These f**king CDC idiots
🙄

"by contrast, CDC uses a top-to-bottom airflow approach."

NEWSFLASH: Exhaled bioaerosols float upwards

If you want to test for airborne transmission test bottom-to-top airflow

If you want to hide airborne transmission test the CDC way

😠😠😠

https://twitter.com/drkristenkc/status/1799439575682814018

Exhaled breath is warm (30 C) relative to a typical occupied indoor space (20 C)

Exhaled aerosol bubbles are essentially little hot air balloons

So initially they rise

Quickly

They dehydrate & cool & continue to be buffeted & carried with air currents in all directions

Canadian companies created the world's first plant-based compostable masks 😷

And new lightweight 'lifestyle' elastomeric reusables

At govt's request 🇨🇦

To prevent environmental atrocities like this

https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1794669887912354095

Airborne diseases are not going away

COVID was just the start

We're going to need environmentally friendly solutions for masks & respirators for a long time

This is a classic example of how DISINFORMATION is being delivered to the public

TV news organizations use audience-friendly affable showmen who pretend to deliver medical advice while minimizing risk & misdirecting public from real science

https://twitter.com/dickzoutman/status/1787123336729727085

1. Red Flags:

Bow ties

White shirts

White lab coats

Silly jokes

Lightweight banter

Earnest sounding but risk minimizing messaging

Public Health is "a day late & a dollar short"

The rate of SARS2 mutation toward immune escape & vaccine escape is way too fast for six month updates based on yesterday's data

https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/1786758641045176769

Vaccines wane fast

And the virus mutates even faster

JN.1 has already been eclipsed by KP.2

followed by KP.3

followed by KS.1

soon to be eclipsed by...

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1786824112217682083?s=46&t=s5oXptS6pyfVxojXD-HECw

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1786824112217682083

Fascinating study on COVID transmission in public buses, well executed
👏👏👏

Takeaway 1:

Airborne transmission = 1 million to 100 million times more significant than contact transmission

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Sigh 😔

No wonder the authors had to publish in the world famous Infectious Disease journal "Hazardous Materials" where no one will find it

🙄

/s

Shame on @TheLancet @Nature @AJICJournal @bmj_latest etc

😠

What a fun #TotalEclipse2024
Day with family, friends & neighbours!

I've seen a few memorable solar eclipses but never one like this

The difference between Total & Partial solar eclipse is literally night & day!





Mother Nature gifted us with a wide open view, gentle lapping of the lake, & a nice mix of sun & cloud for some interesting shots

A thread 🧵 To all the Collaborators in the Medical Community,

the Grassroots Advocates,

the Engineers,

the forward thinkers,

who get it right,

who practice "Sentinel Intelligence",

who are on a mission to protect others,

Thank you!!!
👏👏👏

Pls consider endorsing the National Nurses United as they fight to get airborne protection for nurses

Individual & organizational endorsements are welcome

The deadline is Friday, April 12th, 2024

Please use this form to submit your endorsement

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… The statement was drafted by a group of public & occupational health experts and lays out elements that HICPAC should adopt when updating the draft in order to protect health care workers and patients

See the statement here.
 
drive.google.com/file/d/1mucFG6…

Dear Dr Tam,

Chief Public Health Officer of Canada,

You were one of 4 Canadians at WHO in 2003 who developed a consensus document wrt SARS

Back when 🇨🇦 believed SARS was airborne & N95s were needed (aka "Lessons learnt")

https://twitter.com/barryhunt008/status/1773325481422528990

So what happened when SARS2 came along?

A government can choose to support domestic manufacturers

Or choose to support importers of foreign products to compete against their own domestic manufacturers Early in the pandemic,

Canada chose foreign manufacturers

While telling the public they chose domestic manufacturers

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So a news story broke tonite that is close to me

CAPPEM, Canadian SME PPE manufacturers who answered the govt call to action to "develop a sustainable domestic PPE industry for the long-term" sues the federal government for "negligent misrepresentation" Despite successfully answering the challenge to develop world leading medical mask & respirator products the promised "direct supports" and "flexible procurement" never came

😢

I'm in Emerg today

My PICC line is blocked

Could be the tip has gotten embedded

Could be the sticky antibiotic, Meropenem, has occluded the line

Either way, the Community Care nursing staff are not equipped to deal with it

Emerg is the only option
😢 Community Care could put in an IV so I can continue antibiotics until the PICC issue is sorted

But that requires a Doctor's order

And so far, my family doc has not authorized it

36 hours without antibiotics & counting

Emerg is the only option
😢

Hi everyone, there are three 🇨🇦 CSA Standards out for public review that warrant our attention.

Healthcare Facility Design Z8000 (closes Feb 18)

HVAC for Healthcare Z317.2 (closes Tue!)

Selection, Use & Care of Respirators (closes Mar 18) Public comments can be made on each Standard

Go to

Search for the Standard you would like to comment on

Eg - "Z8000"

Comments are available for each clause publicreview.csa.ca

Hospitals are dangerous

To patients

To Healthcare Workers

To the local Community

To the World Hospitals are incubators

They create Superbugs

And distribute them

To homes

To LTC

To other Hospitals

Around the world

4 years ago today I flew home 3 days early from a 7-day vacation in Costa Rica at the invitation of my local MPP to make a 3 minute pitch to the
Finance Minister of Ontario as part of the pre-Budget Submission process. It was my last international flight before the Pandemic struck.

Why give up my last sunny vacation when I knew COVID was coming?

Because this was too important.

Imagine there's a beach in a town where you see a young child and her mother get swept out to sea

You alert the Lifeguard who promptly acknowledges there's a rip tide, closes the beach and sits back down Stunned at the inaction of the Lifeguard to save mom & her child, you decide to be a hero yourself

You have all the tools

You have training

But the lifeguard won't allow you, or anyone, to go into the water

After 57 days in hospital I was finally released on Thursday
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Going home was contingent upon:

1. Safe mobility (w aids)

2. Main floor living quarters

3. Home Nursing available to manage IV antibiotics & Vac wound therapy.

Inverse Square Law

2X closer = 4X dose
3X closer = 9X dose
4X closer = 16X dose
etc

Applies to:

UV

FarUV

SARS2

Any exhaled virus

Point sources that travel in 3 dimensions

That's why "Close Contact" requires special protections like Respirators & Goggles (UV)

https://twitter.com/ejustin46/status/1751604967763247513

Conversely:

2X further = 1/4X dose
3X further = 1/9X dose
4X further = 1/16X dose
etc

Applies to:

UV

FarUV

SARS2

Any exhaled virus

That's why "Far Field" can be treated as a separate risk that can be mitigated with a different approach.

Eg - CR boxes or Upper Air UV

Just a reminder, COVID is NOT a respiratory virus.

Sure, it spreads thru the air.

Sure, there's almost always nose, throat & lung involvement.

Sure, it's right there in the name - "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome".

https://twitter.com/govcanhealth/status/1749945384187609471

But three wrongs don't make a right.

Covid is so much more than just a mere "respiratory" infection.

That's like saying a bazooka is a gun.

I f**king hate Covid. Covid killed my Brother-In-Law.

Suzi's dear older brother, Neil.

Saturday.

It's been a sh*tty week.

Being trapped in hospital, not being able to be there for Suzi & her family this week has been awful.

Anyone who knows me knows I f***king hate Covid.

With a passion. It's sneaky, stealthy, & 100X worse than the minimizers make it out to be.