stats with cats reminds you that youth covid is predominantly a condition of adult anxiety
well, it’s back to school season again and you know what that means: it’s time for the branch covidian stalwarts to once more wake from summer slumber with tales of doom, gloom, and unrelenting, uncalibrated fear about the risks of covid to children as our youngsters seek to find a path to edification and education.
as i believe that los niños deserve better that to be once more traumatized in service of the medical, statistical, and resiliency shortcomings of anxiety addled adults who want to jab them, mask them, and keep them from enjoying anything akin to normalcy in some sort of singularity of agoraphobia, munchhausen’s by proxy, and germaphobia generated virtue signaling, i’d like to inject a little data into a d
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/back-to-school-brush-up-on-health
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........