Mat Wright / is on Nostr

Fighting dystopia grimly, but with hope

Home: Nanaimo, Canada

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2024-09-13 03:18:09

OMFG!! I have seen diplomatic cables criticizing allies on policies and messaging, I have seen (even helped write) speeches that laid out the 'slight differences' with close neighbours
I have NEVER seen this, during an election campaign - this would have been approved right up to cabinet and the PM's office - it's actual cannon fire
#CDNpoli #ABpoli #ONpoli #BCpoli #USpoli #USelection
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2024-09-08 02:18:32

This should be far bigger news - at least 4 US high school football players have collapsed and died in the past month
This doesn't count those who have experienced serious medical issues in practice or games and survived
Warnings came years ago Covid is causing hidden harm to children, but public health continues to minimize the impacts of infections and increasing re-infections
#Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid
https://apnews.com/article/florida-high-school-football-death-61bea844716d21b0c1614ee1987d9893

2024-09-07 23:23:54

it's like I got in the car and drove into an alternate universe - 99% of the time I'm the only one masked, this afternoon went to 3 stores and was nicely stunned to see around 25% of shoppers and staff masked, even kids!
Keep it up folks!!
#Covid #Covid19 #Nanaimo #BCpoli

2024-09-04 02:47:37

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LOL - they can deny climate change which is scientifically proven (and lived reality), but 5G conspiracy is a step too far?
and IMO the former BC Libs/United MLAs weakly justifying their jump to the ridiculous is such a moral failure - it's close to cerebral malfeasance

2024-09-03 22:39:25

totally agree Public Health and a compliant media have made a total mess of........ Public Health
'As a consequence, authorities can’t now turn around and admit to the breadth of their mistake, let alone acknowledge the growing disorder in public health. Nor do they dare collect critical data documenting the scale of their errors including the relentless march of long COVID'
#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/03/COVID-Surge-High-Price-Viral-Denial/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-09-03 01:52:13

Rustad can't say BC Conservatives have no connections with the Federal Cons when literally the day before he admitted to sharing campaign staff
There might be no formal agreements, but sure as hell a lot of informal ones - staff, donors, volunteers, advisors....
don't be fooled, they are one and the same
#BCpoli #CDNpoli

2024-08-29 05:01:01

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there is a huge story behind this - I can tell you there are a lot of BCU (and Fed Lib) peeps deeply angry
I actually don't think this will be the big win BC Cons are touting

2024-08-26 19:55:29

Remember these doozies?
Kids don't get Covid
then
Kids don't transmit
then
Kids don't get seriously ill
then
Kids don't get immune comprised leading to opportunistic infections like RSV
then
Kids certainly don't get Long Covid
Guess what? The often cited study used to justify dropping school protections has been fully retracted
Kids get Long Covid at a very high rate - we've screwed a generation
#Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2822489

2024-08-23 22:12:00

I'd love to see faculty at all campuses in Canada issue statements like University of S. California profs
'We urge USC to exercise leadership by installing visible air quality monitors in classrooms and other campus spaces.
It stands strongly behind instructors mandating masking in their classrooms to accommodate health needs'
#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #BCpoli
https://www.uscaaup.org/

2024-08-10 20:22:50

Dear CDC, does this look 'endemic' to you?
You disease loving dicks
#Seattle #Covid #Covid19 #CovidisnotOver
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2024-08-08 19:10:06

Dear Media - Noah Lyles running the 200m final after a confirmed Covid test 2 days ago isn't 'gutsy' - it's mind blowingly stupid - he had to be wheeled off the track
Stop normalizing infections, stop with the 'just fight through it' narrative - you are complicit in fueling mass disability and death
#Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #Olympics2024 #Olympics

2024-08-06 04:48:52

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the only team that announced advanced Covid precautions, including team masking, were the Belgians - they also pulled out of the relay Triathlon because of illness acquired from the Seine - every other team seemed surprised a highly infectious airborne disease somehow managed to knock athletes out - go figure

2024-07-11 00:05:43

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smells like exhaust so was thinking Lower Mainland, but yeah, fires adding to this - getting quite thick, though the AQI is still at 2

2024-07-10 23:59:31

Thick haze building over Georgia Strait, starting to drift into Nanaimo - pretty gross air right now
#BCstorm #Nanaimo

2024-06-20 17:53:04

GOOD! Stop all the greenwashing - now do Fortis BC and their ridiculous 'renewable natural gas' adverts, it's insulting
#Climate #climatechange #CDNpoli #BCpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pathways-alliance-bill-c59-oilsands-1.7241078

2024-06-18 01:38:40

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almost dystopian surreal - my wife is a nurse, member of the Hospital Employees Union, she and colleagues tried to get a motion for PPE requirements and clean air to a floor vote, shot down before it could even reach board committee stage
same with teachers we know who tried to get a similar notion through the last BCTF collective agreement and the union would not touch it
Like WTAF are unions for?

2024-06-18 00:57:34

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what kills me is that it took basically a rogue Attorney General to get this implemented - we've been battling unions in BC - teachers, nursing, gov employees - to advocate or put into collective agreements requirements for clean air and have literally been told to fuck off

2024-06-17 20:21:54

do the people like Governer Kathy Hochel and NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who are openly advocating banning masks in public, actually hear themselves speak?
What part of their brains broke? A year ago NYC was providing free masks at transit hubs!!!!
Gobsmacking cognitive dissonance
#Covid #Covid19 #nyc