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🔗 Thousands ordered to evacuate Fort Nelson, B.C., due to wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/zombie-fires-fort-nelson-risk-1.7200810

> Residents of the town of Fort Nelson and Fort Nelson First Nation have been ordered to evacuate due to an out-of-control wildfire in northeast B.C., according to an evacuation order issued by the Northern Rockies Regional District (NRRD) and the nation shortly before 7:30 p.m. PT on Friday.

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> Wildfire triggers evacuation of ‘multiple neighbourhoods’ in Fort Nelson, B.C.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/05/10/wildfire-evacuations-of-multiple-neighbourhoods-in-fort-nelson-b-c/

> The B.C. Wildfire Service says the tactical evacuation of “multiple neighbourhoods” is underway in Fort Nelson, as an out-of-control wildfire threatens the town in the province’s northeast. It says the fire is “highly visible” from the town, and the closure of Highway 97 is expected. The service says the fire is being fought by groundcrews and two helicopters that are bucketing water on the blaze, and air tanker support has been requested.

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🔗 They Want Us All To Die https://www.okdoomer.io/they-want-you-to-die/?s=09

> It might sound like a crackpot conspiracy theory, but it honestly looks and feels like our leaders want us to die. And if that's not their explicit intent, someone should probably tell them... That's what it feels like. All the time.

"Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague... But above all we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much-mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total expiration of particular disorders." -- Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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🔗 Humming Greatly Increases Nasal Nitric Oxide (2002) https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200202-138BC

> Ten healthy subjects took part in the study. Nasal NO was measured with a chemiluminescence technique during humming and quiet single-breath exhalations at a fixed flow rate. NO increased 15-fold during humming compared with quiet exhalation.

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🔗 Role of Complement-Related Inflammation and Vascular Dysfunction in Hypertension (2019) https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.11210

> Taken together, complement activation promotes inflammatory factor expression in ECs, performs a chemotaxis to recruit immune cells, results in decreased eNOS expression and NO production, and finally initiates vascular injury.

> C5aR antagonist treatment attenuates macrophage recruitment in the adventitia and improves hypertension-induced adventitial collagen deposition and vascular fibrosis.

> BP elevation induces the activation of complement system and production of complement factors. These factors accelerate the progression of vascular injury and promote the development of hypertension via 2 different kinds of regulation. First, complement factors directly promote vascular cell dysfunction through their specific receptors in effector cells. However, complement activation mediates immune cell recruitment and induces inflammatory factor production in these cells. These together aggravate hypertension-induced target cardiorenal organ damage.

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🔗 New 'forever chemical' cleanup strategy discovered https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-cleanup-strategy.html

> The method…involves treating heavily contaminated water with ultra-violet (UV) light, sulfite, and a process called electrochemical oxidation

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🔗 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON516

> The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of three human cases, including one death, of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) between 10 and 17 April 2024, by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). All three cases were males from Riyadh aged between 56 and 60 years with underlying health conditions and were not health care workers. The three cases are epidemiologically linked to exposures in a health-care facility in Riyadh, although investigations are ongoing to verify this and understand the route of transmission. Since the beginning of the year, a total of four cases and two deaths have been reported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The notification of these cases does not change WHO’s overall risk assessment, which remains moderate at both the global and regional levels.

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I'mma just keep tapping the sign... https://zeroes.ca/@trendless/111882297777539281

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If just under 50% of SARS-CoV-2 infections are asymptomatic (ie zero symptoms during the entire acute phase), everyone can multiply the number of times they know they've been infected by two.

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It's aliiiiive!! 🧟

Why yes, I did connect a 3.5" drive to a mini PC via SATA using a port intended for a 2.5" drive*. If only I had a 3D printer (and design chops) so I could make a caddy for it.

(*M/M adapter and external power required)

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🔗 COVID an 'occupational disease,' Colo. appeals court rules https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/covid-19-an-occupational-disease-triggering-workers-comp-benefits/article_fc544e0a-0998-11ef-869c-cb80a355fb05.html

> Colorado's second-highest court ruled for the first time on Thursday that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation benefits.

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The study estimates saving 52,000 American lives, and the costs of nearly 2.6 million infections and 244,000 hospitalizations.

Now let's use those same calculations to estimate the orders of magnitude more money they've wasted allowing people to be infected, hospitalized, and die because their egos -- and liability concerns -- have imprisoned them in an infinite loop of denial and negligence.

🔗 HHS's COVID vaccine campaign saved $732 billion in averted infections, costs https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-hhss-covid-vaccine-campaign-saved-732-billion-averted-infections-costs

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And if it's true that the US has been seeing 400k infections per day during the 'lull' this spring, 2.6M isn't even a week's worth of infections. 👀

Seriously, how much does a good disposable respirator cost, again? $2, if you're getting ripped off by a govt contractor? Even if all 350M USians used a brand new one every day, that's still not quite $5B a week. Worst case. (elastos for a year would cost less than 1/20th of that)

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@trendless

I will use my pretty severe covid brain damage as an excuse for not thinking of this years ago, but someone else's post just made me realize -- my incessant boosting is probably terrible for the zeroes timeline?

Is there something I can do about that, other than boosting everything I think is cool?

Also, unrelated but sort of related: Is there any way to limit a post to the local timeline? Feature request?

Thank you for all you do!

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@NilaJones boosts don't actually show up on the zeroes 'This Server' timeline, so the only folks who see them are those who follow you. It's also possible for folks to turn off boosts on a per-account basis, so I don't see any objective reason why it would impact zeroes.ca negatively -- boost to your heart's content 👌

Local-only posts is indeed something a lot of folks have requested of Mastodon for years. The two most well-known forks of Mastodon (glitch and hometown) and many of the alternative fediverse microblogging servers all have it. I'd really like to migrate zeroes to glitch at some point, but it's still up in the air.

You're very welcome; thank YOU 🙌

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How frequently have you set your CO2 monitor to take a measurement?

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:GeordiSaysNo: p=none
:GeordiSaysYes: p=quarantine / p=reject

🔗 NSA warns of North Korean hackers exploiting weak DMARC email policies https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-warns-of-north-korean-hackers-exploiting-weak-dmarc-email-policies/

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It appears that some universities are banning masks of any kind at sites where they are holding their graduation ceremony. This is ableist, exclusionary, and completely unacceptable.

(Photo: Dr. Mary Donegan)

Sign at UCONN listing prohibited items which includes masks of any kind

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@Piousunyn @luckytran respiratory PPE being exempt would not impact them at all -- not a one of them would don an N95 for any reason.

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Rich folks playing Jenga while standing on top of the tower, trying to take as many sticks as they can without toppling the whole thing.

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Nothing to worry about unless things continue like they have for the past 4+ years 🙃

🔗 There's no question H5N1 bird flu has 'pandemic potential.' How likely is that worst-case scenario? https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/h5n1-bird-flu-pandemic-1.7193384

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WHO says wash your hands, everyone!

🔗 World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(24)00086-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email&s=09

..unless, yknow, you're actually trying to avoid contracting airborne pathogens. Then..

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Ghosts of CRboxen past..

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Did the Cochrane Canada folks really try to downplay the efficacy of respirators compared to baggyblues for an airborne pathogen?

Of course they did. They're proud of their intransigence.

“The panel compared evidence on type of mask, the panel notes that during high transmission risk there is a small additional benefit of masking with a respirator (N95/KN95) compared to a medical/surgical mask in community settings.”

https://can-pcc.recmap.org/recommendation/3c665ab5-96a2-4519-8617-3b047e30efeb

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To recap: baggyblues don't hold a candle to even a non-fit-tested respirator.

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Lol, Twitter funding professionally negligent, pro-GBD, covid-denying, public health official Matt Strauss' lawsuit against Queens University.

You know who's not funding this kind of ridiculous litigation? Me, you, and most of the folks reading this.

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What are the [common?] underlying mechanisms that result in susceptibility to gaslighting?

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Seems obvious, but politics won't save us from politics.

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> Sourdough under the microscope reveals microbes cultivated over generations https://phys.org/news/2024-05-sourdough-microscope-reveals-microbes-cultivated.html

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When you're a politician and the tides start to turn, washing away your reelection prospects, it's time to drag out the 'screw you, plebs' policy binder. It's really the only time the facade drops and the monster behind the curtain is revealed.

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If it hasn't already, at some point 'the algorithm' is going to stop feeding us stuff 'for reasons' and just start feeding us stuff.

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yo @PacificNic

Your comparison of people constantly mowing their yards to tigers pacing in a zoo.

I can't unsee it.

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@ProcessParsnip @hannu_ikonen @PacificNic reminds me of this pic from a few years ago:

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“I'm as much of a risk-taker as the next person, but megakaryocytes is where I draw the line..”

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Pretty easy to see who has no respect for Parliament or Democracy.

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@NotMyBub petulant children who don't like being told what to do. Didn't they already get rid of one speaker successfully? And far too many Canadians are altogether too eager to reward this antisocial behaviour. 🤮

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As my wife heads to the local, privately-operated but publicly-funded clinic for her first in-person medical appointment in a while, I come across this bit of AHS policy -- it highlights that if we actually had entirely publicly-owned&operated healthcare facilities in Alberta, she'd be protected by bidirectional masking

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/Page17048.aspx

AHS Guidelines for Masking & Use of Eye Protection Masking Refer to Routine Practices as required by the Infection Prevention and Control Risk Assessment (IPC RA) to make PPE decisions, including the use of masks and N95 respirators. Masking is still required for healthcare workers, family/support persons and visitors in the following situations: - When directed by an outbreak protocol - For staff, as identified by the Attending Work with COVID-19 Symptoms or a Positive COVID-19 test - When asked by a patient or resident - When a masking poster is posted on a patient’s doors - Or when in contact with a severely immunocompromised individual
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    *it's ridiculous that it's contingent upon asking

    **it's double ridiculous that baggyblues qualify as PPE -- if you can sneeze+cough it, you are exhaling it even when you normally breathe

    ***that they'd have to mask around COVID+ patients explains one major reason why they're rarely if ever testing

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    I don't understand why there's a single anti-mask healthcare professional (or teacher, ECE, etc)..

    “Why yes, I would like to suffer a career-ending disability at a higher rate than peers in other careers, please!” 🙃

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    Or if we had professionals, bureaucrats, and/or politicians
    -- collectively "leaders" -- who took their responsibility to protect the citizens they've been empowered to serve seriously and were held to account when they didn't..

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    @noyes people really can't recognize how things rhyme across eras. In my lifetime at least, we've taken for granted how so many kinds of minor and even major injuries don't carry with them much risk of death or disablement, when in bygone eras even the most seemingly innocuous of them could spell trouble.

    Afaict, we're right back in those supposedly bygone eras.

    If I could convince every able-bodied person of one thing for their own safety, it would be this: don't need the hospital. (bonus: it would also make seeking care much safer for those who haven't that option)

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    @alxndr there's some legit strange rationalizing happening out there -- trauma isn't a recipe for good decision-making. Still, seems very cutting off nose to spite face..

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    @JMMaok I totally get what you're saying and accept that premise. If my experience is anything like others', those of us still wearing masks have personal experience with the hostility and violence (to varying degrees). I wouldn't necessarily define someone as anti-mask because they don't wear them, but rather because they advocate against and shame those who do. If [good] masks were mandated in healthcare, I expect most who don't currently wear them, would. As to enforcement, I'm sensitive to that consideration. Pushing back against dysregulated, vicious elements of society is never easy and it does seem that we've yet again allowed them to dictate terms. I'm not sure the dynamics of undoing the damage of anti-mask messaging at this point, but it does seem that anti-mask sentiment's primary mode of operation is societal/peer pressure -- I don't see how it wouldn't work equally and oppositely.

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    @fergabell thanks 😊. She has a very kind, gentle demeanor that usually elicits considerate responses. She's had trouble finding a mask that passes a qualitative fit test, so has resorted to taping it on. 🤞

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    https://www.okdoomer.io/were-watching-the-elite-panic-in-real-time/

    “Nobody has panicked since 2022. Everyone has been living the fantasy of normal. I think politicians and corporate media flunkies really mean this: Don't get angry at them. Don't criticize them.

    Don't hold them accountable. Don't demand they get their act together and do more than perform testing theater.

    That's what they mean by ‘don't panic.’”

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    @VeeRat right?! So about the intransigent, intractable EvidenceBased™ dogma that's been used to minimize the egregious amounts of damage SARS-CoV-2's been doing -- guess that's just a convenient tool for oppression and eugenics?

    > Even a story in U.S. News has to admit that "no studies have ever been done on the effects of pasteurization on bird flu virus in milk." They say, "Experts believe pasteurization... should kill the virus."

    > Ah. They believe it should kill the virus.

    A pandemic of belief among "scientists"

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    “A megakaryocyte [MK] is a large bone marrow cell with a lobated nucleus that produces blood platelets, which are necessary for normal clotting.”

    Conclusions: In Long COVID, SARS-CoV-2 persists and replicates in MKs that in turn produce platelets containing virus. Circulating spike might be an additional sign of viral persistence that could serve as a Long COVID biomarker. The persistence of the virus could lead to abnormal platelet activation and formation of microclots, contributing to the various symptoms observed in Long COVID and to deregulation of serotonin uptake, favoring neurocognitive symptoms found in long COVID.
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    @noyes Ooo. There just aren't enough folks familiar with complement in the discussions, it seems.

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    Seroevidence for H5N1 Influenza Infections in Humans: Meta-Analysis (2012) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1218888

    > The prevalence of avian H5N1 influenza A infections in humans has not been definitively determined. Cases of H5N1 infection in humans confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) are fewer than 600 in number, with an overall case fatality rate of >50%. We hypothesize that the stringent criteria for confirmation of a human case of H5N1 by WHO do not account for a majority of infections but rather the select few hospitalized cases that are more likely to be severe and result in poor clinical outcome. Meta-analysis shows that 1 to 2% of more than 12,500 study participants from 20 studies had seroevidence for prior H5N1 infection.

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    NOVel Influenza Disease.

    NOVID.

    🫠

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    OVH Object Storage major outage in multiple datacentres, worldwide: https://public-cloud.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/fftqrh9t2by0

    (zeroes' users, more details here: https://zeroes.ca/@zeroes/112351354477690069)

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    The host has restored all services. https://zeroes.ca/@zeroes/112351935748254557

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