Anche @Anche@qoto.org

Professor Tara Moriarty: 1 in 38 people in "British Columbia" infected with #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVID19BC

You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

This reporter is in the #CTVNews Vancouver newsroom the next two evenings hosting the 11:30 newscast for BC’s night owls 📺

You can watch my entire interview with Dr. Bonnie Henry where we discuss the growth of the Covid “kraken” subvariant in BC, Paxlovid, and her lower profile here: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/it-is-a-concern-12-cases-of-xbb-1-5-covid-19-variant-found-in-b-c-1.6217823

@eatonhamilton "Many of us have encountered this attitude daily over the last few years. It’s infuriating. We’ve tried to get those around us to take various threats seriously, whether it’s the coronavirus or climate change. Our friends and family wave us off. It leaves us feeling isolated and unbalanced, wondering if we’re the ones with the problem. We’re not, and normalcy bias shows just how weird people act in the face of threats. Most of the time, they’re predisposed to shrug it off."

New poll shows once again that most people support mask mandates.

Support for mask mandates is particularly strong in communities of color.

#BringBackMasks #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

I just heard that my drawing of a barn owl got a bronze award at an international juried art exhibition. I am a little over the moon. It’s my first ever art award :) Credit is due to Bonny Snowdon for the tutorial and Otterly Wildlife Photography for the reference photo. #ColouredPencils #WildlifeArt #BirdArt

Please boost this if you still haven’t gotten #covid

If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]

Twitter suspends Mastodon's account, making a good case for Mastodon • TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodon-twitter-account-over-elonjet-tracking/

@greg_travis Three people I know who had been careful until they weren’t anymore got #Covid in the last three weeks. This is going to be the hardest wave yet, because those of us who know #CovidIsNotOver and are still treating this virus with the respect it deserves are more isolated than ever.

For a week, I’ve been chasing the BCCDC to find out how many have died from respiratory viruses since Sept, broken down by virus type and age
They said they’d reply but are now ignoring me

Yesterday, doctors were told 6 kids in BC have died from flu -but health officials who spoke hours earlier didn’t say a word
Why keep British Columbians in the dark? 1/2
#bcpoli #canpoli #vancouver #bc
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/flu-blamed-for-deaths-of-6-children-across-b-c-in-recent-weeks-doctors-told-1.6183901

1st study: COVID vs Flu - compare

📌N= 7,082 hospitalized pts 50/50 COVID vs. Flu & Matched at baseline
📌COVID patients had 5-10 times more ventilators, shock
📌In-hospital death was 10x ⬆️ in C-19 (30% vs 3%)
📌Kidney failure 12% ⬆️ in COVID

#Vaxx for both!

bit.ly/3UbA8QR

2nd study: see pics
Patients w cancer & COVID-19 (2021)

N= 366,050

📍When compared to Flu, COVID pts had same baseline illnesses but much worse outcomes
📍Patients w cancer need #Boosters & other prevention

Meanwhile over at bird site everything is fine.

Bonnie Henry be like

No need to dream anymore. This can be done.
But it takes will, priority and funding
And debunking the delusion that we're done with #SARSCoV2
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.372.6539.227
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00340-4

It might make more sense to straight up call for a respirator mandate instead of a mask mandate.

"Mask" isn't clear enough, isn't good enough. And nobody will be able to point to failed respirator mandates as an excuse either.

#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #CovidIsAirborne

Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
@jljcolorado

has arrived in Mastodon. Incredible. Welcome!

You will find alot of familiar names already here.