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Julia M. Wright

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FRSC, Munro Chair in Literature & Rhetoric. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement. "Living with COVID" by taking reasonable precautions 😷💉🪟--not accepting its harms. Academic: irish-literature.english.dal.ca/JMWright/publications.html

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Violet Affleck: "To confront the Long COVID crisis I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers and mask mandates in county medical facilities. And most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason." 🔥🔥🔥

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Mark Ungrin's avatar Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social
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Just updated our preprint assessing the 2022 study that claimed medical masks to be noninferior to N95s for COVID. In addition to issues identified previously, a closer examination of the data revealed unexpected patterns unlikely to occur in nature: osf.io/preprints/me...

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Julia M. Wright 's avatar Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
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Maybe work on the pulse? They understood a rapid heartbeat to register emotion: “Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, / And the blood’s lava, and the pulse a blaze.”

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Excellent shade on a hot day: "All Quebecers are encouraged to continue to take precautions as authorities have largely stopped talking about improving air ventilation in buildings, which would greatly reduce the spread indoors of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses."

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Briefly opened up LinkedIn intending to post something but I had to close it again before the overwhelming weight of the achievement porn put me in danger of quitting my job and going to live in a cave

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Julia M. Wright 's avatar Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
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Watching the new UK govt take shape, and wondering... What if the politics of division primarily serves party fundraising rather than reflects real disputes, and the vast majority of us just want from our governments what we want from our co-workers--competence and accountability?

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From 2020-23, employers, institutions, and unions had some cover re lack of pandemic measures because of PH pushing hand hygiene, vaccination, etc.

But now the WHO and the CDC are both talking about indoor air quality. That cover is dissolving. #RiskManagement
partnersplatform.who.int/tools/aria

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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Julia M. Wright 's avatar Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
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Info for participants:
1. a list of local restaurants with outdoor seating
2. a list of local stores that sell respirators (pharmacies, hardware stores)
3. links to credible material on benefits of boosters, respirators, etc. (e.g. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38775460/)

Other ideas? 3/3

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At the venue: 1. open windows and doors in meeting rooms--HEPAs too, if possible 2. hold coffee/snack breaks near outdoor seating 3. keep windows and outside doors open around spaces where people will gather (e.g., registration desk, coffee/snacks) 4. some free 😷 5. visible C02 monitors 2/3

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A 🧵about safer conferencing during the pandemic. In addition to encouraging people to wear N95s indoors, what can conference organizers do to reduce spread (besides go online...)? Some thoughts based on seeing conferences of 300ish become significant spreaders of COVID-19 in 2022-24: 1/3

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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The "delete it, who cares?" mindset of a lot of studios now reminds me of how the BBC didn't think it was important to save their history either and mindlessly destroyed millions of pounds worth of their own IP.

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Emmett Macfarlane's avatar Emmett Macfarlane @emmmacfarlane.bsky.social
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UWaterloo isn't just seeking an injunction, it's also suing encampment participations for $1.5M in "damages". I can't even with this.

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Hey all! Time for a quick @cancovsoc.bsky.social
Canadian Covid Society update.
Specifically: introducing our new website!

And boy is it beautiful, and getting to be the resource we are striving for!
covidsociety.ca
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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin's avatar Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social
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Someone asked if AI / LLMs would make my research easier by, e.g., helping me to collate large volumes of research instantly, sparing me a lot of grind & struggle. I told them that struggling w/ the research is actually essential to forming the insights that make the project interesting or valuable.

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@DrJoePajak 's avatar @DrJoePajak @drjoepajak.bsky.social
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The pandemic continues...
'Daily overview of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Acute Hospitals across Ireland (29 in total).
460 Confirmed cases in hospital.
97 New confirmed cases in past 24hrs.
Recorded at 8am on 20 June 2024.'
@hpscireland #irishpublichealthHPSC @COVIDisNotOver

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Franca Leitner 's avatar Franca Leitner @francaleitner.bsky.social
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Some friends at the University of Freiburg are organising a wonderful conference for PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers on Popular Culture and Democracy - see their CfP below :)

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“COVID isn’t a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise”

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Julia M. Wright 's avatar Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
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Wow the word “rationally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there…

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Julia Doubleday's avatar Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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2023 COVID deaths were higher than if we’d reintroduced polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles & mumps combined. 75k vs 43k, adjusted for population.

This is bc of CASE load. Other viruses are deadlier, but none reinfect like Covid. Read:

t.co/NnFCppkF5C

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Anonsee, Prophesied Return 🕸️'s avatar Anonsee, Prophesied Return 🕸️ @anons.ee
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The DC Dyke March was hundreds of dykes, ALL MASKED, 100% MASKING, marching through the streets of DC against genocide in Palestine in 60+% humidity and 90ish degree heat, including disabled dykes of all kinds. Organizers, you CAN make masking mandatory for events. It’ll work.

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David Elfstrom's avatar David Elfstrom @davidelfstrom.bsky.social
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Mere hours after bringing this to the attention of Vancouver Coastal Health, they made edits!

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Excited to be involved in this new campaign to provide free respirator masks to communities vulnerable to wildfire smoke.
Reach out if your community is interested.
masksforfires.wixsite.com/canada

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Julia M. Wright 's avatar Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
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Here’s the Simpsons capturing the pulse of our cultural moment, in 1997: “Facts are *meaningless*. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true” (“Lisa the Skeptic”).

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Joe Vipond's avatar Joe Vipond @jvipondmd.bsky.social
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Tomorrow, Monday at 1900 at Owl's Nest Books.
The Calgary book launch of Breaking Canadians edited by @nilikm.bsky.social with David Keegan and myself, MCed by Raj Bhardwaj.

Please share widely, as we're intentionally not sharing this on the dumpster fire site.

www.owlsnestbooks.com/events

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This must be unprecedented in Canada? In a meaningful sense, it’s threatening people for doing their jobs at work. Dissenting from the administrative position is not just protected as a key part of academic freedom—it’s also an academic responsibility under shared governance.

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Sorry to say but Phillip k Dick would love that we invented robots based on people but the people lie too much and so the robots can’t help but believe it. He’d laugh so hard

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc's avatar Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com
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Google accused users of deliberately testing the software