Michael
@garrattguy.bsky.social
Retired 🇨🇦 stage tech. I designed & made Neil Peart’s rotary drum riser (Rush). Learning about here. OCWGA (old cis white guy trying hard to be ally). Model engineer, amateur machinist, steam, trains, boats. Living afloat in Toronto.
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💡Key findings:
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
💡Key findings:
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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This short thread is a must-read. Especially for our #USAmerican friends.
Must read.
Nazis studied 🇺🇸 for their programs & laws.
They’re back with a vengeance
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Nazis studied 🇺🇸 for their programs & laws.
They’re back with a vengeance
1/3
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This short thread is a must-read. Especially for our #USAmerican friends.
Just saw a tv commercial that used instrumental intro to #SmallTownBoy. Not sure how I feel about this. Good for the band I guess but seems a bit sacrilegious to me.
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Just saw a tv commercial that used instrumental intro to #SmallTownBoy. Not sure how I feel about this. Good for the band I guess but seems a bit sacrilegious to me.
Poilievre needs to get away from the imaginary scenario that he will ever be PM.
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Poilievre needs to get away from the imaginary scenario that he will ever be PM.
Would it be cruel and unusual or just and appropriate punishment to chain Bibi to a dungeon wall, lock the door and let him starve to death like his child victims in Gaza? Just asking. #Genocide
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Would it be cruel and unusual or just and appropriate punishment to chain Bibi to a dungeon wall, lock the door and let him starve to death like his child victims in Gaza? Just asking. #Genocide
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Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
Got my 11th C19 booster on Tuesday. Feeling great. #Covid #Vaccination
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Got my 11th C19 booster on Tuesday. Feeling great. #Covid #Vaccination
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Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
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Thanks, but no thanks. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli
Uh, I don't mean to alarm anyone but hoolllyyy sheeet. 👇
H/T @steve1970peng.bsky.social
"To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to negotiate an agreement with the Government of Canada for integrated cross-border aerial, land, and maritime law enforcement operations, and for other purposes."
H/T @steve1970peng.bsky.social
"To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to negotiate an agreement with the Government of Canada for integrated cross-border aerial, land, and maritime law enforcement operations, and for other purposes."
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Thanks, but no thanks. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli
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That the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to imitate Donald Trump and MAGA ideology should be a clear warning to Canadians not to vote for them. Unfortunately, some people are hopelessly naive in thinking it can’t happen here.
September 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to imitate Donald Trump and MAGA ideology should be a clear warning to Canadians not to vote for them. Unfortunately, some people are hopelessly naive in thinking it can’t happen here.
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Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
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@tabathasouthey.bsky.social Hi, I once knew Martha Mann & Rex Southey. Are you related by any chance?
September 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social Hi, I once knew Martha Mann & Rex Southey. Are you related by any chance?
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An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice: Preclinical trials in rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.
Via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 virus emerging from infected cells / Luis Enjuanes' team_PNAS
An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice: Preclinical trials in rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.
Via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 virus emerging from infected cells / Luis Enjuanes' team_PNAS
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice: Preclinical trials in rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.
Via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 virus emerging from infected cells / Luis Enjuanes' team_PNAS
An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice: Preclinical trials in rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.
Via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 virus emerging from infected cells / Luis Enjuanes' team_PNAS
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Me waiting for the rapture
September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Me waiting for the rapture
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In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University in Germany demonstrated that the G protein receptor called GPR133 plays a central role in building and maintaining healthy bone.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-f...
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-f...
Scientists Find a Switch That Could Stop Osteoporosis, Making Bones Stronger in Old Age - Good News Network
There is a high demand for safe and long-lasting medications to treat bone loss for the millions of people with osteoporosis. Discovering new targets for drug development is therefore a key step towar...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University in Germany demonstrated that the G protein receptor called GPR133 plays a central role in building and maintaining healthy bone.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-f...
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-f...
I understand there is some sort of joyful planetary departure of religious people tonight. Anybody know the timing exactly? I would like to watch (because clearly, I ain’t going!)
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I understand there is some sort of joyful planetary departure of religious people tonight. Anybody know the timing exactly? I would like to watch (because clearly, I ain’t going!)
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Excellent point!!!!!!
why do we call them influencers and not shills?
cultural disguising of hustlers
cultural disguising of hustlers
September 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Excellent point!!!!!!
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Jimmy Kimmel could start his own podcast, have 20 times the number of listeners as he does viewers and become an icon to rescue democracy.
Do it!
Do it!
Wouldn’t it be wild if Kimmel ended up becoming our Zelenskyy
September 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Jimmy Kimmel could start his own podcast, have 20 times the number of listeners as he does viewers and become an icon to rescue democracy.
Do it!
Do it!