Health and Sanity category archive
A Diet of Worms* 0
Over at Skepchick, Rebecca Watson takes a deep dive into the origin of the tale that horse de-wormer can somehow provide a defense against COVID-19.
It is a fascinating and timely read.
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*Sorry. I could resist the temptation no longer.
Return of the Know Nothings 0
The Me! Me! Me! Generation 0
David Horn is fed up with the “Me! Me! Me!” generation. Here’s a bit of his article in The Roanoke Times:
Follow the link for the rest of his screed, and a well-deserved screed it is, I must say.
School Daze 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston discusses recent spate of threats and acts of physical and verbal violence directed at school boards, faculty, and even students over common-sense precautions against pandemic, including–indeed, primaril–mask requirements. Here’s one example; a web search will turn up many more.
Here’s a bit from his piece; follow the link for the rest:
Running the Numbers 0
In Maine, Paul LePage, the Republican who held the governorship before the current Democratic incumbent, is bent on getting his old job back. It appears he will attempt to make an issue of Maine’s response to COVID-19. In an article looking at the impending campaign, the Portland Press-Herald’s Greg Kesich cites some statistics:
Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis champions an expensive, brand-name pharmaceutical COVID treatment but won’t require anyone to get vaccinated, has lost 42,000 people, at a rate of 197 per 100,000 population.
South Dakota, led by right-wing superstar Kristi Noem, who had the nerve to come to Maine to campaign for Donald Trump last year while her hands-off public health policies were spreading COVID across the upper Midwest, has lost 2,000 people, or 233 per 100,000.
Maine has lost 926 people to COVID, a rate of 69 per 100,000.
The complete article is at the link.
They Drank the Snake Oil 0
A Nevada feed store is now requiring customers to provide pictures of their horses if they want to purchase horse de-worming medicine.
And, in related news, an Ohio judge orders diet of dewormer.
We are a society of stupid.
Maskless Marauders 0
The artist comments. Here’s a bit of what he has to say; follow the link for the rest.
The Snake Oil Sellers 0
Seth calls out the snake oil shills.
The Influx 0
There’s no more room at hospital morgues in central Florida, so the hospitals are renting refrigerated trucks.
Meanwhile, Florida Man thinks that President Biden should do as he does . . . .
The stupid.
It burns.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Charlotte Observer’s Barry Saunders is not happy that he won’t get to see the movie Aretha in the theatre because of pandemic surge fueled by the unvaccinated. Here’s a bit of his rant (emphasis in the original):
Hate to break it to you, homes, but they already know where you are. I knew that even before my recent $15 Reuben episode. That point was driven home three years ago, when one of my writing class students told of a cellphone conversation she’d had with her boyfriend. He’d invited her to a wedding and she told him she would need to buy a dress. Within minutes and for the next several days, she said, she found her phone deluged with ads for wedding dresses and dresses to wear to weddings.