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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 20h
In another timeline, the young woman would have been vaxxed with 2 doses of MMR 15 years ago when she was a little 5 year old &she would be very much alive today going through a perfectly ordinary day. Instead, her parents made a fateful decision for her
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But will no one think of commercial real estate's wellbeing? 🎻
“On average, we found that employees do become more productive when you let them work from home at least some of the time,” said Mang. “First of all, they become more productive because they actually generate more output per hour.”

The ability to generate more output could be as a result of enhanced employee well-being from reduced stress, increased happiness and enhanced job satisfaction, all positive outcomes of working from home, according to Mang and Anwar’s research article.
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Nina Wildflower @ninawildflower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My wife has a food business. I'm eating some scraps right now. She has had her most successful fortnight ever. She doesn't get sick pay, and would have to let important clients down if she got sick. So it's fortunate that my children wear masks in school.
Man wearing FFP3 mask and floral pattern tie.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this 20 yr old cancer patient was vaccinated with MMR on schedule, she would likely be alive today. Every antivaxxer in her life failed her
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The long-simmering anger at soaring housing costs boiled over late last month,when 87yr old Maricarmen Abascal,who uses a wheelchair,was evicted from the home she had lived in for 70 yrs... she was unable to afford the 230% rent hike demanded by the investment fund that bought her apartment"
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"As she continued to deteriorate, life support was the only remaining option, and it carried the risk of neurological complications, including brain death. The family didn’t want that" More on 5th measles associated death on PA this year www.pennlive.com/news/2026/10...
pennlive.com
A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
Speaking on the porch of her stone farmhouse, the grandmother of a young woman who died after being sickened with measles, described the family’s experience with Pennsylvania’s largest measles outbrea...
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Should"
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
By the time this 20 yr old wanted rhe protection of the MMR, it was too late
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My daughter, 24, put ‘educated before AI’ on her CV. The kids already know this.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My kid distraught as fellow #bced student sent their slides for group project, but they referenced things that never happened in the novel, clearly having used AI to make her slides. Plus, bullet points are beyond awkwardly worded. My kid broken at dealing w/AI use from peers @bctf.bsky.social
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Copilot default email summaries had security vulnerabilities. This one was fixed but likély more will come. cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-co...
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another one to add to the list of studies of CR boxes! The supplemental data includes inferred CADR for each unit deployed as well as sound pressure measurements in two classrooms at several distances.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The @islc-pais.bsky.social conference website has been attacked and hacked *again*. At some point, you have to ask: who benefits from repeatedly disrupting scientific communication about #LongCOVID? ⚠️ For now, please do not click any links sent from or through islc-pais.org Stay safe 🫂
ISLC PAIS Website page showing it is temporarily unavailable ISLC PAIS Website page showing it is temporarily unavailable
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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Prolonged Infectivity of Murine Norovirus in Aerosols Suggests Potential for Airborne Transmission" TL;dr Norovirus is viable in air even longer than Flu Huh 🤔
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is such good news
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today in Australia they just pulled the free vaccine for a whole bunch of us But! We can go buy one for approximately $170 AUD So. There’s that
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes but the alternative to millions of deaths and what may be the worst mass disabling event in history is that senior infection control and public health leaders would be revealed as negligent and incompetent, and professional colleges would have to cover it up like they did for Wakefield, so...🤷
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lately, I've seen ableism show up as the idea that people are more worthy when they're "out there in person" making & doing things, rather than "lying around at home" or on a keyboard. This framing ties our value to productivity & devalues people w chronic illness who are homebound
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Taking care of a parent with Alzheimers can give a person some dark ass thoughts sometimes. Not every day, mind you. But sometimes. Today was hard. Maybe tomorrow will be sweeter.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney fans not only get to stop pretending that they care about climate change, they even get to act like they're being patriotic because of it.
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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Infection-acquired seroprevalence is not looking like a win here. bsky.app/profile/simp...
bsky.app
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jjonesn.bsky.social @jjonesn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what the UK been doing. Even if you‘re able to pay for vaccines for over 12’s at almost £100 a pop, I’m not sure how easy it is to find anywhere that’s got paediatric doses in stock. Frustrating doesn’t cover it. Hospitals already warning of rising cases.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heads up, BC! Flu A test positivity 11.7% COVID test positivity 7.7% Vaccine booking site finally opened today. It looks like the first available appt anywhere is Oct 13 (FFS). But I saw several appointments available still. And, mask up! #bced #bcpoli reporting.bccdc.ca/respiratory_...
graph showing flu a test positivity at 11.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.4% from last week.Graph showing COVID (SARS-CoV-2) test positivity at 7.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.6% from week before.
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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is outright talking up infection here.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline???????
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Correct
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Why Did the “Urgency of Normal” Stop Caring About the Mental, Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of our Children?
Genuine concern is consistent concern, and the silence from the Urgency of Normal about literally everything happening today is clarifying.
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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Atlantic provinces, where infection-acquired seroprevalence had been exceptionally low, saw the largest acceleration in infection rates and their infection-acquired seroprevalence caught up with the rest of the country quickly." Are they describing this as a failure or as a win?
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Zealand: School absences due to illness at highest level in three years has been shared with you from RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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School absences due to illness at highest level in three years
Official data shows the past couple of weeks have been the worst in three years for school absences due to illness and medical reasons.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model. In a letter to Carney, they assert the private-public model violates tge Canada Health Act, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model
In a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population bioengineer.org/fourth-covid...
bioengineer.org
Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in
Even as the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has faded into memory, one question has continued to trouble clinicians and public health planners alike: does an additional booster dose still offer
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is troubling because it excludes <65 workers & children in #school,who are highly exposed to #covid19 . A #vaccination campaign that excludes those groups is a campaign of deliberate infection. By contrast the #flu vaccine is funded for the general public
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have Tupperware that has better air exchange.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's a reason why, in Canada, it's illegal to distribute raw milk, even to the owners of a share of a cow, if those owners did not themselves milk that cow with their own hands www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge doesn't swallow B.C. cow-share advocate's raw milk argument | CBC News
A man's latest attempt to challenge B.C.'s rules on unpasteurized milk — also known as "raw milk" — was dismissed in the province's Supreme Court.
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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻‍🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 🧡
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"COVID fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow" Brain scans found lower overall cerebral blood flow in people with Long COVID, especially in regions involved in attention, sensory processing and cognitive control. Lower blood flow was also linked to slower reaction times and concentration.
medicalxpress.com
COVID fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow
Playing with your children or meeting a friend for coffee are everyday activities that many people move between without giving much thought to how much mental or physical energy they take.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@jennycohn.bsky.social
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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thetyee.ca
The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"This is not transparency; it is silence at a moment when families need clear, accurate information to protect their children" Confusion is the plan Withhold state, co, age gender under-count measles-assiciated deaths incl/ when measles contrib to death time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Children Are Back in School. Measles Is, Too
Now that children are back in school, we must use the tools we know work to keep this preventable disease out of the classroom, writes Dr. Debra Houry.
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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Could be flu, given what’s happening south of the border right now. bsky.app/profile/scot...
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Melissa Perreault, PhD @mlperreault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I fear for the next generation of scientists with AI. Lack of critical thinking, troubleshooting, inability to handle failure, and the ongoing belief that everything AI tells them is true. The perpetuation of bias.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I hear scientists all excited about how much AI can do the work of scholarship for them, how it's the way of the future, I wonder if a lot of chefs said that about fast food when it first came out. It's amazing! You can prepare a steak* in 15 seconds! The future! (* gray meat puck on a bun)
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proflover.bsky.social @proflover.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m getting parents saying their kids are dealing with what sounds an awful lot like long COVID symptoms. It sucks.
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"To the public, that gap looks like either incompetence or concealment," Adalja told the newswire Both Incompetence - you don't change the case definition when record number of deaths reported Concealment - the higher the deaths the worse RFK Jr looks www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
Pennsylvania Nears 1,000 Measles Cases as RFK Jr. Remains Silent
The state has reported its fifth measles-related death.
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Temperature in Vancouver was about 12 C at 9 PM that day. Maybe heating turning on, increasing air exchange through temperature differentials? @mosssphagnum.bsky.social what does the temperature plot show?
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah! Now that we have the decay curve we can calculate ACH. Given: start 1860; end 1100, ambient 435, duration 6 hours. The air change rate in that classroom is 0.13 air changes per hour. That's what air leakage on a mild day looks like. Completely insufficient by any measure!
ACH = negative natural log of (concentration end minus ambient)/(concentration start minus ambient) all over duration in hours
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By the way, what happened at 9 PM? It starts decaying faster indicating more ventilation.
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By the time that classroom reached steady state the CO2 levels would likely be in excess of the occupational limit for industrial workers, ignoring all the other contaminants building up in an occupied classroom with 0.13 air changes per hour.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aranet4 is really good for #math & #science class !
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