Protect Your Neurons from Nimbus!
The latest Covid variant has the same name as a big looming rain cloud. The more we let Covid spread, the more it will continue to mutate, and this one…
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New Covid Strain Causing Razor Blade Throat
Several news venues have been reporting on Covid in the last few days. An ABC News headline says: "Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from…
New Covid Strain Causing Razor Blade Throat
Several news venues have been reporting on Covid in the last few days. An ABC News headline says: "Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from…
Dancing with Viruses
There are several measles cases in Waterloo Region. As of last week there were currently over 60 cases in nearby Wellington/Guelph, and over 1,300 in Ontario since October.Measles is like…
Dancing with Viruses
There are several measles cases in Waterloo Region. As of last week there were currently over 60 cases in nearby Wellington/Guelph, and over 1,300 in Ontario since October.Measles is like…
COVID Brain Is For Kids Too
It was a colossally bad idea to let every person catch COVID-19, as it is shown to have an impact on intelligence by infecting the brain. There are still publications…
The Rise of Unreason
The Ontario Health Coalition put out a press release a couple weeks ago about the sharp increase in people infected with measles here. There were 816 cases from October 2024…
The Rise of Unreason
The Ontario Health Coalition put out a press release a couple weeks ago about the sharp increase in people infected with measles here. There were 816 cases from October 2024…
Public Health Needs to be Independent
David Fisman posted a thread yesterday about problems when big money gets involved in public health."During Covid, I experienced firsthand how political pressure twisted science—and nearly destroyed reputations. A short…
Over Five Years of Covid
David Wallace-Wells has a piece in the New York Times about hitting the five-year mark with Covid (although it started in 2019, and the first case in the US was…
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Sick??
Some people are working hard to believe this level of illness, getting sick several times each year, has always been the case. The latest bizarre reason I've heard for all…
Danielle Smith, defiant and unrepentant, blows off criticism of her government’s dubious COVID-19 report
Alberta premier Danielle Smith, defiant and unrepentant, continues to slough off criticism of the report on Alberta’s COVID-19 response produced by her government’s a handpicked panel of vaccine skeptical and…
Its addled report assailed by expert critics, UCP COVID ‘task force’ quickly descends into a task farce
As predicted on Friday, it didn’t take long for the debunking of the conspiracy-theory-riddled final report of the United Conservative Party Government’s so-called task force on Alberta’s response to the…
Alberta government ‘task force’ report on response to COVID-19 calls for vaccine use to be halted, pumps quack cures and conspiracy theories
Hours after U.S. government health agencies’ websites began to go dark as part of President Donald Trump’s opening attack on public health in the United States, the Alberta government yesterday…
Norms are for Breaking
Anonymous is urging me to move on away from precautions and towards prior norms of society in a string of comments on a previous post. I had too much to…
Still with the Immunity Debt Claims?
Two competing claims were made in the past few days on whether Long Covid should be a concern for parents of children or if children actually develop greater immunity from…
We’re Not Invincible
If an attractive person flirted with you, but then mentioned, just by the way, "I've been sexually active with someone with chlamydia, but don't worry because I don't have any…
Suppression is the Goal: A Final Covid Plea for 2024
We've survived 2024, but excess mortality compared to pre-pandemic rates is quite high for young adults (18-44), and in school-aged kids, it continues to increase year over year, with 2024…
Spike Proteins Sticking Around
Yet another study indicates the brain is negatively affected by Covid, yet we're still okay with children getting it repeatedly. Ali Max Erturk explained his recent study published in Cell…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jo Lauder, Tyne Logan, Fran Rimrod, Alex Lim and Stacy Gougoulis discuss how a largely-forgotten 2009 heat wave is the deadliest natural disaster…