In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).  The MEPs invited were spoiled for choice, […]

The post Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets appeared first on DeSmog.

Oil and gas investors are anticipating hefty dividend checks to close out 2021. Following a decade of red ink — capped by a devastating 2020 when oil prices briefly went negative — fracking-focused companies finally made some money this year. High energy prices and a slower pace of drilling allowed North America’s shale firms to […]

The post New Report Throws Doubt on Overly Optimistic Fracking Forecasts From U.S. Government appeared first on DeSmog.

The strategy being pursued by the UK government’s oil and gas regulator and business secretary is “unlawful” because it fails to regulate tax breaks for oil and gas companies, a court has been told. The hearing today at the Royal Court of Justice in London also heard that the latest Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) […]

The post UK’s Tax Breaks for Oil and Gas ‘Unlawful’ and Harm Climate Action, Court Hears appeared first on DeSmog.

By Dr Daria Shapovalova (School of Law) and Professor Tavis Potts (School of Geosciences), University of Aberdeen  News that Shell is pulling out of the proposed Cambo oilfield in the North Sea has been met with delight by the climate movement and concern by the oil and gas sector The oil giant has  said its decision […]

The post With Shell Abandoning the Cambo Project, the North Sea Urgently Needs a Serious Just Transition Plan appeared first on DeSmog.

Oregon’s 15-year battle against the Jordan Cove LNG project quietly came to an end on December 1, bringing relief to dozens of landowners that live in the path of the proposed project.  It was an anti-climactic end to one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects ever proposed in the Pacific Northwest. Pembina, the backer […]

The post ‘It’s a Proud Day’: Oregon Landowners Celebrate Demise of LNG project, Even as Legal Questions Go Unanswered appeared first on DeSmog.

COVID has convinced us of this truth: I’m wearing this when I teach evolutionary medicine next week. pic.twitter.com/E2wCQyTs1u— Daniel Bolnick (@DanielBolnick) November 22, 2021 😂 True! 🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦 https://t.co/xgdoYTtc2n— Jacinthe Payant – Jane G…

By Soupvector – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112983798
Sirin Kale, in The Guardian, with the life and death story of 42 year old triathlete, body builder, and anti-vaxxer John Eyers
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atl…

By Amy Westervelt, The Nation Much has been made, and rightly so, of the Koch network’s impact on universities. Entire campus projects exist to ferret out Koch cash, which is powering everything from the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University to the Center for Growth and […]

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By Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. “flooding global markets” with fossil fuels at the expense of humanity, […]

The post Since Congress Lifted Crude Export Ban in 2015, US has Dropped ‘Climate Bomb’ on the World appeared first on DeSmog.

Before you read any further know that I’m NOT a surgeon.
I think it could be fairly argued that as far as surgical impact and benefits go, there are few that rival bariatric surgery.
Shown to prolong life, regularly push many chronic diseases includin…

From coining “clean coal” to “carbon footprint,” public relations firms have been instrumental in shaping the public discourse around climate and energy policy, and as a new study underlines, their powerful efforts have flown under the radar for too long. PR firms have played a key role in obstructing action on climate change over the […]

The post The PR Industry Has Been a ‘Major’ But ‘Overlooked’ Influence in Climate Politics for Decades, Says Study appeared first on DeSmog.

By June Sekera, The New School and Neva Goodwin, Tufts University After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.” This strategic pivot was on […]

The post Why the Oil Industry’s Pivot to Carbon Capture and Storage – While It Keeps on Drilling – Isn’t a Climate Change Solution appeared first on DeSmog.

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with everything you really should know about the various modalities of COVID testing.
Ed Yong, also in The Atlantic, on health professionals who themselves are now facing the challenges of long-haul COVID.
Talia Brach…

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Among the 18 extractive companies listed under the MP’s entry in the parliamentary register of interests are Shell and the world’s largest oilfield […]

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Joining an ever increasing cavalcade of studies of different diets that demonstrate they all work as well or as poorly as one another comes this week’s A randomised controlled trial of the 5:2 diet published in PLoS. In it researchers randomly as…

The parrot is making fun of him! 🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/98HUbWrkdP— Figen (@TheFigen) November 19, 2021 They used to laugh and call him names.Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/sYEGmlGKqb— Cory Papineau (@Iam_Canadian) November 15, 2021 This one was fascinating…

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, covers the devastating impact managing patients with COVID has had on the world’s health-care workers many of who are calling it quits.
Megan Molteni, in Wired, on the teensy tiny error that helped COVID kill by creating a fi…

Where to start with this?

[Also, it’s that time of year again, and should any of you want to donate to my Movember fundraising (am just over halfway to goal!), here’s the link]

John Cleese seems to have morphed into the angry establishment figure of ridicule he played in sketches.— Chris Kehoe (@MrKehoe79) November 13, 2021 John Cleese, Morrissey and JK Rowling walk into a bar.And the bartender says “the home for aging disap…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his substack, on the damage Aaron Rodgers has wrought on professional sports as a whole. Arthur Shaffer, interviewed in Healthy Debates, on the ethics and legalities of vaccine passports. Andrew McRae and Andreas Laup…

[First written blog post since March 2020. What an awful 20 months. Though the pandemic is certainly not over yet, it feels like it’s time to start writing again. Not sure what the frequency of posts will be, but it’s nice to be back]I wouldn’t have be…

After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated Canadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced they will be staffing their border at pre-pandemic levels, but warns that wait times may be longer than in […]

Justin Ling, in Macleans, on the persistence of hygiene theatreSarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how we’ve lost the plot on COVID.Andre Picard, in The Globe and Mail, on how now is the worst time for governments to be catering to antivaxxersAnnouncement…

This the greatest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen…. pic.twitter.com/V4G5kS5le0

— Jordan🥴 (@Idontknowyoucuh) October 15, 2021

Give them something good to eat: Animals at the Chester Zoo enjoy some Halloween treats. pic.twitter.com/NA9iTmuYpn

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) October 28, 2021

💀 @Flash_Garrett arrived for today’s Halloween game as the Grim Reaper with all QBs that he’s sacked listed on his back 💪

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/s96oBBDNOv

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) October 31, 2021

This #Halloween chip shot was pumpkin spiced. 🎃

(Via TikTok/golfergirlem) pic.twitter.com/IERaYO7ixF

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) October 31, 2021

Gurdeep is a true Canadian treasure:

Happy Halloween!
From the Yukon wilderness, I am forwarding Halloween joy, hope and positivity across Canada and beyond.
YouTube: https://t.co/7UZu7LDTpK pic.twitter.com/pGnBXP0qxK

— Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon (@GurdeepPandher) October 31, 2021

The Pulp Librarian offers the top 20 halloween-inspired pulp magazine covers:

And at no 1: Seven Footprints To Satan, by Abraham Merritt. Fantastic Novels Magazine, January 1949. pic.twitter.com/1dUoL6LNUZ

— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 31, 2021

A tiny landscape painting on a pumpkin seed 🎃 pic.twitter.com/AAAEuMYG49

— Katie 🌿 (@KatieBrooksArt) October 31, 2021

Best pumpkin carving I’ve seen this year.
SAOR ALBA.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pic.twitter.com/4fUlGspvqt

— Lynn MacDonald-Matheson (@LynnMamaBear1) October 31, 2021

Every year, somebody takes it just a little too far:

So about that weird Gables police display https://t.co/UwqXrYlzLy

— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) October 31, 2021

And of course, the greatest music video ever made:

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, on how the house of cards upon which ivermectin studies were built likely underpins much of science. 
Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, with a Q&A with pediatrician and vaccine researcher Sallie Permar about the …

Next time, dogs own people.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 19, 2021

Some say vaccine mandates don’t work.

But…Health workers who don’t believe in science are leaving healthcare…And…Police officers who don’t care about public safety are leaving policing.

Sounds like vaccine mandates work just fine. 👌🏾

— Naheed Dosani (@NaheedD) October 21, 2021

It’s getting disrespectful how long it takes for me to scroll to my birth year

— Trey (@treydayway) October 16, 2021

😂 pic.twitter.com/BK0n9Gk64r

— 🇨🇦 Leslie-Anne 💉💉FULLY VAXXED 👍🏻👍🏻 🇨🇦 (@ProudGrannyCdn) October 17, 2021

My husband purchased a world map and then gave me a dart and said, “Throw this and wherever it lands—that’s where I’m taking you when this pandemic ends.”

Turns out, we’re spending two weeks behind the fridge.

— Kate Wright 🧡 (@KatezRight) October 4, 2021

“Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It’s almost never for them.” – Norm MacDonald.

— Cannabis Farmer: Jim Belushi (@JimBelushi) September 15, 2021

Little yellow fish gets so excited whenever he sees this diver — watch him surprise her with a gift 💛 pic.twitter.com/nEByULlfRL

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

Giant rescue horse finally gets to relax after working 20 years straight — and when the vet prescribes beer every day, he LOVES it 🍻 pic.twitter.com/U5D4Cm0cRd

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

this dog owner spent $400 to find out why his dog was limping only to learn he was copying him out of sympathy
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/lmhmtZu908

— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) October 15, 2021

They did the mash. Thank you to giant pumpkin growers Larry Nelson and Jacob Baldridge for the gourd time! pic.twitter.com/cuNtwafIA0

— Oregoth Boo (@OregonZoo) October 14, 2021

Room Rater PSA from Canada and @brittlestar. Just remember: THERE’S MORE GOOD. 10/10pic.twitter.com/fIANU1A9kH

— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) October 23, 2021

Eva Wiseman, in The Guardian, on the overlap between wellness/spirituality and conspiracy theories.
Stephanie Lee, in Buzzfeed, on how the world’s most prominent hydroxychloroquine researcher/crusader is trying to punish one of the world’s foremost sc…

There is such truth here:

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/SQozalLllB

— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) October 10, 2021

And truth here too:

Not been guilted into going. This was the right step. The Chief of Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc said it right, actions speak Louder. And him coming on his son’s birthday is the Loudest Action. Grateful that Chief Rosanne Casimir lived streamed this closed event.

— 🇨🇦Paqtasit Apsalqigwat👸🏼🤘🏼☘️🐓🍷 (@paqtasit) October 19, 2021

Breaking: Trudeau visit to Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation ‘bittersweet’ after not attending National Day for Truth and Reconciliation via @globeandmail https://t.co/F5YIQ5nfo6 #cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

“Instead of talking about truth and reconciliation, people talked about me, and that’s on me,” Trudeau said. https://t.co/rIqOs2bOcd#cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

And Halloween is coming up!

pic.twitter.com/EHRWNP7xAH

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) October 19, 2021

Meanwhile, here in Saskatchewan, our COVID situation is so bad – I cannotimagine the chaos and death in Saskatchewan hospitals right now — and our premier Scott Moe is leading us by naming some guy in North Battleford as the director of Covid response, and immitating a deer in the headlights:

BREAKING – Sask Premier Scott Moe reached out to AMERICAN states for ICU help

BEFORE asking Justin Trudeau for helphttps://t.co/XwfF5wnBf0 #cdnpoli #covid19

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 19, 2021

I’d say “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me”, but how shocking is anything these petty, corrupt bumblefucks do anymore? #skpoli

The *lethal* obstinacy in relation to working with the Federal government here is worthy of an actual trial here. https://t.co/sTZ2dTmtF0

— the 13 Ghosts of Carol Channing Tatum (@ThinWhiteDork) October 19, 2021

Or, hear me out, Take The Fucking Actions that doctors and scientists are telling you are necessary to PREVENT so many people from needing ICU care in the first place.
In other words, protect #skhealth instead of playing #skpoli on #covid19sk https://t.co/TVhCBPu0tw

— Dr. Atul Kapur (@Kapur_AK) October 19, 2021

Arthur Caplan, in The Cancer Letter, on how Nazi analogies (and more specifically Vinay Prasad’s) regarding COVID are imbecilic, ignorant, and dangerous.Marie-Danielle Smith, in MacLeans, with the story of a family of 3 who like all of those we’ve los…

I loved these:

by @warandpeass pic.twitter.com/1tbcluicsM

— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) October 10, 2021

The perfect couples costume doesn’t exi- pic.twitter.com/mte2U6EmVv

— Momster (@my_name_here85) October 11, 2021

An ad by a bus company. Nice. 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/jkE3P6vlpE

— Sami (the man) 🇨🇦 🏇 (@msnaydani) October 7, 2021

“why are you crying?”

because bears sit and look at good views pic.twitter.com/cqaN0LJ4pF

— clair without the “e” (@nastywomanatlaw) October 8, 2021

The Japanese 🇯🇵 Puffer Fish is probably nature’s greatest artist 🐟

To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief 😲

pic.twitter.com/AiuQY9XzhN

— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) October 9, 2021

All we need.. pic.twitter.com/0ut6Rnvlmj

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 9, 2021

Reading about white collar crime in the new yorker and this detail is just perfect https://t.co/Ou7ZV9Gbgg pic.twitter.com/ZE3pbMpLOY

— erin griffith (@eringriffith) September 30, 2021

1 of the city high schools here was quite creative. They had plumbing issues, so once or twice every spring whe the weather got nice, in a scene right out of Fast Time At Ridgemont High they synchronized their watches & simultaneously flushed every toilet for an easy 2 day vacay.

— Tom (@BigTontoLove) October 9, 2021

A bookshop door photographed in Canada 🦇 pic.twitter.com/MXxaCcAAji

— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫s (@FabulousWeird) October 9, 2021

And this one was so sweet it broke twitter – it got 700K likes:

My Finances: pic.twitter.com/SasbwqAIRD

— Andrew Hilary but spooky 👻 (@AndrewHilaryUS) October 8, 2021

New currencies pic.twitter.com/62G017wpKb

— Ms Bay (@bahia_nacional) October 9, 2021

Watch this! https://t.co/ehAIlbbC9W

— unsquare925🕷️🦂🐊🐉🇪🇺 (@unsquare925) October 9, 2021

Here in a nutshell is The Story Of January 6 — an impressive summary by Huff Post White House correspondent S.V. Date describing what happened in the Trump Insurrection:This is what Americans need to be told about, every day, every speech, from B…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his own substack Kareem.Substack.com with two stories about vaccination and the NBA.
The first on why LeBron is wrong to support hesitancy
And the second on Andrew Wiggins’ whining about getting vaccinated.
   &#1…

So I just started a short-term job and one of the things I am going to be learning about is how to host Zoom meetings. Not, like this guy, I hope: We are all in this video pic.twitter.com/ZebenP2Aid— Washington Post TikTok Guy 🪑 (@davejorgenson)…

Well, the boys gave it a good try, but couldn’t quite get into the post-season this year:

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was sitting in the dugout watching the BOS/WAS game. Sat for a few moments after the Devers HR, the walked up the tunnel. #bluejays

— Ben Wagner (@benwag247) October 3, 2021

I think I stopped breathing for a minute when I read this! This would be every Blue Jays fan’s dream off season signing! Imagine a rotation of Stroman, Ray, Ryu, Manoah with this offence 🤮 Legit title contenders! #WeAreBlueJays https://t.co/2hqXXf3dQe

— Jai Boyal (@Jaiboyal) October 4, 2021

Man, I feel for the @BlueJays right now. Praying the Nationals comeback in the 9th. Wanted to see that Canadian squad in the playoffs more than anything. Beyond bright future for them regardless! 🗣🇨🇦

— Marcus Stroman (@STR0) October 3, 2021

Too bad about the Blue Jays missing the MLB playoffs. I’m sure it was Trudeau’s fault. /s

— John Meadows (@JohnMeadows) October 4, 2021

Now that Trudeau has apologized to Chief Rosanne Casimir in Kamloops about not attending their ceremony on Sept 30, I think the Canadian media will stop talking about Tofino-gate or whatever we are calling it. Embarrassment is what I call it

In this life, there are those who love to obsess endlessly about “optics”, ie appearances.
And then there are those who love to make progress on substance, ie reality.
Each to their own.#IStandWithTrudeau #cdnpoli #cdnmedia @JustinTrudeau

— David Hamer (@DavidHamer_1951) October 3, 2021

Interesting how many #CPC supporters DEFENDED Former Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer REFUSING to go Pride

Yet are now acting like Flesh Eating Zombies about Trudeau and Tofino#cdnpoli

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 2, 2021

Some of today’s funnier stuff too:

it’s the otters’ island; as soon as they develop opposable thumbs we’re done for https://t.co/3K8Vteammv

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 30, 2021

How come I get ten thousand spam emails a day but when it’s time to prove *I’m* not a robot I have to solve an entire goddamned highlights magazine

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) October 3, 2021

Watch until the end:

The end 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/uxsNHjMkE5

— CCTV_IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) October 3, 2021

Joe Vipond, Kashif Pirzada, and Danielle Cane, in The Toronto Star, on how Canada’s culture of silence around airborne transmission has led to confusion and undoubtedly, to avoidable illness and death.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the lessons we shoul…

Join your mostly white media in making #TruthandReconciliationDay all about a white man. Couldn’t fail harder if we tried.

— #SHIFT (@TheGentYYC) October 1, 2021

Does anyone else find it rather odd that the Trudeau in Tofino story is now on its second day? Ridiculous. 

 Excerpt from the poem Forgiving Our Fathers,from one of the best movies ever made, Smoke Signals. Residential School Survivor offers advice on how to honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation https://t.co/tdtjpVZxu2— The Globe and Ma…

What is it with these guys? Today we learned that White House staff were soothing Trump’s rages by playing show tunes he liked: Trump’s handlers designated a White House official known as the “Music Man” to play him his favorite show tunes, includ…

 ….Powell’s interview “suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give [Justice Samuel Alito] time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.” 

 Powell said that while then-President Donald Trump was inciting a riot at the Capitol, her team was filing a “12th Amendment constitutional challenge to the process the Congress was about to use.”

 “Justice Alito was our circuit justice for that,” she recalled. “And we were suing the vice president to follow the 12th Amendment as opposed to the Electoral College Act.” 

 Powell alleged that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned of the lawsuit and rushed to have Congress certify the election despite the ongoing attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

 “Everything broke loose and she really had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might have issued an injunction to stop it all, which is what should have happened,” the attorney said

If you think the insurrection ended on January 6, you are not paying attention.

— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) September 26, 2021

In other news today, I guess nobody told Post Media that the election is over.

Nothing like American owned, right wing media and their polls to reflect Canada. We just had an electionLiberals won, end of story.

— Nancy Nicholls (@nisobel) September 25, 2021

They just can’t stand it that Trudeau won AGAIN! https://t.co/4Ad3dg2gzg

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 26, 2021

COVID news keeps getting worse every day – more than a thousand new cases in Saskatchewan just this weekend. This is absolutely nuts – the anti-vaxxers are terrified of COVID but they’re now trying to demonize doctors and nurses, and they’re putting together “protocols” to breathe hydrogen peroxide and gargle iodine.

A quick thread:

⁰It’s hard to explain just how radicalized ivermectin and antivax Facebook groups have become in the last few weeks.

They’re now telling people who get COVID to avoid the ICU and treat themselves, often by nebulizing hydrogen peroxide.

So, how did we get here?

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 24, 2021

pic.twitter.com/kRIgD4Z5zb

— John Wildman (@wildmanjohn10) September 25, 2021

Thank you to the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra @SSOyxe for your leadership and commitment to keep our community safe! 👏👏👏 https://t.co/V25J7ZZQGT

— Jennifer Bowes (@JBowes_SKNDP) September 9, 2021

My brother was at the Saskatoon Symphony performance this weekend, and there was one anti-vax cellist playing out front for spare change, because she refused to get vaccinated – so now she is losing her career and all her friends, just because of anti-vax ignorant stubbornness. 

And it makes me absolutely furious that so many innocent people are being hurt by the anti-vax intransigence. I see more and more doctors speaking out:

Today I transferred an unvax Covid + patient to another hospital where her unvax Covid + husband is being treated so they could die together in the same room. Then had to tell their child about both parents likely pending demise. 😢

— Dr. K.U. (@DrKU14) September 24, 2021

We hold your hands with our gloved ones. We smile with tired eyes under our goggles. We absorb your pain with heavy hearts beneath our gowns. We are tired and broken, from suffering and death that did not have to be. This was predictable and preventable. #FirebreakAB #ThankYiu

— Chuck Wurster, MD (He/Him) (@ChuckWurster) September 27, 2021

Person in Regina hospital. Crying. Dying.

“I should have had my shots. My wife had hers. She kept telling me to get mine. I’m going to die, aren’t I?”

He spoke w/ family one last time before going to ICU. He told them he was so sorry.

He died 3 days later, alone.#COVID19SK

— Dr. Alexander Wong (@awong37) September 26, 2021

Please take this amazing remedy. Get vaccinated for those who love you. So that we do not have to break their hearts when we ask them,

“What would he want us to do if we cannot cure him?”

— Darren Markland (@drdagly) September 27, 2021

I agree with this too:

If locking my 2X vaccinated ass down for a month buys a kid his cancer surgery, a grandmother her long awaited & desperately needed new hip, keeps one more immunocompromised person from dying from Covid, or allows a mom to get her transplanted liver,

Lock.

Me.

Up.#ableg

— Shawna Gawreluck (@ShawnaGofABPoli) September 27, 2021

James Heathers, with a rare must read recommendation, in Medium, on how our biggest failing of the pandemic has been keeping it invisible. Ben Collins, in NBC News, on the rapid continuing radicalization of the anti-vaxxer movementCraig Spencer, …