On Helping Professions
Should mental health professionals be more concerned about the spread of a brain-invasive virus that affects mental health by doing a number on the brain?? Amanda Hu wrote “I feel…
Marie Snyder
Children Risk More Illnesses after Covid
What every pediatrician in the world needs to read – from tern: Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is a really bad thing, isn’t it? I wonder what the…
Chasing Pirola
I week I wrote that we don’t need to know all the specifics about different variants. It just confuses people. What the public needs to know is that there are…
Myths We Live By, and Die By
A brief but poignant thread by T. Ryan Gregory: It’s painful to think about how much damage these myths have caused. Myth #1: Droplet vs airborne transmission. Myth #2: Pathogens…
Covid or Climate: Can’t it be both?
In a local school board meeting from last June, in which they discussed their plan to remove HEPAs in rooms that had mechanical ventilation added (as if it’s and either/or…
Round of Accommodations for All!
Last fall, when I started back to school for the first time in a couple decades, WLU had mask mandates, which was such a relief for anyone trying to avoid…
The Weirdness of Now
This morning I listened to a Naomi Klein interview from this week about her very different type of book, while reading a prescient Geroge Monbiot article that he reposted from…
Stages of Genocide
We like to think we are way beyond barbarity and that the outrageously cruel acts of the past (many not in the too distant past) will never be anything we…
How to Profit from Pandemics
Three threads from this week outline the political and media pandemic protocol being followed around the world, the similarities and differences between prior pandemics, and how the profit motive fuels…
How Vaccines Work
Poilievre wants to make it illegal to have mandated vaccinations as a condition of employment and travel. He introduced the bill last June, and a second reading in the house…
Information Without Action Leads to Devastation
How it feels to watch it all (Judgment Day). We know all the things we need to know! From Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding: “Want to know why even mildly symptomatic sick…
Still Working On Filtration Units
Ontario School Safety is still working hard to try to get CR boxes allowed in classrooms. They donated some directly to the local board office. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly), they can’t…
The New CPC
Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian…
Leaving the Goldilocks Zone
This very brief TikTok from view.from.my.eyes is a perfect metaphor (and reality) of our current situation: @top_jumbomortgage_lender #greece #flood ♬ original sound – steve Check out the people on the…
Fraud Fest in Waterloo Region
Catherine Fife and Debbie Chapman speaking to protesters. It feels like we turned a dark corner in Ontario. In my hometown in particular. Doug Ford came to K-W to be…
Should Schools have A/C?
Or do we need hot days to be considered “bad weather” days and just close the schools? And do we need to re-think how we do school – and civilization…
Covid and the Brain
Two slightly different takes from lengthy threads on how the brain operates in such a way that makes it ignore Covid risks as it protects us from the trauma caused…
On Marxism
It’s such a go-to now to call the enemy some version of a communist in a weird throwback to 1950s America and McCarthyism. And now the leader of the opposition…
We’re Mutant Enablers
A friend said, “I watch the numbers. I’ll start to mask again when cases get high. People who are sick should wear a mask.” And that, my friends, is why…
Strike While the Fire’s Hot
Happy Labour Day! I’m sitting at a comfortable distance from Ontario school contract negotiations this time out, and I don’t know all the ins and outs of the various union…