Playful cats.
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nina Lakhani reports on the latest data showing greenhouse gas emissions rising at an alarming rate. Bill McKibben discusses the math of climate change – including the vanishing budget for continued carbon pollution if we want to avoid catastrophic outcomes, and the
Continue readingJeff Jedras: My trip to VIA’s The Canadian: Ottawa to Toronto in business class
If you follow my social media channels, you’ll know I just spent five days taking VIA Rail‘s iconic “The Canadian” train, from Toronto to Vancouver. I posted short recap videos along the way (day five will go up tomorrow) and I’ll also be posting a longer video for each day
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – The University of Denver examines how prior infection with COVID-19 produces effects comparable to a traumatic brain injury in worsening the effects of long COVID. And Laise Conde reports on the efforts of Protect Out Province BC (among others) to keep people protected
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Esther Choo and Scott Duke Kominers are the latest to point out the need for a focused effort (comparable to the Operation Warp Speed project to develop the original COVID-19 vaccines) to respond to the public health emergency that is widespread long COVID.
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Skylar Grey – Show Me Where It Hurts
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Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig calls out the Ford PCs for making it even more difficult to hold corporate health care operators to account for sub-par service. And Emma McIntosh, Fatima Syed and Denise Balkissoon discuss Ford’s latest sketchy step to turn farmland and industrial areas into
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lisa Schnirring reports on new research showing how infection with COVID-19 tends to lead to extended sick leave, while Helen Twohig et al. survey the prevalance and effects of long COVID among children. And Alec Salloum reports that workers and experts alike
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – IOS Press discusses new research showing that COVID-19 accelerates the cognitive decline in people already living with dementia. F. Perry Wilson examines how COVID has both directly exacerbated the U.S.’ fatality rate, and further exposed existing deficiencies in public health. And John Klein
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Stretching cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Santa Cruz et al. study the immunological dysfunction that looks to be the norm for up to six months after a COVID-19 infection. And Geraldine Nouailles et al. find that there’s substantial room for improvement in the types of vaccines currently
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque writes about the implications of facing a deliberate decline in both environmental and economic well-being for the sole purpose of facilitating the short-term extraction of profits. Daniel Gilbert, Todd Frankel and Joseph Menn report on Silicon Valley Bank’s choice to discard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Statistics Canada offers some new (if dated) data on the spread of COVID-19 in Canada – with over 40% of those with antibodies from a past infection having no idea they’d ever had COVID. And Carla Johnson examines the inescapable answer to the
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Stoto – Many Dreams Ago
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Assorted content to end your week. – The John Snow Project discusses how government minimization of the ongoing risk of COVID-19 – including the removal of what few policies remained to limit its spread – is pushing people to neglect the continued danger. And Josh Lynn reports on the latest
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hayden Klein reports on new research suggesting a connection between COVID-19 infection and increased cancer rates (particularly in younger people). And the Trade Union Council and Long COVID Support survey how workers with long COVID have been treated by employers – finding that one
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ritika Goel, Vanessa Redditt and Michaela Beder discuss how the Ford PCs are cruelly taking health care away from the marginalized people who need it most. And CBC News reports on the preferred right-wing model of privatized profit centres threatening patients into paying
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Drug Deaths, Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment
Of late, CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has been making a lot of noise about drug addiction, deaths resulting from overdoses, and so on. So far, much of his rhetoric and “solutions” are basically boiling down to pushing people into treatment. Which misses the point entirely. One of many problems with
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Carrie Arnold examines our current state of knowledge about the prevalence and effects of long COVID. Tanya Lewis discusses the particularly acute risks COVID-19 creates in the course of a pregnancy. And Violet Blue writes about the dissonance involved in an ongoing
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