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#Science #Masks4All
Ask your local dentist, dental hygienist, surgeon, nurse, etc.
And watch the vid below.
#WearTheMask
#Mask
#WearAMask
#Masks
#WearADamnMask
#WearTheDamnMask
#COVID19
#StopTheSpread
#Please
#ThankYou
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks youtu.be/eAdanPfQdCA
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Asking Premier Ford why he accused students of abusing OSAP and buying "fancy watches and cologne" when his government overhauled the system, when we now know a handful of private career colleges are to blame for exploiting it.
Nice one @via. 👍
VIA Rail offering complimentary trips to patients requiring care at SickKids Hospital cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
🇨🇦 Canada’s message to russia:
You don’t get to bomb Ukrainian cities and then send your juniors to play hockey in Alberta like civilised people.
No Russian or Belarusian teams at the World Juniors. Not under your flag. Not under any other. Period.
How about instead of
“….mask, when appropriate”
you explain the function of the mask:
“….mask, to reduce chances of airborne pathogen transmission”
#TOHealth
#ONHealth
#CANPoli
News release: Toronto Public Health encourages residents to get vaccinated as winter approaches: toronto.ca/news/toronto-publ…
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Doctors, nurses, all healthcare workers I beg you - please wear a mask at work.
Be a role model.
My neighbour sat through a heart attack rather than go to hospital and catch Covid from the staff and die, as my husband did.
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Bill Murray retomando su papel de “Atrapado en el tiempo” para un spot publicitario de Jeep.
Maravilloso 🤣
I’d be surprised if the top doc ~ didn’t ~ get vaccinated.
I got my flu and covid shots in the last 2 weeks. Just walking into my local pharmacies. Nice not having to prebook.
Media Advisory: Toronto’s top doctor to get vaccinated, highlighting the importance of seasonal vaccination for flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
toronto.ca/news/torontos-top…
#TorontoNews
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
You got rid of speed cameras, you mobbed up pig.
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
This is actually kind of wild because once you hear it laid out like this you can’t unhear it. The 90s “wow… yeah” sarcasm and the early 2000s vocal fry on conference calls hit way too close to home. Armisen’s ear is disgusting in the best way.
Fred Armisen breaks down the fascinating evolution of conversational accents and speech patterns decade by decade on The Tonight Show.
"I've been working on some impressions of accents through the decades"
1900s: "the manufacturer and the farmer, people thought it was very British, but it's actually very Dutch and German"
1920s: "They start getting very aware of the microphone"
1950s: "It starts to flatten out a little bit. I'd like to on a Friday night, I'd like to read a book on a Friday night"
1960s: "Diverges a little bit where there's an official sort of news hour... and then the sort of people in interviews looked like they were in shock"
1970s: "There's a whisper to it. There's a sort of confusion as to what's going on, there's a whisper"
1990s: "Very kind of laid back, wow, the nineties laid back, yeah, very sarcastic and ironic, wow"
2000s: "You start to hear the vocal fry... guys are in a meeting and they can sort of hear that throughout when they're talking on a conference call"
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
The more I think about it, the weirder it is that Doug Ford actually made Ontario more dangerous. The vices more available, the highways faster, the bike lanes gone, healthcare workers fired.
I don’t know for sure …. but I don’t believe any premiers got mics.
If so, what’s he complaining about?
J’ai pris note aujourd’hui de la nouvelle offre de Mark Carney d’obtenir le droit de m’assoir à sa table d’honneur à titre de spectateur, sans droit de parole ni droit de négocier au nom du Québec. Cette proposition revient à demander au Québec de rentrer dans les rangs, avec la vassalisation et l’invisibilisation du Québec que cela implique, en échange d’obtenir de meilleurs sièges de spectateurs pour regarder la partie. Comme premier ministre, je refuserai toujours que le Québec soit réduit au rôle de spectateur lorsqu’il s’agit de représenter et protéger les intérêts économiques et politiques des Québécois.
La réalité est que nous sommes devant une stratégie de marginalisation du Québec sur la scène internationale et de subordination des champs de compétence du Québec à la volonté du fédéral. Je note à cet effet que tous les chefs de partis de l’Assemblée nationale ont indiqué hier que s’ils étaient dans la position de premier ministre et devant un tel sommet sur le territoire du Québec, ils s’attendraient à prendre la parole et à participer à part entière. À Ottawa, le chef de l'opposition officielle ainsi que le chef du Bloc Québécois ont également appuyé notre demande.
J’ai donc pris la plume et j’ai écrit aux représentants de l’Union européenne pour leur rappeler que des ententes qui impliquent l’Europe et le Québec doivent forcément passer par le gouvernement du Québec, et à plus forte raison si le sommet se tient sur notre territoire. Le refus de nous donner la parole à titre d’hôte pour souhaiter la bienvenue à nos invités y est également mentionné.
Je lance donc l’invitation pour une discussion bilatérale dans un meilleur contexte qui permettrait au Québec de ne pas être exclu. À ce titre, j’enverrai le diplomate en chef du Québec, Pascal Paradis, pour ouvrir ces canaux de discussion pour la suite.
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Apparently some people need the same lesson every year.
No, the COVID vaccine does not create sterilizing immunity.
But in a 2026 JAMA Network Open household study, recent vaccination was associated with nearly a 50% reduction in transmission to household contacts compared with unvaccinated primary cases.
And the 2025–26 updated vaccine still reduced COVID hospitalization by about 53–55% in recent U.S. data.
So yes:
It can reduce your chance of getting sick.
It can reduce your chance of severe disease.
And it can reduce your chance of passing the virus to someone else.
None of those effects are absolute. No serious person claims they are.
The remarkable part is watching someone in 2026 announce, with great confidence, that a vaccine must either stop every infection and every transmission or it “does nothing.”
That is a toddler’s definition of efficacy.
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
Holy 💩 Canada is DOing something!!!!!!!
- PRESS RELEASE -
Upper Air UV Pilot Project
in Canadian Hospitals
“Allowing 10% of our patients to get infected is unsustainable,” said Hunt. “The cost is simply too high. Billions of dollars are spent on treatment, and many billions more are lost to the inefficiency of blocked beds.”
accessnewswire.com/newsroom/…
Yvonne Spiczynski retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
