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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe

@esmcslifer.bsky.social
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cat-wooed dog lover; 'citizen scientist'; former news/science/tech reporter; ES/MCS/immunocompromised; stitcher extraordinaire

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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@brownecfm.bsky.social Just saw the news item about the bouncy castle MRSA outbreak a year ago. Inquiring minds want to know... how in blazes does one sterilise a bouncy castle-?!
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@lindasepp.bsky.social This is horrible and needs way more publicity! If Canada passes Bill C-22, we Cdns lose what little online privacy we have left. Signal, Proton, DuckDuckGo, NordVPN, Windscribe have all said no -- they will leave Canada. YIKES! action.openmedia.org/page/190982/...
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OpenMedia Survey: Tell Ottawa How to Fix the Privacy Act
🇨🇦 Canada's Privacy Act is finally up for review. 40 years is long enough–don't let Ottawa rewrite the rules that govern all public sector agencies without YOU! Take our quick survey by June 15! 👉 htt...
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DoNoHarm BC @donoharmbc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Not based in British Columbia? @stillcovidingca.bsky.social just launched a Novavax campaign for all the provinces and territories! Check it out, and spread the word!
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
@frametoframenature.bsky.social ICYMI thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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The Birds Who Call Us Home | The Tyee
Purple martins spread joy as they return to their nest boxes in spring. But can we ward off an avian housing crisis?
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Only in Canada: NINE YEARS to get a decision out of the Canadian Human Rights tribunal on a discrimination Claim filed in 2017! And the feds want it quashed. They argue that all complaints against the federal police [RCMP] must be filed in a federal court, not CHRC. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Feds want court to toss out Burns Lake decision against RCMP
Ottawa is asking a Federal Court to throw out a decision by the CHRT against the RCMP in the case of a teacher in Burns Lake, B.C.
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
@ukhadds.bsky.social Just curious... are you planning to attend this, in July? www.caar-acra.ca
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Canadian Association of Aerosol Researchers (CAAR-ACRA)
CAAR-ACRA, the Canadian Association for Aerosol Research (Association canadienne pour la recherche sur les aérosols) aims to unite the Canadian community of aerosol researchers through both virtual an...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🧵(1/n) Some unsolicited advice for the federal @ndp.ca, after several months of trying to get them to acknowledge the existence of the #longCOVID community. Please repost and maybe they'll pay attention. @ndp.ca enough with the plastic Left™ machine politics, focus grouped BS, and message control.
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a picture of a cartoon character with the words hellooooo anybody home
ALT: a picture of a cartoon character with the words hellooooo anybody home
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@drkarenpinder.bsky.social Last one, I promise, unless I find what we started on. But this was fun... www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
FWIW, I've seen Margaret Atwood on Toronto transit several times. Also passed John Cleese on the sidewalk outside the Eaton Centre -- and he really does have a bit of a silly walk!
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
1/ @lindasepp.bsky.social @caton.bsky.social @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social New gut microbiome work "confounded" by odd results. Further investig. uncovered that test subjects all had a history of one or more of the following: antibiotics, anti-depressants, beta-blockers, anti-psychotics, Proton pump
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@seniorsfcan.bsky.social ICYMI op-ed from heads of nursing orgn: "Climate action is crucial for Canadians' health" www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
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Climate action is crucial for Canadians’ health
At a time when climate-driven hazards are already imposing escalating health impacts, the Carney government should adopt a clean energy transition as a nation-building project, say officials from the ...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Canadian Science Policy Centre has published my article, "The Next Pandemic Will Be Boring — And That’s the Danger" sciencepolicy.ca/posts/the-ne...
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The Next Pandemic Will Be Boring — And That’s the Danger - CSPC
For policymakers, journalists, and the public alike, the word “pandemic” conjures images of chaos: overwhelmed hospitals, press conferences, and nightly graphs of surging death tolls. Of the many less...
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Something is seriously wrong with DuckDuckGo; today Rebel News was the first hit in an online search. And it didn't contain any of the words I searched -- the other hits did.????
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Most people do NOT check their blood pressure correctly Because arteries get STIFFER with age ...3 BP readings should be taken at each sitting. DISCARD the 1st one & record the AVERAGE of the next 2 readings. Thanks for posting. Please SHARE
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@drgorfinkel.bsky.social FYI: last Thurs, I had a bad fall on ice, surgery to fix broken arm, wrist and a short stay in hospital [Tor Western]. NEVER ONCE did staff position me as this video instructs. EG: Their first try: 176/98 My proper posture do-over: 144/83 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwq...
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How To Take Blood Pressure Correctly
YouTube video by OMRON Healthcare US
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
IMPORTANT RE: MED CARE YOU GET: Video shows proper way to take your blood pressure. I just had a bad fall, surgery on broken bones, + hosp stay of 2 days & 2 nights. NEVER ONCE did staff position me as shown! In ER, b.p. was v high 176/98. Reset & this do-over: 144/83 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwq...
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How To Take Blood Pressure Correctly
YouTube video by OMRON Healthcare US
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@drvivians.bsky.social Last Thurs I slipped on glare ice and spent 2 days & 2 nights in Tor Western Hosp. I, retired journo, ended up teaching 3 shifts of experienced medical staff how to take b.p. correctly! My mom was a nurse, TGH class of 1937. She taught Girl Guides first aid incl testing b.p.
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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻‍🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
You bet!
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social @caton.bsky.social @drkarenpinder.bsky.social Bird flu is looming, so it's time the govt release Far UV-C light for sale to all Canadians. If this tech is #DavosSafe when billionaires meet, then it's safe for us proles. This ban feels like a Charter issue to me... 2/
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@kiwis-mom.bsky.social Hey, chickie! Welcome! Bobbi says 'welcome... parrots, yum..."
Orange and white cat draped on a rad, leaning on a small basket of books
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In today's newsfeed on one of the 'other' platforms -- one token mention of COVID, as a time reference... www.iflscience.com/flu-season-i...
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Flu Season: Is 2024-25 A Particularly Bad Year?
There’s a lot of noise right now about surging flu cases in many countries.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/05/2023
Hello Bluesky! The Internet Archive is a non-profit library with a mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Explore our collection at archive.org.
Internet Archive logo, white-columned building on a black background
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In case anyone of you Covid-aware folk had not seen this flit -- literally flit -- through the mediasphere, visible on air for a day -- one friggin day. globalnews.ca/news/404562/...
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SARS 10 years later: How are survivors faring now? | Globalnews.ca
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first case of SARS in Canada as the pandemic made its way into the country. How are patients faring a decade later?
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@brownecfm.bsky.social Glad you moved over here, dear boy! Keep on truckin' -- as we aging hippies used to say, lol. Cheers.
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@ahandvanish.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social @lauramiers.bsky.social @patientled.bsky.social @loscharlos.bsky.social @littleann4ever.bsky.social FWIW, you folks might make use of one fact that medicine has chosen to forget: back in the 1970s, Mononucleosis [EBV] also caused Long Mono
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
@smoki248.bsky.social Love 'Hellberta'! Here it's 'Onterrible" ICYMI
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
@oliviajane.bsky.social Hey there, howzzit? Today is =the= day, no?
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Yest. got a second order of the eNoVid nitric acid nasal spray -- except I didn't place a second order. Dunno if it was a s/w hiccup in Israel [HQ] or locally [Mississauga?] or both, but I offered to pay for the new shipment now I have it and they just emailed back saying no need. Huh. Freebie!
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Helen Lightbown 🇨🇦 #EverMasking #DavosSafe @esmcslifer.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The CovidCautious have been getting sick lately. This worries me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. How do we protect ourselves from a virtual unknown entity? There's a media blackout -- COVID isn't news anymore. But there's also precious little from science. All we know is that each mutation makes the
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