The Central Error of the Pandemic
Dr. Satoshi Akima, who does internal medicine in Australia, has a great post up about the economic reasons for ignoring the pandemic. First, a bit of context to consider from…
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Nothing New
Studies coming out now keep repeating what we already know. Covid was at first thought to be a respiratory illness, but we know it makes its home in the bloodstream…
Compassion Challenge
One of my favourite short stories is Tolstoy’s “The Godson.” It’s the story I revisit whenever I find myself thinking that this whole world has turned a wrong corner. I’ve…
Inaccessible Accessibility
Why is remote learning suddenly so difficult to access when we have all the tech we need to pull it off? When I was in grade 12, I started to…
Yup, It’s Still Airborne
The much publicized 60 Minutes episode on Covid ran last night. Lots of accolades on social media, but I wasn’t impressed. We’re just happy for scraps at this point. The…
Covid Affects Children! Who Knew??
It’s big news suddenly that Covid causes longterm damage to blood vessels in kids. This was known back in December 2020. Nothing has been suddenly revealed. I’ve been saying that…
Politicization of Masks
If political leaders on the left feel like they can’t talk about the importance of N95s to prevent viruses, then points go to the far right, who started this anti-mask…
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…
N95s Should Be the Default
Lots of chatter about this New South Wales comms hit and miss: From Dr. David Berger, “As the ninth Covid wave grows, NSW Health doesn’t say ‘wear masks’. It says,…
Covid at Work
We know Covid is costing employers time and money from absences. You’d think they’d actually want to prevent it to avoid lawsuits too! h/t Hayley for these quotes pulled from…
Covid is Weakening Us as a Species
Yesterday I wrote about the probability of Long Covid sweeping through our civilization over the next five years. This post looks at how it presents in individuals: Infections rates are…
The Odds are Not EVER in Our Favour These Days!
You either control a pandemic, or you let it control you. – Professor John Edmunds. The CDC’s estimate that 20% of infections will become Long Covid. Let’s do some math!!…
Pet Lovers Revolt!
For all the dog lovers out there, especially, there’s some bad news: A recent study found that Covid definitely does infect dogs and affects their neural processing (their brain)! “We…
Improving Air Quality for Children Act
Our children are mandated to be in school. It should also be mandated that the building have clean air for children to breathe! Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa-West and Nepean,…
Memes Saved the Lives of Anti-Vaxxers
COVID brought forth more than just a disease of the body, it also raised the profile of anti vaxxers so much so that they shut down Canada’s capital for weeks…
Of Course It’s Airborne and We Should All Be in N95s
Just saving these here for posterity. Check out this whole thread of documents found on originsearch; there’s tons more in the thread, but I have no idea why or how…
The Big Lie of Covid Herd Immunity
Why do some healthcare professionals still insist that herd immunity will work despite visual evidence to the contrary? A nicely explainer came out in Journal of Infectious Diseases March 2022:…
If It Can’t Possibly be Both, then Either Give us Masks OR Accommodations
If masks are a choice, then shouldn’t being protected from a virus also be a choice?? The freedom to go maskless is butting up against the freedom from getting infected,…
Trapped by our Insouciance
George Monbiot’s article today is the perfect rant for our times. It’s pretty much what I’ve been screaming into the void for the past while, but, thankfully, he has a…
It’s Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Even More Worse
Times are dark. Try to find moments of calm and humour to get you through the day. Covid is out of control. It’s nothing new, but more and more are…