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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 17h

This is so sweet and so cute

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 17h

I read this study in my maskless ICU tonight. What’s happening is so surreal.

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 18h

No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 22h

People are VERY huffy and stompy about this post but just as an inside opinion from someone in LC community, It’s hard to believe there is solidarity with the disabled and high risk people who need to avoid covid when our one primary ask is met with accusations that, hey, maybe we’re just CRAZY?

Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 2d

Dear liberals,

If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry that THE SITUATION feels unreasonable. It’s fair to say that the situation is unmanageable, a situation that all the ppl who already have contracted long covid and who can’t afford more infections have been thrust into. That is something to take up with the govt - a reason to be furious

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Frybread Riot @napeskanskan.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

If you're inclined to donate to Indigenous mutual aid today, I am housing insecure and saving while also trying to pay some medical debts.

Venmo/cashapp: napeskanskan
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/hoppingmagpiedesigns

Pilamayaye

John Trudell in Smoke Signals, talking into a microphone

"It's a good day to be Indigenous"

A mother bison (The Ancestors) nuzzling her calf (me)

love
power
courage
wisdom
strength
resilience

A black and white photo of John Trudell, he's looking down and off to his left a little, and the wind is blowing his hair into his face.

"I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human." -John Trudell

"A ceasefire isn't enough

I need to witness the collapse of American imperialism"
[imposed over a fireball raising through the air]

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4d

The fundamental disconnect is that the steps required by both science and patient safety are the steps hospital infection control leaders foolishly dismissed in 2020.

They have to choose between killing patients, and admitting a very big mistake.

Turns out their egos are worth more than your life.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 5d

How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 2d

@mark-carney.bsky.social

Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 2d

“We are now in a new reality, and we can no longer rely on the institutions and policies designed for the old one” “…a new approach to governance is needed.”

Paging Mark Carney

Grist @grist.org · 2d

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org/oceans/coral...

#Coral #Ocean #Climate #Science #GreenSky

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 2d

I really feel this 😞 I had a much easier time earlier on when people were at least making some effort; I’ve really struggled with holiday gatherings the last couple of years now that people just dgaf

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

That's all I'll say. Palestine deserves to be FREE.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 2d

I spent this afternoon reading about ER closures across rural Canada and it is really wild to follow that up with mainstream articles normalizing illness and encouraging infections

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 3d

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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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 3d

This is horrifying

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 4d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 3d

And more pointedly, we know the right hates disabled ppl. But liberals and the left have a massive ableism problem that is so deeply rooted and that the pandemic highlighted so clearly that we largely feel like we’re out here fighting alone

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

I think the average person does not realize how ableist our entire country is, and relatedy how bad most media outlets are at covering disability issues.

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 4d

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 4d

in fact are just straight up lying about mode of transmission

Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s important to acknowledge that Covid infections both worsen pre-existing mental health problems and create new ones. Nurses are being reinfected and developing Long Covid at a faster rate than the general population because our employers are not practicing any meaningful mitigation and

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 4d

It’s communication like this that leaves nurses with the impression that masks are meant to stop us from touching our faces (actual thing someone said to me last year) instead of filtering air

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 4d

Once again a reminder that Canada does not have a lot of this infrastructure and relies on the US version for info, etc. And layoffs have been happening in PH in Canada. We don’t have our own NIOSH or MMWR. I spend every day finding health evidence for docs, managers, directors, etc. /1

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Was all set to cheer and then I read it.

"It's not all the time, it's just when you're in that six-feet distance."

While I applaud any measure that increases mask usage in health facilities, I would REALLY like for the people making these policies to learn how AIRBORNE spread happens.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 4d

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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