A United Conservative Party backbencher caught up in the Alohagate pandemic travel scandal in the first hours of 2021 and seldom seen in his own riding has acknowledged reality and…
I think masks separate us like the families in Tolstoy’s famous opening line of Anna Karenina. You know the one: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy…
I watched this livestream tonight: an interview and Q&A with Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (EFD), an U.S. epidemiologist who broke the news that the CDC knew XBB.1.5. was a variant of…
I don’t read much fiction, but I loved John Wyndham as a teen, and I realize I didn’t love English class because there was almost never any sci-fi on offer…
I don’t normally do a year in review, but his was my most tumultuous year in decades. It’s right up there with the year I dropped out of high school…
A recent New Yorker article warns about a “ragtag coalition of public-health activists” who want us to wear masks forever! And then the New York Times published an article about…
It has been said that a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. By that metric, we are all coming up far short. Although I have…
I started posting other people’s twitter threads in part because twitter was (is) threatening to self-destruct, but also because there are some incredible gems that could disappear into the ether…
SARS #1 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was a deadly coronavirus that hit Canada in February of 2003. It started in China in November 2002 then entered Toronto in a traveller…
This excellent thread is from Barry Hunt: Canada only reports a handful of cases even though cases are 10 times to 100 times higher this year than last year. We…
A school board in Winnipeg passed a motion to strongly recommend masking at school to protect from SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses currently affecting kids. Many of the comments on that…
There’s a cartoon showing how many people still think that COVID-19 is just like chicken pox, and you aren’t likely to get a symptomatic infection another time while healthy, so…
There’s some shock and outrage that I’d suggest encouraging masks in class to curb the spread of the three-plus viruses inundating pediatric wards in hospitals right now. Some have accused…
When then municipal affairs minister Tracy Allard was busted by media when she returned from a mid-pandemic Hawaiian vacation at the end 2020, it was billed the first United Conservative…
Let’s have a look at that article by Elizabeth Payne that highlights a mishmash of comments from Our Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore: “Ontario’s chief medical officer…
A few parents are upset that I’m trying to “bring back masks” in schools. Some have threatened to take their kids out of our board if we force masks on…
I watched a great webinar from OHCOW (Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers) on, in the first half, Covid and ventilation, specifically in congregated settings, with Amy Katz, a knowledge…
I’ve been inundated lately with pictures from the sides of mask boxes that say something like this: I could return volley with this, from the side of my 3M Aura…
RevivalCare‘s erudite answer on Twitter to Breakfast Television’s question: What do you think the federal government should do to help alleviate the current healthcare crisis? Provide free universal N95s to…
Here’s a run-down of presenting a motion to request that students masks if they can, two weeks ago, and the final motion that was passed last night. It’s been picked…
