A Calgary pastor has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for his role in protests against COVID-19 public health measures that blocked Alberta's main Canada-U.S. border crossing for more than two weeks.
But a judge in Lethbridge, Alta., gave Artur Pawlowski 60 days credit for time already served.
I naively used to think that people would realize opposition to COVID vaccines when there is already a long list of vaccines required for your kid to attend school or daycare would cause cognitive dissonance resulting in people seeing the anti-vax movement as culture war foolishness.
I was naive. People have instead addressed this internal inconsistency by deciding to be against all vaccines; measles, mumps, polio, etc.
@carnage4life the sad problem is that #antivaxxers mostly endanger the rest of society like those that legitimately can't get vaccinated or are still too young to get fully vaccinated.
@arstechnica ☝️ It may not take any single scary subvariant to actually be a scary proposal.
Every infection — the #antivaxxers 'did their own research', so good on 'em 🤷🏻♂️ — attacks/lowers our defences and reactivates the prevalent #HSV and #EpsteinBarr viruses which appear to be behind lot of the #longcovid cases... we're approaching 100 million cases of long covid globally by the end of the year.
The best way to lower the risk of (long) covid to yourself and those you care about is by staying current on vaccinations and, yes, using a mask.
And thanks #CCP for demanding that in early 2020 flight had to be allowed to leave the #PRC and create this #pandemic it covered up.
If you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, COVID-19 vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism.
"'We are very, very concerned about the upcoming pan-respiratory season,' Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, said in a briefing Wednesday, according to CNN.
A big reason for that concern? Americans who fail to get vaccines either because they believe the lies that the anti-vaxxers tell, or because they have become complacent."
The three viruses about which health officials are concerned when they speak of the pan-respiratory season coming up: flu, Covid, and RSV. There's now a vaccine for the latter for older folks, a flu shot is recommended prior to the end of October, and a new Covid booster for those 65+ and who are at risk will be available this fall.
Hey, everyone. Quick update. The #antivaxxers said that the Pfizer #Covid vaccine would mutate my DNA. It's been almost 4 years since my first injection and I'm sorry to report I still have yet to grow Wolverine claws, super healing powers, or the ability to fly.
This book — written by "Anonymous", edited by Children's Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland and Children's Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ Revolution co-founder Zoey O’Toole,
Man Who Debunked RFK Jr. Long Ago Describes His 'Whack-A-Mole' Candidacy (www.huffpost.com)
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.
Anti-Vaxxers (xkcd.com)
Part 1/10 – The Grand Debunk of the antivaxxer book “Turtles All the Way Down” (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
This book — written by "Anonymous", edited by Children's Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland and Children's Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ Revolution co-founder Zoey O’Toole,