Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Merry Christmas!

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #gingerbread #covid #covid19 @novid

@girls_can Congratulations!

#COVID19, privilege, and our duty to protect others. STUDY of infants finds “Incidence was 7× higher during the Omicron versus the pre-Delta period. The cumulative case hospitalization rate was 4.1%. For every 74 hospitalized infants, one death occurred.” And in a nation that is 60% white, 62% of infant deaths were non-white.

Because of low infant vax rates (<5%), waning adult immunity & normal behaviors, “infant COVID-19 will remain a persistent public health problem.”

https://journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/9900/epidemiology_of_covid_19_in_infants_in_the_united.675.aspx

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

Just popping in to say we're on day 14 of an emergency hospital stay for a family member which has already included the efforts of cardiologists, neurologists, infection specialists, respirologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a nutrionist, a speech language pathologist, nurse practitioners, nurses and personal care assistants - and the ONLY money we've spent has been on family cab fares & food court visits. Praise be to socialized medicine; support #Ontario #healthcare 🏥​

U.S. COVID levels are higher today than during 90% of the pandemic

(Source: @michael_hoerger)

COVID test supplier received billions in pandemic contracts after submitting edited results

Global News
December 21, 2023
By Patti Sonntag

“This apparent flaw meant the test kit was more likely to produce false-negative results which, many experts said, put Canadian lives at risk.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/10183219/covid-test-supplier-canada/

#BTNX #Canada #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #RapidTests #SARSCoV2

It's weird to me that Musk is CEO of like 5 companies and no one has drawn the conclusion that CEO is an incredibly easy job that shouldn't pay anywhere near as much as it does

The #Trudeau govt gives $471 Million to Toronto to build affordable housing while the #DougFord govt of Ontario, which is solely CONSTITUTIONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HOUSING, sits back whining about being blocked from building millionaires' homes in the Greenbelt and does SFA. Did you expect anything else?
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-toronto-c-471-million-160332818.html

The U.S. is banning old-growth logging. Why can’t we?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/22/analysis/us-banning-old-growth-logging-why-cant-we?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Canada's National Observer
https://flipboard.com/@natobserver/canada-s-national-observer-3fli7fiuz?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"In typical Fordian fashion, the premier is celebrating another important calendar date with a folksy video centred around a sugary confection, jokingly comparing these house-shaped holiday confections with real, urgently needed housing."

#DougFord #ontario #toronto #canada

https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2023/12/doug-ford-gingerbread-houses-holiday-message/

Misallocating resources to air capture makes the planet hotter. The only winners are the recipients of the subsidies and the builders of the boondoggles
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/direct-air-capture-an-expensive-dangerous-distraction-from-real-climate-solutions/?utm_source=SocialShare

This marshy area was partially frozen, making for incredible broken blue and gold reflections of the late solstice sun.

#solstice #sun #reflections

Happy Thursday! Here’s a pic of the lone tree on the mountain top 😍 i hope you all have a great day 🥳🙌

Why I prefer Star Trek.

Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful and visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... and The Other One.

Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now & dotes on her mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/