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Michael Burjack

@MichaelBurjack

Find me @michael.burjack.com where skies are blue.

 Calgary, Alberta
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Joined March 2010
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Fio (@fiothenerd) profile picture
Fio@fiothenerd21 Jan 2025
Reminder: Sweden never closed nurseries, pre-schools and primary schools during the Pandemic. Whooping cough in the Stockholm : 2023: 52 2024: 844 "According to the Public Health Agency, the increase is due to an immunity debt after the pandemic..." svtplay.se/video/KqPbgMG/lok…
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charlos@loscharlos24 Jan 2025
“Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University said that they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections.” #LongCovid
Screenshot of an article headline from Japan Times reading, “Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections” Date: January 23, 2025

ALT Screenshot of an article headline from Japan Times reading, “Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections” Date: January 23, 2025

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Even his books are fake.
Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) profile picturePierre Poilievre
@PierrePoilievre6 Jan 2025
Nothing has changed. Every Liberal MP and Leadership contender supported EVERYTHING Trudeau did for 9 years, and now they want to trick voters by swapping in another Liberal face to keep ripping off Canadians for another 4 years, just like Justin. The only way to fix what Liberals broke is a carbon tax election to elect common sense Conservatives who will bring home Canada's promise: conservative.ca/cpc/call-for…
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Michael Burjack retweeted
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Trevor Tombe
@trevortombe17 Dec 2024
The more I think about this, the more I think accounting practices related to such liabilities needs to change. Big swings in the deficit for reasons that have not yet occurred is … problematic. At the very least for the public understanding of public finances.
Trevor Tombe (@trevortombe) profile pictureTrevor Tombe
@trevortombe16 Dec 2024
With all the goings on, there's probably no interest in why the 2023-24 deficit grew from $40B to $62B. Just in case: ~75% due to contingent liabilities related to Indigenous rulings/awards; rest due to lower tax revenues. Details: budget.canada.ca/update-mise… #cdnecon #cdnpoli
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"You don't know it's COVID!" 2 weeks ago wastewater data concentrations of COVID-19 were between 15-50x higher than RSV, Influenza A&B. With a new surge beginning these numbers are already much higher. Flu A: ~10 Flu B: ~2.5 RSV: ~10 COVID: ~250 ⬅ 25x more COVID than Flu A.
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Not only when they had the chance, but when they promised to do it almost 10 years ago!
Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 (@FairVoteCanada) profile pictureFair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁@FairVoteCanada16 Dec 2024
Sounds like a certain Prime Minister should've ended first-past-the-post when they had the chance.
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Michael Burjack retweeted
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Hanner@GangstHannah17 Dec 2024
Explain why we can't still blame Covid when it's still running rampant in schools and every public place ever? Vibes isn't a reason to dismiss the no.1 cause of death among children when it comes to infectious diseases. Covid also causes brain damage. Stop with the denial ffs!!
Yennifer 🇭🇳 (@queenyennifer_) profile pictureYennifer 🇭🇳@queenyennifer_16 Dec 2024
Replying to @queenyennifer_
& the list goes on. We can no longer blame Covid. The phones, the internet access, social media, Ai, lack of parental awareness, lack of accountability, lack of educational autonomy is the issue.
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Amanda Hu@amandalhu17 Dec 2024
UCP’s like “yeah we def can’t have wind turbines obstruct views but also let’s stick a giant huge tunnel through all of downtown, including through buildings that are already being built!”
Beltline Neighbourhoods Association (@yycbeltline) profile pictureBeltline Neighbourhoods Association@yycbeltline16 Dec 2024
📸EXCLUSIVE: Images of the disastrous elevated #GreenLineYYC alignment through Beltline and Downtown. ➡️beltlineyyc.ca/elevated_gree… ℹ️The BNA has generated images of the proposed 10th Ave elevated alignment using imagery from the elevated West LRT. ⚠️WARNING: It's ugly. 🧵..
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Dr. Luanne Metz@luanne_metz16 Dec 2024
Albertans are asking for better from this Government. Instead, the UCP insists that we should have the lowest minimum wage in the country.
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If you are trying to compare SARS-CoV-2 to other viruses, you shouldn't. Al-Aly was skeptical of his own data. That one virus can cause this much mayhem all over the body. He kept running the data, and it always came back the same.
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Warren Gunnels
@GunnelsWarren4 Dec 2024
If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law in 2022, Elon Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, no one making $250,000 or less would've paid a penny more in taxes, benefits would have gone up by $2,400 a year & Social Security would be solvent for 75 years.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) profile pictureElon Musk
@elonmusk3 Dec 2024
Interesting thread
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Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
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Still have it in us. # 1 on Trip Advisor for Restaurants in Mississauga. Not bad by nearly 2000 in the City. #CleanAir definitely played a role in it.
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We have a winner today.
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Michael Burjack retweeted
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Gator⚡Gum
@gator_gum4 Dec 2024
I didn't really love Stephen Harper. However, never once during his time in office did I hate Canada, cheer for it to fail, or wish the US would take us over. They level of stupidity and fake patriotism is beyond comprehension.
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charlos@loscharlos3 Dec 2024
One of the best reads of the year from @MattMcGorry “The science is really clear getting Covid over & over again is not good for anyone. It feels like where the climate movement was 10 years ago, where scientists were saying things & people were not really listening.” #LongCovid
Screenshot of an article headline from the Guardian reading “‘Well actually I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid.” Date: Monday, December 2, 2024

ALT Screenshot of an article headline from the Guardian reading “‘Well actually I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid.” Date: Monday, December 2, 2024

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tern
@1goodtern3 Dec 2024
In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it. It's official policy. They write it down and everything. Since then...
Multiple infections showing huge spikes since 2021 And they're not all coming down.

ALT Multiple infections showing huge spikes since 2021 And they're not all coming down.

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I find the section in the screen shot particularly interesting. Basically it show's that children with long COVID have cells that aren't as capable of neutralizing S. aureus. (one of the bacteria's responsible for pneumonia)
Post 🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ ‪@dcrinyyc.bsky.social‬ Here's a study I haven't read before. I find the section in the screen shot particularly interesting. Basically it show's that children with long COVID have cells that aren't as capable of neutralizing S. aureus. (one of the bacteria's responsible for pneumonia) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus is impaired in LCS neutrophils Pooled human serum-opsonized, green fluorescence protein-expressing S. aureus bacteria were phagocytosed for 20 min, and kinetics of phagocytosis was measured. We found that the percentage of phagocytosing PMN cells was significantly decreased in the LCS group compared to the control group (Fig. 5a). Evaluating the number of phagocytosed bacteria of the cells that did phagocytose, which is proportional to the green fluorescence intensity within the gate of the phagocytosing PMN cells, we found no difference compared to the control (Fig. 5b). After performing a nonlinear regress

ALT Post 🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ ‪@dcrinyyc.bsky.social‬ Here's a study I haven't read before. I find the section in the screen shot particularly interesting. Basically it show's that children with long COVID have cells that aren't as capable of neutralizing S. aureus. (one of the bacteria's responsible for pneumonia) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus is impaired in LCS neutrophils Pooled human serum-opsonized, green fluorescence protein-expressing S. aureus bacteria were phagocytosed for 20 min, and kinetics of phagocytosis was measured. We found that the percentage of phagocytosing PMN cells was significantly decreased in the LCS group compared to the control group (Fig. 5a). Evaluating the number of phagocytosed bacteria of the cells that did phagocytose, which is proportional to the green fluorescence intensity within the gate of the phagocytosing PMN cells, we found no difference compared to the control (Fig. 5b). After performing a nonlinear regress

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Actor Tilda Swinton was unable to get out of bed for three weeks due to a SARS-CoV-2 infection. “I was coughing like an old gentleman who smoked a pipe for 70 years, and had nasty vertigo,” Tilda said. “... the worst thing is how it affected my brain.” #LongCOVID #pwLC 🧵🧵🧵
Image from Long COVID Foundation (@LongCFoundation)
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Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz4 Dec 2024
The leader of the World Health Organization logging on to post this offensively ableist garbage on top of everything else happening this week is so bleak.
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