#COVID cases and deaths continue to drop in #NYC the week ending December 6, but #flu and #RSV cases continue to rise.

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene doesn't publish absolute numbers of hospitalizations for #influenza and the #RSVirus, only the percentage of emergency room visits. That doesn't really help me decide whether to host in-person karaoke!

#COVIDIsNotOver and the #FluIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne so I #WearAMask in elevators, trains, buses, doctors' offices, and markets!

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 Haddad, Chief of Staff, and ICU physician" is full of bog standard COVID minimizing and information that was long outdated by 2023 like "COVID-19 is primarily spread through droplets or via respiratory aerosols in close contact or proximity with an infected person" Along with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

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.