Plague Premier Moe has COVID-19. He spent the last few days improperly using a substandard mask in public crowds, wiping his bare nose, and coughing. Maskless 3 days ago at a school. https://t.co/U7RuRTm21T — Kelly Miller (@sqirlgirly) January 13, 2022 The release has lies.He coughed into his hand, and rubbed
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Things Are Good: We can Save 200,000 Lives a Year Replacing Car Commutes with Bicycles
A simple modification to our cities can save a lot of lives: add more and better bicycling infrastructure. Researchers looked into quantifying how many lives we can save by replacing car journeys with bicycle use and the results aren’t surprising, but will hopefully influence people. The harms vehicular traffic does
Continue readingThings Are Good: This is Why Nature Helps Your Cognitive Health
It’s clear that being around nature is good for one’s health, but why? Researchers have been looking into the physiological reasons for the benefits of nature and multiple reasons have been found. Being in nature is good for you in many tiny ways that culminate into a big benefit to
Continue readingThings Are Good: They mapped the thousand places in America where you’re breathing poison
The Trump administration in the USA cut funding for their Environmental Protection Agency which led to an increase in pollution that harms people and nature. The pollution problem isn’t all thanks to Trump though, it comes from years of negligence around policies and procedures to protect communities from dangerous industrial
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: COVID-19 dead: 5 million or 20 million?
The official death toll from COVID-19 is about 5 million. The real number is likely closer to 20 million according to mortality researchers…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Taxing Sugar Drinks Works if the Tax is Known
Soda taxes get proposed often, and they have varying levels of success depending on how they are implemented. A new study reveals that when people are made aware that the sugar tax impacts the price of products they stop buying the unhealthy product. If you educate people then they act
Continue readingThings Are Good: Even Bees Practice Social Distancing
Pandemics happen often in the animal world, and not even little insects can avoid them. Researchers have discovered that one of the greatest creatures on the Earth, the humble bumble bee, practices social distancing during a pandemic. By keeping far apart it reduces the likelihood of other members of the
Continue readingThings Are Good: Live Longer by Lathering Less
Showering too much is a problem that too many people have, but if you do like to over-shower you should stop using shampoo. Turns out that a popular and frequently used chemical in shampoos, phthalates, is bad for your longevity. Yes, shampooing too much can shorten life. Don’t fret! There’s
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Small Diet Change Makes a Big Difference
Absolutely no one is shocked by new research that concludes beef is the worst thing to eat. If we’re going to feed billions of people on the planet while also having a livable planet for billions then we all ought to consume less meat. Raising cattle only to slaughter is
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Ottawa’s municipal unions have blown a fuse on vaccine mandates
CBC is reporting that four of Ottawa’s unions — CUPE 503, CUPE 5550, ATU 279 and ATU 1760 — are grieving the city’s no jab, no job policy. And it is here that I part company with my siblings. These are (among others) bus drivers, child care workers, public health
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe’s Killing People
“Minister Merriman, like Premier Moe, seems incapable of either hindsight or foresight. Our government must understand that a combination of strategies is required, rather than relying on vaccination alone.” Sask.'s political leaders are responsible for unnecessary suffering and death https://t.co/h2pulIj9BI — CBC Saskatchewan (@CBCSask) October 4, 2021 Moe has acted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Abandoned by Sask Party
Saskatchewan is a sad place to be right now, while the Premier is off on a second job farming when not golfing, a Cabinet Minister was on vacation in the USA, and the Health Min hasn't been seen since he berated reporters for covering the crisis.#COVID19SK https://t.co/FWE4iAoxFX — Saskboy from
Continue readingIn-Sights: Bonhoeffer on Stupidity
In 2021, we see strange people in BC — humans I suspect Dietrich Bonhoeffer would categorize as stupid — mobbing to prey on politicians, healthcare workers, hospital patients and now school children. For thousands, the restraints of decency are lost. Bonhoeffer’s words might help to explain the behaviour…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Oh No, Not Again
The election in Canada is on Monday, and the Conservatives are annoyed that HarperCon Kenney is trying to stop his province’s healthcare system from burning down completely by then. A CPC candidate texted me during the announcement and said "Does the premier not understand the position this puts us in
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Forced Medical Interventions & The Nuremberg Code: Nuremberg Trials Will Come Again
Read this information from Stand For Health Freedom (below) before you form an opinion set in stone. And remember, as Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Here is my brief letter, sent just now to my local Member of Parliament: Coercing anyone into taking any
Continue readingThings Are Good: Organs Made in Outer Space
Custom made 3D printed organs in space may sound like science fiction, but it’s real and up at the International Space Station they are experimenting with how to print organs better than before. Printing organs is still a relatively new technology and we have good technology to print organs on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Was Hoping Not To Do More Of These
Moe’s ending of restrictions and having the Roughriders hold super-spreader events has put the province into a pickle. School hasn’t even re-opened yet, and the numbers are already approaching the terrible ones after school open last year, and Delta variant is more contagious. Parents who care about their kids are
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Stressed? Read This. Amygdala Highjacking – A Few Brief Thoughts
When under great stress, or when in great fear, our biological fight or flight response is triggered strongly, the amygdala is highjacked, which then highjacks our frontal cortex and our brain, and destroys both our peace, and also our capacity for rational thought. Knowing how to respond to, or better,
Continue readingIn-Sights: Laws of Karma
We have seen a steady stream of news reports about science deniers resisting measures to prevent the spread of a deadly virus. That disease is reported to have killed 4.3 million and may have killed millions more. For some reckless recusants, resistance ended badly. Is karma involved?
Continue readingIn-Sights: An old problem, not a new problem
This week, the Globe and Mail published a short article and podcast about a hospital staffing problem they believe has grown more acute during the pandemic. In fact, key staff shortages have plagued the healthcare system for years…
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