On Finding Answers in Research
I recently posted, on social media, a list of studies showing the effectiveness of masks and of mandates. One commenter said he doesn’t trust studies because they could be biased,…
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A Useful Crisis
I’m a big movie buff, and I used to love watching meaty psychological thrillers and films with evil people murdering one another. No Country for Old Men is one of…
Strap One On For Safety!
I wrote about the almost total absence of PSAs around using masks to prevent transmission of a virus that, in some areas, kills ten times as often as traffic collisions,…
Who Benefits?
Some time ago, I read an excellent book by Michael Lewis called The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. In it, the author follows a group of dedicated researchers and a public…
Covid-Free Schools are Possible!
A school in Texas has been 100% Covid-free with zero learning loss. They used good masks indoors (N95 or better) with no ‘mask breaks.’ Everyone eats outdoors even in the…
Whoever decided to pay Deena Hinshaw a 63% COVID bonus did no favours for the former cabinet ministers running to replace Jason Kenney
Who made the decision to give Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s already controversial chief medical officer of health, that eye-popping $227,911 cash bonus for 2021? It was not a good announcement for…
Why didn’t the UCP toot its own horn about COVID shots for toddlers? Because anti-vaxxers are calling the shots!
Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to get your children under five years of age vaccinated against COVID-19. Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). This is good news by…
Masked and Vaxed in School
Q. Do you support bringing back masks mandates for schools, defying provincial orders, if necessary? Do you support your board demanding that the province add vaccination for Covid to the…
UCP appoints lawyer who wrote favourable review of book denigrating Islam to lead Human Rights Commission
Notwithstanding serious concerns raised about Collin May’s past praise for a tendentious book denigrating the Islamic faith, the United Conservative Party Government proceeded on Thursday with his controversial appointment as…
A Plague of Willful Incompetence
This The Tyee article, “Get Ready for the Forever Plague,” by Andrew Nikiforuk, hits all the important notes about our ongoing pandemic. He says that we’re dealing with a “plague…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #33
As I sat down to write this, I searched for the last “things i heard at the library” post, to get the number. Amazingly, today’s post turns out to be…
Covid and Climate Change: Similar Rationalizations, Different Intensity
I was searching through YouTube looking for things to include in my career retrospective, mainly looking for a clip of an old CKCO show, What’s Your Point/The Final Round, from…
Open Letter to Universities Removing Mask Mandates
Open Letter to Dr. Deborah MacLatchy, PhD, President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, president@wlu.ca, and Dr. Vivek Goel, CM, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, president@uwaterloo.ca RE:…
And on to LongCovid
Masks are all but gone in my neck of the woods. A couple stores have employees that wear them, but not many, and then very few customers do. The people…
Alberta pulls plug on efforts to control COVID-19; Rajan Sawhney quits cabinet, joins race to replace Jason Kenney
One minute before midnight tonight, the United Conservative Party Government will pull the plug on all public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, even as the disease…
Plague Update: PM Trudeau Has COVID-19 Again
The PM got COVID by going to the Americas summit in the USA recently. I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay,…
Who Was That Masked Man?
As of yesterday, June 11, here in Ontario our newfound ‘freedom’ from masks is almost total, with the exception of LTC and retirement homes. Those who wish to continue requiring…
Klondike Papers
I’m just getting my head around it all here. But I’ve watched lots of videos and read lots of threads, and here’s what seems to be happening in as brief…
On Masks and Narcissism
I was reading a random woman’s social media feed as she was considering that an increase in narcissism might be to blame for masking issues, and I nodded along to…
So, Where are We Headed?
I knew what he was going to say as soon as we made eye contact. A bearded shit-eating grin in a pickup-truck stopped at a light while I cycled across…