Jess 🇨🇦
@MeetJess
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Lover of all animals. Nature admirer. Elderly advocate. Bookworm. Sarcastic & compassionate. Music lover. Fierce Mama bear. #WeNotMe #COVIDISAIRBORNE
Joined June 2011
I spoke to a colleague of mine today who asked me if I had “any plans for the Fall”, and honestly, it took me a second to realize she meant “autumn” and not the collapse of society and civilization 🤣😭.So that’s where I’m at.
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There are a lot of people led to believe that getting COVID multiple times is equivalent to getting “colds”, that reinfections “boost your immunity”. It’s all false. All of it. Not only should you avoid any infection, but here’s a quick 🧵 on reinfections.
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So just for context . Wuhan strain 👉🏼 R0 of 3.3.Delta strain 👉🏼R0 of 5.1.Omicron BA.1 👉🏼R0 of 9.5.BA.2 👉🏼 R0 of approx 13.3.BA.4/5 👉🏼R0 of 18.6. We still don’t know for sure what it is for BA.2.75. The game has changed, make wise decisions and #WearAMask.
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Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights. All totaled, "SarsCoV-2 was detected in 288 samples," or 95.7% of all flights ⚠️
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By wearing my mask I’m not living with fear, I’m living with compassion.
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The fact that people would choose the risk of damaging every organ in their body and potentially living with brain damage rather than wearing a mask blows my mind.
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FULL STOP. Measles is NOT a common winter illness. VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN.
Astonishing. 😮.Well, I'm one of the ones who told you that exactly this was going to happen, but even I didn't think it would be this quick and this bold. Measles already being described as a "common winter illness". 🤬.Their flag means death. H/t @AugustaLees
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Im rarely speechless, and I’m rarely affected to the point of non stop tears, but this dm brought me to that point. I don’t know what we are doing anymore. I truly don’t
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So has everyone practiced their fake shocked face when the next wave hits and is labeled as “we never saw it coming” ?.
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Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission . “Vaccinated hamsters that developed infections did not pass the virus on to others, breaking the cycle of transmission”. Can we have this NOW?!!? Please
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Who’s still out there masking and not spreading a vascular virus ? 🙋🏻♀️.
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Anyone else NOT want to be part of this “letting it rip” experiment?.
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Jessica Chastain - one of the most intelligent celebrities at the Oscars tonight .Thank you for wearing a mask 💖
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Quick thread 🧵 .One my my friends who has worked as a geriatric nurse for years resigned today. She was still COVID + after 5 days and was asked to come in. Even with a well fitted respirator, she said she couldn’t have lived with the guilt if she Infected one of her patients.
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COVID and strokes. By now, evidence is quite clear that SARS-COV-2 can attack all organs of your body, including your brain. This is a reminder that everyone should be doing everything to protect themselves from infection/reinfection.Here’s a quick 🧵.
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Another day, another cancellation. This time Lizzo, taking to her Instagram to let her fans know how sick she is . How many more are coming out of the Met Gala with the same outcome ?
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My friend’s 85 year old grandma was infected by an in-home worker who was there to help her bathe. The worker was following « policy » and returned to work after 5 days of isolation. Can someone explain to me WTF we are doing here? Because NONE of this is ok.
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Hate to break it to you, but the surges we are seeing right now is literally showing us that masks DO work. This is the consequence of removing them .#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask.
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What’s happening around the world is not removing « restrictions » it’s removing « protection ».Words matter.
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We know by now that COVID affects the brain. One Infection can do serious damage, what will happen after multiple infections ? .A quick 🧵 on COVID & Your 🧠.
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« When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2 ». Clean 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 air
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Imagine if all celebrities made a statement and modeled safe behaviors like Wil Wheaton and his wife. We need more of this 👏🏻🩷🩵
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Watching people frantically wipe down a shopping cart and then enter a store maskless is the best representation of where we are at.
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There is no reason we should be removing masks in the middle of a raging global pandemic. NONE.
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Wearing a mask is not a lockdown .Cleaning the air is not a lockdown .Staying home when sick is not a lockdown.
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My once healthy and happy flight attendant friend has just resigned from her job that she loved so dearly. Why? Because she now suffers from Long COVID. She is the 5th one on her team to resign. Tell me again how mass infecting the population is working out.
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COVID will eventually evade Paxlovid, Deborah Birx says . “Right now, we’re just accepting that 270,000 Americans died last year,” she said. “Two-hundred and seventy thousand. We’re going to easily lose over 100,000 this year. That, to me, is not success.”
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I will not be participating in the mass infection plan.I will not put myself or anyone around me at risk of catching this virus .I will not play roulette with my health .I will not allow anyone to bully me .I am keeping my mask and not pretending this is over.
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Anyone else struggling lately to truly accept this is now life ?.
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There should be a permanent mask mandate in ALL medical facilities.
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This is why we can’t have nice things, and why we are still where we are after over 3 years
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Just spoke to a friend of mine. Her daughter’s daycare has a COVID outbreak. Staff member came to work with “allergy like” symptoms. She infected all 7 children under 3 years old in her care. Again, WHAT ARE WE DOING?.
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Something really hit me today . 5 years ago, this was the last normal week of our lives.
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Anyone else think this is all about to get really really bad ? 🫠.
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One of the first lies the public was led to believe was that COVID didn’t affect our kids. Kids didn’t get sick, kids don’t transmit the virus, kids won’t have lasting effects. Here’s a quick 🧵 on just how wrong this gaslighting truly was and continues to be.
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Text from a friend this morning . Her : Hey !!! I’m doing ok. Little guy is sick again, this time with a terrible eye infection. It’s been hard to keep him home so many days.Me : I would definitely test him. Eye infection is a new symptom in kids. Guess what ? POSITIVE.
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Wow even mainstream media is finally saying it out loud 👏🏻👏🏻. At the 58 second mark .“We now have evidence that Covid decreases our immune response, making us susceptible to infections”
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Thank you Meghan Markle for visiting this hospital in Los Angeles wearing a respirator. Keeping herself and those around her safe is the way 🩵
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Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff. Air purifiers of various sizes and types were placed in two of the city's daycare centres during cold and flu seasons.
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The year was 2010. We had a new admission that day at the long term care facility. Admissions were always exciting but also stressful for staff. Are they coming willingly ? Is the family making this decision? Have they exhausted all other avenues ? Will they adapt quickly ?.
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Violet Affleck once again showing us how it’s done ❤️👏🏻✊🏻.Protecting herself, and her community because she knows #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver
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2 of my early onset Alzheimer’s clients are under 52. Both contracted COVID 4 months ago, they are now placed and one is completely aphasic. Prior to their infections they both lived seemingly normal lives. Tell me again how this doesn’t affect your brain.
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A « common cold » doesn’t cause blood clots or strokes .It blows my mind that people feel comfortable removing their mask and potentially inhaling a virus that could shrink your brain.#CovidIsNotOver.
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Violet Affleck, 18, Makes Impassioned Speech Against Mask Bans in Los Angeles Government Building ✊🏻🩷. This is going VIRAL. This is the press we need. Please keep sharing and sharing and sharing !!!!!!
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We knew COVID, even « mild » COVID could cause clots, heart attacks, strokes, and ultimately death since 2020. Seeing a lot more cases of clots in the last few weeks. Here’s a real quick 🧵.
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Heart attacks on dramatic rise for 25-44 age group . A new study has been published that links the increase in heart attacks amongst adults between the ages of 25 and 44 to COVID-19. Well. well…well
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Groundbreaking nasal spray protects against all SARS-CoV-2 variants. « The molecule could also work against future animal-borne close relatives of SARS-CoV-2, which are expected to be the cause of entirely new coronavirus pandemics » 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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Jamie Lee Curtis tests positive. She presented and was amongst how many more at the Golden Globes just a few days ago? .How’s pretending life is normal going ? .#Superspreader
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Everyone I know that has caught COVID in the last 2 weeks has been from their children bringing it home from school. Stop saying schools are safe. Stop saying kids don’t transmit.
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To those of you still masking, protecting yourself, and everyone around you, THANK YOU. It’s becoming incredibly exhausting swimming against the tides, but guess what? .You’re fkn awesome.
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I still don’t understand how after almost 4 years and millions of dollars, we still have nothing. No vaccines that stop transmission .No monoclonal antibodies .No antivirals or treatments for LC .No clean air .No updated tests .No plan to stop this.
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Hearing people complain about the long wait for their passports to go on that « dream vacation » (in the middle of a pandemic) while people are waiting 13 hours in the ER due to our health care collapsing. This really feels like an alternate reality.
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To all of you still wearing your mask, still protecting yourself and everyone around you, still following science, still standing up to everyone trying to gaslight you to believe COVID isn’t a threat, THANK YOU. We don’t say it or hear it enough.
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Once again Violet Affleck proving that she’s the smartest one in her family. Consistently protecting herself and everyone around her . This is the way ✊🏻🔥
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A well fitting n95.
To individuals who rarely get sick, please share your secret?.
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The teen affected by the avian flu is critical in the ICU. No one is using airborne precautions. Imagine how many people this could spread to. WTF are we doing ? .Have we literally learned nothing the last 5 years ?!??.
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Just an idea but… I think it’s time we bring mask mandates back. They should have never been removed. Period.
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Colin Farrell Reveals He Suffered Long Covid Symptoms for Six Months. Farrell went on to reveal that he plans to lie low for a little while as he has been experiencing long-term effects from his first infection . H/t @justaneighsayer
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Facebook mom group today .Mom : Our family is leaving on a cruise in 4 days, but my son is on day 3 of a fever, is advil enough ? Not willing to cancel, especially after the year of sickness we’ve had. I need this vacation. Most comments : Yes! Go! . We are living in hell.
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Can we please replace the bottles of hand sanitizer everywhere by air purifiers now ?! .Stop the hygiene theater. Clean the air #COVIDisAirborne.
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NO ONE, and I repeat NO ONE should be at risk of infection seeking healthcare. This shouldn’t be happening. And it is, and it makes me so angry. This isn’t sustainable and we sure as hell can’t continue on this path.
Interrupting my Twitter break to report that I tested positive today - 3 days after visiting a @VCHhealthcare urgent care centre for an injury where the majority of my HCW who saw me were unmasked . I always guessed I'd be infected seeking healthcare
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Drop a ❤️ if you and your family will continue to mask because you understand this is a collective crisis and we have a responsibility to keep each other safe .#CovidIsNotOver.
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Robert Irwin continues to prove his love for animals and his health ✊🏻😷
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« Do Not Resuscitate notices were placed on the medical files of many people with Down’s syndrome, autism & other learning disabilities who were otherwise healthy before contracting the virus ». I have no words …
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Everyone’s coughing. Everyone’s tired. Everyone’s pretending it’s normal. COVID didn’t end—we just stopped caring. A 🧵 for the last people still awake.
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Violet Affleck consistently setting an example that #COVIDisAirborne and that we are still in a pandemic 👏🏻💪🏻
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David Crosby died in his sleep after contracting Covid. “After three days of rehearsals, he felt a little sick. And he’d already had Covid, and he had Covid again. And so he went home and decided that he would take a nap, and he never woke up”
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COVID “doesn’t affect kids” was one of the very first lies that was fed to the public. Kids didn’t get sick, kids can’t transmit the virus, kids won’t have lasting effects. Kids are being sent into unsafe schools, repeatedly infected. COVID & kids, quick thread 🧵.
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We’ve reached a point in this pandemic where every single day people are collapsing dead, and to most it’s just a giant shrug. This is surreal.
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We are in a total collapse, kids are dying, hospitals are at their breaking and society is carrying on as if none of this is happening. Here I am delivering my now 12 🧵 on sudden deaths. And again, none of this is normal.
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I don’t think people fully understand the impact of China “letting it rip” for the rest of the world.
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Violet Affleck 🩷.
Violet Affleck holding it down at the LA County Board of Supervisors demanding mask availability, mask mandates in hospitals, and clean air in all government buildings including jails and detention centers. Go Violet! 😷🍉
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Walking into a store with my daughter, both in n95’s .Lady pulls her daughter behind her.Her : Are you sick ? We have parties this weekend. Me : Would be a hell of a lot smarter if you were masked right now .Her: 🧐.Me : Be careful, TB is going around 😉.Her : What ?!.✌🏼.
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Violet Affleck consistently demonstrates how easy it is to protect herself and those around her. She is seen volunteering at a homeless shelter in LA. If only everyone had this level of compassion ❤️🩹
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We can’t vaccinate our way out of this. Masks should have never been removed and they need to be reinstated everywhere. This is spiraling out of control.
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So we’re gonna be walking around with a variant that’s 30% more transmissible without masks, without protections and with waning vaccine immunity.I must be missing something. This must be just a bad dream.
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First case of person getting bird flu from cows confirmed. Scientists have confirmed that, for the very first time, a human has contracted the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus — not from a bird, but a dairy cow.
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An even more contagious COVID strain is ‘just getting started’ amid California wave . Doctors and scientists are keeping an eye on yet another coronavirus subvariant — XEC — that could surpass the latest hyperinfectious strain. I’m tired y’all 😔
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Watching people thoroughly wipe down their shopping carts and then walk into a store unmasked is exactly why we are where we are today.
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The teen in BC is still in critical condition A MONTH after being infected with H5n1. Can you imagine what would happen to healthcare if we allow this to run rampant along with Covid ?.
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If and when this ends, I will never look at people the same way. Ever again.
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This is your daily reminder that you’re not a hypochondriac or « paranoid » if you are doing everything you can to avoid getting infected with a pathogen that will wreck your organs and your brain.#COVIDisAirborne.
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Anyone else get the feeling that things are about to get A LOT worse ?.
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Mucosal COVID-19 boosters outperform mRNA shots in preventing upper airway infections. We know this . we want to know WHEN !!!!
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“Kids with diarrhea should show up to class as long as they’re able to make it to the bathroom in time to avoid an accident. A kid up at night vomiting is welcome back to school, provided they stopped throwing up some time during the night”. W👏🏻T👏🏻F
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