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…
Marie Snyder
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…
Climate Misery and Hope
Despair limits future actions, but knowledge is power. We must know and act in order to stave off despair. A depressing thread followed by an uplifting video today: Writer Matthew…
Still Not a Cold
Some find the term “airborne AIDS” offensive, but we can’t deny the similarities. After writing here every day since August 1st, I actually got distracted enough trying to barrel through…
Climate Projections and Anticipatory Grief
Media aren’t free to report on it honestly, and politicians won’t act on it. How can we possibly remain optimistic? Matthew Todd wrote about the possibility that the Gulf Stream…
The Motivating Annoyance of Willful Ignorance
I’ve been thinking about my old students today as I read the news. I taught about the Israeli occupation in Palestine for a good 20 years, under the media bias…