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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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Angella MacEwen discusses how the Bank of Canada is fighting a class war on the side of the rich by pushing to reduce employment and wages while corporations continue to profiteer off the backs of the public. And Armine Yalnizyan interviews Tiff
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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 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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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from doctors against the recalcitrance of governments in refusing to implement any public health measures as COVID and other respiratory illnesses
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on a spike in respiratory illnesses among Edmonton students. And Andrew Potter writes about the concurrent drops in government capacity and
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan writes that in the face of an impending self-inflicted recession, governments should be using their available resources (and taxing the richest people and corporations) to make sure people at the bottom of the income scale don’t once again bear the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK has become a failing state which lacks the capacity to provide either basic public services or a functional economy of any kind. Adam Bychawski wonders whether any of the corporate-sponsored “think tanks” which pushed for the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports on the rise of two new subvariants in Ontario (and elsewhere) while public health officials beg for the return of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Cool And Rational
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and I suggested to him that people like us (we who strive to be rational, critical thinkers) are an endangered species and becoming largely irrelevant in the world today. It is good to know, however, that there are passionate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bob Becken discusses the use of “no smell” complaints about scented candles as a sad substitute for meaningful public reporting of ongoing COVID cases. And Aastha Shetty reports on a pilot project which is just beginning to measure air quality in a few
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard discusses how Canada is unprepared (by choice) for the effects of long COVID, while Jennifer Lee reports on warnings from Alberta doctors that people need to take the dangers far more seriously than their political leaders are bothering to do. Matthew
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus examines how long COVID is producing disastrous social and economic effects. Helena Perez Valle interviews Deepti Gurdasani about the lessons we should be learning both to address the continued spread of COVID-19 and to prepare for future
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop hikes how Canada’s financial elite is engineering a recession to ensure that workers don’t see wage increases to match the price hikes caused by corporate profiteering. And Gaby Hinshiff writes about the UK Cons’ plan to blame everybody but themselves (and
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Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis, Pamela Duncan and Carmen Aguilar Garcia report that the toll of long COVID in the UK has surpassed a million people. And Jane Dalton reports on the UK’s massive increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations – which in past waves had tended to
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Melody Schreiber writes about the perfectly awful timing of Joe Biden’s wrong-headed declaration that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” even as a particularly damaging wave was cresting. And Troy Farah reports on new research showing that the treatments which previously offered some means
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emily Henderson discusses new research showing the harm COVID-19 does to the central nervous system. And Stuart Layt reports on a new study suggesting that it damages the DNA in people’s hearts (rather than merely causing inflammation as an ordinary flu virus would).
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Assorted material to start your week. – Jeremy Faust laments the removal of the few remaining COVID public health recommendations when we’ve had ample opportunity to learn about the costs of letting the coronavnirus run rampant. Dave Sherwood and Marc Frank report that Cuba has set an example for other
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about immunologist Chris Goodnow’s belated recognition that COVID isn’t over only after he was hit with acute myocarditis, while Korin Miller discusses new research showing an elevated risk of blood clots for a year after a COVID infection. And Jessica
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Aria Bendix and Shannon Pettypiece report on the reality that due to a failure to contain it in its early stages, COVID-19 now stands to be a leading cause of death (and a factor in reduced lifespans) for decades to come. Erin Praiter
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