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So to instalment five of my notes on the pandemic. We are now coming up on October and it seems here in Toronto the Good we are into the second wave of the great plague of 2020. Pandemics tend to come in three waves and the second is usually the worst. The reason seems to …
Covidology Personal The rate of infection is creeping up again in Toronto. The gloomy predictions are that cooler weather and the opening of school is going to trigger a new wave of everyone’s favourite virus. The handling of the pandemic continues to be badly managed. People still do not know what they are officially supposed …
The Cherry Beach Chainsaw Massacre I continue to go at the topic of covid19 in the calm days of summer, before the much predicted autumn “second wave” hits. It would be nice if I was wrong, but the experience of other countries does not give much room for optimism. Neither does the very inept pandemic …
This piece is a followup to what I did last May 18, critical of those denouncing emergency pandemic measures as a violation of civil liberty. It’s at https://blog.burble.ca/2020/05/18/on-pandemics-and-civil-liberties-for-someone-who-should-know-better/#more-166 Public attention is currently distracted by the latest hysteria over police behaviour but I am putting this out now anyway. In a few days I think it …
The good thing about Covid19 is that it will compel people to start doing what they should have been doing all along, and would have but for the toxic influence of neoliberalism. I have a subject here which I must lead into delicately. It is in the form of an open letter to one …
Recently I came across an article that sums up some Canadian attitudes so perfectly that I have decided it is time to peck the keyboard about my own view of it. It was written by someone with this “progressive’ mindset but who works in Alberta. Find this article at https://albertapolitics.ca/2020/04/canadas-universal-single-payer-health-care-system-is-our-best-vaccination-against-the-neoliberal-virus/ I made a comment about …