Kevin Ball 🇨🇦

quoth the cuckoo

all who of course extend far beyond america

my partner & i were subject to an RTOM in ‘22, the same year as this employee. we applied for fully remote work (which we’d been successfully doing for 2 years) on preventative grounds: our infant son was too young to be vaxxed.

we were similarly denied & forced to resign.

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glad she got a settlement. but it should never have come to this. you can’t put a price on health, and her employer robbed her of hers—indefinitely. for what? a senseless policy.

return-to-office (RTO) mandates in an era of unmitigated COVID are a violation of workers’ right to refuse unsafe work.

this was incredible to read six years on, thanks! (re)posted on linkedin with a h/t to you. unbelievable he wrote this a month into the pandemic 🙏🏼

Julio is the author of the new book, Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! — now available from Avid Reader Press at Simon & Schuster, chosen to be the Barnes & Noble "Pick of the Month" for August 2024. Oliver Burkeman, modern sage and NYT-bestselling author, called it "simultaneously hilarious and deadly serious." Julio was nominated for an Audie Award from the Audio Publishers Association for voicing the audiobook. [highlight mine] *The book is a follow-up to Julio's viral essay "Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting” [end highlight]

pardon my redundancy lol 😅

NPI = non-pharmaceutical intervention…

IE, masking, cleaning the air, ventilating as is appropriate, testing before gatherings, etc.

we have the tools to stop the spread of things like the ongoing, mass-disabling #covid pandemic.

we just have to actually use them!

👍🏼 *vaccine + NPI interventions-preventable 😷🧀

This (2020) is fascinating to read now:
"What is about to be unleashed on American society will be the greatest campaign ever created to get you to feel normal again. It will come from brands...from government...from each other...from the left and from the right."

archive.is/uiC06

i’m so sorry

see: the nytimes op-eds on COVID lab leak conspiracies, esp. the featuring of alina chan

Happy Sunday all! MORE vetted active Canadians to Follow! 🇨🇦❤️
And Please repost to build the Canadian Resistance! 🇨🇦 #StrongerTogether #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

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say what you will about jean chrétien—he was “elbows up” long before it was a winning political slogan.

this ain’t that

he’s not even bothering with “strongly-worded” anymore

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

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he says he isn’t
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disappointing to say the least. michael was extremely effective at debunking the harmful anti-science misinfo behind the lab leak theor(ies) on his podcast. i don't really know what to make of his attacks here but they're weird and off-putting

Why are large BlueSky liberal accounts complaining & punching down to people advocating for more health mitigations & fewer long COVID cases?

Aren't there more important things to be angry about right now?

“explicitly anti-vaxx”? wow. any arguable downplaying of vaccine efficacy on her part is greatly eclipsed by this wild aspersion. she’s not anti-vaxx, she’s pro-layered measures.

saying she’s “explicitly anti-vaxx” is akin to claiming michael is “explicitly anti-mask”.

which is to say it’s untrue

Figure 2. Weekly proportion of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 * hospitalizations by source of acquisition Proportion % 44.9

that’s the annual %age for 2025. this is the weekly %age for jan. 25-feb. 1, 2026 according to the CNISP

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ironically, being POTUS is a privilege. and yet …

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“The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) Infection Surveillance Program provides the weekly percentage of admitted patients who were infected with COVID, influenza or RSV during their hospitalization for another medical reason.”

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same in 🇨🇦. not to mention they and the test cards ain't cheap by any means!

how to turn a half-century-in-the-making victory into abject shame in under three minutes:

convincing people that COVID leaked from the wuhan lab played a big role in the success of this disinformation campaign

*fellow alumni

reminds me of the time a highly-credentialed anthony fauci admitted he caught COVID because he couldn’t stand feeling out of place among his unmasked alumni

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