A thread from Dr. Leo Lam, who has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, worked for over twenty years as a science advocate, and was co-founder of medical imaging software. I’m tired of hearing the contrarians talking about how masks don’t work as protective devices against respiratory diseases as our nation’s
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A Puff of Absurdity: Where Does the Buck Stop on Mandates??
So Dr. Kieran Moore, CMOH, claimed he doesn’t have the authority to institute mandatory masking in schools, and that boards can “consult with their local medical officer of health.” It was later clarified that the CMOH can order masking in schools, or local health units, and it’s not up to individual school boards.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Moore on Masks: It’s All on Families to Get Back to ALL of the Basics
I watched it so you don’t have to! I’ve transcribed most of it, but left out repetitive information in places. I also added timestamps to some of the more pertinent bits. And I’ve added in my own responses here and there. Many reporters did an amazing job with persistent questioning,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Polycrisis and Planetary Palliative Care
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon and Johan Rockström wrote about the “Cascade of Crises” we’re experiencing right now. They discuss global hunger, people forced to moved, political authoritarianism, violations of human rights, violent demonstrations, ongoing conflict. They point to two things: the magnitude of consumption and “vastly greater connectivity among our economic
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Viral about that Virus
I posted a mini thread yesterday that exploded: It’s nearing a million impressions and it’s still going strong. I’m so glad I turned off comments early on after I got slaughtered by trolls on a different post yesterday – almost 500 random comments mainly from people with fewer than 10 followers
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Our Duty to Others IS Love
In my class recently, we were asked to get into groups to get a reading down to one key word. The passage was on Confucius, and it was about human-heartedness, taming unruly impulses, filial piety, benevolence, and justice. In my little group, I suggested it’s all about love. My group
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: We Need Mask Mandates Now!
Here’s Dr. Joe Vipond on mask mandates: Hey Canada, it’s time we talked about mask mandates: What they do, why they’re important, and what we’ve learned from the past. A mask mandate simply means a law that requires universal mask use in a certain situation (schools, work, public spaces, etc.).
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: If We Know What’s Right, Will We Do What’s Right?
The Toronto Star just quoted Kieran Moore, I’m very loath, after 1,000 days of a pandemic, to put in a mandate. We know what works, and we can trust Ontarians to do the right things. Nope. If we could trust people to KNOW what’s right with all the misinformation out
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Medical Officers of Health – Can’t They Save the Day??
The Peterborough Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Thomas Piggott, wrote, I would agree and add my voice to the numerous health system leaders who are concerned with capacity of the health system in the face of COVID and other respiratory viruses and have been calling for a return of masking
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid Club – Specially Made for Public Health and Media
The first rule of Covid Club is you do not talk about Covid. The second rule of Covid Club is you DO NOT talk about Covid! Third rule of Covid Club: someone starts coughing, sneezing, sore throat? It’s just a cold. Fourth rule: only hand sanitizer in classrooms. Fifth rule:
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: André Picard’s "Kids are suffering from COVID in ways we never expected"
In a Globe & Mail article, Picard outlines the absolute crisis state health care is in right now, particularly for children: Pediatricians, family physicians and emergency rooms are being slammed by a tri-demic: simultaneous outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and COVID-19, with cases of rhinovirus and enterovirus thrown in for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Community Debt and Empathy Debt
Thread by Dr. Christopher Leighton: Covid 19 didn’t cause “immunity debt.” It caused “community debt.” Communities lost members, young and old, healthy and frail. Death rates climbed in 2022 as leaders ditched masks. Communities lost health care dollars because Ford pocketed billions of federal aid money. Communities lost education funding
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Cult of Covid
I’ve been posting threads from health care professionals on here to save them as we watch whether or not Twitter will self-destruct. This one is from someone anon, @1goodtern, who posts lots of fantastic info, but I have no idea what they do for a living. The stats they share
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Immunity Debt is Not a Thing!
The term ‘immunity debt’ is causing problems because if it’s the case that the immune system can lose function from a lack of illness after years of masking, then the solution is to expose kids to more illnesses. Health care professionals online are jumping all over this because it’s SO wrong and
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On a Lighter Note: David Cross on Covid
He tweeted this “partial list of things equal to or greater than the physical and mental pain and suffering experienced while wearing a mask while shopping” from his new show, I’m From the Future. I can’t find it in a way that can be embedded, so it’s just at this link.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: A Panel of Experts on Ending the Covid Public Health Threat
Several medical professionals that I follow on Twitter have excitedly announced the arrival of this joint article: A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat, in Nature. The panel of 386 experts from 112 countries developed a set of 41 consensus statement and 57 recommendations, which have
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Portable UV Sanitation: a Pricey Solution
If you could avoid Covid with greater certainty for less than $500, would you?? I’ve been looking into portable UV light. From the beginning of Covid, people have talked about Upper Room UVGI (UltraViolet Germicidal Irradiation) that can be installed near the ceiling of a room, necessarily, to ensure nobody
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The John Snow Project on Spooky Masks
The John Snow Project has the singular goal of cleaning the air in public buildings the way its namesake demonstrated the link between cholera and contaminated drinking water, and eventually was able to convince the government to clean water for public consumption. Cholera was one of the deadliest diseases in
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Mask Case in Alberta
Families of five immunocompromised kids in Alberta fought the lifting of mask mandates by the government, and, long story short, Justice Grant Dunlop said the cabinet can’t do that, as reported by CBC: The order was unreasonable because it was based on an interpretation of the Public Health Act as
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid is a Stealthy Enemy; Our Body its Battlefield — Shore up Your Defences, and Fight to Keep it at Bay!
Dr. Uppity (@MeddygLou), an NHS GP in Wales, wrote an excellent thread, beautifully written, explaining how Covid works with some battlefield imagery to help. I have nothing to add: Since Covid hit the UK I’ve been reading compulsively, like how you can’t help looking as you drive past a car crash.
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