Our Curious Relationship with Covid Studies
Some questionable ethics in recent studies are making the rounds. The process and ethics of Didier Raoult’s work, which led to the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a Covid treatment,…
Marie Snyder
Lewy, Lewy, Me Gotta Go
A study from May 2021 is still thought by some to be the most disturbing Covid paper out there. The study, (published in April 2022) looked at how SARS-CoV-2 causes…
For the Next Doctor’s Visit
Olivia Belknap made some great fact sheets that can be shared with health care providers who question your mask or try to claim you have an anxiety disorder. More at…
At the Movies (nope – not about the Oscars)
Cineplex is getting heat for mask and CO2 issues. From LandBack It says, “All guests are asked to lower medical masks and hoods while having their tickets scanned.” Why would…
A Most Dangerous Place
More evidence that schools drive transmission of a virus that has long term effects on multiple organ systems, including the brain. This is entirely from Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz: “If someone…
Canadian Covid Society
It’s officially a thing! Dr. Kashif Pirzada explains how it started: Wanted to share with you something near and dear to my heart. Today my colleagues and I are proud…
Capitalism is Slavery
Listen to Nathan explain the problem with a capitalist structure that forces the elderly to continue working. @nathanreo #revolution #deconstruction #deconstructingcapitalism #capitalism #socialism #decentralization #socialprogress #awakening #humanevolution #shiftinconsciousness #consciousness #spirituality…
Nothing Changed but the Rules
I might never get used to being the only masked person in a store, but I might never stop, either. Original art: ‘Cassandra’ by Evelyn De Moran’ (1898, London); Cassandra…
How We Look After the Least Fortunate
Back in the day, the left was all about protesting for rights for marginalized people, and the right fought for a more individualistic, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps ideology. Another thread from Kelly, this…
Erosion of Public Health
You would think that after dealing with Covid for over FOUR years that Public Health would be amazing at stopping Measles in its tracks, unless maybe they’ve been directed otherwise.…
Maybe Concern with Measles will Save us from Covid!!
A thread on how to stay safe from measles and two on why you should keep testing for Covid. The first, on measles, from Jeff Gilchrist (I didn’t block quote…
On Feudalism
Have we ever lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism with peasantry, slavery, or the working poor labouring for the benefit of Kings, land barons, or factory owners? One perspective…
Avoiding Pathogens Benefits Babies
My mom was right after all: We really should do everything we can to keep babies from getting sick. When I was close to the due date of my first…
No Going Back
Conflict, climate, and covid are showing us the worst of ourselves, but it might be what we need to find our collective humanity. Tiberius wrote: “The old world is no…
Willful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan explains the term and the CDC provides a great example of it! Heffernan lectures to MBA classes and runs a few businesses and such, so she’s not someone…
Permitting Preventable Suffering in Children
Recent studies still show that Covid is serious, particularly in children, and that masks and filtering the air in schools can dramatically reduce the spread. Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic…
Covid Info for Therapists
Many people are seeking out therapists to help them with the mental health issues that are a result of Long Covid. Some of their experiences have been horrific. I’ve written…
Changing Perceptions of Autism
I compiled some posts from here into a summary of recent studies on Autism at 3 Quarks Daily, but the word count limit there forced me to cut this bit…
Two Steps Forward…
It’s amazing to get so far in our scientific advances, only to have it tossed aside by misinformation. A Daily Mail article explained the conclusion of a study that, “They…
Infection Control Measures Work
A Lancet study found that there’s little Covid transmission in schools WHEN infection control measures were in place. Since we stopped all mitigation efforts, hospitalizations for Covid in Ontario have…