@BarryHunt008 At one time you were a formidable beach volleyball player too. This is disturbing news, wishing you a HAI free and full speedy recovery Barry. Healthcare MUST do much, much better. Beaches await your return 🤞
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
COVID-19: Things everyone should know (Part 1: Immune System)
With poor public health messaging, the general public doesn't seem to know some important things about how COVID-19 and the immune system actually works. 🧵1/
@HayleyGaucher Hi Hayley - Individuals may receive the bivalent COVID-19 booster at a recommended interval of 6 months, or a minimum interval of 3 months (84 days) since their last dose. To book at a three-month interval, please call the Provincial Vaccine Contact Centre at 1-833-943-3900. 1/2
Looking to check out an Aranet4 CO2 monitor?
Your local library may be able to help. Now available in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Peterborough & High River.
Thx @CAVI_CO2@Prescientx1 @AranetIoT !!
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@ptbolibrary@torontolibrary@HamiltonLibrary @GuelphLibrary @HighRiverLib
⚠️Very worried about #BA5 causing #COVID19 hospitalization surges everywhere it goes—bad it’s very past-immunity-evasive. Portugal hit 80-90% of its old hospitalization peak recently. UK hospitals strained to the brink now too. Bad trends many in places.🧵
HT @jburnmurdoch
Having #CleanAir is more important than you may think. Improved air quality helps reduce the development of respiratory diseases as well as contributes to our fight against climate change. #OnlyOneEarth
https://t.co/PPwheQuB1v
When Paddington Bear takes tea with the Queen. Exquisite. One to watch on repeat (and finally after 70 years we find what the Queen keeps in her handbag…)
❤️💙🤍#PlatinumJubilee
@TO_Resident@fordnation From 407 ETR
•Toll rates for Highways 412 and 418 have been removed effective April 5, 2022
•Toll rates for the provincially owned Highway 407 extension were temporarily frozen until May 31, 2021 and will increase based on the Consumer Price Index on June 1, 2022 as legislated
So many Q’s for WHO that start with WHY…great thread!
Why declare “corona is airborne” and think the world wouldn’t notice?
Why retract and actively deny airborne transmission?
Why not acknowledge your mistake?
Why put your head in the sand and pretend it didn’t even happen?
So @emrsa15 it appears both #ECCMID2022 and #IPC22 are united on the airborne nature of SARS-COV-2.
The latter stated it is 90pc airborne Vs 10pc droplet/contact.
Great to see engineering also in the room here at IPC22.