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@frozen
@crwequine
Is
@motel6
owning this?
I feel like a lot of professionals who travel for work will be making note of this… Your behaviour reflects your beliefs & practices.
Frankly, there are a lot of businesses that will refuse to book at certain places for exactly for this kind of reason.
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@DrAmyPsyD
#FunFact
:
If her child was neurotypical, we would call this abuse.
But somehow we (as a society) condone the abuse of neurodivergent kids. 🤷♀️🤦♀️💔
Who was actually lacking empathy in this situation..? 😬🤨😔
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@DrJacobsRad
@TorontoMet
@JillDunlop1
That is literally the origin of the term 🤦♀️
If you took anti-oppressive/anti-racism as part of
#MedEd
, you would probably know this 🫠
@TorontoMet
please consider this in appropriate context 👇
The term has been around for well over a decade 😬
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@DrAmyPsyD
It’s not taught cause it’s unreliable 😅
Assuming you even ovulate when you’re “supposed” to (affected by many factors), sperm can also live up to 5 days…
I’m surprised people even use this 😬
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I saw this and my stomach dropped.
#Canada
clearly has
#Covid
reporting issues and is off the charts on
#deaths
per hospital admission compared to other countries like the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, etc.
It is truly horrifying to witness the complete transition of
@CIHI_ICIS
And by looking at number of excess deaths per hospital admission in each country we can see there were 5-8X more deaths per hospital admission in Canada than the peer country average, depending on whether you use excess mortality estimates from
@OurWorldInData
or
@StatCan_eng
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@gregsaysso
Think of it as traumatic dissociation.
The harms caused by polarized politics and helplessness in the face of death/serious injury creates mass trauma (ie not just delusion).
It’s now a mass dissociation event b/c people can’t deal with the double talk and cognitive dissonance.
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@Mssarahmssarah
@Harvard
I was literally thinking this…
And here I was wanting to apply to
@Harvard
PH for grad school 😬😅🤦♀️
This just saved me some wicked app fees.
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@writenrun
Wow… like I’ve been gobsmacked staring at this for a few min, because that’s how long it’s taken me to collect my thoughts.
What’s traumatizing to kids is the loss or disability of a loved one, especially if they *feel* responsible because they got sick first. Kids aren’t
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@NeuroRebel
^ I feel this *so much*…
And ppl wonder where the burnout comes from..?
Exhaustion… it’s just the constant “keep up” culture… because if we all “work harder”, everything will be peachy 😐
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@evanhill
This is actually comical… like, this is the worst staging & propaganda ever 😂🤣🤦♀️🤷♀️
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@DrAmyPsyD
Happens all the time with ADHD kids… everything about you is presumed to be a function of “deviant” ADHD & being “difficult”.
Double empathy has applications outside Autism and is pretty brilliant in general.
20,000 criticisms on badness/morality before the age of 10 😕😔💔
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@JustDaweed
@pludger
You want to know what is *really* traumatizing..?
Being unable to get an abortion immediately following fetal death and having to walk around as the bio-coffin for your dead hopes/dreams for 6 weeks while hoping you don’t die of sepsis.
Do that 3x and come talk.
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100% this 👇👇👇🔥
Dr
@PeterHotez
is a person with integrity and a champion of public health.
Physicians who believe that vaccines cause autism and that autism can be “fixed” are the problem.
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Covid gets weirder:
“
#COVID19
infection in patients with
#ADHD
was associated with more severe symptoms and increased hospitalization, even after accounting for variables known to increase the risk (smoking, obesity, etc).
@crystalmundypsy
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@md_wallach
@sickbaycheese
@sew_hey
Numerous studies still show women being under-treated for anything from heart attacks (Yental syndrome) to ortho pain… also more likely to receive benzos for pain than actual pain relievers.
Don’t get me started on areas like Rhume. Med discrimination is still a huge issue…
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@sujo_dree
I was reading on this last night… apparently MIT was predicting exactly this since the 70’s but Covid sped up the timeline.
I’m totally going off grid in the woods 🫤
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@RyanMarino
Public health investigator here…
Not just a job you can apply for 😬
Special degree plus practicum and board exams 😆
And typically spreading disinformation is highly discouraged, particularly if it’s specifically criminalizing/stigmatizing specific populations ☹️
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@JustinRosatiMD
I just stared at this for like 5 min because I couldn’t believe this…
I’m pretty sure we are just devolving at this point 😐
Finale of species 🤦♀️
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@baumlab
@cdenton71
Seriously, if you are a white male, you have privileges that others don’t for literally no reason: they weren’t earned, they were just granted arbitrarily.
If you don’t realize that, idk what to tell you. It’s like denying racism exists 🤷♀️🤦♀️
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@nb_covid_info
@ianhanomansing
PH = “political health”
Let’s not misrepresent the reality to the public: politicians (and not experts) are dictating what was formerly known as public health.
And the SARS1 report specifically alerted us to this.
Also, that FOI is worth checking out.
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@DrCarlHindy
@MarkLRuffalo
@PsychTimes
@nassirghaemi
Well thanks for a biased opinion that perpetuates health inequities among women, most of whom are missed in early childhood (b/c of differences in presentation & gender expectations).
You should prob review the existing extensive literature in your field… happy to send you a
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Misinformation isn’t benign… and it’s becoming endemic 😐😑
#MisInformationKills
#200k
#PreventableDeaths
#Vaccine
@PeterHotez
♥️
#Canpoli
#USpol
#ScienceLiteracy
Watch the full
@chrislhayes
interview with Dr. Peter Hotez.
"These 200,000 were victims. They were victims of this predatory movement," says
@PeterHotez
on the unvaccinated Americans who needlessly died during the pandemic.
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@RyanMarino
Yes plz 😐🤨
Esp taxes… Fawk I’m super late on those 😬😅
AI scheduling assistant with blocked quiet time & functional across devices would change my life… I need a PA 😢
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@kavitapmd
@DrEricDing
Thank you for acknowledging medically vulnerable ppl as *worth* the minimal effort it takes to help protect us.
We know how to successfully mitigate spread and the message today was so crushing (particularly as an immune-comp PH prof). It’s scary how far PH has declined…
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I will seriously die on this hill:
#Canada
’s response to Cōvíd was a complete failure, despite lessons we should have learned from the
#SARs1
inquiry. We ignored & disempowered our experts, abandoned the
#precautionaryPrincipal
, and played into
#Individualism
&
@iceTyyc
@ianhanomansing
Tom, Public health professional here 👋
We know from SARS1 & other coronaviruses that this was most probably airborne from early on.
It was confirmed within 2020.
This was exceptionally bad reporting… for 3 years. It cause a LOT of harm.
Sars1 inquiry tells all
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@RyanMarino
… remember that thread where the early retired pharm tech swore up and down that Vit K was potassium?
Yeah… that stuck with me a long time. 🫠
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@AmyGDalaMD
Please don’t.
The double space makes a huge difference to some in reading comprehension ☹️
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@NeuroRebel
Why TF can’t people just say what they mean?
Also what is the true purpose of a dictionary exactly? 🤔
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@deonandan
Oh I love the “masks don’t work/virus to small” BS, followed immediately by “omg CO2 poisoning” 😱🤔🫠
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@AndoInDisguise
@KashPrime
@MartinKulldorff
@HRaleighspeaks
Numbers are around 11 million orphans now…
Most were preventable deaths. That’s a trauma kids will never get over 💔
Covid created over 7.5 million orphans (loss of a parent), and over 10.5 million kids lost a primary or secondary caregiver.
But sure, "child experts," tell me how vaccinations or masking or a month or two without school is awful for kids and "impairs their development."
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@Songstress28
@AirCanada
Wow
@AirCanada
,
Isn’t jacking prices during a state of emergency illegal in
#Canada
..?
Like actually prohibited under the emergencies act ..?
Seriously why we bail out airlines at all is beyond me.
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@acciopatronus10
@AmberlynWhite
Why do we have to “keep adapting” rather than ppl meet halfway?!
I mean, if you know I am direct and I ask if you need help, why can’t you just take that as me offering help? I’m tired of guessing what people may or may not mean… direct kind communication is far better ❤️
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@Billius27
Um, what TF?!
There are standard CDC definitions & requirements for declaring an outbreak (as per SOPs) 🤯
It’s almost like political health is just making up the rules & def’ns as they go.
Would love to have a pulse on the national ID surveillance/outbreak data right now…
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@sianharries_
@DrAmyPsyD
My personal experience is that the validity of an ADHD Dx is often undermined by people close to the person…
Mostly anti-psych conspiracies that it’s a made up diagnosis because “big pharma” 😬🤷♀️🤦♀️
That’s prob what I’ve heard the most personally/professionally ☹️💔
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MARTHA WALLS: Nova Scotians with disabilities treated as COVID collateral damage | SaltWire
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@throwingutah
@pedsmd2b
@MadisonConces
I’m not sure you realize the power dynamic at play here… a resident isn’t rescuing an ICU head from anything :/
They very well may escalate in a patient area though.
I would imagine this will trigger an investigation… sounds brutal and well witnessed ☹️
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@nb_covid_info
… is that just not theft?!
Why exactly is a school digging through a child’s private things and targeting *gasp* air quality?!
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Somehow don’t have a mask pic handy, so meme it is!
I wear a mask because I don’t want to suffer further preventable illness from
#COVID19
and to keep others safe: This is the commitment I made when entering
#publichealth
and it matters.
#PublicService
#evidenceBased
#inclusion
Hi. I’m Keith. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
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😐😑😐😬
This is like the ultimate form of gaslighting… we went from the best to worst in covid rates, half our ER’s are closed, wards are 15% overcapacity, and healthcare/public health is no longer remotely accessible to most of
#NovaScotia
.
Can we get an Inquiry plz?
#nspoli
Since we formed government one year ago, one thing is clear - you and I believe in
#NovaScotia
, and together, we'll get this province back on track.
We'll keep introducing solutions to move this province forward.
No matter what they say, we'll just keep going.
#nspoli
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@mildanalyst
Oh look! The CDC has internal covid tracing (for senior staff), self-isolation, and remote work options… huh.
So flaunting that Covid protections from the CDC are for the elite, eh? Awesome.
At least they are being honest. Finally…
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@TaniaJSpencer
@MoriartyLab
It frustrates me that many people have been screaming this, but somehow a fit man in a position of privilege/power early pandemic suffers moderate range effects, and it is a news-worthy article.
Certainly speaks to the systemic inequities contributing to the Covid narrative. :/
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@Jana_OGrady
@NeuroRebel
100% do this ♥️
And lose my mind when a “standard” longterm item is discontinued 😅
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@babydocwhit
@MamaWeasleyy
@nickmmark
As someone with ADHD - don’t label us, particularly when ADHD is so stigmatized & mistreated in med already 🙄🤦♀️
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@stacybmitchell
I remember going into the military family centre and being told I was “just a spouse” because I didn’t have children…
Society & institutions aren’t nearly as progressive as we are all led to believe. ☹️
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@drseanmullen
^I still don’t understand why this isn’t happening… 🤷♀️
I left PH because I didn’t feel that I could competently do my job according to scientific evidence/consensus as per my education & certs…
I really through that this would have been litigated by now.
Apparently civil
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@RyanMarino
@quality_nguyen
Why is he permitted anywhere near real humans who are potentially in a vulnerable state..?!
Patients: Fun Fact!
You can refuse consent in having a potentially dangerous med student involved in any part of your care.
Your welcome.
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@neganova_alina
Fear… they don’t have the adaptability/resiliency to acknowledge a new kind of threat. It’s easier for it to be someone else’s problem (someone “weaker”) so they can feel “safe”. They need to make it not real for psychological safety.
That’s the groupthink answer 🤣
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@timemy730
@DrCanuckMD
Seriously, if I heard someone say this to my doc while cognitively fuzzy or in fear for a family member, I would lose my shit.
Then waste time having it clinically explained to me.
Then file an official complaint.
Your learning does not come at the expense of a patient. Ever.
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@SebBoucher
@Nicola52032027
@tattooed_bug
You are literally refusing to listen to the lived experience of all the women here. You don’t think we’ve tried this 100x?!
We can help support each other. We can’t force fix others, nor should we have to suffer the abuse of trying to do so.
Feel free to make yourself useful
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@jsparkblog
It’s been 6 years and this makes me angry like it was yesterday…
The pain, loss, & grief is real. We should validate and support people in their very real sense of loss.
So while I’m sure they mean well, this is a harmful response that devalues the experience of loss. 💔
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@autisticdoc
@Raghnaid_Anna
I literally just sprayed my coffee.
Literally.
Glad I’m working from home 😂🤣♥️
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PSA to the “freedom”/
#Convoy
ppl:
I don’t “live in fear” of CV. I’ve been living fine in a
#N95
for ages.
I DO live in fear of
#aggressive
men
#harassing
me for protecting my
#immunocompromised
self while shopping, wondering what would happen if my spouse wasn’t there.
#MaskUp
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@LaurenPelley
@BadMedicalTakes
There is a LOT wrong with this article, the least of which are implications that we are out of the woods, that hybrid immunity is protecting people from negative outcomes, and that “only” the old/sick are at risk (ableism/agism)… revise please
@CBC
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@jonathanstea
“oh duh”…
Bet she also avoids “all the chemicals”…
Borax is a great pesticide.
Don’t ingest pesticides… nothing good comes from that.
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@CaulfieldTim
@jonathanstea
@RetractionWatch
@ivanoransky
@BlakeMMurdoch
@jvipondmd
@AntibioticDoc
@BogochIsaac
@ImogenRCoePhD
@ScienceUpFirst
I still see Wakefield cited…
Peer review needs to undergo some major revisions. This is harmful long after retraction ☹️
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@Stewtelligence
@Songstress28
@AirCanada
Crime to be profiteering during a declared emergency 🤦♀️🤷♀️
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@itosettiMD_MBA
@DisabledStem
biomed/PH who’s developed autoimmune and CVD issues post infection.
Knowing my vitals before and after, it’s almost unbelievable, and I was fully vaxxed and had a very mild case. It doesn’t end at primary inflection and we are just beginning to see the full scope of this…
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This is totally unacceptable: tracking cases in LTC is critical to prevent situations we saw early pandemic. We do this for flu and Gastro, but not
#Covid19
?
These aren't 2nd class citizens... they are human beings.
@MoriartyLab
@Wikisteff
#canpoli
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@DFisman
@FourWinns298
@TorontoStar
I quit my role because public health became political health.
We had a playbook for CV, mostly lessons learned from SARS1 (incl experts being an arms length from Gov)- this was a hostile political take over of PH 🤷♀️
Can only do so much 😢💔
Appreciate your work before & after.
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As a PH professional, I am tired of anti-science politics & forced infections.
#PreventableDeath
#Covid19
#BringBackMasks
#AtlanticCanada
@COVID_19_Canada
@Covid19DataNS
@PoP_NovaScotia
@PoPNB_kindness
@POP__NL
@poppei
@CovidSolidarit1
#disabilities
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@EdoajoEric
I was the person on the other end of the phone speaking to their loved ones while family were still in quarantine… often alone with that news.
I will quite literally never forget these people 🥺💔
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@DavidM_yeg
@mildanalyst
^I’ll second… great visual of the spread currently happening real-time at
@MichaelBuble
’s own concert.
… who said art was dead? 😬🎭😵
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@Mollys_ADHD
You will never be successful in this program (biochem/premed).
I published my first paper (as first author), graduated with honours, and the same prof presented me my award…
Hells yes I did reminder her of what she said 3 yrs earlier 😅🤷♀️🔥
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@NeuroRebel
Yes… if fact, that seems to be the whole point of education & psycho-social services - ND elimination.
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@DrCanuckMD
I can’t believe he’s not being sanctioned by the college, &
@UCSFMedicine
@UCSFHospitals
are still endorsing this…
This is what patients & med students are being exposed to?!
It’s beyond negligent…
it’s incompatible with competent evidence-based practice.
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Thread of great people to follow for accurate/timely
#Covid
information.
I’ll start with
@MLS_Dave
who has his hand on the pulse in the
#AtlanticCanada
region.
He’s been raising awareness of the increasing number of cases in hospitals & ERs
#CovidIsNotOver
#MaskUp
👇
ER packed again at 8am thru entire day shift. 12 covid PCRs done with 5 positive. Alot of patients with respiratory issues coming in but not seeing RSV or influenza yet. Kids have been back in school since last week so I'm sure other viruses are contributing. Be safe my friends.
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@EpiEllie
I had a very similar experience recently.
It still seems perfectly normal and acceptable to “explain” to female experts “how it really is”… then want a debate 😬🙄
And if they still disagree after a wealth of evidence, scientific consensus, etc., then you are “insert
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“Interpretation People who wear glasses have a moderate reduction in risk of COVID-19 infection highlighting the importance of the eye as a route of infection.”
@MoriartyLab
@TaraMoriarty
@nb_covid_info
@DGBassani
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@AnnRolle_
@TimHoustonNS
Parent’s rights do not and will never supersede a child’s rights under the Charter and there is extensive case law affirming that it’s all about ***what is in the best interest of the child***.
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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@GallaherCaren
@petrosoniak
Because we started restricting med school seats and have a very inefficient system
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@Billius27
@DGBassani
❤️ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👆
My job is extinct
I’ve been trying to explain the historical purpose of PH and how it has been dismantled/reduced over time, and now Gov used covid to finish it off.
People shouldn’t be under the illusion that science/health people are making decisions.
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@RadCentrism
In my region, summer flu was associated with drinking water quality and pathogens like campylobacter or giardia…
Almost entirely eliminated with water treatment, testing, & surveillance programs 🤷♀️😅♥️
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@michael_hoerger
I saw one mask the entire day (pharmacist). I can’t believe how much Canada has fallen into Misinformation. Routine harassment for masking, zero news on data, political health doesn’t even screen at hospitals/no masks.
Might be time to convince the spouse to take a US posting
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@RyanMarino
Let’s not sugar coat it… denying harm reduction is a human rights violation that *directly* results in increase deaths. We have a wealth of population data showing this.
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“Public health officials are not recommending that most people with cold or flu symptoms take a
#COVID19
test”…
So that explains “low case numbers” (while % positivity is ~25%).
#PoliticalHealth
#NovaScotia
#CovidisNotOver
#MaskUp
#NSpoli
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@MatDeFleuriot
@rdmorris
Except excess mortality only went up with the onset of the pandemic and before vaccines were available.
Covid is directly responsible for excess deaths not recorded as “infectious period” deaths 🤦♀️🤷♀️
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@CynickalGirl
@PedsHemeDoc
@JustinRosatiMD
No way this person was in pharm in any capacity…
My heart sped up reading that. This is high school biology/chemistry in terms of structure/function - clearly *totally different effects* on the body.
One is potentially lethal, the other life saving 🤦♀️🤷♀️
I brought pics 👇
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@thanh_neville
Everybody should be entitled to this… in the kind of communities that are meaningful to them 😍♥️👏
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@amandalhu
As much as I love washing my hands cause things are gross, that does not stop me from *breathing in* viral particles.
How is this complicated?!
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So I had made a twitter banner (anyone can use). After some critcal feedback, made the change below <3
PM for link to tweak the graphic for inclusivity & more feedback welcome!
@AusomeCharlie
@lucykhobbs
#Neurodiversity
#Neurodivergent
#Solidarity
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@stacybmitchell
@jekahyde
I mean, cue guilt trip on pursuing a career while *gasp* your husband tends to your children’s needs… 🙄🤦♀️🤷♀️
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@DaliaHasanMD
Considering post covid-health issues have pushed me out of work/grad school & normal social things, 100% yes!
#BringBackMasks
#YouAreNotAlone
#COVID19
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@WoolvertonDr
@jonathanstea
Tell me you don’t understand basic science & epidemiology without stating you don’t basic science & epidemiology…
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@DeNovo_Fatima
Food safety expert here…
Unless people are catching/culling live monkeys from central Africa as a food source, I’d say they can focus on the known transmission routes 😬
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@dee99out
@HardyViper
@jtrebach
Risk is so much higher when doing 60km/hr & with the force of a sudden stop & explosive air bags 😬😅
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