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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 22h

depressing morning reading about all the pretzel logic and out and out lies going into supporting expansion of Canada's oil and gas industry.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 31m

Around 13 million fewer people in the UK will be offered an autumn booster for COVID this year. Those aged 65 to 74 will no longer be able to get this vaccination free - that's around 6 million people, of which just over half took up the offer last autumn. @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/news/health/...

Rising Covid cases see surge in private tests

UK's largest online chemist said it has recorded an 81 per cent month-on-month increase in Covid test sales, reflecting a 'clear rise' in demand

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7h

"As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?"

We let COVID rip for years and it smashed everyone’s immune systems. Now flu, RSV and other viruses hit harder — being “sick year-round” is becoming the new normal. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?

by Miranda Jeyaretnam Reporter

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 5h

Diabetics and COVID.

Not great for your 🫀

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...

Frontiers | Diabetic cardiomyopathy and COVID-19: intersecting pathways and amplified cardiovascular risk

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a diabetes-induced heart condition characterized by ventricular dysfunction without other cardiac diseases. Chronic hypergly...

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone remember how many *years* ago I started talking about risks compounding each other? That C19 is a risk factor for nasty complications… and it would add… or multiply with other risk factors?

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 5h

Diabetics and COVID.

Not great for your 🫀

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...

Frontiers | Diabetic cardiomyopathy and COVID-19: intersecting pathways and amplified cardiovascular risk

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a diabetes-induced heart condition characterized by ventricular dysfunction without other cardiac diseases. Chronic hypergly...

www.frontiersin.org

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

In airports, at random breath testing spots, in clinics, at the dentist…

It’s as if people that don’t want to/can’t afford to catch C19 have been erased…

Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

None of this considers clinically vulnerable people and #COVID.
How can we mask? There is no recognition of airborne threat, security and facial scanning has been prioritised over biohazard risk.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100 per cent EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2h

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3h

Episodes like this illustrate why criminal charges are appropriate for the public health and infection control leaders suppressing information about prevention of COVID and long COVID - the "gaps in public messaging" called out by Canada's Chief Science Advisor.

They are killing people.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Dec 19

It's so bad that Canada's Chief Science Advisor had to call out our public health leaders for their failure to do their job and educate the public ("gaps" in messaging)!

But it's hard to get that story out because public health can throw around huge PR slush funds.
science.gc.ca/site/science...

Prevention: There are gaps in public messaging about the importance of PCC prevention. PCC preventive actions include avoiding SARS-CoV-2 infection and reinfection through protective behavior, such as isolating when sick to avoid spreading disease and effective masking in crowded spaces, and making it easy to adopt protective measures through steps that government, institutions and employers can take. Equally important is indoor air quality and ventilation to reduce transmission of infectious diseases that transmit through the air, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza and other common respiratory virusesFootnote46 Footnote47. Adequate ventilation and air filtration is often a key gap in buildings where people gather, including schools.

Another key action along with other measures to prevent PCC is vaccination. There are gaps in messaging about reducing the risk for PCC through vaccination across all ages. COVID-19 vaccination and messaging targeted to priority populations to protect against acute COVID-19 illness may have an unintended consequence of conveying that keeping COVID-19 vaccination up to date for acute and chronic effects is not really necessary for all age groups.

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 4h

A few weeks ago there was a #Covid19 outbreak on my Mom’s memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a resident’s room, they were req’d to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.😡

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this is also true for CBC.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 23h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax. Doctors flogging immunity debt, hybrid immunity, and overall "get sick to not get sick" ridiculousness are undermining vaccines. Period. And health supremacists to boot. Or outright eugenicists.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 1d

1. Before 2020, I never, ever remember getting sick being portrayed as a good thing.

"Most people will get one or two respiratory infections every year. In some ways, it's a *good thing* when you are a child or healthy adult".

*my emphasis.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.com

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax. Doctors flogging immunity debt, hybrid immunity, and overall "get sick to not get sick" ridiculousness are undermining vaccines. Period. And health supremacists to boot. Or outright eugenicists.

bsky.app/profile/brow...

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 1d

1. Before 2020, I never, ever remember getting sick being portrayed as a good thing.

"Most people will get one or two respiratory infections every year. In some ways, it's a *good thing* when you are a child or healthy adult".

*my emphasis.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.com

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint

Authors conclude:

“The increased microclot burden in pediatric LC supports the role of microvascular dysfunction and persistent viral antigens in pathogenesis.”

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 1d

1. Before 2020, I never, ever remember getting sick being portrayed as a good thing.

"Most people will get one or two respiratory infections every year. In some ways, it's a *good thing* when you are a child or healthy adult".

*my emphasis.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.com

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 1d

More Bad JuJu for kids and Cøvid.

Cardiovascular health is something we should explore. Dyslipidaemia and endothelial injury aren't isolated to adults!

journals.lww.com/hhmi/fulltex...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is lodged deep inside us. Now, researchers suspect these particles may also be meddling with our gut microbes. When Dr Christian Pacher-Deutsch at the University of Graz in Austria exposed gut bacteria from five healthy volunteers to five common microplastics, the bacterial populations shifted – along with the chemicals they produced. Some of these changes mirrored patterns linked to depression and colorectal cancer. Continue reading...

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw this a few minutes after I saw your post!

h/t @marygillis.bsky.social

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

That's bad 😫

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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the latest variant picture for Canada, to late September.

XFG.* "Stratus" continued to dominate, but fell back to 71%.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew slightly to 14%.

JN.1.* + "FLiRT" rebounded suddenly to 7%.

#COVID19 #Canada #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #FLiRT
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty of saying “hospitals are ready” by increasing ICU beds and body bags… instead of fixing the ventilation.

Just mull over that for a bit #MedSky.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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