Covid Journal, May 29, 2020
Europe’s Green Recovery; Anarchy in the USA; Questioning Catholic education funding.
May 2020
The Incredible Value of Living
When talk turns to survival/infection rates in the pandemic the focus is usually on death and how much the economy is damaged so that a relatively small percentage of the…
Twitter gets a backbone
Didn’t see that coming.
Is Manitoba gearing up for a major overhaul of its public education system?
Manitoba Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen recently appeared alongside US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, two of America’s leading advocates for dismantling and defunding public schools, to…
Biden Will Win
Tony Burman is getting more and more certain that Joe Biden will be the next American president. He writes: With more than 100,000 Americans dead and 40 million others out…
Things I can do because I am white
I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it. I can go birding (#ChristianCooper). I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).…
Mr. Trump’s Stupid Wars.
It is hard to say what the Americans have done wrong to deserve this. They have the best equipped standing army in the world and they elect a guy like…
NBC News: CDC Estimates Covid-19 Mortality Rate is 0.4%
Before I share my thoughts here is the link to the news story dated May 26th and updated May 28th: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/data-cdc-estimates-covid-19-mortality-rate/275-fc43f37f-6764-45e3-b615-123459f0082b?fbclid=IwAR1ymyj3B9PcW4YrdfmBsye3BV3ousaNrjh5WFNr1Wjkk63r7F3xH0znKic Everyone is a conspiracy buff these days. Right from…
"When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts."
Donald Trump wants the governor of Minnesota to put his collective knee on the carotid artery of Minneapolis demonstrators rioting over the police execution of George Floyd, an unarmed and…
Can Kenney’s plans for Albertans’ pensions survive the next round of bad AIMCo news?
Alberta’s Local Authorities Pension Plan was in “the healthiest position in its 58-year history” at the end of 2019, and things are still fine, the president and CEO of LAPP…
May 28:Bottom of the Barrel
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO FIND THE NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA DON’T TELL US. THIS GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1870 WITH THE APPEARANCE OF…
Authoritarianism & Medical Martial Law
No to medical martial law. Fascism is never in the true interests of public health or safety, nor is it ever justifiable. Must we be reminded of this? Authoritarianism always…
Can We Ever Truly Transform or Democratize the Police?
Police parade, July 1927. Photo by Alfred Pearson/City of Toronto Archives/Flickr. This article is a response to two recent essays on police reform and abolition by James Wilt and Herman…
TOGETHER, A MOM AND A PATIENT INVENT WHAT’S HELPFUL
Brenda Agnew is a friend and colleague in the disability family/caregiving community in Canada. So when I saw her image in the National Post while scanning my newsfeed the other…
What’s Next, Wisconsin?
Two weeks since the Wisconsin Supreme Court granted a Republican application to strike down the Democratic governor’s lockdown order the Cheese State is reaping what they have sown. The Wisconsin…
george floyd, christian cooper, and when will this end?
The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers may be the most shocking disturbing of any I’ve been aware of for a very long time, possibly since the murder…
“…the risk of death from COVID for people under 65 is 0.006 per cent”.
The subject line is a quote of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney taken from an article in the Calgary Herald, the full story is available here: https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/braid-kenney-begins-to-normalize-covid-19-as-a-risk-mainly-to-the-elderly-almost-zero-danger-to-the-young/wcm/264d4e97-bd0e-42c8-8566-be9fcf69f8e7/?fbclid=IwAR2GtoYJwiE7FcgPFhDJe5x8wgKj3XDcaTO_t5X0_7f67Fbud0edr96ENi4
Herd Immunity? Not Anytime Soon.
A graphic in The New York Times reveals that the prospect of developing ‘herd immunity’ to the Covid-19 virus is not at all likely. The top left shows the infection/antibodies…
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg – Off. Boogaloo, My Arse.
Is America primed for a 60s-style race war? 1967. A bunch of buddies and I piled into a car (they were huuuge back then) and drove to Windsor’s waterfront Dieppe…