Barb E

recovering social worker, food insecurity volunteer, interested in politics | social justice | covid… and emerging public heath failures

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford drowned out by OPSEU protesters blowing whistles and chanting “fair wages”

#onpoli

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Hello Toronto. When 40% of the ER patients you see have a core problem of homelessness, I'm flagging we have a problem. Toronto is one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

[Kristyn Wong-Tam 🇨🇦 @kristynwongtam]

Hey @gordperks! I loved your idea last week. I made the colouring book that Doug Ford clearly needs so he doesn't take out his feelings on the people of Toronto instead. Anyone can download their own at https://t.co/F7fQAgmFgM
#Saveourwaterfront

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour.

MAKE ME PAY.

James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

4/ Think about this: We filter our water and only drink 2L a day. We inhale 11,000L of air every day. Unfiltered. Loaded with things that make us sick.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

This is my testimony at Queen's Park about patients I have cared for in an ER chair. Sadly, hallway medicine was a golden era in comparison. What was bad hallway medicine - is worse chair medicine. Thank you MPPs Dr. Robin Lennox and France Gélinas for your support.

[The G.L.O.A.T. @LakeSuperior]

Ice belongs in the lake.

[Save OSC 🇨🇦 @SaveOSC]

Sunday, January 25, 2026, 9:05 pm.

Built for winter. ❄️
Built for Canada. 🇨🇦

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

When @Forbes presents the compelling economic case for N95s in healthcare,

that should pretty much end pushback due to cost.

How say you, @TheEconomist ?

[Australian Doctor @australiandr]

Experts have urged the WHO to ditch its guidelines on surgical masks, saying that respirators should be used “in every encounter, in all healthcare settings”. https://t.co/qe5e5YTfyh

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Justin Wolfers: "We've had two people really show some genuine courage in the face of the President and both of them are economists. Of course I'm thinking about your own Mark Carney and now I'm thinking about Jay Powell."

[Kate Dupuis @DrKateTO]

Why is @fordnation incinerating N95 masks- purchased with taxpayer $$$- rather than distributing them to PHUs to provide free to Ontarians? Why has free rapid test distribution (which was a completely chaotic experience) ceased? Why won’t @SylviaJonesMPP help to Protect Ontario?

[Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her) @JILLSLASTWORD]

Here's encouragement: our grossly overcrowded ERs AND the growing # of folks in the GTA taking off work w/o pay to wait hours in a walk-in b/c they dont have a family doctor. Our air quality is inextricably linked with our physical health as well as the economic health our city!

[Barb E @BabsNotABot]

@lisawhelan @CovidCaution @jonstewart @CAgovernor @GovPressOffice @CalEnergy @CAPublicHealth @UCDavisCOE @CorsIAQ

[Barb E @BabsNotABot]

@lisawhelan @CovidCaution @jonstewart @CAgovernor @GovPressOffice @CalEnergy @CAPublicHealth @UCDavisCOE

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

Be careful Jons, Pride goeth before the fall (in T cell counts)
https://t.co/ELbnHo7ku6

[Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her) @JILLSLASTWORD]

Kids can't learn when they are sick.

Improving air quality creates the conditions for kids to learn.

The right to learn is a FUNDAMENTAL human right

(Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child).

Stop ignoring this!

#LongCovid #flu #onpoli

[MJNabuurs @EmJayNabuurs]

@DrEricDing Yes, sir!

I said so here as well: https://t.co/5F5W8UUvf9

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

For schools, we definitely need more fresh air & disinfection of indoor air in classrooms. Especially during winter cold and flu season—kids cross infect each other and bring illness back home, then sickening the elderly. We need to break the cycle—HEPA filters, UV, open windows.

[Kate Dupuis @DrKateTO]

Many Ontario private schools- including the school attended by the children of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health- made significant improvements to indoor air quality in 2020.

All children deserve better ventilation in schools and child care centres.

#CleanAirForAll in 2026!