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Blake Murdoch

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JD, MBA. Canadian. Health policy, law, bioethics and inconvenient truths.

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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

14.02.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 3882 πŸ” 1010 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 24
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Why covid-19 is β€œa vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is β€œa vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

10.02.2026 04:54 πŸ‘ 664 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 26
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You don't need to be an Olympic athlete or an astronaut to wear a respirator

Your life is precious too ❀️

10.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

If you're having trouble with your mood, don't forget to feed your intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. πŸ˜‰

04.02.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well ain’t that something. The politician β€œexperts” saying more people vaccinated would not have helped.
Complete and utter BS.

Better build many many more hospitals UCP… or is the plan to just keep letting ABs die in the ED WRs?

28.01.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Alberta’s flu season is the deadliest in years, yet the UCP is doubling down on anti-expert rhetoric. While doctors state clearly that higher vaccine uptake would save lives, the government is calling that "false" to cover for their failing health policy. Spin kills. #AbLeg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli

27.01.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

I keep saying this over and over:

You cannot be pro-infection and pro-vax.

Those who have been pro-infection (from the early unicorn kids in magical virus blocking schools to the more insidious 'hybrid immunity' and 'immunity debt' narratives) own a LOT of this.

26.01.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#1 popular shows on Rotten Tomatoes in the past year that rely on the character trope of child or infant death to "flesh out" their adult characters:

1. His and Hers
2. Stick
3. The Beast in Me
4. Untamed
5. The Girlfriend

Probably more.

Just fucking stop already

18.01.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please push back loudly against the chronic absenteeism propaganda. It’s absence. It’s absence due to illness. That is the no 1 reason for kids missing school. A big driver of that is that buses and school buildings are not safe/healthy for kids or workers. Everyone in school deserves healthy air.

08.01.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s what this study shows, thousands of others imply a large amount of causation.

31.12.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of an episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart with captions that read:

Tim Miller: Well, it's a progressive outlet, so there are a couple of people wearing masks.

Jon Stewart: Oh, there's always two. And you always say, "Oh, are you sick?" 

And they go, "Uh, I don't want to talk about it."

A screenshot of an episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart with captions that read: Tim Miller: Well, it's a progressive outlet, so there are a couple of people wearing masks. Jon Stewart: Oh, there's always two. And you always say, "Oh, are you sick?" And they go, "Uh, I don't want to talk about it."

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.

29.12.2025 03:31 πŸ‘ 3685 πŸ” 780 πŸ’¬ 215 πŸ“Œ 313

in a very real way, jon stewart's greatest public accomplishment is premised on a willful and reckless disregard for ppe. if firefighters had worn proper respiratory protection on 9/11, all he'd have is a few peabody awards and some money.

28.12.2025 07:20 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Liberals in a nutshell.

You just have to wait for their slip up moments then you realize they are actually conservatives from 2020, and some of them would be fascists if given a little scratch. As the saying goes.

28.12.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look at this chart and remember:

1) the COVID immune damage claim is that after a COVID infection, influenza gets worse

vs

2) the "immunity debt" claim is that after a bad influenza season, influenza gets better

Now look at how 2022-23 compares to previous years, and ask "Which claim was right?"

27.12.2025 03:35 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

I spoke to the people who continue to shape their lives around avoiding [cholera/typhoid/dysentery] and only drinking β€˜clean’ water

21.12.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite apart from the misinterpreted and poorly presented science that will continue to get some of his readers killed or disabled, I’d like to point out another glaring factual error.

People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.

21.12.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

People I know who were equivocal about climate change a decade ago are now very convinced it's a large threat. These same people are equivocal about the threat of long COVID now. History repeats

20.12.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes, but given the reams of high powered studies about covid causing increased cardiovascular risk, growing evidence relating to cancer, autoimmunity etc, it's likely primarily covid (particularly unvaccinated which is a hard hitting disease) worsening health primarily.

18.12.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I used their results to build this table, I think it is a cleaner way to convey that message

18.12.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years

25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study.

Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

18.12.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 821 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 16
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3 children die from influenza A-related complications in Ottawa and eastern Ontario region Three children have died from flu-related complications in the Ottawa area, as officials report a β€œrapid and significant rise” in Influenza A in the region.

3 children die from influenza A complications in Ontario πŸ’”

Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC
Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😑

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

15.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7

If only there were something we could do to prevent the problems we've chosen not to prevent

14.12.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reddit: "The people who are studying the impact of COVID literally talk about it in the past tense, as if we are building monuments to some past event. Like β€œwow we should learn from COVID to listen to disabled people” you mean the disabled people trying to tell you covid is still ongoing??!"

13.12.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Does wearing a face mask stop you catching flu? Experts give verdict Wearing a mask is inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as lockdowns

If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.

13.12.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7
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just passed the peak of flu last year. and exponential rise ongoing

12.12.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...

This study is amazing, it demonstrates that close contact is slightly, but far less risky for respiratory infections than total exposure time in congregate settings & poor indoor air quality (basically, airborne long distance transmission).

Engineers can solve this.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.12.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why the β€œimmunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:

Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.

Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.

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08.12.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

Accusing people with long Covid or other invisible illnesses of having "Munchausen syndrome" & using terms like this to deny someone's real suffering is emotional abuse

07.12.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise."

But sure, keep basing your life on the idea that it's fine to get reinfected annually.

06.12.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Read this twice.

β€œOur findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

06.12.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 412 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 23