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Does anyone know of any decently priced 1bd or bach/studio apartments in Toronto?

11 second master class on how to respond to any stupid question

My mother in law was in a TB sanitarium for two years as a child in Sask, Canada. She was away from her whole family for that length of time. Six weeks is a nothing burger compared to what my MIL went thru. Seven years old and alone in a hospital. Her family too poor to travel.

People talking about a six week quarantine being long for a quarantine without seeming to understand the origin of the word quarantine.

We are not post Covid. That’s why these last few years have been so awful. That’s why there’s record sickness. That’s why people are dying at younger ages. That’s why you feel tired and crappy all the time. Denial doesn’t work. Covid never went away.

I don’t feel safe in queer spaces that have no regard for disabled queer people. Tired of disabled folks being treated as an afterthought. You can’t preach community care and leave us out of the conversation!

This genre of tweet is just tedious now. Always the same script: Fearful / Living in fear ✅ Mental health ✅ Let me break it down. I haven't been sick since 2019. I like not being sick. Wearing FFP2 dramatically reduces my chance of getting sick. Therefore I mask. The end.

The excess deaths look horrific in this graph & it's worse than at 1st glance. Rather than a linear extrapolation (dashed line), expected deaths in later years should get lower b/c of so many early-pandemic deaths ("harvesting"). 👇This is an underestimate. 😬 #StillDying

If you can ignore Covid why can’t you ignore the mask?

"You wearing a mask is insane. I keep waiting for you to come to your senses." This is not a normal thing to say to someone. Let people do what they want. Their body, their choice

it’s funny that folks are bringing up COV1D again. now that the brunch tastes bitter, the hangouts feel hollow, that empathy is a delicacy and indifference is a feast in the observations of their lives. they still can’t help but refer to it in the past tense tho…

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

The more I learn about the history of ME/CFS and the pushback against PPE from public health, the more infuriating it is: We know “public health experts” don’t understood airborne disease transmission. They don’t care either. They’re institutional gatekeepers with credentials.

Otherwise why is my sacrifice and the sacrifice of allllll the other ppl who’ve “fallen by the wayside” in order to “let covid rip” even worth it? Yall aren’t even having fun ? Can we please just get some clean air legislation and be serious about eliminating airborne disease

I just think you should have to pick one. You want to do like “back to normal” is worth it and long covid doesn’t exist that’s FINE, go DO THAT, but then stop complaining about how bad life has been since 2020. Like just shut the fuck up & go enjoy getting exactly what you wanted

Like I’m not even gonna argue w you anymore lol, fine. Covid is over, everything is just magically worse somehow and everyone around you is tired and won’t go out and has mysterious health problems and society is meaner and everywhere is understaffed and homelessness is up and…

@idobadtakes society broke itself by trying to pretend the pandemic away