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Bth my husband & I had to bring our baby to class one time ech. Daycare was closed. Bth times, baby was quiet/sleeping.
We both had our students comment on evaluations
Which one of us was called unprofessional, which one of us was called ‘highlight of the course’?
#WomeninSTEM
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If only school administrators thought about COVID the way they think about peanut butter.
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This storm is going to do more for reducing illness than our leaders have in the last 8 months
Nature-based public health
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Almost 3 years COVID-negative.
Here’s what’s in my travel kit:
-
@flo_mask
- Enovid spray (before and after each flight)
- small hepa filter
- distancing
- vaxxed to the max
- privilege
#BringBackMasks
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I went to a party last night.
Here's how we reduced the
#COVID19
risk:
- we all wear masks in public spaces and at work
- we planned well in advance and monitored our health
- we use Enovid
- we met on an outdoor, heated patio and we measured the ventilation
- we put on
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Overheard at a local dojo:
Teacher: ever since Covid, I’ve noticed a decline in the physical coordination of the kids, but your child is really well coordinated and strong.
Parent: thank you. My child hasn’t had Covid.
Teacher: no, what I meant was that it’s the lockdowns that
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We are now experiencing how effective mask mandates were
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My 8 yo son would like to know why people are being mean about this post.
It has started a really important conversation about being mean, bullying, homophobia and the relationships between fathers and sons.
You shouldn't have to work on a holiday but I'm grateful for this
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They can’t handle the love! Guelph support for trans students drowns out tiny minority
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Question: What caused the extinction of humans on Earth?
Answer: Scot
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Our Premier
@fordnation
to
#Ontario
:
I'll give you your rights back if you promise not to use them.
#onpoli
#onted
#GeneralStrikeON
#GeneralStrike
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Is it a coincidence that the world experiences a pandemic for which a dominant effect is brain damage, and then we start thinking that it would be a good idea to go back to a time when child labour, unpasturized milk, legalized hate, and denial of access to health care were a
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@bharperauthor
@PonteDebra
She was rude. It sounds like she’s an unhappy person.
Keep holding doors open and so will I.
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I am a professor and I am married to a professor. We will never have to worry about paying off our mortgage, making car payments or affording food.
If the changes in capital gains means we pay more tax so that social programs are more economically viable, we’re OK with that
I am a physician and I am married to a physician. We will never have to worry about paying off our mortgage, making car payments or affording food.
If the changes in capital gains means we pay more tax so that social programs are more economically viable, we’re OK with that
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I’m in emergency with a sick child.
Healthcare workers are freakin saints and this place is hell.
So many babies.
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.
@fordnation
, a person knocked on my door, maskless.
I told them through my storm door that this made me uncomfortable.
They opened my door and told me they didn’t need masks. Opened. My. Door.
Tell me again, how am I supposed to be KIND to that?
#KeepMasking
#CovidIsntOver
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Universities need to announce a full
#VaccineMandate
(4th shot), an N95
#MaskMandate
, a reduced classroom capacity, and remote accommodations now, for fall 2022.
Anything less will contribute to spread and further divide us
#HigherEd
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Dear
@osstf
,
@Sflecce
thought to send me money while he ‘negotiates’ with you. I think that it was so that I would be angry with you.
He is so mistaken.
I’d like to donate the money to you because
#cutshurtkids
in
#onted
To whom should I make it payable?
Hugs,
A parent
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Here I am, dressed like a criminal, trying to stay healthy for my family.
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Still negative after almost three years.
Here’s what’s in my
#Covid_19
toolkit:
1) privilege
2)
@flo_mask
3) Enovid
4)
#CorsiRosenthalBox
5) CO2 monitoring
6) open windows
7) outdoor only gathering
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Normalize consequences for employers who put people at risk by ‘we’re following public health guidelines’
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Drinking wine with
#WestJet
, keeping healthy, and pissing off the anti-maskers.
All in a day’s experience.
I’m traveling for the next two days. Happy to share what I’ve learned about safer travel.
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Updated evidence suggests that masks may be associated with a reduction in risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
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The Conservative Party is a party of Hate.
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Masks were the only things our 4 year olds had left.
Kieran Moore and
@fordnation
took them away.
#MaskMandate
#Ontario
#OntEd
#OntPoli
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The good news is that you can reduce the transmission of both COVID and Mystery Illness by wearing a mask.
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"We were just following Public Health"
is the new
"We were just following orders"
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By refusing to implement a
#MaskMandate
, universities, colleges, and schools are working counter to their actual mandate: to develop the brains and the bodies of the future.
#COVID19
damages brains, hearts, and immune systems.
The evidence is happening all around us.
#MaskUp
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Family member testing positive for COVID just called the Pharmacy for advice and help.
Pharmacist said there was no need to isolate, but they should probably wear a mask in public.
We're here...
#Masks
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That I have to buy the filtration tools necessary to keep my graduate students healthier is unacceptable.
That I would refuse to do it is unimaginable.
Here’s what’s coming to my lab very soon.
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Don’t think for a second that the whole masks-off-mid-flight thing won’t happen to us.
It did. In our schools.
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There is no such thing as a Jewish riding.
This person cannot be in charge.
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This whole 'living in fear' narrative needs to stop.
Living in fear is about rejecting the current state of a changing situation. Symptoms include refusing to be cautious, harming others, or shutting down completely.
Living informed, is taking into consideration what is
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So wonderful to know that there are still people keeping themselves and each other healthier.
In a sea of uninformed and/or uncaring behavior, wear an elastomeric mask!
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Just getting the house ready when a car goes by and the driver yells out “perv”.
#Guelph
See you tomorrow folks
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Overhead at a university department meeting: “but if we have student offices where masks are worn, I worry that they will be abusive to those among us who choose not to mask”
#ShitAcademicsSay
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Got back from an international work trip. Met great people, learned a lot, did good work. Didn't give or get
#COVID19
Here's how:
1) Discussed Covid with colleagues involved
2) Tested regularly
3) Wore a mask when new colleagues joined the meetings and in public indoor spaces
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Extra facts:
Daycare cancelled last minute
We both teach at exactly the same time, so handoff isn’t possible
We were both totally prepared to end class early should it be necessary.
We both teach large lower year courses with no flexibility to cancel and hope to catch up.
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If your colleagues:
1) know that you’re not comfortable being in an indoor space with them unmasked,
And,
2) choose to not wear a mask to department meetings,
Take it personally
#HigherEd
#AcademicChatter
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Still think that
#COVID19
is 'just a cold'?
Try listening to your mother crying on the phone from the pain.
I hope that you're all having a better morning than I am.
#CovidIsAirborne
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On Sept 20, we will be there to stand against hate.
Hoping to see colleagues in support.
#Guelph
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8th COVID vaccination
Total number of infections that I have caused: 0
Still masking, still caring
#CovidIsNotOver
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If your reason for being against supporting children as individuals in our schools starts with "Well, when I went to school..."
Just stop. Right there. Stop.
Empathy, Inclusion, Education, and Justice shouldn't stop because we didn't have those things
See you Sept 20,
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Trolls: grow a pair
Me: well, actually, I’ve conceived and birthed two biological males, so I’ve actually grown two pair
#BringBackMasks
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Still masking and still not caring if you’re insulted that I’d rather not breathe in your exhaust without filtration
#COVIDisAirborne
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Reducing the risk of giving or getting
#COVID19
is important for both your and your community's health.
Here is a general model that we use in my family to keep us at work, at school, at play.
Keeping healthy doesn't require living in misery. We're happy, healthy, and
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Hi folks. I can't keep up with the comments anymore. Most of them are hateful with antisemitic or transphobic or ableist comments. I've tried to hide and block most of them but it's running its course now. I'm still going to monitor DMs for those looking for evidence-based info.
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When they forgot to invite my
#PhD
supervisor to my defense, another committee member said to me 'don't worry, I got you'. And then he proceeded to throw me under the bus that would haunt my sleep for two years.
Today, I got to say to a student 'don't worry, I got you'.
And I
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This was hard to read but it’s important to be familiar with what entitlement, racism, and selfishness read like.
Just returned home from 3 weeks outside of Canada.
Have a bit of culture shock, returning back to this nation of absolute cucks. How far this once-great nation has fallen.
A thread.🧵
#FuckTrudeau
#TrudeauMustResign
#TrudeauNationalDisgrace
#TrudeauDictatorship
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It's grim to think that the only way we can keep our kids out of the hospital is if an education union goes on strike.
#onted
#onpol
#FordFailedKids
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Hey there
@Sflecce
,
Happy Sunday.
My parents, both 80, one with stage 4 lung cancer, post-op, are staying with us for a while starting today.
Do you think it’s safe for my 5 and 7 year old to go to school?
Sincerely,
82% of
#Ontario
#MaskUp
#OntEd
#CovidIsntOver
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Our dogs are protected from Lyme disease by a vaccine.
Anti-vaxxers worked hard to make sure that humans remain vulnerable.
The ticks are pretty bad this year.
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This week, thousands of
#HigherEd
students will be forced into large exam halls, with no masking, to write meaningless assessments under timed pressure that will end up killing granny over the holidays.
Rube Goldberg of epidemiology.
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Let me be clear: I wouldn’t recommend ANY
#HigherEd
school in
#Ontario
right now.
My recommendation is to go East if you can.
@Fordnation
has depleted our education system to beyond the tipping point. We won’t recover without a new government that values education
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I've been tracking the careers of those faculty who have been speaking truth to power since 2019.
Here's what's happened to them due to admin decisions:
- lost research field site, retired
- denied promotion
- removed from leadership position
- denied fair promotion
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Funny how a 4 wk lockdown can cause irreparable harm to human health
... but a novel virus that causes long-term brain damage is considered mild
#MakeItMakeSense
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Dear
@uofg
executive,
It's a new week with even more COVID on campus. Do you know how many students are in hospital, now?
I do.
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.
@PierrePoilievre
makes it clear: he is going to sell Canada.
Pierre Poilievre declares, 'I am also going to sell off 6,000 federal buildings and thousands of acres of federal land.'
Why do people cheer for the sell-off of Canada's taxpayer-funded property to undemocratic large corporate interests?
#cdnpoli
#conservatives
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@fordnation
No. You don’t get to say that. No one disagrees that building more homes is necessary, but our anger isn’t about that. You sold Ontarians out to your buddies. That’s unacceptable.
#DougFordResign
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Can we please talk about children under 5 yrs old and how we can help their parents/guardians keep them safe?
Pls don’t @ me with ‘it’s mild’.
#COVID19
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Please add ‘Wear a mask in public indoor spaces’ to your New Year’s resolutions
#CovidIsAirborne
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@PaulaMo34352500
Is that what we’re doing now? Denying that our despicable behaviour affects kids so that we can keep doing it? Seriously?
Of course our children see our hate and our selfishness.
It’s just more convenient for you to think that I’m making it up.
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Just a reminder that wearing a mask indoors and outdoors can keep you healthier
… and it’s hot 😉
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Hi. I'm Sho. I live in Canada. I wear a mask in combination with other tools.
I refuse to accept that we're a country that accepts excess mortality rates 30% higher than pre-pandemic years.
Hi. I'm Tara. I live in Canada and don't have a picture of me in an N95 mask, but I wear one everytime I'm in public indoors.
I refuse to accept that we're a country that accepts excess mortality rates 30% higher than pre-pandemic years.
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@FrancoGalvanLA
@flo_mask
So, all of these tools cost a lot of money. And I am also still able to work from home and we can still bring our kids to the park twice a day to eat their lunch and snacks. That’s privilege.
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Masking at work so we don’t kill granny over the long weekend is … (🙄) my act of resistance
#HowTheFuckAreWeHereNow
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Lots of questions about the filters that I travel with. Here’s the dynamic pair.
Both can operate on battery. The larger one has an internal battery, and the smaller one runs off of an external through USB.
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@Scottcrates
The people mocking this person for sharing the reality of food and housing insecurity are the problem.
I’m so done with the notion of suffering ‘because we had to’. It’s cruel, often discriminatory, often not even true, and accepts a narrative that our species can’t be better,
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Them: Why are undergrads not attending classes? They must be disengaged and immature.
Me: Well, my morning admin meeting only had 50% attendance, so, by your logic...
PSA: We're all struggling to attend. It's a larger issue that goes beyond a political portfolio. We need to
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I can’t reconcile working for an employer who would rather pay the cost of a 400% increase in employee sick leave than enact a mask mandate
#CovidIsNotOver
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Dear leaders,
First,
#BringBackMasks
.
Then,
#Resign
for not having done it sooner.
Thanks
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In 2001, at 22 yrs old, I began my
#PhD
research making $22,000 from an external scholarship
Rent in downtown Ottawa was $650 for a lg studio, 15 minutes walk away from my office
We pay the same 20 years later and the cost of living is so much more.
#SupportOurScience
so we
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If I was in a profession where my cognition was key to my continued employment, I'd wear a respirator everywhere.
And I am, so I do.
If I was in a profession where my cognition was key to my continued employment, I'd wear a respirator everywhere.
And I am, so I do.
(sorry, no picture from me!)
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"We can hope that the child’s contacts were all vaccinated."
Hope. That's all that's left.
Measles Is Coming Back. We're Not Prepared via
@TheTyee
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45 times around the Sun today.
Promotion to Full Professor in a week.
A career in
#HigherEd
science can be inclusive, collaborative, and truly amazing!
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Hey there
#HigherEd
execs at uofg, do you know how many students are currently in the hospital with Covid?
I do.
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A parent of a student at
@uofg
reached out to me to ask about who they should contact to request that clean air in classrooms and public spaces be required.
A while back, I reported CO2 measurements that were too high. The gaslighting response was strong and I have receipts.
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The reason I’m telling this story: I want
@fordnation
to hear that asking us to BE KIND in a context where we cannot give consent is unacceptable and supports a long tradition of patriarchal abuse. It needs to stop.
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@CindyGicinto
Actually, I'm hiding the comments that are nasty, transphobic, misogynist or anti-semitic. The ones that express a different, evidence informed opinion are staying unhidden. There's a different.
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Could someone please assure me that the people making the decisions about the level of acceptable risk re: H5N1, are not the same people who made decisions about COVID?
Thanks
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I reported a CO2 value of over 1900 ppm to my employer.
They told me that I was taking the reading in the wrong place… (I was measuring it where the students were!)
I have receipts
#HigherEd
Sensors in these state-of-the-art buildings report the levels of outdoor air pollution and carbon dioxide on each floor. The less carbon dioxide, the better the ventilation.
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@JustinTrudeau
My 8 yo son would like to know why people are being mean about this post.
It has started a really important conversation about being mean, bullying, homophobia and the relationships between fathers and sons.
You shouldn't have to work on a holiday but I'm grateful for this
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I’m just a teacher, standing in front of
#HigherEd
leaders, asking for air conditions that allow our brains to actually work.
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Hey Siri, what are Doug Ford’s business connections to Staples?
NEW - The Ford government is closing an unspecified number of Service Ontario locations, CityNews has learned. Its part of a pilot project that will see Service Ontario kiosks open inside some Staples Canada stores, though the government wont say if a kiosk will open for every
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Just announced:
@uofg
will not have a
#MaskMandate
or
#VaccineMandate
. They are recommending medical style masks.
At this point, I'd also like to defer my fall semester
#HigherEd
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
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I had an important conversation with a colleague recently. They saw my post about the CO2 levels in a large class on campus.
They wanted to know why this matters. They asked 'hasn't it always been this way?'
Let's break this down because it matters. 🧵
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On Monday, Kieran Moore is going to ask a bunch of folks who value their face freedom aesthetic to PRETTY please wear a mask.
#onpoli
#onhealth
#BringBackMasks
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Oh honey….
You delayed childcare as best you could
You cut money to schools
You’re killing health care
You attacked nurses and teachers
You fight sick leave
I do not accept your definition of ‘potential’ when you actively oppress
#InternationalWomansDay
@fordnation
When women succeed, Ontario succeeds. That's why we're working hard to create a province where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential, regardless of gender.
On this
#InternationalWomensDay
, we celebrate the incredible achievements of women across Ontario.
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