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Doctors who cannot see or refuse to see that Israel is committing genocide:
Physician, heal thyself.
Your duty to your profession demands that you see this genocide clearly -with your heart, your intellect, your healing spirit: This is a deliberate wounding of an entire people.
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Moms in this country aren't going to *ever* forget how govts gave them the option of either losing their jobs or placing their kids at risk of infection, hospitalization, death, and long covid.
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you can get it in a church.
you can get it in a mosque.
you can get it in a temple.
you can get it in a synagogue.
Come on,
@fordnation
- religious exemptions aren't ok in this time.
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@norabf
Is this in reference to the young child who asked if she was being taken to a cemetery? (She had thought she had died?) Just - thank you for sharing beauty amid so much horror <3 so glad she is alive. so glad for everyone alive and so heartbroken for everyone killed!
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"I was raised very Israeli which means I wasn't raised very Jewish"
"There is no need for any one of us to serve in the IDF. The IDF should not exist. The state of Israel should not exist,” says former IDF soldier and now anti-Zionist organizer Meital Yaniv.
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So Elections Canada apparently does not have a vaccination mandate for its employees - one of them reached out to me because her colleague is an antivaxxer. They are seeing hundreds of people. Can someone explain this to me. How is this happening.
@cp24
@BooksYarnLogic
@DFisman
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Extremely disappointed to see that every single unmasked face at the go bus terminal this morning is south asian.
Provincial messaging to remove masking will absolutely disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
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Dr Prather is not only an aerosol expert she is *the* expert. Please listen.
With rising numbers, I would not send my kids back to school unless good fitting masks were required indoors for all, they could prove the ventilation was good (CO2) with everyone present, and they had HEPA filtration. Delta is highly contagious and kids are the biggest target.
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Headsup that the way Ryan Imgrund discusses race as an axis of covid risk is inadequate. How he talks to women of colour online is atrocious and maybe you care about that, maybe you don't. Plenty of people can do math. But few can contextualise it in the context of people's lives
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Oop there it is. Glad someone said it bc people of colour already were calling it that amongst our communities a while ago.
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I used to think ryan imgrund was alright. Then he out of nowhere treated *several women* like crap, including myself. Then I learned it was part of a long-standing pattern. When well-intentioned men keep tagging him, it becomes clear to me you guys really don't get it. :/
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I find it hard to take seriously a team of doctors who worked hard to block nurses from accessing better-quality masks.
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Two people came up and asked me where there was a bathroom/starbucks. I was like..."are you with the truckers?" And they said "god no!" And held up their anti nazi signs and we had a good convo about how ridiculous these antivaxxer asshats are. And I walked them to a coffee shop
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Lol this pandemic is making me realise that the idea of women taking bcp is so normalized despite less risky procedures for men (RISUG) bc we have entirely normalised the idea that women can be at higher risk of clots but we dare not inconvenience the male gender at all.
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As a former student of Dr. Fisman, what made me smile instantly even in *this* piece which confront his actions, was: "I’ve defended Fisman before, and believe he did this out of principle, because it’s how he does everything."
Now, read it again:
It's how he does everything.
@bruce_arthur
: Dr. Fisman threw a bomb under the science table as the 4th wave looms. But there are no winners here.
As a
@COVIDSciOntario
member, I can state 3 things:
- article is accurate
- you should still trust us
- we’re volunteers
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Maybe unpopular opinion but with the burgeoning ppc, the liberals and ndp might want to consider coalescing.
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@DFisman
@jvipondmd
It is disturbing that we are encouraged to view institutions (hosp+schools) as outside the definition of community - this leads ppl to think community based transmission is limited to individual actions, while leaving institutions free to do as they please with 0 accountability.
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Omg droplet dogma needs to drop off a cliff. Seriously.
Ontario’s labour ministry has rejected all teachers’ COVID-19 work refusals — and almost everyone else’s. Internal memos hint at why:
Droplet dogma prevails. via
@torontostar
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@Twitter
@TwitterSupport
how is it possible that key pandemic voices - all women - are not yet verified?
@MPaiMD
- chair of
@COVIDSciOntario
deserves a verification.
@DrVivianS
, championning LTC justice.
@jkwan_md
, who without fail updates pandemic numbers in Ontario. come on!
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As someone who writes short scifi stories, here is a plot for a dystopian world: the position of epidemiologist becomes entirely removed from prevention. Models are assimilated explicitly into political analyses of how much death is acceptable. The threshold of acceptance is high
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I am not a parent but the lack of supports for parents - esp those who happen to be women - during this pandemic has made me so extremely resentful.
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@birgitomo
also, there's often a lack of systemic supports for racialised HCWs working with racist patients... :\ not ok
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@MorgainePen1
@nameshiv
And many respect personal space/perform social distancing (crown shyness)
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@EM_RESUS
Idk why exactly but the whole thread made me incredibly angry and resentful haha bc women are clearly ok with being keepers of men despite being dismissed and ignored for our concerns about their health, and also, clearly, men never care this much about our health.
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The way family docs have been cut out of this is really not ok. In dt Toronto, many pharmacists work with hypermarginalized pts so this isn't to discount their work. But family docs could have really, really helped. Another way this pandemic has been mismanaged.
@l_stone
@DanyaalRaza
@sarahrimmington
I asked: why isn't Ontario involving family doctors more vaccine rollout? (There's only 1 mention of them in latest briefing deck.)
Reply was that family doctors play important role in getting vaccines to some hard-to-reach populations, but nothing about expanding their role.
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In the past few days:
@BogochIsaac
,
@jkwan_md
@deonandan
and now
@SharkawyMD
have all reported incidents of hacking etc. :/ I am worried about the malicious intent of people going after excellent pandemic voices
Hey everyone. Not to be outdone by
@BogochIsaac
someone has hacked my FB account & is sending spam video links out like party favors. If you get a suspicious link from me, it ain't me! Thanks for your patience & understanding.
#GetMeAHackSaw
🪚
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A question of priorities and our values as a society.
Just to be clear, if we can afford to spend $290,000,000 to host five 2026 World Cup soccer games in Toronto, we can also afford to provide safe, affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto...It's really a question of our priorities!
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if you know where my aging grandma can get a third dose in Ontario please let me know. Once again, I see that congregate-dwelling elders are prioritised but elders in community are not. The vast majority of BIPOC elders are in community. *stares*.
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@rossgarber
@nytimes
....... yeah this tweet isn't going to age well. Trying to imply that "oh well readers might take her more seriously if they think she's a doc and that's a bad thing!" is.... terrible. She earned her degree dude. She is a doctor because that is the title conferred with a PhD.
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So disappointed in Nili Kaplan-Myrth's horrifying stance against free speech and vile equation of peaceful pro-palestinian protests to hamas.
If you see a diverse crowd protest genocide and think "terrorists! They're going to kill me!", your racism is the problem.
Is Rob actually inciting armed violence against Palestinians and people who peacefully march to ask for a ceasefire and the end of the genocide against Palestinians? cc
@antihateca
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Aced the hardest exam of my master's course - Thanks to Dr
@DFisman
for making every Health Trends&Surveillance student not only think hard, but insist on innovation in approach. It was worth it and made me reflect a lot on how much I have yet to learn re: practical application.
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We are headed for a "children of men" scenario bc women are sick of being asked to choose btw our careers and our families. Fuck around and find out, I guess. Birth rates will continue to decline bc society keeps insisting we shelve our career dreams and we will obv keep refusing
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HAHAHAHA instead of actual vaccination mandates, they have "one use pencils" and must wipe down everything every 15 minutes. Hygiene theatre. I have words I cannot say on twitter but both hindi and french are colourful languages.
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bottom line: when I go to vote, I deserve to be in a COVID-free environment, and not have to deal with an employee who is unvaccinated. People's health should be protected when we vote.
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Leftist pretender men who secretly hate women of colour? That's a thing. Trust us when we tell you - bc we have had a lifetime of developing that radar and if you don't see it, it is v much bc you haven't had to develop that sense of "woah this dude is bad news"
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Hey so keep your kids home from school this jan if you can. I hate this advice bc only the rich can afford to do it. And yet. It's the choice id make if i had kids and could afford to keep them home.
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@aaronchriscohen
@rafaelshimunov
Hey, the whole "hamas is responsible for israel committing genocide" was so mid october 2023 which at this point, is 3 years ago. Join us in real time where the world at minimum wants ceasefire and at max: from the river to the sea, palestine will be free, mmmk? K. Cool.
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the fact that we got parks back but don't have
#paidsickleave
means tomorrow, everyone needs to bombard this useless office with phone calls. Do it. Don't let the weekend sap you of your strength. Do not let it go.
416-325-1941
416-325-1941
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@Jonathan_K_Cook
Thank you. It has been so triggering for so many BIPOC and Indigenous communities around the world to see this obvious, disgusting colourism and supremacist genocide of children. I feel brown-coded children don't matter as much as white-coded children to western leaders.
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An example of an amazing
#publichealth
conscious small business. Let's find ways to support them during this time..ideally rich politicians would donate / build policy to keep small businesses afloat in these trying times!
In light of the stay-at-home order just announced, we have decided to restrict our services this week then close our store April 12th - May 6th.
Yes, the new rules permit us to open for takeout but let's be real: ice cream is not really an essential service.
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@NoLore
...why? :/ i was driven in high school - we lived way too far away from school - and taking the bus early in the day was a pain. Most of us bussed back in the evening. But there is no way in sprawling ontarian suburbia that i was gonna bike 10km to school and back every day haha.
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@LevittMichael
@chaptersindigo
@CanadianFSWC
BDS isn't antisemitic, no matter how badly you want it to be. 💅🏾
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part of the issue is that unlike vinay prasad, imgrund isn't consistently wrong. It is just that when he is, he can't take criticism - he blocked me for suggesting hardest-hit communities need to be prioritised for vaccines -something the science table also stated at the time.
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Keltie asks, rightfully, what's the point of this lockdown? 1984 taught us beware those who change the definition of words while using them. Take note: in ON, lockdown now means "we acknowledge feelings* of alarm but will not meaningfully change anything in practice"
Honestly I have to think of these new lockdown measures in ON as an April Fools joke. Not changing retail restrictions, not closing schools, and no essential worker protections....what is the point of a lockdown if you aren’t targeting where the highest burden of disease is?
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it also sends a weird message that these facilities are somehow magically or spiritually "protected". While I could wax poetic on what God does or doesn't do, it would be really helpful if religious leaders stepped up and *did it instead*. bc that's their day job, last I checked
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Perhaps the most fruitless, pointless, idiotic conversation is one where you realise people truly view risk response to covid 19 as a personal choice rather than a collective endeavour.
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@drmwarner
@fordnation
I want to cry for brown and black people in our city. Leadership does not care about the fact that so many of us are in essential work. I am thankful every day that I am not, but to know my community is suffering really hurts. Your words mean a lot Dr Warner.
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I don't want kids at this point bc:
1) i don't trust that my partner, if a man, will be given time off work to look after them as much as me - so i expect the weight of that responsibility to fall on my shoulders
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Anyway. Do better. This many women collectively telling you he treated us badly should matter. And if it doesn't, well then that says a lot about ya.
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I love her response. But I am angry that Palestinian courage has to be filtered through her.
Note. She is not being asked to condemn hamas. Yet every Palestinian in interviews is asked this question - a glaring double standard.
American Nurse Emily Callahan is interviewed on
@cnn
@andersoncooper
talking about her experience for 26 days in Gaza.
She lived through over 3 weeks of the bombardment by the IDF, and when asked if she would go back to Gaza to serve with/the Palestinians she responds "in a
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@beqararkarke
@norabf
The one who told the girl on the stretcher "no my darling, you are alive and beautiful like the moon" when she asked if she was being taken to a graveyard. (She thought she was dead! And he comforted her.)
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I don't want kids at this point bc:
2) i don't trust a competitive job market or the govt to give a shit about kids
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@lifeinalto
@kinjaldave7
And when woc attempt to say "idk it was interesting" a more interesting and personal response is expected of us.
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Also he isn't a biostatistician and not enough people call him out on this. He is - or was - a teacher. He is as much a biostatistician as I am an anatomist - we can draw on our undergrad disciplines but come on: how are folks letting him get away with a title he hasn't earned?
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a list of cool people to follow:
@jkwan_md
@SabiVM
@dgurdasani1
@AshTuite
@DFisman
@BogochIsaac
@IrfanDhalla
@drmwarner
@deonandan
@DorisGrinspun
@PHealthGnome
@FourWinns298
@DGBassani
(whose statsymathy insights are gold, a propos de rien)
@drandrewb
@MPaiMD
- feel free to add
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What would it take for older people to see that conservative politicians do not care about them?
Sars-cov-2 *wipes mouth on sleeve*: hold my beer, I got this.
From this morning's Ipsos poll: The Liberals hold a massive lead among the older demographics (voters aged 55+), voters with whom the CPC does generally well.
LPC 44%
CPC 29%
NDP 10%
BQ 10%
GPC 3%
Details:
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The other issue is: someone like vinay prasad clearly aligns with the libertarian right - it is ideologically obvious. Imgrund pretends at leftist politics but will chucky-doll turn on you in no time flat. The things he has said to women of colour made our spidey sense go off.
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The performative washing down of chairs and purell stations at covid19 testing centres contributed to misinformation. No air filtration but this bs? Fomite transmission control is performance art. It enrages me bc it deceives the public and creates anxiety around the wrong thing
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PICU triage - two words I never wanted to think about side by side but here they are now, flashing in my mind.
Triage training is starting. None of us trained to not be able to offer care to those who need it due to lack of resources. As a PICU doc I need to be prepared to potentially triage the care I offer kids. Triage training is starting—-Let that sink in
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I remember which "friends" of mine landed up in london for uni and i am 100 percent not surprised it's a racist small town. *shrug*. That's the truth. Also increasingly convinced that the reason people in other provinces hate toronto is bc there are more of us here.
#MicDrop
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@TRyanGregory
Is it? Oh dont tell me someone seriously thinks of this as an example of misogyny. They must actually clutch pearls then. 😒 or is it "problematic" bc it "discriminates" against the rich and a rich person has it worked out that it's an example of classism? Is it anti-clam?!
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It leaves PH professionals at a loss bc on the one hand, we are told to "reach marginalised communities" and "improve trust" but now, all I can tell them is that the provincial govt is wrong and that their bullshit guidance to repeal masking mandates cannot be trusted.
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@strauss_matt
Bruh you learned literally nothing useful in med school if this is the hill you're finding yourself on today. Sad and sorry state of who they let in I guess.
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@MackayIM
I find it really hard to explain to the average non-science person what is meant by herd immunity - people don't have the bio knowledge to really get it right away. I found this article helpful to pass around to folks - Prof Tuite breaks it down v nicely:
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Lol saw some guy complaining on twitter that fisman and warner blocked him and how he was mad about that bc "they don't control the covid convo!" And how it was "censorship". i gotta say if both fisman and warner block a guy? You might as well block him too. 😂 preemptively.
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@BooksYarnLogic
me, @ teacher: "what class of instrument does this belong to"
teacher: "uh...wind?"
me: "yes..yes. wind. and how is COVID-19 transmitted?"
teacher: "uh...air?"
me, fingers steepled: "yes...yes...and what exactly is the relationship between "wind" and "air", d'you think?"
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Ok I couldn't resist: gathering in a religious institution in the middle of O is tantamount to spiritual *hubris*. And you can take that biblically, dharmically, sharia-esque, judaically, or in any other way. But hubris is what it is! This holiday, try to avoid a smiting, jeez.
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I could cry. Appointment. Next Wednesday. You're looking at a soon- to- be Pfizer lady.
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@DrKateTO
I thought about it and realised i don't want kids bc i feel society is asking me to choose btw kids and a career and won't even promise to care *for kids*. So. Easy choice, really. It takes a village and we don't *have that*. What we have is "normalize covid in schools". Cool.
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@WatcherToronto
@Noellenarwhal
@MayoBruce
@MrsWhiteToo
Ahhhh this was so pleasing to read. Biggest smile on my face. The best part about toronto is that we are not afraid to fight back. Finally putting our reputation for rudeness to good use! ^_^ much joy ^_^
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@TRyanGregory
Has a representative of the oyster federation contacted you?
(I mean literal oysters here, not oster lmao what a time to be alive that this should be clarified in 250 char or less lol)
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@aaronchriscohen
@rafaelshimunov
:) the world stands with palestine. What Israel has done has not assured the destruction of Palestine. It has ensured that the people of the world no longer recognize it as a state.
The word "Israel" drowns in the river of Palestinian blood Netanyahu created.
Rhodesia, rhodesia.
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I don't think Israel has thought about the spiritual ramifications of genocide.
I don't mean divine intercession, but something far more basic: gravity acts on an apple and it falls. A thief begins to think how others could steal as well as he, and grows fearful of theft.
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As many Palestinians have now been killed as Bosniak muslims in the Srebrenica genocide. Israel is comitting genocide. The framing of self-defense is manipulative and ignores Isreael's role as instigator in 75 years of occupation, apartheid, illegal settlement, and genocide.
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@QueenMab87
and relatedly, a lot of scholars have been unable to make the links between islamophobia and antisemitism - how they both operate so so similarly to justify genocide.
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Volunteering today at a vax clinic! Jame Abu Bakr Siddique Masjid, 2665 Lawrence Ave E, Scarborough, ON M1P 2S2 - signal boost please!
@SCHCOnt
@SHNcares
@ScarboroughCAN
!
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I mean this is fire.
@NICKIMINAJ
And we’re both rappers lol! Here’s a rap I made about the vaccine
@NICKIMINAJ
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I just...think. that if you're going to call someone a garbage human (and hey! You totally can!), you should be maybe uh...*really sure* of your take. And sure: apologies afterward are really good! But yknow an ounce of forethought saves you a pound of tweets from across Ontario.
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Let it be known that quite possibly no one stood more arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, in protesting the genocide of palestinians than Jews! The courage that it took to do this *is ancient* and it is powerful. They know what "never again" means.
A very long line of Jews in cuffs going into a very long line of NYPD commandeered buses after taking over Grand Central Station for Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
@jvplive
@IfNotNowOrg
@JFREJNYC
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@rafaelshimunov
Yeah we need to talk about the... weaponization of fear. No other racialised community does this and we are targeted all the time. I am at a loss as to how to address it meaningfully.
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I resent deeply that "I have a partner" works better to deter men intent on pursuing me than just saying "I'm not interested". my partner doesn't own me, and men 'trying it' are answerable to me first, not my partner.
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@GoodishIntent
@shailinthomas
it's just so satisfying to hear him say "male player" *instantly*. The cut-off. that beautiful cut-off.
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If your solution is to let privileged wfh folks have access to a vax with a better safety profile while pushing a more risky vax to more vulnerable people who may not receive info on vitt symptoms and who may not be taken srsly at a hospital, your pandemic response is bullshit.
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@Twitter
@TwitterSupport
please verify
@deonandan
and
@jkwan_md
med - both very important canadian voices in this pandemic!
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I was just talking about it with a friend the other day. Time is of the essence in PH strategy. You cannot sit on numbers. You have to disseminate info and act.
Understand why I was pissed about the silence of the Ontario science table yet? If not, give it 3 weeks.
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@DFisman
ON-specific but still preprint: "In both childcare and primary school settings, each doubling of class size from 8 to 15 to 30 more than doubled the outbreak size and student-days lost, by factors of 2-5, respectively 2.5-4.5, depending on the scenario."
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