Michael
@garrattguy.bsky.social
Retired 🇨🇦 stage tech. I designed & made Neil Peart’s rotary drum riser (Rush). Learning about here. OCWGA (old cis white guy trying hard to be ally). Model engineer, amateur machinist, steam, trains, boats. Living afloat in Toronto.
Bacon wrapped water chestnuts.
December 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Bacon wrapped water chestnuts.
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Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
A Review discusses the scientific basis of and factors controlling airborne transmission of respiratory viruses including coronavirus.
www.science.org
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Many doctors chiming in on how to help fix Canada's ER crisis with no mention of respirator masks or mitigating constant waves of viral illness. It's painful to witness!
December 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Many doctors chiming in on how to help fix Canada's ER crisis with no mention of respirator masks or mitigating constant waves of viral illness. It's painful to witness!
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December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
December 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
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A new drug could stop Alzheimer's before memory loss begins https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251222080119.htm#:~:text=In a new study%2C Northwestern,What is this%3F
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A new drug could stop Alzheimer's before memory loss begins https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251222080119.htm#:~:text=In a new study%2C Northwestern,What is this%3F
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
@drjengunter.bsky.social Does the Ontario medical community have any data on the respiratory infection currently going around in the province? Presents with a nasty cough that becomes flu-like muscle pain and copious nasal produce? Last about 2 days flat in bed. What is it? Not Covid by testing.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@drjengunter.bsky.social Does the Ontario medical community have any data on the respiratory infection currently going around in the province? Presents with a nasty cough that becomes flu-like muscle pain and copious nasal produce? Last about 2 days flat in bed. What is it? Not Covid by testing.
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Someone tell JD Vance that no one ever asked people to apologize for being white. They asked white people to shut up for a minute so BIPoC could speak for a change. Oh, and they did ask white people for reparations for slavery, and for #LandBack
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Someone tell JD Vance that no one ever asked people to apologize for being white. They asked white people to shut up for a minute so BIPoC could speak for a change. Oh, and they did ask white people for reparations for slavery, and for #LandBack
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Speaking the truth.
I do believe the ONLibs and ONNdp are going to have to drop their egos and join forces to finally get Ford out.
They can then do whatever they feel is best for their constituents at a later date.
youtu.be/UXK0fmRnOdQ?...
I do believe the ONLibs and ONNdp are going to have to drop their egos and join forces to finally get Ford out.
They can then do whatever they feel is best for their constituents at a later date.
youtu.be/UXK0fmRnOdQ?...
Explained: Doug Ford's Skills Development Fund Scandal | Marit Stiles
YouTube video by Marit Stiles
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Speaking the truth.
I do believe the ONLibs and ONNdp are going to have to drop their egos and join forces to finally get Ford out.
They can then do whatever they feel is best for their constituents at a later date.
youtu.be/UXK0fmRnOdQ?...
I do believe the ONLibs and ONNdp are going to have to drop their egos and join forces to finally get Ford out.
They can then do whatever they feel is best for their constituents at a later date.
youtu.be/UXK0fmRnOdQ?...
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* Buy the Gripen
* Re-instate the Digital Services Tax
* Lower tariffs on overseas EVs
* Bring back the Foreign Investment Review Agency
* Keep out American dairy
* Cut the cord
* Re-instate the Digital Services Tax
* Lower tariffs on overseas EVs
* Bring back the Foreign Investment Review Agency
* Keep out American dairy
* Cut the cord
December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
* Buy the Gripen
* Re-instate the Digital Services Tax
* Lower tariffs on overseas EVs
* Bring back the Foreign Investment Review Agency
* Keep out American dairy
* Cut the cord
* Re-instate the Digital Services Tax
* Lower tariffs on overseas EVs
* Bring back the Foreign Investment Review Agency
* Keep out American dairy
* Cut the cord
Whats “disgraceful” isn’t #SkateCanada it’s maple maga Danielle Smith. She should resign.
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Whats “disgraceful” isn’t #SkateCanada it’s maple maga Danielle Smith. She should resign.
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When is it okay to criticize the government? Always.
An invitation to embrace disagreement, now more than ever.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-durin...
An invitation to embrace disagreement, now more than ever.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-durin...
Life During Wartime
When is it okay to criticize the government? Always. A plea for embracing disagreement.
www.davidmoscrop.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
When is it okay to criticize the government? Always.
An invitation to embrace disagreement, now more than ever.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-durin...
An invitation to embrace disagreement, now more than ever.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-durin...
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Increasingly worse floods and fires, floods and fires, floods and fires, and hahahaha what if we’d listened to scientists and Sir David Attenborough and David Suzuki instead of talk show hosts, used car salesmen, and economists?
Thoughts are with the people in Sumas, the Hope Princeton highway area, and the Fraser Valley tonight.
The flood sirens are going off and the alerts and orders are there in certain areas.
Be safe everyone.
The flood sirens are going off and the alerts and orders are there in certain areas.
Be safe everyone.
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Increasingly worse floods and fires, floods and fires, floods and fires, and hahahaha what if we’d listened to scientists and Sir David Attenborough and David Suzuki instead of talk show hosts, used car salesmen, and economists?
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NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...
The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause
I was reading about yet another round of Trump pardons and it is blazingly apparent the extent to which Trump has exercised this presidential power in a way that fundamentally strips away the importan...
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...
Wide awake and all slept out at 3:45am this morning. Coffee and a banana at 04:30? What’s up with that? It won’t be daylight for another three hours. 🤷🏻♂️
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Wide awake and all slept out at 3:45am this morning. Coffee and a banana at 04:30? What’s up with that? It won’t be daylight for another three hours. 🤷🏻♂️
Daughter: I’m watching Stranger Things after dinner.
Me: Ok, what time is it on?
Daughter:
Me:
Her: ANYTIME I Want Dad! It’s the streaming era!
Me: ok, I’m old.
😳🤣
Me: Ok, what time is it on?
Daughter:
Me:
Her: ANYTIME I Want Dad! It’s the streaming era!
Me: ok, I’m old.
😳🤣
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Daughter: I’m watching Stranger Things after dinner.
Me: Ok, what time is it on?
Daughter:
Me:
Her: ANYTIME I Want Dad! It’s the streaming era!
Me: ok, I’m old.
😳🤣
Me: Ok, what time is it on?
Daughter:
Me:
Her: ANYTIME I Want Dad! It’s the streaming era!
Me: ok, I’m old.
😳🤣
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I hope people can step back, take a deep breath, and relax. You forget - he's a brilliant economist and negotiator.
It's why we chose him.
#KeepCalmAndCarneyOn
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
It's why we chose him.
#KeepCalmAndCarneyOn
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I hope people can step back, take a deep breath, and relax. You forget - he's a brilliant economist and negotiator.
It's why we chose him.
#KeepCalmAndCarneyOn
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
It's why we chose him.
#KeepCalmAndCarneyOn
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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Feels like one of those days I'm going to get called a Carney cultist if I actually read the article and refuse to get mad at Carney for stuff he has not done.
It remains to be seen what happens in the future, but this feels like placating an enemy so he can get real work done.
It remains to be seen what happens in the future, but this feels like placating an enemy so he can get real work done.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Feels like one of those days I'm going to get called a Carney cultist if I actually read the article and refuse to get mad at Carney for stuff he has not done.
It remains to be seen what happens in the future, but this feels like placating an enemy so he can get real work done.
It remains to be seen what happens in the future, but this feels like placating an enemy so he can get real work done.
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There are a whole lot of conditions and requirements before this Canada-Alberta MOU goes anywhere, including buy-in by BC and indigenous approval. #cdnpoli #ableg
Full memo is now posted to the PMO website: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding
PREFACE At this pivotal global moment, Canada and Alberta, working closely with Indigenous Peoples and industry, must work together cooperatively, and within their respective jurisdictions, to foster ...
www.pm.gc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
![This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 9.4
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 580,400-750,800
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.8X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 6.0X higher
Hospitalizations: HIGH; 8.2X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.4X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbuobwdie7rzq4fburk63aft/bafkreighpvc767vu5vijrifd3zugguoe3xwjkgbm6dc5nyryiluzvbcmdy@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
CANADA
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 161 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 8.2 x higher
-Deaths: 11.4 x higher
Hey @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
Late 60’s or early 70’s CBC am radio had a regular guest mornings and afternoons. Avuncular uncle raconteur character. Deep resonant voice with a (trademarked probably) chuckle that always ended his bit. Who voiced that? Not Don Harron, someone else.
Late 60’s or early 70’s CBC am radio had a regular guest mornings and afternoons. Avuncular uncle raconteur character. Deep resonant voice with a (trademarked probably) chuckle that always ended his bit. Who voiced that? Not Don Harron, someone else.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Hey @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
Late 60’s or early 70’s CBC am radio had a regular guest mornings and afternoons. Avuncular uncle raconteur character. Deep resonant voice with a (trademarked probably) chuckle that always ended his bit. Who voiced that? Not Don Harron, someone else.
Late 60’s or early 70’s CBC am radio had a regular guest mornings and afternoons. Avuncular uncle raconteur character. Deep resonant voice with a (trademarked probably) chuckle that always ended his bit. Who voiced that? Not Don Harron, someone else.
Listening to CBC OHdio Tellement Courteau. Good stuff @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Listening to CBC OHdio Tellement Courteau. Good stuff @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social