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Quote tweeting so I can pin this. (Thanks Dr. Fisman.)

@Dan_GT2 @stardustnf @BarryHunt008 @JustinTrudeau @markhollandlib I can't take the mRNA vaccine, so they have not secured a "sufficient supply" for me if they are not going to order Novavax.

@stardustnf @BarryHunt008 @JustinTrudeau @markhollandlib Canada has secured a “sufficient supply” of COVID-19 vaccines to meet provincial and territorial requirements for the fall and winter

Dear .@JustinTrudeau .@markhollandlib Can you claim travel expenses to the U.S. to get Novavax vaccine as a health cost deduction on your Canadian income taxes? 🇨🇦

@DanielleRa60149 @sandi89701936 @alandrummond2 As an educator, you should know that a sample size of one doesn't make them right.

@I_never_guess @sandi89701936 @alandrummond2 I've spent a GREAT deal of time in hospital between the beginning of 2020 and now. Spent days and nights in an N95 with unvaxed staff espousing conspiracy theories. Their right. Have never tested+ despite being vulnerable and placed in areas with CV+ pts.

If they were "loyal" they would have supported their clinical team, their hospital and their patients. Instead, they left fewer of us to do the heavy lifting and face the danger

@barbi10booth @alandrummond2 Have you heard of survivorship bias?Just because it seemed like a cold for you doesn't mean it was true for millions of others, many of whom died. Many, many of your fellow HCWs sufferer greatly.

@DanielleRa60149 @sandi89701936 @alandrummond2 Go ahead and do you. Just don't dign up to be a healthcare worker who knows from the start that they will have to obey mandates to keep their jobs that the general population will not.

@sandi89701936 @alandrummond2 It's lovely having a convo with the unenlightened. You do you and I will continue to do me. As an educator, I don't need to be lectured on liberalism.

@Wolf_314159 @dont_b_crazy @AshleyFoxRPN @alandrummond2 If you're so great at science and stats, then you should know how worthless anecdotal evidence is...

@dont_b_crazy @AshleyFoxRPN @alandrummond2 I personally know 4 people in real life who had an adverse reaction. One had to be hospitalized, and another died. I know zero people who died of covid. This is my own lived experience.

Can you really lift people out of poverty with an additional $6.66 a day? Canada’s disabled advocates are angry about the 2024 federal budget Canada Disability Benefit. ⁦@rachaiello⁩ ⁦@CTVNews⁩ ctvnews.ca/politics/6-66-…

@nejsnave @influenya How long are people going to wait for that and how many more will be eligible? It's far too early to call anything a win when people don't know where their next meal is coming from. I'm sorry, but for people scared for their lives, there's no glass half full.

@I_never_guess @influenya The DTC is being expanded so more ppl are eligible; $300 million and $40 million a year ongoing separately allocated for that.

So ... I know a lot of people are very disappointed with the #CDB budget allocation. I have a few comments. I am not a person living in poverty so take them with the appropriate grains of salt. - $2400 a year is not adequate. But it is material. That's a phone bill covered, that's more food, that's holiday gifts and meals. We see people on benefits are about $800/month short and this gets people 1/4 of the way there. This will make a difference to people. And the amounts are still open to adjustment. A max of $400/mo is a better starting point, and doubling to $2 billion a year isn't going to be a big deal. So how quickly can we get there, what's the next increase, what's the path out of poverty are all conversations that can happen next. It will not lift people out of poverty. But it will be sellable and alleviate pressure. With other programs coming like the dental benefit and pharmacare, there is some real relief coming. - We HAVE TO CELEBRATE WINS. Today was a win. I understand it's a disappointing win, but it's a win nonetheless, and a win we can work with. Many people said this would never get funded. Many people told me the football would get pulled away again. That did not happen, and we need to do three things: 1. acknowledge that progress has been made, and *celebrate the launch of a new federal benefit in Canada that will help people for generations* 2. detail its shortcomings and other legislative issues and 3. Get to work getting them addressed, building relationships and partnerships provincially and federally. - DTC is intended as an expedient vehicle, not an obstacle. We can ask for ways to streamline; for example, if you've recently been approved provincially, it shouldn't be necessary to go through it again, can ppl who have been on ODSP etc be grandfathered in, what changes need to be made to DTC for this to be viable. - the important thing is the vehicle is now there and funded. There are now many ways we can push - we need to make a list of changes we want and start to press the provincial and federal governments on them. Clawbacks. DTC. Other asks (connections to housing funds, guaranteed housing for PWD to combat landlord prejudice) - it's really important people don't think of this as a finished product. There is much more that can be done. As someone in government said to me today "it's a good start." It is a start. And there's a timer now. Getting things to move in federal politics can be interminable. The hardest stuff is done and now we figure out how most effectively to press on key things we want changed and priorities. - government does not move quickly on big spendy pieces like this but once it is in place we have so much more ability to lobby. - you do not have to love and trust government and its policies to work with them. It is not a betrayal of your principles. Working with them will get you much better results. - it's really disappointing to have had two essentially non-responsive Ministers online for a community that really only exists online. And disappointing that that is not understood and lack of communication has broken trust with this Minister again. It's critical the people who represent this community have a deep understanding of what it means to be disabled in 2023 and that the community feels it can converse and have a relationship with the Minister. The onus is on her to build that. Just some initial thoughts. Happy to entertain even the most intense responses and feelings and questions.

@nejsnave @influenya The vast majority of disabled people in Canada do not qualify for the DTC. The wording for eligibility makes it extremely difficult to qualify (deliberately). Most people living in poverty will receive no assistance at all from this.

@influenya No. But you need to get the DTC to get the benefit.

@TheShoeLady33 @alandrummond2 You do know that he's actually referring to DTC companies who claim to assist disabled people in accessing the DTC and in return rip off disabled people by keeping a portion of the money for themselves right?

@alandrummond2 Who Suffers? The Disabled Patients We get it you don't like Filling out Disability Forms, NOBODY enjoys being humiliated by Both a Physician and Insurance Company when they are Extremely sick, financially stressed and worried how they will survive an illness Insurance Premiums

Paper work and medical forms - the bane of my existence. 2 New irritants: 1) Audiology forms -please sign here to authorize hearing aids and fax it to us ASAP. (Feels like I'm shilling for orthotics for the chiropractors and no discussion of any compensation for the multitudes)

An American bottled water giant, Blue Triton, has permission to extract and sell billions of litres of precious groundwater in Canada.💧🚰 Take Action Now and become a Public Water Champion: #action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canadians.org/nowatertowaste… @CanadiansOrg #NoWaterToWaste

The Federal government is taking submissions for the 2024 budget. The Canada Disability Benefit needs to be budgeted to address the disability poverty crisis. Send a message to fund the CDB in the 2024 Budget! act.leadnow.ca/cdb-ett-2024bu…

👉Air filters on wards remove almost all airborne Covid virus. 1/

@eatonhamilton @EmmMacfarlane Okay. Good to know that you can make that judgement while literally knowing nothing about me. But I'm sure policing the way I choose to approach people on the other side of the argument is the way to go here.

@sameo416 @TRyanGregory Immunity debt caused by the 10 - 20 percent of us still wearing respirators is bleeding over into the general population. WE are the cause of all illness. So selfish of us. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I'm sure I won't need any of these old threads about RSV and flu from last year, now that immunity debt has been repaid. Right?

I’m making out with the inside of my mask in this photo. Because I love it.

MY DUDE YOU ARE LITERALLY IN CHARGE Your government could pass legislation that would obviate the need for food banks You choose not to

A doctor friend tried to doctorsplain to my wife that covid doesn’t affect the heart and blood vessels lol archive.ph/2023.11.07-165…

@sameo416 @ZiadFazel @jvipondmd @GosiaGasperoPhD Are you saying that (gasp) "Curtain Protocols" don't work? (gasp)

43 patients infected in 1 hospital unit in 1 week, w healthcare workers in flat masks. If COVID is contact/droplet spread, how did patients mix so much? Or it’s truly airborne, able to spread like this, and Infection Prevention is wrong. @jvipondmd @GosiaGasperoPhD @sameo416

@EarwQrm @broadwaybabyto @EmJayNabuurs Brad in the 1800s: frail people are vulnerable to dirty water so, seriously, what are you implying society should do?

@broadwaybabyto @EmJayNabuurs What are you proposing be done? Are you aware that immuno-compromised people are also susceptible to any type of illness? That isn't specific to COVID. So, seriously, what are you implying that society should do?

#Negligence Nothing else.

COVID transmission is approximately 99.99% airborne & 0.01% fomites & large droplets. Even CDC quotes a 10,000 to 1 risk. Treating these 3 modes of transmission as equal is disinformation. Treating airborne as the 3rd option of three is criminal. And before anyone jumps up & down about exact numbers traced to any one particular study, stop. Give your head a shake. Order of magnitude comparison of scale plays an essential role in prioritization for action & protection. Yes, your actual mileage will vary, but being wrong by more than 2 decimal places & missing the forest for the trees does the world a great disservice. EVs are 10X less expensive to operate than gas powered vehicles. Arguing for or against exact comparisons between models, driving conditions, etc is moot. Same with modes of transmission.