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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

I teach two courses in gender & politics at UW. The Provost sent out a wholly inadequate email this morning re: the violent attack targeting people in a gender studies class. 🧵

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This is not "heartbreaking," it's basic consequences. If you'd like a story on something heartbreaking, speak with those who've lost a loved one at LTCs because of bad policy. DO better, @WRRecordLetter

‘Heartbreaking’: Unvaccinated food services director to be suspended from 22-year job at Cambridge...

Summer Parsons admits she doesn’t know what she’s going to do.

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@annamdrake

2 years

This poster is ableist, stands in opposition to science, and gaslights people who wish to remain safe. It is an affront to public health and undermines a culture of safety and consent. Public health is not a preference, it is a right. @UWaterloo @UWaterlooPres #MaskUp

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@annamdrake

1 year

This is absolute bullshit. This is the university failing to acknowledge the culture of violence targeting people on the basis of sex and gender. It is part of a broader culture of violence against women, against queer & trans people & against racialized & Indigenous people.

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@annamdrake

1 year

Minimizing the nature of the problem and failing to name it is a root cause of this violence. @UWaterloo needs to acknowledge this targeted violence and take concrete steps to change the culture and protect those teaching and taking these courses.

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@annamdrake

1 year

Stop telling us "there's nothing more we can do" (something I was told) b/c this is bullshit. There's a lot more we can & need to do. These changes need to start now. I reject your statement: write one that does not dismiss the problem & that outlines next steps @UWaterlooPres

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@annamdrake

1 year

Give faculty, TAs, staff, and students tools and support to call out sexist, racist, anti-queer, anti-trans behaviour out without making us feel as though we're the problem for talking or that we'll be reprimanded for being "unfair" to the perpetrators.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

The "judicial process" is not the fucking target here. @UWaterloo needs to do better. Stop making the time and location of our classes publicly available. Start listening to people who tell you there's a problem.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

I have experienced threatening misogynistic behaviour from a student and my department chair (at the time) completely failed to address it. The university dismisses us on a regular basis and anyone expressing shock this happened isn't paying attention.

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@annamdrake

2 years

I moved my courses online this term when it became clear @UWaterloo would not protect its community from Covid transmission. My lecture course has almost doubled in size. Students want and deserve a safe learning environment @UWaterloo @UWaterlooPres @FAUWaterloo #MaskUp

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@annamdrake

1 year

The official message said: "Many news outlets and social media sources will share information on the events of Wednesday. I acknowledge that many people will speculate about the motivation for this attack; we must be patient and have confidence in the judicial process"

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@annamdrake

2 years

Last week, @UWaterloo brought back mask requirements in instructional settings. This is the right move (although they should be required in all indoor spaces). Many other universities are stubbornly refusing to do this, despite substantial health and safety risks, 🧵

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

A belated announcement: as of July 1st I will be an Associate Professor! I'm grateful for having tenure and am planning to use it to push harder for change. Thankful for supportive colleagues along the way.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

I would like a statement from @UWaterlooPres on the clear failure of @UWaterloo to adhere to Policy 34: Health, Safety, and Environment.🧵

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@annamdrake

26 days

It's just garbage policy after garbage policy in @fordnation . Most people are completely oblivious to the harms of repeated Covid infections: this will not only make that worse, it also removes one of the few public mechanisms to help people make informed risk calculations.

Dr Thomas Piggott (He/Him) MD PhD

@twpiggott

26 days

Deeply disappointed to learn that funding has been cancelled for the wastewater surveillance program in Ontario. This has been critical information not only for COVID-19, but other infectious disease threats (Influenza, RSV, MPox, Polio & now H5N1) in Ontario.

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@annamdrake

5 months

This is such an important initiative driven by students at @UWaterloo . I've seen far more students than usual struggling over the past two "back to normal" years, ill multiple times a term (and for much longer) & constantly struggling to catch up. It doesn't have to be this way.

Ryan Tennant

@ryantennant_

5 months

Students, faculty, staff and alums at #UWaterloo are asking for a town hall with senior admin to discuss COVID safety measures on campus. If so inclined, please share widely with UW-affiliated folks who may be interested in signing. Full Letter:

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@annamdrake

1 year

@StMarysGenHosp This is a reprehensible move. There is nothing "friendly" about removing protections for our most vulnerable community members. Newborns, people recovering from major surgery & those with conditions that make them susceptible will be at greater risk. Reinstate masks now.

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@annamdrake

5 months

The downplaying of Covid-19 in this story on the doubled instances of Strep A in Waterloo region is irresponsible. Most egregious is the neglect to recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children (these are only mentioned for adults).

Local cases of potentially fatal invasive strep A infections doubled in 2023

The number of cases of invasive strep A infections in Waterloo Region more than doubled last year compared to 2022.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

3 years

My book "Activism Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy" is officially out today!

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@annamdrake

2 years

@UWaterloo @WaterlooSci @uwaterloohealth @UWaterlooLife @WaterlooMath @uwaterlooARTS @WaterlooENG @envwaterloo Thank you for doing this: it is long overdue and much-needed. I would like to see this extended to all indoor spaces (esp. hallways, offices) due to the airborne nature of the virus. @UWaterloo @UWaterlooPres @FAUWaterloo

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@annamdrake

9 months

@ChandraPasma Thank you so much for doing this. Clean air will do so much to improve learning, reduce illness, and help parents who struggle having to take so much time away from work to care for sick children.

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@annamdrake

2 years

The failure to require masks puts everyone at risk of an airborne virus: one with not only short-term acute effects, but long-term harms--more of which continue to be documented. We know 2-way masking is far more effective than 1-way masking, making this a collective action issue

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@annamdrake

2 months

Do you think @sflecce 's focus on vape sensors rather than cleaning virus-filled air is ridiculous? Want transparency on the rising number of sick days this is causing? So does @ONSchoolSafety

Protecting ALL Ontario Students, organized by Ontario School Safety

We are calling on the Ontario Government to improve the indoor air quality of ou… Ontario School Safety needs your support for Protecting ALL Ontario Students

www.gofundme.com

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@annamdrake

1 month

I am one of the researchers in the areas of protest, rights, & social movements at @UWaterloo who have written a public statement in response to UW’s formal notice to end the encampment

Statement from UW experts & demands from UW/WLU community members opposing UW’s formal notice to...

NB: This document contains a statement by UW researchers in the areas of protest, rights, and social movements followed by three demands that members of the broader UW and Laurier communities are...

docs.google.com

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

3 years

My book arrived today! Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy (UBC Press) comes out soon. You can pre-order it here: @UBCPress @PSCIuWaterloo

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

I wrote a piece for @IRPP on the racist double-standards in our responses to the Ottawa occupation and our institutional failure to take democratic equality seriously.

So-called “Freedom Convoy” is a symptom of a deeply unequal society

Police treatment of Freedom Convoy protesters compared to others including Black and Indigenous people reveals an entrenched double standard.

policyoptions.irpp.org

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@annamdrake

2 years

Another day, another massive failure from @UWaterloo @UWaterlooPres . Received yet another "health and safety" update for a campus continuing to ignore Covid transmission, complete with an insulting and hollow "mask friendly" note. Our community deserves better @FAUW #MaskUp

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@annamdrake

1 year

A moment of silence when the problem is not naming the sexist, racist, and anti-trans violence underpinning attacks like this. We don't want your silence: speak up and change this hateful culture.

University of Waterloo

@UWaterloo

1 year

Today at 3:15pm, our campus community will gather in the Arts Quad in recognition of the shocking attack and trauma we endured yesterday. Remarks will begin at 3:30pm followed by a moment of silence at 3:37pm.

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@annamdrake

2 years

What does it take to look at this and continue to refuse protections? Compounded by the actively harmful messaging from @fordnation that it's ok to spread Covid (it's not) if @UWaterloo doesn't reinstate mask protections they are complicit @UWaterlooPres

Bill Comeau

@Billius27

2 years

Updated. #onhealth #covid19

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@annamdrake

1 year

The dean of arts sent out an email yesterday saying "our campus is safe" which spectacularly misses the point. the hate-motivated attack happened because of a culture of hate and violence directed at people on the basis of sex, gender, sexuality, & racism.

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@annamdrake

1 month

Last year I was the political theory section head for @cpsa_acsp . This year I am withdrawing my participation due to @mcgillu 's atrocious treatment of #OccupyMcGill & their request for solidarity and due to the AMPL strike.

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@annamdrake

1 year

I was glad to see @UWaterlooPres identify the problem yesterday. Now we need to work on change. There are lots of people on-campus who study and are impacted by these issues and who can make suggestions.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

@fordnation @JustinTrudeau You aren't determined to do a damned thing to keep classrooms safe or support our students. If you cared at all you'd have masks, ventilation, and support the education workers necessary for kids' success and well-being.

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@annamdrake

2 years

What does @UWaterloo have to say on its (no) mask policy given our government's recent and harmful announcement that Covid+ people are not required to isolate? Is our campus "isolation friendly"? Or will we offer protections in the face of provincial neglect? @UWaterlooPres @FAUW

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@annamdrake

2 years

The introduction to the policy states: "The University of Waterloo is committed to the prevention of illness and injury and strives to provide a safe work and study environment for its employees, students and visitors." The lack of Covid protections show otherwise.

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@annamdrake

1 year

A significant number of faculty members of @PSCIuWaterloo have signed a call for @UWaterloo to reinstate masks. We urge @UWaterlooPres to do the right thing by our students and community, to follow evidence-based policy & #BringBackMasks @uwaterlooARTS @CTVKitchener @WR_Record

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@annamdrake

9 months

I wrote this with two wonderful colleagues. As 1 in 34 Ontarians currently have COVID it is crucial we take action. Masking is a social justice issue. There can be no meaningful inclusion & no equity without collective care & action. #MaskUP

Universities need to take lead role in providing COVID-safe learning

Universities should lead the next wave of Covid-19 response as a new strain spreads this fall.

policyoptions.irpp.org

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@annamdrake

2 years

@Sflecce Now thank educators by paying them as if you actually value them and ensure they have a safe work environment with protections against an airborne virus.

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@annamdrake

4 months

If you want everyone to belong at @UWaterloo then make our campus accessible for immunocompromised & disabled people. Classrooms & lecture halls still register poor Co2 readings in an ongoing pandemic & there are few masks in sight. There is no pride in ableism.

UWaterloo Alumni

@uwaterlooalumni

4 months

@UWaterloo is proud to celebrate the contributions and achievements of women in our global community. As we celebrate their impact on the University and the world, we continue to work together to ensure that everyone belongs at #UWaterloo . #UWaterlooalumni

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

There is no reasonable reading of this policy compatible with the current failure to require masks on-campus. @UWaterloo 's own stated principles on health and safety are in violation of its actions. I want @UWaterlooPres 's response & attention to this neglect. #BringBackMasks

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@annamdrake

1 year

As a feminist who values intersectionality, equity, & justice I mask in public spaces. As an academic with relative job security I will be loud & unapologetic about requiring masking as a praxis of inclusion & equity from my institutions, including @cpsa_acsp & @UWaterloo

Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

Next week is the annual @cpsa_acsp conference, held at @YorkUniversity . Yesterday, the association released its message on masking. I have some thoughts 🧵

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

This statement: "The University will take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances to protect the health and safety of its employees, students and visitors" is neglected. Masks are a reasonable precaution, and are very easy to implement.

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@annamdrake

2 years

Pediatric ICUs are over-capacity, surgeries are cancelled, we have no kid's pain medicine, daily code blacks, excruciating ER wait times, and we get...this. Resign @fordnation #BringBackMasks

Doug Ford

@fordnation

2 years

Now more than ever, Ontarians need a little extra help. That’s why we’re extending the gas tax cut for another year — so you can keep more of your money. Extending the tax cut will save the average Ontario household an extra $195 per year.

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@annamdrake

1 year

I am somewhat heartened by this last part, but it needs to be the dominant message. Masking is a social justice issue. Without masking, our conference--in a field that studies power--is abelist and exclusionary.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

Moreover, staff are explicitly prohibited from even *asking* people to wear masks. It says "University employees, students and visitors are expected to take responsibility for their own safety and actions, and the impact of those actions on others." ..

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@annamdrake

2 years

@UWaterloo states "The health and safety of individuals is of the utmost concern in every area of University operations." Current practice shows this is not the case. Students, faculty, and staff are exposed to an unsafe work environment.

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@annamdrake

2 years

The impact of our collective actions on others is not something @UWaterloo 's actions currently take into account.

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@annamdrake

9 days

Happy National Indigenous Peoples' day: an event @UWaterloo is choosing to celebrate by issuing an illegal trespass notice to @OccupyUW

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

3 years

@GaucherMeg Yes! That story is better than a Santa photo.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

7 months

Stares at @UWaterloo @UWLibrary . As we wrap up the end of term, how many students will get sick--again--because they're breathing in unfiltered, virus-filled air? No transparency & no accountability re: the health & safety of our learning spaces needs to stop. #CleanTheAir

Aranet Home

@aranet_home

10 months

🏫📚 There's nothing wrong with checking CO2 levels if a school has nothing to hide. In fact, open and transparent testing provides valuable insights into the health and safety of our children while they're in class. #AirQualityMatters #ChildSafety #HealthySchools #CO2

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@annamdrake

1 year

As we gear up for exam season at @UWaterloo its clear students will be writing with people who currently have COVID-19. Masks are not required. Why are we doing this to our students, @UWaterlooPres ? We are effectively asking them to put themselves in harm's way to "succeed."

Tara Moriarty

@MoriartyLab

1 year

@LisaAMcCorkell @EricTopol @NatureRevMicro Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 9-15, 2023 ONTARIO: VERY HIGH About 1 in every 36 people is infected.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

This is unacceptable. We all need to put pressure on @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP NOW to release the Health Canada approved boosters immediately. This government does not care about kids or about a safe return to school. Outrageous.

Nili Kaplan-Myrth MD PhD

@nilikm

2 years

I am FURIOUS. Just got a call from @OttawaHealth saying @ONThealth refuses to allow us to give #CovidVaccine this weekend. Instead they’ll delay to the bitter end of the summer. They won’t let us give children 5-11y the layer of protection that @GovCanHealth recommends. #BoostON

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@annamdrake

2 years

@angelarooke1 I love this! The boxed lunches are a great move.

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@annamdrake

2 years

When people tell you they can't do their jobs, believe them.

Cynthia Mulligan

@CityCynthia

2 years

NEW: from Health Minister Elliott's news conference Despite rising cases she says "we are now in the stage where peak of pandemic has passed us...we need to get on with our lives and learn to live with covid" She also says will stay course, no need to go back to mandatory masks

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

25 days

We need more public health departments to step up and call for @fordnation to keep the wastewater monitoring program. This information is crucial for understanding, and responding to, which diseases are circulating and when they're spreading rapidly @ROWPublicHealth

Councillor Caton

@CouncillorCaton

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Thanks to @WDGPublicHealth board of health for supporting my motion to urge the Ministry of the Environment to not cancel the infectious disease wastewater monitoring program. Professionals and the public rely on this data for personal risk and public health responses.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

When you decide to be in a public space unmasked this is what your actions are supporting. #BringBackMasks

Joe Oliver

@joeolivermd

2 years

“No room in Hamilton’s intensive care unit for four-year-old rescued from house fire”

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@annamdrake

2 months

@Sflecce ...have you talked to a parent ever? Making sure kids aren't constantly ill & wet-coughing all over each other in poorly ventilated classrooms is a much bigger obstacle--& one that you're responsible for @ONSchoolSafety

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@annamdrake

2 years

And if you have job security, you really need to step up in taking these actions. Staff and precarious faculty are especially vulnerable. Use your voice for good. Wear a mask.

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@annamdrake

2 years

the exclusion of immunocompromised people--and here policies on equity are also violated--and call, loudly, for masks. File a grievance through your university. Leave a paper trail.

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@annamdrake

2 years

Find your university's list of official policies. Look up health & safety. Link to it, publicly, and detail the ways the university is failing to meet its own policy requirements (and if they don't have mask mandates they are) and facts about transmission, long-covid,

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@annamdrake

9 days

The messages @UWaterloo has been communicating to faculty during its escalating denunciations of @OccupyUW underscores the extent to which @UWaterlooPres either does not understand what's happening or is deliberately and willfully trying to change the narrative

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

All universities have policies they're violating. If they won't do the right thing on their own, set out these actionable failures publicly @uofg @ConestogaC @UofT @YorkUniversity Please tag your university & share.

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@annamdrake

8 months

@Prof_J_Lawton @MarieSnyder27 I'm sorry to hear this. I'm refusing to attend f-2-f only conferences on principle. The lack of accommodations is thoughtless in every sense of the word.

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@annamdrake

1 year

I am calling on others attending CPSA to express support for masking: both by calling out the institutional failures to require collective protections and by wearing masks at the conference. Equity requires action.

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@annamdrake

2 years

I want my child in a safe classroom (ventilated and with mask mandates), and for the people who support her education to be valued by our government: paid and treated in a way that respects their worth. You have a long way to go in this, @Sflecce

Stephen Lecce

@Sflecce

2 years

100% of parents want their children in class. We will stand up to ensure all kids learn in-class without disruption, right to June. Because it's about the kids, right??

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@annamdrake

2 years

our collapsing healthcare system, and a crisis in pediatric hospitalization. Many people have been pushing universities (and other institutions) to do the right thing. This is so important. Here's what i've found useful:

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

These institutional positions do not align with science, any meaningful understanding of public health, and are part of a system of power that excludes and disproportionately harms the most vulnerable in our society

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

9 months

This. There is a huge dissonance between people who say they value inclusion, equity, justice, etc. & who don't wear a mask. I work at @UWaterloo and so many colleagues aren't living their stated principles. Masking is a social justice issue. Check your privilege & step up.

Christopher Canning

@cg_canning

9 months

There are a lot of high profile “progressive” folks on this app who say absolutely nothing about the importance of masking or COVID prevention. Now is the time to switch gears. Now is the time to pay attention. It’s always been the time but here’s your second (twentieth) chance.

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@annamdrake

2 years

@Sflecce @KHollandMPP How dare you talk about honoring Fox as a way to sell a (completely false) "back to normal" narrative. Kids who are immune-compromised as a result of cancer treatments cannot safely attend schools that have abandoned Covid protections.

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@annamdrake

2 months

@UWaterloo Solidarity with students in support of Palestine. It's important we uphold the right to protest. I also call on @UWaterloo to disclose & divest all funds & investments from all companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, occupation, & genocide. #faculty4palestine

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

Next week is the annual @cpsa_acsp conference, held at @YorkUniversity . Yesterday, the association released its message on masking. I have some thoughts 🧵

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

8 months

There is no commitment to transparency at @UWaterloo . My efforts to have @UWLibrary stock Aranet4 detectors as part of their equipment lending library have been rejected (currently under appeal). If @UWaterloo cared about clean air we'd have the tools to check it.

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦

@shallit43

8 months

@annamdrake @UWaterloo A year ago, when my wife was observing teaching in a UW class, our portable CO2 monitor registered 1200 ppm CO2. We complained and were told that there had been a blocked air filter. But why isn't Waterloo paying a co-op student to go around and measure CO2 levels every day?

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@annamdrake

5 months

Our public institutions have failed our kids in unforgivable ways. We need more organizations like @ONSchoolSafety advocating for kids' health. We need high-quality @thenarwhalca -style investigative journalism on the institutional failure re: Covid and kids.

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@annamdrake

4 months

We need to see this work reflected on-campus. Science tells us Covid is a multi-system virus with long-term health impacts. We have overwhelming data demonstrating the need for clean air & two-way masking. Science means very little if we ignore it. #UWaterlooSci @UWaterlooPres

Waterloo Science

@WaterlooSci

4 months

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 📷! 💙 At #UWaterlooSci we are constantly inspired by the remarkable women in our faculty and their determination to make a difference through science. #InspireInclusion @UWaterloo @uwaterlooalumni Learn more:

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@annamdrake

2 years

@ointersexo @UWaterloo @UWaterlooPres Exposing people to Covid (by failing to institute protections) has a disproportionate impact on immune-compromised people.

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@annamdrake

1 month

Looks like @UWaterloo is escalating re: the @OccupyUW encampment. A "formal notice to end encampment and remove all structures" was posted yesterday. This is not only an affront to freedom of speech on-campus, but an implicit threat of the use of force.

OccupyUW

@OccupyUW

1 month

Our message to admin in response to the ‘formal notice to end the encampment’: Your intimidation tactics don’t work. We are not interested in talking about anything but our demands. The students remain more steadfast and resolved than ever- we will not lose sight of Gaza.

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@annamdrake

1 year

@UWaterloo @uwaterloohealth @uwaterlooARTS @envwaterloo @WaterlooSci @WaterlooMath @WaterlooENG @UWaterlooLife This abandons every single immunocompromised person and those who care for them. It also disregards people's long-term health and student's success and stability during term. So many of my students were ill last term without mask requirements. Do better.

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@annamdrake

10 months

As we prepare to go back to school at the beginning of another COVID surge we need to make sure kids have a safe learning environment. With @fordnation failing to do anything, it's time for a legal challenge

Protecting ALL Ontario Students, organized by Ontario School Safety

We are calling on the Ontario Government to improve the indoor air quality of ou… Ontario School Safety needs your support for Protecting ALL Ontario Students

www.gofundme.com

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@annamdrake

5 months

Kids are overwhelmingly out of date on Covid vaccines: only 0.3% of kids age 0-11 were up-to-date as of Dec. 2023, which is below the (already appallingly low) national average

Waterloo Region COVID-19 booster uptake below national average

Nationally, 15 per cent of Canadians have received the latest version of the COVID-19 booster vaccine. In Waterloo Region, 11 per cent of residents have gotten a booster dose in the last six months.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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Re-posting this article I wrote with two great colleagues at @UWaterloo because universities are still failing--quite spectacularly--to take basic measures to protect people from Covid-19.

Universities need to take lead role in providing COVID-safe learning

Universities should lead the next wave of Covid-19 response as a new strain spreads this fall.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

University of Waterloo's no-mask policy poster on purple background. Contains a picture of a mask, with small text reading: "We support your choice to wear a mask and as you to respect other's choices, too!" Here, "respect other's" is highlighted.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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@wrdsb Where can we find up-to-date and classroom specific information about air quality readings and HEPA usage in classrooms? We need transparency and accountability to avoid another year of absences due to school-caused illness.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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Public health continues to be an absolute failure. This is embarrassing & will lead to yet more deaths & chronic illness. Vaccination rates are shamefully low & only a small percentage of the population wears N95 masks to try to prevent transmission.

Toronto Public Health

@TOPublicHealth

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1/5 Today marks the end of an era as we wind down our emergency #COVID19 pandemic response & officially close the doors to our vaccination clinics. 🎉

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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My article "Deliberative Democracy and Systemic Racism" is out today in @CJPS_RCSP . It's open access and you can view it at the link below.

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

1 year

#OpenAccess from @CJPS_RCSP - Deliberative Democracy and Systemic Racism - - @annamdrake #FirstView

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

Apologies for the lack of alt-text. I've retweeted this with the image description and have described the poster below:

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

Kieran Moore does not deserve to have his medical license. He is worse than useless: he's responsible for needless, preventable suffering & death. There should be a massive lawsuit against him and @fordnation for lying and gross negligence #BringBackMasks

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

@fordnation @C_Mulroney Stop gutting the greenbelt and support sustainable public transit @fordnation

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

Every single person working at & attending @UWaterloo ought to be up in arms about the removal of mask requirements. I want my department @PSCIuWaterloo to speak out. Studying power involves an additional responsibility to hold institutions accountable. @UWaterlooPres 1/3

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

I asked the board to require masks at the conference, noting it is the least we can do to protect others and to make attendance inclusive and accessible.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

Very large text reading: "Masks AREN'T required but may be preferred." Poster has the University of Waterloo logo on it.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

1 year

The official position is that @cpsa_acsp will follow "the public health guidelines from the Ontario government" and @YorkUniversity 's protocols. Both of these are wholly inadequate

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

This man is absolutely useless and does not care one bit about public health or our in-crisis healthcare system.

Global Kingston

@CKWS_TV

2 years

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says he’ll be considering whether to make a stronger recommendation on masking in about two weeks after looking closely at data on flu cases.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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This. Honestly, what is the point of having a discipline that studies power if we're going to continue to support an institution that does this? @cpsa_acsp

Dr. Ethel Tungohan

@tungohan

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Based on the egregious show of force against peaceful student protestors where we saw a cop pull a gun on a McGill student, McGill's unwillingness to accept their demands (and no, sham conversations don't count) & AMPD's strike... ...is Congress REALLY still happening? 👀

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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The day after @UWaterlooPres posted a notice to end the encampment established by @OccupyUW we see this formal denunciation of the crimes committed (and ongoing) by Netanyahu and Gallant. It's beyond time to listen to @OccupyUW and for @UWaterloo to disclose & divest.

Erica Ifill

@wickdchiq

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Wow I honestly never thought this would actually happen

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@annamdrake

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@ArielTroster @GovCanHealth Argh: reading the first part of this sentence with my heart in my throat!! Kids please (please please).

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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Basically an admission that 1) too many kids will get COVID that we can't/won't keep track, and 2) we don't care anyway. Not to mention ignoring the spillover into kids' families and the broader community (a majority of whom do not have 3rd doses). @fordnation

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

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New COVID-19 guidance for schools states: "Given the widespread transmission and inability to test all symptomatic individuals, schools will not be routinely notifying students/pupils in classes with a positive case." #onpoli

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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If @Sflecce cared at all about students' well-being & ability to concentrate the focus would be on clean (virus- & wildfire smoke-free) air: on HEPAs, ventilation, & Co2 monitors for accountability. The few readings we have show very poor air quality @ONSchoolSafety

CBC News

@CBCNews

2 months

The Ontario government is introducing new measures to crack down on cellphone use and vaping in schools. .

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

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Reinstate Mandatory Masking at the University of Waterloo - Sign the Petition! via @CdnChange

Sign the Petition

Reinstate Mandatory Masking at the University of Waterloo

www.change.org

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 years

Sending an email on Nov. 23 titled "due soon: your 2022 Fall grades" is a hostile act.

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Anna Drake

@annamdrake

2 months

The list of people signing the letter in support of @OccupyUW and their right to protest is growing. With the additional--& completely unnecessary--surveillance @UWaterloo has installed it's even more important to stand in solidarity.

UW & WLU Faculty, Librarians and Staff Letter in Support of Student Encampment

As faculty, librarians, and staff at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, we unequivocally support our students’ right to peaceful assembly and protest in solidarity with...

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Manila

@Manilaov

2 months

Day #3 of the @OccupyUW student encampment sees increasing support. Meanwhile, additional surveillance cameras have been installed around the area.

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