Colin Foster

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[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

@1goodtern Trick question! Regardless of order, it's horrifying.
2015-2019 data suggests before 2020 it was ~74000.

Total deaths involving diseases of the respiratory system from 2015 to 2019:
https://t.co/ZtgkWhh8Dh

[chantzy @chantz_y]

This is dreadful & was preventable. ~20-30% with Covid have a degree of cognitive impairment after. This isn't brain fog. It's brain damage.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Normalize this. There will be no “off-ramp” for years to come. Until better vaccinations and buildings with better air ventilation & purification, you’d be better off adapting to a daily respirator.

[Joe Oliver @joeolivermd]

"N95 respirators give a much higher benefit than surgical masks".

What an emotional rolly coasty that this statement is both refreshing to hear and oh my god we're four years into this.

[Tara Moriarty @MoriartyLab]

We just finished model updates for this week's COVID Forecast.

By waste water or our model, daily infections in Canada are now as high/higher than prior Omicron peaks except Dec/21 wave.

High risk people need shots ASAP, wear N95 masks, avoid non-essential indoor activities.

[tern @1goodtern]

It's so hard to articulate this, and I keep failing.
But the people downplaying the repercussions of Covid seem to be doing so on the basis that it's "respiratory" as if that makes it innocuous.
But legionella and pneumonia are respiratory.

[Tai Huynh @taimhuynh]

There once was an promise to “end hallway healthcare” in Ontario. Now hallway healthcare is what we’re told to expect.

[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

4th vid: There's no chance Tedros was saying an unrelated “military term” and didn't mean it was an airborne pathogen. But *why* retract?

“Masking also prevents its spread. Sorry, I was brining up a painting term in this medical conversation. I meant to say: hand sanitizer.” /s

[John Johnston @JOHNJOHNSTONED]

@BarryHunt008 @wef @WHO The plan, and all those words from @DrMikeRyan count for nothing if you deliberately spread disinformation about the mode of transmission….

….droplet precautions won’t stop a highly transmissible AIRBORNE pathogen 🤦🏻

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

In the absence of any adults in the room, so glad to see Israeli and Palestinian mothers make this important stand. Great to see diplomats and politicians join them.

[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

Northwestern Medicine: "Long COVID occurs in approximately a third of COVID survivors and is now the third leading neurologic disorder in the United States."

https://t.co/ApJ5XFOnPI

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

Only in Toronto would its former police chief be tapped for *drum roll* real estate development advice. 🤣

… and only in 🇨🇦 could a gov pay $171k for that advice, have no record of any advice, and zero consequences for anyone.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

Your plan is to bulldoze & privatize a park, instead of keeping it fully public and improving what already exists; to shoehorn in a massive indoor spa that any other city would place far outside the core; and to needlessly demolish and relocate a landmark cultural institution.

[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

@SherSherWarner @jasmith_yorku @BarryHunt008 @DavidElfstrom @sameo416 Here's a handy chart to convert between the MPR and MERV rating systems. (It was a Filtrete 2200 we used for our house-air-intake to keep out the wildfire smoke and it worked well for that.)

HEPA is comparable to MERV 17+. It's a very dense filter but more expensive.

[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

@IBJIYONGI Not to diminish the 'scam' point of the post at all but: In most photo editing programs you can change the 'canvas size' of the first image so it's a very tall image, with room to paste each page below the first. High jpeg compression can keep the data-size down. Attached e.g.

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

Still preprint, but it states that "An increasing number of reports suggest an association between COVID-19 infection and initiation or acceleration of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Both these diseases and several other NDs are caused by conversion of human proteins into a misfolded, aggregated amyloid fibril state..
our data suggest that cross-seeding by Spike-amyloid fibrils can be implicated in the increasing number of reports of CJD, AD, and possibly other NDs in the wake of COVID-19."

https://t.co/20yd47MnI5

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Herein lies the problem.

ID / PH Paraphrase: "I'm in charge but I don't know how to deal with this so I'll just panic & pretend the problem is something else that I can live with & the rest of the world will just have to suffer thru my inadequacy 'cuz I'm the one in charge".

[Colin Foster @colinfoster]

“Wear a mask” is the #2 reco in this same list on their website but has been selectively removed in all promo material.

They seem to want to be able to say “we told you” without telling you. But… why?

"wear a tight-fitting, well-constructed mask in indoor public settings…"

[Ontario Ministry of Health @ONThealth]

This fall, take steps to reduce your risk of infection from #RespiratoryIllness:

- stay up to date with your #COVID19 vaccines and #FluShot
- stay home when you feel sick
- wash your hands often
- cover your mouth with your arm when you cough/sneeze

https://t.co/AIkw7TWUYA

[Kenyon Wallace @KenyonWallace]

This is why journalism done in the public interest is so crucial to our democracy. Imagine if there was no coverage of the Greenbelt issue. Please pay for news if you value the contribution it makes to society. https://t.co/9XT67ccki7

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

Estimated 11,000 Ontarians died waiting for surgeries, scans in past year

https://t.co/ksDx7mibnQ