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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1h

Very classy booing our 🇨🇦anthem NY. Let’s remember that when Cdns were booing the USn anthem it was in the midst of threats of annexation by your pathetic leader. Canada has made no such threats.

Dickie Bird @dnaw4.bsky.social · 2h

Yankee stadium booing Canadian anthem.

My goodness we have become an uncivilized bunch.

#bluejays #keepclassy

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ScholerinED @scholerined.bsky.social · 3h

"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

ESC Tackles Cardiac Risks of Long COVID

An ESC report outlining the effects of COVID and long COVID on the heart emphasizes the need for early detection, vaccination, and cardiac rehab.

www.medscape.com

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 6h

Concerning given stats on long covid in children. Gee I wonder how else we could reduce their risk —maybe noting airborne nature of C19+flu/rsv/measles &ensuring spaces where children spend most of their time (school, childcare) have covid informed policies, staff & above all excellent air quality?

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Dr.Jeanius @drjeaniusmd.bsky.social · 6h

OB/GYN Tip of the Day: Pregnancy Vaccines
Vaccines during pregnancy (flu, COVID, Tdap) protect you and transfer immunity to baby. It’s one of the best gifts you can give before birth. Did you know that? #obgyntip

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know who needs to hear this, but most of the time when you purport to be the "devil's advocate" in an argument, you're just being an asshole

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 6h

Curious

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7h

I've shared this before. So interesting.

"Subjects under the influence of power, he found in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, &, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view."

Liz Dundov @lizdundov.bsky.social · 9h

This explains a lot.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 7h

Elbows up? ✔️Eco friendly?✔️ Click⬇️for historic/current maker of traditional outdoor wool clothing in QC. Their jackets have stood test of time in my family (literal decades) & their socks are fabulous. Village L'Isle Verte (relocated close to H2O from former location). www.filature.ca/collections/...

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FIV-1920

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Samantha Woj @samwojart.bsky.social · 9h

Game Day ⚾️ Let’s Go Blue Jays 👏 Painted Vladdy Jr with baseball equipment as a paintbrush 💙 @bluejays.com #vladdy #baseball #toronto #art

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 9h

Nice to see him take this stand and I hope other athletes do same. US is burying itself. Pariah state. No thank you.

Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 10h

Hole in one

Rory McIlroy Says "He Won’t Play in the U.S. Again

youtube.com/shorts/MiorJ...

Rory McIlroy Says "He Won’t Play in the U.S. Again” #RoryMcIlroy #GolfNews #RyderCup2025 #Sports

YouTube video by Tysonomo Multimedia

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 9h

I chose this word strictly because of how the Wordle was making me feel.

Wordle 1,572 3/6

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12h

Are days, after a rain, when we can practically see people walking on N shore of St. Lawrence from Bas St. Laurent. Today I can see sand cliffs at Tadoussac from N. D. du Portage. On days like this, after the sky has been washed, apart from treat of clarity, I wonder what AQ we usually contend with!

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 14h

We're still with you Blue Jays! Come back tonight!!

Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jay
Patrick Hunter ~ Anishinaabe
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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 14h

I do this too and thought it was just a “power nap”. Disco nap sounds way more fun. I’m bit more fussy about my pillows when I can be.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 14h

Oh jeez

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15h

Why the U.S. government is investing in B.C. mining companies #Canada

White House takes 10 per cent stake in Trilogy Metals Inc., 5 per cent equity stake in Lithium Americas

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why the U.S. government is investing in B.C. mining companies | CBC News

The White House is taking stakes in B.C. mining companies as it looks to reduce America's reliance on China for critical minerals used to produce the high tech batteries for cell phones, electric vehicles and renewable energy.

www.cbc.ca

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 15h

Of course most of us working in this profession are right in the zone for LC prevalence but I also worry about children in our care. I’m older, covid informed, but new to the spaces so I’m working on building trust to create change. It is hard when the tide/media/many physicians say C19’s no problem

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 15h

Public health has done nothing to update profession. IAQ could be part of AQI! Every centre has different air quality: abysmal to fine. Can change room to room. I carry a co2 monitor to get clearer info for choosing my shifts. I have already stopped attending one centre due to terrible co2 readings.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 15h

ECEs have been taught (and never corrected !) that hand washing is key for c19. There are still legacy signs up in some childcare centres that explicitly say that Covid 19 is NOT airborne. I do supply work so little control of setting & my masking nearly always comes with “are you sick?” enquiries.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar.

Up to 150,000 COVID ‘auto-tests’ were sold last week amid a surge linked to the new XFG variant.

Self-tests give results in 15 mins but are only ~70% accurate, meaning 3 in 10 positive cases could be missed.

Source: archive.md/52Qfc

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar

A vaccination campaign against Covid begins in France on October 14

A view of a positive lateral flow Covid test

Self-testing kits are the easiest and quickest way to check for Covid-19

Michele Ursi/Shutterstock
Zane Lilley
Published Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 13:48 Modified Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 14:28

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland: Mum of long COVID girl invites health chief to see suffering for himself.

“Come and meet my 12-year-old daughter, who has been severely disabled by Long Covid for more than 5 years. Come and see the toll this condition has taken on her life, on her education, and on our family.”

Westhill mum of long Covid girl invites SNP health chief to see suffering for himself
Helen Goss says her daughter Anna, 12, is one of the “forgotten children” who deserve better.
By Andy Philip October 5 2025, 6:00 am
An Aberdeenshire mum whose daughter has struggled for years with the effects of Covid is inviting SNP health secretary Neil Gray to hear her story in person at their home.
Helen Goss says her 12-year-old daughter, Anna, can barely get through 20 minutes of conversation before she’s exhausted again – and that’s on a good day.
“A bad day is headaches, chronic pain, no communication, completely incapacitated,” she told The Press and Journal.
“Her room is like a hospital. She’s very sick and that’s what I want him to see.”

‘She tries so hard’
Anna became ill when she was seven during the Covid pandemic. But with subsequent infections, her condition got worse, Helen says.
She last went to school in November 2020.
“She tried so hard,” her mum says, explaining Anna is too ill to be properly home-schooled too.
“She wants to do so much.
“Anna loves to draw, it’s one of the things she can still do.
“She used to be super active, go horse riding and run round. She’s desperate to do that.”
The health secretary, and the first minister, will be a few miles up the road from their house in Westhill on Saturday when the SNP conference is held at the P&J Live complex.
It would be about three years since former first minister Humza Yousaf spoke to her when he was health secretary and promised action.
Helen says it would be the ideal opportunity to remind those in power what the condition means for her daughter.

£4.5m announced for NHS services
Helen wrote to Mr Gray after he announced £4.5 million a year to help care for people suffering the effects of conditions such as Long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome.
NHS Grampian will receive nearly half a million of the Scottish total.
Helen welcomed the money – she is the chief operating officer of charity Long Covid Kids – but said there are huge gaps in any plan for long-term care.
Her letter, which was also sent to First Minister John Swinney, explains: “The reality of Long Covid does not reside in staged hospital photo opportunities.
“It lives in our homes, behind closed curtains, where children are bedbound, excluded from education, and denied appropriate healthcare.
“It lives in the daily exhaustion of families who have been abandoned by the very systems meant to support them.
“I therefore extend an invitation to you to visit our home in Aberdeenshire and see firsthand what Long Covid really looks like.
“Come and meet my 12-year-old daughter, who has been severely disabled by Long Covid for more than five years. Come and see the toll this condition has taken on her life, on her education, and on our family.”

SNP had to be ‘dragged’ into spending
The family’s MSP, Scottish Conservative Alexander Burnett, echoed her call.
He is concerned the money will not be targeted and claimed previous promises failed to materialise.
“All the while, services are closing and clinical expertise is being lost,” he said.
“The SNP had to be dragged into disclosing how the cash will be distributed, almost a year after it was announced.”
The money was announced in parliament on September 25 after budget negotiations with the Liberal Democrats.
North East Lib Dem election candidate Yi-pei Chou Turvey said: “Scotland is miles behind the rest of the UK in terms of the care pathways offered to sufferers but with this significant funding package, I am hopeful that we can begin to turn the corner.
“Crucially, this is recurring funding so health boards can plan and invest for the future. Helping people struggling with debilitating conditions get on in life is not just good for them, it’s good for our economy too.”
Announcing the money at a hospital in Edinburgh, Mr Gray said: “Recurring funding will enable health boards to develop new support on a sustainable basis and help the retention and recruitment of the skilled members of staff required for the delivery of these services.”

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Otherwise aren’t you going to run into issues with physicians rejecting changes in science because they just memorized the canon previously? Like airborne transmission of C19? I have to ask why so many physicians don’t act on this knowledge & to me comes back to rote memory work vs problem solving.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Would expect those who followed life sciences trajectory excel at memorizing while those who follow physics & chem get by in understanding content (physics more than chem). Helpful imo if physicians can do both b/c latter involves application of logic in problem solving. Problem solving is expected!

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe also promote more sustainable packaging in your post? As I’m sure you know most of our plastic does not get recycled and what does is actually downcycled not REcycled.

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables are winning! 🥇 "Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis." - @apnews.com
Read the latest news 🔗 bit.ly/4mZdIAJ

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Last night’s supermoon rising over hills in St. André & St. Germain de Kamouraska looked bigger and better than this & was the kind of moonrise that could knock one off their bicycle. I wish it could be captured better by phone but I lack the skill!

A large bright full moon rises over a ridge in fall colour with a bright red roofed home nestled into the woods and agricultural field in foreground.

Bright full moon is seen rising in pink sky over low mountain ridge surrounded by agricultural fields in foreground.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

No she’s not sick but this dog LOVES crabgrass. I had to drag her out of this patch after 5 minutes of unmitigated grazing.

A harnessed and leashed fluffy light coloured golden retriever is head down in a patch of crab grass scattered with yellow and brown leaves.

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