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Tag Archives: anti-vaccine
Pondering the Media During the 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy
The various media systems of the world are overworked, and in the case of many of them, underpaid. This is exposed by the request, below most online news stories, to report any errors. With editors in short supply, the news … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Environmentalism, Health, News of the World, Police, Politics, Social Media
Tagged 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy, activism, Alberta, anti-mandate, anti-vaccine, Black Lives Matter, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Corey Hurren, Coutts, fracking, Indigenous protestors Wet'suwet'en, January 6, Nazi sympathizers, New Brunswick, reconciliation, Rexton, Sammy Yatim, trucker convoy, white supremacist
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Cultural Covid
Now that Covid-19 has been with us for two years, its profound effects on the different societies of the planet are becoming more obvious. Relatively democratic societies, for all their flirtation with fascism, are descending into mob rule as unscrupulous … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Culture, Education, Environmentalism, Health, Media, Social Media
Tagged anti-maskers, anti-vaccine, Conservatives, consumerism, covid, Covid19, environmental, healthcare, vaccine mandates, workaholic
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Partridge in the Fall
When I was in my teens and traveling on the school bus in the mornings, I would often sit across from my friend Bruce. We were both farm children and thus had lots of chores to finish every night, but … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environmentalism, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, anti-vaxxer, global climate change denier, pacific garbage patch, partridge, ruffed grouse, sixth extinction
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Taking Charge of your own Medical Care
When I was young I trusted doctors implicitly. Perhaps I was influenced by shows like Gunsmoke, Star Trek, and The Andy Griffiths Show, but I idealized them like they were all television country doctors, who saint-like, devoted their lives to … Continue reading
Posted in Self-reliance
Tagged anti-vaccine, Doctors, medical care, Medicine
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Donald Trump and the Conspiracy of Nonsense
The internet is so effective at the promulgation of conspiracy theories we almost think it might have been made for that purpose. Marshall McLuhan suggests that each of our technologies simply extend our own abilities, just as a spear extends … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, News of the World, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, Birther, democrat, Donald Trump, George Bush, global climate change denier, Hillary Clinton, Justin Raimondo, nomination, presidency, republican, white house
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