Three people have so far died of COVID-19 after attending a “multi-day gathering of faith groups” in Nova Scotia. Public health officials said that, “in violation of public health orders,” none of the more than 100 attendees were asked to show proof of vaccination. And, the attendees went unmasked while
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Scripturient: Council Considers Possibly Thinking About Maybe Doing Something Important Sometime in the Future
We’re almost two years into an ongoing pandemic, yet all the lessons learned in jurisdictions worldwide about vaccinations and public safety have apparently simply drifted past our inept and gormless council. People are still getting ill and dying even in our own community, but our council is sort-of thinking about
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: Alberta Races to be a Covid Epicentre – Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt
I am ashamed of my province. There so much stupid going on around the pandemic and getting vaccinated. The stupid people, of course, are now clogging up the ICU’s province wide bumping other life saving procedures and surgeries off the table. We face a nursing shortage and devastating work attrition
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Polarization – Far Left & Right.
Political practice in the US often seems to centre around everything but the facts of any given issue. The pandemic being one of the most obvious examples. So, we ignore the real-world material evidence of what Denmark is doing with their Corona Pass and continue to prevaricate in our
Continue readingScripturient: Jail the Unvaccinated
In a recent opinion piece in Macleans Magazine, Scott Gilmore wrote what I expect many vaccinated Canadians felt about those who still refuse to get vaccinated and help end this pandemic: We need to begin treating the vaccine holdouts as the fools they are. It is not fair that reasonable
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Dreamlet
A friend had invited me to the ‘viewing’ of their first grandchild in a community centre, or maybe in the common room of a condo complex. The new baby was teensy, with a shock of bright red hair. We’re talking Beaker hair, here, and it was perfect. When I got
Continue readingThings Are Good: Reducing Meat Consumption can Reduce the Risk of the Next Pandemic
Zoonotic diseases are nothing new and are often the cause of large outbreaks which cause great harm to humans and other animals. It’s speculated that the recent COVID-19 coronavirus popped into existence due to close animal – human contact in Chinese wet markets. History as shown us that wherever there
Continue readingScripturient: We Need New Names for Stupid
I was reading a story in CollingwoodToday about another anti-mask/anti-lockdown protest recently — this one in Barrie, Sat. April 24 — and thought to myself that our language does not have the appropriate words to describe the combination of selfishness, stupidity, and ignorance that fuels this sort of event. Sure,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Locked down or locked up?
It feels like being kept after school because some one else broke the rules. It feels like a piling on of detentions. Now premier Doug Ford has added another four weeks of lock-down for the entire damn province. It never would have happened if the jerk had known what to
Continue readingScripturient: The COVID-19 Vaccination Screw Up
For a long time during this pandemic, Susan and I were in the “not eligible” age bracket for the COVID-19 vaccination (65-79 years old) here in Ontario. Why our age group was left out I have never been able to uncover. Maybe some politicians felt we were more expendable than
Continue readingScripturient: Let’s Play “Spread the Virus!”
I see Collingwood Council wants the province to end the lockdown, but hasn’t said anything about improving public safety if that happens. That suggests to me they are okay if the coronavirus spreads again, and strains our hospital’s already stretched capacity to deal with it. At least, that’s the message
Continue readingScripturient: Where is Collingwood’s Pandemic Response?
I admit I am stumped. I have been looking online to find something that tells me what Collingwood council has done in response to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year. I’m looking for real, concrete, measurable steps, things that benefit our community; things that residents and businesses can point
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 readingViews from the Beltline: Working less—one answer to COVID economics
As the pandemic continues to batter the economy and unemployment increases, it’s time to take yet another look at an approach to work that will maintain high employment while improving quality of life—shorter work times. Early in the 19th century, people worked on average about 3600 hours a year—70 or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Substitute Teaching During a Pandemic – Anxiety Double Plus
Is a sub gig worth the health of your family? That main question that has been going through my head as of late, since school has started. I’ve been very lucky to be able to attend schools I know that also happen to have very stringent health protocols. But
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 readingDead Wild Roses: Pandemic School Measures – Example of Pandemic Precautions
I hope the Edmonton Public School Board takes notice – “SS: What health and safety measures are your school district and you taking for the reopening of school? MKS: As of this writing, our district has delayed its start by 2 1/2 weeks for faculty and 4 weeks for
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Mandatory Vaccination – With Extremely Dubious Safety Profile
* Here we go. * (My apologies for the strange formatting – WordPress decides on occasion to be buggy, and I am not techno-savvy enough to correct for its bugs. Hence the stars to divide paragraphs. Sorry.) * Note: I’m not anti-vaccine. I’m anti-stupid. Taking any pharmaceutical drug that has
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