I actually think parents will fight hardest against the info on long term health effects from COVID. They will not be able to cope with the fact that they sacrificed their kids for a few years of (pretend) normal, the guilt will be too much

@fordnation you now have ZERO reason not to protect the province's youth from repeated viral infections. If you're so concerned about keeping people in the workforce and "productivity" then put your money where your mouth is and prevent the spread of illness in schools!

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"There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us" -CATWOMAN

I know a lot don't want to hear it. I certainly don't. Long covid is very real. HIV, Hepatitis C, and Covid are all RNA viruses. It took us many years to elucidate the effects of Hep C and HIV. We're only just beginning to figure out long-covid, have no biomarkers available to the general public to easily diagnose it, and have no proven treatments... nature.com/articles/s43856-0…

🗣️ I don't know what's scarier: What's happening in our world, or the number of people who are okay with what's happening in our world.

We’re not even reacting anymore, we’re just absorbing. It’s scary

Science takes ~17 years to reach clinical practice. The science in 2026 is clear: we don’t have another decade to wait on SARS-CoV-2. If you’re doing what you can to avoid (re)infection, your behaviour is 100% aligned with best current available evidence.

Covid showed us we could slow down, work different, care for each other, rethink everything. We had one rare chance to build a life that was less cruel, less exhausting, less centered around grinding people into dust. Instead we sprinted right back into burnout, greed, higher costs, worse mental health, and pretending this is normal. That’s what makes me angry. We learned nothing.

Privatization ALWAYS costs you more. For all the talk of saving money, it never does. That's just the sales line. Incredible it still works. Your taxes never go down. You still pay all the taxes you did, but now you pay extra, out of pocket, for things your taxes used to cover.

So is there gonna be a food and energy crisis in America this summer? All indications point to yes, but when I ask experts they also say yes.

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

As someone who never stopped physically going to work during COVID - I side with Ontario workers who want hybrid working conditions. I'm an ER doc - and of course I need to physically go to work - just like a truck driver. 👇👇 Forcing people to go to the office 5 days a week is stupid policy. Making them sit in transit 3 hours a day is stupid policy. They can do meetings online. They can decide when a face to face is needed with their manager. They can go in when required. Hybrid conditions is better for workers because they also happen to be human beings. They have parents and children that need to be cared for. They have a dog that appreciates a noon-hour walk. The cost of transit chips away at their income and puts them into a zombie state. Even though 99% of my work life is seeing patients I need to attend hospital meetings and those have almost all moved to hybrid. I can fold clothes, I can walk our dogs (which is good for my health) and I can make a home lunch while attending a meeting with headphones on. I can make our kid supper. I value those things as well. Making me commute 3 hours for a 2 hour meeting is policy insanity. The policy position of the Ontario government and other employers at the end of the day seems mean and punitive to me. Yah - you have the right to force people to the office that need a job - but it's advancing a policy that feels like a jerk.

Rainbows are actually circles, but the full shape is only visible from a higher vantage point

These won't necessarily be resignations in the traditional sense. It will be (mostly women) employees who desperately want to be at work but can no longer maintain their jobs because of caregiving responsibilities. We did a study on this which I will link below.

Recent research indicates higher rates of neurodevelopmental disorders among children exposed to #COVID19 during pregnancy. ja.ma/49bs0cx

It’s almost like earth was perfectly created for human beings, literally water falls from the sky and food grows on trees, but somehow we find ourselves trapped in a machine that requires credit scores and a 40 hour work week for existence.

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Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic.

The more I watch videos of politicians answering questions, the more I realize that so few of them actually answer them. Questions are often “answered” with prepared statements about how great their government is and the investments made, or criticism of previous governments.