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Long COVID since 2020. Sailor, entrepreneur, garden variety astronomer, scuba diver.

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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Seen in the newspaper today
News article snippet: YOUR VIEWS

Immigrants are not the enemy
I am writing this today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day after a most misguided act right here in our city.

It is everyone's duty to call out this shameful display of fascism or be doomed to repeat the worst atrocities we have ever inflicted upon each other. This is how it starts.

To the men with the signs: Why do you parrot the words and ideas of the most corrupt, the most ethically, morally, and empathetically bankrupt people the world has yet to see? You mean nothing to them; they use you to create division, keeping you busy and angry with made-up problems while you lose what's left of your freedom. I don't need to ask if things have gone from bad to worse for you in the last 10 years. I know they have, because it’s happening to everyone and it has nothing to do with politics, or borders, or transgender people, and most certainly not immigrants.

There have been countless waves of immigration into our country: 1815-50 brought British, Scottish and Irish immigrants to Canada, 1890-1910 brought Germans, Italians, Africans, Scandinavians, and Ukrainians, 1946-60 brought continental Europeans as well as Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, looking for refuge from persecution, war, and social and economic changes. We are made up of millions of hundreds of ethnic groups that made their way to this country under adverse conditions, all looking for a safe place to live and raise their families.

And I'm not forgetting to whom this land belongs to in the first place. We are ALL immigrants unless you are Indigenous. People from all corners of the Earth are here; they are our neighbours, they are business owners, retail workers, caregivers, professionals, family, friends.

They are an integral part of our society.

I understand you are frustrated and angry, wondering how you will make ends meet every day. But people are not your enemy. Fascism will not save you, it will destroy you. Greed is the enemy. Greed wi…
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Students aren’t recovering from #COVID19. Test scores are getting worse. New U.S. data on student math and reading achievement details the long and damaging road back from the pandemic, by @laurameckler.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... via @postopinions.bsky.social #LongCOVID
washingtonpost.com
Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.
Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the pandemic.
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is a no-brainer: a Granny who wants to volunteer at a school lunch program has to get a security clearance. And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance. Something stinks here. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
thestar.com
Pierre Poilievre will no longer receive security briefing from top spy agency
The Conservative leader has argued that he won't be muzzled by secrecy constraints that accompany security clearances.
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PH 🕊️🌱😷 @ph-ph-ph.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
SARS-CoV 🧠🦠 ‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences.. right intracalcarine cortex right lingual gyrus left frontal orbital cortex left hippocampus & left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’ www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...
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Mild COVID-19 disrupts brain connectivity and reduces memory function in adolescents and young adults
Study reveals localized brain changes in adolescents and young adults post-COVID, including reduced hippocampal volume and disrupted connectivity, correlating with impaired working memory. These findi...
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In light of the Alberta report I am re-upping our paper on the impact of mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the context of covid-19. We had to deal with a real full court press of individuals trying to get the journal to take this down. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Impact of immune evasion, waning and boosting on dynamics of population mixing between a vaccinated majority and unvaccinated minority
Background We previously demonstrated that when vaccines prevent infection, the dynamics of mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated sub-populations is such that use of imperfect vaccines markedly d...
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Louise Hidinger, PhD @theingredientslist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hoping to get as many signatures as possible on this to gain the attention of City of Toronto officials. Please share widely!! As far as I know, a city-wide #IAQ policy in place could be a first in Canada. #CleanAir #CleanIndoorAir #IndoorAirQuality
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And that was it. Long overdue. I have moved off Twitter. Logging out, deleting the apps.
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North Box Systems @northboxsystems.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We're up to 4% of our goal with 27 days left! I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback. Please share or consider supporting this project: igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT... #CovidIsNotOver
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
An "odd looking salute" - so says the Toronto Star. There is nothing odd about fascism. It's arrogance and it's evil.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A+ Tweet
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There is no doubt about what certain symbols and gestures mean, especially when you put them into context of an individual or societies recent and well documented statements/behaviours. Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting.
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
There is a lot wrong with this house sub committee. However, I graps to understand why some peope vehemently defend EH, Daszak and GoF research when there are plenty of smoking guns, indicating the possibility of a lab leak. We still need a proper covid origins investigation. One we may never get.
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This will be spectacularly ratioed. Also note the US hand coming from the left. In visual communication, the good people come from the left. They know that.
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
After finding out how these charities work I have stopped giving. I know of others who have come to the same conclusion.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/12/2024
The chart Spotify doesn't want you to see.
Chart of platform, plays per stream, and streams to get to $1,000:

Tidal	$0.013 -	76,924
Apple Music	$0.01 -	100,000
Amazon Music	$0.004	- 250,000
Spotify	$0.0032 -	312,500
Youtube Music	$0.008 -	125,000
Pandora	$0.0013	- 769,231
Deezer	$0.0064 -	156,250
Qobuz	$0.043 -	23,255
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Dear @cnn.com Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders. Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does. Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media. Canada will resist.
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Brian Fog @uselesspriest.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Everything is on the patient. Everything. Finding out how the illness works. Finding out you need to pace (despite what you're told). Deciding how to much risk to take with infection. Finding out how to mitigate infection. Deciding how much risk to take with treatment.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Explanation post: Those who followed me on X know I posted about medical access - including vaccines - the need for masks and the need for dogs. I never posted about politics. Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada. This is the tip a huge iceberg:
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Looking forward reading this one!
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have to get up and start my day now so maybe I’ll continue this later, but in Nov 2022 we found out that PHAC and CADTH (now CDA) had been keeping a few hundred people total across every province and territory in Canada, including CMOHs, informed on LC since JULY 2020.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This should be front page news. 70% of patients requiring the hospital for Covid CAUGHT it in healthcare. That’s an alarming amount of completely preventable hospitalizations. Healthcare settings know how to stop spread. Clean air & mandatory respirators. Forcibly infecting patients is wrong 🧵/1
Blue chart from the GIG Cymru NHS Wales. It reads

Number of inpatient COVID-19 cases in hospital in Wales on 17/11/2024

Number of inpatient cases in hospital 266
Number of community acquired cases 44
Number of indeterminate acquisition cases 37
Number of hospital acquired cases 185 
Number of inpatient cases in critical care 3
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Marie Snyder @mariesnyder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Stopping universal masking and SARS-CoV-2 testing was associated with a significant increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections relative to community infections. Restarting the masking of health care workers was associated with a significant decrease." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Testing and Masking Policies and Hospital-Onset Respiratory Viral Infections
This cohort study examines the ratio between hospital- and community-onset respiratory viral infections at different levels of testing and masking from 2020 to 2024.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 18/11/2024
Conservatives announce new innocuous thing they’re terrified of
thebeaverton.com
Conservatives announce new innocuous thing they're terrified of
“Like all bullies, conservatives are deeply afraid of pretty much everything."
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The whole CAN-PCC fiasco is of interest from various perspectives, but one of the most significant is the demonstration that even McMaster and Cochrane working together can't make GRADE rigorous. simonspichak.beehiiv.com/p/everything...
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Everything Wrong with Canada's Proposed Long COVID Recommendations
The proposed Canadian guidelines for treating Long COVID pose harm to patients and risk psychologizing the disease.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Imagine how much suffering would be avoided if we had good booster uptake? If vaccines remain available to all instead of restricted to ‘vulnerables’? If covid vaccines were promoted to children as well as other vaccines are…
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
This and this again. Parents are legally obligated to keep their child safe. What happens when they harm or kill a child with an infectious disease? Why this question hasn’t been asked and laws developed is beyond me. Thank you @toshiakima.bsky.social
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
New on Corruptario today, from Morgan. The skinny on private nursing agencies in Ontario, and how Bill 124 was written to help them grow. open.substack.com/pub/corrupta...
Screenshot from Corruptario. Bill 124 was written to enrich healthcare staffing agencies. Putting the healthcare workforce into private hands sets the stage for private hospitals.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Lawyers representing long-term care residents who suffered or died during the COVID-19 pandemic argued a class-action suit against hundreds of homes is the best way for those patients — and their loved ones — to get justice.
thetrillium.ca
Arguments begin in proposed class action against 304 long-term care homes
Joel Rochon argued the homes took a 'wait-and-see' approach, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
The base rate for Long COVID without vaccine is very high. Long COVID after vaccine is still very common though. Most LC people I know were vaccinated before they got the infection that gave them Long COVID.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
At what point will the free world wake up to the importance of defeating Russia in Ukraine? Russia has been waging a covert war against the West for many years, through active measures & malign influence. But failure to recognize the current reality, is willful blindness, complicity or madness.
Tweet by @Kasparov63

You are certain to lose a war you refuse to admit you are in. Putin began his assault on the Western democratic order while still a member of the G7. What started with election interference and corruption is now open warfare, but Europe is still in denial.
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Roland Giersig @roland.giersig.net · 30/12/2023
Ja. Leider. Wie beheben wir das Problem?
Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Intelligenz schweigen soll, damit die Dummheit nicht beleidigt wird.
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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 15/12/2023
Toronto - bookings for Novavax XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine available on reservation.frontdesksuite.ca/tph/novavaxc... (bottom of page) Current avail. at North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Street, for Dec 19 and 20 Source: twitter.com/shgariepy/st...
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Elizabeth @elizajody.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
"Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19" from StatsCan www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
1 in 5 Canadians has had COVID.
1 in 9 has had long term symptoms.
7 in 10 experienced symptoms daily.
two thirds sought health care for symptoms and did not receive adequate care
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Marc Brupbacher @marcbrup.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Die Pisa-Studie wurde mit Spannung erwartet. Wie gross würde das Lerndefizit wegen den Pandemie-Massnahmen sein? Fazit: Es gibt keine Lerndefizite wegen geschlossenen Schulen. In 🇸🇪, wo die Schulen offen waren, ist der Rückgang grösser als im OECD-Schnitt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/pisa-und-pan...
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Remember the "iron ring" Thuggy promised around long term care, covering up the horrific massacre, silencing the people who saw it, and passing legislation so survivors could not sue LTC companies? They told that same lie in the UK, even used the same words. All IDU countries did. #IDUPlaybook
Tweet from Haggis UK: Matt Hancock finally admits there was not a protective ring around care homes.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
I am once again reminding you that Delta airlines pressured the CDC to shorten the Covid isolation period from 10 to 5 days just before the height of the Omicron surge. They did, and then Delta cut sick time in half. And controllers can’t strike. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/b...
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Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink
A nationwide shortage of controllers has resulted in an exhausted and demoralized work force that is increasingly prone to making dangerous mistakes.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/11/2023
Remote work has made employment more accessible than ever, and increased the number of disabled people with jobs. Working from home can also cut the carbon footprint of employees in half. Forcing people back to the office goes against workers' rights, disability justice, and climate justice.
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Scoop: Inside the Biden White House's aggressive back-to-office push
The White House chief of staff wants to inject more urgency into the effort.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
The fact that anyone living in a province with a Conservative premier is considering voting Conservative at the federal level boggles the mind. #onpoli #DougFordIsCorrupt #NeverVoteConservative
A MadLib called Conservative Math with a picture of Doug Ford on it.

Sorry folks! We don't have any money for [choose from column A].
We're spending it all on [choose from column B].

Column A Choices
• health care
• public education
• nurses or teachers
• paid sick days
• autism supports
• ODSP increases
• the environment

Column B Choices
• parking lots
• legal fees
• gifts to donors
• deals for developers
• a mega spa
•  court challenges
• whatever we want
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Canada had 6.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people in 1984, but just 2.5 per 1,000 people by 2018. Both Conservative and Liberal governments contributed to this decline, so finger-pointing not useful. We need to reinvest in hospital surge capacity via more staffed beds.
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Allard @allards.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Far right party wins national elections in the Netherlands. Dutch politics has been steadily moving to the right for decades ('verrechtsen'). The Netherlands is not the social democratic / liberal country people may think it is.
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Dutch general election live: ‘no party can ignore us’, declares Geert Wilders after exit poll pu...
Voters cast ballots until 9pm in elections that could set country on different course after Mark Rutte’s four consecutive governments
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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
At 4.5 years of age, pandemic kids had higher vocabulary, visual memory, and overall cognitive performance compared with pre-pandemic kids - schon doof wenn die politisch ideologische Mädchenstunde so auseinanderfällt ⁦‪ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cognitive and Emotional Well-Being of Preschoolers Before and During COVID-19
This cross-sectional study compares cognitive and emotional development scores of preschool-aged Canadian children exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic with scores
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