Expat Repeat

A friend used to work in the telecom industry. She often mused at the odd fact that people were so accepting of huge losses in reliability of service when they switched from landlines to mobile phones. Perceived convenience over consistency and quality. Sounds like public health.

“The Toronto Board of Health passed a motion recommending that the Province of Ontario update the Ontario Building Code to incorporate ASHRAE Standard 241 and Guideline 44-2024… (1/2) ospe.on.ca/advocacy/a-maj…

@reesiepeacie 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

*NEW* AHS Update V049 (Of 2026!) - ICU - Not updated since March 24th- It’s been 1,375 Days since Danielle Smith said, “HEALTHCARE FIXED IN 90 DAYS!!” Highest number of closures seen in 2 years, More COVID Cases being reported & much more! /1

@broadwaybabyto Yes! These are the ones I use. They used to cost $45-$60 per case of 600, and now they're much less. amazon.ca/Medline-Indust…

@ExpatRepeat I don’t know what that is but I would happily take a look! Do you have a link by any chance?

This foot infection seems determined to break me. 10 day fever. Grocerymoney spent on medical honey & first aid supplies. My hand sliced open from cutting gauze. Now the medical tape has burned the skin on my toe. How? No idea. But it’s making salt water soaks much harder!

When everything has gone to 💩, lettuce try something else.

@lsthart Right?!?! Logic is lost.

They're doing the same thing as they did with Covid. (Telling people to wash their hands for an airborne pathogen.) Be sure to wash your apples and strawberries...even tho that won't actually remove cyclospora...

🎶”Burnt out ends of smokey days… memories.”

@saffronandsky ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Sometimes looking for friends as an adult, especially a bedbound one armed with only words and a screen, feels like wandering around the world, handing out small pieces of oneself, hoping to find the ones who will cherish. But most often people stare blankly or consume mindlessly, not realizing that a gift has been given; or, worse yet, perceive it as an annoyance (the dreaded oversharing). The treasures, in the rare instance we find them, are the ones who marvel at our gifts as we marvel at theirs. Friendships like mirrors that remind us how precious and beautiful we are in a world that has at best forgotten us and at worst despises us. Reflecting hidden aspects, soothing shadows, coaxing out bright laughter and sleeping desires. Reminding each other of what magical creatures we really are.

@yukonbrat867 Right?!?!

@ExpatRepeat They should just burn their own houses down, so they can toughen up. Suffering is good, actually.

Yes, there really are people in local mom groups saying that kids need to tough it out with wildfire smoke and strengthen their lungs. 😡 This is hitting me hard emotionally, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I feel like this will further the mass collective denial.

From a cohort study of 142 neonates born to women with SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy, "At one month, most infants had no medical concerns.. At 12 months, median ASQ and CSBS scores were above standardized cut-offs for development across all developmental domains.. At 22 months.., twenty-three (52%) infants presented with developmental impairment (score <85); 13 (30%) in motor, 17 (39%) in language, and 13 (30%) in cognitive domains. Nine (20%) infants were below cut-off for all three domains.. [In conclusion,] Developmental delay at 22 months may be identified among infants with in utero exposure to SARS-CoV-2, despite typical developmental progress at 12 months.. Of those with developmental diversity, language delay was most common." The target of Omicron is the next generation of human beings. 'The association of in utero SARS-CoV-2 exposure on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 12 and 22 months' nature.com/articles/s4137…

Gotta love the ominous-sounding headlines about every health condition other than... that. "Jet lag threatens to turn even a dream vacation into a slog. And with peak travel season underway, millions of people may have to contend with this disorienting condition." -AP

@Team2Jb Right?!?! The irreversible damage to those kids… 😭😭😭

@ExpatRepeat OMG that's not how lungs (or any other organs) work 🤬 Not all damage can be undone.

@DrJizo 😭😭😭Yeah, I guess that’s it. It hits me emotionally because it’s awful and I can still understand how wrong this is. 😭😭😭

@ExpatRepeat It’s hitting you emotionally because some people are willing to watch their own children slowly die so the social group can remain lazy & ‘comfortable’.

@Snailswithsails 🎯😩

@ExpatRepeat I think people are starting to collectively realize they've successfully ended the current era of humanity to die out slowly and painfully or quickly and young with lots of suffering beforehand

@J__Doh Right?! I mean I can't even begin to think of how to start engaging with that twisted mindset!

@ExpatRepeat In the same way they should get lung cancer at a young age to prepare for it later. It's so crazy that crazy is the only appropriate word for it

@nothxjstlooking ❤️❤️❤️😋

Mom & kitty arrived safely, just in time before more thunderstorms. We already have apples falling from one tree. Baked an apple sauce bread w/fallen apple diced in. Tart & yellow-green. They landed softly. Half rye, half wheat.

@AlterIvan1 @Rocket_Worm Aw thanks both of you! And I suppose that of all the things I could be feeling bad about, this is probably far down on the list. And hey, it’s summer! Who cares if his shirts are providing natural air conditioning!?!?

@Rocket_Worm @ExpatRepeat I agree with Giun, don't feel bad about it 🫂