Chantzy

@chantzy

Science communicator & writer ✍🏼 🧬 MSc epidemiology grad student @ LSHTM Activist 📍Vancouver, BC "Some sort of weird Covid obsessed hermit" (Views mine)

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Chantzy@chantzy· 21d

Canada Post 🍁 has launched an online store selling home stuff, kitchenware, gift ideas, toys and more from Canadian retailers 🔗 canadashops.ca

Chantzy@chantzy· 21d

Canada and the U.S. share the same air. Politicians need to stop the burning of fossil fuels instead of pointing fingers

Guardian headline "Canada issues air quality warnings over U.S. wildfire smoke after Trump tariff threat" quoted on top of post about how Trump is blaming Canada for wildfire smoke

Chantzy@chantzy· 22d

We're failing this generation on so many fronts 💔

Reddit post screenshot:

I just got long covid
I'm so angry about this. I'm 14 and have been advocating with my parents to let me start masking but i was never allowed to because of how it made me look sick. It got so bad my mom even threw all my masks out. Then in March I tested positive for COVID which I only isolated w for 3 days and every day since I felt horrible. Pain in my chest, out of nowhere nosebleeds and also brain fog. Two nights ago I was diagnosed with Long COVID and now all of a sudden I've been allowed to start masking but not vaccinated so idk. I only tried protecting myself and now I have LC. I feel like my life is ruined, what should I do and what precautions should I start taking

Chantzy@chantzy· 24d

Happy July things. Coffee with a view & going to my first dance class (in a mask) in 5 years! 🎶

Photo of a glass mug filled with a latte by the ocean with a view of blue sky with rippled clouds and a sunrise

Selfie in Canada strong KN95 black mask, pink shirt, black hoodie and CR box lurking in background 😊

Chantzy@chantzy· 25d

Check out the skies on the ferry last night. I'm hoping this is a good omen as I ring in a new year 🥰

View from BC ferries at tsawwasen ferry terminal with radiant light beams coming from the clouds

Chantzy@chantzy· 27d

Lots of people assume that we need permanent daylight saving time to prevent SAD, but the science 🧬 says it will likely increase the prevalence and severity of SAD 🔗 www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/why-day...

Permanent DST would likely also lead to increased prevalence and severity of SAD - screenshot from excerpt from the Centre for Brain Health 🧠

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 13

This classic graphic floating around sums it up well too

Graphic by clinpsychdavid on X comparing reality, equality, equity, justice, and inclusion using people watching a baseball game analogy

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 12

I was mad I didn't get yesterday's right away given H5N1. Also wordle reminded my third guess was an archaic word lol

Side-by-side comparison of two Wordle solutions, mine and bot's, solving the puzzle in four guesses with the answer AVIAN

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 11

Covid was reported on Jan 13 but it took a week to bring in any airborne mitigations such as respirator masks. The initial emphasis was on handwashing. Fail www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

CDC Implementation timeline for infection prevention and control interventions* at the Eaton wildfire evacuation shelter —
Pasadena, California, January 7-February 16, 2025

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 7

From the new @oecd-ocde.bsky.social report on Long Covid. Preventing new Covid cases isn't about living in the past. It's about protecting our future collective health, education, work & the economy

Screenshot of text excerpt from OECD report on long Covid

However, while chronic conditions such as stroke and MS generate most of their costs through healthcare spending and informal care, the continuing burden of long COVID arises mainly from reduced labour participation and productivity losses, reflecting a broader macroeconomic impact rather than medical expenditure alone. Overall, in proportional terms, the projected 0.1-0.2% GDP loss from long COVID places it among the most economically significant chronic conditions in OECD and EU Member countries.
Lastly, the estimates in this report probably understate the true burden of long COVID. The condition is likely to have wide-reaching consequences that are not yet fully understood. Beyond the core symptoms of long COVID, infection with SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of developing a range of chronic conditions
- including cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, neurological impairments and autoimmune disorders - which will add further pressure on health systems and increase costs in the years ahead. These effects may take considerable time to become fully visible. In addition, long COVID may affect children's development and educational attainment - factors not yet captured in current economic projections.

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 5

Needed to make something to celebrate strawberry season before it's over 🍰🍓

Two small strawberry shortcakes with generous dollops of whipping cream on small white plates

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 4

Sometimes I'm not surprised at all that we are where we are

Cartoon by Asher Perlman featuring a medical table in an examination room with paper half the width of the table

Caption "to keep your body from touching the same surface as previous bodies, we cover the table with this strip of paper that is narrower than all bodies"

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 2

Exactly. People think of long Covid as a binary state - you either have it or you don't. But another way LC exists is by turning up the volume dial to various extents on pre-existing conditions

Quote from Dietrich Klinghardt poster by Better Health Guy account on Facebook

"Covid has worked as an accelerator for pretty much every medical condition. Any weakness you had before 2020 will now be 10 times more in 2026"

Chantzy@chantzy· Jul 1

Someone tell them Covid is a year-round thing

Quote from article "in winter, we know we'll have influenza epidemics and probably covid as well. And now, in the summer, we're going to have the climate crisis"

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 28

Ohh thanks! I might have to redo my bedroom into palette #176

Sanzo colour palette website featuring a swatch triad of ballet pink, apricot and light teal

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 25

Came home to find my daughter and her boyfriend left these in my room for me. I love 💜 Gen Z

Bag of turtles chocolates on a counter top

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 24

Photo of JD Vance awkwardly patting Usha Vance on the knee with caption "May this kind of love never find me"

Post went viral with 53.1K likes on Instagram

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 22

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. It’s the second without mine 💔 Missing him today & thinking of all the dads who show up every day for their kids. Just know that all the work you do matters & is worth it

Photo of me at around age 3 in our backyard 80s hot tub with dad. I'm wearing a bright pink bathing suit and have my arm around him an he's smiling into the camera

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 20

If people need an office for mental health as this NYT piece claims, by the same logic, retirement is a public health crisis. Better get Grandma a Microsoft Teams account & a 2 hour commute (sarcasm)

New York Times screenshot of article "we liked remote work. Then we looked at the data."

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 19

Ahh yes, apparently death is the only outcome in the lingering pandemic stress equation

Finally, it is also possible that correlations between the lingering stress of the pandemic and remote work may be at play. To probe this, we correlated local area COVID-19 deaths with both pan-demic-era and postpandemic shares of people in remotable jobs. We found correlations of 0.03 and 0.009, respectively, suggesting that the effects are not driven by pandemic deaths.

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 19

There seems to be an elephant 🐘 in the room in that remote work piece. Why is mental distress on the rise post 2020? Any theories?

Line graphs showing increases in isolation and psychological distress from 2011–2024, with sharp rises after 2020

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 19

“Although we exclude the peak pandemic years of 2020–2021, a lasting differential effect of the pandemic on remotable workers could confound our results.”

Line Graphs showing workers in remotable jobs who lived alone experienced the largest increases in both time spent alone and psychological distress after the pandemic, while differences were much smaller among workers living with family

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 18

💯 and I would add that if you're a scientist who hasn't been wrong or can't admit that you have been, you are likely not to be trusted

Twitter post from the Nobel Prize official account: "Being wrong is part of being a scientist. We’re wrong all the time. One of the jokes that I use all the time, but it’s not a joke, it’s really true, is when we got to the point of trying to identify this gene, we had 20 possible genes it could be. I prioritised those genes. The gene that was responsible was the last gene, which means I could not have been more wrong in my prioritisation. It’s absolutely the most wrong thing I could have done. We got it eventually, so it was still there, but it was because there was nothing left. It’s not because I was smart or had any foresight.”

In our official interview with medicine laureate Fred Ramsdell, he told us about the importance of handling failures and being persistent."

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 16

Random, but was looking through old travel pics & realize how much I miss Japan. Especially their absurd & hilarious signage "Please be careful so that cotton candy does not hit the neighbouring visitors"

Daughters on Tokyo harajuku street with a giant rainbow cotton candy

Pink and white sign in Tokyo that reads "please be careful so that cotton candy does not hit the neighboring visitors

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 15

Oh my heart ❤️ As others have said, Maya is Canada's face of resilience 📸 David Gebala, Maya's father, Facebook

Photo of Maya Gebala smiling at Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver. From her father David Gebala's public Facebook post

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 15

This

Threads post from Sommertothill:

Women are punished more for telling the truth about what men did to them, than men are for the actual things they did

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 13

This kid is such a hero - she's making so much progress. Her smile made my week ❤️ (For those outside B.C., Maya is a survivor of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting and was shot in the head and neck)

Post on X from Maya's dad David Gebala with two photos of Maya outside smiling. She is seated in a wheel chair and wearing a Toronto Blue Jays baseball hat and has a black shirt and pink blanket

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 12

Submitted my 4-hr timed exam. Thank you to my dear friend, midnight coffee #gradschool

Selfie holding light teal owl mug, which was filled with coffee ...to fuel said exam

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 9

This is such an honest post, so sharing it here too. I'm not going to change a thing either, it's just hard. People will say removing your mask is better than losing community, but they haven't experienced years of post-viral illness

Screenshot of tweet by @verygoodchat on X. I actually see (to a degree) why people give up all their precautions. Because constantly asking people to protect you (& often being denied), and living life with next to no in person community is hard as hell.
I'm not changing a thing, but damn am I burnt tf out.

Chantzy@chantzy· Jun 6

Boosting to help Maya & her mom find a wheelchair accessible home to rent in Vancouver. Maya was the victim of a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge 💔