Through the Fog

These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, “How We Survive This Mess.”

I was confronted yesterday with the ubiquitous claim, “Lockdowns destroyed kid’s ability to socialize. Now they’re committing suicide…

We carry propaganda machines in our pockets. Propaganda isn’t just to misinform, but to distract us and exhaust the capacity for critical…

Bird Flu is still not officially a pandemic concern, but there are some convincing arguments that it should be:

There are tons of explanations for it. Here’s a roundup of a few perspectives that helped me wrap my head around it all.

Lots of people still really don’t believe that some people have had their lives destroyed by Long Covid, and that they might too. And their…

What do smoking, drinking, rollercoasters, and Covid have in common? They should all be avoided during pregnancy.

BC’s deputy provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, actually announced to the public, “If you’ve had Covid recently, you’ve had a…

Arijit Chakravarty is a biologist who uses biotech and math to understand and write about Covid. He wrote a very long thread that I’ll…

…but destroying the environment and likely killing some cyclists in the process. That’s Doug Ford’s new Bill 212: Reducing Gridlock, Saving…

If you think Covid is bad (or even if you don’t), if H5N1 starts passing from human to human, it could be worse. It’s not just about the…

There’s a lovely man that works where I rent a car to go camping in the summer. When I walk in with my N95 in place, he starts wiping the…

Three, nope, FIVE Covid resources to bookmark.

Sara Novak recently wrote about the study that found 20% of children have Long Covid, aka PASC (Post Acute Sequelae of Covid) that I…

Another NEW study shows, yet again, that SARS-CoV-2 is harmful to kids. Who knew?!?

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.

Covid is definitely causing a variety of longterm illnesses and public health still can’t manage an effective PSA that undoes damage caused…

Dr. Michael Lin explains what makes Novavax different from mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines. It’s not in block quotes…

A Tiktoker, amylynn79, explained why she’s not masking despite being very sick with Covid. She has few followers on that site (maybe…

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…

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…

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…

Apparently we’re all in with Pfizer and Moderna despite Novavax providing significantly better protection and fewer risks.