👇🎯 We are not going to solve our corruption & authoritarianism problems unless we end this pattern.

Zelensky kicked the leg out from under Elon and tRump’s election interference fascist bot strategy. We are getting by with help from our friends, you are giving a weary nation hope. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Public health was only so gleeful about the Omicron "exit ramp" because they were looking forward to COVID spreading everywhere so they would have an excuse for their perennial failure to stop it with handwashing.

Someone realized the Manitoba workplace safety regs refer to CAN/CSA-Z94.4-11 (and have since before COVID started), which requires N95s as the minimum level of protection for COVID. MB IPC leads should face charges under s217.1 of the criminal code IMO, I cannot imagine any plausible defence.

How badly do you have to screw up to be fired from the *Trump administration* for corruption?

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Let me guess...public health and infection control suggest using a medical mask when within 3 feet of anyone producing diphtheria-containing aerosols, and beyond that they believe it can be prevented by firmly telling the bacteria that some VIP medical influencers say aerosols aren't real?

If public health and infection control leaders had any meaningful combination of competence and integrity we'd be seeing public education about the value of standards-compliant PPE (N95s) for protection against new variants, and its importance for avoiding long COVID. But they don't. So we aren't.

The underlying structural issue has been the emergence of a medical management class that has risen to power by cosplaying as "experts in evidence", dictating to clinicians and patients on the authority of its own hobby-science while rejecting the value of the real thing.

This trial reflects a mentality far too common among triallists (and their enablers) in clinical infection control. They start from a position of empty-headed certainty, and see the trial itself as just one more way to manufacture "evidence" they can use to launder their opinions into policy.

The intersection between IPC being a dumping ground for the empire builders nobody can trust with patients, and spineless professional associations that exist only to shield medicine's management class from accountability (the fact that they protected Wakefield for over a decade says it all).

What makes healthcare so special that it is exempt from OH&S requirements to wear respiratory protection? Triage for a start has no freaking idea what the pathogen is, let alone the risks involved… ED doesn’t either for the most part… and things crop up on the wards… Why is healthcare exempt?

As I said the first time this study was proposed, this is unconscionable and would absolutely not fly in any wealthy nation. Medical experimentation on babies (withhold a lifesaving medical intervention just to see what happens) does not magically become okay if they happen to be poor African babies

This is how you write a headline.