Ontario School Safety crafted an open letter to the government to aim to improve air quality in schools. Here it is in full: Ontario School Safety 6D-7398 Yonge S Thornhill, ON L4J 8J2 contact@ontarioschoolsafety.com www.ontarioschoolsafety.com August 10th, 2023 To: The Provincial Government of Ontario ℅ Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario
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A Puff of Absurdity: What if We All Masked Just for One Month??
A virus needs a host in order to exist for more than a couple hours. It needs us in order to grow and mutate. If we stop hosting this unwanted guest worldwide by some UN decree, it could disappear. Since it can incubate quietly in people for up to 14
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Get Vaccinated this Fall!!
According to T. Ryan Gregory (the guy who named the Kraken variant), we should all get the new vaccination this fall. “Yes, the updated Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax monovalent boosters that target Kraken (XBB.1.5) are expected to be effective against Eris (EG.5.1 = XBB.1.9.2.5.1) in protecting against severe acute illness and
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: A Return to Social Cohesion
Bill McKibben wrote about being asked Where Should I Live to avoid the climate change issues. He outlined the problems with many places that might seem ideal, and concluded that we’re best off staying where we are if possible, but working on building social cohesion: “Get to work building that
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Barbie
I saw Barbie, and it was fun, particularly for those of us who love a good choreographed dance number, life-size Barbie decor, and tons of costume changes and hairstyles. The details were amazing – how she moves and how she fits in her house and opens her closet. It’s very
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Unspent Billions Exacerbating our Healthcare Crisis
From MPP Catherine Fife: “Ontario’s Budget Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as ERs are closing and surgery waitlists are growing.” Meanwhile, in just one specific case, three teens who were stabbed at
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Hope or Doom: Can’t it be Both?
There’s a new type of minimizer article out about climate change: concern with it indicates a mental health disorder! It’s the same tactic people use to get the public to ignore the ongoing Covid virus. Check out Monbiot’s comments on this article. And then there’s the learn to live with
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Cleaning Air
When the air quality was particularly bad from the smoke from so many fires, my son decided it would be a great time to fry up some burgers on the stove top. I don’t have a BBQ because I mainly don’t eat meat, so we fry burgers. But he heated
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Bill 98: Better Schools and Student Outcomes?
Bill 98 got Royal Assent a couple months ago, on June 8. At the time ETFO commented, “The level of authority that Bill 98 grants the government, with regard to the new provincial priorities framework, is unprecedented and could all but eliminate the ability of school boards to respond to the specific
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Back to Basics – Again
Leece’s new and improved education system that he’s flogging all over the place is keen on “Back to Basics” rhetoric, despite it being an archaic mantra. Conservatives love that old-school shit. Besides maybe a few people for whom it’s a dog whistle indicating their anti-CRT side is winning, people have
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Origin of Climate Goals
Professor Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and author, wrote an educational post about climate goals back in 2019, but it’s currently useful information to understand the news (since climate change is finally in the news): “When it comes to what climate goals we should be aiming for, there are a lot
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid on the Brain
Listen to me try to say all the big words in an 8 minute recording: It’s curious how many are completely unaware that Covid is a brain-invasive disease. It’s the biggest reason I have to continue keeping the virus out of my body. It’s not like a cold or flu that
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Measuring Risk in the Woods
I was up north, camping, and started chatting to neighbours. I had a mask in my pocket, but thought it would be fine to just have a brief conversation together, outside, unmasked. But then they both started coughing. “Summer colds.” I was dubious. They had done some travelling lately, and
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid is Still Here (likely worse in fall), and Masks Still Work
Jeff Gilchrist summarized the results of a recent study on mask mandates: “Over only a six week period in 2022, during a period of sustained respiratory viral activity in Ottawa, Canada, kids being absent was reduced enough to gain almost 2,000 school days. This was with mostly low quality masks. Imagine
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: AMOC – What it is and Why You Should Care
AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It’s slowing down significantly, and people in the know are pretty worried about it. According to Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, AMOC is “a near-surface northward flow along the Atlantic, from the far south up to the high north. There the water gives off its
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Sometimes, Québec Does it Better
Québec is banning most private health agencies. Why is Ontario going in the opposite direction on this? Here’s a tiktok explaining it (link because embedding is still so weird). @frankdomenic Quebec is banning private health agencies, this is HUGE. Let’s compare that to what’s happening in Doug Fords Ontario. #ontario
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Sinead O’Connor’s Fight to Bring Truth to Light
The very first CD I ever got was a gift from a boyfriend after he bought us our very first CD player: He woke me up one morning back in 1990 with Sinead O’Connors’ I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. I wrote about the fond memory 10 years ago
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Extremist Group Criteria
A mom delegated at a school board meeting in the states about the group, Moms for Liberty. Here’s the Tiktok video (but also at the link in case – I wish TikTok embedded more reliably): @nowthispolitics A mother in Wilson County, TN, read out some of the homophobic and demeaning
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: BMJ: The World Expected More of Canada
The British Medical Journal is a highly credible journal with a focus on improving health worldwide, and they’re calling out Canada in a series of articles by Canadian experts in the field It’s not that we’re the worst when it came to Covid, not by a long shot! It’s that we present
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick Fix
He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired, but some of Dr. Gabor Maté’s claims feel like they don’t hold water. And some claims might actually be dangerous if blindly accepted. I’ve encountered Maté in
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