Prioritizing Collective Responsibilities in the Response to COVID-19
Ryoji Ikeda’s installation, test pattern . Photo by Liz Hingley. At the same time as the climate crisis movement was gaining momentum in the wake of youth voices such as…
2020
Coronavirus & Common Sense
“We were once distressed by crimes: now, by laws”, wrote Tacitus. How relevant is that today? Extremely so; but the sheep are trained not to think; and see, therefore, only…
Questions on Assessment
Responding to an enquiry about assessment. – what about the practical work that must be done in the laboratory? It depends on the laboratory, but mostly, students will not be…
Trump’s coronavirus plan: “a total, complete, absolute clusterfuck”
When Trump lies, someone dies. Rolling Stone’s shocking story, here. If you were to write a playbook for how not to prevent a public-health crisis, you would study the work…
Covid Journal, April 17, 2020
A few small updates today, quoting Mark Carney and others, focusing on speculation about the how the world will look economically, socially and politically. What’s your take on what might…
This Is Absolutely Ghoulish
First it was Dr. Oz betraying his Hippocratic Oath. Now Dr. Phil has joined the movement as he and the ever-compassionate Laura Ingraham discuss why the lockdown should end. Start…
Like Dandelions
In the United States, there is a run on guns. Bob Hepburn writes: Americans are leaving their homes and lining up at grocery stores in the desperate hope of buying…
Jason Kenney puts on his black hat.
Just when you start to think Alberta premier Jason Kenney is not such a bad guy, he drops a political stink bomb. He says his province can ignore our federal…
NYT – "The End of the World Economy As We Know It"
According to the Grey Lady, we’re in for “a rethink of of how much any country wants to be reliant on any other country.” For years I thought it was…
Hidden cost of fighting Covid-19
Numbers are imprecise but in normal times, 10 to 12 thousand patients are in BC Hospitals. Around 1,500 of those are discharged each day and replaced by new people needing…
Justin Trudeau needs to do something bold to fix the long-term-care disaster: here’s a suggestion
Surging deaths in Canadian long-term care facilities have blown Canada’s COVID-19 death projections to smithereens. Last night, the CBC reported the number of deaths from COVID-19 is already double what…
Look up
Driving back from Wellington and saw these two. Best thing that happened all week. Good night, all.
On “Natural Religion”
Both deism and orthodoxy are cloudy. Experience, in terms of inner experience, outweighs both reason and so-called empirical evidence, since the former can conjecture or rationalize anything, and the latter…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey writes about the long-term effects of the millennial generation facing a second economic shock in the years which would normally…
NO, THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY RIGHT OR FREEDOM TO SPREAD CORONAVIRUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES, ASSORTED COVID-19 MISINFORMATION, AND OUTRIGHT LIES!
The Government of Canada, in an effort to protect Canadians against the spread of Coronavirus conpiracy theories, assorted COVID-19 misinformation, and outright lies, is being accused by Andrew Scheer, CPC…
How are "We" Holding Up?
It takes a bit of doing for the average Joe to keep abreast of developments in the multi-discipline area known as climate change. The fields are many linked by research…
Talking CERB Changes & The Role of Medical Experts on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, for a rare Thursday chat along with Jamie Ellerton. We discussed Canada’s continued…