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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

3 years

Think I'm gonna pin this to my profile today. Keep at it, Mama and Papa Bears!

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

3 years

I just want to remind you all again that no period in history where the majority of doctors, university profs, nurses, teachers were gaslit, alienated, neglected, and "othered" by the government was a good time in history.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Can someone please explain the WORST-but-plausible outcomes from the public being 'too' cautious about avoiding COVID infection right now? Like, what are minimizers afraid will happen? Too many masks in public places? Higher booster uptake? Too much fresh air?

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

You all do understand that residents of China are people, right? Beloved sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, friends to those within & outside China. An incredible scale of loss & grief is unfolding. Maybe #COVID attacks our humanity.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

I wonder how many little kids feel like crap and can't articulate it and/or do complain, but parents dismiss the complaints b/c they haven't been warned to watch for post-COVID cardiac, renal, GI, diabetic, neuro issues? 😥

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

3 years

So. Here we go. Son's grade 2 classmate has COVID. Three siblings attend the school. Classmate attended last Wed (1 hr only as first day). Fever wed night. Clinic Thu said NO TEST🤦‍♀️. Kid still sick by Sun. Took to ER. Tested there - COVID19. NO SCHOOL EXPOSURE NOTICE.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 months

"It’s a hospital, not a social club. It’s where the sickest people go" 🎯🎯🎯

lucas 🎺

@theLUCASTDS

2 months

@richardzussman There should ALWAYS be a mask mandate in hospitals. It’s wild that we ever remove it. It’s a hospital, not a social club. It’s where the sickest people go

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Outdoor patio. Young server wearing good mask (thick KF94/CAN95 ish). I complimented this. She looked like she wanted to cry. "It's b/c of school. Everyone is at school really sick. But it's Gr 12 and we can't miss anything." 😭 What the fuck are we doing to our kids??? #bced

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

1/ Met my son's new friend's mom the other day when they came over. We greeted them in our masks. Me: Excuse the masks. I'm immunocompromised. Her, sheepish: Oh, me, too. I have RA and I take immunosuppressants.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

9 months

"We encourage families to make medical appointments outside of class time. Together, we support students in developing successful, lifelong habits."😬 I ran my own business for 10 years (with employees) and was manager of other staff for 20. This is ... creepy. And ableist.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

So, I'm pretty sure I'm healthier overall at this point with 5 vaccine doses and 0 COVID infections than I would be with 5 infections or even 4 vaccine doses and 1 infection. And I can't believe this is even a debate. Sickness is not health. Ever.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

4/ She was lovely. Kind. Smart. Worried. A parent trying valiantly to do right thing & make sure her son got to be as 'normal' as possible. I don't blame her one bit. I'm just so sad. And so fucking angry at govt's & public health everywhere (they live in HK, here for summer).

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Me, dropping kids at school: So, um, call me if there seems to be a lot of pink eye, okay? Kids: Mom, you can't go to school with pink eye! Only COVID.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Indeed. Look at the list of pathogens whose transmission is reduced by masks:

Covid Pledge

@CovidPledge

1 year

ID doctors call for universal masking in healthcare. Bravo 👏👏👏 "We propose an updated standard for universal precautions in healthcare settings: permanently including universal masking in routine patient-care interactions ..... /2

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Masks. Reduce. ALL. "Respiratory". Illnesses. Including the current pandemic-causing one that has ended some athletic careers. J.F.C.

Nate Bear

@NateB_Panic

1 year

Elena Rybakina, the current Wimbledon tennis champion has just pulled out of the French open with "a respiratory illness and fever." She announced this unmasked to a room of unmasked journalists. French Open going the way of the Giro d'Italia where many dropped out with covid?

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

The cruelty of all this is crushing me today. People purposely not masking around clinically vulnerable folks. School photographer harassing my kid and making her go back to class to get note from teacher so she didn't have to take mask off.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

We have made a grave error in confusing our bodies' immune response to encountering a virus (e.g., fever, runny nose, cough) with the DISEASE caused by the virus (e.g., brain cell fusion).

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

I predict divorce rates gonna ⤴️ 1. Partners leaving new chronically ill partners 2. Parents splitting from stress of caring from kids with health issues 3. COVID neuro damage --> aggression, emotional dysregulation

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Holy fucking hell.

Patty Tobin (@[email protected];https://post.news/

@PRPAREXCEL

1 year

War on patients has begun. In MA, major h/c system says security will escort patients out if they ask for hcw to wear masks, and on site says patients cannot ask hcw to wear masks.Don't accept. You are allowed to ask for accommodations. Put it in writing to legal counsel

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

"The Public Health Agency denied or downgraded fact that children could be infectious, develop severe disease, or drive spread of infection in the population; while their internal emails indicate their aim to use children to spread infection in society"

Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

www.nature.com

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

5 months

What. The. Actual. F**k. @PsychToday

John Dupuis

@dupuisj

5 months

What are we even doing? This could well end up the stupidest article of the entire of 2024: Are We Thinking of Virus Symptoms Wrongly? Suffering through mild Covid, flu, RSV, or cold symptoms can be restorative. | Psychology Today

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

2/ Her: We masked until earlier, but it was so hard. My son was the only one left. So, we gave up. <quietly> I hope I'll be okay. 😭😭😭

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

So, both school admin assistants and the vice principal were in masks today. One of the admins was wearing a KN95 ... Really great to see! But also ... they are the only staff with inside knowledge on absentee rates & reasons 😬

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

3/ She stayed for tea. My son kept his mask on while the boys played (near field protection). Safer than school with 20 maskless kids and poor ventilation 🤷‍♀️. We are blessed with a cross-breeze. It was windy in the house. HEPAs on. We sat kitty-corner, apart, at long table.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Holy shit everyone is sick out there. Coughing, sneezing, nose blowing. It's the May Long Weekend here. The unofficial start of summer. Not known as "Everyone is usually sick" weekend.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

8 months

My son tried his best to stand his ground for school photos. The photographer said he wasn't allowed to take photos of the kids with their masks on 🤬 My son did say the photo station was fairly near a door opened to the outside, so fingers crossed. Fuck you, @VCHhealthcare

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

4 months

Is there a word for when a disease causes epidemics in multiple countries at the same time? Pan-something?

J Scotch McClure

@joshuamcclure

4 months

Measles has been brewing in Europe and it’s officially epidemic level, and spreading to American and the rest of the world.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

9 months

How about instead: We understand how hard it can be to access healthcare for your child, especially children with physical and mental health disabilities. If you need to schedule appointments during school time, we will do our best to help your child keep up! @BCEdAccess

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

5 months

“We still remember that in the second half of 2022, Luo Qi frequently reminded us that COVID-19 was just a severe cold." Renowned financial media figure Luo Qi passes away at 36 due to sudden severe pneumonia via @Dimsum Daily

Renowned financial media figure Luo Qi passes away at 36 due to sudden severe pneumonia - Dimsum...

26th December 2023 – (Shanghai) Luo Qi, a prominent figure in the financial media industry, passed away on Monday, 25th December, at the age of 36, after suffering from sudden severe pneumonia. Prior...

www.dimsumdaily.hk

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Our beautiful friend in Toronto, age 53, died suddenly in her sleep last week. No known health issues. My husband and I are devastated, but not nearly as much as her husband, who could barely speak when he called with the news. What. Are. We. Doing. 😭😭😭

David Fisman

@DFisman

2 years

“I’m caring for someone with a vascular catastrophe. They also have incidental infection with a virus that increases the risk of vascular catastrophes 20-fold during the first week of infection.” Or something

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

5 months

Wait. Did you all think that "Living With COVID" actually meant Living⭐️Without⭐️COVID??! 🤣🤣🤣😭 Jokes on you. They meant Living WITH COVID. As in your body creating a home for SARS-CoV-2 virus several times a yr. Until you die. Early. Probably after lengthy chronic illness.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

10 months

Weird. The August Flu & allergies are causing more COVID to show up in our wastewater.

CTV News Vancouver

@CTVVancouver

10 months

For the first time in months, weekly wastewater data released by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows increasing concentrations of COVID-19 at most monitored treatment plants around the province.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

We wear our masks indoors. Always. We eat outdoors. We use a CO2 meter to help gage safer spaces (which include the cinema, major mall, and ... our home). Kids are in art, piano, tennis. We try not to get - or give - COVID. This is "lockdown".

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Just to be crystal freaking clear, actuaries around the world have concluded that most of the "unaccounted" for excess deaths are due to COVID-19. This is what social-murder-as-policy looks like. #bcpoli #NewDeathParty @bcndp

Jens von Bergmann

@vb_jens

1 year

Obligatory monthly update, with today's release of StatCan's preliminary excess mortality estimates.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

4 months

My son gets his 7th teacher since Sept on Monday. 6th since Jan 6. This is fine.

Prof Kerryn Phelps AM

@drkerrynphelps

4 months

Mysterious teacher shortage!

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

9 months

"Children who caught covid-19 before they were 18 months old had a 5 to 10 times higher risk of developing the autoantibodies" 😭

Roy Doorenspleet

@DoorenspleetR

9 months

“The presence of these autoantibodies more or less means that there’s a 100 per cent path to [type 1 diabetes],” says Anette-Gabriele Ziegler at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

8 months

Could have been your story, @CBCTheNational . God knows how many of us had DMs with @ianhanomansing trying to hammer him over the head that #COVIDisAirborne and Bonnie Henry & the gang were pushing misinformation that surgical masks and freakin' handwashing were all we needed.

60 Minutes

@60Minutes

8 months

A demonstration by Prof. Linsey Marr uses mannequins and a fogger to illustrate how air circulation in a room is altered by the level of ventilation, and how that can impact the transmission of viruses like COVID.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

4 months

So, the effects of 'lockdown' are permanent and in fact escalate the more time passes since then? Do I have that right?

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 months

We are so fucked.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

4 months

Doctor's office. 6 in waiting room. 5 CAN95s. I KN95. Unmasked admin behind plexiglass. Docs in baggy blues. I will NEVER regain my trust in medicine. NEVER. Oh, maskless ignoramus just walked in

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

We are seriously prolonging this shit show because wealthy people like to play dress-up except when it involves a mask.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

This is an utterly disgusting headline. Screenshot for Exhibit 1,456,323 SARS2 Commission when we get to the part about media propaganda supporting mass infection & human rights violations against the elderly, babies, and people with disabilities. #HumanRights #COVIDisAirborne

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

I feel like I'm on a sinking boat with a bunch of drunk keg-dudes smashing more holes for fun, some expensive champagne-drunk folks in formal wear leisurely debating the impact of the holes, and a small crew of designated drivers valiantly plugging holes.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

Our piano teacher just left our home. He arrived in, kept on, and left in his well-fitting KN95. Ventilation was excellent, HEPA on near the piano. My home & our piano teacher should not have better infection control than a hospital. #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksinHealthcare

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

4 months

Every measles exposure seems to include visits to multiple medical facilities over multiple days. FIVE YEARS INTO A PANDEMIC CAUSED BY A GODDAMN AIRBORNE VIRUS - HOW ARE WE SO BAD AT THIS????????????

Jill Promoli

@jillpromoli

4 months

Ugh. Okay everyone, confirmed measles in Mississauga. Measles has an incubation period of 7-21 days. A room where someone with measles has been remains infectious for up to two hours after they've left. Please take these potential exposures seriously and click through.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

@doctorsoumya We need to prepare for large increases in cardiovascular, neurological & mental health disorders in countries affected by the #SARSCoV2 #pandemic AND URGENTLY CUT TRANSMISSION OF THIS AIRBORNE VIRUS TO PREVENT EVEN GREATER DISASTER. Fixed it for you.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

I don't understand how repeatedly infecting our doctors & nurses with SARS2, giving 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 #LongCOVID , will help to address the shortage of healthcare workers or healthcare wait times. Am I missing something?

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

3 years

I would like to spend a couple days screenshotting all the who-cares-if-kids-get-Covid crew, both professionals and complicit citizens. To show today's kids and youth as they start to battle post-Covid neurological, cardiac, resp, reproductive, etc impacts in coming years.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

6 months

Holy cow! I didn't realize @jeffgilchrist had created such a comprehensive resource:

Jeff Gilchrist

@jeffgilchrist

6 months

You can find links to all these articles on multiple social media platforms and hundreds more from throughout the pandemic along with weekly updated stats for Ottawa and Ontario, Canada here ( ) and here ( ). 8/

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

9 months

Seriously. I missed school a LOT due to sickness & specialist appointments. I remember collecting work from teachers for a friend who missed 2 wks with chicken pox. No shame, blame, snideness EVER. WTH has happened, #bced ? Who the eff are we?! School / work or die, I guess.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

11 months

Can confirm. Living in a region with endemic malaria meant mosquito nets, repellent, preventive meds. Still got malaria and even tho it was 'endemic' and I got treatment, it was truly very awful. Endemic COVID means constant risk. Yay.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

I want to know more about this guy, who clearly said "Fine. I will be part of the photo. But I'm wearing a mask and staying the hell away from Bonnie & Kieran."

Canada's CPHO

@CPHO_Canada

1 year

Great meetings with Pan-Canadian Public Health Network last week to advance joint efforts in addressing emergency response and preparedness, #ToxicDrugCrisis , #ClimateChange and Indigenous leadership in #PublicHealth .

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

"By triggering endothelial damage, coronavirus infection may cause abnormal blood clotting, ‘leaky’ vessels and reduced blood flow. These endothelial effects could have consequences from head to toe." Head. To. Toe. #heartdisease #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter #COVID19

Rae

@Sunny_Rae1

1 year

From the British Heart Foundation published yesterday - everything we’ve been warning about since 2021. Covid is NOT & never had been just a cold. It is damaging our blood vessels & ⬆️our risk of heart attacks, strokes &other CV disease. Please take care x

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

1/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: COVID-19 Awareness Week: April 3-7, 2023. In the fourth year of this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, no Canadian CMHO/PHO has yet acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne and spreads like cigarette smoke. #COVIDAwarenessWeek

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

9 months

Ovaries. They found COVID in the ovaries of a 6 year old. Do you understand what this means at a population level once we repeatedly infect all the children? Even a small % becomes a big number when applied to a huge number. OVARIES.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

In the you-can't-make-this-shit-up & we-are-never-getting-out-of-this categories My COVID+ Dad (that's a whole other 🤬💔) had an IN-PERSON appointment with his ONCOLOGIST at VGH today. My mom said they all wore masks tho. Surgical ones. Except one nurse who "had 1 like yours"

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Reminder. It's not the droplets that get you, it's the aerosols. Because physics. But where there are droplets (sneeze, barf, toilet flush, "body fluids"), there are probably aerosols. That goes for COVID and every other disease attributed to droplets.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

2 years

I don't know why so many freaked out about #COVIDisAirborne and it being too hard. Everybody wear a damn mask and go about your business (yet we failed this spectacularly). MPX, tho? Persistent on surfaces & textiles, plus aerosols? That's got me 😬😬😬

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

My son, age 7: Why are all the adults complaining about wearing a mask? I wear mine all day at school. And why don't they open windows more? It makes it safer. #COVIDisAirborne P.S. He wears a KF94. He knows how to check the fit all the way around, too!

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Why would I need separate COVID-19 travel insurance policy? Oh, and I got a quote. It costs more than the regular travel insurance, for less coverage.🤔 For those in the back, it means HIGHER risk of getting COVID and HIGHER risk of needing medical care.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

There are many jobs that require PPE, and few of them pay as well as yours. Or come with a legal duty of care. Grow the fuck up.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

New study from those wacky, hysterical economists at **checks notes** the IMF: "State mask mandates reduced new weekly COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths by 55, 11, and 0.7 per 100,000 inhabitants on average." h/t @TRyanGregory #MaskUp

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

"Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them." Disturbing investigation by the ever excellent @SrushtiGangdev @bbybeacon

Teacher Talker

@TalkerTeacher

2 years

teachers & parents knew we were being gaslit & 🖕 to everyone including people high up in our union who tried to discredit us for pointing it out #bced @bctf Dr. Henry knew of concerns over COVID-19 data & school exposures while publicly downplaying them

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@beansprouts_mom

3 months

All the kids infected with measles are gonna show up at school contagious but pre-rash, aren't they 😭

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

🚨🚨🚨 Public Service Announcement. As a parent with kids now several years past toddler / preschool age, I want to tell you IT IS NOT OKAY OR NORMAL to schlep your non-stop coughing kid everywhere. For fuck sake, help them rest & recover AT HOME.

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

I miss @lisa_iannattone on here.

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@beansprouts_mom

3 months

I shouldn't have laughed, but I did 🤭

Joshua Decter

@joshuadecter

3 months

@florian_krammer The virus mootated.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Our riskiest places are school and seeking healthcare. It is not right that those are our most dangerous places. They should be our safest. Because big humans are supposed to protect little ones.

Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

We wear our masks indoors. Always. We eat outdoors. We use a CO2 meter to help gage safer spaces (which include the cinema, major mall, and ... our home). Kids are in art, piano, tennis. We try not to get - or give - COVID. This is "lockdown".

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2 years

Excess deaths no one gives a shit about. Adult hospitals making room for pediatric overflow rather than calling for masks (Jesus, what a mark of a depraved society) Children's fever, pain relief, antibiotics shortages.

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@beansprouts_mom

10 months

I think i have cried more days than not since May 2020. Knowing most of my fellow humans, inc family and friends and colleagues and healthcare team, think I am acceptable collateral damage in their vicious quest for "Normal" has broken me.

Dr. Deepti Gurdasani

@dgurdasani1

10 months

The moral injury of considering that 90% of people wouldn't take the smallest step to protect someone else's life is huge- so if you are one of those people, and it isn't just apathy- please explain this to me. Because I don't want to live my life in a world that cares so little.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

The age group with the greatest excess mortality in Canada since the pandemic began is Newborns to 44 year olds. Children. And their parents.

I hate it here.

@anxiouscatmom

1 year

In case you think young people are less affected, while this is true in raw numbers, it's not for percentage excess mortality given that expected deaths are lower for younger age groups. From March 2020-Dec 2022, 21.4% more deaths in people under 45 occurred than expected.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

So, if I need to take my kid to ER, we get whisked to a special area with swish IAQ & masks required? If I break a leg, or need a mammogram, I get the Red Carpet SafeAir(TM) Concierge Service for the Immunocompromised? (According to Dr Jackass here👇)

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Can confirm. Not risk adverse. My previous job required I carry kidnap & ransom insurance. Was once on same day evacuation alert due to violent 'election'. Had malaria. Overnighted solo in Bogota. Attended beach rave in Guyaquil. Did business in Lima. DO NOT WANT COVID.

Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

1 year

I feel the need to reiterate that I bike in a city with suboptimal cycling infrastructure and rock climb, so let’s dispense with the notion that people who avoid Covid are excessively risk averse. We just understand the risks and prepare

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2 years

I'm so unbearably worried for my children's future health, and cannot shake the worry? fear? I dont have an adequate word. The feeling, that I won't get to live long enough to shepherd them to adulthood. Because no one cares. Well, a very few do. But not enough. Not enough. 💔

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

I still meet my son for outdoor lunch every day. When I suggested that next year, he can take his lunch outside on his own like big sis, he was sad. Turns out he loves connecting at lunch ❤️ I think we have very much mistakenly equated "socializing" with building relationships.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

"This T-cell test tells you with 95% certainty if you have previously encountered COVID-19..." Now avaliable in Alberta & Ontario 🧐

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@beansprouts_mom

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The more I think about this, the more angry & sad I get. What kind of parent can't comfort their own sick child, instead telling them they must go to school "come hell or high water"? What kind of doctor says this?! Shaming kids w/disabilities, mental health struggles, etc?

Tom Jackman

@frozen

5 months

Today, Dr. Jennifer Grant of the @CDCofBC was unambiguous about her desire to have kids in classrooms no matter the health risks to them or their families: "And we should commit that our children will go to school come hell or high water." She said the quiet part loud.

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

We have simultaneously achieved FOREVER COVID but also COVID is OVER. I am confused.

Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

1 year

"With the pandemic now in its fourth year, it is clear the virus is likely to stay with us for many years to come – if not forever." So, just to make sure this is crystal fucking clear, we are transitioning to FOREVER COVID.

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ATTENTION: PARENTS (🧵) If your child is attending a school with insufficient aerosol mitigations, here is a brief letter you can use to withdraw consent for certain activities. Copy freely! Text in thread, link to document at end. #COVIDisAirborne #SafeSchoolsCoalition

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@beansprouts_mom

10 months

From this "Several frontline medical workers in various capacities and medical settings tell CTV News that masks in particular are now hidden, often under lock and key..." to COVID-19 positive, maskless healthcare workers. How? HOW?

B.C. nurses grapple with locked safety gear and fear of exposing families to COVID-19

As more and more sick British Columbians seek medical attention for COVID-19 symptoms, many frontline healthcare workers are reporting difficulty accessing protective materials needed to keep...

bc.ctvnews.ca

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

It's not allergies, folks. It's COVID. We are heading into Omicron 1 wave levels. And, this means COVID is reaching vulnerable people AND there are re-infections. #MaskUp #bcpoli #COVIDisAirborne #bced

lower mainland wastewater covid bot

@YVRCovidPlots

1 year

Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published April 16. The most recent test was April 10. @CovidPoops19

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

The. Big. Picture. 😱

Diego Bassani, PhD

@DGBassani

1 year

@Theresa_Chapple @Saramerwin1 @DearPandemic @JoannaInNY_MPH @TheAngryEpi @aetiology @DaliaHasanMD @EpiEllie @angie_rasmussen @kprather88 @gmomthoughts @drsajumathew @TRyanGregory Yes, although I think people do not see at all at this point. Was just looking at this... the big picture looks pretty clear, right?

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

Look. At. The. Date. #cdnpoli

Dr. Mona Nemer

@ChiefSciCan

4 years

Our expert panel reviewed the role of bioaerosols and indoor ventilation in #covid19 transmission. Their report identifies short and long-term measures to help improve air quality and reduce the disease spread. Read it here:

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

If you genuinely believe that your partner is still taking action to avoid COVID infection because of anxiety, then I want to remind you decent humans do not shame, blame, abuse, attack, etc loved ones struggling with anxiety, ffs 🤬 Yes, YOU are the a-hole, not your partner.

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Teachers & education support staff refusing to mask around vulnerable kids. Parents in joint custody arrangements helpless as they watch one parent allow kids to get infected over & over. I'm just so unbearably sad at watching all this.

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Health charities gleefully hosting maskless galas that are ghoulish from health perspective & flagrantly discriminatory. Cancer & transplant & other surgery patients worried sick about acquiring COVID or flu in hospital.

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3 months

JFC. WTF. OMFG.

Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志)

@Yash25571056

3 months

WHO released an updated laboratory biosafety guidance related to COVID-19. In this interim guidance, SARS-CoV-2 is classified as a Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) agent. Moderate-risk agents such as HIV and Salmonella, are assigned to this level. This implies that modern people are no

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

So, I just write "IMMUNOCOMPROMISED" in scarlett across my mask then? Is that how this works?

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Fucccccckk. Husband has COVID. I am Clinically Extremely Vulnerable. Probably caught it from our son (although he's negative on RAT) who caught it AT SCHOOL of course. Fuck you @bcndp , @dave_eby , @JM_Whiteside @adriandix

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@beansprouts_mom

10 months

"I’ve been a children’s rights advocate my whole life and never imagined that trying to protect children from repeated, forced, infections with a level-three biohazard known to cumulatively harm them would be deemed controversial." Me, either.😥

Conor Browne

@brownecfm

10 months

1. Another outstanding piece by Irish journalist Tess Finch-Lees in today's Irish Independent (non-paywalled link in third tweet). 'Platforming ‘experts’ pathologising compassion and rational fear isn’t helping. Fear is a self-preserving emotion, enabling us to detect and...

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@beansprouts_mom

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@TheRMH Merry Christmas from the other side of the world, where the kindness, scientific literacy, and ethics shown in this photo made my throat catch ♥️ #CovidIsAirborne #FluIsAirborne #DutyOfCare

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

My son (7) and his friend are in basement, screeching w/ joy as they play video games (post-Lego). Both wearing KF94s. The windows are open - CO2 < 600 ppm, HEPA on. Safety doesn't mean total isolation. Science + creativity + compassion. We can do this, people. #COVIDisAirborne

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

As we struggle trying to make safe holiday plans with family again this year, I can't help but wonder about a parallel universe, where the early 2020 speech from leaders went like this:

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

"The Public Health Agency was systematically incorrect in their risk assessments, & ignored scientific evidence on suppression strategies, airborne transmission, pre-symptomatic & asymptomatic spread, face masks, children & COVID-19, “long-COVID”" #bcpoli

Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

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@beansprouts_mom

1 year

I don't understand why I am the only one on the beautiful patio outside this café. There is birdsong, even. Everone's like "Must. Be. Normal. And. Stay. Indoors."

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@beansprouts_mom

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Hey, any ideas why Gov of 🇨🇦 says to wear a respirator to prevent infecting your pet if you have COVID? If it protects your pet, I wonder if it protects other humans in your house? Oh 💡. What if the other humans wore respirators, too?!

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I wonder if some of resistance to masks, esp. to respirator-style ones we are supposed to be wearing to protect against an AIRBORNE RG3 BIOPATHOGEN (ffs) is because PPE is seen as 'blue collar'. Mining, welding, construction, factories, etc.

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@beansprouts_mom

2 years

Was there ever a point in HIV education where public health officials advised only wear a condom if it's comfortable and it's okay to choose a leaky one? @CDCofBC @CDCgov #bonniehenry @CDCDirector #COVIDisAirborne

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@beansprouts_mom

8 months

What. Have. We. Done 😱 Infection-acquired seroprevalence in children: Ages 12-19: 82.2% (95% CI: 77.4 to 87.0) Ages 2-4: 79.4% (95% CI: 65.8 to 93.0) Ages 5-11: 76.3% (95% CI: 70.7 to 81.9).

COVID-19 Immunity Task Force

@COVIDimmunityTF

8 months

Our Seroprevalence in Canada page has been updated with data to August 31: results from > 20 studies show infection-acquired seroprevalence in Canada was stable at 77.4%. Also, new estimates on seroprevalence in children and teens are now available.

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Interesting chat w/ new hair stylist today. He credits his HIV PrEP w/ helping him dodge COVID at party early 2020 where 48 of 50 tested pos (😲) and clearing recent 1st COVID fast. Anecdotally, sees gay men on PrEP faring better than other friends. Any epi-data on this yet?

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The number of excess deaths age 0-44 in 🇨🇦 haunts me, too. What. Are. We. Doing 😱

I hate it here.

@anxiouscatmom

7 months

Here is percentage excess mortality for each age group. (i.e. weekly deaths as a percentage above/below the number expected) The 0-44 chart haunts me. Note the differing y axis scale between charts.

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