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Specialize in constructive discomfort. And never mind covid, six years in, I haven't had *any* cold or flu — ask me how. #VirusFreeAirNow Remember the 761st.

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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 20m
In fact, there is an objective measure of American white supremacism — just google felony fraud among people of colour, count up the years in prison, and multiply by 34.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MalignantConservatism
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.
sciencealert.com
Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unless you're one of the 6 million Biden voters who chose to stay home instead of voting for Harris — then it was you who locked the door.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today we lost a national treasure, while an 80 year old fascist-grifter-pedo continues to defile the WH. You know, in case you all are still labouring under the delusion that karma is a thing... #VoteTrueProgressive
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If they're claiming "economics", then they all need to be fired on the spot. To the extent that these vaccines have a prevention impact, the economics unequivocally favour vaccinating everyone. Of course, the economic case for layering on #VirusFreeAir is even stronger... 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“If you catch COVID-19 or another infection and work may be the cause, you can make a workers compensation claim without your manager's agreement. Your employer’s insurer decides whether to accept the claim.” #ASMOF
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latest protest at Yale on Trump‘s attacks on universities. Alumni, faculty, students stand together along with our elected representatives against encroaching authoritarianism. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/10/02/l...
newhavenindependent.org
"Lipstick" Traces Latest Yalie Protest - New Haven Independent
Against potential settlement with the Trump administration over the university's admissions policies.
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Parkland Institute report: Six years on, the first independent investigation on Cargill’s tragic COVID-19 outbreak shows how the provincial government’s flawed response failed workers, communities, and Albertans. www.parklandinstitute.ca/cargill
parklandinstitute.ca
Essential and Expendable: How Alberta’s COVID-19 Response Failed Cargill Workers
New Parkland Institute report: Six years on, the first independent investigation on Cargill’s tragic COVID-19 outbreak shows how the provincial government’s flawed response failed workers, communities...
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alberta's Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
thetyee.ca
Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Until now, ending a legal strike required MPs to stand in the House and vote for it, in public, with their names recorded. That accountability was a guardrail. Bill C-39 removes this and calls the removal reinforcement. Canadians, should not accept the vocabulary. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The rebuttal for conservative's ceaseless fear-mongering about leaving an untenable debt burden for "our children"... 👇
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This story gives me life. On November 22, 2022, Bolden was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
IN 1939, A 20-YEAR-OLD FARMER IN TENNESSEE LOST HIS LIFE FOR ASKING A DEN STORE FOR A RECEIPT. EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS LATER, HIS GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, KYRA
HARRIS BOLDEN, TOOK A SEAT ON MICHIGAN'S HIGHEST COURT.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet, in America, not even democrats are prepared to talk about redlining... let alone do anything to eliminate the longstanding white-supremacist practice... which arose under Roosevelt, btw...
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I shudder to think what Stephen would have dared, had he lucked into having trump as his foil...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Worth highlighting the difference between worker deaths at Cargill and the silence on everyday practice in healthcare: when OHS failures kill nurses, no one cares. Hospital IPC owns OHS, controls diagnoses and treatment, does their own body counts - and buries their own mistakes. #polisky #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com
Protecting HCWs and patients: An impossible fix, or an essential one?
As of March 2022, 12 AHS HCWs had died from COVID-19. Presumably, this hasn’t stopped, but AHS stopped reporting them as of that date.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any chance, Joe, you could, once and for all, do an unequivocal mea culpa for your own vile actions, which contributed to the groupthink that got him elected in the first place?
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Everything about this referendum on separation and the other nine questions on the ballot – among other things they attempt to scapegoat immigrants for many of the province’s problems – is contemptible. It’s a phony, illegitimate exercise Ms. Smith has lent credibility to in order to save her job."
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: The ugly reckoning coming for Danielle Smith
The referendum, including the nine non-secession questions, is contemptible
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You: "the thing you suggested won't work." Also you, five minutes later: "Ontario needs to do the thing you suggested." Truly next-level trolling...
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still not seeing anything relevant — I'm going to move on...
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm aware — and it's actually a masters, but how is this relevant to my point?
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This should serve to obviate the societal deification of doctors — fundamentally, they're flawed humans like the rest of us. For example, this summer, my family doctor nearly killed me with a prescription that's contraindicated by a finding on the bloodwork *he* ordered.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember, we can have #VirusFreeAir.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember, we can have #VirusFreeAir...
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
cbc.ca
Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We did 14 hours at the Ottawa Hospital General, before we saw a doctor. It was 22 hours, before we got tests and treatment completed for what turned out to be an UTI with a-typical symptoms. Why aren't ER nurses upgraded to nurse-practitioners?
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A very long way to the right of Stephen Harper. Whatever election is next in your jurisdiction, vote as far left as possible. #Solidarity
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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Talarico is what America 🇺🇸 & Texans need, Universal Healthcare. Republicans have stripped away the ACA subsidies knocking 20 million Americans off Healthcare.They have for voting purposes delayed until after the Midterms a huge stripping away of Medicare in January. $40 million in debt for What🤔⚖️🇺🇸😡😎
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Without going into details I have had to support people through hearing loss, loss of appetite cos they can’t taste their food, losing their voice, losing their job, losing their company if they are a sole trader… You think this can’t happen to you?
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
...access to #FarUVC tech. And #CorsiRosenthalBoxes are highly customizable to suit specific scenarios.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What both also clearly, if unsurprisingly, failed to cover is the ready availability of facility improvements that can safety levels for one-way masking situations as good as, or better than a full mask requirement. Boosting the air-change cycle is often the easiest, but in the US you have...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An absolutely damning report on the unnecessary COVID deaths of workers at the Cargill plant in High River, AB, highlighting public health and infection control's mismanagement of the crisis, and failure to engage OHS or follow the precautionary principle. albertapolitics.ca/wp-content/u...
As the evidence marshalled in this report shows, the massive
outbreak associated with Cargill was by no means inevitable. It
occurred because systems designed to protect worker health and
safety failed. And they failed for a number of interrelated reasons.
OHS and AHS Did Not Adopt the
Precautionary Principle
The virus SARS-CoV-2 is spread among humans via aerosol
transmission. The period during which someone with COVID-19
can transmit the virus varies depending on factors such as the
variant and severity of illness, but transmission can occur both
before and after symptom onset. Some infected individuals never
experience illness but still spread the virus to others.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Hinshaw and many other
public health leaders believed that COVID-19 only spread via
large droplets and that asymptomatic transmission was not
occurring. As a result, AHS EPH primarily focused on physical
barriers, physical distancing, hand-washing, and surgical masks as
preventative measures at Cargill.Cargill, AHS, and OHS did not consider the possible range of
aerosol transmission of the virus in a large crowded industrial
work setting and, therefore, did not prioritize — let alone consider
— higher-level control measures such as improved ventilation, air
filtration, and N95 (or equivalent) respirators.
Surgical masks, which were made mandatory at Cargill after April
16, provided inferior protection to workers working eight hours a
day, especially for those working in close quarters with inadequate
ventilation. Sometime between the closure of the facility (April
22) and its reopening (May 4), Alberta OHS came to believe that
tight-fitting, higher-filtration respirators (N95 or equivalent
masks) were required, as demonstrated by the ministerial order
approving KN95 masks (May 3) and OHS officers’ decision to wear
N95 masks during their May 4 inspection. However, the evidence
suggests that this view was not shared by Hinshaw.
Ventilation was not identified as a potential factor in the spread
at Cargill until early May, and even then, there is no evidence that
this pathway was further investigated by AHS or OHS.
Had OHS, AHS, and Cargill adopted the precautionary principle,
which requires taking proactive measures to maximize human
safety before the science about the transmission of a new virus
is known, more aggressive control measures would have been
adopted early on. If improved ventilation, provision of N95 masks
(or cartridge respirators), and other actions had been taken earlier,
hundreds of workers may have been spared from illness.None of the evidence we reviewed showed any communication
or coordination between AHS EPH officials and Alberta OHS at
this time. In response to our freedom of information requests for
email correspondence between the manager for OHS in Calgary
and several AHS officials who were directly involved in the Cargill
response, we were informed by the Government of Alberta’s
access to information that “a thorough search […] did not yield any
records responsive to your request.”195
By April 16, the total number of known confirmed positive cases
had reached approximately 550. At this point, there had only
been one in-person inspection of the plant, that being AHS’ April
7 visit, which resulted in non-binding recommendations. And, as
mentioned, there was no epidemiological analysis of the outbreak
showing the temporal pattern of the spread within the plant and
in the community.
An internal AHS MOH update on April 17 noted that “84% of
new COVID-19 cases [in the province] are in Calgary Zone, ‘most
related to Cargill.”196 By this time, a Cargill worker and union shop
steward had been admitted to an ICU. On April 18, another worker
would need life support care in the ICU. Cargill, AHS, and OHS had
lost control of the outbreak.Echoing Cargill’s response to the union’s April 12 letter, Dreeshen
cautioned workers not to listen to “inflammatory rhetoric” and
appealed to them to instead focus on information from public
health experts:
“…On this call are Alberta’s best medical minds and
they provide Alberta’s government with the best up
to date information on a daily basis and I would just
like to encourage everyone to not get distracted by
misleading noise or inflammatory rhetoric because
any government's primary goal — our core goal — is
to keep our people safe…”
Immediately after the town hall, Dreeshen posted on his social
media: “Directly communicated with [Cargill] workers to reassure
them that their worksite is safe.”217 Internal email messages
among senior officials with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry suggest there was also “a request” to share some “key
messages” about the safety of Cargill’s plant through Hinshaw’s
Twitter account.218
Hours after the town hall, Dr. Nick Etches, acting lead medical
officer of health for the Calgary Zone, wrote to colleagues
requesting assistance with an epidemiological analysis of
the outbreak:
“[Hu] just spoke with [Hinshaw] and she wants us
to answer some questions that will likely require
additional epi support. Essentially we want to
determine the proportion of the Cargill-associated
cases that are due to:
1) Workplace transmission
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
nytimes.com
Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yup, and allow me to introduce the moral imperative of #VirusFreeAir... #FluIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #CovidIsAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seriously. bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Judge us by the fate to which we toss out children. #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovidKids
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And, so, it begins... #WearARespirator
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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*** Ontario Virus Update | Sep 27 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID increased from 39 to 44 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 31 to 34 and RSV jumped from 1 to 18. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater
This stacked bar chart displays weekly new hospitalizations in Ontario specifically attributed to COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV. The data tracks the fluctuating volume of patients over time, highlighting seasonal surges and the relative contribution of each respiratory virus to the overall healthcare burden.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good for Jon — are Hakeem and Chuck on board?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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CovidSolutions @covidsolutions.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the wake of #LongCovidKids emerging, maybe also have them look into the viability of #VirusFreeAir in schools and on school buses. 👍 healthydebate.ca/2023/11/topi...
healthydebate.ca
‘It's the structures that are sick – it's not the kids’: Experts stress importance of clean air in schools - Healthy Debate
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