Christine Guenter
@dragginfly.bsky.social
Science.❤️Nature.❤️Music.❤️Gardening.❤️Cuisine. ❤️ Fly fishing! ❤️...and that pesky pandemic! #CovidIsntOver #WearAMask #CleanTheAirIfYouCare #H5N1 #AvianFlu
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Infections, hospitalizations and deaths are stable in most provinces.
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths are stable in most provinces.
Christmas and holiday celebrations will drive cases up. Please get vaccinated, use a hepa filter, open windows, test before gathering, and #WearAnN95Mask in crowded, indoor spaces. You don’t have to get sick…and if you do, please stay home! 🙏
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Christmas and holiday celebrations will drive cases up. Please get vaccinated, use a hepa filter, open windows, test before gathering, and #WearAnN95Mask in crowded, indoor spaces. You don’t have to get sick…and if you do, please stay home! 🙏
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Province that has no plan to deal with the #longCOVID destroying the healthcare workforce turns to AI to hallucinate a world in which that problem has a solution that doesn't involve facing reality.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Province that has no plan to deal with the #longCOVID destroying the healthcare workforce turns to AI to hallucinate a world in which that problem has a solution that doesn't involve facing reality.
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British Columbians who use manual and power wheelchairs say they’re tearing their hair out trying to get local businesses to service and maintain their wheelchairs. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
Why Is It So Hard to Fix a Wheelchair in BC? | The Tyee
Disabled people say companies are struggling to service their equipment, which can trap them in bed or at home.
thetyee.ca
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
British Columbians who use manual and power wheelchairs say they’re tearing their hair out trying to get local businesses to service and maintain their wheelchairs. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
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1/ There was a loose agreement that when a vaccine and therapeutic was available for COVID most countries would drop mitigation measures.
December, 2020 the first vaccines appeared and Paxlovid hit the market one year later.
But there was a problem. Omicron. False, early reports
December, 2020 the first vaccines appeared and Paxlovid hit the market one year later.
But there was a problem. Omicron. False, early reports
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
1/ There was a loose agreement that when a vaccine and therapeutic was available for COVID most countries would drop mitigation measures.
December, 2020 the first vaccines appeared and Paxlovid hit the market one year later.
But there was a problem. Omicron. False, early reports
December, 2020 the first vaccines appeared and Paxlovid hit the market one year later.
But there was a problem. Omicron. False, early reports
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Someone said it’s unethical to restrict the movements of elderly people when there is a covid outbreak in a nursing home.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Someone said it’s unethical to restrict the movements of elderly people when there is a covid outbreak in a nursing home.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.
Seems kinda evil.
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
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With a few exceptions, CBC has been a huge disappointment throughout the pandemic.
Sycophantic towards authority, hostile to those of its own reporters who stepped up, choosing clinicians with no advanced science training (but close ties to senior CBC staff) to displace actual experts, and worse...
Sycophantic towards authority, hostile to those of its own reporters who stepped up, choosing clinicians with no advanced science training (but close ties to senior CBC staff) to displace actual experts, and worse...
November 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
With a few exceptions, CBC has been a huge disappointment throughout the pandemic.
Sycophantic towards authority, hostile to those of its own reporters who stepped up, choosing clinicians with no advanced science training (but close ties to senior CBC staff) to displace actual experts, and worse...
Sycophantic towards authority, hostile to those of its own reporters who stepped up, choosing clinicians with no advanced science training (but close ties to senior CBC staff) to displace actual experts, and worse...
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It’s astounding that no one says - hey isn’t there a field of science specifically specializing in respiratory protection?
This is a bit like me sponsoring an electrical engineering review of neurosurgery papers. Hey it’s all electricity…
This is a bit like me sponsoring an electrical engineering review of neurosurgery papers. Hey it’s all electricity…
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It’s astounding that no one says - hey isn’t there a field of science specifically specializing in respiratory protection?
This is a bit like me sponsoring an electrical engineering review of neurosurgery papers. Hey it’s all electricity…
This is a bit like me sponsoring an electrical engineering review of neurosurgery papers. Hey it’s all electricity…
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Call for help!
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .
ALT: a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Call for help!
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
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The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
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Thank you for sharing this very easy to read paper. I would like add how the PP did have a positive roll in SARS1 in Canada, when it was used by the wise MD, Lyne Filiatraut, to successfully contain the single imported case that arrived in the Vancouver General Hospital's ER.
November 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thank you for sharing this very easy to read paper. I would like add how the PP did have a positive roll in SARS1 in Canada, when it was used by the wise MD, Lyne Filiatraut, to successfully contain the single imported case that arrived in the Vancouver General Hospital's ER.
Used to enjoy listening to CBC on occasion, but a Sunday drive changed that completely after hearing @ianhanomansing.bsky.social blather on, praising Bonnie Henry, showcasing Issac Bogoch, & other C19 minimizers. Often think of the harm done to people and media’s role in all this. They’re culpable!
🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴
how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
[links to referenced articles in ALT text]
how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
[links to referenced articles in ALT text]
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Used to enjoy listening to CBC on occasion, but a Sunday drive changed that completely after hearing @ianhanomansing.bsky.social blather on, praising Bonnie Henry, showcasing Issac Bogoch, & other C19 minimizers. Often think of the harm done to people and media’s role in all this. They’re culpable!
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If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
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Disinformation accounts are a useful indicator of what Russia is afraid of. It's particularly interesting that they're now trying to fabricate a split between pro-Ukraine and COVID-aware positions. Both are growing, and they are linked as are COVID denial and carrying water for Russia.
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Disinformation accounts are a useful indicator of what Russia is afraid of. It's particularly interesting that they're now trying to fabricate a split between pro-Ukraine and COVID-aware positions. Both are growing, and they are linked as are COVID denial and carrying water for Russia.
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Our new paper:
Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....
Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....
Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A Precautionary Framework
In the early weeks of the pandemic year 2020, health agencies were slow to warn of the potential for a global health emergency while scientists waited for ‘sufficient’ evidence of human-to-human tran...
dx.doi.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our new paper:
Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....
Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....
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November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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As per the photo portion below, I’ve updated my timeline summary to include Dr. Henry’s Sept 28th, 2022 press conference where she said a high rate of #Covid19 infection in kids does not translate to long term consequences.
And that she would have known the opposite was true. #bcpoli
And that she would have known the opposite was true. #bcpoli
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
October 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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This was always the plan.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This was always the plan.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
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If you thought wearing a mask was “too hard”, you really won’t like living with chronic illness.
Everything about the chronic illness existence is hard.
It’s suffering, fatigue, pain and abandonment.
It’s having to mask all the time because no one else wants to protect you.
Everything about the chronic illness existence is hard.
It’s suffering, fatigue, pain and abandonment.
It’s having to mask all the time because no one else wants to protect you.
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If you thought wearing a mask was “too hard”, you really won’t like living with chronic illness.
Everything about the chronic illness existence is hard.
It’s suffering, fatigue, pain and abandonment.
It’s having to mask all the time because no one else wants to protect you.
Everything about the chronic illness existence is hard.
It’s suffering, fatigue, pain and abandonment.
It’s having to mask all the time because no one else wants to protect you.
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.