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Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people.
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: We’re sending B.C.’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people.
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times.
What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae?
What are the implications for societies now?
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae?
What are the implications for societies now?
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain - Griffith News
COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious
news.griffith.edu.au
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times.
What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae?
What are the implications for societies now?
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae?
What are the implications for societies now?
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
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2. Watching the current scrambling response of many healthcare systems to H3N2 K, combined with the firmly embedded political and ideological resistance to masking, I can assure you all that if H5N1 goes human to human with a high CFR, we're in deep trouble as a species.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
2. Watching the current scrambling response of many healthcare systems to H3N2 K, combined with the firmly embedded political and ideological resistance to masking, I can assure you all that if H5N1 goes human to human with a high CFR, we're in deep trouble as a species.
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I know I reposted this earlier, but everyone really should read this. It's in plain English, unlike a lot of COVID-related stuff. And it spells out what this virus is doing to the human immune system.
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
johnsnowproject.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I know I reposted this earlier, but everyone really should read this. It's in plain English, unlike a lot of COVID-related stuff. And it spells out what this virus is doing to the human immune system.
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
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This is fine. Just a flu. Immunity debt from 2020 lockdowns. Wash your hands.
OR
This is not fine. Viral infections are bad. Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft and co-infection with COVID make things worse. Viruses can evolve increased virulence. Clean the air.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
OR
This is not fine. Viral infections are bad. Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft and co-infection with COVID make things worse. Viruses can evolve increased virulence. Clean the air.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News
An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is fine. Just a flu. Immunity debt from 2020 lockdowns. Wash your hands.
OR
This is not fine. Viral infections are bad. Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft and co-infection with COVID make things worse. Viruses can evolve increased virulence. Clean the air.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
OR
This is not fine. Viral infections are bad. Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft and co-infection with COVID make things worse. Viruses can evolve increased virulence. Clean the air.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
If I were leader of the NDP, I would be reaching out to Steven Guilbeault right now, and any other Liberals who feel the same way as him.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If I were leader of the NDP, I would be reaching out to Steven Guilbeault right now, and any other Liberals who feel the same way as him.
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms and can affect anyone, no matter your age or other health conditions. Learn more, and prevent #LongCOVID by preventing COVID-19!
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms and can affect anyone, no matter your age or other health conditions. Learn more, and prevent #LongCOVID by preventing COVID-19!
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Data c/o @1goodtern.bsky.social
Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!!
Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds.
These are AIDS-defining conditions.
“There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.”
Suuuuuure 👌
Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!!
Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds.
These are AIDS-defining conditions.
“There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.”
Suuuuuure 👌
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Data c/o @1goodtern.bsky.social
Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!!
Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds.
These are AIDS-defining conditions.
“There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.”
Suuuuuure 👌
Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!!
Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds.
These are AIDS-defining conditions.
“There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.”
Suuuuuure 👌
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77% of Canadians say that they are worried about climate change’s future effects. This is a significant 15-point jump in concern since October 2024. abacusdata.ca/public-conce...
Public concerns about climate up 15-points since October 2024 - Abacus Data
%
abacusdata.ca
September 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
77% of Canadians say that they are worried about climate change’s future effects. This is a significant 15-point jump in concern since October 2024. abacusdata.ca/public-conce...
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Get ready for late October! Comet "Lemmon" is forecasted to reach an apparent magnitude of 5 to 2, which suggests it could be brighter than last year's comet!
And it's green! This is due to the presence of a molecule you'll never find on earth: C2 (diatomic carbon)
And it's green! This is due to the presence of a molecule you'll never find on earth: C2 (diatomic carbon)
September 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Get ready for late October! Comet "Lemmon" is forecasted to reach an apparent magnitude of 5 to 2, which suggests it could be brighter than last year's comet!
And it's green! This is due to the presence of a molecule you'll never find on earth: C2 (diatomic carbon)
And it's green! This is due to the presence of a molecule you'll never find on earth: C2 (diatomic carbon)
Lodged in my head right now
Cocteau Twins Alice HD
YouTube video by musicaeternal
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Lodged in my head right now
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"This isn’t conspiracy theory bullshit. This is published research from Harvard, Stanford, Yale. Major medical journals. The best scientists in the world are screaming into the void while everyone else is at brunch":
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again
The Damage Is Everywhere – That Is the Definition of Long COVID
www.notesforfriends.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"This isn’t conspiracy theory bullshit. This is published research from Harvard, Stanford, Yale. Major medical journals. The best scientists in the world are screaming into the void while everyone else is at brunch":
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.
August 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.
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The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...
August 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...
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No one could have foreseen this.
August 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
No one could have foreseen this.
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UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Opinion: North Shore needs rapid transit before explosion of high-density development
Opinion: North Shore needs rapid transit before explosion of high-density development
We need rail rapid transit built before a massive wave of development hits North Vancouver and West Van, this transportation expert says
dlvr.it
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Opinion: North Shore needs rapid transit before explosion of high-density development
Traffic has been so bad this week all around the Lower Mainland. Maybe it's time to start thinking about congestion pricing. Use the proceeds to fund Translink and improve public transit.
August 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Traffic has been so bad this week all around the Lower Mainland. Maybe it's time to start thinking about congestion pricing. Use the proceeds to fund Translink and improve public transit.
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“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
www.cbsnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”
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"I don't know anyone with Long Covid"
"It's a liberal disease"
"It's the vaccine"
We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it:
"It's a liberal disease"
"It's the vaccine"
We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it:
I Don't Know Anyone With Long Covid
Yes. You do. It might even be you. Let's take a look at why people don't realize, or can't admit, that they're dealing with Long Covid.
www.disabledginger.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"I don't know anyone with Long Covid"
"It's a liberal disease"
"It's the vaccine"
We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it:
"It's a liberal disease"
"It's the vaccine"
We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it: