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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Elizabeth Yuko reports on the Biden administration’s creation of an office to address long COVID, while Joe Middleton reports on the soaring number of Britons excluded from economic and social participation due to the disease. And Erin Prater reports on new CDC research
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bedir Alihsan et al. examine the effectiveness of face masks in preventing COVID-19 infections in both health care and community settings. And Taiyler Simone Mitchell and Catherine Schuster-Bruce note that the loss of smell may be returning as a signature symptom in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard writes that COVID-19 remains an imminent and severe threat to our health – no matter how many people are choosing to operate in denial. Jianlyu Lai et al. examine how COVID has been transmitted, and find that aerosol transmission has been
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats hanging on.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that we’re being left to navigate an ongoing pandemic in the dark as governments choose not to provide either resources or information to protect public health. Riley Acton et al. study (PDF) how vaccine mandates
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Climate End Game
A report from PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), urges governments to take off the blinders and begin evaluating climate breakdown from a worst case scenario. Despite 30 y of efforts and some progress under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) anthropogenic greenhouse
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Sleepwalking Into Dystopia
The climate science community is finally coming out of the closet. Three weeks ago I had an exchange with a prominent climate scientist. I asked what were our chances of world governments rising to the challenge of climate breakdown in time to avert real disaster. My correspondent recommended that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your long weekend reading. – David Macdonald writes that if there’s a risk of a recession being caused by interest rate hikes, it’s because people with wealth and power have chosen to engineer one on purpose. And Ken Klippenstein and Jon Schwarz report on an internal
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Playing the Inflation Blame Game
Robert Reich says the corporate sector is trying to punish workers for today’s inflation problem. The UC Berkley prof and former US Labor Secretary writes that big corporations are exploiting inflation as a smokescreen in order to raise prices. Inflation has broken out all over the world – the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Matthew Sitman writes about the fundamentally anti-social values being pushed by U.S. Republicans and their right-wing cousins – as well as the desperate need for pushback from progressives who actually value communities and the people who live in them. Gregg Gonsalves writes that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Why Won’t the Trudeau Government Claw Back the Fossil Giants’ Windfall Profits?
For the past half century the fossil energy giants have been logging an average daily profit of 3 billion dollars. Every day. $3 billion. Like clockwork. Since 1970 that comes to a tidy $52 trillion. Now that gas prices have gone through the roof it’s estimated those profits have
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PVRIS – Anyone Else
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rhythm Sachdeva reports on research which has documented the effectiveness of COVID-19 testing in advance of events (just in time for governments to take that tool away from people as well). And Andrew Gregory reports on the prospect of a vaccine which might
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Okay, Shoot the Messenger. Go Ahead.
Every season has its tell-tales. In North America summer is heralded by blue-green algae blooms, toxic garbage that spreads through our lakes and rivers. This stuff poses a threat to vacationers, even their pets. This aerial photo captures what the bloom looks like on Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on new research showing that tens of millions of adults may already be facing long-term loss of smell and/or taste as a result of COVID even as further waves are allowing to run rampant. And Kevin Woodward implores us
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: It’s Earth Overshoot Day, 2022
Another Earth Overshoot Day is upon us. Funny how they keep showing up earlier each year. This year’s pitch is one partnership for the planet. Uh, yeah, sure. Overshoot – the day each year on which humanity exhausts an entire year’s worth of natural resources. But, as with greenhouse
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Adams examines the evidence that COVID-19 remains infectious far longer than assumed by politicized public health messaging. And Ted Raymond reports that Ottawa has already seen more COVID deaths in 2022 than in 2021, confirming that the end of public health protections
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Noooo, Say It Ain’t So. Lovelock, Dead at 103.
James Lovelock is dead. The legendary climate scientist, best known for his Gaia Hypothesis, died on his 103rd birthday. Fittingly, Lovelock died at home surrounded by family. Lovelock, who was one of the UK’s most respected independent scientists, had been in good health until six months ago, when he
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