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This account is currently dormant. At the present time I do not plan to delete the account but will not be posting or checking messages for the foreseeable future. Thanks for the connections and conversations over the years.
Chris DeGroot 🚲
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Chris DeGroot 🚲
@ct_degroot
Assistant Prof, Mechanical Engineering. Wastewater researcher, urban cyclist/cargo bike dad. Probably on a bike. @[email protected]
- What if “learning to live with COVID” meant learning to live with basic precautions like masks and enhanced air handling rather than living with repeated infections until your long-term health is threatened?
- Interesting how people report having the “flu” when they are sick now. I monitor wastewater and the level of influenza is minimal right now. COVID on the other hand is very high. It’s COVID. You probably have COVID.
- I measure COVID levels in hospital wastewater. Trust me, you don’t want mask mandates lifted.#SecondOpinion: Mask mandates are lifting in hospitals, long-term care homes and other health-care facilities across the country, marking an end to some of the last remaining public health restrictions against COVID-19 in Canada. cbc.ca/news/health/ma…
- This isn’t a lockdown. The mall is open.
- “We can’t have mask mandates forever” That’s correct. But there are a lot days between March 21, 2022 and the ultimate heat death of the universe; all of which would have been better options than the first day back after March Break.
- Remember when not wanting to get COVID was considered normal behaviour? No one asked why you wore a mask or why you didn’t want to meet at a restaurant. Good times.
- Ppl are asking why require masks in classrooms if you can get COVID elsewhere (e.g. a bar). Some faculty/students (or their families) have health concerns. They can’t avoid the classroom like they can other crowded settings. This is empathy; creating a safe space for everyone.
- Ontario: The house is on fire. Kieran Moore: Here’s a glass of water.
- Replying to @ct_degrootInteresting comments about “personal choice”. Sorry I didn’t realize Maxwell’s demon was sitting there distributing the good air and the bad air to people depending on their choice.
- Do motorists realize that getting more people to bike or take transit would actually reduce the vehicle traffic they are always complaining about?
- To be clear, I really don’t care where alcohol is sold. I do care about good-paying jobs with benefits, in favour of more minimum wage part time jobs. And yes, even cashiers deserve to earn enough to support their families
- Too many workers off sick with COVID… Ontario’s solution? Stop staying home when you’re sick. This should work out swimmingly.
- So... people know the two metre distancing rule for COVID is just made up right? Right?
