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You can submit a complaint here. CBC should not be normalizing this. cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

While I understand the purpose of MAID & I do support freedom to choose, I do not think it's right thats it's the only alternative to the lack of proper support, care & services for those in need...Doug Ford brags about his healthcare then explain this... #onpoli macdonaldlaurier.ca/canadians-wi...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible PSA from OITNB’s Matt McGorry and @nychealthy.bsky.social — this is the info everyone deserves! Setting the record straight on four myths about COVID! “Myth #1: COVID is mild now. Fact #1: With every COVID-19 infection, there is a risk of Long COVID.” (1/5)

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

A must read. “In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic news and something those of us with #ME/CFS already know - CBT & GET are harmful. Also love this passive aggressive line: “Finally, our reanalysis highlights the fact that researchers should not mark their own homework.” 🤭

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I've said it before and I'll say it again. On the left I'm always expected to compromised and vote for a centrist as they go further and further right. And I get why - to oppose the far right. But what if you tried to just stay in the center or even edge left as a compromise.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Remember: SILENCE = CONSENT DO NOT self-censor DO NOT comply in advance ALWAYS speak truth to power ALWAYS build strength in community Another world is possible!

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

When I trained in medicine I was told that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) was rare. I expected to see a handful of cases in my whole career. Now I have Long Covid related CFS myself, I know of many affected colleagues, & saddest of all, 3 of my kids’ friends. www.livescience.com/health/coron...

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

TB is not your friend.... This is what happens when you lose control of immune damaging virus. Without proper TTQI, it will spread more widely and drug resistance becomes a looming issue www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Worried about public health being dismantled? Wear a mask. Worried about Medicare/Medicaid? Wear a mask. Worried about the surveillance state? Wear a mask. Interested in peaceful protest? Wear a mask. Truly wearing a mask is the best way to safeguard your health AND show resistance & solidarity

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

If governments and organisations attended to indoor air quality, we’d be less reliant on masks to prevent transmission of respiratory infections.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

Study finds acute Covid associated with a 50% ⬆️ in car crashes, vaccination was not protective "The odds ratio of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder"

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 32 days ago • 2387 comments

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submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

What we are seeing increasingly is a public that is confused about what is good and what is bad. This is because they have difficulty finding facts in a flood of untruths and are therefore led more easily in the direction of those who promote lies to gain influence and power.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Meanwhile at CDC... There is no legitimate reason to manipulate data reporting like this. If you're in public health or IPC, and you aren't already fighting the people doing this, and you still think your profession has any integrity? Prove it. www.cdc.gov/nwss/about-d...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

One simple way to make disease normal is to change the baseline to a higher number. It's disturbing that this is even BEFORE the 47 administration.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Well done, public health. You got what you wanted. For now. You're still in charge. You haven't let us push you aside and protect them. Yet. You defended your high priests, your turf, your cosplay science, for one more day. Are you proud of yourselves? Can you see how history will remember you?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

These are remarks I gave in Bogota, Colombia on Canada's promotion of the petro state and our role in the climate catastrophe that is unfolding around us. Climate denialism is deeply embedded in the Canadian political state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqES...

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

Just so everyone running public health and IPC knows: if you 🤬 this up the way you 🤬ed up COVID, expect jail time. We see it coming. We know what to do. It's your job, and you're not doing it. Whether you're hiding COVID failures or just splashing around in the EBM kiddie pool, there is no excuse.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

By tolerating corruption in our public health institutions - allowing them to be diverted away from fighting COVID, and focused on covering up their leaders' mismanagement of COVID - we have normalized failure. That's what public health is about now: failure, and controlling narratives.

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org

submitted 65 days ago • 860 comments

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

submitted 90 days ago • 34 comments

What I said Jan 2022... So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?

submitted 98 days ago • 21 comments

Steve Jobs understood a lot of things, including the fact that even his prosperity and happiness was largely dependent on the work and achievements of others. We'd all do well to remember this, I think -- and centre our politics more deliberately around it.

submitted 104 days ago • 7 comments