Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell

@drhanwell.bsky.social

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🌾🌈 Canadian Epidemiologist & Human Biologist (esp #Nutrition) #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #LandBack #CleanTheAir #CovidIsAirborne Director @ONSchoolSafety.bsky.social Opinions my own.

Viral Respiratory Mapper displaying pneumonia and influenza-like illness hospice admissions data from ~Jan 2020 to ~Jan 2022 for ages 0-4 and 5-17 yo. The number of admissions for both age groups is largely below the historic (2015-2019) avg until ~ late March 2022 (coinciding with the revocation of mask mandates in schools).
Viral Respiratory Mapper -ACES admissions graph demonstrating a spike in Influenza-like hospital admissions in Nov to current early Dec 2025. The current number of admissions is approximately 60 which is more than two standard deviations above the rolling two year average.
Screenshot of black text on light background from Instagram post. “The video is very hard for me to watch and listen to. I am deeply disturbed by the exaggerated, unnecessary, and violent actions by the Toronto Police, the OPP, and special tactical services who defied the right to peaceful protest and committed crimes against us physically and emotionally. I witnessed friends and community members being jumped, struck and arrested by multiple cops. Horses being used to trample over children, animals and elders. No accountability will be had. I have made my profile public for the next 24hrs and kindly ask that you share this post to help get the word out about this bill and the canada day events that didn't make it to the news.”
A globalnews.ca branded screen recording of Ontario CMOH Kieran Moore. He sits in an office, facing the camera, saying “I don’t want anyone worrying. Our schools remain safe, in elementary and secondary. Our public spaces remain safe. We haven’t seen spread in those environments.”
AI-generated image of a greyish silver cybertruck-like Popemobile. There is a small gold cross on the driver’s door and it is parked in front of the White House. It is driven by someone in a black suit that bears a strong resemblance to Elon Musk. The “Pope” in the back seat is an orange-faced man with tiny hands who bears an extremely strong resemblance to Donald Trump. Both men are smirking at the camera/viewer.
Updated preliminary results of voting on Carleton Liberal Bruce Fanjoy, 38,219 Conservative Pierre Poilievre 35,640
Preliminary Voting Results Liberal, Bruce Fanjoy 36,926 Conservative, Pierre Poilievre 34,605
Updated preliminary results: Liberal, Bruce Fanjoy 35,222 votes Conservative, Pierre Poilievre 32,882 votes
Updated version of screenshot from first post. Still Preliminary Results. Liberal, Bruce Fanjoy with 34,242 Conservative,Pierre Poilievre, with 31,741
Screenshot of Elections Canada Preliminary Voting Results for Carleton Results are in a table with three rows: Party, Candidate, Votes Liberal, Bruce Fanjoy , 31,463 Conservative, Pierre Poilievre, 29,713 NDP-New Democratic Party, Beth Prokaska, 951 Green Party, Mark Watson, 422
Photo of little clusters of purple, yellow, and white spring flowers.
A two panel photo with words overlaid. The top panel shows the back of a man wearing a keffiyeh standing with a woman in a cream coloured hijab looking out over destroyed buildings in Gaza. The second panel shows some people in a refugee camp of white tents. A child stands facing the camera with a beat up translucent plastic water jug at his feet. The words over the first panel say “Israel has killed over 200 journalists in Gaza.” Over the second panel, “It is the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded” In small print at the bottom left, “ Source: Watson Institute” @fatma_hassona
Screenshot from the Jewish Antizionist Network. Block text “Ottawa: Over 30,000 March for Gaza” over photo of a very large crowd filling up the width of an urban street. Palestinian flags, signs and keffiyehs can be seen in the crowd
A book cover with white block letters on an orange background that has blueprints for what appears to be a drone or some kind of weapon. The main title in large letters is “GENOCIDE BAD.” and in smaller block letters, the subtitle is “NOTES ON PALESTINE, JEWISH HISTORY, AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION”. At the bottom is the author name "Sim Kern" and “Bestselling author of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE".
A sandy grey rabbit lays stretched out on a greyish carpet with at least one for visible. His ears are slightly perked up and his front paws just peak out from under his dewlap.
Sandy coloured short hair rabbit lays on a carpet with legs splayed to one side and eyes nearly closed. A wary dark grey lionhead rabbit with a white nose and white highlighting around the eyes lurks in the background with eyes open.
Aranet4 CO2 monitor reads 2797. This reading is in "Red" on the Green,Yellow and Red air quality scale. The Aranet4 is held by a child's hand with back of a dusty blue-grey school bus seat in the background.
Photo of a child's hand holding an Aranet4 CO2 monitor that reads 5145 ppm. The Green, Yellow, Red indicator of air quality is in the Red. In thin black writing over the top of the photo, it says, "Uhh...".
Screenshot of tweet from Aidan Simardone: "A group of prisoners wearing the Star of David in a concentration camp. What happened to “never again”?" He is quote tweeting from The Cradle. The Cradle tweet says "The Israeli Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners in clothes bearing the Star of David symbol and the phrase "We do not forget and we do not forgive.”" Attached is a photo of a prison yard with rows of men standing wearing white shirt with a blue star of David and other things that are difficult to make out.
Photo of Aranet4 CO2 meter on the edge of a state in a gymnasium. It reads 1194 PPM and indicates a "yellow" in the "green, yellow, red scale".
Screenshot of Ontario gov't website showing that the nearest PCR testing location to Keewatin(Kenora, postal code P0X1CO), is 835.8 kms away at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Sault Ste Marie. The screenshot has been edited with yellow highlighting and red underlining to emphasize the distance of 835.8 kms.
Screen cap of Twitter thread from Jan 6 where on Jan 5, Elon Musk responded to a Jan 5 tweet by Joni Askola accusing Elon of spreading disinformation by saying “f u retard”. Kaylan_TX responded to Elon’s tweet saying “Hang it in the Louvre” in reference to a screenshot of Elon’s Dec 29 tweet that said “Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform”.
Cover of Public Health Ontario's "Best Practices for the Prevention of Acute Respiratory Infection Transmission in All Health Care Settings" October 2024. First Revision: December 2024. By PIDAC IPAC - Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee. There is a bluish-grey image with white hexagons containing white iconography such as text speech bubbles, calendars, the medical cross, chemistry vials, an atom, etc. An icon of a set of human lungs is emphasized by being much larger than others and also having a spotlight behind it.
Very snowy winter scene. The snow is well over a foot high on the rooftop of a building in the foreground. The rest of the scene is primarily coniferous trees laden with snow. The sky is white and some falling snowflakes are visible. The top half of a Muskoka chair laden with more than a foot of snow is in the background.
Screenshot from part of the mission and vision page of youngmountaintea.com A beige and yellow tone figure depicts the problem as a cycle: “THE PROBLEM A BROKEN SYSTEM. TEA FARMERS are quitting tea because they don't own any part of tea's value chain. TEA DRINKERS can only get cheap tea made for mass-markets. TEA ECOSYSTEMS are being treated with chemicals that destroy biodiversity, resulting in soil degradation & devastating erosion.” Beside this figure is the tea solutions in green with three counterpoints. “THE TEA SOLUTION A BRIGHTER FUTURE SHIFT OWNERSHIP so tea farmers earn more and have self-determination. RAISE TEA'S QUALITY so tea drinkers get new specialty teas. SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES to improve climate resilience & help ecosystems heal through small scale, organic agriculture.” Beneath the problem-solution figure is the Philosophy statement “Our philosophy At the heart of it all, we are committed to unlocking the fullest potential of the people we work with. In India, in the US, and everywhere in between. In doing so, we hope we will unlock the fullest versions of ourselves. And at the soul of it all, we believe that life is short and full of mystery. We consider it our highest goal to turn that mystery into beauty.”
A sand/beige short haired rabbit lays stretched out on the floor facing the camera with one eye visible, both ears perked up, and his front two paws peeking out in front.