Could This Be You?
So, you’re at the grocery store on Saturday morning, in the check-out line, and perusing the gossipy mags and debating a chocolate bar, and the air you exhale is quietly…
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Cognitive Decline in Children
Tern highlighted a few key points from a new study in Nature about the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2. This is all from them, so I just put the parts from…
Problems with Psychiatry
Paul Minot, MD, wrote a thread inviting other threads on the practice of psychiatry. Caveat, I have no idea of the credibility of any of these claims, but some make…
The Difficulty of Knowing
The main character from Camus’ The Plague, a medical doctor spending his days and nights helping the sick, said, “A man can’t cure and know at the same time. So…
NRPI – No Real Person Involved
In Ontario right now, “Hospital backlogs in pediatric care could affect children’s health for the rest of their lives. Two-thirds of pediatric patients in need of surgery at two of…
Undarkened Generations and Pizza Dip
A bit from Alvin Foo, a “Venture Partner,” whatever that is. But it’s good summary of our times. It’s been said before, but maybe needs to be heard again: “Imagine…
Precautions Still Make Sense
The National Post, a mainstream paper even, has a great article about why people are still wearing masks. Has the tide of media silence around Covid precautions turned?? “With three…
Google on C-18
It’s a bill, not a virus. The gist of it is that it requires American tech companies to pay Canadian news organizations for content that appears on their platforms. The…
Plus C’est la Même Chose
It’s the 80s all over again. We’ve got a killer virus that people are largely ignoring despite a small group of people continuing to fight for protections and medications. We’ve…
Lost Counterculture
Henry Madison, just some random dude on twitter, wrote an interesting bit on concerts and the enmeshment of generations. I disagree with several of his claims below: Blondie “Imagine a…
Covid or Cov-AIDS??
I wrote about concerns about the similarity between SARS-2 and AIDS back in November: Here’s info on Covid causing lymphopenia (aka lymphocytopenia), the reduction of B, T, and NK cells…
Teaching in the Face of a Bleak Future
I can’t imagine teaching right now. This post is a mishmash of thought around teaching at such a momentous time in history. Well, momentous for us. I’ve only been retired…
Frankl’s Logotherapy
The second half of Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning was added in 1962 to provide greater detail of Logotherapy, in which patients must hear difficult things in contrast to psychoanalysts…
We’re Back to Rhetoric of Welfare Cheaters
An old one, but the agenda still fits! According to Queen’s Park reporter Jack Hauen, on Monday Premier Ford said: “What drives me crazy, is people on Ontario Works–probably 3,400,000–that…
It’s all the Scientists’ Fault!
We’re at the stage in climate change news that it’s time to blame scientists for not telling anyone about it before now. Headline from The Hill: “Catch-22: Scientific communication failures…
On the Importance of Solidarity with the Covid Cautious
This is all from Conor Browne following a bit of in-fighting online: I consider the unmitigated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to be the single most important risk facing humanity. Climate change…
Symbols of Class
The Titan submersible hasn’t been found yet, and the supply of oxygen is gone. Some think they perished days ago from pressure or another type of malfunction, all horrific to…
An Assault on Gender is an Assault on Democracy
Here’s Judith Butler on gender. She’s a prof in California who teaches literature, philosophy, and critical theory, and wrote, most famously, Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter. Abridged transcript of…
It’s Hard to Emigrate to New Zealand. I Checked
This one minute video is the type of thing the government of New Zealand posts: a virologist explaining that every Covid infection significantly increases the risk of getting diabetes, mental…
On Debating Science
Dr. Peter Hotez is a medical doctor in Texas who did his undergrad at Yale and his medical degree at Cornell. He has been successful at creating Covid vaccine technology…