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…
Marie Snyder
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…
The Vulnerable will Fall by the Wayside
Fauci’s line to the BBC, “The vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said while projecting that we’re unlikely to have another tsunami of cases of death as happened with Delta…
Success with CR Boxes and CO2 Monitors in Classrooms!
About a year and a half ago, I presented to the local school board about the benefits of masks to filter air before it hits our lungs and of using…
Endgame Vision
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” ~ Proverbs 29:18 In many versions of that passage it says with prophetic vision people cast off restraint, but I think vision…
On Parental Rights
It’s not a thing. Well, legally it’s not. There are no “parental rights” section of the charter to defend. It’s a thing as in it’s a dogwhistle to see how…
Mehdi Hasan on Covid Contrarians
Mehdi Hasan did a 26 minute show on Covid misinformation. It’s mainly about American “Covid contrarians,” but this kind of thing is happening in Canada as well. Good on him…
We See What We Want to See
Lots of people still don’t quite understand how Covid spreads or how serious it is, causing mass disabilities and continuing to cause significantly more deaths that traffic collisions, although traffic…
Are Safer Schools Possible When it’s Not in the Rules?
I’ve been retired a year. Sometimes it feels like the last three decades were just a fever dream and I’ve always been a student, particularly since I’m back at the…
Targeted Protection
If we can figure out that most accidents involve, say, red cars, then instead of everybody wearing a seatbelt, we could just get those people who are vulnerable to traffic…