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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis).
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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · Nov 7
I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
[Text on an yellow octagon meant to look like the output of an overhead projector.] The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.: A TIMELINE [A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.] 1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate. 2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies. 3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed. 4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed. 5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January. 6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program. 7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3. 8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.
ratnegative.bsky.social
You mean this isn't the literal spectre of Communism haunting Europe?
angusmain.bsky.social Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 17d
Prediction: the London fireworks will feature a giant floating drone Paddington head like in Zardoz.
A giant floating stone head looming over a landscape in the film Zardoz
January 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
ratnegative.bsky.social
I wish I had that big a tank of hopium on tap.
December 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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beansproutsmom.bsky.social
🧵

@sameo416.bsky.social is right. F**king up SARS2 transmission was inexcusable. SARS1 was airborne. 🇨🇦 had huge commission slamming public health. Experts spoke out asap.

What compounds my anger? Whining about learning yet here we are end 2025 still spreading airborne sars2, flu etc everywhere 🤬
sameo416.bsky.social Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 20d
This is absolutely infuriating.

“Learned transmission dynamics over time” after a WHO infectious disease doc shouted down *the* global expert in aerosol transmission of pathogens in March 2020.

The reason it took medical types time to learn is because you ignored the subject matter experts.
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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njbbari3.bsky.social
#MedSky

Unacceptable.

How many other diseases are on the list of “don’t test or we’ll have to close beds” list? Huh?

MRSA? TB? VRE? Measles?
ninawildflower.bsky.social Nina Wildflower @ninawildflower.bsky.social · 21d
To clarify:

(Link in next post)🧵
December 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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mamatoronto.bsky.social
All I want for Christmas if for my kid to breathe clean air at school, for adults to get why that’s important, & take steps to make it so

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

If you agree, please sign & share

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mamatoronto.bsky.social TorontoBikeMama @mamatoronto.bsky.social · 26d
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
December 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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breeno.bsky.social
DRIPA started out as weak sauce.

Any further watering down would be a confirmation that Eby is all talk and no action.

And Eby risks a world of hurt if he caters to apartheidists.
First Nations caution against changing B.C. Indigenous rights law
First Nations in B.C. caution premier against changing provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
www.aptnnews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
ratnegative.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/p/DSRKZ0uFKF3 Great review of the Museum of Vancouver exhibit on Long COVID. The exhibit ends on 3/22/2026. If anyone is unfamiliar with the toll that some forms of long COVID takes on one's body but finds themselves in "Vancouver", visit. Admission is $25.
Crochet artist on Instagram: "I highly recommend you check out the Long Covid exhibit at the @museumofvan before it closes on March 22. It was raw, powerful, and a slice of contemporary, unfolding his...
78 likes, 3 comments - wipsandchainz on December 14, 2025: "I highly recommend you check out the Long Covid exhibit at the @museumofvan before it closes on March 22. It was raw, powerful, and a slice ...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Poster in style of Fallout Tv series and game: a person wearing a n95 mask giving a thumbs up on yellow background. Text reads: Safety first! Your future matters. Wear a mask.
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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beansproutsmom.bsky.social
You what related thought has me enraged? This is a Health Canada approved RAT. And yet Bonnie Henry @cdcofbc.bsky.social @bcndp.bsky.social would rather sick little kids wait HOURS in the wait room than quickly administer tests.
beansproutsmom.bsky.social Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 27d
Oh, f**k you, Bonnie Henry, @cdcofbc.bsky.social, @bcndp.bsky.social @bctf.bsky.social @ipaccanada.bsky.social for stigmatizing masks and choosing to infect all the kids INCLUDING VULNERABLE ONES instead of cleaning the damn air & 'fessing up to your incompetence re: aerosol transmission. #bcpoli
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
ratnegative.bsky.social
INCONSISTENT USE OF HIGH-FILTRATION RESPIRATORS 🗣️🔥🔥🔥💯
jvipondmd.bsky.social 🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29d
"Some specific workplace conditions were tied to amplified risk: working onsite during the pandemic (57% higher risk than telework), inconsistent use of high-filtration respirators (52% higher risk), and regularly commuting by public transportation (58%).
The highest-risk included HCWs, teachers..."
Workplace exposures tied to higher risk of long COVID
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
A far-right party in Canada is imploding over a 22-year-old staffer’s extreme posting online.

I got my hands on audio from @antihate.ca that might leave Canadians asking how the hell someone like this got into politics at all.

It involves Diagolon, "remigration" and some trojan-horse-style plots:
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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davidelfstrom.bsky.social
This EXACTLY why it's crucial to have the proposed revisions to CSA Standard Z94.4 (Selection, use, and care of respirators) accepted and adopted. It covers ALL industries.

Healthcare workers must NOT continue to be exempt from the same protections offered in other sectors!
ratnegative.bsky.social Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · Dec 19
"Half of you may die, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make." - the BCCDC to healthcare workers ((:
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
(and if infection control kills a patient, it's even easier to deal with - they'll just say they were "vulnerable" and the usual sycophants will make the story about how sad Dr Henry is that people expect her to be competent)

I cannot believe people buy the claim these muppets understand science.
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Nov 21
The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈
The focus on handwashing over ventilation 12.32. As 2020 progressed, it was increasingly understood that airborne transmission of Covid-19 was a substantial risk and, by 23 July 2020, SAGE had endorsed the importance of good ventilation. ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION.* STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI. BY W. F. WELLS, t (Beceived for publication June 14, 1934.) The infective range of droplets expelled from the nose or mouth depends primarily upon the time interval spent in the atmosphere. The unresisted falling time from mouth to ground can be readily shown by Newton's Law to be less than a second. Air resistance becomes a negligible factor in determining the time of fall of droplets larger than a tenth millimeter through the height of a man. As droplets decrease in diameter the volume and weight, or gravitational pull, decrease more rapidly than the surface area which determines the resistance to fall through air. Particles smaller than a tenth millimeter diameter soon reach a velocity which remains constant. This fact is expressed by Stokes' Law % which says that the velocity is proportional to the surface area of the droplet or to the square of its diameter. droplets would reach the ground in less than ten seconds (table 1). Whether droplets falling two meters obey Stokes' law or Newton's law, therefore, the time they spend in the air would be small, and their radius of spread would be limited to a few feet. Infection caused by such droplets would therefore appear to be limited both in time and space to the immediate vicinity of the source. TABLE 1. Settling of water droplets in saturated air. Diameter of droplet Falling velocity Time in seconds of Millimeters Centimeters per second falling two meters > 1.0 981 X time in seconds .6 .1 30. 6. .01 .3 600. = 10 minutes .001 .003 60,000. = 16.6 hours It would be incorrect to conclude merely from this, however, that air receiving infected droplets cannot convey such infection long distances. To do so would be to neglect a most important characteristic of liquid droplets, namely their tendency to evaporate. Evaporation causes the volume of water droplets to change, and this change becomes more rapid as the droplet decreases in size. Careful determination of the rate of evaporation has proved that at constant temperature and humidity the rate of change of surface is constant. The life of droplets in unsaturated air is therefore proportional to the square of their diameter. It becomes quite short for small droplets, in fact much shorter than their time of fall if they settled without evaporation. Approximate evaporation times for droplets of different sizes are tabulated below. We find, therefore, that minute droplets settle slowly and evapoTABLE 2. Evaporation time of water droplets in unsaturated air at 18° C* Diameter of droplet Evaporation time Millimeters Seconds 2 660. 1 165. .5 41. .2 6.6 .1 1.7 .05 4 * Computed from data given in chapt. 15, "Evaporation of Droplets." Smoke: A Study of Aerial Disperse Systems; R. Whytlaw-Gray and H. S. Patterson, page 176 Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1932. A chart from Wells (1934) showing that particles smaller than 100 microns shrink (via evaporation) to a size small enough to remain airborne indefinitely before they have time to fall to the ground. Associated text reads: "This is an important difference since it produces a complete change in state of small droplets in comparison with large drops. On chart 1 the curves of evaporation time and falling time (to fall two meters in saturated air) are seen to be almost similar in shape but opposite in direction. The point of intersection gives the size of droplets which would evaporate and particles which would fall two meters in the same time. Somewhere between .1 and .2 mm. lies the droplet size which identifies droplets of mouth spray that reach the ground within the life of the droplet as against droplets that evaporate and remain in the air as droplet nuclei with attached infection."
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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jvipondmd.bsky.social
This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
ratnegative.bsky.social
"Half of you may die, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make." - the BCCDC to healthcare workers ((:
Fake projector slide with excerpt of the BC Centre for Disease Control's document on managing an H5N1 Avian Influenza outbreak, dated 2024/10/24. Recommends a fit tested N95 respirator for people working on farms, but droplet and contact precautions (which don't include N95 respirators) for clinicians "during assessment, testing and care, or procedures".
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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ratnegative.bsky.social
I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
[Text on an yellow octagon meant to look like the output of an overhead projector.] The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.: A TIMELINE [A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.] 1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate. 2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies. 3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed. 4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed. 5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January. 6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program. 7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3. 8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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hellishchildren.bsky.social
The cascade of events that happens when you can't work and need healthcare you can't afford
itsbabs.bsky.social babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Aug 15
make a choice to resist fascism every day.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsoNSLbH...
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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amandalhu.bsky.social
Well, it’s finally happened. The sickness is so rampant that the parents at school are talking about HEPAs and masks. They’re finally getting it.
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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drjenirwin.bsky.social
For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.
a-dobbie11.bsky.social Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · Dec 18
Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
Layers of protection needed to help prevent illness.
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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chantzy.bsky.social
A new systematic review & meta-analysis of 2M+ people estimates a ~36% pooled prevalence of reported long COVID after infection.

claiming you "don't know anyone" who's had long COVID is statistically implausible - unless you only know like <3-4 people

www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/more-th...
More Than One-Third of Individuals With COVID-19 Experience Long COVID
Long COVID remains globally prevalent following COVID-19 infection, with a significant burden of symptoms lasting 1 to 2 years postinfection.
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ratnegative.bsky.social
Marpole ("Vancouver, BC") residents need financial support while their daughter undergoes brain surgeries. The rest of their family is in Bangladesh and cannot assist them during this difficult time.

www.gofundme.com/f/emyat5-hel...
GoFundMe template image. Top half: South Asian child in a hospital bed. Text in the bottom half: "Help Samaya Recover $13,910 to goal [Heart icon] Donate now! [Thumbs up icon] www.gofundme.com/f/emyat5-help-samaya-recove..."
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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brianhioe.bsky.social
All of it was bad cliches that were rolled out but it’s telling that it still got so much attention among the western left—the western left has really not reckoned with its own Orientalism as it leads to uncritical views of contemporary Chinese authoritarianism
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ratnegative.bsky.social
Marpole ("Vancouver, BC") residents need financial support while their daughter undergoes brain surgeries. The rest of their family is in Bangladesh and cannot assist them during this difficult time.

www.gofundme.com/f/emyat5-hel...
GoFundMe template image. Top half: South Asian child in a hospital bed. Text in the bottom half: "Help Samaya Recover $13,910 to goal [Heart icon] Donate now! [Thumbs up icon] www.gofundme.com/f/emyat5-help-samaya-recove..."
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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mosssphagnum.bsky.social
Great article on #H3N2
by Dr. Lyne Filiatrault
surreynowleader.com/2025/12/06/o...
OPINION: Don’t wait for B.C. public health to protect you this flu season - Surrey Now-Leader
H3N2 could make this a rough winter – be prepared
surreynowleader.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
The Central Error of the Pandemic…

Is that of running pandemic management by laissez-faire socioeconomic principles.

If you grasp this, all the other errors fall into place as the inevitable consequence of following that line of thought. 🧵 1/x
November 4, 2023 at 11:33 AM