"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Towards neither forgetting nor repeating January 2022. Lego scene showing a hooded...
"Toronto police advise hospital workers not to wear scrubs to work this weekend ahead of planned anti-vaccine trucker protest in downtown"
Lego scene showing heath-ca...
Meanwhile, Ottawa's Mayor and Police Chief for the past week, dealing with the "trucker" protest, er occupation, in the nation's capital city. Image
With a Lego lag, it's getting hard to keep up with all the ridiculous stuff going on this week:
"Police are escorting this structure to the parking lot on Coventry Road beside the baseball stadium. It was built by convoy supporters..in Confederate Park.."
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An out-of-lane way to remove disabled vehicles in Ottawa: Offer to scrap metal dealers. Lego scene showing Jawas di...
Ottawa Mayor: "Emergency!" and Police Chief: "We are arresting and seizing and interdicting fuel going into the demonstrations"

Vs. what's been reported on the ground: "they've been told not to enforce" @danrueck

What's going on, Ottawa Police Services?
Lego scene showing Ottawa M...
Do not under-estimate – he's not just some rando taking shirtless selfies.
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Ontario's premier "working 24/7" with Ottawa under siege, on the day Toronto streets were closed to avoid similar fate.
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What it takes to get laws enacted/enforced in Ontario...
USA: Hey, y'all need help up there? Lego scene showing dumpster...
Children need freedom from being used as 1) human shields by parents, and 2) excuses to not act by police and politicians. Lego scene with police wavi...
Mayor of Ottawa negotiates with representative of seditionists, laying out welcome mat and hands over key to city. Lego scene showing Ottawa M...
GiveSendGo, the Freedom Convoy's crowdfunding website, was hacked to play a "Frozen" video along a manifesto condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.
Lego scene showing Elsa fro...
In other news, Happy Valentine's Day from Ontario's Minister of Education, upping his selfie game by starring in Vaughan’s version of The Bachelor with seniors.
Lego scene showing Ontario'...
Retweet if you're in as much awe as I am of Canada's Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland @cafreeland: "If your truck is at the blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, your insurance will suspended. Send your rigs home." #IStandWithTrudeau
Lego scene showing Canada f...
Introducing Candice (not Murphy Brown) Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition, currently trending on twitter as entertainment. Lego scene showing Candice ...
Heroes of Ottawa: Zexi Li and lawyer Paul Champ, for filing class action with Ontario Superior Court of Justice to silence incessant honking during occupation.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… Lego scene showing Paul Cha...
Memories of Ottawa Occupation: Pot-banging guy on street corner disturbs occupants of nearby trucks.
Lego scene showing Ottawa s...
"It still shocks and surprises me that we are seeing children put in harms way," Steve Bell, interim chief of the Ottawa Police Service, said.
Lego scene showing in foreg...

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Dec 30, 2023
As I continue to use expired/about-to-expire rapid tests (RATs) to test my poop, it is with mixed feelings that I report:

I have NOT lost my sense of smell.

And, definitely wash your hands when working with poop.

A short thread on a few other things I've learned follows.

1/7 Photo of two types of rapid tests, a lime-green box expiring 2024-01-01, the dark-green-and-white expiring 2023-05-06
I found best – expired (2023-05-06) BNTX dark-green-and-white box (with short swabs+one-piece pre-filled buffer tubes).

I'm generally not militant re expiration dates, and definitely not on this.

Presciently, it's the only kit that had little biohazard-marked Ziploc bags.

2/7 Image
Minutes before running the poop tests (right), I swabbed for separate set of tests (left) between back gums/cheek, as back-of-tongue as I could get, and both nostrils as far up as I could get.

Shown also are SD Biosensor Standard Q (magenta+white box/tests)–expires 2024-01.

3/7
Photo showing 3 rapid tests, with clear lines labeled C but no clear lines labeled T.
Photo showing 3 rapid tests, with the middle, flat-top green-and-white-one with the most obvious line labeled "T".
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Dec 9, 2023
Imagine you're in a sudden disaster like a burning building, sinking ship, airplane crash, where your goal is to get out quickly before you die.

Now, you would think that everyone around you would have the same goal, right?

Researchers in disaster behavior know otherwise.

1/6
The most cited proportions (reference in final tweet) are:

1) 10-15% will have their wits about them, understand the danger of staying put, devise a plan to escape, and act on that plan.

Covid-aware folks are in this small minority, but may be doubting their sanity.

2/6
2) "The second group, comprising approximately 75% of the population, will be stunned and bewildered, showing impaired reasoning and sluggish thinking. They will behave in a reflexive, almost automatic manner."

This is the maskless majority of folks living their 2019 lives.
3/6
Read 6 tweets
Aug 20, 2023
Even if you're wearing an N95 or better, it only works when it's sealed on your face.

It doesn't work when off – not for eating, drinking, speaking, nor "mask breaks."

An analogy to clarify mask/respirator misuse that leads people to sincerely conclude they don't work...1/
Ever go on a drive, where for whatever reason, you didn't wear your seatbelt?

You arrive at your destination without incident and completely un-injured. Do you wonder, I was fine without a seatbelt, why wear seatbelts ever?

Answer: No, you wear them in case of a collision. 2/
Have you ever gone on a drive, where despite wearing your seatbelt, you got into an accident and got injured?

Do you swear off seatbelts, proclaiming they don't work?

Answer: No, wearing your seatbelt likely reduced the severity of your injury sustained during the accident. 3/
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Dec 15, 2021
RATs are more useful when not being sat on. #FreeTheRATs Image
The state of RATs and rats in Ontario. #FreeTheRATs Image
The state of RATs in Ontario updated:

It is not easy holding an alcoholic beverage in one hand and a rat in the other.

#FindTheRATs if you can, coming to an LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) store soon! Image
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Dec 14, 2021
Booking a vaccine using the Ontario portal, in Lego.
RATs are more useful when not being sat on. #FreeTheRATs
The state of RATs and rats in Ontario. #FreeTheRATs
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