Top recent posts by Health Communicators on Bluesky

That’s $500 million lost per day

Dr. Oz is really out there pushing the bounds of humanity. Let’s elect compassionate healthcare providers (like me) instead of the fools who put this guy in charge.

Churches, charities & family are not a substitute for SNAP They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to They’re choosing to let people starve

Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

Canada is focusing on making trade deals with Asian countries. The United States, being presided by a malignant narcissist who throws temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, is no longer reliable.

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

SNAP is not just for the unemployed. It’s for anyone who’s living below the poverty line, which sadly includes a lot of people who are working full time jobs. But here’s the thing… even if it were “just” for the unemployed… they still deserve food! No one deserves to starve.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.

Doug Ford's ad has nothing on the Joe Canadian ad. Best ad ever. I will be at the Lunenburg Literary Festival on Saturday Nov 8 for a conversation with Joe Canada. Get your tickets. This will be a truly Canadian moment. www.lunenburglitfestival.ca/event/captai... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxG...

No one should face financial ruin because they got sick or needed medical care. Healthcare is a basic human right. These premium increases will ruin people. It will put people on the streets. It will end lives. It will cause more disability.

Snowbirds who fly to the United States every year during the coldest months of the year should reconsider their plans. Pumping money into the American economy is not a wise move when people are boycotting that country.

Twitter/X will delete all heuristics and allow its AI bot Grok to determine what you see on the platform. This should be a death knell The chronic illness community have expressed concerns about leaving. The spoons required for migration. Losing networks of care. My guide to help:

“If they need SNAP they should work”. Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs. Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line. Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth Stop blaming the poor.

It’s wild how so many people are gaslit into believing declining health and being sick all the time is just ‘normal’ in your 30s. No. This is what repeated COVID infections do. Source: x.com/G_GreeneFan/...

In the last three homelessness has jumped 25% in Ontario. All on Doug Ford's watch. Bill 60 will rip up protections for rent controls. This will cause a dangerous spike in evictions and homelessness. This is seriously bad policy. progresscanada.substack.com/p/doug-ford-...

Too many people are fine with their taxes being spent on foreign wars, genocide and ICE but not on feeding the hungry, housing the poor or helping the sick. They will scream about their “tax dollars” helping someone buy a $1 soda, but won’t demand accountability for billions wasted on destruction.

Speaking of grandsons of awful men, such as Timothy Mellon, last night I learned that Louis Mosley is the head of Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the UK. Mosley’s grandpa was the founder of the British Union of Fascists who married his wife Diana Mitford at Joseph Goebbels’ house. Hitler was a guest.

Measles outbreaks occur where people aren’t vaccinated. It’s pretty straightforward.

🚨Complete BS. And completely bonkers. WTF is happening?

One of the greatest cons achieved by the “wellness” industry is convincing their marks that it’s a grassroots group that really, really cares about them. They don’t. They make fat stacks of cash by lying to their customers and selling them remedies that are at best useless and at worst harmful.

A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore 🧵

Tylenol doesn’t cause autism. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Starvation and malnutrition are far bigger threats to the health of children than any of the distractions Trump and RFK Jr want to point you towards. You want to protect kids? Demand they fund SNAP. Don’t let people starve.

I just wish that when the chance comes to offer equal rights to a group of people who are somewhat different than the dominant group, we wouldn’t have to start at zero or less than zero every single time.

Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.

Male loneliness crisis is a fake problem. Just go up to a guy who has a Brompton and ask, is that a Brompton

Please don't take medical advice from someone who still can't spell "hepatitis" and who doesn't know there are not individual M,M,R shots available.

#NSWHealth A kid that went to hospital with a preventable infection for the second time was “willing to wear a mask, but can’t afford one”. Just letting you know how your policies are playing out in the real world. People don’t want this, but they can’t escape.

So a group of women quite literally kick a Nazi out of a bar in Georgia… and one of them gets her nose broken when the Nazi swings a water pitcher at her face. And people are defending the Nazi? Saying it’s “just a Halloween costume?” You don’t dress up as a Nazi!

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Tim Cook. One of Canada's best historians, his books were fantastic. He was nice enough to give me a tour of the Canadian War Museum where he was the chief historian. A truly great Canadian.

What was life really like before vaccines? The story of what happened to 8-year old George Williams in August 1852 gives us a glimpse. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

PM Mark Carney 😀 Canada & the Philippines have a close relationship — a bond that is strengthened by the one million-strong Filipino-Canadian community. President @bongbongmarcos & I are focused on negotiating free trade agreements and strengthening defence cooperation between our nations. #cdnpoli

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42 million people are about to lose their food assistance. Now would be a great time to cancel a billionaire owned service like Prime or Paramount and set up a recurring monthly donation to a food bank instead. Stop supporting the rich oligarchy and help one another survive.

I want to give job advice to young adults on Bluesky who are entering the workforce for the first time: If you see a basket on your boss' desk that says "signed NDAs go here," this is what we call a "red flag" What you want to do is turn around, identify the nearest fire exit and run towards it

Data c/o @1goodtern.bsky.social Kaposi sarcoma in adults <45!! Hospital episodes of tuberculosis (TB) of lymph nodes in the thoracic cavity in 10-18 year-olds. These are AIDS-defining conditions. “There are no parallels between Covid and AIDS.” Suuuuuure 👌

Iron man, iron man — does whatever an iron can Press a shirt, any size; get your dress pants looking nice

"Exhausted tennis professionals give up in droves" I wish we could figure out why this is happening so often lately… Almost like there’s an ongoing pandemic that weakens the immune system with every infection, and too many aren’t fully recovering before heading back on the court. archive.li/js9sg

apparently The Youth are using one AI program to write their essays and then a other AI program to "humanize" the first AI's writing to make it seem more real and I just am starting to believe the Internet needs a time out to really think about what it's done

TFW you get flu and Covid vaccines in Alberta and aren’t really sure if you’ll be sent a bill or not as it’s now a big clusterfuck.

Great takedown of harmful #misinformation about cancer & autism by CBC Marketplace They analyzed "200 of TikTok’s most popular health videos & uncovers a troubling trend: misinformation is not only widespread, it’s thriving." Honoured to help. Investigating Dr. TikTok www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Think about the people in your life who are on SNAP -- babysitters, house cleaners, DoorDashers, massage therapists, home health aides, whatever. (You may not know they're on SNAP, but I guarantee people in your life are.) If you can, please try to give them extra work right now.

LA: reminding you, we DO have two strong candidates that are VERY Mamdani-like and WAY better than Bass — Konstantine Anthony @konstantineinca.bsky.social & Kenneth Mejia @kennethmejiala.bsky.social/ @controller.lacity.gov If you’re not familiar with either of them, I suggest you start now!

Walgreens just said if I didn’t pick up my prescription they would break my legs

This. This. This. @kenmartin.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: take note. You organize not by pandering to some mythical center, but by meeting people's needs. This has to be about what people do for each other. Not what your pollsters and consultants advise. Get to work.

this month the influencers discovered vancouver has a library good for them!

I don't have enough spoons to explain to you why I don't have enough spoons for this uber-simple task.

Carney tells ASEAN summit Canada respects trade rules, as Trump threatens new tariffs. #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Them: “a poor person spent $1 of MY taxes on a soda!” Trump sends $40 billion to Argentina. Cuts tax for wealthy. Demolishes part of the White House to build a gold ballroom. Them: “This is fine”. Perhaps we should care less about the $1 soda & demand more transparency from government?

Cruise ships are seeing a record year for outbreaks Cruise ships are having a record year for GI outbreaks, with 20 so far in 2025 (mostly norovirus), compared to 18 last year. Funny how they never mention COVID anymore, even though it spreads easily on crowded ships. Source: archive.li/FlNSv

#Quebecer holds title of #Canada’s greatest blood donor The 72-year-old is the country’s greatest blood donor, having rolled up his sleeve more than 1,700 times over the last 54 years. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

I was polite the first time when I addressed your bad take on masking. So this time, let me be more blunt: Whining about those calling for masking in 2025, when Trump 2.0 is nuking the public health agencies that track and combat infectious disease threats, is entitlement and exclusionary behavior

I hate malls with the passion of a thousand burning suns but at least I matched the weird balloon animal art.

NEW - The BCGEU has reached a tentative agreement with the BC Government to end a 8 week strike. BCGEU members will receive 3% raises a year over a 4 year term. #bcpoli

Joe Rogan doesn't even know the difference between chickenpox and measles, yet millions of people are still listening to him for health information. Here are a few factchecks: -children do die from measles -measles wipes out your immune memory -healthy people can get very sick and die from viruses

There’s an interesting paper on how infection with SC2 is both conferring T cell memory, and reducing T cell receptor diversity… opening up the possibility that response to future infections could be suboptimal… t.co/2zikOfVUpJ

This just in: the flu sucks, and I somehow managed to get it while wastewater numbers are as near zero as possible and I was wearing an N95 in the two public places I went, and if some sick asshole had also masked, I wouldn’t be sick.

Kaz Nejatian, CEO of a Bay-area tech company and founding director of the Canadian right-wing media website True North, apparently agrees that free speech has limits

Childless Millennial couple announces plans to get really into Halloween this year

A few days ago, it was my birthday, and ... gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/it-was-my-...

In a softball interview with sycophant Bari Weiss, Vinay Prasad said the "scientific establishment" blindly supports vaccines. I have bad news for him. He's the establishment. With measles & pertussis spreading, he's failing us all. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/prasadestabl...

when another labour dispute in British Columbia is solved (illustration by Indiana Joel)

This piece by @adambonica.bsky.social is a crucial read. The @nytimes.com editorial board leans into their priors in their own recent editorial on the need for moderation to win. As @adambonica.bsky.social suggests the story is more complicated. 1/ data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Cheryl Hines is actually talented and earned her own success, but then still chooses to make herself smaller just to maintain her proximity to (untalented white men with) wealth and power who do not treat her well. She is a craven opportunist and only debases herself. I genuinely feel sorry for her.

Stay away from the fascist USA. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The Ontario municipal elections are one year from today & there’s one person who has inserted himself into every local race: Doug Ford. My Toronto Star column on the elephant in every Ontario voting booth.

Mark Carney leads Pierre Poilievre in net favourability by 58 points

Again, either you believe people should have fundamental rights or you believe they should have rights at someone’s whim, this is the real base political and ethical belief that defines people.

Danielle Smith and the UCP would rather fight than win. Alberta’s New Democrats stand with students, teachers, parents, and workers. We will vigorously oppose any back-to-work legislation this government brings forward. youtube.com/shorts/QTmR9...

PREGNANT WOMEN DO NOT TAKE COVFEFE ENEMA! CHICKY P ISN’T WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE! HIPPOPOTAMUS B. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!

Trump MEGA DONOR Timothy Mellon who just paid for the military pay is heir to bank BNY Mellon, which is CURRENTLY being SUED FOR its ROLE IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S TRAFFICKING network. #cdnpoli

The tendency for some on the left to throat clear before saying they like a sports team is extremely goofy. It’s okay to like things and to cheer for the home team. We don’t need a lecture on the economics of pro sports before you say Go Jays!

Poilievre's statement blaming Carney for Trump's fragile ego, profound ignorance, and the latest of his routine trade-related tantrums speaks to the Conservative leader's inability to put the interests of the nation ahead of himself and his quest for power. #cdnpoli

True dat. SARS-2 disrupts the “guardian of the genome”…one of the body’s core cellular defense mechanisms … that protects us from cancer, genomic instability, and premature cell survival of damaged cells. But go ahead… keep huffing it.

When he says “record education funding” he means in nominal terms — and forgets to mention that nominal funding is almost always at record highs. On a per-student basis, and after adjusting for inflation? It isn’t even close.

By proceeding with the removal of documents from the Watergate Hotel before seeking approval from the Democratic National Committee, President Richard Nixon forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

PLEASE ENJOY 30 SECONDS OF A CROWD OF 10,000 CHANTING TAX THE RICH from the Mamdani rally this evening inject this chant into my gd BONES 😩💉💦

Somehow I missed this. If you did too: 🧪

“The officers had seen the magnitude of child sex trafficking explode. Part of that boom happened during the pandemic, when many girls were out of school and immersed in social media, where traffickers lurked. Teachers who would ordinarily follow up on absences or report signs of neglect could not”

Heads up: we’ve gotten to where we are because our law and judicial system are a mess. The rich and connected can afford to sue and wait years for resolution, while they continue illegal acts and pay no consequence. The whole system is rotten. We need expedited, life-forward justice.

Maybe a buffoon like Doug Ford should leave foreign affairs to the federal government.

🧵 The US Dept of Health & Human Services is pushing debunked conspiracy theories and using pseudoscience to undermine trust in science and public health. …RFK did not have a breakthrough discovering a secret truth about saturated fat that all biomedical sciences have been wrong about for decades.

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavana...

It’s a sad state of affairs when fewer news media outlets will stand up to Donald Trump and his henchmen. They are compromised.

I do not understand how this is not the default position

Ivermectin bots are here. They name search William Makis and try to boost his scam. You know what to do.

Is it time for your flu shot? What to know about effectiveness & how long it lasts www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-... by @lizszabo.bsky.social AAP "recommends vaccinating children against flu as soon as shots are available..." "...these are extremely safe vaccines..." #VaccinesWork

Doing anything the orange clown hates will send him into a tizzy. It’s surprising he hasn’t had any heart issues.

Every time someone sends me a frog clip in the wild, I smile 😊.

I've been using podcasts to fall asleep, as one does, and I've now fallen down the rabbit hole of podcasts meant to help you get to sleep. They're so boring, I love them.

UK: Inside looming NHS winter crisis as hospitals face ‘armageddon’ Doctors warn this winter could be one of the worst for the NHS, as an early flu season and rising COVID cases push hospitals to “astonishing” pressure, combined with high A&E demand and staffing cuts. Source: archive.li/GZN4C

I want the ability to decline incoming symptoms