Are Safer Schools Possible When it’s Not in the Rules?
I’ve been retired a year. Sometimes it feels like the last three decades were just a fever dream and I’ve always been a student, particularly since I’m back at the…
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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…
Take a Mask, Leave a Mask
Donate a Mask is an amazing group that helps get masks in people’s hands who couldn’t otherwise afford them. They’re helped immensely when others buy from them to offset the…
Sleeker and Even Quieter: PC Case Fan Filtration Box
It’s like a Corsi-Rosenthal box, but instead of being a square with a 20″ box fan, it can be built with six PC case fans (typically used to cool a…
Today is last day on job for AHS VP Deb Gordon, highest-ranking woman in the province-wide health agency
On Aug. 18, Alberta Health Services President and CEO Mauro Chies sent a memorandum to the province-wide public health care agency’s senior managers telling them that the highest ranking woman…
The Science of Handwashing
I just watched Painkiiller about the Purdue Pharma, Sacklers, oxycontin scandal. It’s okay background viewing – less entertaining if you know the whole story already – except the occasional testimonials…
Over 90,000 Canadian Deaths and Counting
A JAMA article called out 52 medical health professionals who knowingly posted misinformation on social media. About a third of them are primary care physicians. It doesn’t name any names,…
Pan-Variant Vaccines on the Horizon
Epidemiologist prof Raywat Deonandan said, “Whenever I encourage people to mask in crowded indoor settings, I get the same pushback: ‘Do we have to do this for the rest of…
The System of Ableism Can Be Weaponized Against Anyone
Imani Barbarin is a wealth of information and so funny! If you’re new new to TikTok, and you think it’s all just dumb trends like eating Tide pods, Crutches &…
Glop & Pail: More People Are Dying Than We Care To Account For
More People Than Expected Are Dying In 2023 For Reasons That We Are Unwilling To Consider. pic.twitter.com/BGwBySR7AK — The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) August 16, 2023 An anti-waxxer would read that headline…
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…
The Problem with Asymptomatic Cases
“The World Health Organization (WHO) weekly update on the global Covid-19 pandemic found that in the last four weeks, there was an 80% rise in infections.” This article, published yesterday,…
Eris, Fornax, and a Hopeful Petition
There’s a Canadian petition circulating that acknowledges that vaccinations don’t completely eliminate the danger of Covid, and Covid continues to put a unsustainable strain on health care, so they’re asking…
What if We All Masked Just for One Month??
A virus needs a host in order to exist for more than a couple hours. It needs us in order to grow and mutate. If we stop hosting this unwanted…
Get Vaccinated this Fall!!
According to T. Ryan Gregory (the guy who named the Kraken variant), we should all get the new vaccination this fall. “Yes, the updated Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax monovalent boosters…
Unspent Billions Exacerbating our Healthcare Crisis
From MPP Catherine Fife: “Ontario’s Budget Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as…
Cleaning Air
When the air quality was particularly bad from the smoke from so many fires, my son decided it would be a great time to fry up some burgers on the…
Cabinet was ignoring the law when it ordered Dr. Hinshaw around during the pandemic! Who knew?
You can blame Jason Kenney, principal author of the United Conservative Government’s clown-show response to COVID-19, if Alberta’s many pandemic scofflaws manage to wiggle off the hook for their violations…
Covid on the Brain
Listen to me try to say all the big words in an 8 minute recording: It’s curious how many are completely unaware that Covid is a brain-invasive disease. It’s the…
Measuring Risk in the Woods
I was up north, camping, and started chatting to neighbours. I had a mask in my pocket, but thought it would be fine to just have a brief conversation together,…