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…
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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,…
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,…
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…