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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I feel like I’m “cheating” just copying threads instead of writing, but so much work on social media needs to be acknowledged and saved in a more searchable manner. Here’s…
I’m saving this excellent thread by Dr. Satoshi Akima FRACP. It’s tongue-in-cheek, but of course some are sharing bits of it as proof that we need to let ‘er rip!…
Gregg Gonsalves’ article in The Nation explains how Camilo José Vergara’s The Pandemic Diary clarified for him, and now us, that there are two pandemics: one lived by the professional…
As you might know, if you’re a frequent reader here, I’m running for an elected position: school board trustee. It’s a little position, so there’s no budget or staff. There’s…
Another thread to save – this time from author Alisa Lynn Valdés. Warning: Lots of swears in this one! The mechanism of SARS2? Endothelial damage. In plain English? Covid-19 fucks…
Barry Hunt, an engineer in Ontario, explains the difference with this next wave of Covid. Full disclosure, he works at Prescientx in the manufacturing and distribution of respirators, CO2 monitors,…
Caroline Dew, an ICU Critical Care nurse in Australia, wrote this thread that I want to save. My only criticism is that it’s written in the past tense. You can…
I forgot to post this from last month – my monthly posting at 3 Quarks Daily: A student asked, “How many bad actions does a good person have to do…
Why Covid is now being called endemic instead of pandemic, and why that’s even worse: TL/DR: Endemic means we’ve plateaued instead of having sudden waves of cases over and over.…
“People do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction.” Developing a sociological imagination is necessary so that, “By such means the personal…
