Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Kids have nothing to do with deciding public health policy but bear the immense costs of adults’ bad decisions. Been deep in interviews for ILL-CONSIDERED, a series about kids and public health in collab with Good Egg Audio. (And while we’re working, you can catch up w/ S1 of Public Health is Dead) 1224
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Public health leaders seem more concerned with avoiding panic than avoiding pandemics. No community spread is likely a function of hantavirus itself, not bc global pandemic prep, prevention + collabs got better 🫠 Comms can do more than “don’t panic” next time. NEW w/ @everythingisph.bsky.social 34114
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This is a real thing off the website of “nuenergy/.ai”, the company the Canadian government has given millions of dollars to in exchange for we-don’t-really-know 🤗 186
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 26/03/2026It appears TIME magazine has FA’d and has now FO’d. The next PHMC episode with @everythingisph.bsky.social is all about the first article (Jan 2023) which argues that people must accept the risks and stop trying to protect themselves from COVID bc it’s nbd now. Should we do the second (2026)? 2299
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Example: Here’s how my question was changed at the Global Health Security forum conference with Bonnie Henry at UBC in Nov 2025. And then not even asked lol. 173
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Podcast update: we’re teaming up with Good Egg Audio, a worker-owned production company (hell yeah!) to make more of Public Health is Dead. This means more support with the hard parts of production and more time to create stuff 💫😄 2282
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Next episode in the works — Epidemiology developed, at least in part, from the massive data potential of captured + subjugated populations. What do legacies of colonialism in public health mean for addressing ongoing and future pandemics? How does entrenched white supremacy dictate access to health? 1171
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 10/02/2026For BHM you can listen to another podcast I made about surveillance tech, policing, and systemic racism. It’s currently featured on Apple Podcasts (and not boring or hard to listen to!) One ep is specifically about the bad idea that is Ring cameras and when I have time, I will break it down here :) 093
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026A cutesy relatable question for social media engagement because everyone is sick so often 🫠😓 191
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 25/12/2025If you go into hospital, you shouldn’t have to worry about getting more sick. Unwrap a new special episode: “Beyond Baggy Blues—How to Stop COVID in Hospitals” with Dr Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social, Board Chair of the Canadian COVID Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social. Prevention is possible! 413352
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 30/10/2025In the editing room! 🎙️ Bad Press: how the media manufactures consent in the era of COVID. Public health is often in the news but it’s not always covered well. Power influences the narratives we hear from outlets and journalists. Coming soon w/ Julia Doubleday + Kayli Jamieson. Don’t miss it! 🩷💚💀 23011
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Our skeleton crew 💀 won TWO Signal Awards today! Best Education Podcast (Gold) and Best Science Podcast (Silver). There was some stiff competition but it held its own. Grateful the judges recognized our work and thanks to everyone who’s been supporting this project! 💀🩷💚 4348
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 02/10/2025There are many other important things happening but Public Health is Dead took home Gold at the W3 Awards in Science & Tech for our work on Something’s in the Air: The Airborne Transmission Error with @ukhadds.bsky.social and Katie Randall. Feel free to let a public health leader near you know. 45318
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 13/05/2025COMING SOON. “How to stop an epidemic: When SARS came to the ER.” We had the cheat codes for stopping COVID in a 1200 page report. But we ignored it 🫠. Hear from the ER physician who helped prevent a 2003 SARS outbreak in Vancouver and what public health should’ve learned (+ can still learn)! 27829
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 09/04/2025If you'd prefer to read about how public health fumbled airborne disease transmission and what we can do to get out of this mess, an awesome volunteer created a written version of Episode 3: "Something's in the Air"! 💚 #PublicHealthWeek www.publichealthisdead.com/blog/airborn... 0174
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Guess what? It’s #PublicHealthWeek. To celebrate (commiserate) listen to the podcast Public Health is Dead: your anti-establishment field guide to surviving when institutional public health is failing. You deserve to know! 🩷💚💀 13111
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Ok so when exactly are we allowed to start raising Vancouver voter issues bc damn… the CO2 at the celebration event was 4145ppm (below 1000 is the guideline) after we dropped in and most people had cleared out. This is the venue in Ep 2 with poor ventilation & it wasn’t even as bad as this before. 2152
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Today I saw a rainbow *and* a blood moon eclipse! But when I told a guy on the street to look up at the eclipse he shrugged and he said “it is what it is” so I guess that’s where we are generally but here you go 🩷 0202
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 11/03/2025If you’ve listened to Public Health is Dead lately, this Optimus Prime-looking machine might be familiar. Aerosol scientist, @ukhadds.bsky.social is working on unlocking aerosol knowledge with the CELEBS technique, using these machines that look like Transformers 🤖 Learn how in the new episode! 282
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Different diseases spread differently. Interrupting the ways they spread is a major part of public health’s job. With our growing understanding of pathogens, we thought we knew it all. But pride comes before a fall. This episode is the story of how we flew too close to the sun 2/ 1172
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 10/03/2025✨NEW EPISODE 🎧 Even 5 years into the ongoing COVID pandemic, public health leaders have stuck to the idea that sprayed droplets are the main way COVID (+influenza etc) spread. But a lot of disease transmission happens through the air we share and many people still don’t know 1/ 39537
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 10/03/2025New Public Health is Dead episode is LIVE - Something’s in the Air! How public health institutions fumbled airborne transmission + what we can do to get out of the mess (ft. historian Dr Katie Randall and aerosol scientist, Dr Al Haddrell) This episode had a lot of help, thank you team 🤩 23012
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 09/02/2025People (not me) contacted them and they changed it. At least it mentions something that would actually help instead of something that will not. I’d have said “respirators” and there’s something weird going on with “break out”vs “breakout” but here we are. 2268
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 08/02/2025"Wash your hands" does *nothing* for an airborne pathogen this piece even identifies as such. Media misinformation and public health incompetence is literally killing us. Rampant COVID is a contributing element to TB reactivation and susceptibility. Come onnn www.vice.com/en/article/t... 719378
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Box of Flo Masks and filters arrived for the Public Health is Dead podcast giveaway 🥳 Thanks @flomask.bsky.social! Sign up for the newsletter so you don’t miss how to enter! 48215
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Hand-me-down microwave died, need to get a new one and this pickup email says keep 2m from the next person for your safety. These relics of failed attempts to minimize COVID transmission are so fascinating. Same as faded old stickers about where to stand and directional arrows in grocery stores 0170
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 23/12/2024We got stickers! The latest episode dropped yesterday ICYMI 💖💚💖💚 2425
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Double rainbow on the shortest day of the year (yesterday) 🌈🌈 0200
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Put your respirator on and join me on the tour! public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com/episodes/an-... 1142
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 22/12/2024These little mushrooms under each seat on the lower level are where the fresh air supply comes in from below! 1133
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The Orpheum is all an elaborate set. It's got a false dome ceiling that is porous on purpose to let warm air escape to be pumped out while the system pushes cool air in from below 1123
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Oh. Oh no no no. Pls don’t let the worst thing happen next 😟 7314
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Omg wtf we made a chart topper!? Thank you for listening to this little show. I guess we keep it going 💯 107015
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 08/12/2024😮 omg thank you for listening! This is very exciting. Looking forward to publishing another episode this month. 020
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The show is currently #4 in Science shows! (Shoulder to shoulder with some big kids omg). If you know someone who might like to understand more about public health and Long COVID, please share it with them. Maybe they’ll listen to it before the holidays & not play pretend so much 🧑🎄 🧪 #medsky #episky 3357
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The show is doing pretty well in Ye Olde Science Charts. If you haven’t listened to Public Health is Dead yet, you might enjoy it! Episode 1 moves between leading long COVID researcher @zalaly.bsky.social and @hazie.bsky.social, a former cook living with Long COVID. #episky 🧪 #medsky #stillCOVIDing 6388
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Ooh the podcast is featured on the Apple Podcasts homepage in Canada today in the “New and Noteworthy” curated list! 🎉 ICYMI there are two new Public Health is Dead episodes that dropped on Friday! 4237
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I’d love to see a REALLY good visual anti-COVID campaign. WHN did one, I think, but there’s just something about these old posters 🖤 1326
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 01/12/2024An artist (@_copy_of_a_copy on Twitter) made a series of COVID posters last year inspired by old AIDS posters. People get up in arms about the comparison but there are many similarities in denialism, exceptionalism, lack of education leading to severe harm etc (of course there are differences too) 820349
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Episode 1 of Public Health is Dead moves between Long COVID researcher @zalaly.bsky.social and @hazie.bsky.social, someone living with Long COVID, about what the condition can look like and the huge impact it has on individuals and populations everywhere. (Images from WUSTL, and Hazie Thompson) 68531
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Did anyone else catch the MAHA hats on the people on the boxing thingy yesterday. JFC. We are in for a long and (more) devastating road. 191
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My partner got me a show mascot 🥹 it is so weird looking and cute. Meet Sandy Headbones of Public Health is Dead. 0151
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 18/10/2024It’s a podcast but I guess I wrote it before I spoke it. A narrative series on surveillance, policing and anti-Black racism 👀 Got selected as an Apple Podcasts Editors’ Choice (before Amn*sty Canada choked it out but that’s a different story 😊) pod.link/amnestycanada 030