I post this letter written to Alberta Health Services regarding the experience one Albertan woman had in the context of the language being used in a letter to her regarding pap testing. She has given me permission to reprint her letter in hopes that more Albertan women will also write
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Dead Wild Roses: What is happening has happened Before – The Canadian Reactionary ‘Freedom’ Convoy/Protests
It certainly seems like the religious, libertarian hard right fringe has made its way from the US to Canada. The illegal occupation of Ottawa and border crossings are prime examples of the profoundly undemocratic/reactionary roots of this ‘movement’. The police are reacting with a glacial slowness that is exacerbating the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: That Moment When The Alberta UCP Puts Pandering to Anti-Vax Idiots Ahead of Public Health
There you have it folks. What has changed from a medical standpoint with regards to masking efficacy from the beginning of the school term until now? Absolutely fucking nothing from an epidemiological standpoint. What has changed is that we have anti-vax lunatics closing border crossings and disrupting traffic in Alberta
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Letter to Steve Novella and Sometimes Science Based Medicine – The Turn Away from Rigorous Science
There has been much controversy over lately at Science Based Medicine as they seem to have been institutionally captured by gender ideology and turning away from the foundations SBM was founded on. When gender woo-magic takes precedent of science based facts the lambasting by those who keep their scientific integrity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edge of the Cliff – Alberta Health Care System Hangs in the Balance
People are morons. They are abusing health care workers who are trying to save their ignorant, stupid lives. Can you imagine the audacity of some of these donkey-donuts cursing out medical staff while proclaiming Covid isn’t real? It’s happening here in Texas-North, and i am fucking embarrassed to live in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Notes from the Front Line – The UCP Mismanagement of the Pandemic
An Alberta Healthcare professional shares her experiences on the frontline – “Ok…I am ready to share whether anyone wants to read or not. I am far more of a qualitative researcher than quantitative. I like themes and patterns. Swabbing today uncovered a theme I guess I didn’t expect. Yes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Vaccination Canadians Are Stupid – Harassing Health Care Professionals is Lunacy
I heard this story on the radio while driving into work this morning. I had hoped I had misheard the announcer when they said that health care workers had been verbally assaulted and in some cases physically assaulted while doing their jobs. But sadly, no. “Crowds of people opposed to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Forth Wave In Canada
Canada is experiencing a fair amount of Covid fatigue. The reception of news of the fourth wave seems like only a small ripple in the news. Unsurprisingly the news isn’t particularly good. The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel has gotten farther and dimmer as the delta variant
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Florida North” Shouldn’t be a goal for Alberta.
I’m flabbergasted. You won’t have to isolate or quarantine if you test positive for Covid? I think Dr.Hinshaw has finally given in to the political machinations she’s had to fight against during the UCP’s legendary mishandling of the pandemic in Alberta. No masking required in schools? Or in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta – Summer Reopening – Phase 3 – Welcome to the Fourth Wave.
I’m not buying it. The Alberta re-opening, as much as I want it to happen, is just too soon. Stage 3: Two weeks after 70% of Albertans 12+ (born in 2009 or earlier) have received at least one dose. Effective July 1. All restrictions lifted, including ban on indoor social
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta: Low Vaccination Turnout While Front Line Workers Go Without.
Statistics are a part of our lives. Sadly, most people do not have a clue how they work and how they are to be interpreted. Our conservative government here in Alberta continues to find unique and exciting new ways to drop the ball when it comes to dealing with the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta GraceLife Covid Church Finally Shut Down
Organized religion makes people stupid. This is a tale of a church and congregation in Alberta that kept going without following any public health guidance, as if we were not in a pandemic and that everything was right as rain. Reminds me of the religious wisdom available circa 1347:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Toxic Individualism Destroying Rural Healthcare in US
This is an example of what happens when a society loses its base set of common values. Healthcare professionals are leaving or being chased out of small rural communities because they are espousing the evidenced based protocols (wearing a mask) that are based on the best available medical knowledge during
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: This in from PlagueLand Alberta – “We ask Albertans to be responsible in their actions”
Fascinating stuff from the Edmonton Journal: “Premier Jason Kenney did not condemn weekend anti-mask rallies on Monday, saying the right to protest is constitutionally protected. Saturday anti-mask protests in both Edmonton and Calgary drew crowds of hundreds after new provincial rules were introduced last week that ban private
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Alberta Covid Situation – The Refrigerator Trucks are Next.
Did you need a comprehensive plan on how to overwhelm the heath care system? Burn out the doctors and Nurses? Just take the Jason Kenny’s Alberta Personal Responsibility Plan to heart. Our ideologically blinded Premier has condemned Alberta to a this entirely avoidable health care meltdown. Most certainly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Anti-Mask Protests in Calgary:Tomfoolery at its Finest
Some of the people in Calgary, Alberta feel that their fundamental rights and freedoms are being taken away from them. (Excerpts from cbc.ca) “Hundreds marched through downtown Calgary on Saturday to protest against mandated masks and other public health measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the same day
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Understanding health & disease: germ theory, terrain theory, viruses & vaccines
Core dynamics of health, healing, prevention and longevity Seven major factors: stress, nutrition, toxins, exercise, hydration, state of mind, chi. Genetics are maybe 4-10% influence, but genetics are ruled by epigenetics, which are ruled by these seven factors. Overview and synopsis: Toxins, stress, animal products, refined sugar and flour, processed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Spanish Flu Pandemic – The Wiki History of how Pandemics Work.
I am hoping we do not have to learn about how bad the second wave is before it is too late. History (Straight from Wikipedia) Timeline First wave of early 1918 The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918, with the recording of the case of
Continue readingScripturient: The Cancer Diaries, part 8
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act 4 Sc. 3 Those Kegel exercises sure work. I had my doubts at first, but I stand as living proof they are effective. My pelvic muscles could probably lift a car — well, whenever the
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