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@Bob_Wachter @NewYorker @emmaogreen What the hell is a “public health hardliner”? If your job is in PH, you have a responsibility to the PUBLIC. Would you suggest that PH take a laissez-faire approach to water contamination? Food-borne illness? Indoor smoking? …actually, you probably would. #BringBackMasks

Large swathes of the Canadian electorate have yet to fully process how right wing Mark Carney really is

@ladycentrist @GraphicMatt @TorontoStar Removing speed cameras does nothing to improve traffic flow. You do that by improving public transit, improving priority signals for said transit, and incentivizing more carpooling.

@GraphicMatt @TorontoStar In important news - there's a noticeable improvement in traffic flow across the city.

My @TorontoStar column this week: Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya so. The data since Doug Ford banned speed cameras is definitive. Speeds are up significantly across the city as drivers seemingly aren’t worried about police enforcement. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

Mark Carney: "shut up, poors, your feelings are worthless to me"

Part of the reason many clinicians hesitate to engage with the possibility that Long Covid is highly prevalent is because medicine is still heavily anchored to what can be objectively measured, standardized, coded, and reimbursed. If there isn’t a definitive biomarker panel, a universally accepted diagnostic algorithm, or a clean clinical test result, many providers become reluctant to fully acknowledge the scale of the problem. I understand that instinct. Science requires rigor. I’m a scientist too. But science is also supposed to investigate signals before they become impossible to ignore. Right now, we have converging evidence across immunology, neurology, vascular biology, exercise physiology, imaging, and epidemiology suggesting that post-viral dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 is real, heterogeneous, and likely far more common than many institutions are comfortable admitting. We also have millions of patient narratives describing remarkably similar patterns of impairment following infection. Dismissing all of that simply because we lack a single gold-standard blood test is not skepticism. At some point, it becomes avoidance. Medicine has historically struggled with conditions that were initially difficult to quantify or mechanistically explain: ME/CFS, dysautonomia, concussion syndromes, autoimmune disorders, chronic pain conditions, even ulcers before Helicobacter pylori was accepted. Patients often suffer for years in the gap between “something is wrong” and “the system has decided it counts.” What makes this especially disturbing is that many patients aren’t just dealing with symptoms. They’re dealing with dismissal, minimization, gaslighting, loss of employment, fractured relationships, and physicians who implicitly treat the absence of a biomarker as evidence that nothing is happening. I have no answers but I’ve never seen so much enduring illness in my life. When students are sick, they’re now sick for months. The theme song for the era is an REM cover, “Everybody [Coughs]” and you’re just immune to the sound.

@RodEllard @corruptario You do know there was documented abused at day schools too, right?

@corruptario And the Carney’s shall be cursed for evermore! But the article refers to a “day school”. On the face of it, not a residential school. In other words just an ordinary school in a small NWT town in the 60s.

And his Dad ran a residential school in NWT. #FunFacts

@LabbyDogFarm @BarryHunt008 The fact that it's airborne is the much more logical answer.

@BarryHunt008 All on same ship. Studies have thrown doubt on person-to-person spread. Rodents on the ship would be the more logical answer

It looks more and more like MV Hondius ANDV outbreak was a super spreader event One person infected 8 to 10 others Very common with airborne pathogens

If you say the US has no interest in continuing war in Iran, and Trump is only doing it to serve Israel and the Gulf State tyrannies he loves and that enrich his family, you'll be called an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. But then Trump just comes out and says it himself:

So true.

@arijitchakrav No such thing as "post-covid"

Lol. CNN just used “calm mongering”

No surprise here. Explains why both the MPP and MP here in #tostpauls have refused to explicitly ask Carney to step in and stop Fords Billy Bishop takeover expansion.

Watching Jon get torched in the comments for being tone deaf and ignorant on infectious diseases and chronic illness is 🤌🏼💋

I need to add cruise ship bathrooms to the list of places that should have Auto UV installed in bathrooms Hospitals Airplanes Cruise Ships

@_kayCiam @mosesmasks Tf? This is like saying it’s okay to get into repeated car accidents because the car has airbags. Your immune system is not invincible and actually weakens after every significant infection (ie covid). Your immune system learns defences from vaccination not dangerous pathogens.

@mosesmasks It’s ok to get sick. You wouldn’t have an immune system if you didn’t. If you’re not immunocompromised, it’s ok.

"I haven't been sick in 2 years" - person who literally tweeted about being sick 6 months ago in December and tweeted that their kid was sick for two weeks straight in January (realizing now that they probably got their kid sick) But sure, you don't need a mask

@CP24 When are you going to stop platforming this minimizing dimwit?

Hantavirus outbreak will be over ‘sooner rather than later’ if ‘everyone does their job:’ expert cp24.com/local/toronto/…

It’s the brain damage from repeat, persistent COVID infections. Bad infrastructure means inefficient information processing. Impairments in sustained attention, retention, shifting, etc…short term memory is defused. The surface of delivery of information doesn’t matter. Then you’ve got teachers who can’t speak or think or remember what they’re doing…who get sick more often. Constant disruption during fall-winter. Subs come in and don’t know jack. And they’re impaired too. Parents are too fatigued to help. Most couldn’t do it if asked.

Many Canadian lawyers convicted of child sexual offences or disciplined for misconduct continue to practice law, the IJB has found. Even when law societies take action, penalties often fall short of what some lawyers call meaningful accountability. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/conduct-o…

@CoronaHeadsUp @iseeuliars So absolutely NO ONE wore respirators on that flight/kept their goddamn face holes closed.

KLM Flight 592 looking like a Hantavirus superspreader event

@CoronaHeadsUp @iseeuliars So absolutely NO ONE wore respirators on that flight/kept their goddamn face holes closed.

But it’s somehow more humane to risk infecting others, potentially landing them in hospital for severe illness or even risk death (⬆️40% fatality rate⚠️)? Tedros is an absolute moron.

Ils sont prêt à risquer la moitier de la population mondiale pour pas confiner quelques personnes 40 jours car « c’est inhumain » mdrrr vraiment n’importe quoi on est géré par des incapables mdrr