Stephanie Belding
@stephbelding.bsky.social
Actor, trainer, vegan baker. Open heart, curious mind.
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An excellent thread!
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
An excellent thread!
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Same in the #Yukon, where there has been a noticeable uptick in public coughing & sneezing, coinciding with holiday gatherings, & more winter indoor living (currently snowing, with a wind chill of -28 degrees C) -
"Here we go again. December is upon us and B.C. health-care leaders are about to be surprised, yet again, by influenza season." -Dr. Lyne Filiatrault
Co-signed, Nova Scotia where the health authority still hasn't reinstated masks.
Co-signed, Nova Scotia where the health authority still hasn't reinstated masks.
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 9:26 PM
Same in the #Yukon, where there has been a noticeable uptick in public coughing & sneezing, coinciding with holiday gatherings, & more winter indoor living (currently snowing, with a wind chill of -28 degrees C) -
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed."
The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.
The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.
Opinion: A decade ago, writer Steven Galloway’s cancellation tore CanLit apart. The effects linger to this day
The bestselling novelist faced sexual-assault allegations, costing him his job. Marsha Lederman asks, would this case be handled differently today?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed."
The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.
The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
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This👇
Canada is showing global leadership in preventing airborne virus transmission with the CSA's new draft standard for respirator use (especially in healthcare) 🎉
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier
New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This👇
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur from @weanimals has published a series of photos from two correctional facilities in Canada, where inmates work in farms where farmed animals share captivity with the prisoners.
👉 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/12/canadas-prisons-include-farmed-animal-inmates
👉 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/12/canadas-prisons-include-farmed-animal-inmates
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur from @weanimals has published a series of photos from two correctional facilities in Canada, where inmates work in farms where farmed animals share captivity with the prisoners.
👉 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/12/canadas-prisons-include-farmed-animal-inmates
👉 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/12/canadas-prisons-include-farmed-animal-inmates
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Despite the marketing, it’s not a mere cold. We need to think beyond the initial acute-stage effects. Please take this seriously.
“It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow.”
“It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow.”
This thread by Zdenek Vrozina on X is what I've been warning all along this ongoing pandemic... BONE MARROW.
Sars2 hijacks the immune system and it imprints further damage.
This virus is going to dissolve the human biological makeup. It's like a stealthy underground fire, slowly burning everything.
Sars2 hijacks the immune system and it imprints further damage.
This virus is going to dissolve the human biological makeup. It's like a stealthy underground fire, slowly burning everything.
Bone marrow...
Zdenek Vrozina: "A new Russian review in IJMS shows how SARS-CoV-2 reshapes the epigenome - weaving together known mechanisms into something deeper.
It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow".
Zdenek Vrozina: "A new Russian review in IJMS shows how SARS-CoV-2 reshapes the epigenome - weaving together known mechanisms into something deeper.
It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow".
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Despite the marketing, it’s not a mere cold. We need to think beyond the initial acute-stage effects. Please take this seriously.
“It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow.”
“It’s not just long COVID.
It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow.”
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NEW: A series of studies have shown that the diabetes drug metformin may help reduce the risk of #LongCOVID. So why isn't the information being translated into guidelines for providers?
@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used? - The Sick Times
Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.
thesicktimes.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NEW: A series of studies have shown that the diabetes drug metformin may help reduce the risk of #LongCOVID. So why isn't the information being translated into guidelines for providers?
@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
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Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
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I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk.
And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.
And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.
Well fitting masks work very well, but my friend and his wife got Covid at a doctor’s appointment and it caused long term health problems for my friend. If people in the waiting room and clinic masked and used air filters, this wouldn’t happen. I think it’s wrong to get sick seeking medical care.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk.
And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.
And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.
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"Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke"
SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID.
archive.li/AMBdJ
SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID.
archive.li/AMBdJ
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke"
SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID.
archive.li/AMBdJ
SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID.
archive.li/AMBdJ
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+ The way "hostages" is applied to Israelis hostages but not to Palestinians when the same articles admit "vast majority of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge" which reads to me like they were hostages, too.
Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.
I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”
I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
+ The way "hostages" is applied to Israelis hostages but not to Palestinians when the same articles admit "vast majority of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge" which reads to me like they were hostages, too.
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News
A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...
www.cbc.ca
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
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Seeing multiple reports about people coming down with Covid after Fantastic Fest. Most of those people will recover okay! Statistically, however, some will get Long Covid and watch their life flip upside down. Going to a fun event shouldn’t include this risk. We HAVE to adapt to, not ignore, Covid.
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Seeing multiple reports about people coming down with Covid after Fantastic Fest. Most of those people will recover okay! Statistically, however, some will get Long Covid and watch their life flip upside down. Going to a fun event shouldn’t include this risk. We HAVE to adapt to, not ignore, Covid.
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Violet Affleck is to the Covid movement what Greta Thunberg is to climate. Both represent the next generation, are articulate, focused, & grounded in science. That scares people. And there's a gendered aspect to all the vitriol they face
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Violet Affleck is to the Covid movement what Greta Thunberg is to climate. Both represent the next generation, are articulate, focused, & grounded in science. That scares people. And there's a gendered aspect to all the vitriol they face
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Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
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It's no different in 🇨🇦 Canada, where #LongCOVID continues to be stigmatized in silence by governments unwilling to warn the public of risk, & who don't want to give up the increasingly weak fiction that the pandemic is over. It very much isn't -
Shout out to Jim O'Neill, new acting director of the CDC, for drawing attention to the alienation people with long COVID continue to face - from friends, family, partners, doctors, employers etc.
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's no different in 🇨🇦 Canada, where #LongCOVID continues to be stigmatized in silence by governments unwilling to warn the public of risk, & who don't want to give up the increasingly weak fiction that the pandemic is over. It very much isn't -