We need clean in public places and we need protections for staff and patients—masking and clean air—and we need that *now*. It is not normal to be reinfected over and over with a new virus

We are never going to get safe staffing levels if we continue to bury our heads in the sand about what mass covid reinfections are doing to population level health!! Letting Covid rip means more demand on the healthcare system while taking nurses out with long Covid

Your kids are so lucky to have you!

I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.

I just do not understand how this has been allowed to continue. I wish more people cared because I think the only way we are going to get change is public pressure and lawsuits.

We at least had universal masking (with surgical masks) until 2023. Now we have nothing…and we wonder why nurses are out sick all the time

HCWs are developing Long Covid and leaving the workforce, which worsens working (and patient) conditions, and worsens access to healthcare. And patients are getting Covid in hospitals and dying.

Why should you care about this? Because hospitals are ignoring aerosol transmission, which leaves HCWs unprotected at work and patients unprotected when hospitalized

PPE policies for Covid + patients positioned N95s as something institutions recommended above and beyond what was needed, when in fact it was the minimum level of protection we all should have been afforded from day one

I should add that I’m in Canada, not the UK, but the situation seems identical everywhere

Policies have since been updated to remove the “do not use” bit but they now equate N95s and surgical masks, which are not even PPE. Most staff seem unaware of that though and so when they are masking, they are wearing surgical masks

It sucks to be #HighRiskCovid19 and so medically vulnerable like this, I will keep trying to be open about my accessibility and safety needs, and I hope others (especially and particularly healthcare workers) wear masks when and if they can so I can have a better quality of life

@ontarionurses.bsky.social

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If organized labour is to have any relevance in the era of #COVID, it must mobilize..."

But it didn't.

In fact, in 2025 there is little difference between the government position on #COVID & #LongCOVID, & the position of most Canadian unions.

Both continue to deny & ignore it.

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"This vacuum on the left – ranging from weakness to betrayal – is wind in the sails of those who wish to co-opt legitimate disaffection in service of a turn to authoritarian capitalism.

It’s not a stretch to say there is no left to speak of on the current political landscape.