Masking in Hospitals
Toronto's UHN hospitals (Princess Margaret, Toronto General...) are reinstating masking requirements. BUT medical masks. N95s are allowed, but not required. AND masks are not required in lobbies and common areas.…
Marie Snyder
Capitalism’s Effect on Bird Flu
If you think Covid is bad (or even if you don't), if H5N1 starts passing from human to human, it could be worse. It's not just about the virus's effect…
Leafs are Falling
There's a lovely man that works where I rent a car to go camping in the summer. When I walk in with my N95 in place, he starts wiping the…
Long Covid Resources
Three -- SIX Covid resources to bookmark. This Educational Toolkit for Long Covid has a series of videos explaining Long Covid in children, how to return to school safely, the…
Masks or Longterm Illness in Children – It Shouldn’t be a Difficult Decision
Sara Novak recently wrote about the study that found 20% of children have Long Covid, aka PASC (Post Acute Sequelae of Covid) that I discussed in August, but Novak brought…
On Burnout: "Can" is the New "Should"
I started reading about burnout when I walked away from teaching earlier than expected. Suddenly, I couldn't bring myself to open that door after over thirty years of bounding to…
We Can Prevent Chronic Illness in Children, But It’s Kinda Inconvenient
Another NEW study shows, yet again, that SARS-CoV-2 is harmful to kids. Who knew?!?This was a three-year study that followed 1319 children after a first infection. Almost all of the…
Predictable, Incurable, Disabling, Fatal, and PREVENTABLE
It's still here. It's still dangerous. We have the ability to stop it, but we can't wait to be told to because that's just not happening. Andrew Nikiforuk wrote in…
Pitting Health Against Education as We Debilitate a Generation
Covid is definitely causing a variety of longterm illnesses and public health still can't manage an effective PSA that undoes damage caused by their previous misinformation: teaching people how easily…
Why Novavax: Choosing the Tortoise Over the Hare
Dr. Michael Lin explains what makes Novavax different from mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines. It's not in block quotes because this is all from him. It's comprehensive, but…
Aim in the Right Direction
A Tiktoker, amylynn79, explained why she's not masking despite being very sick with Covid. She has few followers on that site (maybe because it's 9 minutes of rambling), but clips…
Appropriate Fear and Respect
We teach our children to have a "healthy fear" of the water, to respect that it's possible to drown in the shallows or to hit our head on a rock…
Costs of Disability
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the guy who told the Senate Hearing that the burden Long Covid is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease, wrote a brief explainer…
Back to School in a Wave
This is the first September that I'm not going to school as a teacher OR a student since I was 4 years old (not counting maternity leaves for all my…
Canadian Public Health Has Spoken
Apparently we're all in with Pfizer and Moderna despite Novavax providing significantly better protection and fewer risks.Trudeau claimed to want Canada to be a producer of Novavax back in 2020,…
Avoiding an MPOX on All Our Houses
The WHO has declared an international Public Health Emergency for a more lethal version of Monkeypox, now called mpox, which is clade 1b, aka 1 MPXV, and comes with a…
Worst Scenario for a School Start Yet
In the fall of 2020 and 2021, we had masks, even if some were a poor fit or made of cloth. Now we have zero mitigations. School is starting soon…
Covid Olympics
It's the pinnacle of denialism and such a waste of talent to have top athletes practice for decades of their lives for this one event, then put them together with…
Embracing Fallibility
Many of us live in a punitive, carceral type of society that can make it difficult to have compassion for ourselves or others. It's an era of the glorification of…
Fudging the Numbers for Calm Mongering
Leading causes of death have changed over the past four years. In the States, Covid slipped from 3rd to 10th place. Or did it? The numbers are from this study…