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Somehow this got buried in the thread, but it's important.
moriartylab.bsky.social Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · Aug 17
In 2022, there was a profound need for reliable COVID data in Canada, as reporting withered.

This although excess deaths in Canada in 2022 were nearly as high as Canadian deaths in all 5 years of WWII combined.
August 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.
Rick Steves Classroom Europe
Rick Steves Classroom Europe® is a free resource allowing teachers to share the best of European art, history, and culture with their students and fellow educators.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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theprogressreport.ca
The ministry's target of of 1500 new or newly-subsidized affordable housing units for 2024 was already unambitious—and the government didn't even hit 60% of it.
Alberta gov't fell short of its affordable housing goal last year: annual report | CBC News
The provincial government completed fewer new or refurbished affordable housing units last year than the previous three years, according to figures in the Seniors, Community and Social Services Minist...
www.cbc.ca
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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nukit.bsky.social
The Nukit Lantern 222nm Far-UVC disinfection lamp is back in stock for US and International sales.

nukit222.com/products/nuk...

Far-UVC is effective against all airborne and surface pathogens.

Extensive Third Party Testing- effective, eye and skin safe, no ozone.

Reposts are appreciated🙏🏻
July 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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adamwong.bsky.social
⏰Save 10% on ALL Airfanta products for 4 days only (July 8–11)! Shop:
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AirFanta air purifiers
Official website of AirFanta air purifiers.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
What are the odds this July’s Mediterranean heat is natural?
About 1 in a billion!
It's the most extreme Mediterannean heatwave on record, for this time of year. This is a thread, digging deep, adding context, so follow along… 1/
July 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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jeffgilchrist.bsky.social
Understanding Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) & Wildfire Smoke

Wildfire smoke consists of toxic gases and particulate matter (PM) when breathed in gets into our lungs, bloodstream, and even our brain. 🧪🧵1/
#IAQ #IndoorAirQuality #wildfire #smoke #AQI #AQHI #Canada
Bar chart of Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) - Equivalent # Cigarettes after Exposure ranging from 0.5 cigarettes after 8 hours exposure at AQHI level 3 to 0.9 cigarettes at level 6 and 1.5 at level 10. Bar chart of Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) - Equivalent # Cigarettes after Exposure ranging from 0.5 cigarettes after 8 hours exposure at AQHI level 3 to 0.9 cigarettes at level 6 and 1.5 at level 10.
June 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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moriartylab.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 12-25, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, BC, CAN, MB, North, ON, QC
HIGH: NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 151 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Apr 12-25, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: 11.0 - VERY HIGH Alberta: 11.3 - VERY HIGH British Columbia: 10.2 - VERY HIGH Manitoba: 10.4 - VERY HIGH New Brunswick: 8.7 - HIGH Newfoundland and Labrador: 8.5 - HIGH North: 10.7 - VERY HIGH Nova Scotia: 8.9 - HIGH Ontario: 12.8 - VERY HIGH Prince Edward Island: 9.1 - HIGH Quebec: 10.9 - VERY HIGH Saskatchewan: 9.9 - HIGH A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."
April 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Reminder: If you're a Canadian snowbird who's been in the US for more than 30 days, you need to immediately register your presence here, or you risk criminal charges

www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
Canadians required to register with U.S. government if in country at least 30 days | CBC News
Beginning Friday, Canadians over the age of 14 who will be in the United States for 30 days or longer will have to register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Trump administration say...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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maosbot.bsky.social
Long Covid feels like a hex. Your body and brain are wrong, in different ways on different days, unpredictable and unsettling. On the good days, you doubt yourself; on the bad, you doubt everything.
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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maosbot.bsky.social
When I got Long Covid, I was 38 and healthy. If you are anything like I was then, it is hard to understand how bad Long Covid is. I think that we all have an instinct to just… look away. But, please, it is important that you look. #LongCovidAwarenessDay
The image shows a person standing in what appears to be a modern convenience store or small market. They're wearing a light blue button-up shirt and yellow pants, with sunglasses tucked into their shirt collar. They're positioned next to a candy display section clearly labeled "CANDY" with various confectionery items on shelves. The wall behind them has white subway tiles with orange text that reads something about "NO CHECKOUT" and "WALK OUT SHOPPING," suggesting this might be an automated store where customers can take items and leave without traditional checkout.
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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It is increasingly getting difficult for the average person to discern good information from bad. When we focus more on Dr Henry’s tone vs accuracy, we are doing public health a disservice.

The sheer volume of bad information coming from Dr Henry, a senior public health leader, is unacceptable.
March 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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carrietait.bsky.social
SCOOP: AB Health Minister Adriana LaGrange stripped Alberta Health Services of power to negotiate after its then-CEO allegedly refused to sign pricey deals
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
Alberta Minister stripped health agency of power to negotiate private surgical contracts, document shows
Letter alleges government eroded ex-CEO’s authority to negotiate deals
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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carrietait.bsky.social
When everyone was looking at the USA, Alberta quietly scrapped a series of ministerial orders that banned coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #cndpoli #abpoli
Alberta rescinds coal development ban for foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Energy Minister Brian Jean said in a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator that he was rescinding ministerial orders which directed the agency to suspend approvals and refuse new applications for coa...
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The healthcare crisis is so 🤬 predictable. We can see this stuff coming a mile away, but no one does anything because it's embarrassing to senior people to admit they've wrecked the systems they are responsible for.

You can't just leech off frontline HCW forever.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Doctors of BC calling for review after Langley ER physician’s death
The death of a beloved Langley emergency physician is sending shockwaves through B.C.’s medical community and prompting the Doctors of BC to call for a review into the circumstances around her passing...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Current EPA gov official site in US says covid is airborne!! www.epa.gov/indoor-air-q...
Science and Technical Resources related to Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19) | US EPA
Other science resources related to indoor air quality and coronavirus (COVID-19) from National Academies, CDC, and others.
www.epa.gov
January 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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joeoliver.bsky.social
Your child is not sick from lack of exposure to sickness. They do not have immunity debt. Your child born after lockdowns does not have intergenerational immunity debt. The immunity debt that your child’s mother never had was not passed on to them via her mitochondria…
sabivm.bsky.social Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · Jan 12
A new longitudinal cohort study found that children who were sick more often in early childhood were more likely to continue being sick in later childhood with more moderate to severe infections and require more antibiotic therapies.
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Early childhood infections do NOT strengthen your immune system...they only make you sicker throughout childhood Data from a new study unambiquous SCIENCE
January 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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a-dobbie11.bsky.social
LAD heart attack.
4 000+ troponin. Mild cardiac muscle damage. Will be on meds for life now.
Heart may heal, but I will never play hockey again.
I'm grateful I'm alive, and I will find a new normal.
Was this preventable?
Yes.
We need real Long COVID diagnostic & treatment strategies now.
January 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
I saw an expert saying we learned nothing from the pandemic. I would differ. I learned that Public Health is resistant to new scientific evidence, is heavily politicized, and will cave under economic and public pressure . Also, the precautionary principle was and is largely ignored.
January 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
Turns out basic scientific rigour wasn't enough at JAMA Pediatrics. They buried our letter behind the paywall (vs original open-access paper) and 👉altered our title after we approved final proofs, without telling us👈, obscuring that it was critical at all. Altered (L) vs corrected (R).
Letters COMMENT & RESPONSE Definitional and Methodological Study of Pediatric Post–COVID-19 Condition To the Editor The Research Letter by Hahn et al1 draws an invalid conclusion that the incidence of post–COVID-19 condition (PCC), as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is strikingly low in children. The authors cite an informal summary definition of PCC in their Introduction, then in the Methods section change the definition’s symptom time frame from after 3 months postinfection to within 3 months. The formal WHO definition is concerned with symptoms after 3 months,2 meaning the research did not study PCC as cited and cannot draw conclusions about PCC. The authors’ methods stray even further from the WHO PCC definition, which specifies that symptoms may “fluctuate or relapse over time.”2 Yet, the authors exclude hundreds of children who had 0 to 6 weeks of acute COVID-19 symptoms before initial symptom resolution. This discounts the possibility of symptom relapse, an established clinical feature of PCC.3 An arbitrary criterion of 4 asymptomatic weeks is used to declare 13 children’s symptoms resolved. While there is a more recent WHO pediatric PCC definition, this was not studied, and it also clearly specifies that symptoms can fluctuate and relapse. The authors report on only 6 respiratory-type symptoms: rhinitis, sore throat, headache, cough, fever, and fatigue. WHO definitions and an extensive body of PCC research identify multiple pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurological, and other symptoms beyond the respiratory ones that often characterize the acute COVID-19 phase.2 While the authors claim the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology reporting guideline was followed, important information is absent—particularly the instructions and lists of symptoms to report that were provided to parents. The authors do not report instructing parents to assess the full range of potential PCC symptoms. Given public understanding of CO… Definitional and Methodological Errors in Pediatric Post–COVID-19 Condition Research Letter To the Editor The Research Letter by Hahn et al1 draws an invalid conclusion that the incidence of post–COVID-19 condition (PCC), as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is strikingly low in children. The authors cite an informal summary definition of PCC in their Introduction, then in the Methods section change the definition’s symptom time frame from after 3 months postinfection to within 3 months. The formal WHO definition is concerned with symptoms after 3 months,2 meaning the research did not study PCC as cited and cannot draw conclusions about PCC. The authors’ methods stray even further from the WHO PCC definition, which specifies that symptoms may “fluctuate or relapse over time.”2 Yet, the authors exclude hundreds of children who had 0 to 6 weeks of acute COVID-19 symptoms before initial symptom resolution. This discounts the possibility of symptom relapse, an established clinical feature of PCC.3 An arbitrary criterion of 4 asymptomatic weeks is used to declare 13 children’s symptoms resolved. While there is a more recent WHO pediatric PCC definition, this was not studied, and it also clearly specifies that symptoms can fluctuate and relapse. The authors report on only 6 respiratory-type symptoms: rhinitis, sore throat, headache, cough, fever, and fatigue. WHO definitions and an extensive body of PCC research identify multiple pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurological, and other symptoms beyond the respiratory ones that often characterize the acute COVID-19 phase.2 While the authors claim the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology reporting guideline was followed, important information is absent—particularly the instructions and lists of symptoms to report that were provided to parents. The authors do not report instructing parents to assess the full range of potential PCC symptoms. Given public understanding of COVID-19 duri…
December 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
🧵An example of the shenanigans and junk science accepted in medical journals.

In September 2023, JAMA Pediatrics published a ludicrously bad paper (quasi-retracted after much effort) claiming long COVID is "strikingly rare" in kids, supposedly vs the WHO definition.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
RETRACTED: Post–COVID-19 Condition in Children
This cohort study assesses the parent-reported incidence and resolution of post–COVID-19 symptoms among children aged 8 to 13 years.
jamanetwork.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM