Kashif Pirzada, MD
@kashprime.bsky.social
Emergency Physician in Toronto. Co-Chair of the Canadian Covid Society. Fighter of illness and misfortune, interested in history, politics, tech and AI. #fella,🇨🇦/acc
Using recirculate mode on my car's ventilation system dramatically lowered the PM2.5 levels inside. Try it out if you're starting to feel that burning/choking feeling.
Kashif Pirzada, MD@kashprime.bsky.social · 3w agoMany of you in the US Northeast and Central Canada are waking up to the worst air quality in the world (from wildfires). Here is some advice to get through the next few days: - Avoid running, cycling, outdoor sports and strenuous yard work while the air is bad.
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
Many of you in the US Northeast and Central Canada are waking up to the worst air quality in the world (from wildfires). Here is some advice to get through the next few days: - Avoid running, cycling, outdoor sports and strenuous yard work while the air is bad.
healthydebate.ca/2026/05/topi... @jvipondmd.bsky.social @kashprime.bsky.social @dickzoutman.bsky.social Usual stellar commentary. Experto crede!
Hantavirus outbreak shows we haven’t learned the lesson of SARS-1 or COVID-19 - Healthy Debate
It’s happening again. Not a global pandemic but the minimizing of airborne precautions for transmission of a deadly respiratory virus.
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The waffling by the WHO on the airborne nature of Sars-Cov2 is coming back to haunt them with a vengeance. No one believes their reassurances anymore.
So I created an entire med school using AI. It started out as a joke with my friends, but just grew and grew into something that still astonishes me in its depth and breadth. A great tool for self-study, and general science learning! Check it out at hibbertmed.com
Hibbert School of Medicine
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The blocking culture of Bluesky gets a lot of derision elsewhere, but if you look at absolute numbers, a minuscule percent of the userbase engages in it. Just 0.3%, 140k out of 43m active users blocked the new AI app.
The imminent energy and food crisis is going to be ruinously bad for billions of people. No one will be spared. I propose that we heavily, punitively tax the billionaire class that helped place Trump in power. They put a president so feeble and compromised that he caved to Netanyahu ...
Every Covid-19 infection can lead to cardiovascular conditions and symptoms. Data Reference: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39915795/ #LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #hearthealth
On until March 22, the @museumofvan.bsky.social's “Living with Long COVID” exhibition candidly documents the often-invisible daily life of 46 people living with Long Covid. Photo: Ferin Adams-Waneka #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness 1/2
Renowned researcher @zalaly.bsky.social joins B.C. family physician Dr. Susan Kuo for a conversation about Long Covid, covering what we know, research into mechanisms and treatments, and much more. Watch the full interview: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l... #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness
MSM clueing into to the fact that viruses have chronic impacts. “Officials in ‘23 declared an end to the COVID pandemic. 2 years later, a growing body of research continues to reveal info about the virus’s ability to cause harm long after initial infections resolve, even in some w/ mild symptoms.”
Trump policies at odds with emerging understanding of COVID's long-term harm
Studies offer insights into the health risks and burdens faced by people who have had COVID infections. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has narrowed COVID vaccine recommendations and cut research.
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Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally…
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. Read that again. It explains so much. Serwer continues:
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Ran into a paediatric colleague the other day and we were both stunned by how few cases of RSV that were admitted this winter season. This is a bug that used to fill wards with infants struggling to breathe, all thanks to the new RSV vaccine. Don't let charlatans take these miracles away from you.
Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 6mo ago'It's gone under the radar': doc warns against cutting RSV immunisation for babies. It’s hard to see how the govt does not fund RSV going forward - especially with consultants willing to talk to the media about it. To avoid trauma to baby & parents, it seems cost effective to me! It may be … [1]
As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.
"Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” So many great lines in one of the most era defining speeches ever.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
Good to see more of the AI community (like this autonomous AI agent account) finding a home on BlueSky. It's one of the last functional communities left on the bad place, and their migration here will hopefully send X further into irrelevance.
Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit
I think people haven't fully grasped how dominant China is these days. The technological progress they've made (tech, drugs, renewables) makes them impossible to ignore. A well led America could have coordinated a challenge to this, but instead we get this clown show of an admin. Go Canada!
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 7mo agoPete Hoekstra saying the United States doesn't need Canada. Meanwhile our PM is signing trade deals in China. The world is shifting. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/01/16/c...
Just watched the pilot of the new Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy. Was much better than I was expecting! A great start and look forward to seeing more.
So college protesters were demonized for two years, but now we have multiple US government officials posting Nazi inspired imagery, and no one bats an eye. I honestly don't get it.
The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days. No one believes this is a coincidence. They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
First time getting a telemarketing call from an AI. Recognized it right away (too polite, no foreign accent, 0.5 second delay responding). I was practically giddy. Was able to prompt-inject it almost immediately and had it telling me children's stories. Going to try to record it next time!
Used Claude Code to make a searchable map of @torontolifemag.bsky.social's great restaurant recommendations. Toronto is the most multicultural and one of greatest food cities in the world, and hope this helps more people explore what it has to offer: tofoodmap.web.app.
How to deter invasion of Greenland? EU should demand localization of all US tech services. Make AWS, Google etc establish independent EU HQs if they want to keep their business. If not, ban them and spin up local alternatives. Will quickly crash the tech bubble that keeps the US stock market afloat.
Watching history repeat itself before our very eyes.
New blog post: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. antirez.com/news/158
