I’ve been inundated lately with pictures from the sides of mask boxes that say something like this: I could return volley with this, from the side of my 3M Aura N95s: Instead I went for a lesson in logic, specifically, the fallacy of accident: And here’s a great thread from
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A Puff of Absurdity: What”s a Government to Do?
RevivalCare‘s erudite answer on Twitter to Breakfast Television’s question: What do you think the federal government should do to help alleviate the current healthcare crisis? Provide free universal N95s to all Canadians, via a purchasing agreement with domestic manufacturers. Mandate all Canada Health Transfers are subject to audit, at the
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: An Ask to Mask in Class
Here’s a run-down of presenting a motion to request that students masks if they can, two weeks ago, and the final motion that was passed last night. It’s been picked up by City News, CTV News video, CTV News article, CBC News, and NewsTalk 1010. Some of the articles present it as if it’s
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On the Social Disease of Anger
The anger that escalated at a recent Ottawa-Carlton school board meeting when a trustee proposed and lost a motion to mandate masks, in a setting of generally polite discussion, makes it seem like this type of anger is new. But this video of the history of masks, and what we
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Big Con – Time to Wise Up
A great quote, but unlikely from Mark Twain. From @1goodtern: Have you ever known someone find it impossible to realise and admit they were the victim of a scam? We’re seeing it now with hundred of millions of people refusing to admit they’ve been taken in by a public
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Ableism Affects Everyone – Even You
Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s a fun TikTok explaining how ableism comes back to bite you in the butt in less than 2 minutes: @khoyadoc you’re not gonna be “fine”. #ableism #capitalism #disability #longcovid #covid19 #left ♬ original sound – khoya doc
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Problems with IHRA
After receiving literally hundreds of emails on this topic, starting before I was even elected, I watched this excellent panel discussion tonight about IHRA presented by Independent Jewish Voices Canada, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Ground UP Waterloo Region, and featuring Fitsum Areguy, Greg Bird, Jasmin Zine, Sheryl Nestel, Mark
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Complete Chaos
A UK journalist wrote about the recent death of a 9-year-old girl in BC. He intersperses his thread with parts from this article, but I just included his commentary and quotes below: ‘Strep A’ and ‘flu’ death in 9-year-old kid in Canada: but even this case is not as rapid
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment
This book, Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment, is online for free. It was written a year ago, but still applies today. I just read chapter 5 so far, as it was shared directly by Emil J. Bergholtz, a professor of theoretical physics: “The Swedish Covid-19 response: From poorly judged utilitarianism to history revisionism
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: How Bad Does It Have to Get??
I’m not sure what it will take to wake people up to the tragedy we’re wading through right now enough to slap on a mask whenever they leave the house, but this 3 minute TikTok is from a front line nurse in Ajax, Ontario: “To see a big strong man
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: How Could Covid Cause Kids to Die of Strep A??
A great thread from @1goodtern explains this study providing evidence to help people understand why children are dying of Strep A. All the loud letters are theirs.: Here’s how. Covid infects kids. It infects their tonsils. What does it infect there? What does it do there? Covid infects and kills dendritic cells
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What I’ve Learned So Far
The boardroom is smaller than it looks on camera, and cozier and everyone’s very nice and welcoming. It doesn’t feel as formal as it looks, so I started out a little less formal than I should have been. It’s hard to remember all the “through the chair” things to say.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Will Steffan on What a Four Degrees Temperature Rise Looks Like in the Age of Ecological Disorder
For a trifecta of depressing posts for this Monday morning, I want to save this video here. It’s Will Steffan, an American chemist who became the executive director of the Australian National University Climate Change Institute, explaining back in 2018 that we only have two years to make a solid
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What Going on With Kids Today? This is What "No Mitigations" Looks Like
Dr. Jeff Gilchrist’s thread on what’s going on with kids today. He does biomedical research. (I didn’t indent it because it’s long, but this is entirely his words:) “This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children are dying from
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Those Darn Hibernating Viruses!
Many viruses stay in the body, all sneaky-like, for years after a first infection. Chicken pox, which spreads from contact with blisters or mucus, shows up with flu-like symptoms and characteristic spots. Then 30-70 years later, it can develop into shingles in about 10% of people, which is a painful
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Five Questions for the Minister of Health
Dr. Christopher Leighton, MD, FRCPC, wrote the following letter to the Minister of Health, and encourages other to do likewise in order to “document the gross negligence of our government. If they will not act, we should be doing more: Protesting, petitioning our local MPPs. Eventually there will be an
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: History of Mask Controversy
The New Journal of Medicine just posted a video of the history of mask wearing. It’s just 12 minutes: Unfortunately, they conclude that masks have always been controversial, so will likely always be controversial, and it’s even worse in more atomistic, partisan, polarized countries that focus on the individual over the
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: All Natural Misinformation
This thread is from Dr. Kay M. Dingwell on her experience shifting from natural is necessarily best to incorporating some scientific research into her decision-making: I used to be vaccine hesitant. Had my kids on a modified schedule and felt I was VERY educated. Here are posts I made in
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On OCDSB’s Mask Motion
The OCDSB motion to require masks in all schools but allow exemptions for anyone who finds masks to be a hardship was not passed tonight after a 6-6 tie. Both student trustees opposed it, but their votes weren’t counted in the official tally. Here are three arguments I heard from opposing
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: A 12 Step Solution to Fix Healthcare
This thread is from Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency physician in Toronto explain how to fix healthcare in Ontario: 1. Declare a crisis 2. Scrap bill 124. 3. Give nursing and allied staff a raise. 4. School masking to reduce spread (plus cleaning hands and ventilation). 5. Get provincial health
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