Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

10yo was confused at bedtime bc his friends at school say global warming isn’t going to be a problem for millions of years & “global cooling will balance everything out anyway.” 🤔

As a scientist who has been working on #ClimateChange #science & challenges for >20yrs, it’s a very local reminder that we still have so much work to do.

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 🥳🙌

@girls_can might be the middle one was more prone to rot, or the roots were not so established.
Get rid of the middle one and keep going as you were with the others.
Watering from below is a game changer for houseplants.
Though cacti & succulents can get by with less water all together.