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David Mitchell (he/him)
Married, dad to a set of mostly grown young people (but they still eat my food).
Edmonton string instructor (will wear any hat related to music).
Promoter of:
basic public health measures;
strong, integrated, compassionate communities;
simple humanitarian values.
Every person is inherently, uniquely, and infinitely valuable.
Interested in #music #art #design #civics #history #abpoli #cndpoli #yegcc #canada #yeg #edmonton #ableg #PublicHealth #science #education #WearAMask ... so like everything except professional sports I guess.
Been at mstdn.ca since 2022, moving proactively to protect my connection to y'all, just in case.
"#COVID19 genetic material was frequently detected in #hospital air during community outbreaks, even in well-ventilated settings, according to a new study published in Respiratory Medicine."
In healthcare settings, it should be universal for providers and patients to #WearAMask (specifically, an N95 respirator or equivalent).
Canadian here so bear with me because I don’t fully understand US gun laws (nor do I understand their attachment TO guns).
What I do know is whenever there’s a mass shooting someone will bring up stricter gun control and the Right wing gun lovers shout “my freedom! You can’t take away my right to protect myself!”
Yet we are seeing a U.S. State attempt to criminalize the wearing of medical masks in all public spaces. Something that is quite literally “personal protective tool”. Why doesn’t our freedom to protect ourselves from infection as much as their freedom to carry a gun?
I can’t see any scenario where someone else would be harmed by an N95 - the same is NOT true for any gun. Yet one is being criminalized and the other isn’t.
I sincerely hope we start hearing more people speak out against criminalizing medical masks if for no other reason than the violation of freedom and bodily autonomy. You don’t have to care about Covid to understand that some people need to wear masks.
It is a very sad example of the state of the world when a person can walk into a pharmacy or grocery store with a gun - but not wearing a medical respirator DURING A PANDEMIC
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir #Pandemic #Disability #accessibility #DisabilityRights #N95s #Ableism #CommunityCare #Eugenics #MaskBans
The #epstein evidence is all pointing towards something many of us have been saying since "urgency of normal" tricked people into dropping Covid protections: Billionaires think there's "too many people on the planet". And they are doing something about it. #CovidIsNotOver #covid #WearAMask
Wear a mask at these Events folks.
You protect you and others when you do. You encourage other folks to consider protecting themselves as well.
Otherwise at some point down the line you'll be where I am. Desperately trying to preserve my energy and feeling very sad, angry and worried about the folks attending.
I was at #Costco today. Absolutely packed, even though it was late morning on an ordinary Tuesday. I will be happy when they build the second one we're supposed to be getting.
And out of the hundreds and hundreds of customers, and dozens and dozens of staff I saw, I spotted ... zero people wearing masks of any sort. I was the only one.
Lots of people coughing and sneezing and moaning about being sick, with a brutal flu going round, *and* another mystery virus, along with COVID of course.
FFS. It was the same the other day at my doctor's office. No one wearing a mask.
I think humanity - at least the North American varieties - is waving a big "Hey, viruses, we give up" sign.
#mask #virus #COVID #FFS #WearAMask #N95 #illness #sick #flu
Did you know that science has progressed to the point that you can get your blood checked for antibodies against COVID19 and if those antibodies are coming from vaccination or infection? I do this check once a year. And the results are in. Still vaccination only. My regimen of #WearAMask and avoiding risky situations seems to work. Next year I'll order the test again. In Germany it costs around €50-75, depending on the lab. Ask your doctor to get it done. That's how I did it.
The CDC has been lapsing on their updates.
As of 2026 January 09
1,240,000 Americans have died from Covid-19
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
Elderly family member (not immediate, nor someone I physically contact) is sick, again for the 2nd time in like 2 months, with some major congestion, "but don't worry I got antibiotics". 🤦♂️ 😢
Breaks my heart and you can't quite ever override the constant health disinfo that is all around us. 😷
Please #WearAMask, it can help protect uninformed elderly people, as well as yourself.
Overhearing a staff member at hotel:
'No, I'm not well... Got some virus. Dragged myself out of bed this morning but yesterday...'
Guest/other staff: 'Well done you!'
NO
NOT WELL DONE
Stop praising people for openly and recklessly spreading illnesses.
I don't care if you knew it wasn't flu because you didn't have the all-over aches. There's still horrible shit you've probably now infected a bunch of people with.
Ugh.
#covidIsNotOver #wearAMask #StayAtHome (yes I know not everyone can afford to)
Just realized:
I was at the ER yesterday, and the people wearing masks were mainly the patients and the lower ranking and/or non-white staff members
Its never been easier to tell at a glance how trustworthy any random human in public is, bc there is no excuse for not wearing one at this point. None of the staff at the ER who treated me poorly wore one, but all of the staff who were kind to me, did. There was very little if any deviation from this pattern. The same attributes that make a medical provider trustworthy also result in them choosing to mask, and vice versa.
The thing about a medical excuse not to wear one is that such a situation doesnt exist. If youre "too sick to wear a mask" youre also infinitely more vulnerable to the infections they would shield you from in the first place. You would be doing things like social distancing or fully avoiding crowded/enclosed spaces bc even minor infections could land you in the hospital. You would be loudly in support of other people masking bc you are the very person those masks protect. There is also no such thing as a medical provider who doesnt need to mask.
If you want other people to know youre a safe person, wear a fkn mask. If you dont, we see you, bc you are wearing your trustworthiness right on your face.
The CDC has been lapsing on their updates.
As of 2025 Dec 27
1,239,654 Americans have died from Covid-19
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
Nova Scotia Health
NS health (re)mandated mask wearing in all public health facilities on December 18, 2025.
Currently there are outbreaks of COVID, Influenza A and Influenza B in my local hospital (Kentville), in wards on the same floor as the radiology department.
I had to visit the hospital today for an X-ray and was shocked to see the number of staff who were ignoring this mandate. Of course many patients were, too, but whose example would they follow? One person I spoke to didn't even realize it was a requirement (she was masked herself). She hadn't read the signs, or thought they were left over from the past.
One of the technicians hastily and sloppily masked when he came into the room and pulled it off while walking out.
As I was finishing with the X-ray and putting on my outdoor things. I mentioned my shock to the other (masked) technician. I told her that this lack of compliance is a clear message to the vulnerable and all patients that those staff members don't care. They don't care about us, their patients. And they don't even care about themselves.
So disappointing. But what's to be done? You can't make people care.
#EllieKPosts #Zeroes #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #NovaScotia #FloMaskPro
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A screenshot of part of a news article with a hospital corridor with a large welcome sign. This part of the article reads:
The Chronicle Herald
Nova Scotia Health reintroduces masking as flu season blows in early
Officials point to early flu activity and vulnerable patients as reasons for reinstating the policy.
By Ally Bowes
Published Dec 19, 2025
Last updated Dec 19, 2025
3 minute read
The text of the sign reads:
Welcome
Mask required
Clean your hands
Don't visit patients if sick
MAND HUB
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A grey haired older woman wearing mostly shades of blue is wearing a FloMaskPro with a pro filter. She is standing in front of a green background with graphic depictions of fruits and nuts and veggies. She is me.
2025-December-26
The CDC has not updated their count of COVID 19 deaths
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2025-December-19 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
We need those who claim to be "left" to stop punching down on the disabled, covid cautious and immune compromised.
Masking is resistance.
It's community care.
The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won't fight back.
Healthcare is being gutted.
There's never been a better time to mask
https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/115765402750274305
And, it's free!
Except, if you do not meet the eligibility!
Then, you have to pay 180$ out of pocket.
But, your supplemental health insurance may cover a %!
MANY SUPPLEMENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDERS DO NOT COVER EVEN A % OF THE COST OF IT!
No worries, eh.
Just risking long COVID, or OTHER possible complications w/ your heart, brain, or, you know, death.
#CAQASTROPHE #YOUAREEXPENDABLE #polQC #QCpoli #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK #cdnpoli #polcan
People of Québec, the CAQ government updated this #COVID19 vaccination PDF, in November 2025.
"Vaccination is the best protection against COVID-19 and its complications..."
#CAQASTROPHE #YOUAREEXPENDABLE #polQC #QCpoli #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK #cdnpoli #polcan
People of Québec, the CAQ government updated this #COVID19 vaccination PDF, in November 2025.
"Vaccination is the best protection against COVID-19 and its complications..."
#CAQASTROPHE #YOUAREEXPENDABLE #polQC #QCpoli #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK #cdnpoli #polcan
If you're a covid safe person and want to have some safe(r) socialization this holiday season, for any reason, check to see if there is a local masking group/bloc. I know a few around me are having some meetups, virtual & in-person, and ones near you might be as well!
2025-December-19 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
I know of several people right now who are violently ill, who mask intermittently, but who treat the masks like magical amulets and are stubbornly incurious about fit-testing. Fit testing is a thing you can do, to make sure your mask is really working. It's not just "feeling" like it's a good fit. And you can find out about it! If you want to, you know, try not to get sick.
https://link2life.ca/qualitative-vs-quantitative-mask-fit-testing/
#yallmasking #WearAMask #flu #CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsNotOver (flu's here too)
#VaccinesWork
#GetVaxxed
#CovidIsAirborne (flu is too)
#MasksWork
#WearAMask
#N95
#OverTheNoseToo
2025-December-12 Friday
After months, the CDC site has finally updated the count.
On 2025-September-26
1,235,651 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
On 2025-December-06
1,238,872 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
In the 2025 version of #TheStand, we don't have a #WalkingDude, we have a #StumblingOldDude! Still evil tho! Get vaccinated, stay home if you're sick, and WEAR A MASK!
'#SuperFlu' wave hits hospitals in #England with no peak yet
Nick Triggle, December 11, 2025
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r30787e76o
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/BbX70
#ThrowbackThursday 2022.
I miss Dad very much 😢 ❤️ He's been gone for over 2 years now.
I remember this day well. It was an excellent family bonding day. We had a nice dinner after a short walk together. 3 months after this photo was taken, Dad had to go to ER for a leg muscles issue. He was infected with covid by unmasked hospital staff. It happened shortly after our eugenics government removed public masking mandates. Dad ended up dying from covid related cardiac arrest, the following Summer.
I have never forgiven the #BCgovernment or #unmasked #hospital staff for killing my Dad. We had him fully protected with home #caregiving for years. It took less than 2 days in hospital for him to get #covid.
Please #WearAMask. Please don't let my Dad & others who died from getting covid from unmasked people, to be forgotten. It could be you or your family members, next. Covid doesn't care if you believe in it or not - it will end up wrecking your life, one way or another.
#AsianMastodon #RIPDad #CovidDeaths #CovidKills #MasksSaveLives #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #CovidCautious #CovidIsAirborne #AirborneIllness #AirborneInfections #virology #medical #health #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #Eugenics #FailureToProtect #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #PublicTransparency #FireBonnieHenry #CovidFailure #BCMedical #BCHealth #MedicalMurders #SocialMurder #GovernmentPoliciesKill #FamilyPhotos #FamilyMemories
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Dad seated at a table, wearing a gray Puma sweatshirt, smiles while holding a spoon over a plate of food. Mom stands behind him with her hands on his shoulders. The plate contains mashed potatoes, turkey, cranberry sauce, and broccoli.
#COVID #COVID19 #pandemic #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp #WearAMask
Looking for recommendations for metal-free FFP2 masks. I am unfortunately going to a hospital for an x-ray during a flu wave... Suggestions?
#Zeroes #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver
Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year, according to a study of more than 6 million patients 65 and older.From https://thedaily.case.edu/new-study-risk-factor-for-developing-alzheimers-disease-increases-by-50-80-in-older-adults-who-caught-covid-19/
Even if you think you're too young to worry, your parents or grandparents aren't, and their long-term care might end up falling on you.
#COVID19 #COVIDIsStillHere #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #MaskUp #WearAMask
Current public health policy in the US with respect to COVID appears to be specially designed (2) to generate this outcome. We're selectively breeding a dangerous pathogen to overcome the human immune system. Until that policy changes this is how life will be. All indications are that the next pandemic--whether that's monkeypox, bird flu, or something we don't know of yet--will follow a similar trajectory. Meanwhile, after a few COVID infections people accumulate a 25% or higher risk of developing Long COVID, the symptoms of which persist for at least two years in the vast majority of people. The slowdowns and challenges will worsen as the percentage of people struggling with Long COVID increases.
If I'm experiencing slowdowns and preventable challenges in the more mundane aspects of my work and private life, I have to assume most other people are as well. The shared costs, burdens, and risks are enormous, dwarfing whatever outlay would be necessary to improve the public health response and ease all this.
The above is not even considering the direct impacts on health, losses of loved ones, and so on, which of course have been incalculable.
#COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #WearAMask #MaskUp
(1) For the record, there's no such thing as a "weird summer flu"--that's likely COVID or one of the other respiratory diseases like RSV that are in much wider circulation as a direct result of COVID. It may also be Lyme disease. No matter what, brushing off a "weird summer flu" is not a great idea
(2) I'm not informed enough to know why public health policy ended up where it did, and I'm not attributing malice to anyone. Rather, I'm noting that if one were to try designing a selective breeding program for COVID using American citizens as hosts, with the aim of maximizing COVID's ability to escape human immunity, you'd end up doing something roughly like what's happening now. If that isn't the desired outcome, then what the heck?
Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay and marks one year since I started talking openly about my personal health.
I've never been comfortable with sharing my personal information, but I hoped by talking about what it's like living with #LongCovid (for nearly 4 years now) folks may reconsider their YOLO approach to #covid and actually #WearAMask
This past year has been the worst of my life. It was the year hope died. Hope that I might get better, and hope that ppl might take #Covid seriously.
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsAirborne #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUp
Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S.
I think it’s important that we continue to talk about it. We understand you don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to talk about it. But we need to because there’s more we can do. We cannot prevent all infections. We cannot prevent all deaths. But there’s a hell of a lot more that we can do to really keep people safe and save them from losing a loved one.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsAirborne #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUp
"Living in fear" has become something of a dogwhistle, used to attack the Covid-cautious and make it somehow their fault for prolonging the Pandemic.
Ironically, the ones saying "Take off your mask - let's see your smile" and asking "How long are you going to live in fear?" seem to be the ones who fear being reminded of a Pandemic they'd rather forget.
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsAirborne #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUp
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Screen capture of a tweet: @maolesen: Charlotte, NC just hit their highest level of COVID hospital admissions for the pandemic / underneath the text is a a graph of weekly COVID hospitalizations. The trend is somewhat complicated, but it's generally going up and going up rapidly recently