Yalom’s Gift
I recently binge-watched all of Group, a show inspired by a novel by Irvin Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure. So I revisited Yalom’s non-fiction to see how closely the series aligns…
Marie Snyder
N95s Reduce the Risk
There are more studies coming out that show that N95s and fresh air help in schools, and we’re still not going to act on them! A pre-print just came out…
Climate Memes
I know weather is different from climate, but it feels like April outside today. All the snow’s melting (at least we got some snow after a very green Christmas), and…
More on Covid and the Brain
A new study further confirms cognitive decline after Covid. The study weeded out depression and other issues in people with Long Covid or Post-Covid Conditions (PCC) from the effects of…
Peak Advancement
Measles cases are on the rise because of lower vaccination rates. It’s one of the most contagious diseases out there, but that’s still not going to budge policy. An article…
We Need Policy Based on Evidence, not Vibes
Survival of the fittest doesn’t mean the strongest survive, it means whomever can best adapt to the conditions of life will survive. Adapting doesn’t mean tolerating what’s happening and ignoring…
Our Fragile Democracy
The Financial Times posted a video with Margaret Atwood discussing democracy. It’s just 6 minutes, and the illustrations (from Jamie Macdonald) really add to it. She asks if democracy is…
Covid’s Immune Response Suppression
For many, Covid seems milder now, closer to a regular flu, but yet another new study suggests otherwise. I like this analogy from Tern to help explain a recent study…
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…
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…