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6) Quebec's chief public health officer, Dr. Luc Boileau, warned December will be a "difficult month," given the co-circulation of COVID, the flu and other respiratory viruses. But he did not mention the risk of co-infection, a syndemic or possible immune-system dysregulation.

7) Indeed, Boileau appeared to send a mixed message Monday, warning of a difficult December but also suggesting the epidemic of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), has peaked, when in fact, the latest stats do not show that's the case. He also joked about wearing a mask in public.

8) Sadly, during the #pandemic and now the #syndemic, authorities have sent conflicting messages to the public, which have been interpreted by many as minimizing this unprecedented health crisis in which 17,409 Quebecers have died from #COVID, another 19 declared just on Tuesday.

9) It was PM Justin Trudeau's turn on Monday, drawing an inaccurate link between the surge in flu with Canadians having been "so diligent about being safe over the past couple of years wearing masks." He, too, has declined reinstating a mask mandate now.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1599894749770809346

10) And so, with a surging #syndemic of #COVID and influenza (at least in Quebec) and a political reluctance to reinstate public health protections, it is up to each individual to take precautions. Please, mask up, as I do, and go get your booster. End of thread.

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate

YouTube removed this episode of my podcast for promoting misinformation about covid. We are doing the precise opposite. How are we supposed to fight misinformation if we can't mention it? 😡https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-the-cult-of-wellness/id1648047486?i=1000584663010

This package of bacon says it's
"naturally hardwood smoked" as if they just happened across a bunch of pigs next to a forest fire.

At this point it will surprise no one, but I asked #ChatGPT to define bullshit and to cite its sources.

It provided definitions from the Cambridge English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

The definitions it provided were entirely reasonable, but they were decidedly not from the sources it claimed.

This highlights the fact that ChatGPT and other LLMs are not knowledge models, they are themselves engines trained to produce convincing bullshit.

Below: ChatGPT, CED, MW.

Nixtamalización

1) Influenza is now slamming Quebec children under the age of 9 more than ever, with that group representing 34% of all new flu infections across the province in an epidemic that has yet to peak, according to a report made public Monday by the provincial public health institute.

Many places base their mask policies on the CDC Community Levels map. But this is a deceptive map as it overemphasizes hospitalizations, leading to far fewer places being aware they already need mask mandates to PREVENT hospitalizations in the first place.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth