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Nice.. But why do you have to close the windows with the air filter on?

I saw someone
buying roses
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

I saw someone
carrying chocolates
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

I saw someone
entering a jeweler’s
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.

And I saw someone
wearing a mask
and I thought:
that’s definitely love.

You are truly a remarkable poet!

As we stood outside
waiting in the cold
a young man in shorts walked by
and my work friend said:
“some people just don’t know
how to dress for the season,”
and as a coughing man walked by
I looked from his unmasked face
to my work friend’s unmasked face
and said: you’re right.

Agree, but at least some other kids are hearing a similar message about drugs and alcohol from parents at home... I'm the only parent around suggesting to try to avoid covid. It's so hard and fitting in is so important at this age

My kids wore masks longer than any others, but it's (too?) hard being the only kid in high school... And when they see other kids with doctor parents who aren't concerned, no data I can provide competes!

What are parents of teenagers to do?

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Please push back loudly against the chronic absenteeism propaganda. It’s absence. It’s absence due to illness. That is the no 1 reason for kids missing school. A big driver of that is that buses and school buildings are not safe/healthy for kids or workers. Everyone in school deserves healthy air.

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I don't understand why they are all doing the same thing.

This is an excellent explainer, thanks (again)!

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Had to complete an infection precautions training module for my institution... I kept getting answers wrong because I kept answering n95 mask for everything.

Parents seem truly surprised when I ask if their sick kid(s) got a flu shot this yea. Most seem unaware, and some disinterested, when I say that it's available and helpful for kids > 6 mo.😫

So much flu. 😢

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😷The real scandal isn’t masks - it’s how many people need them and are denied cultural permission to use them without ridicule.

It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13

Thanks!

Where do you see the wastewater now? ED wait times are already really long. (Wonder how that correlates: Waste water versus ED wait times.)

The man in front of me
looked at my mask
and asked: “you sick?”
I replied: “No.”
And then he stated:
“I can’t imagine wearing a mask
unless I’m sick,”
and though I wanted to say
“I can imagine getting sick
so I’m wearing one,”
instead I just said:
“the cashier’s ready for you.”

Unsurprisingly, masks decrease the infection rate substantially in the ED.

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

OPINION: Don’t wait for B.C. public health to protect you this flu season - Surrey Now-Leader H3N2 could make this a rough winter – be prepared

Suggestions on what to do to reduce our risk when public health fails, again, to anticipate the inevitable while our governments sit on their hands instead of raising standards for indoor air quality in schools and other crowded public buildings:

Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31
Maryse Laganière, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 28
Michèle Richard, 21
Annie St-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 20

Indeed you'd think a grocery store stocker (or my mom) could help then avoid this... New stuff at the back, send out the older stuff first.

Years ago peds GI would do these in ED with a foley.🥺

So if one has teenagers, really nothing can be done except hope *mine* don't get it too bad?

Can confirm, lots of influenza already. :(