#measlesisairborne — Public Fediverse posts

Despite all the denial I have witnessed since 2020, every now and again it still amazes me that it is normal for medical professionals not to know basic infection control... when it involves the concept "Airborne" :-/

#CovidIsAirborne
#MeaslesIsAirborne
#TuberculosisIsAirborne
#FFP3

#PublicHealth needs to wake THE EFF UP & start teaching the public about what "airborne transmission" means & everything they need to know to avoid it. Like, YESTERDAY. #CovidIsAirborne #FluIsAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne #TuberculosisIsAirborne #PertussisIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #PolioIsAirborne

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gju3fwb2ud6jqit4me7hkvcg/post/3mi5iikrhok2g

Ottawa Public Health, riddled with COVID, Flu, and other respiratory outbreaks in their hospitals and care homes, and where three children have died from from the flu already - puts out a statement about how to protect yourself and your children.

You may have already guessed but they want you to make sure you get vaccinated, wash your hands and sneeze into your elbow. Oh and *consider* wearing a mask of some variety if that's ok with you.
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"In addition to getting vaccinated, taking additional preventive steps can help further protect others:

-Wash your hands often
-Avoid touching your face with
unwashed hands
-Cover coughs and sneezes with your sleeve or a tissue
-Stay home if you are sick
-Avoid visiting people in long term care or retirement homes and hospitals of you are ill
-If you are sick, or at higher risk of severe illness, consider wearing a mask in crowded or indoor public spaces."
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https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/city-news/newsroom/statement-regional-medical-officers-health-sharp-rise-serious-flu-cases-children

#Ottawa #PublicHealth #Flu #COVID #FluIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne #RsvIsAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne

Then there's Bluewater Health, than run hospitals in Sarnia and Petrolia.

There isn't any readily available information about COVID, masking, or anything IPAC on their site.

Using their search function and typing in COVID, brings up some "news" posts from 2020 about outbreaks and "confirmed cases", and "testing".

The latest information about masking is a "news" post from April 2023, called "Lifting Mandatory Masking & Social Distancing".

This "news" post, which quotes "Dr. Haddad, Chief of Staff, and ICU physician" is full of bog standard COVID minimizing and information that was long outdated by 2023 like "COVID-19 is primarily spread through droplets or via respiratory aerosols in close contact or proximity with an infected person" Along with other bangers like:

"We recognize that COVID-19 is here to stay," (aka "we have to learn to live with the virus")

and

"We have better community and staff immunity levels from a combination of vaccination and recovery from infections" (aka "hybrid immunity + it's mild now").

https://www.bluewaterhealth.ca/news/bluewater-health-lifting-mandatory-masking-social-distancing

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

Southwestern Public Health, in 2025, is still telling people to sneeze and cough into their sleeve to prevent COVID from spreading.

Also, wash your hands for 20 seconds, don't touch your face, and "put as much distance between yourself and others where possible".

Oh, and that's not a PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT confusing GERMS and VIRUSES, is it? 🤦

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

Below the picture of two medical staff wearing head coverings, glasses, protective gowns, procedure gloves, and poorly fitted "surgical masks" with clearly visible gaps on the side and over the nose...

Health Sciences North (Sudbury Hospital) also wants you to know, in point number 1:

"Cleaning your hands is the single most effective way to reduce the spread of illness."

But....
"HSN is a mask friendly hospital. Masking is optional and strongly encouraged across the hospital..."

So... since masking is "...strongly encouraged across the hospital", surely the hospital requires at least their staff and employees to mask to clearly illustrate and set an example for what they mean, right? Right? 🙄

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

The Cambridge Memorial Hospital wants you to know that:

"Cleaning your hands is the most effective way to control the spread of infection in hospital."

(Fun Fact:There's a active COVID outbreak in that hospital right now.)

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

Peel Region Public Health really wants you to know that for respiratory outbreaks, the only precautions you need to take are to avoid droplets and surface contact spread.

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

Your Ontario public healthcare tax dollars at work.

Make sure you wash or sanitize your hands often to prevent airborne respiratory virus transmission when you go to the hospital.

#COVIDisAirborne #FluIsAirbone #MeaslesIsAirborne #RSVisAirborne #Ontario #PublicHealth

#CovidIsNotOver

"#Measles and #Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - #MarshFamily #music #parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio"

"We’ll see measles and polio down in the schoolyard
We’ll see flu and rubella down in the schoolyard
We’ll see varicella, down in the schoolyard
We’ll see hepatitis, down in the schoolyard
We’ll see parotitis, down in the schoolyard
We’ll see coronavirus, down in the schoolyard"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiXrd-R68U

#COVIDisAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne #Medical #PublicHealth #VaccinateYourKids #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #PreventableIllness #LongCovid #Covid #MoreThanAFluThing #NotJustACold #PutAMaskOn #StopDisablingKids

When #parents won't #MaskUp - they teach their #children to not be safe with their #health too. They also teach their kids to not care about others in the community. I'm blown away by how many parents are OK with exposing themselves & their kids to several preventable, airborne illnesses, including covid. They're risking death & disabilities on themselves & their kids.

Our #PublicHealth system is already overburdened & understaffed. We have many former health care workers with long covid & they never returned to work. We are nowhere near prepared to deal with many future cases of long covid & the 2ndary illnesses & disabilities that more people will suffer from - because they aren't being #CovidSafe.

Our government & mainstream media has stopped reporting facts on covid & on long covid. They want the public to forget about it. Which means dismissing the lives of disabled people like me & many others, who are still being covid safe.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #medical #Healthcare #FireBonnieHenry #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDP #Eugenics #PeopleWithDisabilities #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne #PutAMaskOn #ChildWelfare #ParentalResponsibility #ChildrensRights #DisabledRights #DisabledLivesMatter

Clean the Air ffs. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478252-air-filters-in-classrooms-reduce-sick-days-by-more-than-10-per-cent/
#CleanAir #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #Measles #MeaslesIsAirborne #Influenza #FluIsAirborne #LongCovid #pwme

Layered protection works best Layered = 2 doses of the MMR vaccine + mask (KN95 or better) + HEPA filtration (air purifiers) #MeaslesIsAirborne #AirborneAware Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Layered protection works best Layered = 2 doses of the MMR vaccine + mask (KN95 or better) + HEPA filtration (air purifiers) #MeaslesIsAirborne #AirborneAware Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario 🇨🇦 has a smaller population than Texas 🇺🇸 but Ontario has more #measles cases 😬 #MeaslesIsAirborne

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ne6c7wj3gsizqhwsr5iyuhid/post/3lmmgqyviw226

New York State recently advised people to make sure their MMR vaccine is up to date if they’re travelling to Ontario But with COVID infections damaging people’s immune systems, layered protection works best “Layered” means wearing a mask in public spaces & using HEPA filtration #MeaslesIsAirborne

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Layered protection is most effective: 2 doses of the MMR vaccine, a mask, and HEPA filtration (air purifier) #MeaslesIsAirborne #COVIDisAirborne #AirborneAware #COVIDinformed Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I learned recently that even though it’s known for its distinctive rash, #measles is a highly contagious virus that is spread through the air from coughing and sneezing. According to this page from the #CDC, the virus can be infectious for two hours in the air and on surfaces.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/causes/index.html
#MaskUp #MaskAreLove #MeaslesIsAirborne

Measles outbreaks in Ontario and Quebec #MeaslesIsAirborne #VaccinesWork #MasksWork #VaccinesSaveLives #MasksSaveLives

Measles outbreaks in Ontario and Quebec #MeaslesIsAirborne #VaccinesWork #MasksWork #VaccinesSaveLives #MasksSaveLives

The World Health Organization acknowledged the pandemic in Dec 2024 Please get vaccinated (the most up to date vaxx) & wear a mask in public to protect yourself, your family, friends & community #MeaslesIsAirborne #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver #WeAreStillinApandemic #VaccinesWork #MasksWork

Masks are a layer of protection that help everyone 😷 (including those vaccinated, since there’s no vaccine that offers 100% perfect protection) Unfortunately, many of the same people who don’t want to get vaccinated ALSO don’t want to wear a mask #COVIDisAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne #AirborneAware

@ChemicalEyeGuy just one tiny pushback: "during the COVID pandemic" is still now.

Just because it's not politically defined as a state of emergency, doesn't change the facts of transmission or prevalence.

If that seems sus, consider HIV - definitely still a pandemic, but in most of the world it's not politically an emergency.

Also while some people are poorly educated, some have been actively mis-educated and disinformed.

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVID #CovidCompetent #maskUp #cleanAir #cleanTheAir #publicHealth #health #disease #COVIDisAirborne #measles #measlesIsAirborne

“The virus can stay in the air for at least two hours after someone with the #measles leaves the area.” #SARSCoV2: “Hold my beer.” #COVIDisAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/health/measles-child-infection/index.html

Increased Measles in Canada - Are you protected?

As Public Health crumbles and too few people are getting vaccinated for measles our herd immunity levels have dropped too much and now many people are at risk for a disease we almost eradicated in Canada. #measles #measlesisairborne #Canada 🧵 1/

The one page easier to share version of this thread can be found at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1764380555481674229.html

@harold “Measles spreads easily through the air…” Omg no, it’s airborne? Maybe WHO’s Dr. Mike Ryan will strong-arm CBC to retract this sentence. #CovidIsAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

Like #COVIDisAirborne.

Well, #MeaslesisAirborne too.

But people forget, measles was droplet first.

The case studies proved it was airborne. Took about 1912->1980 or so.