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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 12h

Ok peeps explain what the purpose of this is. I don’t think there actually can be any wrong answers?

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh that is hilarious. Thanks for posting it as I’d missed it.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wonderful place. Don’t get there often enough.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“new billing code so doctors can be reimbursed for filing reports of side effects.” Nothing could go wrong there. 🤦‍♂️

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have this in my calendar. It was obviously of some significance when I put it in (possibly years ago) but I have zero recall of why I would have done.

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sure this is fine because I was told vaping was much safer than smoking.🤪

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was never about “harm reduction”. It was always about increasing the market.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“A judge has ordered the Alberta government and Alberta Health Services (AHS) to disclose records they had sought to keep private, or claimed did not exist, to the agency’s former chief executive officer Athana Mentzelopoulos” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

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'Gaps and deficiencies': Government and AHS ordered to disclose records in Mentzelopoulos lawsuit

Alberta gvernment and AHS records including meeting minutes and email attachments must be disclosed to the former AHS CEO, a judge ruled

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2026 Aus snow season - first season on record that Spencers Creek hit 0cm snow in September… (Can also see this on snowdepth.info ) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Snow Depth Australia

Explore annual snow depth measurements in Australia from 1954 to 2026

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Slopaganda” Should be word of the year.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In Canada there are many more applicants than places. Canada does OK ish in recruiting applicants from rural/marginalised/lower socioeconomic. Could still be a lot better. But it’s the places that’s the issue.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Except you have to find them. I am on call three hours away from home this weekend as they have been unable to recruit more anesthesiologists here, in part because they have not been able to recruit more surgeons and OBGYNs. Can’t just make us out of thin air.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Frozen solid? It’s only October 🙃

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Candace obviously has a story to tell. 🙃

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh no, now it's the bin chickens!

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@doritreiss.bsky.social @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social @joho.bsky.social Thank you for this. A complicated but important read (so I am ever more grateful to those who can write this stuff!).

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I’ve heard this one before… Pick your decade… pick your immigrant to blame.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well he replied… but didn’t “answer” the question. Blocked now so I don’t think can screenshot.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately you can’t ask the O.P. this very pertinent question. It appears I’ve been blocked for… asking a question.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes.. that is my hypothesis as well. Would just like to see something other than my “intuition”. 🙃

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Which would indicate that those who got myocarditis from the vaccine were the ones who actually benefited the most and therefore were more in need of vaccination. If this were all true.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thus, what I’m interested in is the flow on from your question: would those who got vaccine induced myocarditis have got more severe MIS/myocarditis if they’d encountered the virus unvaccinated.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely… the relative risk is not even comparable. The smart evidence based decision was/is to vaccinate. However we are not rational beings. Acts of commission are viewed more harshly than acts of omission. Thus the one death “associated” with the vaccine is “weighted” more harshly.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3. ..suffer more severe myocarditis from disease. Thus the vaccine reaction saved their lives as it potentially indicated the more severe reaction they risked if infected. But that’s purely from my family physician, non immunologist lens. I keep hoping someone who knows will answer 🤷‍♂️

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2. With reference to your second question I have intermittently been trying to find that out. Given the mechanism of myocardial injury described in both COVID and vaccination my hypothesis would be that, those who suffered myocarditis from the vaccine would (be genetically predisposed to?) /3

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Difficult to tease out the causation versus association in the setting of meeting the criteria for rheumatic fever. The balance of the evidence presented in the paper suggest the cause of death was rheumatic carditis and the mRNA was a “temporal” association only. And it was one not plural. /2

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3. The paper reporting the death: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38400177/ “An antistreptolysin O (ASO) dosage showed high titers. The presence of arthritis, elevated ASO, and carditis fulfills the criteria for rheumatic fever.” _Association_ with one death but evidence of another cause.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2. “numerous worries over its adverse effects have emerged during the pandemic alongside various case reports, Reference Tan, Huang and Mei44–Reference Valore, Junker and Heilmann48 summarised in Table 4.” In table there’s one paediatric death. The rest were listed as full recovery. /3

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I dig a bit deeper into this statement by checking the references. “in children, and there have been rare, documented vaccine-associated deaths in this population.” Refs44-48 seem to be where they are deriving this statement from. /2

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I missed that part of the bribe.. sorry memo..

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So all the magic revenue from the tariffs magically disappears if the Democrats win Congress? That scans.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Secondary spread in the community led to hundreds more infections and four additional deaths. The Cargill cases were later linked to at least 22 other outbreaks,” #covid

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

albertapolitics.ca/wp-content/u... “More than 950 workers at the plant, which was nearly half of the work force, were infected with the virus in the spring of 2020. Eighteen workers had to be hospitalized and two died “

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is not meant to happen? Seems to be the default setting?

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You weren’t really interested in an answer were you? “the person who acquires more knowledge develops an enhanced illusion of her skill and becomes unrealistically overconfident.” Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nicely done… and good timing indeed.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... “The #RSV vaccine will be available for adults and residents living in long-term care homes and assisted living facilities 75 and older, as well as First Nations, Inuit and Métis people aged 60 and older.”

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B.C. high-risk seniors to be offered free RSV vaccine

Beginning Sept. 29, B.C. seniors with the highest risk of serious illness from Respiratory Syncytial Virus will be able to receive a vaccine at no-cost.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A superb piece of writing this “In a rare moment of being a demonstrable vertebrate.. ”. I am moved to recall one of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating’s quips “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up”.

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