Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@social.cleverlibre.org

Now that we have an opportunity to create a new #meded community, what traits of #twitter do we want to keep and what do we want to change? #MedMastodon

I have heard it said
that at this point
a mask
is a fashion statement
and I suppose it is
it states:
I am trying
to survive
this pandemic.

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

Progress! The meeting date to debate the motion to #BringBackMasks at our school board (@OCDSB@twitter.com) has been set for Tues Nov 22, 6:30pm. Let’s get to work ensuring the health and safety of students and educators. Protective measures are about taking care of each other. #WeNotMe

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

I'm sorry, did he... tell everyone who didn't want to be "hardcore" to quit and then THEY DID?

LOL. Simply LMAO.

A welcome opinion from a renowned economist, Joseph Stiglitz. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-international-community-must-prioritize-covid-treatment-and-test-access/

Sign the petition: Support the Gender Affirming Healthcare Act https://www.kristynwongtam.ca/affirminghealthcare?recruiter_id=52367

Your community is only as good as the worst behavior it tolerates.

That's it. That's the... toot.

Just heard a new term: “Trumpster Fire”

So very apt.

Hi there’s no situation where billionaire - even when they donate all their money to charity - is a good billionaire.

Their grotesque wealth is *always* built on exploitation and even when they give it away they’re exercising power they should never have had.

Small worlds - cobweb closeup: #cobwebs #macro #macrophotography #wondersofnature #monochrome #blackandwhite

In a fiery letter to school boards around the province, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan urged them to use their power to implement temporary mask mandates before that power is stripped away by Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government.

“Help is NOT on the way. You are the last line of defense for students and staff in our schools,” wrote McGowan.

“Use it before you lose it” - AFL https://www.afl.org/_use_it_before_you_lose_it #abpoli #masks #mandates #afl #politics

Billionaires and the system that creates them necessitate charity.

It’s a loop.

They’re giving back a portion of what they stole in a fashion which benefits them.

🚨 A meta-analysis confirms the role of endothelial dysfunction (reduced ability of arteries to expand when blood flow increases) in #LongCovid. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2022.2136403

Okay, this one picked up the phone at daycare today and said ‘hello’

@ktowens I know! The #COVIDconcensus is barely getting any press in the U.S. 380-some global experts come together and give us a roadmap on how to end #COVID, and there is no one talking about it? No one covering this as the biggest news since the invention of fire? I’m going out of my mind!

But the most shameful example of manufactured uncertainty has come from public health authorities themselves. In Canada that has taken the form of hiding public data, ceasing to report some kinds of outbreaks altogether (as Ontario did with school outbreaks in January 2022)