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Irish biorisk analyst @brownecfm.bsky.social explains why we're now in the 7th year of an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus, with #NEIS -

“In effect, 2019 has become the status quo that almost everyone needs to cling to. This need is pathological in nature.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and [insert #OngoingPandemic or #N95 mask, whichever is more triggering for you].

* Alternatively, insert this summary of #LongCOVID, courtesy of @elisaperego78.bsky.social -

www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/6/...

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I was really interested in learning more about the health director driving @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social's exemplary messaging, in stark contrast to most other public health authorities who are continuing to ignore the #OngoingPandemic -

How to keep pushing forward: Lessons learned as CMA president - Healthy Debate "The CMA presidency has been one of the most challenging, and humbling, roles of my career, but also one of the most rewarding and inspiring."

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In summing up her tenure as @cmadocs.bsky.social president, Dr. Reimer never mentioned the #OngoingPandemic, but instead focused on wildfires & (& not unironically) misinformation -

healthydebate.ca/2025/05/topi...

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As the cost of ignoring an #OngoingPandemic accrue, expect to see a slow pivot, which may begin as an exercise in face-saving semantics.

Instead of saying #COVID or #LongCOVID, #Unions will demand " #RemoteWork -

While I try to keep my focus on an #OngoingPandemic governments continue to deny, #LongCOVID as an outcome of that, & the failure of legacy #Media to talk truth to power - #Fascism keeps muscling in.

Unfortunately, it's all connected. Don't look away -

bsky.app/profile/timo...

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Instead of robust reportage on an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus - still ignored by most governments - the #BBC has found a way to monetize the anxiety that non-maskers reflexively project onto us.

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In sum, it's not a lack of data or medical understanding that stalled our response to this #OngoingPandemic - but a profound & egregious lack of political will.

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And in the 7th year of this #OngoingPandemic, what are governments doing?

▶️ Stigmatizing & silencing those living with Long COVID;

▶️ Closing Long COVID clinics;

▶️ Still claiming to be "following the science" while co-opting/hijacking #PublicHealth for political self-interest;

A #Media that can ignore an #OngoingPandemic is equally adept at ignoring the lunacy of an unfit US president, dragging the world to the precipice of WWIII -

This will resonate loudly with 🇨🇦 Canadians living with #LongCOVID, who have been stigmatized, silenced, & abandoned by governments, still claiming to be "following the science", while failing to find the exit of this #OngoingPandemic.

Rubber-stamped by incompetent #PublicHealth, of course -

@durhamhealthnc.bsky.social continues to model first class #PublicHealth messaging in the 7th year of an #OngoingPandemic, that most other public health departments everywhere else, continue to ignore -

As a layperson who has seen governments mismanage an #OngoingPandemic of #COVID, I can explain why I am always particularly worried when virologists say they are not worried - yet:

"As an influenza virologist, I can explain what this means and why I am not particularly worried by it – yet".

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I predict that when there is a sea change to protect #GenerationA from the harms of an #OngoingPandemic at daycares & school, #PublicHealth & governments will save face by reframing infectious aerosols as "air pollution" & " wildfire smoke".

Isn't that so, @ipaccanada.bsky.social?

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"Prior to the pandemic, Val Verde Unified had a chronic absenteeism rate of 8.3%, but after the pandemic, it jumped to 35%, meaning more than a third of the district’s students were considered chronically absent".

(* Not rocket science 🚀 owing to #LongCOVID & an #OngoingPandemic).

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But to have indispensable utility & value to their respective communities, these grassroots media outlets will need to do more than just carry the government line (as corporate/legacy media are currently doing), & will have to actually confront the #OngoingPandemic -

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.

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Support 🇨🇦 #Media outlets that confront the #OngoingPandemic, & cancel subscriptions to those that don't. Enough is enough. We're 6 years in, & governments are still claiming to be "following the science", while ignoring #COVIDIsAirborne, & #LongCOVID -

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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The #Media everywhere, continues to fail to hold governments to account, for ignoring an #OngoingPandemic now in its 7th untrammelled year -

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Depressing too, the omission of words/phrases like " #N95", "masks", "clean air", "upgraded #IAQ", "ventilation", "filtration", #HEPAs", etc.

Because that's what would proactively "free up clinical resources during times of strain": by preventing infections upstream, in an #OngoingPandemic.

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"Social prescribing" is the new panacea offered to offset the continued harms of an #OngoingPandemic", now in its 7th year. By @uoftpandemics.bsky.social no less.

We've gone full circle from social distancing to social prescribing, all in the span of one pandemic -

bsky.app/profile/uoft...

“This kind of COVID-minimizing #PublicHealth messaging is why we still can't find the exit to this #OngoingPandemic, now in its 7th untrammelled year.

People who live in endemic malaria areas go to great lengths to avoid malaria.

Do the same.”

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We can remove the pump handle of infection (as did #JohnSnow) - by donning masks + cleaning the air; or continue to stumble on in the 7th year of this #OngoingPandemic, terminally surprised, tripping over clinical epiphanies we refuse to act on.

@ipaccanada.bsky.social @cmadocs.bsky.social

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This kind of COVID-minimizing #PublicHealth messaging is why we still can't find the exit to this #OngoingPandemic, now in its 7th untrammelled year.

People who live in endemic malaria areas go to great lengths to avoid malaria.

Do the same.

Early Warning through Genomic Surveillance in Epidemic Management Public health surveillance is essential for detecting outbreaks and ensuring health security worldwide. Civilization has faced outbreaks of varying scales and impacts throughout history, highlighting....

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And these authors always address abstract pandemics located somewhere in the future, rather than the #OngoingPandemic we are currently living through, now in its 7th untrammelled year -

www.intechopen.com/chapters/122...

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A thread on how governments quietly schooled the #Media to disengage with the #OngoingPandemic -

bsky.app/profile/tani...

You know what would be truly humbling, @cmadocs.bsky.social?

If in the 7th year of an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus, you dropped #DropletDogma, admitted you were wrong, & that #COVID is not just a cold.

Then we'll talk about real advocacy, not this performative nonsense-

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In the meantime, a small coffee table book will do: one that we can drop off at, or post to -

▶️ #PublicHealth officials (remember them? Yeah, me neither),

▶️ Self-interested politicians still claiming to be "following the science", in the 7th year of an #OngoingPandemic with #NEIS,

Post-COVID-19 Condition in Canada: What we know, what we don’t know, and a framework for action

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While this 2022 report on #LongCOVID by Canada's Chief Science Advisor, @chiefscican.bsky.social, should have resulted in a sea change in 🇨🇦 Canada's approach to the #OngoingPandemic, it was roundly ignored -

science.gc.ca/site/science...

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Ask yourself when last you read a report of a #Union demanding governments #CleanTheAir in the workplace (including schools & healthcare settings).

Yeah, me neither.

We are being utterly failed by our governments, #PublicHealth, media, & unions in an #OngoingPandemic, now in its 7th year.

Yukon government independent panel will start an immediate an independent inquiry in the Yukon education system. - Yukon News After ongoing criticism, the Yukon government has appointed a four-member independent panel to lead a comprehensive review of the Department of Education.

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Will the panel review poor indoor air quality in #Yukon schools, in an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious #AirborneVirus, which the @yukon.ca continues to ignore?

Probably not.

yukon-news.com/2026/03/18/y...