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 Toronto, Canada
Joined February 2008
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Colin Foster retweeted
chantzy@chantz_y14 Nov 2023
This is dreadful & was preventable. ~20-30% with Covid have a degree of cognitive impairment after. This isn't brain fog. It's brain damage.
Headline from NYT: Can't Remember: More Americans Say They're in a Cognitive Fog

ALT Headline from NYT: Can't Remember: More Americans Say They're in a Cognitive Fog

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Normalize this. There will be no “off-ramp” for years to come. Until better vaccinations and buildings with better air ventilation & purification, you’d be better off adapting to a daily respirator.
RamenRapha@Rrraphaqua9 Nov 2023
Doing business with a mask. I know it‘s surprising for many, but it works:). Keep on masking in style and stay healthy!
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Colin Foster retweeted
Joe Oliver@joeolivermd29 Oct 2023
"N95 respirators give a much higher benefit than surgical masks". What an emotional rolly coasty that this statement is both refreshing to hear and oh my god we're four years into this.
Yaneer Bar-Yam
@yaneerbaryam27 Oct 2023
New paper on Masks: Some claim scientific studies show masks don’t work, or that surgical masks are as good as N95s. Just released paper shows this claim is false. Masks work, and N95 respirators give a much higher benefit than surgical masks.1/
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We just finished model updates for this week's COVID Forecast. By waste water or our model, daily infections in Canada are now as high/higher than prior Omicron peaks except Dec/21 wave. High risk people need shots ASAP, wear N95 masks, avoid non-essential indoor activities.
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Colin Foster retweeted
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@1goodtern18 Oct 2023
It's so hard to articulate this, and I keep failing. But the people downplaying the repercussions of Covid seem to be doing so on the basis that it's "respiratory" as if that makes it innocuous. But legionella and pneumonia are respiratory.
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Colin Foster retweeted
Tai Huynh@taimhuynh15 Oct 2023
There once was an promise to “end hallway healthcare” in Ontario. Now hallway healthcare is what we’re told to expect.
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4th vid: There's no chance Tedros was saying an unrelated “military term” and didn't mean it was an airborne pathogen. But *why* retract? “Masking also prevents its spread. Sorry, I was brining up a painting term in this medical conversation. I meant to say: hand sanitizer.” /s
John Johnston
@JOHNJOHNSTONED15 Oct 2023
Replying to @BarryHunt008 @wef @WHO
The plan, and all those words from @DrMikeRyan count for nothing if you deliberately spread disinformation about the mode of transmission…. ….droplet precautions won’t stop a highly transmissible AIRBORNE pathogen 🤦🏻
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Colin Foster retweeted
Omid Djalili
@omid913 Oct 2023
In the absence of any adults in the room, so glad to see Israeli and Palestinian mothers make this important stand. Great to see diplomats and politicians join them.
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Northwestern Medicine: "Long COVID occurs in approximately a third of COVID survivors and is now the third leading neurologic disorder in the United States." news.nm.org/northwestern-med…

Northwestern Medicine shares new findings from the Comprehensive COVID-19 Center as significant...

A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine reports key findings from more than 1,800 patients who were evaluated during the first 21 months at the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive...

news.nm.org
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Only in Toronto would its former police chief be tapped for *drum roll* real estate development advice. 🤣 … and only in 🇨🇦 could a gov pay $171k for that advice, have no record of any advice, and zero consequences for anyone. – at Toronto, Ontario
Tina Yazdani
@TinaYazdani5 Oct 2023
The Ford government paid Mark Saunders $171,000 to be a special advisor on Ontario Place development, but there is no record of any of his work. An FOI request for any copies of advice or reports during his time in the role found “no records exist.” Story: toronto.citynews.ca/video/20…
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Colin Foster retweeted
Gil Meslin@g_meslin4 Oct 2023
Your plan is to bulldoze & privatize a park, instead of keeping it fully public and improving what already exists; to shoehorn in a massive indoor spa that any other city would place far outside the core; and to needlessly demolish and relocate a landmark cultural institution.
Doug Ford
@fordnation3 Oct 2023
Friends, we're working hard to build a waterfront where families from across the province can come and enjoy parks, restaurants, and cultural events. Thank you to our great partners for joining us in our plan to revitalize and improve Toronto's waterfront.
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Still preprint, but it states that "An increasing number of reports suggest an association between COVID-19 infection and initiation or acceleration of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Both these diseases and several other NDs are caused by conversion of human proteins into a misfolded, aggregated amyloid fibril state.. our data suggest that cross-seeding by Spike-amyloid fibrils can be implicated in the increasing number of reports of CJD, AD, and possibly other NDs in the wake of COVID-19." biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Colin Foster retweeted
Barry Hunt
@BarryHunt00827 Sep 2023
Herein lies the problem. ID / PH Paraphrase: "I'm in charge but I don't know how to deal with this so I'll just panic & pretend the problem is something else that I can live with & the rest of the world will just have to suffer thru my inadequacy 'cuz I'm the one in charge".
John Johnston
@JOHNJOHNSTONED26 Sep 2023
Understanding the science of transmission allows a rational response to AIRBORNE pathogen mitigation. So important for WHO to move beyond outdated ID/IPAC droplet based dogma.
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“Wear a mask” is the #2 reco in this same list on their website but has been selectively removed in all promo material. They seem to want to be able to say “we told you” without telling you. But… why? "wear a tight-fitting, well-constructed mask in indoor public settings…"
Ontario Ministry of Health@ONThealth21 Sep 2023
This fall, take steps to reduce your risk of infection from #RespiratoryIllness: - stay up to date with your #COVID19 vaccines and #FluShot - stay home when you feel sick - wash your hands often - cover your mouth with your arm when you cough/sneeze ontario.ca/page/protection-c…
Image of: A mother and child washing their hands in a sink. Image text: Stay healthy and safe this respiratory illness season

ALT Image of: A mother and child washing their hands in a sink. Image text: Stay healthy and safe this respiratory illness season

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You know what the difference is between this and the Great Barrington Declaration? Both had professional authors with scientific training… But the JSP Paradigm comes with 66 references, including many peer-reviewed studies. GBD had none. johnsnowproject.org/insights…
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This is why journalism done in the public interest is so crucial to our democracy. Imagine if there was no coverage of the Greenbelt issue. Please pay for news if you value the contribution it makes to society. thestar.com/politics/provinc…

Doug Ford cancels controversial $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap: ‘It was a mistake’

The premier is scrapping his controversial Greenbelt land swap in a desperate bid to salvage his sputtering Progressive Conservative government.

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Estimated 11,000 Ontarians died waiting for surgeries, scans in past year toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/…
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Cory @Doctorow’s “The Internet Con” provides a bit of nostalgia, elucidates where & how we went wrong, and draws a hard-but-achievable roadmap to making it better. Our best tools for change are online and on the line. We need to reorient who they serve. craphound.com/internetcon/
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I've read this article multiple times today, and this part hits me each time 👇🏿 "High-income countries do not have a shortage of nurses; they have a shortage of healthcare institutions providing necessary & sustainable working conditions, leading to a loss of nurses." By @emilie_courval @DrNurseNat and myself. With @PLOSGPH @paimadhu journals.plos.org/globalpubl…
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#ONpoli Steve Clark 2013, to Premier Kathleen Wynne: “When are you going to stand up and do the right thing and cut these bad apples loose?”
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