Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The editorial boards of the Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix discuss the individual math which makes the case for vaccination compelling – though it’s worth…
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who else turned 60 this year: celebrating the bc ndp
The great Tommy Douglaswas an MP for a BC riding in the 1960s. I recently learned that the BC NDP — the party I vote for, the party that currently…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lauren Pelley reports on the certainty that Canada is facing a fourth major wave of COVID-19 even as right-wing governments try to proclaim…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain discuss the IPCC’s latest report confirming that some climate degradation is inevitable – but that we face…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Erika Edwards reports on a push from U.S. pediatricians to speed up the development and distribution of COVID vaccines for children due…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Brooks Fallis highlights why a strategy limited to vaccines won’t stop a fourth wave of COVID-19. The CP reports on the call…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Anthes highlights what the people paying attention to COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant) have learned about the risks of transmission…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jonathan Howard writes that the recognition of higher COVID-19 risks in adults has been used as a means of misleadingly minimizing the risks…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoorva Mandavilli reports on the CDC’s return to recommending that people wear masks indoors to try to avoid another COVID wave. Matt…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Pomeroy and the Financial Times each highlight the likelihood that survivors of long COVID will be affected for the rest of their…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Richard Hurley discusses the findings of an inquiry showing that COVID-19 was treated largely as an opportunity for corporate profiteering rather than…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Statistics Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force examines new data as to the spread of the coronavirus prior to the third wave – with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dirk Richter and Lucy Foulkes point out how any mental health concerns arising out of public health rules would pale in comparison to…
what i’m reading: the cold millions by jess walter
There is an accepted wisdom that socialism and communism failed, and capitalism prevailed, because the former is bad, and the latter is good. That humankind rejected socialism and embraced capitalism,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Josh Taylor reports on contact tracing which has revealed that “fleeting contact” can be enough to result in the spread of the COVID-19…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – As Jason Kenney and Scott Moe rush to slash public health protections including mask mandates, Gavin Leech et al. study how important…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Elgot, Aubrey Allegretti and Nicola Davis report on the UK’s delay in lifting coronavirus restrictions as it battles the Delta variant.…