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Sphagnum Moss
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I agree that covid is year-round.This poster refers to the seasonal increases of flu & RSV & its audience is the person who might not yet know the risk of covid, but perhaps they will recognize the risk of winter viruses
BCCDC data on respiratory viruses as a graph of case counts. Levels increase during winter
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Have a special event? I drafted a poster to encourage friends to make it inclusive! While most people won't #MaskUp for themselves , they might understand the thought of masking up for others , especially during an ominous #H3N2 season
cartoon of masked people at an art exhibit with Can99 masks & air filters. "It's respiratory season! This space is inclusive for medically vulnerable people, wear a mask, turn on filters, open a window or door!
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Time to #MaskUp #N95 to protect ourselves from #influenza #H3N2 #covid19 #RSV
A drawing of a person in profile masked up against airborne pathogens
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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These are the #HPAI #H5N1 detection in the lower mainland #Vancouver . In the map, the pink/red dot represents wildlife. & the green are sediments that tested positive
map: showing HPAI cases with >20 clusters
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#H5N1 in a poultry farm located in Abbotsford BC 🇨🇦 looks like the 1st in the fall season in BC
inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-he...
Date detected October 14 2025 infected premises BCIP240 City of Abbotsford
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Got vaxxed recently too & none too soon. It's been raining covid at my school. I have multiple air filters in my room , mostly CR boxes & a little ikea filter that is just visible in upper right of the microsopy photo below
Microscope picture of a x section of small intestine stained pink . Beyond microscope view, a small white air filter
October 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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All the masked people at the Clean Air Festival are heros
A pop up cards felt pen cartoon of a masked person in a blue hat & red shirt with N95 mask. Behind them 2 people building a CF box & 2 people holding a box if masks. Words: Thank you for the gift of Clean Air
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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#CleanAir #RebelAlliance I'm so grateful for community donations so my students could build CR boxes this year... "I have friends everywhere" #Andor
A furnace filter backlit in front of a window with sunlight in my classroom, aranet4 reads 528ppm
July 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I wear an #N95 to teach &avoided symptomatic illness this year. You can tell from the student cartoon that its a fitted #mask . I also run 3 CR boxes & my CO2 levels are usually <700ppm. While I would prefer to be unmasked, I wear this to model community care.
Cartoon of a person in a pony tail with a mask beside a cat
July 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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"Is bird blood more similar to the blood of humans or fish? " A microscope lab comparing erythrocytes of different species. Open windows provide great ventilation & low CO2 levels
A box of humans blood smears beside an aranet4 reading 522ppm CO2 A whiteboard illustration showing human erythrocyte a microscope, a fish asking "is bird blood more similar to fish or human?" & a bird asking "Why?"
May 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A very quiet #corsirosenthalbox was made in #science class with an earlier version of the "Rowenta turbo silence" fan . It was a complex build with 3 furnace filters &foamcore. The materials were donated by the community & students like to turn this one on
A CR box with a First Nations design on the side
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Fun with a student made #corsirosenthalbox & an "earth" revolving around the sun...but the real earth goes counterclockwise! #Earthday
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Spring has sprung! & my classroom has great CO2 levels
A flask with a pink flower, an aranet4 reads 565 ppm & a book "Cities for People" by Jan Gehl
April 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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...Note that #novavax vaccine antigen doesn't contain the same 674-685 S1/S2 cleavage site as WT SARS2. It has a mutation: QQAQ , not RRAR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
" Linear diagram of the full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein showing the S1 and S2 subunits. Structural elements include a cleavable signal sequence (SS, white), N-terminal domain (NTD, dark blue), receptor binding domain (RBD, green), subdomains 1 and 2 (SD1/SD2, light blue), fusion peptide (FP, red), heptad repeat 1 (HR1, yellow), central helix (CH, light green), heptad repeat 2 (HR2, purple), transmembrane domain (TM, black), and cytoplasmic tail (CT, white). The native furin cleavage site was mutated (RRAR→QQAQ) to be protease resistant to generate"
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I teach nomenclature like it was a Chemistry Karate class: It doesn't matter what level belt you are, Practice makes perfect & peers can help each other as we learn in good #ventliation : 559ppm CO2 with 4 CR boxes & open windows during a #bced wave of #influenza
A cartoon of a person wearing a black belt beside the colours of Karate belts: White yellow orange green blue purple brown black. There is an aranet4 reading 559ppm & 3 compounds written down: Sodium sulfate, aluminum hydroxide and carbon tetrachloride
February 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I drew a #chemistry nomenclature cartoon today 🇨🇦
whiteboard drawing of Tr*mp saying "Be the 51st state!" & someone says " NO nitrogen monoxide"
February 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Give out some #CleanAir #Valentines ❤️ during #influenza season & save lives:
open a window, turn on an air filter, #WearAMask #bced
A red heart with the words : Happy Ventilation Day
February 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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...Another kiddo drew a cation & anion for me & I wrote the definitions & yet another student built a sword out of lego to help them focus during the lesson . CO2 levels 744ppm CO2 full class

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A red lego sword & an aranet4 reading 744ppm O2 Cartoon of a cation as a cat and an anion as an onion Notes say : When atoms give and receive electrons, they become ions. A cat on is an ion with a positive charge because they gave away electrons and an anion Is an ion with a negative charge because it received electrons
February 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I drew #Mendeleev today for my lesson on the origin of the #PeriodicTable & in my class, a kiddo knew how to read the words & spoke them out loud for us #science
A cartoon of Mendekeev saying "I play cards" in Russian
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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We examine *unknown* substances in a full #science class 13.7 C & I encourage kids to keep moving to stay warm in their winter jackets. Open windows. 665 ppm CO2
Small bottles of white powders & blue stuff & metal over a white board with the word "unknown" CO2 monitor reads 665 ppm & 13.7 C
February 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#bccdc graph showing a recent growth in unsubtyped & *unknown subtype* #InfluenzaA I wonder what % is tested for #H5N1

bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_...
Graph showing unsubtyped influenza A between Oct 2023 to present day & there's a big spike in the last week
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I ❤️ 662ppm CO2 in a cold #CleanAir classroom
Students make lego hearts & aranet4 reads 662ppm CO2 15C
February 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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My #bced students visited a museum
Sketch of Students in front of a dinosaur skeleton
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#Imagine #Community #MaskblocLA #Wildfires #LA
N95 on an edited Andy Warhol John lennon print
January 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM