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Professional engineer and project manager. We should all aim to make the world a little better than we found it. Posting about covid safety, and politics. Tech and photography over at Maleve@twit.social

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WestJet flight cancellations hit tens of thousands of travelers | AP News

> prompting the carrier to demand action from the federal government.

Treat your employees fairly and you wouldn’t be in this position. Besides I thought you were a small government type of people.

https://apnews.com/article/westjet-airline-strike-canada-flight-cancellations-2be751fc7a4623a2163c179e0e30391a

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For Canadian followers, Tara Moriarty is in the middle of a huge mega thread she started last night. Still seems in progress, will try and use a summary app later if I remember but it you want to read now it’s here:

https://x.com/moriartylab/status/1804646004807069880?s=46

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Hey all, Tara Moriarty has finished her thread. You can find it here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1804646004807069880.html

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I wonder what Harper's secret Chinese foreign investor protection program has cost Canada with its sovereignty-overriding mandate... oh right it's not "secretive," it's just SECRET

Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/06/investors-awarded-billions-of-dollars-for-losses-related-to-climate-laws-analysis-finds

Still shocked at how many folks don't know about FIPA, so https://canadians.org/analysis/harper-sneaks-through-canada-china-fipa-locks-canada-31-years/

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@dyckron ugh I forgot all about ISDS, incorporated into free trades deals around the world. Just another way for corporations to line their pockets with taxpayer money.

Years ago MMT was banned in the U.S. and when we banned it we got sued using the ISDS clause in NAFTA.

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One of the last remaining trustworthy signals coming to an end. 🤬

For those in Ontario, here is Ford’s phone number and contact info. Will be calling later

416-325-1941

https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/default.aspx

Edit2: wife just called. Person who answered was friendly. Wanted to know how she knew because phone has been ringing off the hook for last couple hours and information hadn’t been publicly released yet.

Bill Comeau @Billius27 ! Wastewater monitoring is a critically important and proven tool in Ontario. Cancelling funding makes no sense unless the purpose is to dumb down public awareness of infectious disease threats and to quieten those who question govt public health policies with data evidence. Wow. Dr Thomas Piggott (He/Him) MD PhD • 56m Deeply disappointed to learn that funding has been cancelled for the wastewater surveillance program in Ontario. This has been critical information not only for COVID-19, but other infectious disease threats (In... 12:45 PM • 2024-06-04 From Earth • 1K Views
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    One of the scientists that published that paper in Nature showing that high CO2 enables Covid transmission has put together a video to explain the mechanism of why this is so.

    https://youtu.be/Wd600oauf_I?si=SA-bZEzEsFRqtOkV

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    Enshittification continues

    Scott Johnson @scottjohnson Is Google ok? Google Search: cheese not sticking to pizza Response: Al Overview Learn more Cheese can slide off pizza for a number of reasons, including too much sauce, too much cheese, or thickened sauce. Here are some things you can try: • Mix in sauce: Mixing cheese into the sauce helps add moisture to the cheese and dry out the sauce the sauce. You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness. • Let the pizza cool: The cheese will settle and bond
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    I wish more people would understand that:

    1. Good health is a temporary state

    2. Society is designed to consume your good health

    3. When your good health is gone, you shall be discarded

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    Lol. I could totally fit 8 bags of soil in my little Impreza.

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    On November 29, Elon Musk claimed it did not matter people hated him, because he offered the best car, and [quote:] "Do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?"

    Clearly he was wrong. Tesla sales are in decline, and while other car manufacturers are doing fine, Tesla stock has lost one third of its value since New Years.

    Pictured: Volkswagen vs Tesla.

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    @randahl and Tesla is still way over priced, no other company in the auto indistry trades at a pe ratio over 10.

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    Avian flu detected for first time in US livestock | CIDRAP
    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/avian-flu-detected-first-time-us-livestock

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    It’s ok. A few more Covid infections and you won’t remember how long you’ve been coughing.

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    Four years ago, when WHO leader, Dr. Tedros, declared COVID-19 a public health emergency, he said:

    "We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough, or often enough: all countries can still change the course of this pandemic."

    These words still apply today.

    https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020

    maleve ,
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    @luckytran really would be nice if they retracted this tweet and admitted Covid is airborne.

    They admit TB and flu is airborne.

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    Here is my current frustration with all things covid. We seem to think, there are only two options for covid. Pretend it’s over, or “lockdown”.

    In fact there are a number of options that would have a huge impact on improving everyone’s health from a wide range of respiratory diseases, and best of all we can implement many of these solutions without “infringing on anyones rights”.

    I am glad to see the OSPE (of which I am a member) advocating again for clean indoor air. If you live in Ontario please check this out.

    https://ospe.on.ca/advocacy/ontario-society-of-professional-engineers-ospe-calls-for-support-of-clean-indoor-air-act/

    There is a lot of supporting science that cleaning the air we breathe will keep us healthier. I’d like to direct you to the work of Don Milton. There are many others in the field but Dr Milton has done some very important work. He is an MD and has a doctorate in Environmental Heath and teaches at Harvard. He has the cross disciplinary knowledge suited for mitigating an airborne pandemic.

    Back in 2000 he was studying airborne transmission of diseases and wrote this paper here:
    https://buildequinox.com/files/iaq/milton_vent_sick_rates.pdf

    In 2002, he and S Rudnick wrote a paper “Risk of indoor airborne infection transmission estimated from carbon dioxide concentration”, where they studied person to person transmission of infectious agents through recirculated air of modern office buildings.

    What OSPE is advocating for is completely backed by years of science and is codified in the ASHRAE 241 standard.

    With that foundation in science, I can say my experiences have lined up with the above data as well, which is always nice to see the correlation. This winter was the first one where we’ve had family in a retirement home. Prior to family moving in we investigated a number of retirement homes, all of which had implemented airborne precautions, and all of which claimed they had very few cases of covid.

    Our experience the last couple months seems to confirm their claims. I know just from our ARANET CO2 measurements, the home is always under 550ppm of CO2 which indicates excellent ventilation. Any respiratory symptoms, they test for covid on the first day of symptoms and they test again a few days later. Other than a case here and there, there has not been any large outbreak of covid in the home, and its a fair sized facility with one tower being independent living and various levels of care in the second tower.

    We could make dramatic improvements in children’s health by doing the same thing for schools, which in turn is going reduce community transmission as well. Same should be done work workplaces and indoor spaces we socialize in.

    We apparently have billions for the new highway 413, what we would need for clean air would be a fraction of that.

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    Periodic reminder that corporations are sociopaths.

    They’d rather throw out food or goods so as to not have downward price pressure on other things they sell.

    Loblaws will no longer offer 50% discount on expiring food products | CBC.ca

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/loblaws-will-no-longer-offer-50-discount-on-expiring-food-products-1.7084299

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