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Graphic featuring a quote in the centre, which reads: “Covid-19 has a profound and lasting impact on cardiovascular health, with complications emerging during acute illness, recovery, and even after reinfections or vaccination.” Dr. Vassilios Vassiliou, lead author of “Cardiovascular disease prevention and management in Covid-19,” a clinical consensus statement The text is placed on a background showing an ECG chart with a subtle navy and teal gradient overlay.

There is strong research evidence that Covid-19 and Long Covid increase the risk of many cardiovascular conditions, including heart attacks, clotting events, POTS, vascular ageing and more.
#LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #hearthealth
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LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at

Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal

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

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
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I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

In this @longcovidanswers.bsky.social podcast episode, Dr. Erica Spatz talks about Covid's cardiovascular impact, diagnostic testing, research, and more. Watch the full episode at covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...
#LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #hearthealth

David Eby, on camera, admits that he axed the carbon tax because of corporate lobbying. Cutting it made life more expensive for workers and cheaper for big polluters.

He says BC is too dependent on resource extraction - and yet their plan is to triple down on American-owned gas projects.
#bcpoli

Carney endorsing Trump's *actions* was never the biggest problem here. Just as clearly, and far worse, he endorses Trump's & Netanyahu’s *justifications.*

He doesn’t want to appear supportive of Trump’s *methods,* but very firmly continues to back Trump's & Netanyahu's *narrative.* 19/

what's happening right now in what we loosely call the Middle East is Jenga

"First Nations rights and title are not just an aspiration, they must be honoured and respected, and this decision by the government of British Columbia totally goes against that."

Read the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation's press release, out this morning:
www.tla-o-qui-aht.org/news/2026/3/...

A young child with closed eyes wearing a face mask pulled over their mouth.

Young boy crying with a mask hanging below his chin. He is lying on a bed wearing a black shirt and pulling at a blanket.

My son Ahmad has been diagnosed with a very serious virus, and his test results are extremely bad. His condition is getting worse, and I can’t save him alone. We urgently need £200 to buy his medicine before it’s too late. Please help me save my child 💔🙏
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1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵

In Victoria, Elementary School starts at 8:45AM. Under a permanent daylight time regime, kids arrive to school *before* sunrise from December 2 to January 29th. Permanent standard time please.

Clean air in schools is gaining momentum 🌿

Webinar 11 March, 4pm on improving indoor air for students and staff.

Open to parents, governors, educators and anyone interested in healthier learning spaces.

Register: bit.ly/unisonair

#CleanAir #HealthySchools

LETTER: Solo drivers are cause of congestion on Greater Victoria roads - Saanich News Send your letter to newsroom@saanichnews.com

"Cycling lanes and bus lanes, complete streets that enable safer and better pedestrian mobility... are the solutions to the drivers’ complaints." Ed Wiebe, #Saanich

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Graphic with a dark blue and teal gradient background. Main text: “March 1-31: Long Covid Awareness Month.” There is a Long Covid ribbon beside the main text. Below are one white figure and eight teal figures. The text underneath this reads: “1 in 9 adults in Canada experience Long Covid after a Covid-19 infection.” To the left is a graphic split into four sections, two by two, each showing a different focus for Long Covid Awareness Month. Top left: A graphic highlighting cardiovascular risks of Covid infections. It reads: “Covid can damage your heart. Wearing an N95 mask helps protect you.” The caption with this section reads: Special focus on cardiovascular effects. Top right: A photo from our 2025 International Long Covid Awareness Day event in Quebec City, where pillowcases with patient stories were laid out for the public to view. The caption with this section reads: International Long Covid Awareness Day Events. Bottom left: A photo of the Vancouver Olympic Cauldron lit in teal-blue for International Long Covid Awareness Day 2025. The caption with this section reads: Lightings across Canada. Bottom right: A photo of a person’s hand holding a phone, on which an interview is playing. Shown are Long Covid researcher Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, who is being interviewed by Dr. Susan Kuo, a family physician in B.C., and a Canadian Covid Society volunteer.

Join us as we spread awareness and support the Long Covid community throughout March. We’ve planned events, a live webinar on disability benefits applications, interviews with experts, lightings of buildings, landmarks and signs, and much more.

#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness
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The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

i think if you're going to approach electoralism, it has to be with the notion that electeds are the adversary, regardless of who they are

the framework is easy:

when they do something good, it's because we successfully pressured them to. bad, they did something they wanted to do, despite us

“This pragmatism allows for an actual future, not a fantasy future, to be brainstormed.”

“We understand the present danger, not just of COVID but of the climate crisis, and how the prevalence of viruses that lower global immune response poses a real threat, right now, to the rights and freedoms of everyone around the world.”

“I don’t want to go back in time, I know we can do better, and that a good future is coming. We will make it so.”

COVID Consciousness as a Subculture The nostalgia freeze is a crisis of imagination. COVID consciousness is a way out.

"It’s 2026, & culture has frozen into nostalgia—
...creators like Abby Mahler have spoken about the ways COVID has kept us stuck...refusing to grieve, or even acknowledge, the lost life, ability, time, opportunities, & freedoms we had before the ongoing pandemic made the world more hostile."

so, idk, to me it makes more sense to just mask up and keep viruses out of my body.

then i don’t have to hope that my waning booster protection will protect me from damage i didn’t have to risk all if i didn’t get infected in the first place.

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This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."

#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy

If you want to better understand what life with #LongCOVID is like, check out this exhibit at @museumofvan.bsky.social. It's thoughtful and moving, and a great example of why health sciences is so important to our community's well-being.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Live Webinar: Long Covid Disability Benefits Support - Canadian Covid Society Live Webinar: Long Covid Disability Benefits Support March 18 Join us for this live webinar where experts will share advice that may help Long Covid patients access disability benefits. Dr. Ric...

CANADA help us share far and wide! #LongCovid patients struggle w navigating the whole disability system, filling out applications, etc. WE ARE HERE TO HELP! Join us to have your questions answered and increase your chances of approval. #LongCovid #HelpYourCommunity 🖤🤘
March 18th!! Register Now!