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Lazarus Long Profile picture
@LazarusLong13
Oct 10, 2021 • 23 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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@AHS_media
CC: @AntibioticDoc @CMOH_Alberta

Allowing KNOWN CoVid positive people into a maternity Ward is a very bad idea.

You will get sued.

You will lose.
Your opening argument is a horrible one.

'It's been in place for a while, so because we've never been called on it, that makes it ok.'

You need to hire a PR person, because the optics on that alone?

Wow.

Moving on. You care about the pregnant person Image
needing support, because it's just them right?

Let's bring in @CiannaLyon - two weeks from term, and TERRIFIED of your hospital system.

Why?

Her words: Image
"Trust the system"...or your protocols. What are they, again? Image
Blah, blah, masks.

Great, right?

Wrong. Image
The supplied masks are procedure masks.

Oh, and what caught my eye? They might not have to wear a mask?

Exceptions like a rabid antimasking antivaxxer proclaiming they can't breathe in a procedure mask? Image
Like these AHS procedure masks that 150 doctors submitted a petition because they were of such inferior quality?

globalnews.ca/news/6921421/a…

But, surely, that's been resolved, right?

Moving on again. That article had a very interesting tidbit about PriMed, Image
the largest mask supplier in Canada.

What does PriMed say about the masks you want CoVid coughing folks stumbling around in the shared rooms? Shared elevators. Shared bathrooms. Shared cafeteria where the mask comes off to eat.

primed.ca/resources/astm…

Procedure masks are not Image
to be used for airborne contaminants like TB or SARS?

But that's surely not SARS-COV-2, right?

who.int/news-room/q-a-…

Oh. Aerosols.

So, your procedure mask PROVIDER specifically says to NOT use procedure masks to protect against airborne contaminants - aerosols. Image
Is that all?

No.

Pregnant Albertan women - you should file a class action lawsuit.

This thread, no matter how indemnifying, will result in nothing except notifying you of the deliberate exposure to CoVid.

Mom and Dad waiting at home-breakthrough cases happen all the time.
Because, as a pregnant woman you are particularly at risk.

Pregnancy makes you breathless, right?

It's because you are breathing for two, and so you are actually breathing in 30 to 35% more volume of air.

google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
And when you go into labor?

40 to 60% more on top of that.

When you breathe in more, you have more opportunities to encounter a virusol.

And will you be wearing a mask during labor as you are sucking in huge amounts of air?

clinicalgate.com/respiratory-sy…
With Delta producing 1,260 times more viral load than Alpha?

I'm sorry if you are scared. If I were pregnant, I'd be calling my lawyer & a reporter.

But make sure they talk to an aerosol scientist, because the Alberta Healthcare System does not have your back.
(Speaking of back, @AHS_media, I have backed up all of the sources, so do please delete them to show consciousness of guilt :) ).
A couple of folks have DM'd me about why this thread.

Because of this:


As I watched the ideas roll in, it just struck me as completely insane that this was necessary when AHS has a perfectly capable IPC group.

If they weren't being hamstrung by,
their leadership.

Is it hubris? The cost of real PPE?

Lord knows it's not the evidence.

WHO clearly says it is transmitted via aerosols. Their PPE provider clearly says surgical masks are not to be used for aerosol protection.

They are clearly
allowing CoVid positive people into a maternity ward.

They can wordsmith 'exception' all they want.

They cannot wordsmith away clear legal liability.

It's a shame that it has to be phrased that way.

If they truly cared about people, they'd have everyone in N95's.
Here is the AHS Patient First Proclamation.

albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/pf…

A proclamation, like a declaration, is simply that - if there is no action behind it.

AHS's patients AND HCW's are yelling for help.

Is anyone listening? Image
Thank you to @CMarieHs for pointing out that Twitter has chomped the Google amp link on the tweet re: 30 to 35% more volume above:


Direct source:

emedicine.medscape.com/article/303852….

Thank you,@CMarieHs !! Image
Backlash continuing for @AHS_media .

@AHS_media @CMOH_Alberta

If I was pregnant and headed into the AHS, I would be sure to get multiple tests before going in.

Because if you test negative, go in, and get CoVid thanks to Surgical Mask Hills - oops, FootHills based policy?

You'll have a darn good lawsuit,
due to leadership holding IPC back from controlling and preventing infections.

Because neonatals have worse outcomes if Mom has CoVid.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

And Mom gets symptomatic quickly? Entirely possible with Delta.

Even worse.

Does AHS's lawyers know this Image
game of "hubris chicken" they are playing?

Does their board?

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Jun 1
A thread on airborne Ebola - the rest is accurate.

Let me emphasize that I agree far more than disagree with her, in general.

Declaring a thing debunked without actually debunking it, with facts, is not debunking.

So, let me debunk this. Image
Dr. Kuppila has excellent credentials, and has earned her laurels.

If we accepted the debunking of airborne Ebola on the basis of credentials, we would have given into the fallacy of appeal to authority.

:) not today.

She worked in an Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone,
coming back in December 2014, and now resides in Dallas per her very interesting StatNews article:



She did not get infected. We could have survivorship bias here - fortunately.

This is a reference to possible surgical mask usage by her.

You see, the web.archive.org/web/2026052103…Image
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May 28
Ebola - it's not all about respiratory aerosols.

DYK that you, and me, and everybody are Pig Pen from Charlie Brown?

We shed our entire outer layer of skin every 2-4 weeks, about 500 million cells daily.

Your corneocytes (outermost cells) lift off of your body with the
gentlest of micro-air currents. Like a leaf picked up off the ground for the briefest of moments in fall.

They act like 12 micron aerosols in float time, but 25% of total skin flakes are sub 5 microns...and you know what that means. Deep deposition - or shallow as
sub 5 likes to also deposit in the nose.

It's funny...I embrace push-back in debate. Tightens up my game.

Imagine if those skin flakes now have Ebola on them?

Two studies show that Ebola literally oozes through the skin - both ways. In and out.

Not shown in vivo, but
Read 10 tweets
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May 23
The WHO forbids contact tracers from masking or gloving up.

"Do not conduct home visits wearing personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, or
gowns."

It gets worse. Do not conduct home visits wearing personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, or gowns.
They have a handy how to reduce risk of catching ebola at home.

It even has 5 masks listed on it.

But not for the other family members.

"7. If the patient has vomit, diarrhoea or bleeding, a mask or a dry towel wrapped around the face can be used to protect the nose and mouth Image
7. If the patient has vomit, diarrhoea or bleeding, a mask or a dry towel wrapped around the face can be used to protect the nose and mouth when touching the patient or items soiled with blood or body fluids. A waterproof gown, eye protection, gloves and rubber boots should also be worn in these circumstances.
Here are the 5 face masks. Image
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May 22
The "epidemiology" of Ebola tells us that it's not airborne. You've heard this over and over.

What drives it? The questions on the contact tracing form.

Quick 🧵. Image
COVID - the WHO and CDC said it wasn't airborne via aerosols, right?

The CDC said it was spread person to person via close contact - within about 6 feet.



And you remember it took FOREVER to get changed.

The contact tracing form was web.archive.org/web/2020032817…Image
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arranged around close contact. These are the questions driving the stats of how many and how are infected.



So, the CDC will only hear back what it's asking. This was the epidemiology of COVID - until it wasn't. web.archive.org/web/2020052514…Image
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May 20
Speaking of silly, can we agree that the WHO has Ebola experts?

Let's talk about PPE, and a bias towards "less PPE is better." Image
The WHO EBOLA IPC guidance:


Foreshadow on PPE

"...due to the desirability of an off-
the-face design, and not for protection from aerosols, respirators may be used instead of medical masks"who.int/publications/i…
If you can stay 3 feet away while screening? No medical mask needed. Image
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May 10
Great article by @EmilyJoshu here.

Emily, there's another article in this that's even more shocking.

The aerosols from milking have long been discussed by many of us on X.

People like myself, @sri_srikrishna, @AbraarKaran have long advocated for comfortable aerosol
protective gear like PAPRs. But, have been ignored by the USDA who, of course, thought it was only contaminated milking gear like the claw.

But there is one more source of aerosols besides cow breath.

The wastewater. When you spray anything you generate huge amounts of Image
aerosols. And that farm wastewater, filled with milk dumped from being full of H5N1, gets reclaimed and reused.

Those milk and wastewater lagoons are on most dairy farms (my grandfather owned a dairy farm).

And there's something you should know.

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