Emily
@emhere.bsky.social
I like a good TV show, movie, or book to distract me from the current state of affairs. I'm over here masking and cleaning the air. 😷
BCom & LibTech. Can't work in a library during a raging pandemic. 📚
BCom & LibTech. Can't work in a library during a raging pandemic. 📚
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eVeRy sInGle yEaR in mid oCtObEr: “increased indoor mixing”
… no, its not the people, its basic physics of colder weather, closed windows, & a build up of airborne pathogens
When disease is waterborne we fix the water supply, we don’t blame those drinking it!
www.europeans.today/2025/10/13/e...
… no, its not the people, its basic physics of colder weather, closed windows, & a build up of airborne pathogens
When disease is waterborne we fix the water supply, we don’t blame those drinking it!
www.europeans.today/2025/10/13/e...
England faces new COVID wave as NHS braces for winter strain
After 10 months of relative calm, COVID hospital admissions are rising sharply across England, driven by waning immunity and increased indoor mixing, official data show.
www.europeans.today
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
eVeRy sInGle yEaR in mid oCtObEr: “increased indoor mixing”
… no, its not the people, its basic physics of colder weather, closed windows, & a build up of airborne pathogens
When disease is waterborne we fix the water supply, we don’t blame those drinking it!
www.europeans.today/2025/10/13/e...
… no, its not the people, its basic physics of colder weather, closed windows, & a build up of airborne pathogens
When disease is waterborne we fix the water supply, we don’t blame those drinking it!
www.europeans.today/2025/10/13/e...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Shout out to Jim O'Neill, new acting director of the CDC, for drawing attention to the alienation people with long COVID continue to face - from friends, family, partners, doctors, employers etc.
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shout out to Jim O'Neill, new acting director of the CDC, for drawing attention to the alienation people with long COVID continue to face - from friends, family, partners, doctors, employers etc.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Local woman wakes up, moves John Oliver to a secret bunker to film his next episode of Last Week Tonight, makes oatmeal.
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Local woman wakes up, moves John Oliver to a secret bunker to film his next episode of Last Week Tonight, makes oatmeal.
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I'm going to need journalists everywhere to understand that all the water & self love in the world won't fix post-viral cognitive damage caused by SARS-CoV2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Brain fog and four easy ways to help fix it
It's common to become forgetful or mentally sluggish but there are easy ways to cut through the haze.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I'm going to need journalists everywhere to understand that all the water & self love in the world won't fix post-viral cognitive damage caused by SARS-CoV2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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RFK Jr: "We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism."
Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
August 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
RFK Jr: "We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism."
Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
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The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Resurgence of COVID-19 symptoms among our family medicine patients. Known resurgence in the USA. And no access to local testing (public health reporting is limited to long-term care, hospitals, child care). Buckle up, Canadians: It is only August; September may be a doozy.
August 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Resurgence of COVID-19 symptoms among our family medicine patients. Known resurgence in the USA. And no access to local testing (public health reporting is limited to long-term care, hospitals, child care). Buckle up, Canadians: It is only August; September may be a doozy.
Today I'm going to focus on the good things, like how Travis's face, as Taylor is about to announce her new album, looks like he has all of the excitement of all the Swifties packaged inside him. 😆
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today I'm going to focus on the good things, like how Travis's face, as Taylor is about to announce her new album, looks like he has all of the excitement of all the Swifties packaged inside him. 😆
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Three stories in poor air quality and wildfires on the 8am CBC news.
No mention of N95s. No mention of air cleaners.
Climate change is real. But nobody wants to talk about solutions or mitigations.
No mention of N95s. No mention of air cleaners.
Climate change is real. But nobody wants to talk about solutions or mitigations.
August 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Three stories in poor air quality and wildfires on the 8am CBC news.
No mention of N95s. No mention of air cleaners.
Climate change is real. But nobody wants to talk about solutions or mitigations.
No mention of N95s. No mention of air cleaners.
Climate change is real. But nobody wants to talk about solutions or mitigations.
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Researchers say rising food prices are the second biggest way that climate change manifests in our day-to-day lives, topped only by extreme heat.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/b...
Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says | CNN Business
Extreme weather caused by climate change is driving up the prices of basic food products worldwide and posing wider risks to society, a new study has found.
www.cnn.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Researchers say rising food prices are the second biggest way that climate change manifests in our day-to-day lives, topped only by extreme heat.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/b...
I've known he's awful for a long time now, but I loved the show and him when I was a kid. Starting to think I have really bad taste in celebrities. 🤣 I will never again commit to being a fan of anyone until they reveal their values.
August 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I've known he's awful for a long time now, but I loved the show and him when I was a kid. Starting to think I have really bad taste in celebrities. 🤣 I will never again commit to being a fan of anyone until they reveal their values.
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If COVID is over, why are there hundreds of Long COVID treatment trials & next-gen COVID vaccine trials still happening worldwide?
August 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If COVID is over, why are there hundreds of Long COVID treatment trials & next-gen COVID vaccine trials still happening worldwide?
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USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year.
Issue Date: May 2025
Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
Issue Date: May 2025
Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
August 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year.
Issue Date: May 2025
Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
Issue Date: May 2025
Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
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Air Filtration Doesn’t Work To Prevent Illness Says Study Done By People Who Didn’t Switch The Air Filters On Properly
August 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Air Filtration Doesn’t Work To Prevent Illness Says Study Done By People Who Didn’t Switch The Air Filters On Properly
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Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" own this.
news.sky.com/story/why-ar...
news.sky.com/story/why-ar...
Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade?
The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...
news.sky.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" own this.
news.sky.com/story/why-ar...
news.sky.com/story/why-ar...
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
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From Jan. 2025: The far right is a transnational movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy by spreading disinformation on social media, smearing democratic leaders, and causing chaos.
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada | Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/extr...
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada | Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/extr...
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada
The far right is a transnational movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy by spreading disinformation on social media, smearing democratic leaders, and causing chaos.
www.thewhig.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
From Jan. 2025: The far right is a transnational movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy by spreading disinformation on social media, smearing democratic leaders, and causing chaos.
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada | Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/extr...
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada | Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/extr...
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In another installment of: “What She Said”
“All the researchers of the world watching us right now, I want you to think about Canada as the premier destination for your work.Canada is not for sale, we’re open for business, and we’re open for science”
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
“All the researchers of the world watching us right now, I want you to think about Canada as the premier destination for your work.Canada is not for sale, we’re open for business, and we’re open for science”
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
July 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In another installment of: “What She Said”
“All the researchers of the world watching us right now, I want you to think about Canada as the premier destination for your work.Canada is not for sale, we’re open for business, and we’re open for science”
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
“All the researchers of the world watching us right now, I want you to think about Canada as the premier destination for your work.Canada is not for sale, we’re open for business, and we’re open for science”
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️