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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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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Right?! I still can’t figure out it if was actually Liam or not, but even if not, it was a nod to him still powerful enough symbolism to get me instantly choked up. #BadBunny #Liam

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Ebony @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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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It’s still wild to me how casually everyone just accepts this.

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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...

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Clean Indoor Air Toronto

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It has. I’ve compared old v new definitions of “historic” for ILI + pneumonia data in 0-4 & 5-17, inc adjustment for pop’n growth. Need to doublecheck my work before sharing implications, ie how many SD we are above the pre-pandemic avg. Expect delays; my ILI is evolving into pneumonia 🫠 #irony

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A Google lens search produced this which shows only influenza-like illness (ILI) & pneumonia. I hope to find more figures w old historic avg to see what inferences can be made. But I’m toast rn. My kiddo brought home ILI from school. She and *many* peers have missed 1-2wks of school due to ILI.

Viral Respiratory Mapper displaying pneumonia and influenza-like illness hospice admissions data from ~Jan 2020 to ~Jan 2022 for ages 0-4 and 5-17 yo. The number of admissions for both age groups is largely below the historic (2015-2019) avg until ~ late March 2022 (coinciding with the revocation of mask mandates in schools).

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Thank you. I‘d hoped to find figures with just the subset of influenza-like illness to determine the pre-pandemic historic avg for it. Wish I’d taken more screenshots of the subsets of data… but how was I to know they’d switch to a 2y running avg? All I know is the old historic avg was a lot lower.

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

h/t to @dreamerdee.bsky.social for pointing out ACES definition of historic baseline changing from pre-pandemic to rolling 2 year. We’ve had some unprecedented “respiratory seasons” recently. This produces an extremely high “historic baseline” which essentially normalizes unprecedented illness.

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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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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Also tagging @dgbassani.bsky.social! Any chance you have old snapshots from ACES for *just* influenza-like illness prior to their changing the “historic” baseline? We’re now at >2 SD above the 2y rolling “historic” baseline which was calculated during years of extremely high rates of illness…😬

Viral Respiratory Mapper -ACES admissions graph demonstrating a spike in Influenza-like hospital admissions in Nov to current early Dec 2025. The current number of admissions is approximately 60 which is more than two standard deviations above the rolling two year average.

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hi! I have a favour to ask. I’m looking for the ACES old historic (prepandemic) averages for influenza-like illness specifically. Do you have any snapshots of this? Current flu data on ACES are very concerning - even with revised definition of “historic” as 2y rolling avg (which obscures severity).

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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

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

Beautifully done! Definitely have learned the hard way to arrange furniture “just so“ in my 1.5 story century home to help reduce head injuries 🫠 Space is very tight, as you say, so may end end up just padding the ceilings - or adding some sort of dangling decor to provide early warning… 🙃

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

More attention on this unarmed, peaceful civilian flotilla that seeks to break Israel’s ILLEGAL naval blockade of Gaza to create a humanitarian corridor is needed to help prevent another Israeli massacre of peaceful, unarmed civilians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m... #SumudFlotilla

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‘I was on the deadly 2010 Gaza flotilla and am sailing again. Israel could kill us’

Ewa Jasiewicz, a British-Polish activist and journalist, was on board the 2010 Gaza aid flotilla in which nine activists were killed. As she sails to Gaza for a second time, she tells Alex Croft that ...

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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 crowd

A 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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Burden @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.

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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

With military bases in what seems like just about every country on the planet and an almost unfathomable military budget, the US has effectively ensured that nobody can come to help save it from itself.

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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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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

My first chiro was apparently a vaccine expert, too! ….

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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 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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Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell @drhanwell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I’m sick of our leaders idle threats yet no action to stop Israeli war crimes. This is no longer “just” genocide but a full on holocaust. And yet my country does nothing to help and even lied about a so-called arms embargo. Oh Canada (*spits on the ground*), for shame. Shame on #markcarney.

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Jamie 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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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!

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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

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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

But somehow we’re supposed to trust these ghouls to oversee assets of school boards with deficits… deficits due to govt chronic underfunding! I predict many windfalls for Ford’s developer buddies if the Ministry of Ed succeeds in what I view as hostile takeovers of the boards they’ve impoverished.

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