This and that for your Sunday reading.
- Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread (facilitated by people relaxing their prevention efforts) batters already-struggling health care systems. And Ingrid Torjeson discusses a new study from Japan suggesting that Omicron actually results in a longer viral shedding peak - meaning that the policies pushing people back to work earlier are resulting in their returning to workplaces when they're at their most infectious.
- Eoin Higgins discusses how the experience of a crisis may push people to demand collective response to the problems which can't realistically be addressed at an individual level. And Saeed Kamali Dehghan reports on a new study showing the underreported climate emergencies which primarily affect the world's poorest populations.
- Meanwhile, Nick Pearce reports that the Boundary Dam CCS project is once again falling far short of even its own overpriced promises - even as the fossil fuel sector continues to demand tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to use a new set of CCS projects as an excuse to keep spewing carbon pollution.
- Zak Vescera reports on Scott Moe's choice to appoint an unqualified partisan hack to oversee the selloff of Saskatchewan's public health care system.
- Finally, the Globe and Mail's editorial board questions why the drug poisoning crisis is still being treated as an afterthought.
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ReplyDeleteStart watching Dr. John Campbell, he really breaks the numbers down.
Scotland had more sever lockdowns then England, yet had 600% increase in cases compared to England's 250% increase. Omicron is to transmissible to stop.
Even China super lockdowns where they imprison the population of infected cities in their own homes is just delaying inevetible, eventual China will have to end the lockdowns for the Olympics and to avoid mass starvation.