#Variant#Ontario#Canada (to Aug 13, 2024) Today's variant show is brought to you by the letters KP... Looks like KP.3.1.1 has really taken off and separated from the pack at 40% prevalence in Ontario. Graph tools by @Mike_Honey_@X.com 🧵1/

Air quality not great when boarding & waiting for planes to take off as I am now - you’re breathing a lot of other people’s exhaled air. As with buses, trams & trains, this is a v good time to wear a respirator mask. Protect yourself & others.

Thursday's Pandemic Update: The FDA Approves New Fall Covid Boosters www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu40...#COVID19#SARSCoV2#Pandemic#CovidIsNotOver#CovidIsAirborne#H5N1#Measles#WhoopingCough#RSV#Norovirus#Mpox#MaskUp#N95#KeepMasksInHealthcare

Thursday's Pandemic Update: The FDA Approves New Fall Covid Boosters

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I declined a visit with family last week because they were visiting a premature baby in hospital & refusing to mask. Today I get a “good thing we didn’t visit you - super sick with flu” text. They’re glad they didn’t infect me because I’m vulnerable…What about the baby? #MaskUp#CovidIsAirborne

Here is something you would not expect to see in Summer 2024. Very good to see. County in California recommends indoor mask wearing due to Covid surge www.datareport.info/index.php?to...

Last week the WSJ ran an article on the need to address methane emissions. And now there is an op-ed one in Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/kavehm...

Heat Waves And Wildfires Give Urgency To The Fight To Cut Methane

Earth is experiencing its hottest days. Heatwaves and wildfires are killing people. Why is reducing methane crucial for combating climate change and air pollution?

How much of global warming is human-caused, as opposed to natural? MORE THAN 100% That’s right: according to natural factors, including the sun and natural cycles, the Earth should be slowly, gradually cooling right now. That’s why humans are responsible for all observed warming and then some.

This is all just a part of a natural cycle, right?

All this worry about warming when it’s just a natural cycle. The climate is always changing and today’s no different -- right?Global Weirding is produced by ...

“People have gone back to coughing into their hands & shaking hands with other people. Mask-wearing has disappeared. We are going back to our old bad habits. We may come to regret that.” Reminder: One of the best ways to prevent the next pandemic is to stop being in denial about the current one.

Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn

Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain

“This article is not merely an upsetting look at an individual’s victim-blaming mindset… It is a piece of propaganda…that demands for COVID mitigation are unreasonable complaints, rather than critical activism for basic public health infrastructure.” www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-p...

Disabled people's exclusion from indoor spaces is a civil rights violation, not an annoyance

NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life

Plus Mary continuing to insult me from behind a block does not inspire confidence in her dedication to good faith discussion.