A study from May 2021 is still thought by some to be the most disturbing Covid paper out there. The study, (published in April 2022) looked at how SARS-CoV-2 causes brain inflammation and induces Lewy body formation in macaques. Their conclusion: “We observed Lewy bodies in brains of all rhesus macaques.” That’s right up
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A Puff of Absurdity: For the Next Doctor’s Visit
Olivia Belknap made some great fact sheets that can be shared with health care providers who question your mask or try to claim you have an anxiety disorder. More at her linktree site here.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: At the Movies (nope – not about the Oscars)
Cineplex is getting heat for mask and CO2 issues. From LandBack It says, “All guests are asked to lower medical masks and hoods while having their tickets scanned.” Why would Cineplex need people to remove masks and hoods when scanning their tickets?? Tickets can be given to other people so
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: A Most Dangerous Place
More evidence that schools drive transmission of a virus that has long term effects on multiple organ systems, including the brain. This is entirely from Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz: “If someone looking at this graph dares to claim that in-person schools don’t substantially contribute to SARS2 spread and ‘simply just reflect
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Biden’s Failure
Criticism of Joe Biden is presently conflated with support of Donald Trump. This criticism is not in support of Trump’s failed pandemic response. Bleach?! https://t.co/T26lIUwleiDo you too get the sense that Biden is trying to avoid panic by refusing to tell the truth about how damaging COVID infections are on
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Canadian Covid Society
It’s officially a thing! Dr. Kashif Pirzada explains how it started: Wanted to share with you something near and dear to my heart. Today my colleagues and I are proud to launch the Canadian Covid Society. Covid-19 is thankfully not the threat it once was, but there are still significant
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Nothing Changed but the Rules
I might never get used to being the only masked person in a store, but I might never stop, either. Original art: ‘Cassandra’ by Evelyn De Moran’ (1898, London); Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy, depicted with disheveled hair denoting the insanity ascribed to her by the
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: How We Look After the Least Fortunate
Back in the day, the left was all about protesting for rights for marginalized people, and the right fought for a more individualistic, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps ideology. Another thread from Kelly, this time on something I’ve also noticed in my life: this individualistic right-wing ideology in left-leaning friends: Had a discussion with
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Erosion of Public Health
You would think that after dealing with Covid for over FOUR years that Public Health would be amazing at stopping Measles in its tracks, unless maybe they’ve been directed otherwise. From Henry Madison: Why persist with Covid questions? Because our greatest achievement in history was the invention of public health.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Maybe Concern with Measles will Save us from Covid!!
A thread on how to stay safe from measles and two on why you should keep testing for Covid. The first, on measles, from Jeff Gilchrist (I didn’t block quote it all because it’s so long – but it stops at the three asterisks and the vaccination poll.) Increased Measles in
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Avoiding Pathogens Benefits Babies
My mom was right after all: We really should do everything we can to keep babies from getting sick. When I was close to the due date of my first child, my mom warned me not to pass around the baby to people or let lots of people into the house
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: No Going Back
Conflict, climate, and covid are showing us the worst of ourselves, but it might be what we need to find our collective humanity. Tiberius wrote: “The old world is no longer dying, it is dead. There is no going back to how things were after this genocide has been live-streamed
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Willful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan explains the term and the CDC provides a great example of it! Heffernan lectures to MBA classes and runs a few businesses and such, so she’s not someone I’d typically follow, but this is a great talk, and only 14 minutes, but the gist of it is in
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Permitting Preventable Suffering in Children
Recent studies still show that Covid is serious, particularly in children, and that masks and filtering the air in schools can dramatically reduce the spread. Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic asks, “Why are we still flu-ifying Covid? The diseases are nowhere near the same. . . . In 2023, Covid hospitalized more
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid Info for Therapists
Many people are seeking out therapists to help them with the mental health issues that are a result of Long Covid. Some of their experiences have been horrific. I’ve written about my own experience with a mildly annoying therapist who wanted to treat my “germophobia” with some CBT and a
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Two Steps Forward…
It’s amazing to get so far in our scientific advances, only to have it tossed aside by misinformation. A Daily Mail article explained the conclusion of a study that, “They confirmed that the shots made by Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca are linked to significantly higher risk of five medical conditions – including
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Exploding Measles Threat
No, the latest measles don’t make you explode, I meant the threat is rising thanks to anti-waxxer ignorance spreading across the globe. And war, that’s infamously good at helping disease take hold of the population. Many of the people in charge of stopping health ignorance and control of diseases, have
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Infection Control Measures Work
A Lancet study found that there’s little Covid transmission in schools WHEN infection control measures were in place. Since we stopped all mitigation efforts, hospitalizations for Covid in Ontario have increased year-round. We don’t need lockdowns for Covid, but we do still need N95s until we can clean the air.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Still Not a Cold
Some find the term “airborne AIDS” offensive, but we can’t deny the similarities. After writing here every day since August 1st, I actually got distracted enough trying to barrel through my (likely) final tedious course. So this is a save-worthy thread entirely from HIV+ Long Covid advocate Daniel Brittain Dugger:
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Motivating Annoyance of Willful Ignorance
I’ve been thinking about my old students today as I read the news. I taught about the Israeli occupation in Palestine for a good 20 years, under the media bias and propaganda curriculum section of my course. I had been reading about genocidal types of activity since my professor told
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