Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Don Braid discusses how Alberta’s health care system and polity are both collapsing under the weight of a UCP government which has utterly failed to protect...
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter points out the stark gap between public health officials emphasizing the need for protections against community transmission of COVID-19, and...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris rightly calls out Scott Moe and his government for making it a goal to punish the poor within Saskatchewan. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve. And while Daniel...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Lipsitch et al. examine the current state of knowledge about COVID breakthrough infections and the public health measures still needed to avoid...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu, Ed Yong and Sarah Khang write that the Omicron COVID-19 wave is seeing governments make the same familiar mistakes in an accelerated time frame, while...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris discusses the Saskatchewan Party government’s utterly feckless pandemic response – which they’ve apparently decided to keep in place...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Intuitive Lessons from The Pandemic – A Fantasy
This post is not based on comprehensive research or particular expertise on my part. Rather it is more what we would have called “common sense” before Mike Harris completely destroyed the meaning of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Cory Neudorf asks that Saskatchewan not play Russian roulette with the Omicron COVID variant. Rahul Suryawanshi et al. find that any theory of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto discusses the collective trauma which is following from the combination of a pandemic and a determined effort by our ruling class not to limit the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Star’s editorial board weighs in on the reality that wishful thinking isn’t a substitute for responsible public health measures as another COVID wave...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mustafa Hirji discusses how basic public health protections offer the best chance of controlling the spiraling harms from COVID-19 without resorting to...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mark Kline warns against accepting continuing denialism about the impact of COVID-19 on children. Andre Picard discusses Canada’s grim milestone of 40,000...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: On historical echoes
Ontario’s ongoing provincial election is presenting some interesting echoes from previous campaigns – particularly the 2015 federal election which similarly involved a seemingly vulnerable Conservative...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katherine Wu warns about the consequences of the powers that be deciding that people will be subjected to repeated COVID-19 infections. And Saba Qasmieh et...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that we’re being left to navigate an ongoing pandemic in the dark as governments choose not to provide either...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Robert Reich rightly questions why trickle-down economics are still being pushed even after decades of consistent failure to accomplish any goal other...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Frieden offers a primer on what we know about long COVID – and what we should be doing to avoid it. And Eric Topol interviews Linsey Marr about the...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: COVID-19 Pandemic Reflections and The Next Pandemic
Well the pandemic is over, at least according to most governments, science and medicine not so much. So now it is time to look back, and to look forward. Perhaps my biggest reflection is that...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected – with a seemingly declining...
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