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Amanda Hu
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An artist who likes talking about clean air. She/her. My tweets only represent my views. Profile pic: @stwatson2 Banner: @calgaryhester
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Oct 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My regular reminder to public health officials that denying the harms of COVID infections and obvious increase in post-viral sequelae leaves a wide open space that is filled with misinfo about the vaccines. You are spawning more antivaxxers every day people aren’t told the truth. Facebook groups, parent meetups, WhatsApp chats are filled with people trying to understand why they’re experiencing nerve damage, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular issues, and DBH et al are still going on the news saying that Covid infection may even be good for you.
Oct 12 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Further to this: I fully acknowledge that it’s probably really hard for a lot of people to think about Covid being worse than the general consensus because a lot of people were really, really scared of Covid. They think masks don’t work so in their minds, there is NO hope. So what would you do if you have no hope? You give up. It’s a lot easier position in some ways to be in to understand how something scary works and have it demystified to just a problem to solve. And damage has been done for some people, and there isn’t yet a way to reverse it.
Oct 5 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“People wear masks to hide their identity.” Firstly, this is their right. Secondly, wearing it just to hide your identity isn’t effective. I am now an automatic regular at any store I’ve been to more than twice because I’m “the mask lady”. It’s my identifiable characteristic I asked the manager a cat food question at a petvalu and the second time I was there weeks later, she was like, “How are your two kitties liking that chicken and pumpkin food?”
Sep 28 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
One of the things about being knowledgeable and informed about science is that it doesn’t mean a lot if our societies are run by people who aren’t or don’t believe in consulting those who do know. Or worse: actively work against scientific understanding Living in Alberta, I know how this goes. I know that fossil fuels are accelerating our path to unlivable world, protections against infectious disease based in understanding of physics and occupational hygiene are important and that abortions and gender affirming care save lives
Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It’s fascinating to see the ways in which our society enforces individualism by using social pressure and conformity, which seems paradoxical on its face. I’ve seen it in the pressure from teachers on kids and parents for them to “stop wearing a mask so you’ll fit in” 1/ Wearing a mask is an act of service to the people around us and a way to be accountable to our commitments by ensuring we can attend and learn. It shows that we think about how we impact others and they impact us. People with these traits often make good friends
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Sep 1 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A teacher friend has informed me that a teacher FB group is lighting up on a post about a parent donating an air purifier because they remove *Bath and Body Works/AXE/other middle essence body sprays* and vape smells. It’s got thousands of likes and the teachers all want one 👀👀 This is the new angle, clean air advocates
Aug 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Doctors, you agree that a stay in the ICU, with intubation, sedation, everything else that goes along with that severity of illness takes an immense toll on the body, right? So why are patients who start to recover allowed to get covid in the hospital and then have to go back? Why are patients receiving receiving chemotherapy, radiation, immunosuppressants exposed to covid during their treatments in hospital and in community when they're already enduring this level of suffering to survive?
Aug 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is terrible and horrifying. And this post is indicative of what I’m noticing lately: as a person who follows a lot of people for different reasons, the folks I follow for reasons other than covid are now talking about their covid experiences. Also a reminder that all of our struggles are linked. When we see the oppression and violence in other places, driven by colonialism and funded by our govts, and then see the ways in which we’ve been failed here, it starts to make a lot of sense why we must connect our resistance
Aug 21 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I find the horseshoeing of antivaxxers and covid aware people fascinating. One side is like, “Here is where to find apple-flavoured horse paste. Viruses were never real” and the other side is, “This @StatCan_eng report shows prevalence of long-term symptoms is 34% after 3 infxns” “The vaccines have mind control microchips in them! Don’t comply!”
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“The scientific consensus is that COVID-19 is a neurodegenerative and vascular disease due to its affinity to bind to ACE2 receptors, which are found throughout the body”
Aug 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I need someone to explain this to me: the concern was that mandating masks would reduce the confidence that things higher on the hierarchy of controls were not effective. Well, let’s see:

They did not eliminate SARS-CoV-2 from workplaces, so that level is infective 1/
Diagram showing “hierarchy of controls” from most to least effective: Elimination Substitution Engineering controls Administrative controls PPE They couldn’t replace SARS-CoV-2 with a less harmful virus, so Substitution is ineffective 2/ Image
Aug 12 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I don’t know why, but today I’ve been thinking about the bad faith politicians who claim, falsely, that healthcare is failing because of the HCWs who couldn’t work due to vaccine mandates while nobody in power stands up for the HCWs who can’t work and are disabled by long COVID Colleges, associations and medical leaders are mostly silent on this, while I know so many excellent doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals who are devastated to not be able to help patients because they are too sick themselves
Aug 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It’s so wild to me that the Tokyo Olympics were postponed and held without audiences because everyone was concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on athletes and visitors and then this time they just weren’t worried about it. So a bunch of athletes and visitors just got COVID-19. In 2021, vaccines were widely available, people wore masks, but new variants continued to circulate. Now in 2024, vaccines are less available, people don’t wear masks, so many more new variants are circulating and we know more much more about the bad long-term impacts.
Jul 31 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
I think it's time to write an explainer about air quality ratings and what they actually mean!

This will detail:
1. Particulate counts
2. US Air Quality Index (AQI)
3. Canada's Air Quality Health Index (AQHI)
4. What this actually means for our health
🧵 1. Particulate counts
PM2.5 refers to tiny particles equal to or less than 2 microns (μm) in diameter. These are very tiny particles that are so small that they can get stuck deep in your lungs. Measuring the amount in a space can be shown in µg/m³ or ppm. graphic showing a particulate size comparison between PM10 (<10 μm), a human hair (50-70 μm) and PM2.5 (<2.5 μm)
Jul 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reminders:
- Kids don’t need to get sick to be healthy
- Viruses are bad. They can cause damage to our bodies+long-term issues
- The need you think kids have, to get exposed to germs to teach their immune system, is what vaccines are for
- COVID is worse than many other viruses This was prompted by a convo I had with a friend’s family member today when she asked me about my mask and why my friend’s family wears them. We had spent chatted a bit before about music and her being a band teacher and I showed her how to cool her townhouse with multiple fans.
Jun 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Something I learned by getting to know people over the past year and them getting to know me is that people who don’t pay attention to Covid or the climate crisis or any of the other existential concerns we face are extremely concerned about stuff that I never worry about 1/ People are worried their kids getting abducted inside indoor recreation facilities, homeless people being dangerous, sunscreen toxins, not being able to to find camp for their kids over the summer, whether their kitchen renovation will still be on trend 2/
May 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder that McKinsey also came up with “economic endemicity” aka the “move to endemic” and other such rhetorical tools for the manufactured end of COVID. That’s why there’s now always more COVID than “during COVID”
McKinsey helping governments “solve” their pandemic spending problems with justifications for the end of COVID protections was just another part of their role in marginalizing the working class for the benefit of their corporate clients
Apr 30 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I feel like the escalation of H5N1 is going exactly how you’d expect after capitalism won over common sense with COVID and our public health social contracts were destroyed: Farmers hiding their animals’ sickness, no willingness to use PPE, ID experts saying, “It’s inevitable” No clear communication on infection control as the WHO and others are tied in knots to try and avoid saying “airborne” and people know govts won’t provide a sufficient cushion if they have to take a huge loss due to culling. Because they hung people out to dry last time
Mar 25 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This woman’s only known diagnoses are autism and ADHD. She was assessed for MAiD 4 times by 5 doctors and now has been given approval. This is a really concerning situation. She stated her death was “reasonably foreseeable” but was approved for Track 2. From a previous story: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

"As it stands, AHS [Alberta Health Services] operates a MAID system with no legislation, no appeal process and no means of review," wrote Miller in her brief for the court.
Miller also pointed out that on her initial MAID application, M.V. indicated her death had become "reasonably foreseeable" yet she was approved as a "track 2" MAID patient, which means death is not reasonably foreseeable. "Therefore M.V. is not a reliable witness," wrote Miller in her brief. Feasby heard that two doctors were initially approached by M.V. One agreed to sign off on approving her for MAID, the other denied the application. A third "tie-breaker" doctor, as described by lawyers for Alberta Health Services, was then offered to the patient, ...
Feb 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“Now that we’re post-pandemic…” ❌


1/ salon.com/2024/01/04/lea…
WHO leader says COVID-19 is "still a pandemic" A World Health Organization leader says she is worried people are still too eager to move on from COVID By NICOLE KARLIS Senior Writer PUBLISHED JANUARY 4, 2024 5:15AM (EST) “Now that Covid is over…” ❌


2/ today.com/health/news/co…
The US is starting 2024 in its second-largest COVID surge ever, experts say With the U.S. in the middle of a COVID surge, it's time to make sure you're vaccinated and return to masking, experts say.
Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve had a lot followers over the past few months make some variation of the comment, “I appreciate your work on Covid but you are wrong about supporting Palestine.” Let me be clear again: I support Palestine for the same reasons I fight for Covid protections. 1/ Captialist/colonialist forces (which are inherently interlinked) push us to view the elimination of certain people as necessary to our collective survival, when it is really that it is necessary for capitalism and the hegemonic colonial powers’ survival 2/
Feb 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This needs to be emphasized that 1/3 of the experts didn’t see *Fake Study, Hanlen et al 2022* as a 🚩LOL. Many folks, in medicine especially, base their understanding of emerging issues on rapid/syst reviews and the interpretations of the literature by rapid review authors. 1/ Another good example of the concern with systematic reviews is the infamous Cochrane Review on N95s where several researchers have noted that the conclusions did not reflect the available evidence 2/scientificamerican.com/article/masks-…