Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Raywat Deondanan discusses some of the lessons which we should have taken from the COVID-19 pandemic (if it wasn’t being forcibly disappeared down a memory hole for all practical purposes). And Nicole Sarden and Bryan Yipp have found that the lasting effects of COVID
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Assorted content to end your week. – Oscar Grenfell discusses how Australia is among the countries which has seen a declining life expectancy due to COVID-19 – with a distinct trend based on when it chose to let the pandemic run rampant. Jonathan Shaw examines the evidence showing greater risks of
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Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells examines a few of the false narratives which are limiting our response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Wulf Hanson and Theo Vos write about new research showing that most cases of long COVID have arisen out of seemingly mild initial infections.
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk examines what we know about – and what we should be doing in response to – the Kraken COVID-19 variant which is running amok in parts of the US and beginning to spread in Canada. – Whizy Kim writes about
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK’s healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and destruction of existing health care institutions. And CBC News reports on how Quebec’s already-overburdened emergency rooms are again preparing to
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brendan Crabbe and Mike Toole discuss how COVID-19 has been able to spread and evolve due to people’s willingness to live dangerously, while Marisa Eisenberg and Emily Toth Martin offer a reminder of the continued value of masks in reducing spread. And Dawn
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This and that for your New Year’s reading. – Bartley Kives reports on the most deadly year of the COVID-19 pandemic yet. And the BBC reports on the admonition that vulnerable people in Wales should avoid going to hospitals due to the lack of measures in place to avert the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Helen Branswell examines what experts were and weren’t able to anticipate about the COVID-19 pandemic – with the voluntary panic-neglect cycle looking to be one of the most damaging lasting impacts. And Andre Picard discusses what we have and haven’t learned from
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk helpfully lists some of the most important facts which people need to keep in mind in evaluating COVID-19 risks (and which have been dangerously downplayed by governments). Julie Wernau and Jon Kamp report on the U.S.’ jarring drop in life
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Doubleday writes that we shouldn’t accept spin from any party which attempts to minimize the unacceptable dangers of exposing children to a virus known to cause lasting damage to people’s immune systems, while Terry Pender reports on the growing recognition that COVID-19 does just
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Left, Right or Centre – Explainer
In today’s age of populism, with ideology apparently dead, how do you now if you are on the left or right or in the centre. There are indeed some basic philosophical positions that determine if you are on the right, left or in the centre. If you are on the
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Blair Fix discusses how inflation reflects both instability in the overall system of prices, and a business strategy to turn that instability into an increased profit share. And Angella MacEwen writes that central banks are choosing to lend their authority to that strategy
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Greg Jericho rightly notes that the COVID pandemic showed beyond doubt that poverty is a policy choice – which makes it all the more maddening that the powers that be are so determined to inflict it on people as part of any
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Richard Smith highlights how there’s no general connection between the cost of health care and patient incomes across different models of funding and delivery, but an obvious connection between profit motives and increased expenses which don’t produce improved outcomes. – Meanwhile, K.J. Aiello
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Beth Gardiner discusses how the oil industry has long understood how much fossil fuels would damage the Earth’s climate (even while fighting tooth and nail to avoid mitigating the damage). And Norm Farrell points out that the U.S.’ worsening water shortages pose significant
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Assorted content to end your week. – Umair Haque discusses why the 2020s are turning into a particularly bleak decade as people are buried under a perpetually larger mountain of debt to try to fund a reasonable standard of living while corporate predators privatize and exploit every available source of
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Crane reports on a new report commissioned by the U.S.’ Department of Health and Human Services finding that masking policies are needed just to deal with the known dangers of long COVID. And Abdullah Shihipar, William Goedel and Abigail Cartus point
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tracey Harrington McCoy reports on still more research showing significant brain changes caused by long COVID. Joseph Oliver writes that sick kids need people to mask up to alleviate the intolerable pressure on our health care system. And Anne Sosin, Lakshmi Ganapathi
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Assorted content to start your week. – Bryan Bushard reports on research showing how football games served as COVID-19 superspreaders even when less transmissible versions were circulating in 2020. And Akshay Kulkarni reports on the dangers of removing what few protections remain (including B.C.’s just-dropped self-isolation requirement for people infected with
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schrieber examines the new face of the COVID-19 mortality burden, with older people (particular in nursing homes and long-term care) even more likely to bear the consequences of ongoing spread. And Felicity Nelson discusses how people are trying to manage long
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