@sundogplanets Bit late to the thread due to too much admin stuff this week.
Consensus on this revolves around evolution and animal breeding for specific characteristics. An interesting article can be found from a public radio link:
“The problem with the personal freedom argument was that there was nothing personal about getting a COVID vaccine. First, people who had been vaccinated shed less infectious virus when they get COVID compared with those who hadn’t been vaccinated. Second, people who had been vaccinated were less likely to transmit the virus to others. #Vaccination#Covid19#VaccinesWork
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“By mandating vaccines during the COVID pandemic, we inadvertently leaned into a libertarian left hook…“One day we’re going to have a really bad global crisis and a pandemic far worse than COVID, and we’ll look to the government to protect us, but it’ll have its hands behind its back and a blindfold on,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. “We’ll die with our rights on—we want liberty, but we don’t want protection.”
The Council of Canadians has a petition relating to massive amounts of groundwater water to be extracted on Ontario by a bottle water company. A pledge, actually.
"Blue Triton Waters — the corporation that bought out #Nestlé’s North American bottled water business in 2021 — will take a total of more than 8 billion litres of groundwater from two wells in #Ontario over five years.
Permits issued by the Government of Ontario grant Triton enough groundwater to fill 14 billion more #plastic bottles. Laid end to end, those bottles would circle the globe 70 times.
This deeply unjust deal is just one among many across Canada that undermine our human right to water, and our global responsibility to reduce single-use plastics.
Sign the pledge today to boycott commercial bottled water."
@auscandoc also particularly agree with
“Science and knowledge are always evolving, which means the best advice experts can offer may change. Public health agencies shouldn’t shy away from that fact and should do more to explain the scientific process, Offit said.”
“Some supplements are needed, and prenatal vitamins are one of the best examples. Unfortunately, they are also a great example of why products need to be tested and safe because pregnant people shouldn’t have to play folic acid, vitamin, and heavy metal roulette. We need more studies to understand how common contamination is with these products and how often they deviate from the amounts listed on the labels” #Pregnancy#Vitamins https://vajenda.substack.com/p/whats-in-your-prenatal-vitamin
#cdnpoli fundraising. All parties, per quarter, going back to #LPC win in 2015. #CPC dominant and their Q423 results -- $11m+ raised -- smashes all quarterly records. That said: CPC has lost all three elections that occurred during this time period. But as a fundraising machine - none even close to their equal.
@trumpet I have noticed a lot of junk posts from something called Deals or Deals3 on mastodon.social. Do you know anything about that? Tried blocking but it didn’t really stop it. Seems to have dropped off today so far.
Plenty of new titles are available now and volunteers at @DProofreaders will have plenty of work ahead.
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Money for Nothing by P.G. Wodehouse
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin W. Dixon
Kitty just came back from dental surgery, is wearing a cone and doped up on pain killers. Not acting normal at all, and not responding to any usual cues and behavior is like he's a different cat (but eating and drinking fine). Not sure whose more off about this whole thing -- the cat or me.
Years ago we had a cat that came back brain damaged after being worked on by a bad vet to remove a tumor. Am hoping the current cat comes back once he's off the meds. :(