Cara Martin

Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to contemp. Film school grad. Time traveller. Humanist. Gen X. 😷 INFJ. www.caramartin.ca. | www.ckkellymartin.com

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2024-10-30 20:54:45

So many people are catching covid in hospital lately, either as patients or while visiting loved ones. It's like getting mugged at a police station - WTF are we doing? If there's one place that should have serious protections against covid spread in place it's hospitals. 😷

2024-10-29 19:55:13

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@npub1kmn…8cg8 Me too. So funny, warm and quirky. One of a kind.

2024-08-01 18:05:00

Just ordered more masks from @canadastrong since there's no end to this pandemic in sight. My go-to N95s are Canadian made Kross (which have a great fit for my face) and the Dräger X-plore 1750. Going to try out some Dräger 1950s this time. https://canadastrong.ca/

2024-08-01 18:05:00

2024-07-24 17:30:51

Can someone pass word on to the Toronto Star and the National Post, the former who is concerned with her fashion sense and the latter framing her as a DEI hire. As a Canadian I'm embarrassed and grossed out by this trash from our media. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/republican-leaders-urge-colleagues-to-steer-clear-of-racist-and-sexist-attacks-on-harris-1.6975833 (1)

2024-05-09 00:24:06

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@npub1k4q…3lsq I love black too. Except in cars - so hard to keep clean.

2024-05-02 15:25:53

Canada Strong have black headband N99s in stock! The N99 is my go-to for high risk situations - I was excited to order some in black. https://canadastrong.ca/products/vitacore-can99-black-headband-surgical-respirator-made-in-canada-99-pfe

2024-04-06 21:20:09

"Anyone who can countenance deliberate starvation has lost their humanity. Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions." https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0406/1441986-fine-gael-ard-fheis/

2024-03-28 00:23:56

I won't be seeing movies at @CineplexMovies while they're using facial recognition. The path they're on with this leads nowhere good. Macy's facial recognition falsely identified an innocent man who was then raped by 3 men in jail. https://www.thestreet.com/retail/macys-faces-lawsuit-in-false-arrest-due-to-facial-recognition-tec

2024-03-25 17:52:34

A bit of an update to the Cineplex facial recognition/demanding masks be removed issue. I was at their Lansdowne theatre a couple of months ago to watch All of Us Strangers, obviously before this policy was adopted. But I won't be going back there, or to any Cineplex, while this policy exists.
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2024-03-21 19:18:42

Just got a call where the caller said he was calling me from "your internet department." Cool! I have an internet department? I wonder what other departments I have and am unaware of?
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2024-03-20 00:08:51

Irish PM Leo Varadkar takes the opportunity, during an annual St Patrick's Day event at the White House, to express the Irish people's empathy for Palestinians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TpcnSqG3Vw

2024-03-16 22:21:33

In 2019 Sao Paulo, Brazil had a measles outbreak of 18k cases. 40.0% of people infected had a history of previous vaccination. During a 2007 measles outbreak in South Korea 23% of healthcare professionals affected had previously received 2 MMR doses. Don't assume you're immune. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10768653/

2024-03-16 16:29:57

Major privacy and health issues with Cineplex in Ontario. This chain is now an unsafe, hostile place for anyone with health issues or who wants to avoid them. Also disturbing that they're using a system that wants to ID customers with facial recognition.
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2024-03-16 16:29:57

2024-03-01 20:17:38

The collapse of public health and a pretense that most people would be fine if we ignored covid-19 facilitated this. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/community-measles-transmission-now-a-risk-in-montreal-public-health We ain't seen nothing yet. Make sure you and yours are up to date on MMR.

2024-02-19 23:32:05

Rideau Canal Skateway on Family Day. High of -8C feeling like -15 but it was dazzlingly bright with no wind.
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2024-02-19 22:28:17

Dropped off some of my books at the Little Library on Queen Elizabeth Place while en route to a stroll by the Skateway (canal photos to come!). I Know It's Over, My Beating Teenage Heart & Just Like You Said It Would Be are hanging out with James Bond & Isabel Allende's Eva Luna.
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2024-02-17 20:33:01

Britain's Tory government tanked the British economy with their short term thinking in refusing to treat covid seriously - discouraging masking, restricting boosters and not pushing for clean indoor air for all. Many nations are following suit and will meet the same failure. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/record-long-term-sickness-bodes-ill-for-uk-economic-growth

2024-02-05 19:25:20

Saw 3 shoppers masked within my first 30 seconds inside my local mall today which is unusual for this place. Then another 3 during the next 30 minutes. That's 6 people who either know & understand things the rest don't and/or are at least interested in protecting someone else.

2024-01-30 20:48:15

My husband, in an N95, is off to the doctor who will likely not be masked (she wasn't when I saw her last month) and then, still masked, he'll drop into the eyewear store to pick up new glasses because this is how you try to avoid acquiring covid and long covid during an ongoing airborne pandemic.
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2024-01-30 18:11:55

In 10 studies of past, current, and projected illness in U.S. university students, health-care employees, and online crowdsourced workers about 75% reported concealing illness in interpersonal interactions, possibly placing others in harm’s way. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976231221990

2024-01-29 20:03:54

"The implications of people not being able to access primary care are severe." Ottawa is short 171 GPs. Ontario needs more than 2,500 physicians. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-needs-171-doctors-immediately-here-s-what-oma-wants-the-government-to-do-1.6746399 #Ottnews #ONpoli

2024-01-29 17:57:06

A friend in her early 60s just recovered from the acute stage of her 3rd covid infection. 2nd in 8 months. She said luckily it was mild this time. Last infection she was hospitalized. I tried to impart how important it is that she not catch covid again but fear she won't listen. With rapidly accumulating evidence of the damage covid wreaks after initial infection, in my experience STILL nobody wants to know.
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2024-01-14 21:24:42

For the Canadians, Please sign the Reinstate Mandatory Universal Masking In all Healthcare Spaces petition. https://chng.it/pGYRtBDx

2023-12-19 23:20:22

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@npub158v…668c We've done the same but the wastewater is useful and there are independent bodies tracking various measures. Apparently in the U.S. 1 in 34 are infected https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/1736904871196951011

2023-12-19 16:35:11

Love this NYC Health campaign. We desperately need public health messaging like this in Ontario where 1 in 13 people are currently infected with covid (1 in 20 nationally).
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2023-11-30 18:29:01

Kiefer Sutherland describes his first meeting with Shane MacGowan on Ireland's The Late Late Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vsm0gFtOd4

2023-11-29 18:49:29

Was just at a SDM in Orleans, Ottawa. None of the pharmacy team masked, customer in front of me in a surgical and I'd passed another customer exiting in a KN95 on my way in. Can't see how I'll have any faith in health professionals in general again, except for the ones masking of course.
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2023-11-23 21:41:37

Hate to see this kind of violence breaking out in Dublin. Hoping everyone stays safe. https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/calls-for-calm-amid-disgraceful-scenes-after-children-injured-in-knife-attack-1555806.html #Ireland

2023-11-14 19:03:10

For Cripes' sake, protect your brain and wear an N95. “It’s not just fog, it’s a brain injury, basically. There are neurovascular changes. There’s inflammation. There are changes on M.R.I." - Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez, chair of rehabilitation medicine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/upshot/long-covid-disability.html

2023-11-13 23:19:55

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@npub1gmx…atcq "If ppl masked,healthcare system might be intact." People don't seem any closer to grasping this fact & I guess will continue to fight/queue for whatever meagre heath services remain.

2023-11-01 17:23:25

Might need to put this on the Christmas list. https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus It plays original cartridges too! How I wish I still had ET and Pitfall!!!

2023-10-24 22:37:08

So Lanark, Leeds and Grenville are opting out of public health and say if you're looking for covid shots don't both them cuz covid is gone anyway - shameful leaving their residents in the lurch this way!
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2023-10-23 19:21:44

“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” —W. Somerset Maugham

2023-09-08 23:23:48

On Pierre Poilievre: "Scratch the surface and the neoliberal playbook of slashing social spending, tax cuts for business and the wealthy, and abandoning people to market inequities is plain to see." https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/08/Defeat-Poilievre-Politics-Abandonment/ #canpoli

2023-08-13 00:02:20

It's extremely rare to get flu in August. If you have a fever, cough and/or headache what you have is likely covid, the virus most ppl are pretending no longer exists but can give you longterm health issues. https://www.insider.com/august-flu-vs-covid-infection-rate-2023-8 #CovidIsNotOver

2023-08-08 19:12:04

Friend of mine, 62 with no underlying health issues, this spring was hospitalized for covid 3 months after getting a winter covid booster. She'd done ok with her first infection, not as lucky with the 2nd. Imagine how ppl 50-64 will fare in the UK this fall and winter sans shots. #CovidIsNotOver
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2023-06-14 19:57:43

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Serious case of nostalgia!

2023-06-14 19:42:40

Local radio station just played Situation by Yazoo so I had to get up and dance in my empty apartment to satisfy the part of me that still, and possibly forever, lives in a glorious state of adolescence in 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLNEMxwbt6A

2023-04-21 00:25:54

Families minister says Canada will offer access to abortion pill if U.S. ban upheld. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/families-minister-says-canada-will-offer-access-to-abortion-pill-if-u-s-ban-upheld-1.6364591 #[0] #[1]

2023-04-20 23:31:39

For Ontarians. Don't Move the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place. Please sign the petition. https://www.change.org/p/don-t-move-the-ontario-science-centre-to-ontario-place #[0]