Ethics of Risk Taking
If you were having a lot of sex with various people -- or even if you just had a quickie with one person without any protection, then having unprotected sex…
AIDS
Y’all Masking: The Solidarity in Safety
It's taken off so much, it's making Twitter almost unusable for anything else. Picture after picture after picture of people wearing masks in their daily life. At first it was…
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
Professor Akiko Iwasaki and team just put out a pivotal paper showing that "passive transfer of IgG from patients with Long Covid into mice recapitulates increased pain and other symptoms."…
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
Professor Akiko Iwasaki and team just put out a pivotal paper showing that "passive transfer of IgG from patients with Long Covid into mice recapitulates increased pain and other symptoms."…
One Step Forward…
More good news about antivirals. From Nate Bear: People are experiencing, “almost complete Long Covid recovery with the use of an HIV antiretroviral . There is obviously viral persistence in…
Still Not a Cold
Some find the term “airborne AIDS” offensive, but we can’t deny the similarities. After writing here every day since August 1st, I actually got distracted enough trying to barrel through…
It’s Airborne, and It Can Cause an Immune Deficiency
Let’s look at the claim that Covid should not be compared to AIDS or referred to as “Airborne AIDS”. One concern about comparing the two is that it makes Covid…
A Genius of a Virus
We’re starting to see more effects of Covid. Yesterday, biorisk consultant Conor Browne wrote about something many have been screaming into the void for some time now: “A core part…
For all the Fierce Raindrops: Lessons that Should Have Been Learned
Changing minds on big issues takes a long time and the work never ends. Anti-drinking and driving groups appeared in the early 1980s, like MADD, typically made up of survivors…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Minimize Disease to Maximize Trade
We know lots of official agencies and many governments are currently promoting hand washing but not masks, or they put wear a mask if you choose to at the very…
Friday #skvotes Links
While advance voting continues to shatter Saskatchewan’s previous records, there’s plenty of new information for people still making their decision. – Julia Peterson reports on Elections Saskatchewan’s warning that the…
Glen and the Greens
I first took note of Glen Murray when he was mayor of Winnipeg. I was active in my community in inner city Calgary and Murray seemed to share my sense…
Episode 31: Game on. Week 1 of Alberta’s 2019 Election.
Alberta’s provincial election has been called and Albertans will be going to the polls on April 16. For the duration of the campaign, we’re going to be recording a new…
Has Jason Kenney Evolved?
The Up Series is an amazing documentary that follows the lives of 14 British children over five decades. The children were interviewed every seven years starting in 1964 when they…
The Pathetic Non Apology Of The Homophobic Bigot Jason Kenney
It takes a certain kind of religious fanatic who would work hard to prevent gay people from visiting their dying lovers in hospital.It takes a monster to brag about it.But…