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If you're not actively reducing the risk of illness, maybe ask your organization, "why?" Are you comfortable hosting a celebratory event that requires people to self-segregate? Are you okay allowing illness that can cause physical and economic hardship to spread without any mitigation? /end

If you're doing things to reduce illness, tell people! Borrowing air purifiers from @calhrm.bsky.social ? Let people know! Does the venue have amazing ventilation? Make it public! Will windows be open? Reducing attendance numbers? Requiring masks? Providing rapid tests? Tell us! /3

Some people need to avoid illness because they can't risk losing their job & don't have access to paid sick days. Some people have underlying disabilities that increase risk for even worse negative outcomes. Some people can't rely on vaccination because of allergies or other medical conditions. /2

As we enter the season of holiday gatherings and events, consider illness mitigation strategies. Especially if you're part of an organization that's planning an event, how are you making sure you're not entrenching segregation based on socioeconomic status and disability? 1/4

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally. Here’s What We Know Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say

"Without high-quality surveillance data, Ho warns that health organizations are not well-prepared to recommend corresponding vaccine formulations and time their roll-out."

Canada's Covid tracing & reporting infrastructure is almost non-existent now because provinces just won't do it.

My kids are at Halcon and were very excited to see that Wallace Shawn was also masking.

Why is it important to get COVID-19 vaccines every year? 1. Immunity for some vaccines fades over time. While protection through some vaccines, like the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, lasts for a lifetime, others, like Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) and COVID-19 vaccines, begin to fade over time. Just like tetanus boosters, COVID-19 booster shots “boost” immunity from previous doses that may have faded over time. 2. The virus changes over time. Like the seasonal flu, the virus that causes COVID-19 continues to change. Like the annual flu shot, COVID-19 vaccines are updated every year to better protect you from new virus strains. COVID-19 vaccines help prevent serious illness and death in people of all ages! Stay up to date on your vaccines to keep yourself and others safe.

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Long Covid is common - ~1 in 5 people have it, and it's on the rise. Reinfections add to the burden. It's the most common chronic condition in children.

Actual coverage on this at last from CBC

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Every donation we receive is used to send masks to people across Canada. 😷 🇨🇦

Donate today to support our work! 💙

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The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.

I. Told. You. So.

Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.

Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

N.S. patients waited for more than 70 hours in the ER for hospital admission: MLA | CBC News Paul Wozney says he received a blunt assessment of an overcrowded emergency room where he was told some patients had been waiting over 70 hours.

"Staff had to turn away one individual who suffered a stroke"

In a statement, CBC told me:

"After reviewing the interview, we concluded that it needed to be re-edited and re-posted to include further context and questions around the procedure and treatment Deacon experienced. That has now been done."

Will update the story with this soon.

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Masks have been reinstated in NB, PEI, and NFLD health care facilities. NS Health & the IWK have been completely silent. On May 7, 2025, a memo was sent to Sr. Leadership stating universal maksing might return in response to "seasons of increased viral respiratory activity." We are in that season.

One simple, powerful and often overlooked thing you can do to resist fascism?

Wear a mask, ideally an N95!

Covid is not over

Masking sends a powerful message that you value your health & the health of your community

That you don’t think disabled lives are expendable

It’s radical community care

Please wear an N95 or better that seals well on your face to help prevent COVID infection. Air must pass through the filter media to be filtered, not leak through gaps at the side (as in a surgical mask).
My favourite, easy-breathing respirator is the Q100:
canadastrong.ca/products/can...

People hate when you refuse to pretend the pandemic is over. They hate it so much.

Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize

When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

“Right now, we’re in the thick of COVID-19. We know that COVID-19 is actively circulating in our province…it’s been increasing since late summer”

No kidding. It's gross NS Health didn't warn people sooner. And, hand-washing doesn't prevent airborne spread. Please wear a mask & get vaccinated.

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

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

World expert in air quality and COVID wins Australia's top science prize Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

This is awesome news! Congrats Dr. Morawska!

(Thanks @ziadfazel.bsky.social for the heads-up)

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

#CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir

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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID

and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids

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(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)

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Sudbury·Audio 'Totally inappropriate' to lift mask mandates at this time, retired Sudbury doctor says CBC News · Posted: Mar 10, 2022 3:00 AM PST | Last Updated: March 10, 2022 On March 21, it will no longer be required to wear a mask inside a store, restaurant or school in Ontario. (CBC) cbc.ca/1.6378813

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by the fall of that year, provinces, the feds and the crown media corp were effectively aligned with the convoy’s aim of an end to mandates: it was time to return to ‘normal’. never mind pushback from scientific advisors that this timeline was not based on science.

back to business as usual.

Throughout the pandemic, our COVID guidelines and protocols were based on Health Canada and local public health guidelines at any given time, including return to work protocols. These were our minimum standards and at times we went above them. Quirks & Quarks is editorially independent from CBC management and has covered COVID in a number of different ways over the past few years, including the story you heard in March.

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after the broadcast, my partner emailed a group of CBC managers and union reps to ask—in light of the quirks & quarks coverage—why it was OK to force us back to the office with no mitigations, especially when our son was too young to be vaccinated.

several months later, she received this reply:

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough stillcoviding.ca/en/news/this...

CBC’s Flagship Program Platforms “Quackery” for Long COVID CBC's national broadcast aired an interview with Gill Deacon about her Long COVID recovery. Deacon used an unproven program called the Lightning Process that's been criticized for exploiting patients ...

Earlier this week, the CBC broadcast an interview with Gill Deacon, discussing her Long COVID recovery using brain retraining.

They didn't tell you the specific brain retraining program, the Lightning Process, has been accused of exploiting patients.

simonspichak.beehiiv.com/p/cbc-flagsh...

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Long COVID is underdiagnosed, researchers say, and there’s work to be done to change that St. John’s hosted the 2025 Canadian Symposium on Long COVID earlier this month, a gathering of top researchers, clinicians, and people living with long COVID. As the CBC’s Adam Walsh reports, those on...

" #LongCOVID is underdiagnosed, researchers say, and there’s work to be done to change that":

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The push for clean air in schools isn’t *just* about preventing COVID. It’s that COVID really showed how poor the air quality is in schools, and we already knew how much respiratory conditions impacted on our general health from all the Healthy Homes convos.