It is now permanently branded into my brain that people will protect meerkats and not vulnerable children.

Canada must move from ingrained ableism to legislated compassion. The recent debacle with the roll out of the Canada Disabilty Benefit, “An Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities..” reinforced what persons with disabilities knew:

Alberta's electorate really screwed things up in a generationally bad way.

When I say people are being structurally pressured into MAID, I’m serious.

There are publicized examples but this comment was very upsetting to read.

reddit.com/r/canada/s/4C8…

Sunday night's excitement about an upload from Dept. of Agriculture of sequence data on the #H5N1 #birdflu outbreaks in cows turned to frustration Monday as scientists realized key info had been left out of the files. Without it, it's very hard to assess what's going on.

Reboosting this for anyone who needs a reminder of how to increase ventilation on a school bus… like me, who inexplicably signed up to be a field trip chaperone tomorrow 🙃:
Open both windows in the front row and second/third row from the back

Disabled people were among the first to be killed by the Nazis… and we are seeing a resurgence of the “useless eater” idea.

Disabled advocates have been screaming about MAiD for years - and this article examines many of the reasons why we are so concerned.

It’s official: A new Lancet Infectious Disease paper solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after #COVID -19.

Up to a quarter of people in the study harbored viral proteins indicative of persistent virus for up to 14 months after infection: polybio.org/covid-19-virus…

Despite what some 'experts' claim, SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical 'textbook' virus, and this situation -- 8 billion hosts, global travel, long lifespans, most time spent indoors, multiple reinfections -- is utterly unprecedented in all of human evolutionary history.

Please count me in with you and Trisha Greenhalgh, Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.. A takeaway from the past four years is that clear, correct, and simple messaging is hugely important. World Health Organization (WHO) continues to struggle on all three fronts.

None of this is rocket science.

Today's must read article for all Canadians.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…