In solidarity with the US.
In fear the same could happen in Europe.
(Yes I was bored and made my eye colour fit my outfit 🤣)
Share masked selfies because mask bans are discriminatory bullsh*t. 😷🙌🏼
#Masks
#MasksWork
#MaskUp
#HumanRight
And with that, my Dad has passed.
Peacefully. With no pain. And with me alongside him.
The universe gave us the gift of time. I will forever be grateful for that.
#MomAndDadTogetherAgain
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! 😷🍉
HEPA filters are not radical.
You have them in your car.
They have them in Parliaments and the White House and Buckingham Palace.
They have them in the International Space Station and at Davos.
HEPA filters ARE NOT RADICAL.
My incredible MIL passed away this morning. I really lucked out in the MIL dept & am so very sad to lose her.
Our fam has lost 3 matriarchs/patriarchs in the last 8 mths. Too much - BUT, we were blessed w/time & the chance to be with ea of them as they passed.
#4EverGrateful
.
@CHEO
has dropped its mask requirement, tho staff must comply if patients ask them to mask.
‼️ I would argue that the “ask” to not come out of a hospital sicker than you went in is implied at all times...esp for kids‼️
The mask mandate in hospitals/healthcare should stand.
Christmas is a time where we celebrate with our loved ones and create new traditions!
One of my favourite things to do during the holidays is to build a gingerbread house! 🏠
Check it out👇
Hi, all! I’m back but starting from scratch 😩.
Worked hard over 4 yrs to earn engagement of followers, which simply added up in response to advocacy, etc.
Was never a huge “#” person but losing y’all, gotta’ say, it hurt.
Pls share w/ anyone who might want to re-connect ☺️.
About 80% of staff are wearing N95s tonite.
Usually it's about 5%.
Something's in the air.
Has the word has gone out?
Staff are being cautious just before Christmas?
🤷♂️
Imo, Prof Moriarty should only have to ask once for our help.
Do we want her and her team to continue offering Canadians this incredibly valuable and life-saving service? I know I do.
Please take five to complete this very easy survey.
#FiveToStayAlive
#TheLabIsFab
#GiveBack
P.S. It's 6 multiple choice questions, plus a 7th optional question where you can write a response, if you'd like.
Less than 5 min, and we don't ask any personal info!
Dad is in the hospital. During our visit this aft, he was mostly sleepy/non-communicative. Tonight they tell us to return as they don’t think it will be long…but he’s as awake & chatty as I've seen him.
Not going to question why; instead, will just embrace the extra time 🙏🏼.
Time to make some NOOOOOIISE 📣📣📣!!!!
Can YOU afford to keep kids home for 21 days b/c of Measles?
Can the Ministry of Edu afford to lose staff for 21 days w/ Measles or to care for their own kids who need to stay home for 21 days after contracting Measles?
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Visited an amazing classroom today! Avg of approx 600 ppm CO2 readings in there daily, DIY purifiers scattered around and really engaged kids. More on this visit to come!
@ONSchoolSafety
@A_Dobbie11
@ToddSmithPC
K, friends!
Have you or anyone you know contracted a
#HAI
(Covid or otherwise) from:
🏥working at
🏥visiting
🏥being a patient
in a hospital in
#Canada
?
I have a journalist who would appreciate hearing your stories.
If you are able/willing, pls specify which illness.
There are literally NO downsides to cleaning the air in schools and on school buses.
Even the cost is offset long-term (like, in a kazillion ways).
So, when our leaders won’t properly invest in cleaning the air in those spaces & in healthcare as well, all we can do is
#AskWhy
.
Adding to this:
Allowing pathogens to spread in schools and make staff and students sick often, is an easy way to ruin public education system.
#ProtectPublicSchools
Good news!
@coopSpeak
is home🩷.
Doc said better than staying in the ER 🤔.
Not exactly confidence-inducing (one hopes that being in the hosp when unwell would be a WISE place to be) but a hospital Covid outbreak and an overwhelmed system makes it this now.
@SylviaJonesMPP
No Novavax ordered for
#Canada
? That seems all kinda’ wrong.
A Novavax option will ⬆️ vax uptake for those:
💉With adverse reactions to mRNA
💉Who want a likelihood of ⬇️ downtime post-vax
💉Who have misconceptions about mRNA vaccines
Let’s go!
Those of us who have been immersed in the realities of the ongoing Covid pandemic and who are either aware of the millions suffering, or who are suffering themselves, from
#LongCovid
, are so incredibly grateful to see such a visible acknowledgement of LC in a large city.
Tonight the
#CNTower
will also be lit teal, grey and black for International Long COVID Awareness Day / Ce soir, la
#TourCN
sera également illuminée en bleu sarcelle, gris et noir pour la Journée internationale de sensibilisation à la COVID longue.
Most of my life I’ve been an optimist.
I feel the last 4 yrs chipping away at that, tho, as I learn just how selfish most of us are. Incl me. In ways I hadn’t realized b/f I got immersed in inequities & have seen pub reaction to C-19.
We need mandates.
Cuz people suck lol.
So I think a mistake that a lot of COVID cautious people make is to assume that people would behave differently if they just "knew". They won't. They are just as capable of absorbing knowledge as you are. I have run this little experiment personally & pumping information at
.
@GovCanHealth
@PHAC_GC
Let’s go on the
#Novavax
, pls!
Many of us are sitting ducks & know that Novavax is our preferred vax.
Do you know why it’s trending? Because people are celebrating accessing it just south of us.
🇨🇦 deserves the same.
Stop the
#VaxHungerGames
🙏🏼.
No number of years with a parent is enough and no amount of time to prepare for the inevitable is enough.
Garnering strength from family, friends & the many awesomely compassionate people on this absurd app as we walk with Dad on his end-of-life journey. Thx to all!
#MyDadRocks
@co2detective4
He’s great! Spoke alongside him at Queen’s Park today as he,
@joeyfox85
and
@ONSchoolSafety
showed our support for a bill being tabled to improve ventilation in schools and daycares in ON! Thank you
@ChandraPasma
!!!
(You can also find him on Spoutible.)
.
@BarryHunt008
running Ontario’s pandemic response from a hospital bed fighting his eleventy’th infection is still more effective than any other leader in an elected or appointed position in Ontario right now.
#IVote4Barry
Meghan Markle visited Children's Hospital Los Angeles to support their Make March Matter fundraising campaign. Patients and staff were treated to a very special story time with the Duchess of Sussex! ❤️
📷:
@ChildrensLA
Thx,
@safecareON
!
Our fave clean air Novid,
@coopSpeak
, is in the ER right now 😢 finding help for her breathing struggles.
Hospital’s in outbreak & coughing is everywhere.
A nurse on the phone heard stating they won’t be able to handle anyone else coming in via ambulance.
This is an important initiative.
@safecareON
has collected information about the number of hospital outbreaks reported in the most recent week when data are available from Ontario PHUs.
It's 5X higher than avg weekly outbreaks for 2023 reported by
@GovCanHealth
.
Take action
If the law requires kids to attend school, it should also be required that governments ensure the air inside of schools and school buses is clean enough that kids won’t come out of either less healthy than when they went in.
#WhyWouldntWe
Schools have a legal obligation to provide a safe workplace.
That means understanding the health risks from COVID, how it spreads and how to prevent it spreading.
It also means taking all reasonable steps to protect the health and safety of staff, students and others.
The recent news about
#Ontario
’s wastewater program cancellation has many Ontarians understandably concerned.
It’s why I hosted a phone zap last night - to notify our leaders of what we want/deserve AHEAD of any further finalization of plans.
More in the🧵:
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I can’t imagine the tremendous fear high risk people fear daily.
I’m so sorry humans have failed you, and the rest of us who are but one accident, diagnosis, infection away from being in a high risk category as well.
@EmJayNabuurs
It’s sickening. I keep seeing stories from people in ward rooms where their nurses are actually telling them the curtain will protect them. We are failing patients so badly. This is why high risk people are terrified to go to hospital (myself included)
This is HUGE.
Did you know that this community has also been disproportionately negatively impacted by the mishandling of the pandemic and by the closure of schools?
A way to keep schools open as we still deal w C19 & other issues is to
#CleanTheAir
.
@DickZoutman
@ccleighton
Time to make some NOOOOOIIIISE 📣📣📣!
🙏🏼 amplify
@ONSchoolSafety
’s open letter to the ON govt requesting immediate action to prevent measles spread as we enter March Break and BEFORE kids return to school.
#WeHaveTheTools
Just left a meeting of one of the two high school parent councils I’m on. They each talk about aggressive student behaviours. I’ve at least gotten ONE Principal to CONSIDER that ongoing Covid-19 infections may be playing a part.
It’s a far reach from action, but it’s something.
The Ford government hasn't learned a single lesson from COVID.
It's irresponsible for Ford to cancel the provincial wastewater testing program when it's been integral in protecting people from the spread of COVID and other infectious diseases.
#onpoli
Is anyone else getting teary-eyed listening to the US Senate on Long Covid right now headed by
@BernieSanders
? The speakers have been so brave, intelligent and forthright. And the senators have told them on multiple occasions they are believed…BELIEVED!
What a sad time in history that many in control of our health/safety during our most vulnerable moments must be “asked” to protect us with everything they’ve got?
When did it become a patient’s job to ask for safety mitigations that a global pandemic showed are beneficial?
Major Toronto hospitals are dropping mandatory masking in several units including ER. Requests of staff to mask will be respected. Those that mask will be respected. This reflects the Toronto Region Hospital Operations Table. Personally - I will still mask.
"This change is in
How can a world-renowned hospital like
@SickKidsNews
not be trusted to follow what is KNOWN to be one of the best tools for protecting their staff and patients?
Who has influence over this hospital? Cuz I can’t imagine what else would drive such incredible staff to do this.
Seriously
@SickKidsNews
So sick caregivers can go maskless in patients rooms?
Let parents know that this isn’t the safest thing to do & masking would be protecting their already vulnerable child.
No policy to allow patients to ask HCW to mask either?
For most people, COVID has now become more of an annoyance than a serious illness
If you are older or immunocompromised, it can still be quite serious
That's why a vaccine for those folks on at least an annual basis is critical
As is treatments if they get infected
4/5
Don’t get Covid. If you get it, don’t share it. You may be setting up someone for disabilities.
And since approx 40% of Covid infections are asymptomatic, until preventative vax, effective antivirals & better indoor air quality are the norm, masks ARE the way to
#LiveWithCovid
.
@DrVivianS
As I sit bedside with my father in his LTC who is possibly only hours to days away from passing, the idea that this is happening to others makes me SICK to my stomach.
What kinds of humans DO that?
Let’s go 📣📣📣!!!
Clean air expos taking place, healthy interior design conferences happening, grassroots IAQ advocates at Town Halls, talk spaces highlighting impacts of Kovid on kids/adults,
@60Minutes
on clean air on Sunday & look what’s trending!
Our turning point 🤷♀️? /1
It is exhausting, but the fight against the path we’re on with rampant C infections is more exhausting…which is why I stay.
As ugly as it gets, we connect here with many allies. I don’t know where I’d be without the info I keep abreast of here.
Kindly share your best sources for showing that even young, healthy 19-20 year olds should not contract Covid.
Data, studies, info graphics - all welcomed. All super important to me to share with an invincible loved one.
This was shared with me by a local educator,
@ToddSmithPC
. I’m sure you agree these are not appropriate learning or working conditions.
Pls invest in pub education - improve indoor air quality for comfort, safety, and the best possible outcomes for productivity and learning.
Forcing kids to attend school w/o addressing WHY they aren’t attending won’t get the results you’re hoping for.
Let’s start with expecting clean air in schools/buses to ⬇️ rampant illness, ⬇️ allergens & pollutants, ⬆️ academic performance, ⬆️ positive mental health.
Chronic student absenteeism plagues
#tvdsb
and
#onted
in general. Yet, nothing is being done to properly address this normalization. It's high time that compulsory school attendance is prioritized for student success.
#cdned
#edchat
Insist on:
1) Active public Measles vax education campaign via all platforms possible (& might as well add it’s a great time to get one’s next Covid dose!)
2) Active public education campaign about contagious & airborne nature of Measles & how to clean indoor air…
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Your message is misleading.
One C-19 infection can cause a lifetime of health issues. The vax may help protect from severe illness/death but not from contracting the virus, which should be goal
#1
.
Masking & cleaning the air prevent infection. Vax helps AFTER you’re infected.
Your best defense against influenza and
#COVID19
is vaccination. Stay healthy by keeping up-to-date with your vaccines & practising healthy hygiene.
Book an appointment to get your flu shot & the new COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the XBB variant.
#GetVaccinated
Big news
@WHO
finally stated that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne.
Worthwhile remembering that this term doesn’t hold the weight for the gen pub as it does for those “in the know”.
We must use their recent admission to support what we teach others about what airborne means practically.
And think of how many have benefitted from your knowledge and generosity of spirit IN those 40 days and nights.
Thanks for all you do to help others.
#BeLikeBarry
40 Days & 40 Nights.
In hospital.
Straight.
3 operations.
Zero Covid.
During the 2nd biggest Wave in 4 years.
In fact, Zero Covid in 4 years.
And Zero Flu, Cold, RSV in 4 years.
Including 75 days in hospital.
And 8 operations.
Since June.
#RespiratorsWork
SECOND phone zap scheduled to fight for ON’s wastewater surveillance program! See 🧵 for details:
Join myself and
@ryantennant_
tomo,
Mon June 10 at 10am,
to
#MakeYourNoise
Contact info, phone scripts, email templates, and a quick chat with
@ct_degroot
to start us off!
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Do you use the Canadian COVID-19 Forecast?
We need your help for a funding application.
We're asking people how the Forecast affects your decisions and actions related to infection prevention.
Please respond and share this anonymous survey!
K, Covid informed, looks like IPAC needs to hear us loud & clear. From the responses to their piece, it’s clear that most of us see that it’s PREVENTION we are short on.
Let’s make some NOOOOOIISE 📣📣📣 to make a difference!
#PreventionShort
#ProtectNotInfect
.
@ONSchoolSafety
feels like we’re on a never-ending loop as we decide if we should just re-send the wildfire open letter we sent to
@Sflecce
et al. last year or if we should write a new one but sprinkle it with glitter to get their attention.
Clean.
The.
Air.
I promised a 🧵 about my visit to
@A_Dobbie11
’s amazing classroom yesterday! Here it is ☺️ (worth reading all the way through).
Firstly,
@PDSBDirector
- you have yourself a gem of an educator here. Kids appear engaged & excited to learn and take what they’ve learned to their…/1
Visited an amazing classroom today! Avg of approx 600 ppm CO2 readings in there daily, DIY purifiers scattered around and really engaged kids. More on this visit to come!
@ONSchoolSafety
@A_Dobbie11
@ToddSmithPC
In some provinces HPV vaccine is free for people under 25. That's really good, but experts say it should be free for everyone:
🔗
HPV-related cancers are increasing among women in their 30s and 40s:
Deeply disappointed to learn that funding has been cancelled for the wastewater surveillance program in Ontario.
This has been critical information not only for COVID-19, but other infectious disease threats (Influenza, RSV, MPox, Polio & now H5N1) in Ontario.
Good Morning Toronto 🇨🇦
Here’s to another day off productive talks, research and collaboration at the
@UofTCOVIDRehab
#LongCovid
rehabilitation forum.
Representing my wonderful team of researchers/collaborators!
But what about everyone she was surrounded by in the box at the Super Bowl, down on the field at the Super Bowl, at that enormous party after the Super Bowl???
“When Taylor is on tour, strict measures are put into place to stop her interacting with anyone outside of
of her bubble”
“Even those in her bubble, including dancers and managers, are restricted in what they can do and where they can go during downtime”
#Belleville
- Time to show some love to this brave little girl and let her know that the behaviour of those two vendors toward her is neither acceptable OR the norm in your city.
#CourageAt12
Today it happened. I took my 12 yr old immunocompromised child into public with a FloMask and she was verbally assaulted by two vendors at the Belleville Farmer’s Market. She had profanities yelled at her as she bawled and tried to hide. This is why we hermit and can’t enjoy life
@JustinTrudeau
So should Paxlovid, rapid tests, PCRs, N95s and virtually anything that protects us from an airborne virus your government has allowed to infect and reinfect Canadians repeatedly.
It’s 2024 and I just read a
@CBC
article on group A strep that blamed 2020 immunity debt for its increased severity and prevalence. I genuinely wonder how many more years that can be trotted out as I would have thought certainly it’d be fewer than 4.
Australian Olympic medal chances will be better 4 protecting athletes from inconvenient airborne infectious diseases like Cvd, with good quality respirators
Well done to the Australian Olympic medical team 👏
can we pls put you in charge of nat PH when you return from Paris?
Then let
@Sflecce
@fordnation
,
@SylviaJonesMPP
, CMOH Kieran Moore (has anyone seen him, btw?),
@DavidPiccini
, your MPP & local Pub Hlth Unit know WE need PROACTIVE measures to prevent Measles spread
and
that THEY need to urgently implement the precautionary principle.
/2
including why/how to measure CO2 levels, to crack open windows, to use air purifiers, to
*MASK with N95 or better and provide these high quality masks at no charge, with easy access, and with a simple explanation about how they work*
and, yes, to wash hands.
/4
What an absolute pleasure it was to speak with Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska tonight.
We did the space via Zoom. Its recording will be posted to our YouTube channel, with link to it posted to our various socials later in the week!
We hope you enjoy it.
#WomenInSTEAM
Make some NOOOOOISE 📣📣📣,
#IAQ
#CleanAir
friends!!!
Let the Canadian Board for Harmonized Construction Codes know that you want ASHRAE 241 to be included in Ontario’s 2026/27 Building Code!
Copy & paste the 🧵 info into the comment section:
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I hope you’ll take part in a phone zap I’m organizing. Hopefully for tomorrow, Clean Air Day (which is even more important now that other tools are being taken away).
Will also call on people to reach out to their media contacts to get some eyes on this.
.
@ONThealth
@SylviaJonesMPP
@Sflecce
Measles can be dangerous for HCWs who encounter people w infection, but edu workers & students are fine around potential cases?
After March Break when many have travelled to Florida/Europe - inclu students/staff as part of school trips?
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It is SO hard.
A while back I remember reminding my kids to “hang in there”, “keep masking”, etc. and my one teen said, “But nothing ever changes” 🥺😞.
What do we do with that?
As far as this topic goes, she’s mostly right 😢.
@EmJayNabuurs
@CineplexMovies
I'm sad that this policy may enforced upon your kids who are doing their best to protect themselves/their family. It's not easy being young during a pandemic that is largely being ignored.
Exactly. And I despair at the fact that hospital systems here haven't realised the very basic fact that if you wait until cases are very high to re-introduce masking, you're already too late. In healthcare settings, masking should be universal and constant.
Agreed.
Need to remove distractions like preventable illness - brain fog, extreme fatigue, depression, inability to keep up because of so much missed school due to illness, or due to caregiving for parents with illness brought home from school.
#CleanTheAir
#WeHaveTheTools
@BogochIsaac
It’s a shame. Your relentless minimizing over the last several yrs - causing irreparable harm to many who simply trusted your take b/c of your title - means I can’t trust what you support w/o first looking elsewhere for others’ takes on it.
#LessonLearned
#NoCred
When I explained the facts about
#SARSCoV2
to my “normie” friend, I literally felt crazy. I felt on a par with antivaxxers and flat earthers. In order to give my facts legitimacy, I had to repeatedly say that I read medical journals. Where are you,
#PublicHealth
?
Your risk of
#LongCOVID
rises with each additional infection.
A recent study has shown that by their third COVID infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID symptoms.
Learn more about the threat of Long COVID:
Canada, c’mon, please hurry up.
Updated Novavax vaccine is already approved in the US and in the EU.
For some people Novavax is the only option as their bodies don’t tolerate the other ones (e.g. due to an allergy to some ingredients in the buffer)
THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS BEING TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE AIR IS TO SAY THE WORD "AIRBORNE". WHO wants to introduce terms like "puff cloud". This is a retrograde step. I for one won't be playing ball.
Even us Covid Cautious are vulnerable to wanting to join in. Thank you
@denise_dewald
for your transparency, and hope you get better soon.
(Sent with permission as her account is locked down.)
@FourWinns298
@Park_MN22
Yes quite correct. Need vaccines ready to go now along with medication and PPE stock piles. And comprehensive whole of nation pandemic response plan. These are the basics of running a nation.
@Sflecce
Instead of just posting, pls consider responses to your uninformed post from yesterday.
No one is wanting kids to be out of class. Some brds are simply switching PA Days. Some are dismissing a tad early b/c the eclipse is happening at dismissal time & they worry for kids’ eyes!