Dr Paul Mackey
@auscandoc.bsky.social
Rural FP anesthetist formerly of Fort St John, BC, Canada. Trained in Aus and UK. Now doing rural locums in Canada. Blessed to live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc people.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... #MedSky “severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body.”
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
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Scott Atlas predicted COVID would kill 10,000 Americans and was a chief advocate of herd immunity via mass infection. Today, MAGA disinformation agents are very upset Fauci opposed any of this.
Sunday: I’ll do a quick fact check of this insane RFK Jr interview Monday: Up to 40 lies & it was only a 3 min clip! Tuesday: Ready to defend my 2nd PhD thesis on fascist quackery That's why @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & I are holding him accountable rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...
RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview
He's just creating work for us at this point
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"2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming" | Our new article in @pnas.org (open access): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming | PNAS
We employ a semiempirical approach combining climate model simulations and observational temperatures to assess the likelihood of recent global tem...
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“Every citizen-initiated referendum must become a Smith question with a desired outcome…A Smith autocracy works well for coal developers, AI data centres, oil barons and natural gas producers. But not for citizens who wish to question these priorities” #Alberta #AbPoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith’s Aims Only | The Tyee
Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive.
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Let’s unpack this post by NIH and CDC Director and self-made victim Jay Bhattacharya. 1. This was not misreporting. This is what RFK Jr. said in his interview. 2. Free speech was not “suspended”. If it had been no one would know who Bhattacharya is.
Influenza viruses need 2 things to replicate & spread: a journey (travel = transmission) & a receptive destination (the host, us). During the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza viruses were smashed flu by separating the things it needed-proximity & us. virologydownunder.com/during-covid...
During COVID-19, we smashed flu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza viruses didn't magically "disappear". They didn't just get swapped for SARS-CoV-2 (conspiracy theory). We didn't stop testing for influenza viruses (conspiracy ...
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"While we can't predict what exactly will happen from now with the virus's spread, any wishful thinking it wouldn't establish in local birds is past." www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Now bird flu has hit seagulls a 'super-spreader' event is more likely
Unlike other birds detected with the virus so far in Australia, seagulls travel beyond coastal environments to more urban and inland areas too.
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Natural immunity from a disease is not better than vaccine immunity; in fact, #vaccine immunity IS natural immunity without all of the dangers of the vaccine-preventable disease.
Natural immunity is not better than vaccine immunity
There is anti-vaccine belief that natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity. This post emphasizes that while both types of immunity are similar, vaccines provide a safer way to achieve…
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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Very good book too!
Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 7d agoGiven the recent COVID-19 origins revival and Fauci witchhunt, just a reminder that I have written a book that answers to the best of our knowledge the question; and dismantles the many disinformation campaigns around the various lab leak narratives. Free access: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
thehub.ca/2026/07/30/d... “when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of.” When there is no such probability, “it seems a bad method of compensating the injury done to certain classes of our people, to do another injury ourselves.”
Doug Ford is wrong: Why doing nothing at all is Canada’s best response to Trump’s tariffs
Everyone assumes Canada must hit back against Trump's tariffs. An economist argues the math says otherwise — retaliation could cost Canadians more than it costs the US.
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Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
TORONTO – In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can pu...
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Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.
@carlbergstrom.com a crow story for you (which I’m sure will come as no surprise). Friend driving on a forestry road noticed a large number of crows grouped in some trees. Then he noticed a dead crow on the road. He was able to avoid hitting it. Two days later at home he came out to discover /2
The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.
Local transmission of H5 bird flu confirmed in Australia, federal government says www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Local transmission of H5 bird flu confirmed in Australia
Federal agriculture minister Julie Collins says "local transmission has occurred" between greater crested terns infected with H5 bird flu in South Australia.
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A defining example of why it must be so hard for any expert in the US to even consider stepping into a leadership role - not that expertise is sought there today - to help your country in this age of anti-intellectual, regressive, revisionist hatred. The risks to your life and health are too great.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last wk.In his opening statement to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about the Covid pandemic, Dr. Fauci pointed to Sen. Rand Paul’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me” and his decision to publicly release the doctor’s personal journal.
inspirementmagazine.com/disinformati... “Poilievre has a documented and sustained pattern of making claims that do not hold up to scrutiny. Yet, his exact claims are being amplified in a media environment that either lacks resources, or the institutional will to interrogate them before reporting.”
Disinformation Pipeline: Poilievre’s false claims travel from Ottawa to Washington - Inspirement Magazine
Something important happened back in June that received far less attention than it deserved. After a lengthy silence on the topic, Donald Trump started posting on Truth Social again about Canada becoming the 51st State. He did that in response to news of Canada being in a ‘technical’ recession. While many continue to brush his […]
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@joho.bsky.social Great look for all the MAHA enablers and people who insisted Jay Bhattacharya got much of the COVID pandemic right.
I left early for a media hit that got cancelled (hearing ran too long), but you get the idea. The Democrats spelled it out clearly: this was a show trial designed to villainize civil service & science, revise history, & erode our Constitutional rights. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/live-cover...
LIVE COVERAGE: TONY FAUCI FACES OFF WITH RAND PAUL ON PANDEMIC ORIGINS
I left early for an interview that got cancelled but I think we all saw enough
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Report warns of ER doctor exodus. It's not just about recruitment but retaining the EM physicians who already have one foot out the door. @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social @ontariomedical.bsky.social
Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says
Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists’
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