Weird that not releasing more hostages and then firing rockets during a ceasefire while saying you'll never stop trying to murder Israelis and that October 7th was just a rehearsal led to the resumption of war.
The ceasefire people are really angry at Hamas for breaking the ceasefire and restarting the war, right?
If you're someone who vocally called for a ceasefire, or attended marches purportedly calling for same, have you condemned Hamas for ending the ceasefire and restarting the war? If not, why not?
Not that I think public calls for action outside of Israel and Gaza affect changes inside Israel or Gaza, but if you do, and if you want the war to end, shouldn't you be calling for Hamas' unconditional surrender?
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Canadian COVID Twitter is going to be lit Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Yes this is a cryptic tweet. No I can't tell you more.
Embargo lifted. The @bmj_latest has just published a special issue highlighting the failures of Canada's COVID response and calls for a public inquiry. I will link to each of the issue's 7 articles in coming tweets, but here is executive summary
Analysis: How Canada’s decentralised covid-19 response affected public health data and decision making bmj.com/content/382/bm…
FYI @LeslynLewis doesn't like being tagged on tweets that accurately report she hangs out with modern day Nazis. She immediately untags herself from the conversation. While I totally get that move, maybe some journalists could get her on the record talking about her new pal?
Also, can someone tag the other MPs in the photo - happily other than Ms. Lewis, I don't recognize them.
BTW, you can recognize when someone untags themselves, as @LeslynLewis already has, by noting that their @<name> is no longer blue/clickable.
A brief thread on being a media MD & the latest COVID gaslighting. During the pandemic I’ve done my share of interviews, I’ve turned down more requests than I’ve taken choosing instead to steer reporters to those whose training and expertise are more COVID suited than mine /1
PreCOVID bet I’d done between 700-1,000 interviews on topics related to nutrition, obesity, weight loss, & public policy therein. I don’t kid myself about kept getting invited back. It was consequent to my ability to speak in soundbites more than to my expertise or knowledge /2
To that point I can tell you, especially with experience, one learns what resonates and how to powerfully make your points. I can also tell you that while occasionally things may come out differently than you hope, on topics which you’re hugely familiar and seasoned, /3
Definitely useful to ask the question, "but what if I'm wrong" when considering your advocacy. If I'm wrong about mandatory masking in all essential spaces, indoor clean air regulation and monitoring, readily accessible COVID testing, test to return requirements, robust /1
ongoing booster campaigns, and only plain transparent talk from public health around local challenges, we'd see marked reductions in all airborne communicable diseases, breathing room afforded to our broken healthcare system, a better air infrastructure for the next variant /2
or pandemic, decreased presenteeism and absenteeism at work, improved learning in schools, decreased COVID related hospitalizations and long term complications, an actually informed public with greater empowerment around personal pandemic decisions, at least some respite for /3
There have been so very many times where I've been tempted to smugly tweet that I was not starting a Substack. Glad I didn't because now contemplating. Because holy hannah I'm going to have a ton of free time when this bird gulag dies.
Please don't pay anything, I have no idea if I'm going to use it, but who knows how this will all shake out. I've started a @SubstackInc. Subscribe to me there. yonifreedhoffmd.substack.com
It's 6:35am on Saturday morning. Yesterday afternoon, at 3:57pm, a parent, after waiting in line likely for an hour or two, registered their sick child at CHEO's ER. They have yet to be seen by an MD.
7:18am. Still not seen
7:37. Still waiting. Wonder if they're on Twitter?