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The government disables you, culture does the rest.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The government disables you, culture does the rest.
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The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.
Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms and can affect anyone, no matter your age or other health conditions. Learn more, and prevent #LongCOVID by preventing COVID-19!
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.
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We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
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November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
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We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
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We really need a functional, trustworthy public health system. The kind of org that'd be training people on how and when to use respiratory protection and air cleaning to protect against aerosol transmission of disease now, rather than treating their budgets as PR slush funds to bury their mistakes.
People in British Columbia are now saying only Asian people can get bird flu. There is no end to the depravity in this ostrich thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
We really need a functional, trustworthy public health system. The kind of org that'd be training people on how and when to use respiratory protection and air cleaning to protect against aerosol transmission of disease now, rather than treating their budgets as PR slush funds to bury their mistakes.
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I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating.
Children are meant to be cared for by adults.
If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.
They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
Children are meant to be cared for by adults.
If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.
They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating.
Children are meant to be cared for by adults.
If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.
They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
Children are meant to be cared for by adults.
If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.
They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
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It doesn't have to be this way. This is the time of year the minimizers come out & tell us we should normalize our kids being sick 8+ times a year
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It doesn't have to be this way. This is the time of year the minimizers come out & tell us we should normalize our kids being sick 8+ times a year
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/h...
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The damage done by public health and infection control docs who make up explanations so they can appear knowledgeable to the public has been immense. From "COVID doesn't transmit in schools" to "immunity debt" to "kids don't get #longCOVID", they unquestionably bring the profession into disrepute.
1. Rather than, 'Two of the worst winter flu seasons of the past decade have been seen in the last three years, something partly attributed to the *bounce-back of the virus after Covid restrictions were lifted combined with immunity being low*'...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK facing long, tough flu season, NHS chiefs warn
Vulnerable urged to come forward for flu jab quickly as virus has come early this year.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The damage done by public health and infection control docs who make up explanations so they can appear knowledgeable to the public has been immense. From "COVID doesn't transmit in schools" to "immunity debt" to "kids don't get #longCOVID", they unquestionably bring the profession into disrepute.
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We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
I'll try hanging a bit of a branch off the main thread here breaking out more information from the NASEM long COVID report for those who need it. Annex Tables 3-1 through 3-13 go through selected long COVID impacts, and are organized by body system: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.
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Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?
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SARS-CoV-2 isn’t just a respiratory virus. Its neurological and immunological consequences are real, measurable, and ongoing.
It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.
It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
SARS-CoV-2 isn’t just a respiratory virus. Its neurological and immunological consequences are real, measurable, and ongoing.
It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.
It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.
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The way the constant effort to erase COVID is such a unifying force for bad people in powerful positions, no matter their nominal political affiliation, highlights the class aspect of COVID.
The people at the top are letting the people at the bottom die, just to save face.
The people at the top are letting the people at the bottom die, just to save face.
Alberta pharmacies seeing long wait times for COVID-19 shots with limited vaccines.
Smith shows her plan for reducing physician wait times by killing Albertans with COVID
Smith shows her plan for reducing physician wait times by killing Albertans with COVID
Alberta pharmacies seeing long wait times for COVID-19 shots with limited vaccines
With a surge of people looking to get their COVID-19 shots, an Edmonton pharmacist says long wait times to get the vaccine through public immunization clinics are impacting pharmacies.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The way the constant effort to erase COVID is such a unifying force for bad people in powerful positions, no matter their nominal political affiliation, highlights the class aspect of COVID.
The people at the top are letting the people at the bottom die, just to save face.
The people at the top are letting the people at the bottom die, just to save face.
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CBC finally reacted - a day late and a dollar short - sticking a little correction notice on a year-old web story that no one will ever read.
How many kids 👉today👈 are suffering with undiagnosed #longCOVID because of this specific failure, and CBC's disregard for the need to correct it?
How many kids 👉today👈 are suffering with undiagnosed #longCOVID because of this specific failure, and CBC's disregard for the need to correct it?
Incidence of long COVID 'strikingly low' in children, Alberta researchers find | CBC News
"It's reassuring that in our study we found that most kids resolve symptoms within two weeks," said lead author Lyndsey Hahn, a postdoctoral fellow in the pediatrics department of the University of Al...
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
CBC finally reacted - a day late and a dollar short - sticking a little correction notice on a year-old web story that no one will ever read.
How many kids 👉today👈 are suffering with undiagnosed #longCOVID because of this specific failure, and CBC's disregard for the need to correct it?
How many kids 👉today👈 are suffering with undiagnosed #longCOVID because of this specific failure, and CBC's disregard for the need to correct it?
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but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it.
like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo.
it can only follow.
but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it.
like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo.
it can only follow.
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it.
like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo.
it can only follow.
but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it.
like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo.
it can only follow.
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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
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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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[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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Covid impacts - Swiss Re, a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk by forecasting future life expectancy trends, pegged that number of excess deaths at two per cent above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Covid impacts - Swiss Re, a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk by forecasting future life expectancy trends, pegged that number of excess deaths at two per cent above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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I still believe Canada can lead on this.
We need national standards.
'The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.'
We need national standards.
'The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.'
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I still believe Canada can lead on this.
We need national standards.
'The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.'
We need national standards.
'The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.'
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Note that 25 million deaths ago, transdisciplinary experts warned the arrogant 🤬ups in public health and infection control leadership who make public health policy that COVID is airborne - and were mocked and ignored, and drowned out by taxpayer-funded public health budgets used as PR slush funds.
Happy International Women's Day!
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Note that 25 million deaths ago, transdisciplinary experts warned the arrogant 🤬ups in public health and infection control leadership who make public health policy that COVID is airborne - and were mocked and ignored, and drowned out by taxpayer-funded public health budgets used as PR slush funds.
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If we treated police like we're currently treating universities, we could require the police to undertake revenue-raising efforts (like increase traffic enforcement) to compensate for a lack of funding. (Instead, we keep increasing police budgets while hospitals and universities starve).
Yes, well, police across Ontario significantly reduced enforcing speed offences (and traffic offences writ large) specifically on the theory that cameras could do the job better.
So, this should be no surprise.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
So, this should be no surprise.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
Doug Ford’s speed camera ban could leave spots in Toronto without anti-speeding measures for years, city says
School and other safety zones in Toronto that are about to lose their speed cameras could be left without provincially funded traffic-calming infrastructure for months — or even years.
www.thestar.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If we treated police like we're currently treating universities, we could require the police to undertake revenue-raising efforts (like increase traffic enforcement) to compensate for a lack of funding. (Instead, we keep increasing police budgets while hospitals and universities starve).
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“Instead of considering that a new SARS virus might have negative impacts on children’s health, the media propped up the anti-vaccine myth of “immunity debt,” claiming that non-pharmaceutical interventions from 2020 damaged children’s immune systems…” #COVID
🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System?
A compilation of 45+ research studies showing the potential harms of COVID-19 on the immune system. Finally, we can put absurd claims of "immunity debt" to rest.
👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
A compilation of 45+ research studies showing the potential harms of COVID-19 on the immune system. Finally, we can put absurd claims of "immunity debt" to rest.
👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System?
A Compilation of Medical Research (45+ Studies)
www.panaccindex.info
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Instead of considering that a new SARS virus might have negative impacts on children’s health, the media propped up the anti-vaccine myth of “immunity debt,” claiming that non-pharmaceutical interventions from 2020 damaged children’s immune systems…” #COVID
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Ontario has stopped hosting the report of the SARS Commission. It looks like it is still available via archive-it, but this is a reminder of how vulnerable digital records that embarrass powerful people can be.
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
Session Verification
wayback.archive-it.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ontario has stopped hosting the report of the SARS Commission. It looks like it is still available via archive-it, but this is a reminder of how vulnerable digital records that embarrass powerful people can be.
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...
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Our barrister Sangeetha Iengar questions Mark Drakeford - Former 1st Minister of Wales
Q - Would you agree, and I think it follows that from the end of 2020 onwards - the impact of Long COVID on children should have been factored into the Welsh Governments pandemic response?
#Wales #COVIDInquiry
Q - Would you agree, and I think it follows that from the end of 2020 onwards - the impact of Long COVID on children should have been factored into the Welsh Governments pandemic response?
#Wales #COVIDInquiry
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Our barrister Sangeetha Iengar questions Mark Drakeford - Former 1st Minister of Wales
Q - Would you agree, and I think it follows that from the end of 2020 onwards - the impact of Long COVID on children should have been factored into the Welsh Governments pandemic response?
#Wales #COVIDInquiry
Q - Would you agree, and I think it follows that from the end of 2020 onwards - the impact of Long COVID on children should have been factored into the Welsh Governments pandemic response?
#Wales #COVIDInquiry
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It's worth the short listen to Dr @mark-ungrin.bsky.social explain this poster from @longcovidweb.bsky.social symposium.
@ipaccanada.bsky.social & Cdn Pediatrics have a lot to answer for. The damage from repeat COVID to our children is profound & will only worsen.
@ipaccanada.bsky.social & Cdn Pediatrics have a lot to answer for. The damage from repeat COVID to our children is profound & will only worsen.
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 5:35 PM
It's worth the short listen to Dr @mark-ungrin.bsky.social explain this poster from @longcovidweb.bsky.social symposium.
@ipaccanada.bsky.social & Cdn Pediatrics have a lot to answer for. The damage from repeat COVID to our children is profound & will only worsen.
@ipaccanada.bsky.social & Cdn Pediatrics have a lot to answer for. The damage from repeat COVID to our children is profound & will only worsen.
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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 5:05 PM
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...
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Another example of improperly funded healthcare. We need fair taxation for all so we can go back to the way things used to be.
Our politicians need to be held legally liable for their decisions, as a dr or engineer would be.
Politics should not play apart in something so critical to everyone.
Our politicians need to be held legally liable for their decisions, as a dr or engineer would be.
Politics should not play apart in something so critical to everyone.
October 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Another example of improperly funded healthcare. We need fair taxation for all so we can go back to the way things used to be.
Our politicians need to be held legally liable for their decisions, as a dr or engineer would be.
Politics should not play apart in something so critical to everyone.
Our politicians need to be held legally liable for their decisions, as a dr or engineer would be.
Politics should not play apart in something so critical to everyone.
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This is why you advocate. Denialists and grifters be damned.
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is why you advocate. Denialists and grifters be damned.