Derek
@gringlegrif.com
Ottawa area dad, champagne socialist. #zerocovid #canadasky
Interests: Medicine, science, climate, cognition, politics, cars and computers/technology (Linux and cyber security)
Shameless respirator fan
He/him
Interests: Medicine, science, climate, cognition, politics, cars and computers/technology (Linux and cyber security)
Shameless respirator fan
He/him
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Children are dying of influenza in Canada and public health is mentioning maybe masking as an afterthought and saying nothing about clean indoor air as if we didn't know how to SAVE THESE CHILDREN'S LIVES.
And it's beginning to get on my nerves.
And it's beginning to get on my nerves.
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Children are dying of influenza in Canada and public health is mentioning maybe masking as an afterthought and saying nothing about clean indoor air as if we didn't know how to SAVE THESE CHILDREN'S LIVES.
And it's beginning to get on my nerves.
And it's beginning to get on my nerves.
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3 children die from influenza A complications in Ontario 💔
Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC
Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😡
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC
Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😡
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
3 children die from influenza A-related complications in Ottawa and eastern Ontario region
Three children have died from flu-related complications in the Ottawa area, as officials report a “rapid and significant rise” in Influenza A in the region.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
3 children die from influenza A complications in Ontario 💔
Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC
Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😡
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC
Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😡
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Conservatives are so deranged. They just think all these governments popped up everywhere must not have been needed at all. Apparently reading Ayn Rand doesn't teach you about robber barons.
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Conservatives are so deranged. They just think all these governments popped up everywhere must not have been needed at all. Apparently reading Ayn Rand doesn't teach you about robber barons.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
Why don't people ever suggest an Alberta to Manitoba pipeline and a new port in Churchill?
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Why don't people ever suggest an Alberta to Manitoba pipeline and a new port in Churchill?
Great too see politicians defending 🇨🇦 healthcare.
Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system
Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system
Two-tier American-style healthcare is not the solution.
Wait times, understaffing, and access issues won't be fixed by forcing people to pay to see a doctor.
youtube.com/shorts/G5u74...
Wait times, understaffing, and access issues won't be fixed by forcing people to pay to see a doctor.
youtube.com/shorts/G5u74...
Two-tier American-style healthcare is not the solution.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Great too see politicians defending 🇨🇦 healthcare.
Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system
Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system
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Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?
NEW: Months after many supervised injection sites were shut down, Toronto is reporting an increase in “visible substance use on the street" and “open use of substances in public spaces.” #ToPoli #ONpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
Toronto reports more visible drug use after supervised injection sites closed down - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The City of Toronto is reporting an increase in visible drug use in the wake of the Ford government's decision to pull funding for several safe-injection sites earlier this year.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?
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This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
Fun fact. Pigs are mandated to get clean air in Canada, while Canadian children are not.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Fun fact. Pigs are mandated to get clean air in Canada, while Canadian children are not.
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Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy?
The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Yes, mental health and bullying play a role.
Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency.
Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency.
Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kids are missing more school. Experts say mental health is a factor | CBC News
A CBC investigation finds that school time lost due to reported illness is up in all districts that provided data — more than tripling in some places compared to five years ago. While the data doesn’t...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yes, mental health and bullying play a role.
Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency.
Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency.
Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Incredible gas-lighting by CBC. No mention of covid and dismisses all increase in absences as some kind of generic school anxiety.
Guess which virus causes an increase in anxiety? Takes guts to post this just 5 years from a novel virus pandemic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Guess which virus causes an increase in anxiety? Takes guts to post this just 5 years from a novel virus pandemic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kids are missing more school. Experts say mental health is a factor | CBC News
A CBC investigation finds that school time lost due to reported illness is up in all districts that provided data — more than tripling in some places compared to five years ago. While the data doesn’t...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Incredible gas-lighting by CBC. No mention of covid and dismisses all increase in absences as some kind of generic school anxiety.
Guess which virus causes an increase in anxiety? Takes guts to post this just 5 years from a novel virus pandemic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Guess which virus causes an increase in anxiety? Takes guts to post this just 5 years from a novel virus pandemic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
It's complicated being a republican
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's complicated being a republican
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40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?
My dad trained as a neurosurgeon in the late ‘50s and they were still studying the long term neurological effects of the Spanish flu.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?
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Long COVID is here to stay—even in children - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Long COVID is here to stay—even in children
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex,
multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact
the daily life of those...
www.thelancet.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Long COVID is here to stay—even in children - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
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HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.
N.S. patients waited for more than 70 hours in the ER for hospital admission
HALIFAX - Paul Wozney says he received a blunt assessment of an overcrowded emergency room where he was told some patients had been waiting over 70 hours.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.
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Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget.
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget.
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
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Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.