#DoAllTheThings! Implement layered engineering controls to reduce airborne infection and improve Indoor Air Quality: 1⃣ #Ventilation with outdoor air 2⃣ #Filtration including in-room portable units 3⃣ #UVGI Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Small building example👇 /1

gOOd mOrning #friDAy peOplE :awesome: :ablobwobble: :ablobwavereverse: :annoyingdog: :ablobcatcoffee: #bestday #DOaLLtheTHINgS!!!

The more TODOs and habits you schedule in #orgmode the more quickly you inevitably fall behind on them.

I have been through several cycles of (re)discovering org-mode, dumping every last thought in my brain into it, getting overwhelmed, and then bailing for a couple of years, but this time around I've embraced the agenda view 'bulk scatter' feature, and it's life-changing.

I'm never, ever actually going to be able to #DoAllTheThings, and being able to punt them n random days into the future is the perfect balance of "Don't want to forget about it competely, but also don't need to worry about it right this second"

In case you missed it (because you haven't got your RSS feeder set up or you haven't subscribed to email alerts): my thoughts on how you *can* multitask after all!

https://tinekedhaeseleer.net/the-secret-to-efficient-multi-tasking-two-methods-to-try-now/

#multitask #BlogPost #ProductivityTip #DoAllTheThings #CoachingAdvice

Advent calendars are here, Christmas cards are ordered, most of my Christmas shopping is done, and the house is decorated. Just have to get things for my Secret Santa at work and buy stocking stuffers.

I'm feeling so on top of things that maybe I'll actually set up our family activities advent thing that I bought 2 years ago and have failed at for both those years. Or maybe I won't. This year, like every year, Mama is tired.

#Christmas #DoAllTheThings

It is 10 am, I have made two pies and finished wiring in the independent circuit for the new fridge. Now off for a run in the arboretum before kicking off building a shed! Always a blast trying to #doallthethings!

For the first time in weeks,a #homerecording update

I re-recorded the vox to "Limerence" w/a Shure 56 (uni-d, same specs as the SM58, but w/a metal-not-hardplastic shell) in the bedroom in a corner where there's a pile of boxes to dampen the sound as if to create the sound of a closed booth, upped the gain to 3:00, turned off the contour (!) and sang close up (yes I used a pop filter) without pushing. Yep, I used the Bing Crosby tech but sang the song like me. The effects is much smoother and that closeness allowed me to listen to my enunciation and pitch better in the monitor. The bed vocals were useful as a guide but the differences are striking.

Onward to mixing!

#DoAllTheThings

➡️ Please consider boosting; remember on Mastodon there's no algorithm and 'liking' is only seen by the author

➡️ The best mask is an N95, but all masks work

➡️ Double masking or overmasking

➡️ FAQs are:

❓ Does it make a difference?

❓ Which mask should go on top, the cloth mask or the medical mask?

❓ What about two cloth masks?

❓ Or two medical masks?

➡️ Answers at updated page:

https://maskevidence.org/double-masking

#WeNotMe

#BetterMasks #MasksWork

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99

Which year saw the most deaths from Covid in Canada?

#WearAMask #BetterMasks #COVIDIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsNotOver #DoAllTheThings

Wear the best mask available
The best mask is an N95

https://maskevidence.org/mask-types

New eligibility for PCR testing in Ontario.
#Covid symptoms plus
➡️Everyone >60y
➡️>18y with a high-risk condition
➡️>18y with <2 vaccine doses
➡️>18y with >6m since last vaccine or last Covid infection
➡️ all the previously eligible groups (frontline workers, pregnant people, people who are immunocompromised etc)

https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-testing-and-treatment

#Paxlovid eligibility expanded too (same page, scroll down):
➡️Everyone >60y
➡️>18y with a high-risk condition or immunocompromised
➡️>18y with <2 vaccine doses
➡️>18y with >6m since last vaccine or last Covid infection

Where to get tested:
https://www.ontario.ca/assessment-centre-locations

Self-certify 'I'm eligible' if you are in one of those groups.

In #HamOnt|Hamilton

https://www.stjoes.ca/coronavirus/covid-19-test-home

Don't rely on test-and-treat or vaccination. Prevent community transmission to a vulnerable person and prevent #LongCovid with #Masks and #Ventilation

#BetterMasks #MasksWork

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99 #CovidTesting #BringBackTesting

https://maskevidence.org/why-masks-matter

Please boost

➡️*New resource* for advocates for Masks in Schools

➡️We have created a FAQ page and a downloadable, customizable template summarizing arguments for mask requirements in schools:

https://maskevidence.org/masks-in-schools

➡️Mask mandates in schools reduce student and teacher absences

https://tinyurl.com/ps3jpk6a

➡️4% of children with COVID will get long covid

https://tinyurl.com/mryp6zvh

@MyraBatchelder @nilikm #WeNotMe

#BetterMasks #MasksWork

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99

This time with working links

➡️One of the wisest commentators on the climate crisis for years, @georgemonbiot writes about our need to take care of each other

➡️We need to #WearAMask https://maskevidence.org/mask-types

➡️We need to #Ventilate
https://itsairborne.com/
https://cleanaircrew.org/

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/26/covid-roulette-clean-air-ventilation-long-covid

@michael @trendless

Have you tried the Vitacore Can99?

https://shop.vitacore.ca/pages/ppe-safety-mask?utm_term=can99%20mask&utm_campaign=Google:+Search+-+Brand&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=9046273627&hsa_cam=12411407195&hsa_grp=118360317836&hsa_ad=516618647756&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1276278733354&hsa_kw=can99%20mask&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAw8OeBhCeARIsAGxWtUzonNekQPrgZj5_i6mlA7_uha_577DzPPJ4aG87JMweYVo9YLIkei0aAgrMEALw_wcB

Some curated lists of N95s on our website

https://maskevidence.org/findingn95s

Which mask should I wear?

Includes downloadable infographic/poster

https://maskevidence.org/mask-types

Also I'd like to post curated lists of where to get FfP2/3 in Europe and Australia. Does anyone know of any sites like @ProjectN95 or #masks4Canada outside North America?

#CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

So...1 in 24 Canadians has Covid, XBB1.5 (kraken) variant is projected to be at 22% in Ontario by the end of the week, people are still dying of Covid (279 in Canada in the first week of January), and though voluntary mask wearing is low, 69% of Canadians support mask mandates if necessary.

Public health in many regions recommends or strongly recommends mask wearing.

But no mask mandates?
Not even in education and the workplace?
Nothing?

Mandates would make it so much easier for the caring majority to normalize wearing a mask again. Many people understandably don't want to #WearAMask unless it is clearly necessary. #MaskMandates are necessary to get mask wearing in public up to >80%, which IHME estimates would halve deaths from covid with a month.

In the absence of clear direction from public health, #MaskUp and protect yourself and those around you as best you can.

https://maskevidence.org/why-masks-matter

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #BetterMasks

Tara Moriarty's lab's estimates of current infections and risk: https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1614737208602230784

Incomplete count of deaths from Covid in Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/current-situation.html?stat=num&measure=deaths_weekly&map=pt#a2

CTV/Nanos Nov 2022 poll of Canadians: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/majority-of-canadians-support-return-of-face-masks-in-indoor-public-spaces-if-deemed-necessary-survey-1.6144419

IHME projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend

@holmesr @Pat

Hi again. Thanks for the feedback and for engaging, much appreciated.

We think overhead elastic is critical to getting good fitted-filtration (ie, net filtration of a mask on a face). We summarize this here ⬇️

https://maskevidence.org/head-attachments

In North America, #N95s must have overhead elastic simplifying our advice in favour of these over #KN95 or #KF94

There are data on beards, too!

For a 10mm beard, an N95 is still more effective than all other masks.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00337-1

If the stifling feeling is specifically associated with headstraps for you, they could be too tight. Aura 3M has simple band elastic straps that lengthen with a good hard tug. This is a pro in this situation for you.

For straps that don't lengthen so easily, consider an #N95 with braided elastic such as Vitacore's #Can99.

Vitacore's Can99 also has superb breathability so if the problem isn't the attachments, this might help.

Apologies for a N American reply to a European question.

Anyone curating info on #FFP2 or #FFP3 and suppliers please let me know: we would love to put this on our website.

#WearTheBestMaskAvailable

#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #Beards

@Moira yes #DoAllTheThings and #WearTheBestMaskAvailable

➡️ I'm seeing a lot of "N95s work and other masks do not"

➡️ Filtration is relative, not absolute

➡️ Summary and infographic ⬇️
https://maskevidence.org/mask-types

⬇️%s are filtration percentages for submicron (less than 1 micron) particles - aerosol data - the relevant size because #CovidIsAirborne

90% N95s without fit testing
70% Level 1 medical with cotton overmask
50% Level 1 medical or well-fitting 2-layer cotton

What does it mean?

➡️ Wear the best mask available

If you have access to N95s or FFP3s with overhead elastic, wear them

Otherwise use what you have: any mask is better than no mask

A certified medical mask with a good-fitting cloth mask over the top to improve the edge seal is a great low-cost combo

Mask braces are a bit uncomfortable but is you are in a high-risk situation (eg health care worker not supplied with routine N95s) they greatly improve the filtration of medical masks

#WearTheBestMaskAvailable

#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

It's taken me a while to figure out how to write an #Introduction. Here goes:

I’d appreciate a boost to help meet like-minded here.

I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU

Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)

I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU

I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU

My #ClinicalResearch is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks

I’m editor-in-chief of #CJKHD (@CanJKHD on the birdsite, not here yet) an #OpenAccess kidney journal with #PublishingPolicy:

#SupportiveReview (#Kindness, #KidneyKindness) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20543581221080327
https://theconversation.com/peer-review-can-this-critical-step-in-the-publication-of-science-research-be-kinder-182142

#PortableReview (was your hard work rejected by a journal with IF>=4? Submit clean, redline, point-by-point response-to-reviews, and tell us which journal and undertake that you responded to all reviews received)
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/canadian-journal-of-kidney-health-and-disease/journal202590#aims-and-scope

I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork

For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal

Also trying to be #LGBTQ #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #equity #diversity #inclusion, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning.

Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her

It's always nice to get through those first couple weeks after the holidays and establish a productive groove. There's something really refreshing and invigorating about it. 💪🙂👍 #DoAllTheThings

Easy peasy, right? #DoAllTheThings ChristmasCooking #ChristmasPrep #HomeGrown #GrowYourOwn #FromScratch #CommunitySupportedAgriculture #sourdough #fermentation