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@PHealthGnome

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I don’t make a mistake. I poisoned the data set used to train AI in order to preserve human jobs in the future.

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3 years

There are protests pretty much 365 days a year on parliament hill. I can’t recall any of them being condemned by both the Terry Fox Foundation and the Royal Canadian Legion.

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Reminder that the cancellation of surgeries isn’t part of the lockdown. They are the consequence of letting the situation get so bad that hospitals start to break.

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I think the general public doesn’t understand that the Omicron wave was actually really bad in terms of serious outcomes.

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3 years

Evidently COVID spreads fairly well in schools once you remove public health measures.

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3 years

COVID isn’t over at the end of March. We have just decided to stop caring about it.

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3 years

The people who still mask but don’t cover their nose are confusing.

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2 years

CUPE is striking for the rights of all workers in Ontario. Support them.

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3 years

I hate living in interesting times. I want to go back to the boring times.

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I'm starting to suspect that some of those that work forces are the same that honk hornses.

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3 years

I do not like the idea of symptomatic testing in pharmacies. We should not be sending people that we suspect of having COVID into an indoor public setting that is frequented but vulnerable populations. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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3 years

I hope the pot banger and the balcony curser run in the next municipal election.

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3 years

Canada Day is going to be really awkward this year after the anti-public health protestors started using the Canadian flag as a protest symbol.

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3 years

I give you permission to throw out your handwritten notes from undergrad.

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3 years

0 kids died of bear attacks inside Ontario schools last year. I am therefore suggesting that we allow bears to freely wander the classrooms. It’s time we let this bear hysteria end.

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2 years

So there’s no money in the education budget to cover a cost of living increase for the custodian at my kid’s school but there is enough money to write cheques for all the parents?

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3 years

I’d assume that if we have evidence to support 5 day isolation we’d share it. If we don’t, and it is an economic decision, we have an ethical duty to say so before someone infects a loved one thinking that they were no longer infectious.

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3 years

A reminder that the next little while is going to suck because someone convinced our government that you don’t need to press the brakes until after your car is wrapped around a tree.

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3 years

Several convoy supports told me that their end goal was to put me on trial and my eventual execution. I am sure many healthcare workers received similar threats. It's hard to find common ground with that.

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3 years

How many COVID shots will I take? As many as it takes. This isn’t all that complicated.

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3 years

My kids will not be returning to school next week regardless of what is announced today. If they don’t offer an online option, I will be accelerating their second dose and keeping them out of school for an additional 2 weeks.

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3 years

New COVID testing tool: Has anyone you live with left the house in the last week? If yes then you likely have COVID. If no then you might not have COVID

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3 years

Everyone remembers last year when the Prime Minister was isolating due to a high risk exposure to COVID and still managed to safely hold press conferences every day? I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine that.

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2 years

Every parent has seen how fast COVID began to spread in schools after masking was removed. PHO has advised reintroducing masking. We have decided not to because we think we have enough ICU beds. Let’s just ignore that school spread is decimating the healthcare workforce.

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3 years

These restrictions are being put in place because our hospitals are strained. Let’s check in on who is disproportionately using up our hospital resources.

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The truckers are now endemic. The only thing left to do is for the city to learn how to live with the protestors.

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3 years

Every time I mention distancing I get a comment that says “COVID is airborne so distancing doesn’t matter!” Stop acting like you’ve never taken a step back from someone who farted before.

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3 years

“Being kind to people who choose to mask” is the wrong way to frame things if you want to encourage voluntary masking. Masking is about protecting your community.

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3 years

The hesitancy towards Moderna confuses me. It is the Dolly Parton vaccine!

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3 years

If you are on the fence about vaccinating your kids I understand. All I can do is encourage you to look at all the very smart experts who are incredibly excited to vaccinate their kids.

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2 years

My children have missed more school so far this year than they did over the last two COVID years.

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2 years

For the Charter of Rights and Freedoms aficionados out there, the notwithstanding clause means the government is knowingly violating your rights.

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2 years

I'm getting increasingly worried about what is happening inside hospitals. This started with COVID making them short staffed and now it is resulting in patients becoming infected. That this is happening on top of burnout and with a public that has largely given up doesn't help.

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4 years

People realize that when the hospital system breaks we aren't just looking at COVID deaths, right? There isn't a separate ICU system for COVID vs non-COVID. Services get cut back in response to capacity and staffing issues, not because of lockdowns.

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2 years

Wore a helmet on my bike ride today because I'm living in fear of acquired brain injuries.

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2 years

Wait until the antivaxers learn that there is already a polio vaccine mandate.

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3 years

I’m seeing more framing of mask wearing as a personal protection strategy rather than a population based strategy focused on source control. The frustrating thing is that I’m seeing it from people that should know the difference.

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2 years

The unexplained hepatitis in children sure seems like a good reason to dust off that risk communication manual we should have been using the entire pandemic. Put a trusted expert in front of cameras to calmly explain what we know, what we don’t, and what is being done.

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3 years

At least we have toilet paper this time.

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2 years

Canada is experiencing a critical nursing shortage. We talked to 5 doctors and one nurse to find out why.

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3 years

Oh, you say you don’t like lockdowns? Name 3 things you are doing to avoid the need for one.

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I’m no epidemiologist but it might be a good idea to execute a mitigation plan before Christmas parties do their thing.

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3 years

Vaccinations are a prevention measure. Testing is a surveillance measure. Stop trying to claim surveillance measures are reasonable alternatives to prevention measures.

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3 years

The victims told us, we wrote a report, the prime minister publicly apologized, Gord Downie wrote a book/album. We can't feign surprise every time we find evidence of the geocide we committed as recently as 1996. That's a child's strategy to avoid responsibility.

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2 years

Some people are really upset that I strongly believe masking in schools should be reinstated. Wait until they hear my thoughts about the Immunization of School Pupils Act.

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3 years

A small percentage of a very large number can still be an unacceptably large number. Many people have trouble with this concept which makes it a nice angle for grifters.

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3 years

I have the distinct impression that our 4th wave response might look better if our Premier wasn’t locked in a basement to stop him from interfering in the federal election.

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3 years

Just so we are clear, protesting outside vaccine clinics is also unacceptable.

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3 years

Are there enough hospital beds for me to drive faster on a 400 series highway yet?

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3 years

No one goes into public health because they want power. It’s kind of silly that people accuse us of not wanting to give up power. We want to go back to promoting active travel, warning people about ticks, helping new parents, and giving out condoms.

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2 years

There will be a battle to reintroduce masking in the fall. This is why it is important to use precise language when explaining why mandates were dropped in the spring.

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3 years

There are many criticisms that can fairly be leveled against Ontario's pandemic response. I do not believe that "acted too fast" is one of them.

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2 years

So much COVID. This is going to be a rough few weeks.

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3 years

If there are protestors outside my office, does this mean I get to go to the cottage?

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2 years

This province would rather have a shortage of healthcare workers than fairly negotiate wages.

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3 years

Keeping COVID out of vulnerable settings is impossible when you have high community rates. Focused protection is a lie.

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Once you lose containment, Omicron moves through a congregate setting like nothing I’ve seen before. The vaccines seem to have a huge impact on severity. Thank science.

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3 years

I really wish the "outdoors = safe" narrative would end. Outdoors is safer, that is not the same as safe. You don't get to abandon public health measures just because you are outdoors.

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3 years

All COVID vaccines apparently have a major flaw. You need to take them in order to be protected.

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I just assume everyone I interact with might want to have unmasked interactions with an elderly loved one. That makes my masking risk assessment easy.

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3 years

We should probably be tracking and reporting one or both of: 1) Health care workers currently isolating due to COVID. 2) Heath care facilities currently experiencing a critical staffing shortage. Health care capacity is more than beds.

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3 years

This is March 2020 all over again.

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I hope we can all agree that the convoy organizers whose started goal was to overthrow the recently elected government and have the Governor General put them in charge did not have the best intentions.

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3 years

Volume 4 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's report on residential schools is titled "Missing Children and Unmarked Burials." These types of discoveries shouldn't be shocking. We knew about them. We put them in a report. People should probably read it.

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3 years

Full day kindergarten was a better idea when it wasn’t held over Zoom.

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2 years

If you criticized Canada accepting Syrian refugees but are very supportive of Canada accepting Ukrainian refugees, why do you think that is?

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3 years

As we near the end of the third March of 2020, I just want everyone to know that we’re tired. We’re so bloody tired.

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2 years

Thank science for vaccines. This wave would be disastrously bad without them. We need to get vaccines out to the rest of the world.

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3 years

Living with the virus doesn’t mean pretending the virus doesn’t exist.

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3 years

It seems like we are banking on all future variants with vaccine escape to be "mild" like omicron is. We should probably invest in capacity to deal with future variants.

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2 years

“Evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 reinfection adds risk of all-cause mortality, hospitalization and adverse health outcomes during acute and post-acute SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, and that the risk and burden may increase in a graded manner according to the number of infections.”

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2 years

Find our evidence brief on COVID-19 Omicron Sublineages BA.4 and BA.5: Evidence and Risk Assessment here:

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Treating exposed two doses individuals as being at low risk for infection and allowing them to work is an economic decision and a shitty one at that. Congratulations, now your entire workforce has COVID!

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So when this is all done, conservatives are going to invest heavily in our healthcare system and fund a child mental health campaign, right? Along with extra resources to promote healthy eating and an active lifestyle? Bike lanes and therapy for everyone!

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3 years

Calling for the removal of vaccination policies in healthcare is not a move I thought the province would make. I was expecting directive 6 to move to 3 doses. It's not like nosocomial infections have killed an unacceptable number of people or anything.

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4 years

Shout out to every health professional that now has to explain to their elderly parents that they should still get the AZ vaccine.

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I’ve heard rumours, but have yet to confirm, that a virtual learning option will be offered to parents. I will be taking this option. My children are not yet fully vaccinated and could be described as having pre-existing conditions. My main motivator for this is the lack of TTI.

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The biggest spread is still between people with no mask, or blatantly improperly masked, who are in close prolonged contact. There’s almost always a link to someone that is unvaccinated. It pays to remember that sometimes.

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The crazy thing about the percentage of long term care homes in outbreak being so high is that we changed the outbreak definition in an attempt to declare fewer outbreaks.

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2 years

I’m getting concerned about the amount of advertising for gambling apps. We should probably restrict its advertising, much like we restrict tobacco advertising, to support recovering addicts.

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If we were serious about going on the offense against COVID we would stop messing around with workplace outbreaks. That guidance needs to be updated.

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2 years

The dumbest thing about this wave is that there are cheap and non-disruptive waves to mitigate it. We just can’t be bothered.

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3 years

Directive #2 got updated last night. All non-urgent surgeries and procedures are now cancelled. We closed dentist offices before pausing construction.

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3 years

Did the RATs go to the postal codes with the highest incidence or just the ones with the closest proximity to Toronto?

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Folks should keep their eyes on North Bay. They are going all-out to control a VOC right now. That is a health unit that doesn’t fuck around.

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2 years

The talking points around Paxlovid and other treatments might get better uptake if you had the CMOH speak to the media.

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If Thunder Bay was part of the GTA, I think we would be taking their situation more seriously.

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The people who would benefit the most from rapid antigen test kits are not the people most likely to access them at Loblaws.

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The good news is that I have strong feeling that today will be the darkest day. Things are going to start getting brighter.

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I know multiple health units had to pull staff from vaccine clinics to manage caseload this week. Maybe accept the help?

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If only there were some low cost interventions we could use to prevent school closures due to staffing shortages. Please sir, my province is very sick.

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People need to stop going to work while sick.

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🚨Breaking: The province of Ontario has announced that long haired freaky people are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

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The interesting thing about masking mandates is that when they were in place, so much of our traced transmission occurred in social gatherings with no or questionable masking. We can post meta analysis vs internet graphs all day long but my experience says masking matters.

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I’ve been told some schools can’t open even if we change course this week. A bunch of them are under construction to upgrade ventilation systems. That’s kind of funny.

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First wave: Adrenaline Second wave: Anger Third wave: Hope Fourth wave: Despair

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I’m a little concerned that strengthening public health is not an election issue in the middle of a pandemic that showed our federal public health infrastructure was underfunded. We had no PPE stockpiled because no one approved the expense of replacing the expired stuff!

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Some kids have already started school and many more start next week. I’ve seen people get COVID wearing cloth masks, surgical masks, and N95s but most commonly they aren’t wearing any mask at all. The best mask for your kids is the one they are likely to wear for the entire day.

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Healthcare workers that isolate are still losing salary. How is this still a thing? Full pay top up for sick healthcare workers.

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So we can get back to having our governments respond to the pandemic tomorrow. Right?

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The issue is that when I see someone draped in the flag now, I immediately think that I should keep my distance from them. They may mean me harm.

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2 metres is a lot farther than some people think it is. I blame everyone who misrepresented how long 6 inches is.

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