Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Doubleday offers a reminder that any remotely responsible definition of “living with COVID” would include doing everything reasonably possible to upgrade air quality. And Dylan Matthews discusses the prospect that UV light may help to reduce the spread of viruses generally –
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Maura Hohman discusses how the U.S. is going through one of its most severe waves of COVID-19 (with very little attention), while Henna Saeed points out the spate of respiratory illnesses in Alberta. And Ashleigh Furlong reports that an attempt to work out a
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sasha Warren reports on new research showing that people suffering from long COVID may not be fully clearing the coronavirus from their systems even after being treated as having recovered. Steven Findlay writes about the need for public health protections based on the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Terry Gross discusses how COVID has brought some needed attention to other chronic illnesses. But Sarah Trick writes that the reckless elimination of public health protections represents a betrayal of people with disabilities who face especially stark risks from others’ callous choices.
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ryan Cooper highlights the reasons to be careful about any COVID minimizers seeking to declare the Omicron variant as too mild to cause problems for our health care system. Ryan Patrick Jones reports on the choice of Ontario (and other provinces) to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: October 9. Miami’s Day of Reckoning.
On October 9, the Earth, sun and moon will align just so to create a King Tide, the highest tides of the year. In Miami, all eyes will be on the rising seas. On high tides or in the event of storm surge, Miami streets are awash in sea
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why the English-Speaking World Resists the Reality of Climate Change
You would think if you were a country particularly prone to being mugged by severe storm events of increasing intensity, frequency and destructiveness you might be just as particularly receptive to overwhelming scientific evidence of the causes. However if you happen to be one of the major English-speaking countries you
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Throwing Down the Gauntlet – "Rational" People Will Be Convinced By the Science – IPCC
There are encouraging signs that, this time, climate scientists are coming prepared for a fight against the forces of denialism. You can tell the Fossil Fuelers and the rest of their supporting cast in the denialist community have their knickers in a bunch over the pending release of the next
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Denialism 2.0 – Even More Dangerous Than the Original
By and large, the pioneers of climate change denialism have moved on. Those who used to lead the campaign claiming that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, a conspiracy, a fraud or fundamentally flawed, have retrenched. In his final column for The Guardian, Leo Hickman warns these
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "In America truth is offensive, If you tell the truth, you are offensive."
So writes former U.S. deputy treasury secretary, Paul Craig Roberts, in his column for CounterPunch, America, Land of the Lost. Roberts recently published the e-book, The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism, reviewed on this blog three weeks ago. Plenty of offensive truth-telling there. Now, Roberts confronts the shrill unacceptability of being
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Nothing Convinces Quite Like a Taste of the Lash
The onset of extreme weather events is rapidly culling the ranks of climate change skeptics. Megastorms, droughts, heat waves and floods are prevailing as science never could, especially in the home of denialism, the United States. A poll released on Friday by the Associated Press-GfK found rising concern about climate
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Like Living With Crazy People
Case in point. A great guy. We’ve been friends for almost 40-years. He’s devoutly Conservative and has been actively involved in the party longer than I’ve known him. Well educated, well traveled, well spoken. He has had a career as a lawyer, judge and an elected official in two levels
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