Erosion of Public Health
You would think that after dealing with Covid for over FOUR years that Public Health would be amazing at stopping Measles in its tracks, unless maybe they’ve been directed otherwise.…
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Maybe Concern with Measles will Save us from Covid!!
A thread on how to stay safe from measles and two on why you should keep testing for Covid. The first, on measles, from Jeff Gilchrist (I didn’t block quote…
Avoiding Pathogens Benefits Babies
My mom was right after all: We really should do everything we can to keep babies from getting sick. When I was close to the due date of my first…
No Going Back
Conflict, climate, and covid are showing us the worst of ourselves, but it might be what we need to find our collective humanity. Tiberius wrote: “The old world is no…
Willful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan explains the term and the CDC provides a great example of it! Heffernan lectures to MBA classes and runs a few businesses and such, so she’s not someone…
Permitting Preventable Suffering in Children
Recent studies still show that Covid is serious, particularly in children, and that masks and filtering the air in schools can dramatically reduce the spread. Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic…
Covid Info for Therapists
Many people are seeking out therapists to help them with the mental health issues that are a result of Long Covid. Some of their experiences have been horrific. I’ve written…
Two Steps Forward…
It’s amazing to get so far in our scientific advances, only to have it tossed aside by misinformation. A Daily Mail article explained the conclusion of a study that, “They…
Plague Update: Exploding Measles Threat
No, the latest measles don’t make you explode, I meant the threat is rising thanks to anti-waxxer ignorance spreading across the globe. And war, that’s infamously good at helping disease…
Infection Control Measures Work
A Lancet study found that there’s little Covid transmission in schools WHEN infection control measures were in place. Since we stopped all mitigation efforts, hospitalizations for Covid in Ontario have…
Still Not a Cold
Some find the term “airborne AIDS” offensive, but we can’t deny the similarities. After writing here every day since August 1st, I actually got distracted enough trying to barrel through…
The Motivating Annoyance of Willful Ignorance
I’ve been thinking about my old students today as I read the news. I taught about the Israeli occupation in Palestine for a good 20 years, under the media bias…
Your Brain on Covid
Long Covid is causing brain injuries, getting into bone marrow, and many hospitals still don’t use N95s. A study in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience last week…
On Normal and Nihilism
We like to think we’ve returned to normal, but Covid and climate change will become more and more of a challenge to ignore. Biorisk consultant Conor Browne responded to a…
What Makes It Worth the Risk?
We’re burning the candle from both ends. Is the light worth it? We take lots of risks in life. On a grand scale, everything we do involves some risk, especially…
Multifaceted Long Covid is Like the Lernaean Hydra
A huge complication of Covid is that it affects so many different parts of the body. We can’t kill it, but we can prevent it from getting in. On Wednesday,…
Plague Update: SARS1 2009 News, Viewed from 2022
How many mental health problems seen since the pandemic started are actually blamed on changes in the brains of people infected, and not on some scapegoat like quarantines that kept…
Mask Up for Measles!!
The WHO put out this reminder about measles, which is hitting Europe and the UK hard and starting to be seen more in Canada too: I re-did it to bring…
It’s a Virus that’s Here to Stay
Why don’t we notice all the people getting sick or being disable or dying from Covid? A couple years ago, I wrote about being harassed for wearing a mask on…
Dr. Duncan’s Interview on Long Covid
Dr. Rae Duncan, a consultant cardiologist, explained concerns with Long Covid: The interview is just 13 minutes, but here’s the gist of it below, just a little cleaned up and…