A rational assessment of the threat environment for COVID would entail monitoring it properly - including not fudging death statistics, informing the public of the dangers of Long COVID, air filtration in all public buildings and mandatory masking in hospitals.

Kabas is right: access journalism isn't journalism.

vt.tiktok.com/ZSUUDLgxr/

The signs are more legible than the traffic signs in the original, for example.

I feel like the signs are fine, but the compression algorithms of these social media platforms are not.

RIP Diane Keaton — the news of her death sent me looking for this excellent piece about her and her serious interest in photography by her friend Larry McMurty

www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

The pitching tonight has been something else. Clutch.

Oh ho! Up to 312 measles cases in BC today ...

Just eyeball that on @tjradcliffe.bsky.social chart 🍿

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/ 🧐

UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.

Here’s the thing I wish everyone could hold in their minds about writers—we love em dashes. We use em dashes. We are humans and not AI. We will not be deleting our em dashes just because AI uses them too. We were here first. You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands. F*ck AI.

Word. The phrasing of the piece tripped me up.

Or am I reading this wrong?!

For a second I thought an actual BC health official said that. Alas no.

Still, progress!

Children are our future, and we’re letting them down by letting Covid run rampant.

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

The solution to both the lack of a stable social media site for me to post my little sentences and the financial difficulties of the Canadian post office is for the Canadian post office to create a social media site where I can post my little sentences.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

It's clearly ALCATRAZ 😂

Insert a big exhausted exhale because @beebrookshire.bsky.social absolutely captured the frustration of trying to cling to community as each social media network becomes a Nazi bar over & over & over: brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/backed-int...

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

By "proven right" Kulldorff apparently means "a series of incorrect predictions about herd immunity based on an impossible fantasy about infection control."

Let's turn the question around: how would you go about organizing an actual general strike in a country with low unionization rates, low job and healthcare security, low population density, and a regime captured mass media ecosystem?

"Immunization appointments will be available starting Oct. 14."

Would be nice if Canadian health authorities made it a priority to get updated shots to people BEFORE Thanksgiving, but that would require them to take COVID seriously. Which they really don't wanna do, ever again.

The shots are identical to what Americans got, except they started getting them IN AUGUST. Why are Canadian health authorities so bad at this?