Dear Everyone That Doesn’t Do Anything To Prevent That Mild™️ Thing We Don’t Talk About, Your brain is not spare. You will need it. Do something today to protect it. Kind Regards Doc B

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · yesterday

Seems fine 🫠

Nature@nature.com · 4h ago

A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w

Hey @cityofvancouver.bsky.social thanks for promoting clean air in the creekside community centre! I'm curious - against what standard or other operating parameters are you ensuring clean air?

B.C.'ers make sure to pack a grab & go bag for everyone in your family in case of wildfires & pack N95s in that bag because the indoor air in shelters will come with viruses

Yeah I gained 20 lbs/stopped all my active hobbies/didn’t pursue directing after making a feature/stopped eating all but 5 foods for attention, you know.

Prof Nisreen Alwan@nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.

Taking the week off work to write a research paper on exercise for depression (this was an assigned topic😅), so it's been fascinating to watch the recent debate on this between Canadian psychiatrists 🧵

I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.

"new state laws and safety codes are reclassifying these plug-in kits as standard appliances — meaning renters can finally treat home solar like a simple toaster oven, plugging a personal power plant into any wall socket and cutting electricity bills by up to 25% with zero landlord approval."

Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states

Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states to make it available.

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"It is currently unclear whether there is a connection between the current heatwave and the reported cases of illness...However, high temperatures pose a significant stress, especially for high-yielding dairy cows, and can make them more susceptible to disease" www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Swiss cows struck by mystery illness

A virus spread by biting midges never before seen in Switzerland is thought to be responsible for a surge in sickness in Swiss dairy cows, authorities said Monday.

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Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people. n.pr/3Sbed19

Photos: Wildfires in Spokane lead to thousands of evacuations

Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people.

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I don't know who needs to hear this (well I do), but if you start a sentence with "I'm not bullying you," then have a pattern of ending sentences with derogatory comments and insults about someone's mask being a "mental illness," you are in fact bullying them

Michigan health officials are reporting the first two deaths caused by the current cyclosporiasis outbreak, the worst ever on record.

B.C. Day calls for peach ginger crisp made with B.C. peaches, eaten on a sunny balcony

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Details of celebration of life for Mike

If we care about disability justice, one of the lowest-hanging fruits is masks in healthcare. It remains unacceptable that vulnerable patients must ask, sometimes beg, healthcare workers to mask, while also explaining to them why respirator masks are better

I'm old enough to remember when there was no wildfire season, it was just called 'summer'

Christ it's ugly.

The line "people who mask are often harrassed" really resonated with me. No one should be harassed for taking steps to protect their health

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4d ago

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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Big thanks to @avilewis.ca for giving a shout out to the long Covid community in this @ndp.ca livestream this week I loved how he connected the fight for clean air across climate justice and Covid prevention - and his reminder that "we’re fighting for everyone’s right to joy" ✊🏼

Eating less protein could help you live longer RFK Jr. - Let's put protein in everything from pop tarts to soda www.scientificamerican.com/article/eati...

Eating less protein could help you live longer

While “protein maxxing” is all the rage, reducing your protein intake could add years to your life

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Thank you to all who have shared your condolences about Mike's passing - it is overwhelming. There will be a celebration of life for Mike on August 9 at Dogwood Pavilion in Coquitlam - and a livestream to ensure all who were touched by him may come should they wish. More details later. Sylvia

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

"Enough research has been done that it is becoming hard to justify not informing patients about metformin for preventing long COVID" idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Can long COVID be prevented? Two drugs finally show promise

Rigorous trials suggest the treatments reduce the risk of long-term disease after coronavirus infection.

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Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

I can't begin to imagine the agony this boy's family is going through. Canada is united by this story. He died alone in a tunnel, starving scared and thirsty. We must do more for autistic kids 💔

Global News@globalnews.ca · 6d ago

The body of a child has been found in Calgary, where police believe it's 11-year-old Parker — the boy with autism who has been missing since July 16. globalnews.ca/news/1200187...

The only thing that the Fauci hearing reinforced is that if another pandemic happens under the current leadership, we’re cooked.

I really appreciate my dental office for wearing N95 masks, letting me know when a staff member had symptoms & giving me the option to reschedule (which I did)

All of this. And we have to be loud about it still because most politicians are not - in Canada, I can count on one hand the number of them who've mentioned long Covid or appeared in an N95 mask publicly

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · last wk.

I have friends dealing with chronic health issues from long covid, loved ones who lost family members to COVID, and immunocompromised friends who have to be very careful still to not get sick and die. Sorry if posting about COVID is annoying but it's not over and I wish people took it seriously.