Dr Lorrible

I'm a turtle. She/her.

[Dr Lorrible @Dr_Lorrible]

The truth about Big Toilet Paper https://t.co/gZlezkWMcX

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

Serious question: When our public healthcare system is collapsing from causes like understaffing…why is the Ontario government expanding private for-profit health care, when this will pull health workers away from the public system...and make understaffing even worse?

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

The fact that the Ontario government watched our public healthcare system collapse due to underfunding...but set aside public funding just so they could invest in private for-profit healthcare…tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz

[Dr Lorrible @Dr_Lorrible]

A health resource for parents when their kids are sick, from experts in Alberta. https://t.co/iKRiiZwiK2

[Dr Lorrible @Dr_Lorrible]

https://t.co/2RoD0B3NL2

[Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac]

Really, Canada?

No need to jump on the bandwagon of performative measures.

This will not keep us any safer.

Want to understand which variants are circulating & from where? Then screen wastewater in planes & airports.

https://t.co/4kYVtZRjIr

[Gail Vaz-Oxlade @GailVazOxlade]

ON Conservatives forcing privatization by removing OHIP support for virtual visits when hospitals are overwhelmed. THIS is actually evil. https://t.co/xWntA7oy1M

[OCFP @OntarioCollege]

Sharing through images in case it's easier for some to read.

[𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] @jvipondmd]

If we know (and we know) that we'll eventually end up with a mask mandate (because exhortations don't work well enough), the earlier we do it in the curve, the better. So why not skip the "pretty please" steps and go right to what's worked in the past? 7/

[Gail Vaz-Oxlade @GailVazOxlade]

Grocery funds for CUPE OSBCU Education Workers https://t.co/k5Ani1AJOI. FOR EVERY RETWEET OF THIS LINK I will donate $1 up to $1000. GO!

[Niki Kazemzadeh (she/her) @MmeKazemzadeh]

The approximate annual cost for the raise requested by CUPE is $264m.
The $200 per child bribe Lecce recently gave out cost around $365m.
The license plate renewal fee brought in approximately $1b each year.

[Chris Cowley @oectagovernor]

BREAKING:

Man that earns in 3 months what a CUPE worker earns in a full year outraged at cost of living request.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Ontario's pediatric hospitals so overwhelmed that teens in critical condition will be transferred to adult hospitals, by @Megan_Ogilvie https://t.co/QtG6REzKOp via @torontostar #onpoli #cdnhealth #pediatrics

[David King @dkingofABC]

I am not an Ontarian, or a teacher, or an education assistant, but I have a perspective on the Ford government’s “Keeping Students in Schools Act”. I was Minister of Education in Alberta for 7 years, including the time the Charter was developed and enacted. #onted #onpoli

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

Ontario is projected to have budget surpluses for the next 6 years.

Do you want to know what else we have a surplus of?

-Suffering patients waiting for care
-Crowded hospitals due to underfunded primary care, LTC & home care
-Underpaid nurses leaving the profession in droves

[Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @FurnessColin]

4. Count days if you are recovering from COVID. Most people are contagious to ~10 days from symptom onset, despite feeling much better on day ~5. A rapid test will tell you if you are still contagious.

BUT YOU NEED TO SWAB THE *THROAT*. (Nose swabbing was before Omicron.)

6/8

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows. (Technical notes in another thread, linked at the end.)

[Deepa Soni @drdeepasoni]

Some thoughts on the #HealthCareCrisis in Ontario (and across Canada).

23 years as an EM physician and I have never seen things as bad as they have been for the last several months...with no sign of letting up

[Dr Lorrible @Dr_Lorrible]

Please vote for healthcare

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding.

Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country.

Here’s a thread 🧵: