Costs of Disability
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the guy who told the Senate Hearing that the burden Long Covid is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease, wrote a brief explainer…
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Back to School in a Wave
This is the first September that I'm not going to school as a teacher OR a student since I was 4 years old (not counting maternity leaves for all my…
Canadian Public Health Has Spoken
Apparently we're all in with Pfizer and Moderna despite Novavax providing significantly better protection and fewer risks.Trudeau claimed to want Canada to be a producer of Novavax back in 2020,…
Worst Scenario for a School Start Yet
In the fall of 2020 and 2021, we had masks, even if some were a poor fit or made of cloth. Now we have zero mitigations. School is starting soon…
Covid Olympics
It's the pinnacle of denialism and such a waste of talent to have top athletes practice for decades of their lives for this one event, then put them together with…
Alberta Health Services letters tell COVID-19 long-haulers specialized long-COVID clinics are being shut down
It’s not hard to connect the dots between the anti-vaccine extremists including Premier Danielle Smith who now dominate Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the admission by a beleaguered Alberta Health…
Fudging the Numbers for Calm Mongering
Leading causes of death have changed over the past four years. In the States, Covid slipped from 3rd to 10th place. Or did it? The numbers are from this study…
Plague Update: Goin’ Grate
Olympians thrown into the meat grater. Grinder? Whatever. Many of them are despicable, and amoral; willing participants in the senseless slaughter. Athletes and coaches who have confirmed infections are not…
Did an anti-vaxx MLA just suggest the UCP is about to ban COVID-19 vaccines? Or what?
A video clip of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard musing about the future of COVID-19 vaccinations on an anti-vaxx video podcast stirred up a storm on social media yesterday among commenters…
In Need of a Church of the Covid Informed
This is just bananas, but another county in NY State banned masks. From this article, "Nassau lawmakers on Monday approved a bill making it a misdemeanor--punishable by up to $1,000…
The Psychology of Diving into Polluted Water
We need external organizations to monitor for safety without any conflicts of interest! And we need to stop throwing people into dangerous situations as if human beings are expendable, expecting…
Who Can We Blame for All of This??
I totally understand the feeling of being out for blood right now about the number of children who are likely to get sick in our public schools this fall, some…
Danielle Smith tells Calgary UCP ‘town hall’ that 94% of Alberta parents are not having their kids vaccinated against COVID
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, only a small minority of Alberta parents are now agreeing to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19, while the vast majority are not. This…
Suffering from Premature Emaskulation?
You don't have to be an athlete or movie star to care about your health. You, too, can wear an N95 to keep viruses out of your body. This latest…
It’s World Brain Day!
The WHO announced it on twitter with a list of things to do for a health brain: be active, eat well, sleep well, stimulate your mind, look after your heart,…
Where There’s Money, There’s Masks
"They only insist on unmasking you and your kids because you are not valued by the powers that be. Be smarter and mask up" (from Dr. Spela Salamon)On film and…
Unmasking the Real Villain
The Tour de France is now mandating masks after several riders got Covid and had to leave the race. But so many other reports of people getting physically sick still…
Covering Up a Pandemic
Earlier today, Salvatore Mattera wrote this piece about the media silence -- or censorship -- around Covid. Otherwise known as propaganda by omission. This rest of this post is entirely…
Ethics of Risk Taking
If you were having a lot of sex with various people -- or even if you just had a quickie with one person without any protection, then having unprotected sex…
Y’all Masking: The Solidarity in Safety
It's taken off so much, it's making Twitter almost unusable for anything else. Picture after picture after picture of people wearing masks in their daily life. At first it was…