Trudy
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Newfoundlander in Ontario | Chocolate addict | Pittsburgh Penguins fan 🏒🐧 | Might be a bit snarky | Blocker of trolls, Maple MAGA, MAGA, GoFundMe & idiots | Won't follow back & will block if you have nothing posted/have no bio | Views are my own
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moriartylab.bsky.social
The national overview for the Canadian COVID forecast can be found here: bsky.app/profile/mori...
moriartylab.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."
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moriartylab.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

SEVERE [no change]

About 1 of every 48 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 11.2 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.7 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 18.6 x higher
-Deaths: 21.3 x higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Newfoundland & Labrador's COVID Forecast outlook is SEVERE [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 17.0

About 1 of every 48 people is infected.

Estimated infections this week: 15,600-26,900
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: VERY HIGH; 11.2X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 6.7X higher
Hospitalizations: SEVERE; 18.6X higher
Deaths: SEVERE; 21.3X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
AVOID indoor social gatherings
AVOID crowded non-essential places

If you ARE HIGH RISK: ALSO AVOID outdoor social gatherings
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months

Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
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moriartylab.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 6.1 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 11.3 x higher
-Deaths: 9.2 x higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 8.9

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Estimated infections this week: 558,700-965,600
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 6.1X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 5.9X higher
Hospitalizations: VERY HIGH; 11.3X higher
Deaths: HIGH; 9.2X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months

Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
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motherjones.com
Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:
Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
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scottsantens.com
A guaranteed basic income pilot of $1,500 a month is coming to Mercer County, West Virginia. And also Beaufort County, North Carolina and Warren County, Mississippi. Apply using the link in this article if you live in those areas or know someone who does.
Guaranteed monthly incoming program coming to Mercer County
PRINCETON — A nonprofit agency that helps the world’s poorest households is launching a guaranteed minimum income program in Mercer County. GiveDirectly is partnering with area human service agencies ...
www.yahoo.com
nfldtrudy.bsky.social
Isn't this what Ontario did as well?
nfldtrudy.bsky.social
Have decision makers in healthcare finally realized that masks prevent airborne viruses from spreading? Only took 5+ years of Covid to figure that out.
canadahealthwatch.ca
Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mask-mandate-health-facilites-9.6934985

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
Health P.E.I. is reinstating a mandatory masking policy in all of its facilities in response to the growing presence of respiratory illnesses on the Island.
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mask-mandate-health-facilites-9.6934985

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
Health P.E.I. is reinstating a mandatory masking policy in all of its facilities in response to the growing presence of respiratory illnesses on the Island.
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emmettmacfarlane.com
Meanwhile NONE OF THIS GETS COVERED BY THE MEDIA.

Where are you journalists??? A province is essentially vandalizing the constitution, and the feds and other provinces are permitting it!

THIS IS A PRETTY BIG FUCKING STORY!
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
Tylenol misinformation puts pregnant patients at risk healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... via @healthydebate.bsky.social

"Casting doubt on Tylenol without solid evidence does not empower pregnant people, it corners them. It adds guilt, stigma & undermines their confidence in making safe decisions..."
Tylenol misinformation puts pregnant patients at risk - Healthy Debate
Casting doubt on Tylenol without solid evidence does not empower pregnant people, it corners them.
healthydebate.ca
nfldtrudy.bsky.social
As long as they continue to equate the oil industry with people's livelihoods, unfortunately. Attacking renewables & turning people against that industry before there is an opportunity to build it is part of that strategy.
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kevinstalder.bsky.social
Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏
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paris.nyc
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
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strandjunker.com
If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
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mcsweeneys.net
"Candidate does not require assigned tasks to be amazing or even particularly interesting, and has been known to sidestep certain projects entirely as opposed to wasting time on a nonsense initiative that will, within weeks, be replaced by another nonsense initiative."
Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire
Forty-something professional seeks opportunity in an environment that is neither “fun,” “playful,” nor “collaborative;” minimal responsibility pref...
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nfldtrudy.bsky.social
This has been their plan for a long time & it sped up during the 2008 crash. Buy all the middle class homes & make those people rent & never be able to afford to own.
rbreich.bsky.social
Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.
How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
nfldtrudy.bsky.social
Similar to Black Friday - the deals are better on any other day for some stuff.
willoremus.com
Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale.

Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.
www.washingtonpost.com
nfldtrudy.bsky.social
Exactly this. If you wouldn’t approve of the other party doing it, why is it ok for your party to do it?
tusk81.bsky.social
“’We believe in the federalist system— that's states' rights,’ adding, ‘Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.’”
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...