Breakthrough describes Covid infections among the fully vaccinated. It’s our new reality. In the United States, so-called breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated — were less common before Omicron,…
By now most of us are aware of atmospheric rivers that usually take the form of a rapid succession of deluges that can cause flash flooding and widespread devastation of…
The British Columbia government’s Covid update page has some powerful data. To date, 89.2 per cent of eligible adults have received two vaccine shots. 16 per cent also have had…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dr. Katharine Smart highlights the crucial choices which need to be made to avoid a calamitous fifth COVID-19 wave, while Chelsea Nash…
Do you think you can stand another three years of Covid? Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) on Friday forecast that the COVID-19 pandemic would not be behind us until 2024 and said…
Three retired US generals have taken to the Washington Post warning of a potential coup in 2024. A number of today’s serving generals, they fear, could go rogue. The signs…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Bush discusses how the latest wave of COVID-19 would have been entirely avoidable if we hadn’t allowed corporate interests to suppress vaccine…
It’s a Covid Rogues Gallery. Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Montana. All of those states have banned or blocked vaccine mandates.…
The Atlantic has an article “Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross.” It’s about the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, and the mysterious appearance of something called “sea snot.” Marmara…
They’ve been around for years. Some of them might be your neighbours, colleagues perhaps even friends. However it took a pandemic to bring many of them out of the closet…
Flight Facilities feat. Broods – Forever
I had forgotten all about Alpha. It turns out there are three Covid variants – Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. The bad news is that some people may contract more than…
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted…
Several years ago the climate department at the University of Hawaii released a paper warning of a phenomenon they called “climate departure” that would begin to set in during the…
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt reports on the recognition among scientists around the globe that the Omicron COVID variant is almost certain to precipitate another major…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
Times columnist Thomas Edsall writes that the United States may have parted company with democracy – for good. I think, at some level, most of us already realize this. Political…
It’s funny how much good information can be gleaned from the London Review of Books. Cape Town resident, Rosa Lyster, has penned an essay about the fresh water crisis she…
By now we should be old hands at dealing with Covid. We’ve lived through the ebb and flow of what, four waves now, maybe five? We play the odds. It…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Lipsitch et al. examine the current state of knowledge about COVID breakthrough infections and the public health measures still needed to avoid…
