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Jan 13 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
🎲Let's play a game: The Haunted Woods🎲

In a far away land, there is a small village surrounded by a foreboding forest known as The Haunted Woods. All who pass through here are cursed, but pass through it they must... Image
On the other side lies The Scared Well and the water that the villagers rely on. But with each pilgrimage, there comes a price. In time the curse will fade into nothing, but some are not so fortunate…

It is time to make the pilgrimage.

Roll 🎲 google.com/search?q=rando…
If you rolled a 2 or less, your curse is permanent.

Time passes and for those not permanently cursed, it is time to make the pilgrimage once again.

Roll 🎲 google.com/search?q=rando…
If you rolled a 3 or less, your curse is permanent.

Time passes and for those not permanently cursed, it is time to make the pilgrimage once again.

Roll 🎲 google.com/search?q=rando…
If you rolled a 4 or less, the curse is permanent.

By now, more & more villagers are permanently cursed, & there are fewer & fewer capable of making the pilgrimage. But the local healer has made a discovery, a ward that blocks the curse for all those who choose to wear it...
ℹ️ This game illustrates the cumulative risk of acquiring Long COVID. Each curse represents a COVID infection. Your odds of becoming permanently cursed are the odds of contracting Long COVID, which increases with each infection (see next tweet for source).
ℹ️ The odds here have been rounded to work with a ten sided die. As reported by Statistics Canada, the cumulative risk of acquiring Long COVID:

15% after 1 infection; 25% after 2 infections; 38% after 3+ infections

Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-…
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Finally, the ward that blocks the curse represents a respirator such as an N95, which reduces exhaled viral load by upwards of 98%.¹

For players, it would be absurd not to wear the ward.

So, will you wear a respirator?

¹ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Addendum: This was originally designed for large gatherings, such as classrooms. I have created a facilitator's guide for group settings. Group size can reinforce the message as the number of permanently cursed players after 3 rounds is visually striking: helloworlds.ca/the-long-covid…
Note: I've created an updated version of the game to better reflect the cumulative probability. While the odds of developing Long COVID are 15%/infection, the cumulative probability is 25% after 2 infections, and 38% after 3+ infections.

helloworlds.ca/the-long-covid…

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Jan 13
I created this Long COVID game for my classes (reproduced here in a Twitter thread). I found it incredibly effective at illustrating the cumulative risk of Long COVID.

I then provided every student with an N95 respirator. All my students now mask, >90% with an N95.
Tagging some folks who might find this exercise useful in their own classes or in their public health messaging:
@amandalhu @dupuisj @shoshanahjacobs @DrDanielGillis @BarryHunt008 @DcrInYYC @SFdirewolf
To make this particularly effective, play the three rounds and then have every student who was ‘permanently cursed’ raise their hand. Then make the connection btwn the odds and Long COVID. It makes the cumulative risk at scale much more tangible.
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Jul 11, 2019
1/ This article—"Why Canadians need to wake up about populism"—written by two public policy experts, provides interesting insight into the rise of populism in Canada (i.e. 'For the People' pledges that is anything but). thestar.com/opinion/contri…
2/ They point to Leitch & Kouvalis' 'Canadian values' rhetoric as one of the early indications of Conservatives testing the populist waters. We've since seen a populist elected in Ontario who uses 'taking care of our own' rhetoric re: immigration ipolitics.ca/2018/05/11/im-…
3/ The authors tie the emergence of populism to socio-economic conditions that are not dissimilar to those of Germany in 1920s & 30s.
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May 8, 2018
So, Laurier is set to host another speaker who espouses bigoted views, this time a prof who believes that cultural genocide is "essential to human survival" (Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry 25). I want to talk about the questions this raises & Laurier's repsonse
First off, the speaker last published on the subject of indigenous people in Canada in her co-authored 2008 book "Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry." Here's a summary of the implicit & explicit racism that undergirds the text (from Leanne Simpson's review of the book in question)
Unlike the previous bigot brought to campus--a discredited journalist--the speaker/author, Frances Widdowson, is employed at a university. She has published on the subject in question & expresses her views that indigenous ppl are 'savage,' backwards ppl in an academic vernacular
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Apr 23, 2018
Thread: Laurier has released a draft of their Freedom of Expression statement and it's disappointing, to say the least. You can read the full draft statement here: wlu.ca/about/values-v…
FYI: the purpose of this statement is to clarify where the university stands on issues of academic freedom & freedom of expression; it will provide guidance on how the university responds in the future to a range of issues, incl. the promotion of hate & bigotry on campus
As a document, it was crafted by a 13 member committee. Their goal was to write a statement that expresses the university's stance on freedom of expression that speaks not only to the current cultural climate but future climates as well. Not an easy task.
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Apr 4, 2018
Thread: Yesterday I followed through on an invitation from Laurier's president and sat down w Dr. MacLatchy & Dr. Gordon (VP Research/Chair of the Task Force on Freedom of Expression), to discuss concerns I've raised w Laurier hosting a white supremacist. Here are my thoughts:
Firstly, I can only speak for myself & in no way should this be read as official positions from others in attendance. Furthermore, w/e position the university pursues will be subject to a senate vote & so neither attendee had the authority to speak to what can/is likely to happen
That said, as an outspoken critic of how this issue has been handled, I left the meeting reasonably confident that the university is interested in safeguarding campus from events/speakers who foment hate & discrimination.
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