Patrick Lam (@[email protected])

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Patrick Lam (@va2lam@mastodon.nz)

Patrick Lam (@[email protected])

@va2lam

Professing software engineering for the University of Waterloo. Wish I was still in NZ. Former Director of the Software Engineering Program.

University of Waterloo Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Patrick Lam (@va2lam@mastodon.nz)
@AmandaKvalsvig A lesson that NZ used to know! Black Flu 1918 by Geoffrey Rice mentions open air classrooms designed in response to the flu.
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Amanda Kvalsvig
Amanda Kvalsvig@AmandaKvalsvig·
This is looking like a generational impact. NZ already has a huge problem with Group A Strep (GAS) causing rheumatic fever, & high rates of many other infections. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by learning lessons from elsewhere and keeping our children safe. 5/5
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Amanda Kvalsvig
Amanda Kvalsvig@AmandaKvalsvig·
V good thread from @jeffgilchrist, highly relevant for Aotearoa NZ. Why? 1. SARS2 has well-documented impacts on the immune system 2. Places where children have been exposed to multiple Covid waves are seeing altered epidemiology of familiar child infections (see thread) And...1/
Jeff Gilchrist@jeffgilchrist

Children dying from Strep throat and other immune consequences This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children are dying from Strep A bacterial infections. This long thread looks at what might be going on.🧵1/

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Good masking at SPLASH 2022 in Auckland. First conference in three years.
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@TaliaRinger Haha I have some post tournament photos that are kind of explicit. Not going to SPLASH eh? Am going to head to judo practice on Wednesday night in Auckland.
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Talia Ringer 🕊🪬@TaliaRinger·
No fracture! Yay! I can do Judo again as soon as the pain goes away hahaha
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Patrick Lam (@va2lam@mastodon.nz)
@blogboynick Maybe I'm atypical but I happily pay into Canadian employment insurance and yet it would be hard to imagine for me to be claiming from it (you don't get it if you quit, and I actually have tenure.)
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