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Tony Walsh

@tonywalsh.bsky.social

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Expos and Blue Jays fan from the two channel universe. Born at 318 ppm. Anti-annexationist. He/him 🌈 Orion’s chief of staff

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 46m

If you were a national NBA commentator calling the NBA Finals and you were constantly referring to how nobody knows who the Thunder are, you'd absolutely be called a casual or worse. It's now game 4 of this series and you're still talking to your audience like the #1 team in the AL came from Mars

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

Louis Varland 9 pitches (hits 100 mph) and someone has already pointed out the ahh tight pants. 👏

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

Narrator: we didn’t 😢

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

T and we need to pile on here

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

T and we need to pile on here

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 1h

Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Who else?

#BlueJays up early, 1-0.

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

*single

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

Vladdy Jr with an RBI 2B and Springer scores

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 1h

It’s fascinating that a regular LLM will apparently do this, but not the NS health one: bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 8h

The worst part is that if you ask an up to date LLM like chatgpt-5 that same question, it gets it right. So either NS Health is using out of date LLMs, or 👉 they specifically trained it to be wrong to align with their own negligently ignorant opinions. 👈

Yes — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is transmitted through the **air as an aerosol**. This is now the consensus position of virtually all leading scientific and public-health bodies, and it’s supported by multiple independent lines of evidence. Here’s a concise summary of the most robust evidence:

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### 🦠 1. Direct measurements of airborne virus

* SARS-CoV-2 RNA and infectious virus particles have been repeatedly detected in **air samples** from hospital rooms, homes, cars, and public spaces where infected individuals were present .
* Viable virus has been collected **meters away** from patients, even in well-ventilated spaces — distances far beyond those possible for ballistic “droplets.”

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### 🌬 2. Epidemiological patterns best explained by aerosol spread

* Superspreading events in **choirs, restaurants, buses, and offices** consistently involve people who never had close contact but shared air .
* **Attack rates drop sharply** when ventilation is improved or when high-filtration respirators (e.g., N95s) are worn — a signature of airborne transmission.

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### 🧪 3. Laboratory and physical evidence

* SARS-CoV-2 remains **viable in aerosols for hours** and retains infectivity .
* Human breathing, talking, and singing generate aerosols capable of carrying enough virus to infect others .

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### 🏛 4. Official recognition

* The **U.S. CDC**, **WHO**, **Public Health Agency of Canada**, and **U.S. National Academies** all now state clearly that **aerosol (airborne) transmission is the dominant route** of spread 【9†WHO 2023†[https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-how-is-it-transmitted】](https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-how-is-it-transmitted】).

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### 📊 Key implications

* **Shared ind)** are crucial for prevention.
* Droplet and surface transmission can occur but are **minor compared with inhalation of aerosols**.

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In summary: …

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

Autumn of George with a leaf off 2B

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1h

The Devoted Friend
Jeff Dillon
2021

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 1h

What @justip.bsky.social said.

We’re allowed to learn and correct our knowledge.

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 2h

The droplet crap has been refuted. Aerosol spread.

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 2h

So ‘eepy

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 2h

MOAR CHAOS

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 2h

Frankie is too sexy for this box
Too sexy for this box
I’d rather have some lox 🎶
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a bald man singing into a microphone wearing a zebra print shirt

Alt: Right Said Fred: a bald man singing into a microphone wearing a zebra print shirt

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been to the Lucky Ron show at The Laff, so I’m good (Atlantic Canadian).

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 3h

Look what they make you give

Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 3h

Sacrilege

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Heather Allen @heatherhfx.bsky.social · 8h

Are you teaching or learning about African Nova Scotia history? @nsarchives.bsky.social has a new suite of resources to help! Find new ways to interact with historical documents, and challenge yourself or your students to consider new perspectives. archives.novascotia.ca/teaching-lea...

Black and white photo of three young women, Dorothy Hill, Jean Morrison, and Evelyn Jackson in their summer dresses. They look extremely cool. Annapolis County, Nova Scotia ca. 1955.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.