Back to Basics: A Reminder of How It All Works
What Covid is and how it spreads: It’s a virus that mutates very quickly inside “host” bodies (that’s us if we get it). It can seem respiratory, but it’s actual…
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There is No Cure for Covid Except Maybe MAiD
Dr. Rae Duncan is a cardiologist who, pre-pandemic, mainly saw people aged 55-80. Now most of her clients are 16-40. They were previously healthy, but Long Covid affected their heart.…
Why Take the Risk?
If you read my blog and still don’t take Covid precautions, why not? Justin Lee posted a list of his guesses of what people might be feeling when he asks…
Social Darwinism and "Useless Eaters"
Some people are arguing that the removal of mask mandates in hospitals is a form of eugenics. Tamara Taggart, President of Down Syndrome BC, said on “This is Vancolour,” “This…
Plague Update: What Victims Look Forward To
If you’re not among the millions killed outright by a SARS-CoV2 infection, your arteries have been stiffened. From a video by Dr. Rae Duncan at Newcastle University: 18/ Dr Duncan…
Forced Exposure in Hospitals
If you’re feeling unwell, McMaster is advising you to NOT go to a hospital because they no longer require masks there, and they don’t want people in there spreading their…
Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's…
At What Point is Inaction a Form of Eugenics??
This impressive and prescient thread worthy of saving is from Miles W. Griffis. He interweaves a speech from Vito Russo, AIDS activist, back and forth with current headlines on Covid-19…
‘National Citizen’s Inquiry’ into COVID-19 objects to TikTok ban; meanwhile, Alberta’s official version of the same thing is doing something
The so-called “National Citizens Inquiry” established last fall by Preston Manning complained on Easter Sunday that TikTok has joined YouTube in suspending its account, presumably for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.…
We’re Not Ready for This
I’m waiting to write my last exam of the term. It’s supposed to open at 8:00, and we have 90 minutes to write it, online, multiple choice, open book. I…
Age of Absurdity
We’re skipping gleefully into the most absurd period in history. The philosophical notion of the absurd came from Camus. It grew legs with existentialists after WWII when the youngest and…
Subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government
I’ve written a book chapter on subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government. My ‘top 5’ overview of the chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/subsidized-rental-housing-and-homelessness-under-albertas-first-ucp-government/
Dear Premier COVID with the pants on fire
Dear Premier: The Government of Saskatchewan’s decision to end masking requirements in Saskatchewan Health Authority facilities is a very poor policy change. Many of these facilities are serving the most…
Looking for the Enlightened
The season finale of The Last of Us sets up a great deontological v. teleological conundrum with the big question (tiny spoiler), which ends up being an episode-long trolley problem:…
Liquid Life and the Myth of Government Protection
Liquid life is a concept some Buddhist cultures had of the young and old, typically those under 6 and over 70, whose lives weren’t seen as quite solid due to…
Where We’re At: It’s Still Here!
Several people have been screaming into the void about how Covid works, how bad it is, and what we need to do to stop it now that we’re dealing with…
Premier threatens CBC for reporting her own words in phone conversation with anti-vaxx pastor facing criminal charges
It may not be Lake of Fire 2.0, but you wouldn’t think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s blustering response yesterday to the CBC’s release of a recording of her telling an…
Being Athletic as a Pre-existing Condition of Long Covid
Novelist Alisa Lynn Valdés connected the dots between her personal observation that athletes are getting Long Covid (LC) more often than sedentary people and capillarization. The number of small blood…
International Long Covid Awareness Day
Now we have a delegated day, today, to remind the world of the number of people who have lost their lives or livelihoods to this ever-mutating virus. Worldwide, about 1…
Alberta in 2023: COVID, Conservatives, and the plan to make the energy rollercoaster even scarier
“Conservative” governments never like to let a crisis go to waste. Dr. John Cowell, sole administrator of Alberta Health Services (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Hence the concept of “disaster capitalism,” which…