Adam Boyd (boydmath.bsky)

Posts ∈ {education}∪{mathematics}∪{politics}. I live in Mi’kma’ki. He/Him. [email protected]

[Adam Boyd (boydmath.bsky) @BoydMath]

Please follow Dr Strang’s advice for schools. Wear a mask in school whenever possible and stay home when you’re sick.

[michael gorman @MichaelTGorman]

Q: What's your advice to parents regarding managing risk at schools?
A: Continue to recommend students wear a mask in school whenever possible, particularly indoors in large groups. Also, stay home when ill. #NSpoli

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

This govt is jamming Bill C-22 Lawful Access through Parliament, undermining democratic fundamentals. Witnesses are being heard while the door has already closed for proposed amendments. Parliamentarians haven't been provdied with briefs from witnesses. https://t.co/qMUh87542A

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). https://t.co/I48h2XxxfS

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

All those comparing the attention on #Hantavirus to heart disease or cancer deaths are right: we desperately need more focus on chronic disease.

But they also miss a key distinction. We just lived through a global pandemic that drove a massive surge in deaths: ~20 million excess, plus millions disabled by Long COVID (not to mention the actual increase in cardiovascular deaths due to Covid).

Highly contagious infections can spiral out of control fast when not well managed. We have to be better at managing both chronic and acute health threats – and we shouldn’t compare apples and oranges.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Conclusion: treat ANDV #Hantavirüs as airborne until proven otherwise.

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

Never assume the people in charge know what they're doing.
Never assume they'll learn from their mistakes.
These are lessons i learned in 2020.

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

Wait, we need to clarify this. Airborne precautions were not used when the cruise passengers were evaluated in BC? That's incredibly reckless if true, considering one of them just tested positive!

[Adam Boyd (boydmath.bsky) @BoydMath]

Why are they always wrong about how transmission works. It’s like they forget air exists.

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

Public health officials keep saying this strain requires “prolonged close contact” for transmission.

When these people disembarked, Canadian public health said they had no known direct contact with anyone infected.

So, uh, shouldn’t the assumption about transmission change?

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

Public health officials keep saying this strain requires “prolonged close contact” for transmission.

When these people disembarked, Canadian public health said they had no known direct contact with anyone infected.

So, uh, shouldn’t the assumption about transmission change?

[John George McCracken @BigJMcC]

NS ties w. NL for the lowest number of statutory (paid) holidays in the country, with only six mandated by law.

Employers in the province are tickled pink about this. It also means we can expect no change to these archaic labour laws from the @nspc govt.

#VictoriaDay

[John George McCracken @BigJMcC]

In case you’re keeping track, NS has the lowest number of Stat holidays of all ten provinces.

Because Victoria Day is not considered a statutory retail closing day in Nova Scotia, most Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) stores and agency stores remain accessible to shoppers.

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

What's baffling is how media has ignored the fact that retirement homes have had their value "unlocked" and are now paying dividends to shareholders at the expense of mothers like these. REITs aren't new, folks!

[World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific @WHOWPRO]

If you are in crowded places with poor ventilation, #WearAMask.

Because it helps keep you and your community safe from #COVID19, flu and other respiratory illnesses.

And remember these other measures to help protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu, measles and other respiratory illnesses:

-Practice hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette (cover your mouth and nose with a bent elbow or a tissue when you cough or sneeze)
-Keep a distance when possible
-Keep rooms well-ventilated
-Stay home if you feel unwell
-Get vaccinated and stay up to date with booster doses

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

There's a reason why we are getting "what consumers can do" stories and not "what the government can do" -- to take the focus off the massive profits that corporations are making off this moment.

[Adam Boyd (boydmath.bsky) @BoydMath]

Dark Ages coming soon to Nova Scotia as universities struggle under Bill 12 and Schedule H. https://t.co/7mE2hHDxEV

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Universities are closing. Increasingly people are unwilling or unable to read. Millions of pages of archived material are in danger of being scrubbed from the internet. In the 400s, loss of literacy, learning & written records gave us the Dark Ages, and we’re headed there fast.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Remember the Great Barrington Declaration signers demanding we let our kids catch an unknown virus ASAP so the economy could roar back? 🤔

New OECD study: Long COVID will cost us up to $135B a year, be drag on global economy for the next decade. 👇🏽

https://t.co/MPE8yCyStb

[Adam Boyd (boydmath.bsky) @BoydMath]

The word ��might” is struggling here

[Bloomberg @business]

The pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade. https://t.co/LT9ZvK5Vx9

[Bloomberg @business]

The pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade. https://t.co/LT9ZvK5Vx9

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: “Long COVID” reportedly projected to cost OECD economies up to $135 billion a year over the next decade.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Many mistakes were made with messaging, but the “Let er rip” (and keep on letting her rip) mindset is going to cost us dearly (and literally 💰)

And the idea that we should deliberately infect children as quickly as possible is proving to be devastatingly ill conceived.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Everyone Getting Ill More Easily Now Nothing At All To Do With That Virus That Makes You Get Ill More Easily Say Doctors