We aggressively recycle cards in our household. Sometimes it’s kind of funny.
Thomas Piggott MD PhD
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Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott
Medical Officer of Health & CEO @Ptbohealth | researcher @hei_mcmaster | dad who ❤️: 👶☮️💉🐈❄️ 🎿 🏔 🚴🏼♂️🏒🥕| prev @MSF @LSHTM @lghealthNL | he/him
Nogojiwanong (Peterborough)
Joined April 2010
- Friendly reminder. The pandemic is not over.
- Everyone: Look I’m vaccinated why do I need to do the other stuff anymore like wear a mask. Me: your car has an airbag, why do you wear a seatbelt, drive safe & stay home if the weather is awful?
- Folks I'm an MOH & also an expert in evidence-based public health. The COVID-19 vaccines are not new and have been around for over a year and in that time safely vaccinated and protected nearly 10 billion people 🌐.
- Deeply disappointed to learn that funding has been cancelled for the wastewater surveillance program in Ontario. This has been critical information not only for COVID-19, but other infectious disease threats (Influenza, RSV, MPox, Polio & now H5N1) in Ontario.
- If you have questions, hesitancies about the COVID vaccine, I have all the time in the world for you. I want to listen, I want to help you. If you hop behind a confederate flag to demonstrate your concerns, we’re over full stop.
- When you enter a building, we expect the building to be safe, we expect the water to be safe, why wouldn't we expect the air to be safe? thepeterboroughexaminer.com/local-peterbor…
- A gentle reminder with continued transmission we're seeing with Omicron #COVID. Please don't take your tightly fitting mask off 😷 anywhere you wouldn't take your pants off 👖.
- Please don’t revise history. Nobody was “forced” to be vaccinated. Governments of all political stripes in Canada, and around the world made the best decisions they could to protect vulnerable people. Requirements are part of organized society. Force means use of violence. ThisWow. Liberals: “Don’t worry if you have a reaction to the forced vaccination, we have a treatment for that: MAID”
- Just my own observation, but pretty sure most of the folks I saw in the overrun underfunded emerge last night would have gladly taken an adequately funded public health system over a cheque to buy a couple hundred bucks of booze at the corner store.
GIF - I’ve lived through SARS in 2003, we quickly forgot. I’ve lived through H5N1 in 2005 & since, we quickly forgot. I’ve lived through H1N1 in 2009, we quickly forgot. I’ve lived through MERS in 2012, we quickly forgot. I’ve lived through Ebola in 2014, we quickly forgot.
- The immune system is a fascinating, complicated thing. Here's a story to show, but spoiler alert. You don't owe it any debts and preventing infection is always better than it learning "the hard way" through acquired immunity from infection.
- A multilayer approach to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is still critical, but there's ONE intervention we all need to stick with for the time being: MASKING 😷 That's why I'm still strongly recommending for all Here's a quick recap on the science of just how impactful it is. 🧵
- I appreciate the outpouring of support to me, my family, & @Ptbohealth this past difficult week. A reminder that the remedy to violence is justice, not more violence & the remedy to hatred is love, not more hatred.
