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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · Nov 9

We know respirators work.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews

SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—of masks and masking. Our synthesis of evidence from ...

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 13h

By relying on the “vaxx & relax” approach to dealing with COVID, Public Health officials backed themselves into a corner… a corner that the anti-Science lobby had set up as a trap.

The anti-Science lobby now controls vaccine research and distribution in the US.

The other tools? PH sabotaged them.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 15h

Serious question how does incorrect information or policy ever change in this scenario?

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 15h

A technology that will repeat incorrect information without any shame or remorse.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 15h

Garbage in, garbage out.

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Rocket57 🇨🇦 @rocket57.bsky.social · 18h

Remember the screeches of “kids have to be in school! Think of their mental health!”?

Making children sick/disabled by using them as a buffer for the rest of society to get “back to normal” was/is vile.

They never cared about the kids and they still don’t.

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 23h

The pro-infection advocates have now reached the stage that they are denying saying that kids can be used to boost adult immunity… by infecting them and spreading it into households… schools.

Too late now. It’s on the record.

The shame of it.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 1d

That picture.

Inhale an aerosol that went around and in the gap of your medical mask, or wear a well sealed respirator that filtered and stopped you inhaling it?

Editor, go with the gappy mask picture.

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 1d

Infectious aerosols don't care what areas have been arbitrarily defined as patient care.

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 1d

Source.

COVID-19 pharmacy vaccine locations

Find your closest pharmacy to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

ontario.ca

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 1d

FYI

Ontario, Canada

Covid and Flu vaccine dates - Fall 2025

Immunizations for COVID-19 and flu high-risk and priority groups will begin in phases. COVID-19 vaccines will be available starting the week of September 22. Flu vaccines will be available at pharmacies starting the week of October 14. Starting October 27, free flu and COVID-19 shots will be available to the general public.
If you are 6 months and older, you can receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as, or at any time before or after, the flu shot and/or other routine immunizations, as well as RSV.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 2d

COVID should have taught us how fragile we are, but instead we allowed poor leadership and whackos to totally steal the reality.
We may not get another chance next time.

Real talk.

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 3d

The Covid vaccine rollout across Canada, but especially in Nova Scotia, is about administrative ease, not infection control, population health, or public health. We know there's an annual wave around September, yet nothing changes. Another year of failure.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 3d

Courtesy of @1goodtern.bsky.social, via X -

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 4d

We are recreating the XKCD immunity comic...

Actual public health experts are advocating for this rather than prevention, infection risks be damned.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 4d

41% increased risk of all cause vascular dementia in older adults. Don’t you think it’s overdue that JCVI considered this research in their decisions on covid vaccine roll out? @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social This exposure benefits no one.

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 5d

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults

Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults

Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 4d

"Two of my children are ill, again.
With Covid, again.
It’s their third and fourth times in four years."

"This is the seventh school year of living with Covid."

"What has been learned in all that time?
What has been implemented to keep our children safe?
The answer is nothing."

Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 4d

A letter from a "Concerned Dad
Former Headteacher" to a British MP. This letter could have been written by a concerned parent and/or teacher to a politician in any other country, all united in their willful denial of an #OngoingPandemic, now in its 6th year -

Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

most people really are terrible at assessing risk

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 5d

See also the UCSF docs who defended their irresponsible colleagues now being shocked that they are destroying everything now that they are in power, even though promises to do such things were always the issue.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 5d

Not being a physician, what I see is a toxic push for collegiality among medical professionals that has people not calling out bad actors, or as here, going out of the way to praise them, hoping they’ll reform and fly straight, when what they needed was to be called out and disempowered.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 5d

It would seem takimg action on the studies is not the point of the studies.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · Jun 20

"Out-of-scope for this document was a review of Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) practices
appropriate for individual transmission scenarios and settings."

This is what's sorely needed, it's been five years.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t emphasize enough that new studies like this come out ALL THE TIME but are usually ignored by basically everyone, including the media & the medical establishment. It’s bananas. #COVID

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

www.nature.com

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 5d

Let's keep in mind this article would not have been written if the requested decisions by politicians had just been followed.

How many other times were political requests given priority over science and public health?

I can make plenty guesses, and I'm sure there were plenty more I'm unaware of.

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 5d

Which of course taints decisions made by the CDC.

What compromises were made based on the inherent political influences the CDC Director had to juggle in order to keep their inherently political job, prestige and benefits?

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 5d

Or put another way, if you are making compromises based on politics, you are politically compromised.

The question then is not 'Is the CDC Director politically compromised?' but rather 'How politically compromised are they?'

🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 5d

Confirming what we have known all along.

What is the right amount of political influence over health science?

Who defines the right amount of political compromise?