This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jacques Poitras talks to some of the at-risk people whose freedom will be undermined by the scrapping of public health protections. Phil Tank calls out Scott Moe for refusing to report on child COVID deaths (among other essential information even from the standpoint
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Live Blogged: Progressive (re)Organizing In Sask
A long thread on Twitter of the Twitter Space hosted by Prairie Tara: Tara J suggests 3 options:New party, or change the NDP, or improve the SK Liberals. Joel now speaking…https://t.co/RcNcXA2GWd — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) February 21, 2022 Hundreds tuned in, and dozens spoke. I was too busy making
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unhealthy outcomes
Not surprisingly, Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be stepping down as leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP comes as a major disappointment. To be clear, the decision is understandable both from a personal standpoint given the demands placed on a party leader (particularly with a young family living in Saskatoon), and a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gavin Yamey, Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon write that the COVID pandemic is far from over even in the U.S. where the Omicron wave is receding. Frederik Lyngse et al. study (PDF) the transmission of Omicron and find that vaccination is indeed effective in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on the politicization of Saskatchewan’s COVID policy in the summer of 2021, with political staffers and commercial interests winning out over public health recommendations surrounding Saskatchewan Roughrider games. Zak Vescera reports on Scott Moe’s deliberate dishonesty as an excuse
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning question
Where could Scott Moe have possibly developed the idea he’s entitled to dictate what questions the media is allowed to ask?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way to avoid catastrophic results from the Omicron wave. Mickey Djuric reports on leaked modelling reaching the same conclusion based on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Hide The Model
Leaked Saskatchewan disease modelling has hospitalizations headed for a record high next month. The SHA is asking the public to limit gatherings "in order to not overwhelm the health care system." Services like surgeries could again be affected. https://t.co/o6JAfLiriW — Zak Vescera (@zakvescera) January 20, 2022 Thank you for clarifying
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread (facilitated by people relaxing their prevention efforts) batters already-struggling health care systems. And Ingrid Torjeson discusses a new study from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how Canada’s COVID response has been slanted toward handouts to corporations and demands of workers – and increasingly so as the pandemic has continued. Alison Pennington calls out the cruelty by design in Australia’s similar move toward eliminating pandemic leave
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unearned compensation
One of the most striking recent developments in Saskatchewan’s COVID response has been the disconnect between Scott Moe’s government telling people not to get PCR tests due to their utter failure to provide them, and the Workers’ Compensation Board declaring that nobody will be able to make a claim for
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Trevor Herriot and Cathy Holtslander write about the Saskatchewan Party’s climate position which can’t be treated as anything but implicit denialism. John Woodside points out that the Libs’ fuel regulations seem designed to lock us into decades of avoidable fossil fuel use,
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Michael McGrath writes that the Omicron wave of COVID may manage to be the most disruptive year, while Alex Press discusses how its effects at an individual level may differ drastically based on one’s income. – Ed Yong warns that the U.S.’
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On lockdowns
Richard Raycraft reports on the absurdity that the Libs’ latest excuse for a pandemic support (the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit) is available to precisely zero Canadians even as the Omicron wave crests. But let’s note that the problem with it involves a common set of assumptions between the federal government
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Better late than never
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted on to implement three days later. This of course came after Moe’s party had laughed at the concept of both
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve. And while Daniel Wood and Geoff Brumfiel point out how the politicization of the pandemic is resulting in systematically higher
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Bump discusses how partisan resistance to public health measures is making it harder for the U.S. to count on vaccinations to limit the spread of COVID-19. And Connor O’Donovan reports on how Saskatchewan’s health care system is drowning under chronic short-staffing which
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Deborah Gleeson discusses how inequality in vaccine availability is making new variants an inevitability, while Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach write that an intellectual property waiver is a must to ensure vaccines are available around the globe. And Rachel Cohen warns that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On toxic preferences
From the standpoint of any reasonable observer, there’s reason for outrage that Saskatchewan is one of the provinces pushing to undermine federal standards for water pollution from coal mines – especially when the argument being made is that regulations should allow for a certain amount of selenium to be released
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Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney writes that the COVID pandemic has exposed – without ameliorating – our political leaders’ inability to respond to any real crisis. And in case anybody was under the illusion that we’re past the worst of COVID itself, Michael James and Christine
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