Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellKaruna 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. 032
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 09/02/2026call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas 365170806
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellEbony add me on heyebie.blacksky.app! 🖤✌🏾 @heyebie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026my chills have chills (even if it was just BB loving his inner child, it's all beautiful!) 031
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellTorontoBikeMama @mamatoronto.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Clean 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.caClean Indoor Air Toronto 115676
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Ontario 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). 120
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellMark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Please 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 #SciSkyaricjournal.biomedcentral.comRespiratory consequences of N95-type Mask usage in pregnant healthcare workers—a controlled clinical study - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection ControlBackground 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... 13210
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellMJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Covld informed and #IAQ advocates in #Canada… here’s a chance to #MakeYourNoise: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sv/oRvPT6I/W...lp.constantcontactpages.com2026 Webinars - Have Your Say!We're planning our 2026 Speaker Series webinars and we'd love your input. 173
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellCarolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Long 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 #PedsSkytheconversation.comLong COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’sLong 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. 07234
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellJen needs a Wishing Well @jenmindelen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025More 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 081
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Israel 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 7851192949
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellHeather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Will Canada denounce the violent illegal actions committed by Israel against the unarmed humanitarian flotilla? www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...youtube.com24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLAYouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 001
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025All 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...youtube.comLive: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coastYouTube video by Middle East Eye 101
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellIsis 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...youtube.comLive: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coastYouTube video by Middle East Eye 0127
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellMJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Thanks for sharing that article, @onschoolsafety.bsky.social! Evidence just keeps piling up: #CleanAir is the way: bsky.app/profile/mjna... 083
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellHeather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025My 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 075
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellRafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025bsky.app/profile/joes... 225979
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwellsighborg👩🦼🫁🩸🩻 @sigh-b0rg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025My 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. 3147
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellOntario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Back 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. 24320
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellHeather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media: mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...mondoweiss.netHow HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsroomsCanadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives. 073
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media: mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...mondoweiss.netHow HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsroomsCanadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives. 073
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellMike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Canada’s largest union calls for release of Chris Smalls while American unions stay largely silent 02510
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell#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.ukCovid and flu can awaken ‘sleeping’ cancer cells, scientists findNew research suggests that respiratory viruses could cause these dormant cancer cells to multiply 612870
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellJamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Thirty-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...theguardian.comThe starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | LettersLetter: Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community 035
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellJamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Even 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... 165
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellHarms 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 #EthnicCleansingmondoweiss.netIsrael and the Trump administration are carrying out their final solution in GazaThe 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… 196
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/06/2025New 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.comAir filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per centPutting 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 9323124
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Peak 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 010
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellOntario 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 2146
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellJames Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025On 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...ola.orgHeat Stress Act, 2024Bill 222 from Parliament 43 Session 1 of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Heat Stress Act, 2024. 79642
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I 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. 242
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellIntentional Parenting @juliebinmore.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I 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 042
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025An 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.comEmployer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaksMeasles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19 10378148
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellRichard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025This makes absolutely no sen… oh. 011
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellMark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025As 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). 2389
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellSamira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I 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?...youtu.beEXCLUSIVE: Irene Khan UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and ExpressionYouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA 052
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellOntario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 17/06/2025We’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 24323
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Solidarity protest happening today in Toronto outside the US Consulate. #Never51 #ElbowsUp #NoFascists #DownWithMAGA 071
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta 0940475
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025bsky.app/profile/midd... #BreakTheSiege 110
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellBad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 27/05/2025During 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 32220
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025When 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. 010
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Canadians: 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...win.newmode.netNew/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore 054
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellJen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 21/05/2025I 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. 314438
Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Don’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.orgProtesting is Our Charter Right: Tell your MPP to Stop Bill 16On 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... 100
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Just try to process this. 251185777
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" HanwellAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The 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 #COVID19healthydebate.caThe simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy DebateThis quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces. 1217878