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Feb 23 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
1 year tomorrow: the last time NBers were addressed in a streamed/broadcast COVID briefing.

Think they’ll surprise us with a reunion episode?

#nbpoli
It’s

Not

Like

There’s

Been

Any

Information

People

Who

Serve

The

Public

Should

Have

Told

Us

For a round up of the year we all endured the pandemic without communication from Public Health, whom we still pay, check out:

Pretend I fit this one into my sentence above, after “us”

“!!!!!!!”



Did this on the fly w no prior prep while cleaning tub for my kids to have a bath

Demand better than THIS from government

And definitely demand better than 2022 - we deserve better.
You should be infuriated that a random mom is delivering accurate info to you about how COVID transmits; how to stop it; and WHY you want to avoid infection - and your elected government is not. At all. They don’t give a 🦭 and you are being harmed plus paying for the pleasure.
Every province and territory has been receiving high-quality, summarized (pre-chewed!!!!) evidence and info on #LongCovid since 2020 and they did not warn you. PHAC has been updating them every 2 weeks and they pass none of this on to you. Hidden.

Does what we are trying to do, in the absence of accurate and full-throated communication by PH during an ongoing airborne pandemic and in a closed information landscape, matter?

I think it does.

It matters.

And the proof is you.

You care that it’s airborne; that GNB doesn’t say so or incorporate this into protecting anyone.

You care that GNB hasn’t informed people about long COVID.

What’s happening now is an active choice by those in power.

I want to note that it’s also now been just over a year since @feltford’s account got locked. She was a guiding light for me on here and I know there are so many things I don’t do nearly as well as she did. Her voice and her insights are missed in NB and beyond.

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Feb 25
Weekend 😊 😊
… now with some extra urgency since a little lady has a fever A PC fan #corsirosenthalbox...
I might as well tweet the process.
Just took a break to feed everyone.

So far I have gathered all my materials, tested all of my fans to make sure they work before I install them in this contraption!
Power (and lights because I’m using RGB fans in this one) all work 😊

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I have 20x30 foam board, which was the perfect size to make the non-filter sides of the device.
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Feb 24
The human body expels waste. We all know that poop has germs in it.

The other end of that tube also expels waste that makes people sick. Yup - our mouths/noses. There are pathogens in our exhaled breath just like in poop. Poop’s heavy and drops. Breath is light and floats.

/1
We make people sick with the pathogens in our exhaled breath. Just like we would make people sick if they interacted unsafely with our poop. 😬

Right now, without clean indoor air, if you’re not wearing a respirator, you’re interacting unsafely with human waste.
/2
When we breathe out, more than just “air” leaves our respiratory system. We’ve all seen sneezes and spittle. Loogies even! But - there’s something even smaller, and due to its mass, it floats for a long time and builds up in a room like smoke. Bioaerosols. So small they float. /3
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Feb 10
Snow day was perfect for putting the finishing touches on the fandelier 😊
@CRBoxKits @robwiss

MERV-13 24x24x2 top
MERV-13 16x16x1 bottom
12 arctic p12s except I can’t count and 9 are white and 3 are black

LED tape from Lee Valley h/t @Mark_Ungrin Image shows the underside of a suspended fandelier. A square
PC fans are about $10 each. The electrical components make this more expensive than the box fan style #CorsiRosenthalBox. With shipping I figure this cost $250 to build. I have been slowly obtaining the parts over 3 months.
Earlier this month I took the box fan CR box fan from my kitchen to a local community centre. I needed to replace my kitchen filtration. I’m glad to get this done.

Here’s a list of parts and resources for building your own PC fan version!

docs.google.com/document/d/1jn…
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Feb 9
It's time for another #CriticalAppraisalThursday CAT!
I meant to do this weekly but phew December was not the month to start that! I'll pick back up now. Here's my first thread and I'll reply with today's topic AND an apology! Wow!

Today's topic: journal club!

A journal club is like a book club, but you discuss a paper instead. It can be a fun and social way to integrate both continuing education and critical appraisal.
Pre-pandemic, physicians and academics would often host a journal club in their homes, with food and drink. Students and residents enjoyed attending journal clubs for the social element and the food and drink as well as the learning and critical appraisal elements.
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Feb 8
I had so much fun this morning building a PC fan based #CorsiRosenthalBox.

Maybe part of the problem here is that people don’t like being told what to do and it’s actually fun to solve problems yourself.

Problem: we have a new airborne virus that can kill and disable people. /1
You become infected when you inhale infectious aerosols that hang in the air like smoke. The infectious aerosols got there from someone else breathing them out. That person may have left the room hours ago, or they may be present, continuously exhaling infectious aerosols. /2
How do you stop transmissions? How do you keep yourself, your friends and family, your fellow human safe?

/3
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Feb 8
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I hope you have been paying attention to what I have tried to share with you about respiratory protection, cleaning indoor air. Please get government to act urgently on improving IAQ and educating the public; providing respirators.
You can get N95s for free from @DonateMask. You can do an at-home qualitative fit test with a cheap nebulizer purchased online and 3M bitrex solution from safety supply store. You may be able to find a local company or group that offers quantitative fit testing.
For kids 4+ there is FloMask, CA-N95s from Canada Strong; KF94s; KN-95s in kids’ sizes. 9+ can wear Eclipse Horizon N95 in small. 3M Vflex in small fits tweens/teens too.
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