The Boiling Frogs Timeline
Globally, Covid cases rose by over 50% in the past month! This article that reported the stats, mistakenly says the WHO “officially declared the end of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide…
Marie Snyder
On the Fog of Covid
There’s nothing normal about our lives right now. Simple precautions could change the rate of illness, disability, or death, but that would mean leaders opening themselves to lawsuits if they…
What Seems Impossible Can Become Inevitable
George Monbiot talked with journalist Rachel Donald of Planet Critical. In a nutshell, Monbiot has many views in common with Chomsky: People with the money have become the people with…
On Expectations of the Season
Today is often a difficult day for many people who celebrate Christmas, and it’s been made worse with the prospect of walking into a family dinner with Covid in the…
Realistic Faith: Strength for Those Who Look
It can be hard to keep working to show people that N95s and cleaning air will actually significantly reduce the number of sick, disabled, and dying in our communities. Here…
Long Covid Tag
Mentioning Long Covid symptoms to people can set off a series of other stories from people with similar symptoms. It’s out there, but we don’t want to talk about it.…
A Song for the Season
Hellscape Neverland (from Deborah Holloway – I added the bridge and re-worked the final verse) Sirens wail, are you listening?Family tears, they are glisteningThe ERs are crammed The wards are…
Covid Defences Matching Game
Match statements from friends, family, colleagues, bosses, and/or random strangers with “opinions,” to defence mechanism! Dr. Mike Hoerger, a clinical health psychologist in the US, noted several psychological defence mechanisms…
Pirola’s Dominating – Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool
Does everyone else picture Andy Samberg when they read about Pirola too?? Isn’t everyone reading about the hot new variant, Pirola (BA.2.86/JN.1), these days?? The concern with Pirola is that…
You Had One Job! On IPACs Refusal to Prevent or Control Infection
The Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) of Canada is a registered charity making some questionable decisions recently. They promote themselves as, “Focussing on infection prevention and control in the community…
On Lookers and Thinkers
Can we teach how to think and problem solve our way out of a total collapse? I’m curious why some people are facing it all head on, reading the news…
On Hearing Others
Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness. Communication from one body part to anther happens when messages throughout our body…
Mini-Study on ND vs NT Use of Masks
Abstract: An online survey was conducted to compare the rate of masks wearing behaviour between neurotypical and neurodiverse populations. A greater number of neurodiverse participants reported always wearing a mask.…
Canadian Excess Deaths Report
Tara Moriarty wrote a compelling thread a couple weeks ago. I’ve never teared up from reading stats before. For anyone who doesn’t know her, Moriarty’s an Associate Professor at the…
There’s Money in Prevention
The insurance companies and finance mags are still openly discussing the problems with ongoing Covid, even if schools and hospitals aren’t. Illness affects the bottom line! Don’t be surprised if…
The Priest, the Consultant, the Journalist, and the Epidemiologist
How do we proceed when we still don’t really understand Covid? Researchers have found over 200 symptoms associated with Covid, and no organ untouched by it. A recent review article…
A Disaster Groundhog Day
A few decades ago I watched a video in a class about a Black female musician answering the question how to stop all the racism and sexism in songs at…
The One with the Apocalypse
I recently watched a few things, back to back, to distract me from the news. One was openly apocalyptical, as so much is these days. Is it a trend, or…
Art to Guide the Masses
Can sitcoms save the day? Back in the 80s, there was a very funny show about a detective agency, Moonlighting. It was a take on the classic enemies-to-lovers trope with…
The Daycare Years
Many of our ideas of virus transmission haven’t changed in decades, for better and worse. Almost 30 years ago, I ran a daycare out of my home for a little…