Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social • 4h Respect Alice Wong's call here: "When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don't care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving." COVID-19 COVID Isn't Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. © www.teenvogue.com

you don’t get to indulge in whataboutism as an excuse to not do anything.

stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.

so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:

We are looking for teachers willing to test Jasper, a CO2 monitor in their classrooms. Jasper is a prototype and we would like to receive user feedback as soon as possible from several countries. If you are interested, please fill out the form: letsair.org/jasper

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure

Canada is leading in safety with the new draft of the CSA standard on respirators.

@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.

Weird because I could have sworn the NYT told us we shouldn't worry about these viruses and should just get back to brunch

Considering the risks COVID poses to infants and mothers, it’s astounding that obstetricians warn their patients about sushi but not about the airborne pathogen that shall not be named. The institutional denial runs deep and is costing us dearly.

Still waiting for clean air in N.S. schools - Halifax Examiner Why are we letting our children breathe contaminated air, when there are proven solutions?

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/s... wonderful new piece in @halifaxexaminer.ca 💕

I offered to buy a room size air purifier for at least one schoolroom but was told I couldn't, and Education and Health were following accepted guides for air quality.

My flabbers are completely and utterly gasted… 🥲🤦🏻‍♀️

With everything going on I was just thinking about the COVID response again and how this ideology, where leaders here thought everyone make their own personal choices was the most important thing to preserve during a public health crisis, literally killed thousands of people

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

“Post”-COVID.

Don’t take medical advice from AI.

Don’t take legal advice from AI.

Don’t take financial advice from AI.

Better yet, stop using generative AI. It’s destroying the environment, it generates slop and is destroying the internet, artists, creativity and our brains.

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It's never too late to start masking again if you've stopped, especially in health care settings. Long COVID is now the #1 chronic health condition in kids

You probably learned about homonyms in school: words that are pronounced or spelled the same but differ in meaning.

bear (animal)
bear (carry)

But did you know there are actually two kinds of homonyms: homophones and homographs.

Let’s dew this.

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Illustration of a capybara eating a smartphone. The phone screen reads “BAD TAKE”. The bold text encircling the picture reads “I REFUSE TO ENGAGE”

We all have this power within us. Dare to dream.
#art #capybara #CuteArt

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

Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid.
My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.

youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...

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“We psychologize or dismiss diseases that we do not understand.”
- Dr Ziyad Al Aly, 3 juin 2025, AGA de la Société canadienne de la covid.

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social
These young people are going to Gaza to try and stop the murder of children.
That they have to put their live on the line reflects the absolute failure of the west, the G7, Canada.
Call the Israeli embassy and warn them not to harm these children.
The world watches.

If you want to understand eugenics today, read this thread. Know it happens on the daily.

What's a Canadian? It's somewhere between John Candy and the Hanson Brothers

What defines Canada?
We rule comedy because we are not predatory. We live on harsh terrain and were forced to compromise.
But we love hockey goons.
So watch out Mr. Taco, we aren't afraid to go from "sorry" to "you'll be sorry".
My latest on elbows up.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/whats-a-ca...

It's not that I've changed to become radical—it's that my unwavering belief that children should be protected from dangerous viruses is now read as radical

COVID-19 Can Severely Damage Your Kids’ Brain: Symptoms To Look Out For | TheHealthSite.com The research identifies a wide spectrum of neurological complications in children and suggests they may be more common than in adults admitted with Covid-19. TheHealthSite.com

Now I see news headlines of "kids have worst test scores ever now," and no one says "It's all the Covid infections they're getting! It's the hypernormalization under capitalism!'

www.thehealthsite.com/diseases-con...

And... (Don't wear blue surgical like in photo, wear N95! 🤦🏻‍♀️) 🧵

We are in a sars2 pandemic. There is a dire need of normalizing masking with respirators & testing to break chains of transmission, ventilation and air filtration, and also de-crowding (to stop superspreader events), and not taking part in mass tourism.

Restricting covid vaccines to the elderly & those with preconditions does damage in many ways.

It makes it harder for people to access a tool to keep healthy, while sending the (wrong) message that only the vulnerable need to worry about covid.

We are ALL vulnerable and we ALL deserve protection

Thanks to
@chantzy.bsky.social
@molesen.bsky.social
for posting.

#Covid
#Health #Healthcare
#Science
#medsky

If we could admit the following, it would save many lives:

COVID is airborne
COVID is not over
COVID is a social justice issue & everyone deserves access to vaccines, respirators and clean air
COVID can impact everyone, not “only the vulnerable”

Lastly, the “vulnerable” deserve protection too

Cover page of Report on Air Quality Test Results in New Brunswick Schools, prepared by Ryan Murphy using EECD air quality data. The full report can be accessed at a link contained in the post.

A sample of the Report's charts showing four years of air quality data from Norton Elementary School. In 2020 - 2021, peak values were 2806 PPM of carbon dioxide; in 2021 - 2022, it was 2493 PPM. A mechanical ventilation system was completed in October 2022. Following the installation, the 2022 - 2023 results were significantly lower, peaking at 902 PPM. Levels rose again the next year, with a peak of 1419 PPM.

Bayview School in Saint John was tested in 2020 - 2021, and scored a peak result that met the 1500 PPM guideline EECD uses. The school no longer qualified for testing in future years. When all schools were again tested, results were much worse. No data exists to determine if either of those results is an outlier, or what the air quality was like during the nearly three years of school days between tests.

Screen capture of a Department of Education & Early Childhood Development PDF chart showing the Air Quality Test Results for New Brunswick schools in the 2023 - 2024 school year.

Last month, EECD released the results of air quality testing from the 2023 - 2024 school year. Data was again presented as a PDF chart, making analysis difficult.

I used their data to create visuals and a report, of sorts. You can read the full report here (PDF on OneDrive):

buff.ly/msa9XeV