CovidSolutions
@covidsolutions.bsky.social
Made the move; fixed the handle.
Specialize in constructive discomfort.
And never mind covid, six years in, I haven't had *any* cold or flu — ask me how.
#VirusFreeAirNow
Specialize in constructive discomfort.
And never mind covid, six years in, I haven't had *any* cold or flu — ask me how.
#VirusFreeAirNow
Reposted by CovidSolutions
So, ventilation and filtration (building scale - MERV13 in HVAC; room scale - portable HEPA; personal scale - N95s), right?
PHAC is leading in acknowledging that ALL respiratory illnesses transmit via aerosols. CMOHs & @ipaccanada.bsky.social need to catch up!
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
PHAC is leading in acknowledging that ALL respiratory illnesses transmit via aerosols. CMOHs & @ipaccanada.bsky.social need to catch up!
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So, ventilation and filtration (building scale - MERV13 in HVAC; room scale - portable HEPA; personal scale - N95s), right?
PHAC is leading in acknowledging that ALL respiratory illnesses transmit via aerosols. CMOHs & @ipaccanada.bsky.social need to catch up!
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
PHAC is leading in acknowledging that ALL respiratory illnesses transmit via aerosols. CMOHs & @ipaccanada.bsky.social need to catch up!
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
Reposted by CovidSolutions
🇮🇪 In her first address as President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly said:
“I stand before you humbly and proudly as the tenth president of this beautiful country. The people have spoken and have given their president a powerful mandate to articulate their vision for a new republic” (1/2)
“I stand before you humbly and proudly as the tenth president of this beautiful country. The people have spoken and have given their president a powerful mandate to articulate their vision for a new republic” (1/2)
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🇮🇪 In her first address as President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly said:
“I stand before you humbly and proudly as the tenth president of this beautiful country. The people have spoken and have given their president a powerful mandate to articulate their vision for a new republic” (1/2)
“I stand before you humbly and proudly as the tenth president of this beautiful country. The people have spoken and have given their president a powerful mandate to articulate their vision for a new republic” (1/2)
Reposted by CovidSolutions
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by CovidSolutions
Fun facts for all the racists blaming immigration (primarily from India) on Canada's measles woes:
-measles vaccination rate in India: 97% (2024)
-rate in Canada: 82.5% (2023)
So if you want to play this game (and I don't), more Indian immigrants would make us LESS vulnerable to measles.
-measles vaccination rate in India: 97% (2024)
-rate in Canada: 82.5% (2023)
So if you want to play this game (and I don't), more Indian immigrants would make us LESS vulnerable to measles.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fun facts for all the racists blaming immigration (primarily from India) on Canada's measles woes:
-measles vaccination rate in India: 97% (2024)
-rate in Canada: 82.5% (2023)
So if you want to play this game (and I don't), more Indian immigrants would make us LESS vulnerable to measles.
-measles vaccination rate in India: 97% (2024)
-rate in Canada: 82.5% (2023)
So if you want to play this game (and I don't), more Indian immigrants would make us LESS vulnerable to measles.
And still a perfect "sterilizing" match, six years running: my [breathe] N95.
👍
#Airborne
#WearARespirator
#VirusFreeAirNow
👍
#Airborne
#WearARespirator
#VirusFreeAirNow
While still worth getting, this year's flu vaccine is likely "mismatched" to the current mutating type of H3N2.
If only we had other tools to prevent preventable viruses 😷
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
If only we had other tools to prevent preventable viruses 😷
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And still a perfect "sterilizing" match, six years running: my [breathe] N95.
👍
#Airborne
#WearARespirator
#VirusFreeAirNow
👍
#Airborne
#WearARespirator
#VirusFreeAirNow
'Headteachers will be given the targets this month in an effort to boost attendance rates, which remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels.'
We urge @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to understand the additional pressure with will cause for CYP with health conditions.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
We urge @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to understand the additional pressure with will cause for CYP with health conditions.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Americans need to stop looking backwards for answers — all of FDR accomplishments are inexorably diminished by his de facto endorsement of Jim Crow white-supremacism.
There's plenty of inspiration to be found among the likes of Mamdani and AOC.
#Solidarity
There's plenty of inspiration to be found among the likes of Mamdani and AOC.
#Solidarity
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Americans need to stop looking backwards for answers — all of FDR accomplishments are inexorably diminished by his de facto endorsement of Jim Crow white-supremacism.
There's plenty of inspiration to be found among the likes of Mamdani and AOC.
#Solidarity
There's plenty of inspiration to be found among the likes of Mamdani and AOC.
#Solidarity
Imagine an emergency response team that gets deployed to these low vax-coverage pockets to implement a comprehensive #VirusFreeAir package to the schools affected by an outbreak.
You know, because the antivaxxers will persist...
(The concurrent covid drop will also be embarrassing...)
You know, because the antivaxxers will persist...
(The concurrent covid drop will also be embarrassing...)
The real risk appears to lie with pockets of low vaccination coverage, regardless of immigration status — whether due to vaccine refusal/hesitancy, delayed immunization, or waning immunity.
[5/6]
[5/6]
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Imagine an emergency response team that gets deployed to these low vax-coverage pockets to implement a comprehensive #VirusFreeAir package to the schools affected by an outbreak.
You know, because the antivaxxers will persist...
(The concurrent covid drop will also be embarrassing...)
You know, because the antivaxxers will persist...
(The concurrent covid drop will also be embarrassing...)
There's plenty of money to be made by "not burning stuff."
Also, there's stacks of money to be made "not selling cough syrup."
#VirusFreeAirNow
Also, there's stacks of money to be made "not selling cough syrup."
#VirusFreeAirNow
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There's plenty of money to be made by "not burning stuff."
Also, there's stacks of money to be made "not selling cough syrup."
#VirusFreeAirNow
Also, there's stacks of money to be made "not selling cough syrup."
#VirusFreeAirNow
Reposted by CovidSolutions
If you think activists asking for public masking are "purity testing," I'm going to assume you've never experienced post viral illness or lost someone close to you due to complications from COVID
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you think activists asking for public masking are "purity testing," I'm going to assume you've never experienced post viral illness or lost someone close to you due to complications from COVID
Reposted by CovidSolutions
The difference between most Democrat politicians and most Republican politicians is just an artifact of the voters they represent - what they can get away with, not what they stand for. If they swapped seats, they'd swap personalities.
Primary and make examples - or accept irrelevance.
Primary and make examples - or accept irrelevance.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The difference between most Democrat politicians and most Republican politicians is just an artifact of the voters they represent - what they can get away with, not what they stand for. If they swapped seats, they'd swap personalities.
Primary and make examples - or accept irrelevance.
Primary and make examples - or accept irrelevance.
Reposted by CovidSolutions
To move from reliance to resilience, Canada has to become its own best customer.
Our new Buy Canadian Policy will put Canadian materials and resources at the centre of housing and major project construction across the country.
Our new Buy Canadian Policy will put Canadian materials and resources at the centre of housing and major project construction across the country.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
To move from reliance to resilience, Canada has to become its own best customer.
Our new Buy Canadian Policy will put Canadian materials and resources at the centre of housing and major project construction across the country.
Our new Buy Canadian Policy will put Canadian materials and resources at the centre of housing and major project construction across the country.
Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by CovidSolutions
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Reposted by CovidSolutions
No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
Trust is broken.
Though the fascist-insignia headdress may fade from view, its former wearers will remain, now hidden from awareness.
#Solidarity
Though the fascist-insignia headdress may fade from view, its former wearers will remain, now hidden from awareness.
#Solidarity
I adore some parts of the USA: Manhattan, San Francisco, New Orleans, etc. And I used to live in both New York and DC. Met so many lovely people there, and made lifelong friends. But it's slowly dawning on me that I might never visit U.S. soil ever again.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Trust is broken.
Though the fascist-insignia headdress may fade from view, its former wearers will remain, now hidden from awareness.
#Solidarity
Though the fascist-insignia headdress may fade from view, its former wearers will remain, now hidden from awareness.
#Solidarity
Reposted by CovidSolutions
I adore some parts of the USA: Manhattan, San Francisco, New Orleans, etc. And I used to live in both New York and DC. Met so many lovely people there, and made lifelong friends. But it's slowly dawning on me that I might never visit U.S. soil ever again.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I adore some parts of the USA: Manhattan, San Francisco, New Orleans, etc. And I used to live in both New York and DC. Met so many lovely people there, and made lifelong friends. But it's slowly dawning on me that I might never visit U.S. soil ever again.
Reposted by CovidSolutions
It doesn't have to be this way. This is the time of year the minimizers come out & tell us we should normalize our kids being sick 8+ times a year
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It doesn't have to be this way. This is the time of year the minimizers come out & tell us we should normalize our kids being sick 8+ times a year
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
No one is saying that #AmericanGestapo types are Mensa material...
🤷🏻♀️
🤷🏻♀️
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
No one is saying that #AmericanGestapo types are Mensa material...
🤷🏻♀️
🤷🏻♀️
It's time — @governor.ca.gov needs to detail a California law enforcement unit to follow #AmericanGestapo units around, and intervene to prevent 4th amendment violations.
#Solidarity
#Solidarity
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's time — @governor.ca.gov needs to detail a California law enforcement unit to follow #AmericanGestapo units around, and intervene to prevent 4th amendment violations.
#Solidarity
#Solidarity
Reposted by CovidSolutions
This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
Addendum: risk of myocarditis is lowest when vaccinated people ensure they're breathing #VirusFreeAir.
👍
👍
Risk of myocarditis is higher after Covid infection than after vaccine. Shocked! Shocked, I say!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health recor...
Children and young people have higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases
up to 12 months after a first COVID-19 diagnosis and higher risk of rare myocarditis
or pericarditis up to 4 week...
www.thelancet.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Addendum: risk of myocarditis is lowest when vaccinated people ensure they're breathing #VirusFreeAir.
👍
👍
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Reposted by CovidSolutions
No wonder employers are so enthusiastically installing HEPA filters and improving ventilation so that their workers —oh wait—no, I’m being told they aren’t doing that, either.
People are actually very interesting in their replies.
Ranges from “I learned that too, but I can’t wear a mask because…”
And the *overwhelmingly common reason* is
“My boss wouldn’t like it.”
Ranges from “I learned that too, but I can’t wear a mask because…”
And the *overwhelmingly common reason* is
“My boss wouldn’t like it.”
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
No wonder employers are so enthusiastically installing HEPA filters and improving ventilation so that their workers —oh wait—no, I’m being told they aren’t doing that, either.
“There were 800,000 more people out of work now than in 2019 due to health conditions, costing employers £85bn a year, according to the review by former John Lewis boss Sir Charlie Mayfield.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM