Christian Priorities
One for the Christian right. Sexual impurity was a two-fold concern in the ancient olden days. First, it was to ensure that everyone’s spreading their seed in fertile ground, instructing…
Marie Snyder
Accepting the Things We Cannot Change – Yet
We’re really struggling to let go of our old familiar lives and realize we have to life differently from now on in order to keep going. It’s a bit like…
Goal Setting Feels Very Different Now!
I’ve been thinking about that goal-setting exercise they had us do in school: Divide a piece of paper in three and write 20, 5, and Bang at the top of…
Ignorance is No Longer a Defence
There is compelling evidence that vaccines work, with few serious side effects, yet they’re still being demonized while media continues to suggest Covid ended. An Australian 8-year-old went into cardiac…
Covid, the T-Shirt
Last March I had the funniest experience as a trustee. We were required to attend a seminar about creating inclusive classrooms where everyone can feel comfortable belonging, about mental health…
Courage to Admit our Mistakes
Translation from Maarten De Cock “Many people know, from unfortunate experience, and doctors recognize that most contagious diseases are communicated by breathing the air that comes out of the chest…
On a New Path
Is this year different, or is this the new trajectory we’re on to the very end? The Climate Brink collected a series of unnerving graphs showing what an outlier this…
We are ALL the Immunocompromised!
Since Covid affects the immune system, everyone who has ever had it has a significant change of being immunocompromised now! Dr. Gary Payinda noticed, “Some viruses, which used to cause…
Love Wins Over Hate
On social media, my Covid posts have suddenly lost all their troll-drawing capacity. The angry mob has moved on to bombard people’s 2SLGBTQIA+ posts. Just a few months ago, just…
On Teaching Public Health
Organizations have done such a bad job of explaining Covid to the public over the last almost four years, that it will be difficult to ever get mitigations back in…
Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
On May 27, 2022 , we heard the simplest possible explanation of what Covid does to our bodies and how to prevent the spread, but we gave a finger to…
Staying Healthy Takes Work
If social media is any barometer of this, anti-mask abuse appears to be skyrocketing. Fixed it for ya! There are tons of comments by the Covid cautious about about being…
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…
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…