Imagine being at the job for 6 years and still blaming others for your piss poor fiscal management. The PC party is supposedly the party of personal responsibility and insider trading level corruption sure love to blame others. #DougFordIsCorrupt #dougfordfailedontario

1) This is tragic 2) So unsurprising

As Luke's thread shows, those in the video are among the very people who Tamara Lich—who recently took part in Tommy's far-right UK rallies and considers the fascist to be of good character—would have everyone believe are "good Canadian men just trying to earn an honest living."

This is Dr Lisa Ritchie who was the Head of Infection Prevention & Control for NHS England & Chair of the IPC Cell. In this video, she explains why patients should never wear FFP3 masks - even if they are known to be highly infectious or if they are clinically vulnerable… /1

Noticing a lot of your relatives are just not the same, health wise? Relatives dying after surgeries that were relatively low risk a few years ago? Today, this report from insurance giant @SwissRe puts numbers on the ongoing excess death toll attributable to Covid-19. From the report: "Fluctuations in excess mortality tend to be short-term, reflecting developments such as a large-scale medical breakthrough or the negative impact of a large epidemic. However, as society absorbs these events, excess mortality should revert to the baseline. With COVID-19 this has not been the case and all-cause excess mortality is still above the pre-pandemic baseline. In 2021, excess mortality spiked to 23% above the 2019 baseline in the US, and 11% in the UK. As Swiss Re Institute's report estimates, in 2023, it remained significantly elevated in the range of 3–7% for the US, and 5–8% for the UK. If the underlying drivers of current excess mortality continue, Swiss Re Institute's analysis estimates that excess mortality may remain as high as 3% for the US and 2.5% for the UK by 2033." What does the percentage increase in deaths mean in real numbers? Roughly 3 million people die in the US every year of various causes (cancer, heart disease, accidents, etc). The 3-7% increase in 2023 represents a 3-7% increase in that 3m number, so roughly 90-210k more deaths. This places Covid-19 solidly among the top five killers in the US, with heart disease (700k), cancer (600k), accidents (200k) and strokes (150k), and it continues to stay there 3 years after mass vaccinations, and countless waves and variants since. While not the killer of millions and the destroyer of health systems it was in 2020-2021, it is a leading cause of death that we must continue to respect, and take active measures to prevent in especially the elderly and vulnerable. It continues to be a leading cause of disability in the form of Long Covid.

IT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. I read today’s news release about the plan to introduce secure care “for people with brain injury, mental illness, severe addiction” The release says it’s intended to “support THE GROWING POPULATION (emphasis mine) of people with severe addictions, brain injuries from repeated drug poisonings, combined with mental-health disorders and psychosis.” You know what would have been better? NOT LETTING ORGANIZED CRIME POISON PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. If we had implemented regulation — a real nanny state system of rules and controls — for the opioids people seek so we could have cut organized crime out, stopped new users and kids from trying them, and PREVENTED BRAIN INJURIES FROM HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE … … We wouldn’t be in this position and many people would still be alive and/or uninjured today. One day in the distant future, society will figure out that moralizing over substance use (just some substances, while some are deemed “OK”) WAS NOT WORTH all this death and destruction, and they will look back at these decisions and think we were all a bunch of complete morons. Link 🔗news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024…

Psst... Closing safe consumption sites in Ontario is part of laying the groundwork for expanded "involuntary care" in Ontario. Which will also be in the jails. And those jails will be private, for-profit.

RT @anotherglassbox: Looking at this list and thinking about the chicken/egg misconception about these sites: there locations were chosen b…

Not only that but because everyone was so goddamn eager to fly, they threw away humane rebooking/cancellation policies. Depressing how bad the "new normal" turned out to be.

There's never been a single death at an overdose prevention site. But at OPS' funded by the Ontario government, 7,444 deaths have been prevented. The evidence for sites is overwhelming and clear, but we'd rather forfeit lives to suit unfounded beliefs. thestar.com/news/gta/ford-go…

the current CDC after taking our tax dollars:

Democrats at the DNC convention keep claiming “COVID no longer controls our lives.” What scientists say: The global incidence of Long COVID is ~400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion. #DNCConvention2024

"Is the Covid-19 pandemic behind us? An upswing in the gloomy business of funerals suggests not." Very somber but essential reporting by @jwgale bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

The level of detail is nothing short of amazing but ummmm am I the only person on this platform who isn't nostalgic about Blockbuster? Because they sucked? In my neighbourhood the uncensored indie store across the street outlasted BV by several years, big surprise.

Try this in Canada, where there is a hodge-podge of US fluid measures and Imperial fluid measures. Alternatively, embrace sanity and use litres for everything.

Very few people really understand what it means to “sweep” an encampment. For the state to throw away or trash every single one of your belonging and your shelter, and then offer you virtually zero assistance. Now it’s coupled with the threat of incarceration or citation.