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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I honestly struggle with the head to toe coverage and gaping medical masks. I don't understand what the adivce-givers are thinking. How much more cost to the outfit to wear a respirator and prevent inhalation of bacteria? Source; www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, sweet jeebuz, CLEAN THE AIR already. 🤬 It's not rocket science. Ventilation (even open windows). Air filtration at building scale (e.g., higher MERV in HVAC), room scale (portable air cleaners), and even personal scale (masks). Maybe also stop withholding pediatric virus testing 🤬

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sincerely grateful to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for his advocacy. An important thing I think is missing from his list of recent breakthroughs in science is DecodeME. This large scale, robust genetic research wipes away clean any remnants of the absurd claim it’s somehow a “psychological issue”.

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X marks the spot where ME/CFS biology can be discovered | DecodeME : The world's largest ME/CFS study | Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Scientists, people with ME/CFS, and their charities came together to create DecodeME, the world's biggest ME/CFS study – and its results are striking. 18,000 people with ME/CFS gave their DNA, enablin...

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the clearest illustration I have ever seen of the way infection control and public health refuse to act responsibly on aerosol disease transmission. Doing the right thing today would mean admitting they could have yesterday, but chose not to. Repeat, forever. #medsky #polisky #scisky

A drawing of the "trolley problem" only there is a single track and the caption reads "You can stop the trolley at anytime, but then there will be survivors who might tell authorities you tied everyone up"

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The aspect of #immigration that no one wants to talk about is *why* rates increased so much over the last few years. #longCOVID We need them, or the wheels fall off. An official COVID strategy of "don't look up" means we have to fill the gaps somehow, or there's no way to hide the body count.

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Poll suggests Alberta referendum wording may overstate support for some proposals

A new poll suggests the wording of some Alberta referendum questions may make government proposals appear more popular than their individual parts.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CTV news coverage of the errors in health policy and guidance that leave the public unprotected from aerosol disease transmission and long COVID (with @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and Kerri Bowser) is up. Great to see so much interest! Below is the UK inquiry cited: #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli #polisky

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COVID health policy still outdated: researchers

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Articles like these are emblematic of the institutional amnesia surrounding Covid-19. A pathogen that emerged less than seven years ago, which can cause fatigue during the acute infection and as a common long-term effect, not even mentioned. Conspicuously absent. www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...

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Why are Americans so tired? CDC report highlights who’s feeling it most

Fatigue is one of the most common concerns reported in primary care visits, yet not much attention is given to how often adults in the U.S. are coping with it.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The study found that most aerosol-generating procedures considered high risk produced fewer emissions than coughing or talking...This has effectively ended the use of the term "aerosol-generating procedure" in risk assessments, leading to a major change in how PPE is deployed in health care."

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Scottish infection control guidelines informed by evidence on aerosol-generating procedures

Scotland is the first country in the world to use evidence gathered during the pandemic to transform its guidelines on reducing the spread of respiratory disease in health care settings. The new appro...

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Scientists and experts warned COVID could spread through airborne aerosols, but infection-control leaders relied on outdated views of aerosol transmission. The assumption that COVID couldn’t be airborne was a mistake, based on thinking already described as illogical in a 2006 SARS Commission report.

A screenshot of a CTV News online article headline reads, "'Outdated' health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher." The byline attributes the piece to Tommy Osborne, published September 18, 2026, at 6:23 p.m. EDT.
Below the headline is a photograph of a male researcher, identified in the caption as Dr. Mark Ungin. He is wearing a white lab coat and a white face mask while walking through a brightly lit laboratory room. The lab environment is crowded with scientific instruments, including a complex robotic testing assembly with a Formlabs 3D printer sitting on a foreground workbench, storage shelving filled with cardboard boxes, and various desktop laboratory tools stretching into the background.
The caption text underneath the photograph reads: "Dr. Mark Ungin is raising concerns surrounding health policy and Canada’s COVID response."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/09/2026

What this paper is saying basically: is the flu is seasonal, covid is not.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Flu cases never need to surge. This is a choice. They could be grumbling at low levels or even moderate levels. Surges cause preventable deaths in ED due to waiting times blowing out and staff shortages. Stop flu surges. 😷

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The last breath of the aerosol-generating procedure? Scotland's new infection-control guidance and implications for anaesthesia   research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

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In August 2026, Scotland fundamentally changed its infection control guidance regarding how respiratory disease transmission risk is managed - replacing the droplet–airborne dichotomy with the simpler concept of air transmission, and entirely removing the aerosol-generating procedure (AGP) list. This evidence-informed approach is based largely on the findings of clinical aerosol studies undertaken during COVID-19 which demonstrated that many procedures on the existing AGP lists, such as tracheal intubation, generate little or no respiratory aerosol (substantially less than talking or coughing). Removing the AGP list does not mean less protection; it means precautions are based on the likely pathogen, patient's respiratory activity, practitioner exposure and environment. Scotland’s revised guidance offers a timely opportunity to replace the inherited dogmas in international guidelines with rational and evidence-informed respiratory protection before the next respiratory disease pandemic.

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The new LNG tax break announced at Carney's investment summit includes a break from pollution controls: www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney. Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit. Please pay attention.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe if we lived in the universe where it was the Berenstein Bears, none of this would be happening.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This year, 25 years after 9/11, was one of the first years I've seen a concerted media focus on the long term harms of 9/11 toxic air pollution. In time, knowledge of the long term harms of COVID will be mainstream too

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In May 2003, writer Simon Wessley opined about “World Trade Center Syndrome”, claiming that traumatized, anxious Manhattanites were experiencing a psychological problem, and not the real physical symptoms they were reporting. Thousands would later die from exposure to toxic chemicals from 9/11.

How have we reached this state of affairs?
Our reactions to the anthrax episode cannot be seen in isolation, or without reference to our general views of health, illness and risk.
Similarly, the emergence of 'World Trade Syndrome', a vague collection of symptoms among the residents of Lower Manhattan, blamed on various 'toxins' released after the collapse of the Twin Towers, only makes sense in the context of a seemingly endless list of other mysterious symptoms and syndromes that are blamed on similar toxic disasters.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 11/09/2026

In a few days, Prime Minister Carney is inviting some of the world’s richest CEOs to Toronto to buy up Canada’s resources, public infrastructure, and more. We won’t save Canada by selling it off to the highest bidder. Join us, and let's build a Canada for the many, not the money.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air" Where have we seen this before?

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🧵 There is a lesson here: when common sense tells you there is an environmental risk that you can mitigate, do not wait for someone else to tell you that's necessary. Yes, this goes against human nature. Social influence theory tells us that we're predisposed to look at... youtu.be/Y0U0wNiNNmc?...

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9/11 first responders push for coverage of dementia

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Which begs the question, why is Canada's CPHO @jossreimer.bsky.social not issuing any guidance to PREVENT COVID transmission?! #COVIDisAirborne #cdnpoli

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Public Health Agency of Canada, 8,809 adults. Two or more SARS-CoV-2 infections were linked to 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis, including 5 times the odds of a new respiratory condition. This was association, not proof of causation. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Associations between self-reported SARS-CoV-2 infections and the diagnosis of new health conditions - Canada.ca

Exploratory analyses examining associations between SARS-CoV-2 infections and newly diagnosed health conditions

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/09/2026

One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Welcome to phase, idk, 6? 13? of ignoring covid: Let’s pretend all these newly disabled people are trying to be trendy.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Um… 😶

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Norwegian data: 98% more doctor visits for memory problems and 150% more for concentration problems than the trend before the pandemic.
At the same time, an enormous increase in prescribed heart medications. Even in Sweden.
Precisely the things we know COVID infections cause. Why don't we want to see the connection?

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Kim Sutherland Mills @bacciogelato.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"If the world, however, dramatically reduces greenhouse gases and achieves net-zero around 2075, Canada's climate is projected to stabilize and average warming would increase by 3.5 C." Why are we still wandering lackadaisically toward a fifty year threshold -- and now aiming for 3.5?!?!?! 🤬

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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News

The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'Our findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection can activate an immune program that closely resembles those involved in established autoimmune disorders...'. I have seen this so many times now. New-onset autoimmune disease following COVID-19.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 03/09/2026

That and the “racial reckoning” that summer of 2020 broke a whole lot of brains. People decided they’d never face a consequence *ever again* and here we are 😡

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There are so many impeachable offenses that the sheer number and magnitude of offenses have people scrambling to keep up-- and that's part of what makes it feel unbelievable to people who "don't follow the news". They think 'somebody' would have stopped him if it were as bad as it plainly is.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The only "good" thing about the past 6 years (and more) is that none of us have to wonder what we "would do" if anti-science forces threatened medicine and our health. Just think about about what you actually did. That's exactly what you "would do."

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Excellent article, and directly relevant to the negligence, incompetence, and yes, lies of those who betrayed us to COVID rather than admit their horrific failure to respond appropriately to an airborne pathologen - and are even now doubling down on the exact same gamble with Ebola. Ironically,...

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The mindset of medicine's parasitic management class in a nutshell: "I'm entitled to be in charge, this is the best I am capable of, therefore it must be good enough." The same delusions of adequacy echo from EBM's mindless worship of RCTs to the aerosol transmission denialism that botched COVID.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're just gonna fill all the little kids with disease and smoke, rather than fire all the Droplet Dogma public health officials and banish the billionaires, aren't we.

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The panel’s mandate explicitly excluded evaluating policy outcomes or whether advice was correct. So Canada gets a report on org charts and timelines, not one that asks why respiratory protection guidance was wrong in hospitals and other high risk settings! 😷

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Report of the Expert Panel for the Review of the Federal Approach to Pandemic Science Advice and Research Coordination: The Time to Act is Now - Canada.ca

The key message of this report is that Canada needs to take further action now if it is to be adequately prepared for future health emergencies.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fiction versus reality

Jay Bhattacharya C @DrJBhattacharya
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Imagine there hadn't been an @NIH-led
"devastating takedown" of the @gbdeclaration in Oct 2020. Imagine no media/social media suppression. We would have won the policy argument. Schools would have opened. We would have prioritized protection of the vulnerable. Instead, lockdowns.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

👇 The catastrophic mismanagement of COVID (and with the same groups making the same gamble on Ebola, clearly there's more to come) was not a spontaneous failure. It's the direct result of giving power to connected amateurs with quick-and-dirty heuristics and too much ego to learn from experts.

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Trump’s Cronies Aren’t What Broke Public Health - WHN

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them. Public health didn’t die when RFK Jr. became Trump’s Health Secretary. It was already on life support, hamstrung by a si...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

By promoting faculty who pushed deranged conspiracies about Fauci, @ucsfhealth.bsky.social and @stanfordpress.bsky.social directly contributed to this moment. Let’s not let them forget that.

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Jay Bhattacharya hysterically warns of a "biomedical security state"

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A post on LinkedIn from Paul Danhauser that says : Whenever AI bros say "get on the train or be left behind" I'm all like "There's child pornography on that train, I'm good y'all, worst of luck and please crash."

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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The problem has never been overdiagnosis in health care. The problem has always been too few resources for health care that incentivised unethical & unscientific exclusions of people from seeing specialists, from accessing care, support, accommodations. There is too little, not too much health care.

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