Covid is Still Here (likely worse in fall), and Masks Still Work
Jeff Gilchrist summarized the results of a recent study on mask mandates: “Over only a six week period in 2022, during a period of sustained respiratory viral activity in Ottawa,…
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Sinead O’Connor’s Fight to Bring Truth to Light
The very first CD I ever got was a gift from a boyfriend after he bought us our very first CD player: He woke me up one morning back in…
BMJ: The World Expected More of Canada
The British Medical Journal is a highly credible journal with a focus on improving health worldwide, and they’re calling out Canada in a series of articles by Canadian experts in…
A Microcosm of Arguments
This thread of comments of how Covid is affecting younger people encapsulates many of the attitudes affecting the people most affected – and general ableism. I used pseudonyms, and I’m…
Covid’s Effects on Lymphocytes
A bit more on Cov-AIDS from Daniel Brittain Dugger because people need to be aware of the similarities between these diseases to, just maybe, provoke them to do everything they…
The Deadly Destruction of the Innocents
This is courtesy of Maarten De Cock (and G.B. Morrison). People have been lamenting the air quality in schools and knew how to prevent transmission of viruses since at least…
Intersecting Crises: The Winning Mindset
An article from a year ago came my way, about how the super-rich ‘preppers’ are planning to save themselves from the apocalypse. Douglas Rushkoff was hired by some über rich…
Could This Be You?
So, you’re at the grocery store on Saturday morning, in the check-out line, and perusing the gossipy mags and debating a chocolate bar, and the air you exhale is quietly…
Cognitive Decline in Children
Tern highlighted a few key points from a new study in Nature about the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2. This is all from them, so I just put the parts from…
That interim report of the Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel? Nothing to see here, folks
Having promised back in January that an interim report of the COVID-19 review panel for which former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning was to be paid $235,000 would be handed…
NRPI – No Real Person Involved
In Ontario right now, “Hospital backlogs in pediatric care could affect children’s health for the rest of their lives. Two-thirds of pediatric patients in need of surgery at two of…
Undarkened Generations and Pizza Dip
A bit from Alvin Foo, a “Venture Partner,” whatever that is. But it’s good summary of our times. It’s been said before, but maybe needs to be heard again: “Imagine…
Precautions Still Make Sense
The National Post, a mainstream paper even, has a great article about why people are still wearing masks. Has the tide of media silence around Covid precautions turned?? “With three…
Covid or Cov-AIDS??
I wrote about concerns about the similarity between SARS-2 and AIDS back in November: Here’s info on Covid causing lymphopenia (aka lymphocytopenia), the reduction of B, T, and NK cells…
Deena Hinshaw can’t be called a hero, but she is a victim of vindictive UCP retribution for things she did right
The enemy of mine enemy is my friend and all that, but it’s not clear that supporters of sound public health policy are on the right track if they decide…
We’re Back to Rhetoric of Welfare Cheaters
An old one, but the agenda still fits! According to Queen’s Park reporter Jack Hauen, on Monday Premier Ford said: “What drives me crazy, is people on Ontario Works–probably 3,400,000–that…
On the Importance of Solidarity with the Covid Cautious
This is all from Conor Browne following a bit of in-fighting online: I consider the unmitigated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to be the single most important risk facing humanity. Climate change…
It’s Hard to Emigrate to New Zealand. I Checked
This one minute video is the type of thing the government of New Zealand posts: a virologist explaining that every Covid infection significantly increases the risk of getting diabetes, mental…
On Debating Science
Dr. Peter Hotez is a medical doctor in Texas who did his undergrad at Yale and his medical degree at Cornell. He has been successful at creating Covid vaccine technology…
A Laughing Matter
I got laughed at in the grocery store today. That hasn’t happened in a while. Cases of hospitalizations/day are at their lowest since December 2021 right now, which is fantastic,…