Ani V - 🇨🇦
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@CDare10 I used to have people say all the time not to be afraid to be outside and get out doing things .... while I was outside and out doing things! I don't mask constantly anymore but I do whenever I'm in a healthcare setting.
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Woman at garden centre on noticing myself and child in masks:
Woman: (sympathetically) Ahh, have you been ill?
Me: No.
Woman: Vitamin C is very good you know.
Me: We haven’t been sick for a long time bc we wear masks to prevent illness.
Woman: (Looks confused)..cont..
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@jeffgilchrist I noticed that in BC reports while it was happening. They only ever posted cumulative reports. I would subtract the totals each month from the previous to get the monthly info and it was clear the biggest increase in hospitalization was in younger people.
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*** Ontario COVID Hospitalization Rates by Age ***
Data is now available for hospital admissions due to COVID by age group going back to Oct 2021. This provides interesting insights into how much children have been impacted with serious infections compared to adults. 🧵1/
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@Inb4Jordan @TheChaosWeeber It's called commuting. I worked in Vancouver for half my career. No way I was ever living there.
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The reason 50% of Canadians live pay cheque to pay cheque is because over 50% of Canadians live in our Metropolitan areas, and an apartment costs 5x what it costs in rural areas. The problem is there is no homes for regular people in Metro areas where all the jobs are, just apartments.
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Most Canadians are financially uneducated and spend too much.
Like sorry but half the country isn’t in poverty. Everyone says they live paycheque to paycheque because of lifestyle inflation.
Iain A. Rogers@MrMeowsalot
@TheChaosWeeber 😐 Half of Canadians live paycheck to paycheck.
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@marveloustune Hope other colours become the trend. I live in the rainy westcoast, and nothing more depressing than house upon house with grey interiors. I have warm colours in mine. Came with the house 25+ years ago and I'm still okay with it.
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proudest achievement of 2026 thus far has been buying a home with my lover and immediately doing everything we can to rid the property of the soul sucking millennial gray/blue hues
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Wow! No one in my family, nor friends, were ever sick that many times in a year when young. There's something to be said about keeping kids at home resting when sick.
chantzy@chantz_y
Got this patient info sheet from the after hours clinic where my son went for an ear issue (not Covid, thankfully) Apparently they are calling Covid a "common cold" now & normalizing kids being sick like 16 weeks of the year "without cause for concern" 😳
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Friendly challenge:
I do a lot of nature sharing here. Now it's your turn!
Please reply with any nature shot you've taken recently. Even if it's just from your balcony or patio or window.
And please consider including which region of the world you live in. (But no pressure.)
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@TexanDevilDog My dad had a garage shelf full of them. He decided to stock up when he heard they were being phased out. Still had loads left when he passed away.
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@604RAW I guess they figure if e-bikes and e-scooters can motor down a sidewalk unhindered, why not a car too?
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@pr0ud_americans At least you moved back into right lane each time. That other truck stayed in the left lane. There should never be anyone constantly cruising in the left unless they plan to turn left at an upcoming turn lane.
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@raghu_venugopal Okay. Let's hire nurses to work in bars to supervise consumption then.
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We're fine with supervised consumption sites for alcohol - called bars - who call 911 if someone passes out - but if someone's using drugs - they should do it in an alley, school park or Tim's bathroom. Come any night to ER - alcohol is the main wrecking ball. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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@danielfoch They should fix the happiness index numbers (80-70-80) before anyone takes this seriously.
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Young Canadians keep getting more miserable
Old Canadians keep getting happier
Data from world happiness report: worldhappiness.report
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@FoodProfessor Except Trump would drop it and then add it back again afterwards. He doesn't ever bargain in good faith.
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If I were PM Carney, I’d respond to President Trump’s request for help in the Strait of Hormuz...
“We’ll help—but drop the tariff nonsense.”
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@smithhmackenzie The only times I will have a drink is at Christmas and New Year's. I'm not really adverse to it at any time but just seemed to have lost interest over the years.
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I get asked a lot why I don’t drink
It's because I don't see the point
It's not enjoyable, it's empty calories, and I end up feeling like shit
My sleep, training, and productivity will be impacted
There's just no value to me personally
Anyone else relate to this?
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@thehealthb0t So when I go to that link. Nothing on there that says it causes a shingles epidemic.
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RFK JR - Many don’t realize, the Chickenpox Vaccine Causes shingles Epidemics
“When the CDC was thinking about mandating the chickenpox vaccine for your children, they did a study.
The person they hired to do that study was a scientist named Gary Goldman, who did a long-term study in California.
What he found is that if you give the chickenpox vaccine, mass vaccinate, it stops chickenpox, but causes shingle epidemics later on; which is 20x deadlier.
Despite those studies, we mandated for American children in this country, but in Europe they don’t.
If you go to the British National Health Service website right now, you can read that it will say, “We do not recommend chickenpox vaccines because it causes shingles epidemics later on… and that’s the problem.
(Check the link here: nhs.uk/vaccinations/c…)
You can’t say this product is going to prevent this particular disease, but you have to look at the long-term implications.”
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@KerryBurgess You'd think he might actually take care of his own country first. So far, his actions haven't helped the price of groceries or gas in the US. In what way have Americans benefited through this term?
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What an evil piece of shit. Do Americans realise how this sounds to the rest of the world?
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@bxieus A neighbour with a less than 5 year old Tesla had it start to smoke in his garage. Caught it in time thankfully. It's part of the hazard of any EV.
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Trump is absolutely right.
If Canada were ever attacked by Russia or our new 'strategic' partner, China, the US would be here in a heartbeat to defend us.
Remember that you anti American Elbowzozs.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just EVISCERATED American "allies" refusing to help the US secure the Strait of Hormuz, openly MOCKS them "Do you have any minesweepers? 'Well, we'd rather NOT get involved, sir!' I said, you mean for 40 YEARS we're protecting YOU and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor?!" "Very few shots going to be taken because they don't have many shots left." "But they said, 'we'd rather not get involved!'" "We'll protect them! If ever needed, they WON'T BE THERE FOR US. I knew that for a long period of time!"
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@SettledWolves And, I overstated their compensation. Because they are on FN land, they will not get $20k. They are being offered $11k. Probably the FN weren't obligated to give them anything so it's better than nothing but it won't pay to move their home.
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@aevlive I disagree in the strongest terms that they are unable to find another park having been given 24 months
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Despite being right, there's no land available elsewhere to rent, where they can all move their trailers. I'm not blaming FN. But it's still devastating to end up homeless. $20,000 compensation and low income doesn't go very far.
Coco@AllLoveCoco
So…the trailer park leased the land for 50 or 90 yrs then rented the spots out to residents. The first nations told these ppl yrs ago that the lease to the trailer park was up in two yrs and wouldn’t be renewed and these ppl didn’t look for other options. I mean that’s ON THEM.
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@SettledWolves It's Canada. Yes, they have been given a lot of notice but there's very limited vacant pads in existing mobile home parks, and you can't just plunk it down anywhere due to zoning restrictions. One or two owners might get lucky, but not all of them.
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