On Housing and Value(s)
Here’s a little story about the house at the end of my street. About 30 years ago, it was a bit of a grow-op, with vicious guard dogs, one that…
Marie Snyder
Covid is Weakening Us as a Species
Yesterday I wrote about the probability of Long Covid sweeping through our civilization over the next five years. This post looks at how it presents in individuals: Infections rates are…
The Odds are Not EVER in Our Favour These Days!
You either control a pandemic, or you let it control you. – Professor John Edmunds. The CDC’s estimate that 20% of infections will become Long Covid. Let’s do some math!!…
Pet Lovers Revolt!
For all the dog lovers out there, especially, there’s some bad news: A recent study found that Covid definitely does infect dogs and affects their neural processing (their brain)! “We…
Improving Air Quality for Children Act
Our children are mandated to be in school. It should also be mandated that the building have clean air for children to breathe! Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa-West and Nepean,…
Of Course It’s Airborne and We Should All Be in N95s
Just saving these here for posterity. Check out this whole thread of documents found on originsearch; there’s tons more in the thread, but I have no idea why or how…
The Big Lie of Covid Herd Immunity
Why do some healthcare professionals still insist that herd immunity will work despite visual evidence to the contrary? A nicely explainer came out in Journal of Infectious Diseases March 2022:…
Basic Income – It’s Possible
We almost had it. When CERB was introduced to help people at the start of the pandemic, some people who hadn’t been to a dentist in decades finally got their…
If It Can’t Possibly be Both, then Either Give us Masks OR Accommodations
If masks are a choice, then shouldn’t being protected from a virus also be a choice?? The freedom to go maskless is butting up against the freedom from getting infected,…
Trapped by our Insouciance
George Monbiot’s article today is the perfect rant for our times. It’s pretty much what I’ve been screaming into the void for the past while, but, thankfully, he has a…
It’s Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Even More Worse
Times are dark. Try to find moments of calm and humour to get you through the day. Covid is out of control. It’s nothing new, but more and more are…
Manufacturing Consent to Spread SARS-CoV-2
Like the political/media machine convinced citizens that invading Iraq was necessary, we’re being convinced to spread a virus that will come back to destroy our own lives. Yesterday, Arijit Chakravarty,…
The Conflict
If I were explaining it all to a class of 15-18 year olds, here’s what I would say: my imperfect lesson with my own stance front and centre but wide…
It’s Like the Sun
I missed this back in August, but, while I keep seeing Orwell and Huxley in everything around us, Tern saw Joseph Heller: This is exactly the crazy-making that’s going on.…
I Needed This Today
Another curious human behaviour: Just by chance, I posted every day for over a week last May rather than my typical range of anywhere from one to twelve posts in…
Save David Tennant From Invasion!!
There are lots of horrific things going on in this world. Most are out of our control. One is not. There’s nothing I can do about the atrocities happening between…
Media Subterfuge
Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because…
Faulty Wiring
We’re hard-wired for immediate survival, so we need reminders to help us persevere longterm. Short-Term Wiring For decades I taught a course, the Challenge of Change in Society, which used…
The Truth is Out There
Because it’s harder than ever to discern fact from fiction means we have to work harder. Don’t give up! Definitely not an example of Art Deco. I once dated a…
Breathe, Grieve, Love, Repeat
We have very little direct influence over one another but we do affect one another in myriad ways that we often don’t even notice. I had a student once, about…