there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I agree it’s not a sound rationale to not mask.
We’re in a publicly funded health system here. I think people are tired. Masking is one more thing. They trust that people will look after them and advise appropriate guidance.
What colleagues have said to me, “If covid were truly airborne and the risk of repeated exposure were truly dangerous, then there would be a mask mandate in place and I would wear one.”
They are trusting to #IPAC systems and public health to protect them.
I’m not a paediatrician, but I’ve done this personally in many ways, including offering to borrow money to give to our school board to put HEPA filters in school.
Here’s a talk I put together on the topic of clean indoor air in schools.
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I can’t explain why docs don’t have airborne mitigations in place. I have CO2 monitoring personally.
I’m a family doc and I not only wear N95s, but I give them out free to patients (ones I paid for, not from the clinic stash). I also have HEPA filters running in my clinic rooms.
Practices are losing money because healthcare providers are more likely to get long covid that the regular population.
My approach is: if I have space to store them, great. When I need that space, it’s time to purge. :)
Or saving them because they’re really good boxes.
And then one day, your kids want to build a cardboard city or fort: “Behold children! I have the boxes you seek!!”
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It should have been permanent pacific standard time. Better for health.
How am I just now seeing this, holy shit
We don't have an autism epidemic. We have better tools and understanding of neurodiversity. Recognizing something for what it is doesn't mean it's suddenly happening, but rather recognition is better.
Vaccines cause survival.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Gen Z may be the first modern generation to score worse on standardized tests than their parents.
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath points to schools replacing textbooks with tech and the iPhone. I’d add COVID as a major inflection point many never recovered from.
Anyone with long-COVID has so many burdens already: disease, difficulty doing stuff, being disbelieved, and sometimes self-blame. No one wants to add to that. But if you have a bit if capacity, please consider sharing your story with @cancovsoc.bsky.social as below.
We’ve already received many stories highlighting how #LongCovid is heartbreaking. We’ll be sharing these experiences publicly at our Long Covid Awareness Day events on March 15.
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Which one did you get and where?
Absolutely.
I always learned best when I wrote my own notes and cue cards, not the times a friend let me photocopy theirs.
Same in clinic: typing out my patient notes helps me synthesize the encounter and not infrequently leads to new insights or follow-up questions.
Handling ideas = growth.
“Cognitive psychology has shown that students grow intellectually through doing the work of drafting, revising, failing, trying again, grappling with confusion, and revising weak arguments. This is the work of learning how to learn”
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In minor hockey it’s required, but in the minor leagues for men it’s not required at all, just visors.
It’s so ridiculous. There’s no reason to not have full face protection, when players regularly get facial injuries. Hockey is played at speed with a hard rubber missile.
I play the game, I love the game, but I don’t love this lack of basic protection.
And again. If only there was a way to protect players from losing teeth due to high sticks.
That’s two players losing a tooth each in two minutes.
If only there was a way to protect hockey players from sticks to the face.
#olympics
#NHL
#FullFaceProtection
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
Cannot stress enough how cost effective an intervention clean indoor air can be.
Any rational cost/benefit analysis would make this a no-brainer in every school in the world.
It's long past time to make this a priority here in Toronto.
For the late/west coast crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social on today's #SCC decision, where the Court ruled that Newfoundland and Labrador's COVID travel restrictions were constitutional, but they couldn't agree on just which mobility rights were violated. #cdnlaw
