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Masks or Longterm Illness in Children — It Shouldn’t be a Difficult Decision
Masks or Longterm Illness in Children — It Shouldn’t be a Difficult Decision
Sara Novak recently wrote about the study that found 20% of children have Long Covid, aka PASC (Post Acute Sequelae of Covid) that I…
Marie Snyder
Oct 14
We Can Prevent Chronic Illness in Children, But It’s Kinda Inconvenient
We Can Prevent Chronic Illness in Children, But It’s Kinda Inconvenient
Another NEW study shows, yet again, that SARS-CoV-2 is harmful to kids. Who knew?!?
Marie Snyder
Sep 6
Predictable, Incurable, Disabling, Fatal, and PREVENTABLE
Predictable, Incurable, Disabling, Fatal, and PREVENTABLE
It’s still here. It’s still dangerous. We have the ability to stop it, but we can’t wait to be told to because that’s just not happening.
Marie Snyder
Sep 5
Pitting Health Against Education as We Debilitate a Generation
Pitting Health Against Education as We Debilitate a Generation
Covid is definitely causing a variety of longterm illnesses and public health still can’t manage an effective PSA that undoes damage caused…
Marie Snyder
Sep 5
Why Novavax: Choosing the Tortoise Over the Hare
Why Novavax: Choosing the Tortoise Over the Hare
Dr. Michael Lin explains what makes Novavax different from mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines. It’s not in block quotes…
Marie Snyder
Sep 4
Aim in the Right Direction
Aim in the Right Direction
A Tiktoker, amylynn79, explained why she’s not masking despite being very sick with Covid. She has few followers on that site (maybe…
Marie Snyder
Sep 1
Appropriate Fear and Respect
Appropriate Fear and Respect
We teach our children to have a “healthy fear” of the water, to respect that it’s possible to drown in the shallows or to hit our head on a…
Marie Snyder
Aug 30
Costs of Disability
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…
Marie Snyder
Aug 28
Back to School in a Wave
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 back in the 1960s (not counting…
Marie Snyder
Aug 27
Canadian Public Health has Spoken
Canadian Public Health has Spoken
Apparently we’re all in with Pfizer and Moderna despite Novavax providing significantly better protection and fewer risks.
Marie Snyder
Aug 26
Avoiding an MPOX in All Our Houses
Avoiding an MPOX in All Our Houses
The WHO has declared an international Public Health Emergency for a more lethal version of Monkeypox, now called mpox, which is clade 1b…
Marie Snyder
Aug 22
Worst Scenario for a School Start Yet!
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…
Marie Snyder
Aug 21
Covid Olympics
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…
Marie Snyder
Aug 12
Fudging the Numbers for Calm Mongering
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?
Marie Snyder
Aug 9
In Need of a Church of the Covid Informed
In Need of a Church of the Covid Informed
This is just bananas, but another county in NY State banned masks.
Marie Snyder
Aug 6
The Psychology of Diving into Polluted Water
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…
Marie Snyder
Aug 5
Who Can We Blame for All of This??
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…
Marie Snyder
Aug 2
Rotting the Soul of a Nation
Rotting the Soul of a Nation
As a Canadian, we need to be concerned what happens to our neighbours. Their politics affects our lives.
Marie Snyder
Jul 27
Letter from a British Prison: An Experiment with the Truth
Letter from a British Prison: An Experiment with the Truth
I write more about Covid than climate because we can actually dramatically decrease the problem with rampant viral transmission in the next…
Marie Snyder
Jul 26
Suffering from Premature Emaskulation?
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…
Marie Snyder
Jul 24
It’s World Brain Day!
It’s World Brain Day!
The WHO announced it on twitter with a list of things to do for a healthy brain: be active, eat well, sleep well, stimulate your mind, look…
Marie Snyder
Jul 22
Where There’s Money, There’s Masks
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…
Marie Snyder
Jul 21
Unmasking the Real Villain
Unmasking the Real Villain
The Tour de France is now mandating masks after several riders got Covid and had to leave the race.
Marie Snyder
Jul 15
Covering Up a Pandemic
Covering Up a Pandemic
Earlier today, Salvatore Mattera wrote this piece about the media silence — or censorship — around Covid. This rest of this is entirely…
Marie Snyder
Jul 13
Ethics of Risk-Taking
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…
Marie Snyder
Jul 8
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