Kristin Meekes
@kmeekes.bsky.social
ICU RN, reader, cyclist, pug + cat mom
Still 😷 #covidisairborne
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Still 😷 #covidisairborne
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In case anyone is wondering how things are going in healthcare, IPAC sent out a memo reminding staff—in my unmasked hospital—that handwashing is the best way to stay healthy this respiratory illness season and I just 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In case anyone is wondering how things are going in healthcare, IPAC sent out a memo reminding staff—in my unmasked hospital—that handwashing is the best way to stay healthy this respiratory illness season and I just 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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I’m a better nurse for being on social media and a huge part of that is because of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, PEM, and other chronic illnesses sharing their stories online
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I’m a better nurse for being on social media and a huge part of that is because of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, PEM, and other chronic illnesses sharing their stories online
Important read especially because we likely all know someone with Long Covid
The Sick Times: 'You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.'
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Important read especially because we likely all know someone with Long Covid
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Honestly I feel safer at the hairdressers than the doctors. How did we get here?
Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.
Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Honestly I feel safer at the hairdressers than the doctors. How did we get here?
Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.
Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.
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Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Poster recently published by NHS Scotland.
Incorrect, dangerous guidance to the public about spread of diseases like flu, COVID-19 etc and how hand-washing is key to keeping themselves safe (would you believe!)
Formal complaint lodged.
See: tinyurl.com/52wbmye9
Incorrect, dangerous guidance to the public about spread of diseases like flu, COVID-19 etc and how hand-washing is key to keeping themselves safe (would you believe!)
Formal complaint lodged.
See: tinyurl.com/52wbmye9
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Poster recently published by NHS Scotland.
Incorrect, dangerous guidance to the public about spread of diseases like flu, COVID-19 etc and how hand-washing is key to keeping themselves safe (would you believe!)
Formal complaint lodged.
See: tinyurl.com/52wbmye9
Incorrect, dangerous guidance to the public about spread of diseases like flu, COVID-19 etc and how hand-washing is key to keeping themselves safe (would you believe!)
Formal complaint lodged.
See: tinyurl.com/52wbmye9
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Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve gone into work to find a patient I had just cared for now diagnosed with Flu, Covid, TB, etc. Masking in healthcare just makes sense! It’s hard to see a downside, actually.
And no, I didn’t get sick with anything…because I’m always in an N95.
And no, I didn’t get sick with anything…because I’m always in an N95.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve gone into work to find a patient I had just cared for now diagnosed with Flu, Covid, TB, etc. Masking in healthcare just makes sense! It’s hard to see a downside, actually.
And no, I didn’t get sick with anything…because I’m always in an N95.
And no, I didn’t get sick with anything…because I’m always in an N95.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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The Ottawa Police are getting an 8.7% budget hike ($31.5M) including $5.4M pulled from reserves.
The issues we're facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police.
Tell Council to fund mental health, not more cops: www.horizonottawa.ca/no_police_hike
The issues we're facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police.
Tell Council to fund mental health, not more cops: www.horizonottawa.ca/no_police_hike
Tell Council to Fund Mental Health Over More Cops
www.horizonottawa.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Ottawa Police are getting an 8.7% budget hike ($31.5M) including $5.4M pulled from reserves.
The issues we're facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police.
Tell Council to fund mental health, not more cops: www.horizonottawa.ca/no_police_hike
The issues we're facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police.
Tell Council to fund mental health, not more cops: www.horizonottawa.ca/no_police_hike
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As global opinion shifts toward supporting Palestinian human rights, universities are at a crossroads. They can cling to a hollow idea of neutrality or acknowledge the reality in front of them: refusing to act is refusing to confront an unfolding genocide.
Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing?
The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have responded to a level of student activism not seen since the protests against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...
canadiandimension.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As global opinion shifts toward supporting Palestinian human rights, universities are at a crossroads. They can cling to a hollow idea of neutrality or acknowledge the reality in front of them: refusing to act is refusing to confront an unfolding genocide.
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On CBC news they're talking about the rise of RSV season. Yes, they're recommending vaccines. That's great!
No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that.
Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...
No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that.
Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
On CBC news they're talking about the rise of RSV season. Yes, they're recommending vaccines. That's great!
No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that.
Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...
No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that.
Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...
A lot of us are wearing N95s in public because there are still way too many hospitalizations happening and Long Covid is an enormous problem. We need clean indoor air; if I had my choice we’d start with schools and healthcare.
Also get vaccinated 💉
Also get vaccinated 💉
Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,200 hospitalizations, 725 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 23,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A lot of us are wearing N95s in public because there are still way too many hospitalizations happening and Long Covid is an enormous problem. We need clean indoor air; if I had my choice we’d start with schools and healthcare.
Also get vaccinated 💉
Also get vaccinated 💉
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Hospitalizations are expected to require 6.3% of Canada's staffed hospital beds for three weeks (CIHI: average duration of COVID hospitalizations: www.cihi.ca/en/covid-19-...).
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hospitalizations are expected to require 6.3% of Canada's staffed hospital beds for three weeks (CIHI: average duration of COVID hospitalizations: www.cihi.ca/en/covid-19-...).
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About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.
The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.
The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.
The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.
The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.
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Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,200 hospitalizations, 725 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 23,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,200 hospitalizations, 725 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 23,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.
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This blog post is a very accurate characterisation of the experience of living with #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM.
Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid.
You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.
Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid.
You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.
Here’s a quote from my piece, Why I Can’t Just Meet You for Dinner, about post-exertional malaise. This is after work while I’m in the middle of a PEM crash. #PEM #MECFS #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Disabled
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This blog post is a very accurate characterisation of the experience of living with #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM.
Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid.
You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.
Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid.
You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.
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The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Please sign and share! I learned that I have extremely dense breasts via Ontario’s changed mammogram rules (self referral 40+) and I have an appt coming up to advocate for additional screening for myself…which was not offered and was suggested is not needed ☹️
If you believe women with dense breasts deserve the same chance to find breast cancer early, please add your name to our provincial govt advocacy campaign. It only takes a few seconds to sign. Thank you. www.densebreastscanada.ca/make-your-vo...
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Please sign and share! I learned that I have extremely dense breasts via Ontario’s changed mammogram rules (self referral 40+) and I have an appt coming up to advocate for additional screening for myself…which was not offered and was suggested is not needed ☹️
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Hey yo it’s frickin ILLNESSES because schools have not made their air safe to breathe during an ongoing airborne pandemic
Reported illnesses have tripled in some school districts. Some say mental health is a factor https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/school-absences-illness-mental-health-9.6988661
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hey yo it’s frickin ILLNESSES because schools have not made their air safe to breathe during an ongoing airborne pandemic
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But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
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This is obvious and axiomatic. Yet why doesn’t everyone recognize and acknowledge it??
There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is obvious and axiomatic. Yet why doesn’t everyone recognize and acknowledge it??