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28 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#BellLetsTalk about anorexia and a lack of treatment options in Saskatchewan.
#BellLetsTalk about the tangled mental health system in Canada. My thread from last year talks about public and private mental health delivery.
#BellLetsTalk about social media bullying in teens and suicidality.
#BellLetsTalk about how mental health awareness campaigns are well and good, but but we really need to shift into mental health advocacy in order to make real change.

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28 Jan
I didn’t get a chance to comment on this more the other day, but we are absolutely seeing this surge of anorexia in Saskatoon over the last 6 months or so.

In some ways, it’s almost reassuring to see it’s happening elsewhere too. Initially we were wondering if it was just us.
Anorexia is probably the deadliest mental illness you can get for children & adolescents. The mortality rate is high and since it usually hits teens, it takes out kids who shouldn’t be dying of anything at their age. So it’s serious stuff.

They mostly die from two causes:
1) Heart problems

See, if you’re really underweight, you don’t have much left to burn for energy other than muscle.

Your heart is a muscle.

So if you’re low enough in weight, your heart will literally shrink in size. You’re burning it for fuel.
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25 Jan
Merck’s vaccines are out of the running. These two used yet a different mechanism to try to protect against the virus. In this case, it didn’t work.
What the Merck vaccines tried to do was combine the asshole protein on to a weakened live virus (not the COVID virus, in both vaccines it was a different virus). So basically this guy, but with the asshole protein spliced in.
That’s different than the AstraZenica vaccine, which gives you the asshole protein instructions in an empty shell of a virus that doesn’t replicate in your body.

The Merck ones put it in a weak virus that CAN replicate in your body.
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WheatNOil Profile picture
25 Jan
Hockey thread time:

7 games into the season and the Oilers are running one all-world line and are otherwise running in sand.

Among forwards with at least 5 games, only McDavid, Nuge, and Puljujarvi are running over 50% in score-adjusted shot attempts at 5x5.
Even Drai and Yamomoto are running at 45% shot attempts, though they’re hovering around 50% in expected goals, so at least it’s not ‘all’ luck.

The bottom 6 is... well... Turris is running 34%. Oilers are getting outshot 2 to 1 with him on the ice! It’s a mess!
But there’s something else here too.

The defense:
Bear and Nurse are clear above 50%. They’re expected goals are almost 66%! Amazing!

After that, everyone else is 43% or below. Larsson is at 38%! The expected goals are the same.

We have one pair and mud.
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4 Jan
China recently approved the Sinovac vaccine and since apparently this is what I do in my spare time now, let’s talk about how that one works!

It works in yet a different way than the mRNA (Pfizer / Moderna) or the AstraZenica vaccines.
The Sinovac vaccine is a more traditional vaccine type. It’s an “inactivated” vaccine. That’s different from another traditional vaccine type: an “attenuated” vaccine.

I should take a moment to clarify the difference.
Think of an “attenuated” vaccine (also sometimes called a “live” vaccine) is when you take a virus and make it way less dangerous. It’s basically your body fighting against this guy.
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3 Jan
So, people have taken the time to translate my explanation of mRNA vaccines into a bunch of different languages. I’ll post them in this thread in case you have a non-English friend, relative, potty-mouthed grandma who’d like to know how this vaccine works.
French
German
(I don’t know German but I love this translation because you just ‘feel’ the swears in German.)
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31 Dec 20
Some have asked me about how the AstraZenica vaccine is different than the mRNA vaccines. @ScientistSwanda does a great job here describing it. The vaccine is still all about the asshole protein, your body just produces it in a different way.
I guess to describe it in the theme of my other threads:

Scientists took a totally different virus that doesn’t hurt humans. They cut out most of the virus DNA until what was left was a mostly empty shell. (The virus is now basically us by the end of this godforsaken year.)
So you take this basically empty shell of a virus and you throw in the code to make the infamous asshole protein. So now you’ve got a toothless virus that can’t do shit to you except make asshole proteins.
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