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This one is particularly apropos these days ...
The history of #InfectiousDisease illuminates injustice. #FernwoodPress has published COUNTRY OF POXES by physician #BaijayantaMukhopadhyay, linking syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis to #LandTheft and #Colonialism in North America. https://buff.ly/3EBtS06
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MadnessCanada/status/1595847310994554884
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali settler living in Tio’tia:ke for over two decades. A family doctor who serves primarily in Eeyou Istchee, Baijayanta also works in Treaty 3 and 9 territories, as well as with undocumented migrants, unhoused people and queer/trans youth in the city. He is clinical faculty at the McGill Department of Family Medicine, focusing on supporting rural/low-resource practice. Mukhopadhyay also organises around issues related to extractivism, migrant rights, policing, public services and decolonizing global health within local and international networks and collectives. His previous works include A Labour of Liberation and essays in Briarpatch Magazine, Sarai Reader and Upping the Anti.
This is MS. He died in the emergency room waiting room at the Moncton Hospital. A small peaceful demonstration has formed outside the hospital. The signs read: “we miss you Dad.” MS was a father of 5.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nthlstrgn/status/1596557916508938240
Sky News has spoken to a devastated family who say their five-year old child died this week after their pleas for him to be admitted into hospital were dismissed by staff at @[email protected] who told them they didn't have any spare beds. This is the story of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsThompson/status/1596267603642777602
“Sky News has spoken to a devastated family who say their five-year old child died this week after their pleas for him to be admitted into hospital were dismissed by staff at @RotherhamNHS_FT who told them they didn't have any spare beds. This is the story of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir.”
This is Kartik Saini, the 20 yr old student who was struck and killed by a truck driver in midtown Toronto Wednesday.
His family, who lives in India, is shattered.
"In Canada everyone follow traffic rule ... why this happened?" one relative asked me.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/11/24/cyclist-dead-after-being-struck-trapped-underneath-truck-at-yonge-st-clair.html
Well, looks like they are acknowledging the immunological harm that SARS Cov 2 does
I told you all long ago, many times, and have been mocked, abused, and cancelled for it https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1305951345610981378
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1596206384244469760
For the cloistered lawyers basking in your Uottawa: This is who needs "involuntary" care. Carrie was dumped front of VGH emerg; my walk home. Watched 20 people step over her and circled back. Staff would not let me bring her inside no matter how cute or belligerent I was.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Docbootsnbraces/status/1595678414660595712
“For the cloistered lawyers basking in your Uottawa: This is who needs "involuntary" care. Carrie was dumped front of VGH emerg; my walk home. Watched 20 people step over her and circled back. Staff would not let me bring her inside no matter how cute or belligerent I was.”
