).

But this last one really did it. I'm not as severe as other people but I'll crash for a week if I go to the gym.

It is.... Really sad. I'm not used to it and don't know when I'll be used to it. I don't know if it goes away.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I think the most important thing to understand is that it’s still happening:

“I got COVID for a 3rd time in 2025 (I'm vaxed, boosted & took paxlovid)... Boom #LongCovid. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year.”

“COVID… is still causing disability.“

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15 hours ago

WTAF @avilewis.ca. This is a TERRIBLE look. Shame on you.

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Tonight, Canada goes teal for International Long Covid Awareness Day. Share your photo or video from one of the locations to support the long Covid community. Find a location near you: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...

📷 Stacey Leigh (Corner Brook City Hall)
#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness

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2 days ago
A teacher & student wearing a mask & other students speaking airborne pathogens into the air

The pandemic was a chance to transform the air in schools. I made this cartoon in the 1st wave & it still illustrates the situation in schools today. Young people are more likely to be asymptomatic & ventilation is not measured or enforced. Workers are therefore still highly exposed

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CHANNEL 4: “Lebanese officials said 100+ children among the nearly 800 killed so far by Israeli airstrikes.”

www.channel4.com/news/over-10...

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Will this make you reconsider your membership in a Canadian political party?

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A snip from the data for Halifax COVID wastewater from the Gov't of Canada (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/), showing a steady drop from week 1 to week 2, then no data until week 6 where the line is suddenly near the previous peak at week 51 (the highest on the year-long chart), and then an upward slide to week 7, above the peak at week 51. And then nothing.

If you're looking at the wastewater to make decisions about healthcare or personal risks, this ain't useful.

Why does regular data collection and prompt distribution matter? Well, take a look at this: Halifax didn't get any COVID wastewater data for a month, and in that time the number went from among the lowest in a year to nearly the highest in a year. And now we haven't had updated info for four weeks.

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Things we want people to know. 6 years after the start* of the COVID-19 pandemic. *The day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was not the date of the first case. It’s not just a cold. We wish it were just a cold. We would not keep talking about it if so. Since 2020, doctors, scientists, and millions of people who have had COVID-19 have learned that it can cause permanent damage to multiple organ systems within your body, leave you disabled and unable to do the things you love, and significantly harm your quality of life.  A cold cannot disable or kill you the way COVID-19 can. We know a lot more about prevention than we did back then.  We all remember when we thought maybe we’d be ok as long as we were 6 feet away from sick people; that masks worked one way but not the other; and more. But just like with all new viruses and scientific study, we learned more as 
there was more time to 
study and observe, and we 
now know that wearing masks 
and keeping cleaner air are key to 
protecting ourselves and others. Now that we know better, we can (and should) better protect ourselves and others. We understand the frustration about vaccines, but they are still extremely important. We all remember when vaccines were first made available, and it would’ve been great if that was the end of the pandemic. It wasn’t. And a lot of people have gotten frustrated and have given up on vaccination. It’s true, the virus that causes COVID-19 changes (which is why, like the annual flu shot, we need to get updated COVID-19 vaccines each year), and the vaccines we have now will not eliminate COVID-19 on their own. But they are still very effective at preventing serious illness and death, so 
even though they are not the one quick
solution to the pandemic we all wish they 
were, they are still extremely important, 
and we should all stay up to date.

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

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"It takes around 17 years for health findings to become mainstream practice" is an indictment of medicine's calcified and outdated management class.

Medical training based on antiquated seniority-driven systems that care more about power than quality of care can't keep up with a changing world.

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Tweet from The Washington Post reporting that more than 630 people, including at least 91 children, were killed in Lebanon in the past week as the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran spread to the country. The image shows a nighttime city skyline with multiple explosions and smoke rising from strikes.

The war has now displaced well over half a million people in Lebanon and killed so many innocents. Our government must bear responsibility for its part in this.

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The same police Carney is now giving unprecedented powers to in Bill C12. You may not agree with the cause, you may not be a protestor, but this level of power being given to the police will visit us all.

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I wear an N95 always (I am an MD, work in the OR), and if I go elsewhere in the hospital other MDs I know ask me, are you sick? No man, but this is a hospital where the sick people are! What a time to be alive! when my own colleagues think it’s unusual I am trying to protect the myself/patients

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Yes—you're reading this NYT report right: Israel shrieked at Lebanese civilians (including women, kids, and the elderly) to "FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!", Denethor-style, then...

...bombed the bridge they needed to use to flee.

This war is evil. Those launched it are evil. No good person fails to see it.

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3 days ago
it just feels so horrible
we feel powerless
we've tried fighting, 
we've tried surrendering
we've tried ignoring
we've tried building
israel doesn't let you exist
that's it, our choice is fast death 
or faster death

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

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Why do progressives and justice advocates seem to not care about COVID? It’s still important to warn people about the dangers of COVID and make schools and workplaces safe, Andrew Wilkin says.

"Why do progressives and justice advocates seem to not care about COVID?"

@teachrprecarity.bsky.social continues to tell it like it is 👏🏼🎉

www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

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Yes, It’s Finally Time to Talk About Trump and Treason A lawyer who for a decade opposed discussions of Trump and Treason as premature says the Second Iran War and recent revelations in the Epstein Files make it not just a necessary but urgent topic.

It's time. I've opposed this conversation for a decade, as the legal standard hadn't been met. Now the standard for launching a criminal investigation clearly has been—and the Democrats *can* and *must* launch their own probe so they are ready (if facts warrant) to impeach Trump for Treason in 2027.

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On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.

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3 days ago

A big Thank You to Justin Trudeau:

bsky.app/profile/elle...

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And the one factor that has a quick, easy solution.

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3 days ago

I don't have the data to confirm this outside of some rudimentary stats, but my strong suspicion is that even though we are all playing make believe that COVID is gone, it is adding stress to a system that was already thin.

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This is just the latest example I've seen, but it is really bleak how much political content on social media these days is being sponsored by dark money interest groups and how many content creators have been willing to take the cash and keep quiet about it.

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Democracy! (Gilbert and Sullivan voice)

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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

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Doug Ford wants to SHIELD himself, all cabinet ministers & their staff from FOI requests.

This would apply to ALL EXISTING requests (? Greenbelt comms, even Jan '26 court ordered release of Doug Ford's private cell phone records).

Call Ford (staffed 24/7) to say NO to this

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the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

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This is the story of so many MAGA Christian conservatives. They give ZERO fucks until it happens to them. 😳👇

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My God. The scale and scope of russia's widespread, systematic, soulless abduction of Ukrainian children documented in the latest UN report. Heartbreaking, wrenching, inhuman war crimes. Justice for russia cannot come soon enough.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdE1...

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