Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Elian Peltier reports that Denmark’s message that the COVID pandemic is over has predictably given rise to a new – and particularly dangerous…
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Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Zak Vescera reports on leaked information showing that Saskatchewan’s COVID hospitalization rate has reached a record high just as Scott Moe decided…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sarath Peiris discusses the foolishness of prioritizing the self-indulgence of the grossly uninformed over the protection of the vulnerable. For those looking…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Bruce Ziff highlights how axing vaccine passports and other basic health protections would only eliminate freedom for the vast majority of people who…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Melody Schreiber discusses how the U.S.’ inequality and lack of support for workers has severely exacerbated the pandemic. And Eric Schwitzgebel examines…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mike Mariani writes about the difficulty people suffering from long COVID have experienced trying to have their condition recognized and treated under governments…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Gregg Gonsalves writes about the continued dangers of responding to COVID with wishful thinking rather than realistic public health measures, while Meredith Wadman…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Bollyky et al. examine the factors which have led to reducing the spread COVID-19 and resulting harm – with trust in fellow…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alexander Quon reports on the politicization of Saskatchewan’s COVID policy in the summer of 2021, with political staffers and commercial interests winning…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yasmin Tayag discusses the progress being made in determining how long COVID is caused – though the only point that appears beyond dispute…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Topol charts how vaccines to date have continued to provide essential protection against the Omicron COVID variant, even as people with…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Zak Vescera reports that the Moe government’s push toward privatizing COVID testing has turned into such a fiasco that even the for-profit operators…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard recognizes that stoking sentiment about being “done with COVID” only increases the likelihood of further transmission and mutation, while Gail…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katharine Wu examines how the effect of immunity is just one more area where people are seeing profoundly unequal results of the COVID…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Ballingall and Raisa Patel ask why Canada’s federal government seems to have learned nothing from four previous waves of COVID. And…
BC government cut health coverage to migrants twice during the pandemic
BC excludes some workers, students, and newcomers to the province from receiving healthcare benefits. This forces people to pay for their own healthcare out of their own pocket. During the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katharine Wu writes that contrary to the continued attempt by right-wing talking heads to equate mass viral transmission with immunity, we can’t assume…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way…
The truckers convoy promotes social harm, not “mandating freedom.”
The organizers of the covid convoy have been demanding they speak to the manager of Canada. While they claim to fight for freedom and “vaccine choice,” this couldn’t be further…