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@caitoz
Every defensive pro-Zionist argument and action from Israel and the West distills to these messages to Palestinians:
HOW DARE YOU not have infinite tolerance against our abuses and atrocities?
HOW DARE YOU think 10,000 of your children are equal to 1 of ours?
HOW DARE YOU
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@AvivaKlompas
Oh, I see the game. I’ll play, too! More “children,” as you like to put in quotes. Israeli and American.
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@AvivaKlompas
And here’s another Palestinian boy in the West Bank holding a giant rifle. Oh wait….
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I honestly hate this part when someone asks you out to dinner and you know you have to decline because of Covid. You brace yourself for that look or tone that says “you’re a freak.”
So often doing the smart thing, the right thing, is so alienating.
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Remarkable how many people assume no restrictions means low Covid prevalence and risk. Just got a big party invite. "Now that there aren't any restrictions!"🤦♀️
There are no restrictions keeping me from unloading a nail gun into my foot, but you won't see me doing that either.
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@dancohen3000
Salting the earth and destroying basic needs infrastructure are violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Not that such violations are deterrence for Israel. How many are they up to by now? Crimes for which the US and allies are complicit?
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@angeloinchina
This was a tiny, complete human life, our most precious collective resource.
Every Western Leader should have to watch this 100 times.
💔🇵🇸
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@LaurenJauregui
Bisan and Motaz have been caped as heroes in this genocide. While that is true in all senses of bravery and service to humanity, let’s not forget they are also sensitive, scared, young adults.
Having volunteered for veteran PTSD orgs and witnessed the PTSD first hand, I’m sick
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My book editor went AWOL for weeks. Turns out they have Long Covid; the combination of brain fog and low energy makes editing 1 page daunting. They had no idea this could happen.
Tell me again how minimizing Covid so it runs rampant supports workers, the economy, and capitalism.
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Text to COVID-is-over friend: Up for a catch-up phone call?
Friend: I'd rather meet in person. The new pub?
Me: Another extended family member just died of COVID. I'm still taking precautions.
Friend [in my mind]: I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
Friend [in reality]: <dialtone>
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Just got called "crazy" and "difficult" by a guy because I postponed a home repair job when half his crew had Covid.
I'm so tired of this shit.
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No, the pandemic isn’t over. You’ve just allowed yourself to buy into the collective acceptance of a steady, significant background of Covid death. Your social contract means your pretence is more important than reducing deaths.
Last weekend, your contract killed my uncle.
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@RnaudBertrand
By "alleviate the pain and suffering" of Gaza, Kirby means the involuntarily, violent euthanasia of children, mothers, fathers, academics, journalists and mostly other innocents.
There's a word for this "generosity": GENOCIDE.
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When you eat out for your restaurant meal, just know that your server could be my friend who had very obvious Covid symptoms, still doesn’t feel great, but decided two negative rapid tests was enough. Bon appetite!
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@ParkinMr
@UseBy2022
Being scared or not won’t change reality.
You don’t drive a100mph on icy roads. You take precautions. It’s idiocy not to. People can “get on” by driving more slowly. Taking precautions. This concept isn’t new, but stakes are high and require a modicum of math & science literacy.
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@caitoz
Not to say either means more or less sensitivity, but I’m sleeping much less. It’s too haunting. I use the insomnia to do more reading/research.
I always stay up late to see that a couple of the journalists I follow are still alive in the morning their time. Maternal instinct.
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Had biz with a very nice man today. I wore a mask. He didn't, but earnestly supported my choice for my family.
"My family all had it already and we're vaccinated. Thank goodness that's DONE so we can put it behind us."
Many good, caring people are so in the dark. Feels so sad.
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Fresh hell. The BC hospital employees union is preparing to strike. With all HCWs have been put through with Covid, they're being offered a 1.75% raise (inflation is 5.7%).
Failed Covid policies load HCWs. Now
#bcpoli
starves them out. A cruel cluster-f of pandemic proportions.
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@chantz_y
True. Also remarkable how people who aren’t normally selfish will avoid educating themselves in ways that might interfere with how they want to live. They get to guard their identity as a nice person but refuse to adapt to what that means in the context of an ongoing pandemic.
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@laurenstricos
A really short, but not unheard of incubation period (<2 days exposure to +test), even for Omicron. Your point remains valid: people were Covid positive during the meeting, resulting in multiple cases. Either "from" or "at" would've been disastrous for your family. Good job.
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@Hind_Gaza
In Beirut? You mean all the carpet bombing of babies and other civilians, and the displacement of most of the Palestinians isn’t about Hamas? Shocker.
#Genocidalisrael
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@aaronjmate
Remember when there was this unsubstantiated rumour going around that there were some rapists in California, so the US government carpet-bombed the state, requiring citizens to flee into SoCal, where - since Mexico wouldn't open the border - they were massacred, and all the homes
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Shakedown at yyj hospital entrance. Guy told me to remove my Aura N95 (taped) and wear a baggie blue. “You can’t wear that.”
“I can and I will. I’ll wear yours over this one.”
He persists. “What is the reason you’re wearing that?”
[I explain science.]
Tense but I marched in. 1/
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@jjhorgan
My close friend has terminal cancer. By lifting the mandate, she -and others like her without privilege to dictate their environment and with limited time left- will now have a smaller worlds. Fewer opportunities for experiences. Ever. It's not about "comfort" it's about cruelty.
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@chantz_y
Followed by a photo of your kid with Covid (surprise).
Also, unless there's a really good reason, why would any parent tweet photos of their sick child for hoards of strangers to gawk at. "My child is suffering so let me show the Internet!" An odd choice. Telling is one thing.
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~25 people in the waiting area. >1/2 wearing masks under their chin!
Reception: “But are they eating?” 🤦♀️
“No.”
So, they harass me for my N95, but do nothing at all when half the patients (and one nurse behind the plexiglass) are wearing NO MASK.
I’m so sick of this shit. 2/
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So, my friend with terminal cancer has been hospitalized. She wears an N95 everywhere, but has appointments, etc. Looks like Covid. If her precious life has been cut shorter due to politicians like Bonnie Henry removing protections, how is this not manslaughter? 😡😓
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@angeloinchina
I've heard this kind of thing in spaces on spaces with IDF spokesmen, other Zionists and possibly intelligence. Passionate, firm reframing of everything with the goal of ascribing maximally ugly intent to pro-Palestinians with maximal level of Zio-victimhood.
Repeat. Repeat.
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@fitterhappierAJ
Conservative estimate. Let's say we're looking at 3 years with a 10% risk. That gives a nearly 50/50 chance of Long Covid:
μ = 1 – (1-λ)^N
μ = probability of LC after N infections
λ = probability of LC after 1 infection
E.g., 3 years, N = 6 infections, λ = 10%: μ = 47%
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@azaizamotaz9
Every parent - especially every politician and Zionist supporter - in the world needs to imagine this is their child, no matter how painful it is. You will hug your child afterwards. This baby's parents will not.
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@risahoshinoMD
Does this describe it? 😢
Covid version of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. Relate.
[Credit: Unknown]
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I feel betrayed, jealous, worried, disappointed, angry, lonely. I'm judging friends, their stupidity. I feel bad that I'm feeling all those things.
Friends who used to be Covid-careful are restarting our group pub night. I'm invited. I want to scream. It's like watching this.
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Just witnessed from my office window my beloved 94 yo neighbour wheeled into a little
@BCTransit
#handyDART
bus for seniors. (I took photos.) The driver isn't wearing a mask. My neighbour was wearing a surgical mask. His wife is 92.
This upsets me so much I'm literally shaking.
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Of course, since people aren't given case counts and weekly hospital counts are flagrantly doctored, it allows them to maintain the myth of being "in a good place."
Feels like leaders telling people downstream from a leaky nuclear power plant that it's safe to drink the water.
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@Johnpatrick500
Imagine being such a small man you need to degrade happy, young children doing nothing but saying where they're from.
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@JasonM98282978
What is so damn hard about just doing the decent thing and saying "I'm sorry for your loss?"
The inconvenient truth that threatens their delusion?
I feel your pain. I truly appreciate friends who have stuck with me even though I'm COVID-conscious.
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@JillWineBanks
A-fib lasting more than approx 2 hours has the ability to cause permanent muscle damage to the heart if it doesn't reset on its own or get reset by drs.
I hope she is okay. To think she at risk of permanent heart damage AND COVID *at the ER* because of anti-vaxxers is horrible.
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The anti-maskers are swarming twitter tonight, asserting their refusal to accept a mandate because that’s how little shits they give about precious kids like this swamping ICUs all over the US & Canada.
It’s a pandemic of psychopaths, all allies of Covid, death & suffering.
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The way BC's Bonnie Henry spoke today about the "high risk" people - you know, *those* niche people she pretends to care about (that aren't at all niche)... infuriates me. She had the audacity to talk about "layers of protection." 😠🤦♀️
LAYERS?! What layers is she talking about?
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Having a BC hospital make me remove my N95 and wear one of their flimsy surgical masks feels like the Coast Guard instructing me to replace my off-shore PFD with my kid's water wings.
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My daughter has Covid again (faint line = +). 2nd or 3rd time since December (2nd time she never tested positive, but had all the symptoms).
Knowing this was inevitable (shared custody with a blind Bonnie-Henry loyalist) has assaulted every protective maternal instinct.😢😠
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@MiddleEastEye
Feltz is unprofessional and blind. Evidence is ubiquitous from the top to the troops.
"This is a war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness" - Israeli President Isaac Herzog
An Israeli soldier filmed invading a primary school in Gaza, smashing students' talent certificates, and writing a new lesson: "Here we are coming back"
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The greeter was likely a nice senior man. His supervisor was at the adjacent station. He was just doing his job.
But what a joke his orders are to hassle people wearing good masks.
How about this, Dr Henry? People can only enter hospitals if they agree to run with scissors!
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@RyanMcGreal
In other words, there will could be a catastrophic demand on healthcare systems who become catastrophically unable to support the load.
More people will suffer and die from all serious illnesses. And seriously, let's not kid ourselves that this isn't already happening.
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The tech for the test wore a mask that had repelled down the bridge of their nose so far, it defied gravity, barely clinging to the tip.
What sickens me is they are nice people being force-fed bad science by their very own health authorities. They’re own health is also at risk.
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@drclairetaylor
The problem isn’t Covid, the problem is the people you associate with on Twitter.
(Stated during my Covid-minimizing family’s recent intervention.)
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@RyanMcGreal
In parallel with the buildup of the Covid-disabled population is an ongoing diaspora of doctors/nurses away from medicine due to stress, illness and the chronic burden imposed by politicians.
Eg: Nearly 20% of British Columbians have no family doctor.
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@jmcrookston
Being correct has cost me most of my friendships. Family conflicts. Remarkably, so far they’ve been lucky. They’ve traveled, eaten out, played group sports... Unscathed.
I won’t rely on luck. I care too much about kids, HCWs, others. About science. But it’s a f*n lonely hill.
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@alijla2021
Thank you for this beautiful thread. The art is spectacular. Beautiful people with so much to give.
I've been thinking about this lovely woman tonight.
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To be clear, while I'll defend staff being taught shit science, I have no good words for the precious, selfish people told to wear the saggy blue, but didn't.
Antimaskers (nearly everyone now) get the run of my community as it is, and they also won't wear a mask IN A HOSPITAL?
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@sarahbeth345
@maggiemfox
As a scientist with three graduate degrees, this comment wins today’s inanity contest.
It’s downright meme-able, especially the way it’s said with such assertiveness. 😂
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The reason we haven’t learned a damn thing in BC is because people have been allowed and encouraged to see “normal life” as the prize. The real prizes are integrity, authentic kindness, adaptation, reprioritization and saving lives and suffering.
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@yaraeid_
The horror of what the Gazan will see and what awaits after the too-few hours count down is unfathomable. 💔🇵🇸💚
Can you imagine? The best the entire world could do for Palestine is to give them time to check in on the deaths and devastation before Israel is free to make more.
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I'm starting to crack. Spectating others' vibrant lives is HARD.
What I'm not seeing:
1. "Back-to-normal" friends with Long Covid (they may be hiding it)
2. People getting Covid, then getting Covid again within 6 mos. (So the "super-immunity" doesn't anecdotally seem wrong.)
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@kogan_maxim
@Hind_Gaza
Have you no shame at all? You'll do all you can to avoid empathy, if you're even capable.
16C with wind, after dark when everything you're wearing and your bedding on the bare ground is wet is absolutely miserable.
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Just had a business call and was told in response to denying an in person meeting “the pandemic is over now.” I’m so tired of this shit.
I said, no, you’re wrong. I refuse that pretence. My uncle just died of Covid last weekend.
I’m raging at the stupidity of humans.
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Plea to medical office receptionists everywhere:
You require masks in your office so STOP taking yours off! The plexiglass does NOTHING.
Why is this so damn prevalent? 😡
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@azaizamotaz9
"Might sound insensitive," she says. There are so many words to describe this comment, and none are as generous as "insensitive."
I'm sorry you're being subjected to vile, privileged scourges on humanity on top of the danger, trauma and deprivation.
#FreePalestineFromIsraelNOW
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Daughter has Covid. RAT+, all symptoms. Still no callback for the PCR. It isn’t “mild,” so waiting in a line indoors will be brutal.
I’m isolating from the 3 other kids, too. They weren’t exposed. I’m angry, scared and sad. Single working mom. No Xmas.
Fuck Bonnie Henry.
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Biden ethnic cleansing his palate between courses today on Thanksgiving.
Meanwhile, Israel feasts on genocidal massacres in northern and southern Gaza.
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@channingms1
@AstroLoay
People who are starved breaking into a warehouse for supplies? Wow! I suppose you’d sit back and let your family starve. Zionists are so well known for their polite behavior.
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@theeclarel
The anti-maskers shout, "Life isn't worth living unless I can [go everywhere I want]!" Really. How much worse would their life be if they sat at the theatre with a mask on? Meanwhile, they think nothing about shrinking the lives of so many others who can't afford the risk. 😠
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It seems Covid may be going around within the staff of the B.C. Cancer Agency in Van. Anyone getting cancer treatments there may want to consider using an advanced respirator. Not trying to alarm, this is just from two accounts of people I know personally, but to be safe...
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@PennyDaflos
@CTVVancouver
Penny Daflos is more deserving of the Order of Canada than Bonnie Henry.
Journalism that digs for (nonpartisan) truth and vies for those who legitimately protect us deserves high praise.
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@wokestethoscope
@LaRougeAbeille
Good call. When you’re alone, you’re in the company of integrity and humanity. They have nothing of value to offer that is worth more.
Silence is complicity, and there’s no “middle ground” to debate.
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I would really like to know how this marvellous woman and her cats are doing. Gaza's first cat cafe opened just 47 days before Israel's bombing campaign. My heart hurts.
"Inspired by her passion for the furry animal, Naeema Mea'bed opened the 'MEOW Cat Cafe' in the Gaza Strip
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@realreporter
Hurting.😢 I'm close to a family whose dad represents 1 of the 15 deaths. Since ppl ask (as if relevant): not a senior, healthy, had children
He'd been waiting for jab
#2
on 7/1 when BCgov told ppl "be free!" He trusted their relaxed attitude. Now after weeks in ICU he's dead.😓
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@MuhammadSmiry
I hear you. It can feel pointless. But, in a situation this horrible and desperate, yes. Every base covered. Presense is pressure.
There is also an info war that is happening along with the genocide. No "normal" social media for me until there is a ceasefire.
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@jonathanstea
I had an appointment last week with a homeopathic practitioner.
After the consult, he says, “That’ll be $95.”
“That was fascinating. You deserve more. $1,000?”
“Excellent!” he says.
I hand him a penny. When he looked confused, I say, “I diluted it to make it more valuable.”
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@richardzussman
Never in my lifetime as a scientist have I seen a person who calls herself a scientist DELIBERATELY REFUSE to gather, consider, process or have reverence for valid data.
Never. This goes against every measure of scientific integrity. It invalidates every conclusion. Every one.
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Today's discovery: The one Long Covid Clinic (Post COVID-19 Recovery Clinic) on Vancouver Island does not take pediatric patients. They are told to go to Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
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@whstancil
You’re right. Biden deserves credit for his contributions. Here’s one of 15,000 contributions.
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@caitoz
Same feeling here.
Some days before the "pause" (hate that euphemism) if Hind didn't have a connection, so it took a while for her to check in I was near broken.
I feel like if anything happens to either, or Plesia or Motaz, that will mark an international breaking point.
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@johncusack
You're absolutely right.
The old "Hamas" defense dismissed in 17 seconds...
"B...b...but... do you condemn Hamas?"
"Hamas started it!"
All it takes is 17 seconds.
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@tkhereandthere
@jvipondmd
That's absolutely false information no matter who told you that. The line forms because it detects the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein. A test cannot somehow concoct a slight presence of this protein if it doesn't exist.
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Science: I have an idea. If you wear a cheap mask indoors you can reduce suffering and death, lower employee sick time, protect the economy, and help reduce the risk of deadlier Covid variants. Even better with filtration and ventilation. How cool is that?
Humans: Nah. I'm good.
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Mar 30: BC is reporting orangutang donkey new Covid cases, which is up from popes on pogo sticks cases yesterday.
Dr. Henry, sipping Merlot, tells British Columbians "We are in a good place. Our threshold for reinstating mask mandates is pancake bums, and we are far from that."
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@DrKarimWafa
Bibi secretly wishes that, just once in his morally impoverished life, someone would look at him the way these Israeli hostages look at their Hamas captors.
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@JackieLane2020
@AvivaKlompas
You’re missing the point.
Twice as many children killed in school shootings this past year in the US as any claims about 10/7. I agree about the epidemic. The US is outraged over 10/7 but does zilch about school shootings. So, you want to arm more kids, or have we misunderstood
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@DrJillStein
From “right to defend” (never mind occupiers not having that right by International Law) to execution-style killings of women and children seeking shelter in a school. In a blink.
Give Israel one war crime and they quickly take 100. Because the US abets and cheers them on!!
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How’d my family’s “universal healthcare” in BC go from Family Physician to no FP to full clinics and a freaking Telus app? Serious inquiry. How’d a Telus app (that I assure you most seniors whose FP has retired don’t know exists) become the demon spawn of “universal healthcare?”
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@mattjdh
@SoniaFurstenau
“Personal attack” accusation is a desperate, weaselly defence of fully justified criticism. It’s victimizing the perpetrator of abusive practices. Shame on you to favour Henry as a victim when, in fact, BC’s children are *her* victim.
@bad_batch_rex
@jheighton3
@bcndp
@SoniaFurstenau
@SoniaFurstenau
is the breath of fresh air, the grounding voice of sanity for a population who has been chronically gaslit by the
#bcndp
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Passed to me by a friend on FB. Anti-vax Harvest Church in Kelowna appears to be hiding a COVID outbreak.
@realreporter
@wecarryon2
@AdrianaBarton
I thought you might want to know.
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