She/her. Settler on Wolastoqiyik territory // Fredericton, NB. Chronic illness cutie. Queer. Theatrical singer. Non-profit lawyer by day. Opinions my own.
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Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
I got a few questions about masks you can sing in, for choirs and churches. I think the 3M 9105 and 9105S(small) are a great option due to the duckbill, and super breathablity.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Hello, friends. By now, many of you would have heard about GNB pulling our funding 9 days prior to our teacher's conference on May 5th. As a result, a few of the teachers who are part of Pride in Education, are $7000.00 out of pocket. We're starting our campaign today to try to recover this deficit. Please consider donating, if you can. Please share.
Here's our link:
gofund.me/e24ea201
Fundraiser by Christina Barrington : Pride In Education - Expense Recovery gofund.me/752ac0de
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
I wear a mask a lot because I don’t want to get sick and it breaks my brain to be constantly treated like that’s somehow pathological 😐
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
One of the biggest reasons boundaries fail is because people focus on controlling the person’s behavior rather than focusing on what they will do if the behavior continues.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
📢Grande nouvelle! Aujourd'hui, nous avons lancé notre programme d'aiguillage aux avocats en matière de harcèlement sexuel en milieu de travail du Lieux Plus Sûrs NB ! En savoir plus ici:
saferplacesnb.ca/fr/service-…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
📢Big News! Today we launched our Safer Place NB Workplace Sexual Harassment Lawyer Referral Program! Learn more here:
saferplacesnb.ca/en/lawyer-r…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Fredericton Homeless Shelters are wondering where the $8 million over three years the government announced in October is going. That’s after a new warming centre went unused as temperatures plummeted to record lows in the province’s capital.
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/question…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Big story here from colleague @kdonk:
A change in the way N.B. counts people in jail makes the correctional system seem more crowded... and overcrowding was a key reason given for the need for a new provincial jail.
cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Pro tip when writing image descriptions for folks: You're not writing a professional newspaper caption of a stock photo.
Just let blind and low vision users know what they might wanna see! For example:
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Absolute banger of an advice column: autostraddle.com/you-fat-sha…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
In positive health news, New Brunswickers can now view their blood work results online at #MyHealthNB . We should be screaming this news from the treetops #gamechanger myhealth.gnb.ca/s/?language=…
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
A thread 🧵 about midwifery care in NB! I just had my last appointment yesterday.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
Sometimes I scroll by awesome theater reels and just want to cry. It’s not fair that the price of performing is putting yourself and VOICE at risk. Why can’t we have the audience mask & masked rehearsals leading up to a tested performance? Why? Why can’t we just do what’s right?
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
For those contemplating a detox or cleanse in the new year, here’s a toxicologist’s explanation of how they work:
They don’t.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
You all are being treated worse than cattle
You've been convinced the population's 'cure' for RSV is more RSV
And the 'cure' for Covid was more Covid
Deeply meditate on that
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
New variants that have increased immune escape keep reinfecting individuals who are not taking necessary precautions to protect themselves which in turn causes even more variants to develop to allow a repeating cycle. 8/
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
53% of all reported SARS-CoV-2 related deaths in New Brunswick have occurred since protections were removed.
"Mild" omicron is responsible for 84% of all reported SARS-CoV-2 related deaths in NB.
This is not normal.
This is not sustainable.
This is normalization of death.
ALT An infographic showing 714 stick figure pictograms, each one representing one death due to covid in New Brunswick. The stick figure pictograms are of three shades. 46 dark grey figures represent the number of covid deaths during the original strain wave. 69 light grey figures represent the number or covid deaths during the delta strain wave. 599 white figures represent the number or covid deaths during the omicron strain waves. A box is drawn around the last 381 figures, indicating the number of deaths which have occurred since protections were removed in the province.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
We now know two people die every day from Covid-19 in New Brunswick.
This is twice the mortality rate which lead to our strongest mandated protections one year ago.
ALT An infographic comparing New Brunswick Covid-19 metrics of December 2021 to December 2022. In December 2021, Covid-19 metrics were 8 deaths per week, 28 hospitalizations per week, and 812 case per week. In December 2022, Covid-19 metrics are 15 deaths per week, 29 hospitalizations per week, and 1247 case per week.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
People living in denial & calling us anxious or fearmongers, don't understand that we are tough enough to face reality of SARS-Cov2 pandemic. Then we took steps to minimize risk w N-95 masks, vax/booster/ avoid crowds etc.
Amber 🐱🐝 Chisholm retweeted
I just received feedback from a student who was relieved when I moved a term test online b/c I and multiple students got COVID.
Why? She's a recent solid organ transplant recipient.
And there were additional students who tested positive but were going to write in person anyway.