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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
Y’all Masking: The Solidarity in Safety
Y’all Masking: The Solidarity in Safety
It’s taken off so much, it’s making Twitter almost unusable for anything else. Picture after picture after picture of people wearing masks…
Marie Snyder
Jul 7
CDC Still Protecting Interests Instead of People
CDC Still Protecting Interests Instead of People
The CDC finally acknowledged that Covid is still here, which is amazing, but they still can’t nail the comms:
Marie Snyder
Jul 6
Masking Like a Movie Star
Masking Like a Movie Star
Lots of people are still wearing masks. It can feel a bit like we’re the only ones at the store, getting pointed at or coughed on despite…
Marie Snyder
Jun 29
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
IgG stands for Immunoglobulin G; it’s the most common type of antibody found in blood circulation. Without enough of them, you get more…
Marie Snyder
Jun 20
Avoid the Best to Avoid the Rest
Avoid the Best to Avoid the Rest
Covid is amazing for harming the immune system, right up there with HIV. Even mild and asymptomatic cases of Covid harm the body’s ability…
Marie Snyder
Jun 19
Ignorance and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
Ignorance and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
Three articles came out in the past few days that should remind us that Covid is really here, and maybe we should act on it. But all the…
Marie Snyder
Jun 17
Good News: You CAN Be Saved!
Good News: You CAN Be Saved!
The CDC put out some crappy comms with an image with a mask photoshopped upside down, with “N95” shopped onto a KN95, and only on the…
Marie Snyder
Jun 14
Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You
The Minden ER closed June 1, 2023. A recent article in the Minden Paper explains why this should worry all of us.
Marie Snyder
Jun 13
Living in a False Reality
Living in a False Reality
Without testing or wastewater data warning us of rising cases of viruses in our regions ahead of time, we can only look to excess deaths…
Marie Snyder
Jun 7
Our Current Consumerist Culture is Doomed AF
Our Current Consumerist Culture is Doomed AF
Business as usual means we’re risking our lives for conveniences we didn’t expect to have when I was young, and we pretty happily lived…
Marie Snyder
Jun 6
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
I occasionally get anon comments telling me, in one way or another, to stop writing about Covid and/or climate change.
Marie Snyder
Jun 5
We Can Get Used to Anything
We Can Get Used to Anything
Would you rather get used to wearing an N95 or get used to needing help to eat or sit up? It’s a choice.
Marie Snyder
Jun 4
Water Wars
Water Wars
There’s an extreme water crisis in Mexico City right now. They could run out of water within weeks.
Marie Snyder
May 29
We CAN Reduce Illnesses!
We CAN Reduce Illnesses!
The WHO is trying to encourage masking again, but their ads show people in surgical masks (should be at least an N95), and they keep…
Marie Snyder
May 28
Billions and Billions
Billions and Billions
Would you rather have the convenience of being seen quickly at a local ER that was funded to stay open OR the convenience to buy mixed…
Marie Snyder
May 26
Mitigation, Adaptation, or Suffering
Mitigation, Adaptation, or Suffering
In September 2010, John Holdren, Harvard professor and Obama’s science adviser, gave a speech on climate change arguing that people aren’t…
Marie Snyder
May 25
AI — Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI — Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue.
Marie Snyder
May 24
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