Grand Theft Immunity
T. Ryan Gregory asks us to consider the possibility that repeated infection is rolling the dice that leads to Long Covid, which causes immune damage: “If we’re insisting on using…
Marie Snyder
Lab Leak Theory Has Backing
A Freedom of Information request by reporter Emily Kopp is now pointing to the lab leak being more likely than previously thought. From Richard Ebright: “An order line for restriction…
The Senate Committee Hearing Addressing Long Covid
It’s a funny disconnect between Twitter and everywhere else. Yesterday everyone I know online was glued to the Senate hearings. If you weren’t one of them, here’s the gist: You…
Elderly Activism
Fiona Atkinson, retired teacher, gave a couple of MPs a lesson that they refused to learn: This is a video that was on the news in October, but then hit…
They’re Going Full Orwell: Sickness is Health
Lots of misinformation out there still. On Vaccinations We know that vaccinations help reduce severity of Covid to keep people out of the hospital, and we know their effectiveness wanes…
The Answer is Less Virus
It’s not nearly as deadly in the near term as the Spanish Flu, which took out 5% of the population, or the Black Death, which wiped out half of Londoners,…
Let ‘er Rip Means Let THEM R.I.P.
A few people have been commenting on the current “death by semantics”, or what Orwell called “doublespeak.” I used that image just in October, but it’s too on-the-nose not to…
Teaching with Covid in Class
Is there a better way to do school during an ongoing, quite possibly never-ending pandemic AND with climate crisis coming home to roost? Christina Virgil, on TikTok discussed the problem…
Spread the Word, Not the Virus
We’ve been behind the curve on Covid mitigations. At this point, we should be able to see the error in removing masks, right?! When the wastewater data and/or hospitalization rates…
Covid Basics in Just Five Minutes
There’s a TikTok making the rounds that says everything I’ve been writing here in just five minutes! It took some cajoling to watch it all the way through because the…
The Best Prime Minister We Never Had
There are few politicians that I gush over, but Ed Broadbent is one of them. We lost one of the good ones. I don’t like him because he’s NDP –…
Vaccines are Still Part of the Solution
The XBB booster can help keep you out of the hospital! Why don’t we understand that? From Prof Raywat Deonandan, Epidemiologist & Research Chair at the University of Ottawa: “There…
A New Vaccine Study is Giving Me Hope!
Amazing news about a new vaccine methodology! Eric Topol gave a brief rundown of the vaccine and highlighted the study: “Engineered secretory IgA antibodies vs Omicron (BA,1, BA.2, BA.5) were…
It’s Airborne, and It Can Cause an Immune Deficiency
Let’s look at the claim that Covid should not be compared to AIDS or referred to as “Airborne AIDS”. One concern about comparing the two is that it makes Covid…
Livable Basic Income Bill
If it’s possible to ensure that everyone has the necessary conditions of live, sign me up! I watched a video on the Pacific Gyre years ago. This post isn’t about…
Can a Slingshot Down this Goliath?
I read Andreas Malm‘s book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline a few months ago, then watched the movie, and then was reminded of it all again by Abigail Thorn’s…
Covid Won’t Go Away On Its Own
I’m feeling a bit frantic today (even more than usual) as it’s two days before school opens again, and wastewater indications show we’re really in the thick of it in…
McKinsey’s Effect on Public Health
Almost two years ago, the Canadian government published a Covid response plan that they appear to be largely ignoring. The 3rd edition of the guide was published in March 2022,…
Can We Get Some Leadership Here?
Hopefully more people will start paying attention to the dangers of Covid and wear a simple N95 to protect themselves and others now that JN.1 seems to be in the…
Is Canada Okay?
Dr. Mike Moffatt explained the six economic problems Canadians should worry about. He starts with red tape stopping things that would benefit us, a lack of state capacity, overlapping jurisdictions…