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

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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
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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.

So this was an interesting bit of news from PHAC today. 🇨🇦

Invasive Strep A was 40% higher in 2023 than ever before.

Of course it's due to Covid.

More & more opportunistic infections are happening.

More will emerge over time.

The question is, how much & how fast? We don't have the data in this article & graph to know what the Invasive Strep A case numbers were in 2021 & 2022.

We are only in Year 1 of the impact of the fallout from The Great Unmasking™️

That's right

Up until Jan 2022, only 5% had been infected with Covid 🇨🇦

Then we decided to "let 'er rip"

"Live with the virus"

"Freedom"

By Dec 2022, almost 80% had been infected Throughout the pandemic we have had increases in deaths, opportunistic infections, co-infections, Long Covid, HCW shortages, hospitalizations, tripledemics, etc.

And continued mutation of SARS2.

Including next level jumps like Omicron & Pirola.

I had a chat w ChatGPT today about Public Health, ethics, politics, what's going wrong with pandemic management, etc.

Our exchange ended with the following: ChatGPT:

"Your observation about the influence of individuals with narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic traits in leadership positions is an important and often-discussed topic in psychology and sociology.

Here are some key points to consider:

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FFS

Candida auris was already growing exponentially around the world in the BeforeTimes™️, spread primarily thru hospitals.

Covid / Long Covid will supercharge growth rate.

Pour gasoline on the fire.

https://twitter.com/amethystarlight/status/1745585444710912120

Numbers are still low.

But that's the thing with exponential growth.

The numbers are always low until they're not.

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What's 50% Asymptomatic & 100% Airborne?

Covid What's "The gift that keeps on giving" of today?

Covid

IPAC is not going to lead us to masking.

The cavalry is not coming.

😢

https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/1735765943559602356

They have decidedly decided to not take a stand.

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