Kathryn
@kathrynas.bsky.social
Past-Chair of the Women’s Caucus at CASWE-ACFTS, MSW, Long COVID research, therapist, equity advocate, intersectional feminist, mom. Not totally here. Still more there.
Thoughts my own.
Thoughts my own.
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Hey, #Toronto #CleanAir #Covid #AirborneVirus #WorkplaceRights #PublicEducationRights folks!
If you are a member or know a member of the three bargaining units of OSST in Toronto - District 12:
- TTBU - Toronto Teachers' Bargaining Unit (permanent teachers)
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If you are a member or know a member of the three bargaining units of OSST in Toronto - District 12:
- TTBU - Toronto Teachers' Bargaining Unit (permanent teachers)
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Hey, #Toronto #CleanAir #Covid #AirborneVirus #WorkplaceRights #PublicEducationRights folks!
If you are a member or know a member of the three bargaining units of OSST in Toronto - District 12:
- TTBU - Toronto Teachers' Bargaining Unit (permanent teachers)
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If you are a member or know a member of the three bargaining units of OSST in Toronto - District 12:
- TTBU - Toronto Teachers' Bargaining Unit (permanent teachers)
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🧵This "public" Nov 5 forum highlights the hypocrisy of public health institutions. Topics include misinformation and public trust, and an attendee sent me this: questions for the panellists must be submitted in advance (so hard ones on e.g. PPE, aerosols etc can be censored).
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
🧵This "public" Nov 5 forum highlights the hypocrisy of public health institutions. Topics include misinformation and public trust, and an attendee sent me this: questions for the panellists must be submitted in advance (so hard ones on e.g. PPE, aerosols etc can be censored).
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
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Canada is leading in safety with the new draft of the CSA standard on respirators.
@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.
@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.
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
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Canada is leading in safety with the new draft of the CSA standard on respirators.
@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.
@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.
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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
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
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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
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴
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)
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Thank you, #AbbottElementary! Looks like you understand #IAQ 👏🏻👊🏻!
(Hubby and teen said it could have been me playing that part 😆)
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(Hubby and teen said it could have been me playing that part 😆)
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October 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Thank you, #AbbottElementary! Looks like you understand #IAQ 👏🏻👊🏻!
(Hubby and teen said it could have been me playing that part 😆)
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(Hubby and teen said it could have been me playing that part 😆)
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It’s getting louder.
Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements.
It’s getting louder.
Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements.
It’s getting louder.
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It’s getting louder.
Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements.
It’s getting louder.
Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements.
It’s getting louder.
Spoiler 1: The news is that this poster won first place. 🥇
Spoiler 2: This is because people are hungry for truth, rigour, accountability, and positive change.
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Spoiler 2: This is because people are hungry for truth, rigour, accountability, and positive change.
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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 5:33 PM
Spoiler 1: The news is that this poster won first place. 🥇
Spoiler 2: This is because people are hungry for truth, rigour, accountability, and positive change.
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Spoiler 2: This is because people are hungry for truth, rigour, accountability, and positive change.
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A new development in the sociological experiment of denial, backlash, and normalization: The moms are piling on the poor soul who sought suggestions to on how to get HEPAs into the classroom.
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June 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A new development in the sociological experiment of denial, backlash, and normalization: The moms are piling on the poor soul who sought suggestions to on how to get HEPAs into the classroom.
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"’This suggests a need for a robust approach to HAI prevention among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 to prevent MRSA bacteremia, a finding that may also be relevant for future pandemic preparedness planning,’ they wrote.”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
COVID-19 fueled increase in hospital-onset MRSA, study finds
While incidence of community-associated and healthcare-associated community-onset MRSA bacteremia declined during the pandemic, hospital-onset cases rose substantially.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
May 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"’This suggests a need for a robust approach to HAI prevention among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 to prevent MRSA bacteremia, a finding that may also be relevant for future pandemic preparedness planning,’ they wrote.”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
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I haven’t eaten inside a restaurant since February 2020.
Why?
~400,000 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Why?
~400,000 peer-reviewed journal articles.
May 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I haven’t eaten inside a restaurant since February 2020.
Why?
~400,000 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Why?
~400,000 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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“This study confirms that SARS-CoV-2 can persist in the semen of patients who have recovered from COVID-19…the male genital tract may be a reservoir for the virus. …highlights the need for further research into the reproductive implications of COVID-19… .”
www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PD06-09 SARS-COV-2 PERSISTENCE IN SEMEN AS A WINDOW TO STUDY LONG COVID | Journal of Urology
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE:Long COVID, a chronic condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection, has raised concerns
regarding its effects on the male reproductive system, particularly viral persistence
in ...
www.auajournals.org
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“This study confirms that SARS-CoV-2 can persist in the semen of patients who have recovered from COVID-19…the male genital tract may be a reservoir for the virus. …highlights the need for further research into the reproductive implications of COVID-19… .”
www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Stop saying “post covid”. People are confusing the end of the public health emergency with the end of the pandemic.
The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.
If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.
The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.
If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.
Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities
www.bmj.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Stop saying “post covid”. People are confusing the end of the public health emergency with the end of the pandemic.
The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.
If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.
The pandemic is not over. “During COVID” is now.
If we want to end it, we need to first acknowledge this fact. Then mask up, clean the air & develop better vaccines & treatments.
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For those who thought Omicron was the "off ramp" to reopen schools and go back to work.
Kids and cardiac sequelae. Over a million in the study.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Kids and cardiac sequelae. Over a million in the study.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records - Nature Communications
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection affecting the cardiovascular system have been reported, but evidence in young people is limited. Here, the authors quantify the incidence of a range of outc...
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
For those who thought Omicron was the "off ramp" to reopen schools and go back to work.
Kids and cardiac sequelae. Over a million in the study.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Kids and cardiac sequelae. Over a million in the study.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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It's great to see these protests nationwide. Keep at it. Don't bow down, don't submit -- don't ever stop looking out for each other.
Great turn-out at the protests in Madison, inspiration from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social as per usual.
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's great to see these protests nationwide. Keep at it. Don't bow down, don't submit -- don't ever stop looking out for each other.
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People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer’s simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we’re out here causing a lot of good trouble.
April 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer’s simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we’re out here causing a lot of good trouble.
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The corporate coup is global.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
February 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The corporate coup is global.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A comprehensive and user-friendly guide to getting sick 🦠 (and getting others sick) less often, from @TRyanGregory 👇
t.co/dntOLJAulR
t.co/dntOLJAulR
https://tryangregory.substack.com/p/how-to-be-and-make-others-sick-less
t.co
February 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A comprehensive and user-friendly guide to getting sick 🦠 (and getting others sick) less often, from @TRyanGregory 👇
t.co/dntOLJAulR
t.co/dntOLJAulR
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🧵 Quackery thread:
Folks often view those taken in by the "wellness" mvmt. as foolish & gullible, suspicious of science, & (in important ways) different from who *we* are.
But, until now, those folks have also inc. many who are simply intimidated or frightened by the challenges of real treatment;
Folks often view those taken in by the "wellness" mvmt. as foolish & gullible, suspicious of science, & (in important ways) different from who *we* are.
But, until now, those folks have also inc. many who are simply intimidated or frightened by the challenges of real treatment;
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🧵 Quackery thread:
Folks often view those taken in by the "wellness" mvmt. as foolish & gullible, suspicious of science, & (in important ways) different from who *we* are.
But, until now, those folks have also inc. many who are simply intimidated or frightened by the challenges of real treatment;
Folks often view those taken in by the "wellness" mvmt. as foolish & gullible, suspicious of science, & (in important ways) different from who *we* are.
But, until now, those folks have also inc. many who are simply intimidated or frightened by the challenges of real treatment;
Exactly.
This is one of several studies re covid-induced brain/cognitive damage among university students. If you are concerned & thinking ‘someone should do something’…we ned to look in the mirror b/c that someone is you, just as it is me. We cannot accept this.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students
To date, 770 million people worldwide have contracted COVID-19, with many reporting long-term “brain fog”. Concerningly, young adults are both overrep…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Exactly.
🚨 COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students 🚨
Not a cold.
Not no big deal.
Not *just* a threat to the “vulnerable.”
This is brain damage.
Not a cold.
Not no big deal.
Not *just* a threat to the “vulnerable.”
This is brain damage.
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
🚨 COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students 🚨
Not a cold.
Not no big deal.
Not *just* a threat to the “vulnerable.”
This is brain damage.
Not a cold.
Not no big deal.
Not *just* a threat to the “vulnerable.”
This is brain damage.
6 year old can tell you alllll about the Kuiper Belt. I just asked him what he thinks about the Super Bowl.
“Is it, like, a giant bowl that people cook in or something?”
“Is it, like, a giant bowl that people cook in or something?”
February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
6 year old can tell you alllll about the Kuiper Belt. I just asked him what he thinks about the Super Bowl.
“Is it, like, a giant bowl that people cook in or something?”
“Is it, like, a giant bowl that people cook in or something?”
I do wonder if the average American realizes there’s an actual coup occurring. Or does that only happen in those other countries…?
February 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I do wonder if the average American realizes there’s an actual coup occurring. Or does that only happen in those other countries…?