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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell

@drhanwell.bsky.social
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🌾🌈 Canadian Epidemiologist & Human Biologist (esp #Nutrition) #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #LandBack #CleanTheAir #CovidIsAirborne Director @ONSchoolSafety.bsky.social Opinions my own.

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Karuna S @karunas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Schools are shared indoor spaces, making clean air essential to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.” If filters are too loud, try turning them down instead of off. Better yet, use a PC-fan filter, they’re so quiet and efficient.
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 09/02/2026
call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas
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Ebony add me on heyebie.blacksky.app! 🖤✌🏾 @heyebie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
my chills have chills (even if it was just BB loving his inner child, it's all beautiful!)
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TorontoBikeMama @mamatoronto.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
cleanindoorairto.ca
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ontario is having a BAD time with flu. On this note! I’m looking for anyone who might have old snapshots from ACES that 1. Display only influenza-like illness data & 2. Use the old ACES definition of “historic average” (ie using prepandemic data for the historical avg, not a rolling 2y avg).
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Please use every opportunity to put this in front of people being pressured to let EBM/GRADE and "evidence synthesis" gatekeep and rent-seek their way into power over science. Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today. #MedSky #SciSky
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Respiratory consequences of N95-type Mask usage in pregnant healthcare workers—a controlled clinical study - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
Background Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have led to guidelines recommending the routine use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers, many of whom are women of childbearing age. The resp...
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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Covld informed and #IAQ advocates in #Canada… here’s a chance to #MakeYourNoise: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sv/oRvPT6I/W...
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2026 Webinars - Have Your Say!
We're planning our 2026 Speaker Series webinars and we'd love your input.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Long COVID can leave people more disabled than 98% of the population — with struggles rivaling stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, even Parkinson’s. This is far more than “just fatigue.” theconversation.com/long-covid-i... #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #NewsSky #EMSky #NurseSky #PedsSky
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Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s
Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.
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Jen needs a Wishing Well @jenmindelen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
More proof that it is not merely a "respiratory disease" (which are threatening enough as it is!) Covid is a full on vascular disease with multiple organ involvement, including - and especially - the brain Do your best not to get it and spread it, please
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Will Canada denounce the violent illegal actions committed by Israel against the unarmed humanitarian flotilla? www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
All eyes on Gaza! All eyes on the flotilla! BREAKING: IsraelI naval vessels have already began ILLEGAL action against the flotilla in International waters. www.instagram.com/reel/DPRo2d-... Live updates: www.youtube.com/live/Hd-V93t...
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Live: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨Another livestream of the Global Sumud Flotilla being attacked by the IOF on international waters while all governments sit and watch like the complicit cowards they are www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
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Live: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Thanks for sharing that article, @onschoolsafety.bsky.social! Evidence just keeps piling up: #CleanAir is the way: bsky.app/profile/mjna...
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My kiddo took home a gold medal from a tournament in Ottawa this weekend and I took home these pics from the #MarchOnOttawa. Canada is on the wrong side of history by not taking a stronger stance against Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide of Palestinians. #FreePalestine
Screenshot from the Jewish Antizionist Network. Block text “Ottawa: Over 30,000 March for Gaza” over photo of a very large crowd filling up the width of an urban street. Palestinian flags, signs and keffiyehs can be seen in the crowdA person wearing a keffiyeh and mask stands on an urban street holding a sign that says “Israel has murdered more journalists than any ‘conflict’ in human history.Two people stand amidst a crowd on an urban street holding signs that read “GENOCIDE IS NOT SELF DEFENCE” and “TO STAND WITH PALESTINE IS TO STAND WITH HUMANITY”. They are both wearing keffiyehs and colours of the Palestinian flag.
Photo of crowd participating in the March. A sign in the centre of the photo reads “First they came for the Pro-Palestinian… and did you speak out? No, Your Passivity + Indifference during a Genocide is Complicity!”
Keffiyehs and Palestinian flags are prominent in the crowd.
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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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sighborg👩‍🦼🫁🩸🩻 @sigh-b0rg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
My pharmacist told me the other day that anyone in proximity to me can also be vaccinated early because of my risk factors so if you're in a similar situation &/or live with someone who meets high risk criteria, it's worth seeing if you can also get vaccinated.
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Back to school means back to poor indoor air quality for our kids in Ontario’s schools and school buses. Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance. These door hangers could serve as a helpful reminder that it’s time to clean the air.
A door hanger cutout with a dark blue background.

Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance.

Image of a white school with a yellow heart.

Time to clean the air

Ontario school safety logo

Ontarioschoolsafety.comA door hanger cutout with a yellow background.

Each day, we breathe around 11,000 litres of air-enough to fill 20,000 water bottles.

Image of two blue water bottles.

Time to clean the air

Ontario school safety logo

Ontarioschoolsafety.comA door hanger cutout with a light blue background.

About 5 children in each classroom have asthma, which can be worsened by poor indoor air.

Image of yellow lungs.

Time to clean the air

Ontario school safety logo

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We spend 90% of our time indoors. Indoor air can be 2-5 times worse than outside. Kids spend most of their time at school indoors.

Image of a yellow tree.

Time to clean the air

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Ontarioschoolsafety.com
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media: mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
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How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms
Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media: mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
mondoweiss.net
How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms
Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Canada’s largest union calls for release of Chris Smalls while American unions stay largely silent
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“After excluding those cancer patients who died from Covid, the researchers found that cancer patients who tested positive for Covid faced an almost doubling of risk of dying from cancer compared to those patients with cancer who had tested negative.”
independent.co.uk
Covid and flu can awaken ‘sleeping’ cancer cells, scientists find
New research suggests that respiratory viruses could cause these dormant cancer cells to multiply
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Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thirty-one Israeli signatories call for action from the international community: "The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | Letters
Letter: Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community
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Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Even the most ignorant Americans won't be able to deny the Gaza Holocaust for much longer. "Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People...It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA." stevendonziger.substack.com/p/shock-isra...
Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People.
The corporate media ignores the scale of the horror. It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA. Official data grossly underestimates the death toll.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 24/07/2025
"Netanyahu is now hoping the concentration camp, or possibly camps [..] will be the gun forcing Palestinians to 'volunteer' to leave." "It is a plan that [..] would have been worthy of Adolf Eichmann." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Ethiopia #Libya #Indonesia #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
mondoweiss.net
Israel and the Trump administration are carrying out their final solution in Gaza
The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
New study finds that air filters in schools reduces the number of sick days kids take. Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now. It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!
newscientist.com
Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent
Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Peak Colonialism on Canada Day. Please see and share Instagram post by @ravendavisart (and offer support) who was injured yesterday by aggressive Toronto police during what had been a #PeacefulRally of #Bill5. www.instagram.com/p/DLm462hA5Vi/ #KillBill5 #LandBack
Screenshot of black text on light background from Instagram post. 
“The video is very hard for me to watch and listen to. I am deeply disturbed by the exaggerated, unnecessary, and violent actions by the Toronto Police, the OPP, and special tactical services who defied the right to peaceful protest and committed crimes against us physically and emotionally.

I witnessed friends and community members being jumped, struck and arrested by multiple cops. Horses being used to trample over children, animals and elders. No accountability will be had. I have made my profile public for the next 24hrs and kindly ask that you share this post to help get the word out about this bill and the canada day events that didn't make it to the news.”
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“You may be inclined to shrug off these harms, given the limited duration of heat waves. But you’d also be shrugging off the province’s obligation to provide students with fundamentally safe learning spaces all year long, not just when the cost of doing so is convenient” @flannerydean.bsky.social
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
On CBC radio, a teacher is being interviewed. She started the day with "25 students" and ended with "11". Students were sent home w/ "headaches" & other issues. It was simply too hot. CBC radio is taking more calls. Time to adopt the Heat Stress Act. #Heatwave www.ola.org/en/legislati...
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Heat Stress Act, 2024
Bill 222 from Parliament 43 Session 1 of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Heat Stress Act, 2024.
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I called the premier’s office at 416-325-1941 and told them: 1. many students can’t safely attend school (let alone learn!) when their classroom feels like 40 something degrees AND 2. the government must allocate ***sufficient budget*** so that Boards can fund installation of heat pumps or A/C.
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Intentional Parenting @juliebinmore.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I called Doug Ford & said given predictably high temps in June & September we need a policy re: school closures on dangerously hot days or an investment in air quality including AC. Also TDSB and Min. of Ed should turn off AC in their offices out of respect for staff & students! 416-325-1941
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
An exciting legal precedent was just set in BC 🎉 The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
hcamag.com
Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This makes absolutely no sen… oh.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
As long as we can fight off the ID cosplay-scientist types who figure they are so much smarter than everyone else that they have nothing to learn, and the rules should not apply in their little empires (no matter how much harm they do).
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Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I was in Lillehammer, Norway last week for the World Expression Forum and spoke with Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. She had some choice words re: Canada suppressing its citizens rights vis a vis Israel’s genocide. youtu.be/ap120gVEa1Y?...
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EXCLUSIVE: Irene Khan UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
YouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We’ve mentioned this before: Ryan’s Law requires that schools take action to protect students with asthma by reducing the risk of exposure to asthma triggers. This is one way to get AC into classrooms during a heatwave to protect vulnerable students! #OntEd #Asthma
Please let people know that their child has asthma or any other medical condition that requires them to have a/c, if they bring a Dr.
Note, the board will make sure an a/c unit is put in the classroom.
I had a student do this, and couldn't believe how quickly it happened.
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Solidarity protest happening today in Toronto outside the US Consulate. #Never51 #ElbowsUp #NoFascists #DownWithMAGA
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
bsky.app/profile/midd... #BreakTheSiege
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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
During an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation, World Food Programme director Cindy McCain rejected z1o claims that H4mas is stealing aid entering Gaza. “This doesn’t have anything to do with H4mas. It has simply to do with the fact that these people are starving to death,” McCain said. #z1oLies
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
When I see a famous name trending, I can’t help but brace for news of their death. So glad #BillyJoel hasn’t died but am sad to hear of his health issues. His music has been in the background of so much of my life, his songs kindling especially fond memories of my dearly-departed mother-in-law.
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Canadians: Use this @leadnowca.bsky.social form to be connected by phone with your MP’s office so you can advocate for a full arms embargo. Threats aren’t enough. Action can’t wait. Canada must take strong action to stop Israel’s #genocide of Palestinians. win.newmode.net/leadnow/arms...
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 21/05/2025
I don’t know why Israel starving babies was the breaking point and not bombing, shooting and torturing Palestinians the last 19 months, but now that you’re here, pressure your govt to sanction Israel with an arms embargo and end this genocide, not just make dramatic statements.
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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don’t let the entire province become the rights-infringing mess that we have in #stevendelduca’s Vaughan where people cannot, for example, protest crimes (inc war crimes!) when they are committed in houses or worship. Tell your MPP to say no to Bill 16 actionnetwork.org/letters/d461...
actionnetwork.org
Protesting is Our Charter Right: Tell your MPP to Stop Bill 16
On May 8, 2025, Liberal MPP John Fraser brought forward a Bill 16, a Private Members Bill called “Sacred Spaces, Safe Places Act, 2025”. He said, “[w]hat it does is establish that our churches, our mo...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just try to process this.
The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. 

For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. 

The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The simple metal box that could change the world. This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social, @davidelfstrom.bsky.social, Zack Deis healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social #COVID19
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The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
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