The next step in the campaign to hide a pandemic: make it impossible to test, so no one can know if they have COVID, so no one can make informed decisions. “Personal choice” never was. It’s an intentional effort to prevent anyone from making any choice that isn’t blind denial.
I can - very unfortunately - report that while the SSHRC grant submission website was basically non-functional until at least 11:30pm yesterday, if you set a 3:00am alarm, it is downright snappy and can indeed export the PDFs your grant office requires.
I had was walking with a university colleague the other day who was explaining how she was out sick for the first couple of weeks of class with the ‘flu,’ and how disruptive it was, and how it “reminded [her] of back during the pandemic”… as I wore my respirator walking beside her lol.
Highly recommend watching this video on algorithmic wage discrimination: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEXJ...
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
The Economist has published a deeply-researched story about car bloat -- and it's very, very damning. "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: www.economist.com/interactive/...
COVID offers three possible paradigm shifts. If they’re true, and if we actually accept them, so much changes: - Much of disease transmission is airborne - The biggest impact of viruses is chronic disease - Virus exposure harms, not helps, immune systems publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/is-the-...
Yes, we need more money, better community engagement approaches, a more comprehensive paradigm, to adapt to a changing climate, and so forth… But a Maple FEMA is just as likely to entrench the current problems on those fronts, and it’s not going to magically make those things easier to solve.
Potentially hot take: I’m very nervous about how quick Canadian EM academics/practitioners are to say “we should have a Canadian FEMA!” Like, we recognize that FEMA has a… checkered history, right? And that, at the very least, a Maple FEMA isn’t going to automagically solve our complex problems?
Adding a PM2.5 sensor to our weather station has been... illuminating, and not in a great way. Remember - the recommended average PM2.5 exposure is below 5ug/m3. Our outdoor sensor hasn't gotten below 10 since we installed it here in Toronto.
