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#Science #Masks4All
Ask your local dentist, dental hygienist, surgeon, nurse, etc.
And watch the vid below.
#WearTheMask
#Mask
#WearAMask
#Masks
#WearADamnMask
#WearTheDamnMask
#COVID19
#StopTheSpread
#Please
#ThankYou
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks youtu.be/eAdanPfQdCA
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4imQyUu
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Since Doug Ford came into power in 2018, Homelessness has increased by 25% across Ontario.
Since Chow came to power in Toronto, Homelessness decreased by 8% in the City.
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Health insurance data in Germany show people infected with Covid who develop long Covid experience 46.1 sick days in the year after infection.
The delta vs acute-only Covid: +26.5.
That’s ~18% of the year lost to preventable illness + an increased chronic disease burden.
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Economic Burden of Post-COVID Syndrome in Germany Between 2021 and 2025: A Statutory Health Insurance Claims Data Analysis. jheor.org/article/170196-eco…
This.
Please get out and vote today Toronto!
#Toronto
#Election
#ElectionDay
#Election2026
#TOPoli
#ONPoli
Hand sanitizer is helpful if you are planning to stick your fingers in your mouth or nose or rub your eyes.
I sometimes wonder if people think airborne viruses are absorbed through the skin. (Spoiler: airborne pathogens are in the air & you breathe them.)
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Torontonians are still living in John Tory's mess.
He was administratively incompetent not to mention, corrupt.
He doubled down on the failed policies of Rob Ford that drove the poor into unhoused despair in favour of low taxes and luxury housing for the ultra rich, plus a fucked up transit plan that was literally designed on a napkin.
That's one hell of a mess.
It will take at least 10 years to get Toronto back on track toward a livable future.
Brad has spent this whole campaign blaming Olivia for the giant mess he helped create with John Tory.
A candidate who's entire message is lie after lie after lie will be a disaster as Mayor.
Olivia deserves your trust with your vote.
Please do the right thing, Torontonians, and re-elect Olivia!
#topoli
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
I am not a huge Chow fan either. I genuinely like her as a person, I think she’s a work in progress as a mayor, and I’ve been disappointed.
But! I live in Bradford’s ward, and I have seen enough to know he’s solely about himself and I don’t trust him. Can’t vote for him.
3 week quarantine now starting for Ugandan citizens, but should be for any traveller entering Uganda:
reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Canadian PM Mark Carney told the NYT in September that he wanted to "diversify away from Starlink." A scant few weeks later, the Musk/Trump/Starlink cartel f*cked Ukraine to serve Putin. Carney - speaking frankly - now says replacing and even banning Starlink is now top priority.
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COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms | Science | AAAS share.google/yLPLIwV5PMTooqS…
Ugandan airports need to prevent passengers from boarding aircraft in Uganda if they’ve been to the DRC in the previous ~3 weeks.
Could Nigeria and Kenya’s first Ebola cases in this outbreak be linked?
Both patients passed through Uganda’s Entebbe airport on 3 October.
Africa CDC is investigating possible contact or shared facilities, but says no link has been established. bbc.in/4dT4tjQ
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BREAKING: Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed that Kushner promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10 billion before ultimately placing at least $2 billion into accounts for him, according to a Vanity Fair excerpt from Princes and Thieves.
The revelation lands as Kushner remains deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, while Tehran has separately accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation.
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Turns out macrodosing on an airborne neurovascular virus for over half a decade does have some consequences after all. ada.com/covid/covid-19-sympt…
ALT How does COVID impact male genitalia? There are a few theories on how COVID-19 can cause problems with male genitalia. Researchers from Northwestern University made a surprising discovery last year when they used a PET scan to locate sites of COVID-19 infection in monkeys. They found that the COVID virus had infiltrated the entire male genital tract, including the testicles, prostate, and penis. This led them to conclude that the testicular pain, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, reduced sperm count, and fertility issues linked to COVID-19 are not secondary effects of fever or inflammation but rather a direct result of the virus infecting cells in the male reproductive system. 4
The steady decline of the U.S. fertility rate continued last year with another record low, according to a new report from the CDC. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
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Interesting to see this in writing, but it was obvious it was heading this direction via chronic infections.
Covid is evolving to avoid even more of the inbuilt immune responses.
Expect more and more chronic infection.
In new study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved decreased inherent antigenicity in humans, as quantified by a ~3-fold decrease in the number of naïve human B cells that can bind the spike RBD.
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.15.…
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Well, well, well…
For the record, the whole “Covid will evolve to become milder & more benign over time” thing was always a lie.
This raises a lot of concerning questions. I would like to once again point out we have no idea what we are doing.
This is a very interesting study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. It suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be evolving in a way that makes it increasingly difficult for the human immune system to recognize the virus in the first place—not simply harder for existing antibodies to neutralize it.
So now one has to wonder whether if fewer naïve human B cells can recognize an evolved virus, will the vaccines even work? Will they have a difficult time recruiting genuinely new B-cell specificities?
Doesn't this seem like an issue worth considering @FDADrugs @FDA @CDC @NIHDirector_Jay?
Link to paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
There are so many things to say but at the very least, at the VERY LEAST…. if you must be out in public while sick … please please please please please…
wear a mask to reduce chances of transmission of WHATEVER airborne pathogen plagues you.
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
NEW: Former tourism minister Stan Cho, who resigned from Premier Ford's cabinet after facing criticism for spending thousands on Toronto hotel rooms despite living in the city, has been named parliamentary assistant to Education Minister Paul Calandra. #onpoli
