A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

excuse me

Charlie Brown Christ implies the existence of Lucyfer

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

"It is going to get so much worse." For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US. A quick 🧪🧵

Historical analogy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac...

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

I remember this too. It seemed so impossible for bars and restaurants to not be smoky cesspools, and then suddenly - they weren't! And everyone realized that going out DIDN'T automatically mean going home with a headache & reeking of smoke. It was amazing how quickly any prior opposition dissolved.

‘We’re lost’: Cambridge family devastated after death of 3-year-old daughter This article has some of the most infuriating, car-centric, victim-blaming language I’ve ever seen. A child in a stroller was struck, dragged & killed by the 75 year-old driver of a pick-up truck in a parking lot

“AZT killed more people than AIDS” is false. I was a medical resident in the late 1980s. AZT wasn’t perfect, but it saved lives and was the first step on the way to modern HIV therapy. Evidence, history, and context here. paulsaxmd.substack.com/p/no-azt-did...

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Bank of America

Same here. Thank you, Dr. Fisman.

This could have been avoided. It’s only on the table as an option because a previous Council made the terrible decision to build a two story Investigative Services Division in the heart of our downtown instead of something taller that would have also housed the decaying Central Station. #HamOnt

This. This is the problem. OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

status: realizing that the only sensible route for a feeding tube in a whale would be OG.

“Cassandras are not reasoning on the basis of fear; rather, their reasoning has led to a conclusion that is frightening. Indeed, I would say being a clear, critical thinker is the first of the things that make someone more likely to have “got it” early.” newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This is maybe old news at this point, but peeps in #hamont should not go to any other businesses owned by these union-busters. That means don’t patronize: Mulberry Coffeehouse Paisley Coffeehouse and Eatery Donut Monster Redchurch Station 1 Coffeehouse (in Grimsby)

I'm repeating myself ad nauseam, but this totally stupid nonsense of all identical traffic lights with written signs to indicate what they are meant for is so absolutely insane that has come to symbolize the hyper-provincialism of Ontario and why it fails so miserably at transit construction.

Absolutely fantastic piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the Finch light rail and why dismissing speed as some have done is a mistake. open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...

Very well-reasoned decision regarding physician billing for mass covid vaccination clinics at the height of the pandemic. cc @docmcohen.medsky.social @nicktsergas.ca www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc...

This is a truly amazing argument for keeping a "rapid transit" line slower than the local bus it replaced.

It's pretty messed up that @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social included the fact that the 75-year-old driver escaped his collision with the little girl's stroller, without injury.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

i think you should pause and reconsider a lot of things if your patient is on both fludrocortisone and spironolactone.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

If you thought a 6.8% increase for policing costs was bad for 2026, the year after that they're predicting a 10.1% increase. 2028's a 4.5% increase. 2029's at 6.1%. That's going from $238.9m this year to $292.5m by '29, $53.6m in 3 years, a 27.5% increase.

The thread is great it really is, people have superbly and supremely weird ideas about why unsafe speeds make safe driving. My current leader is all the white people who say they need to drive fast to, it seems, outrun ICE

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.

Of course she's correct -- in fact, she's considerably understanding her point -- but it is noteworthy that we also don't vaccinate against HBV at birth. (We probably should, although I'm not the expert.) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.

Wilson Street at emerald is a 3+ lane highway akin to Main or King, but for no reason and with none of the measures that have been taken on those roads to reduce danger a shocking but totally predictable and unnecessary death

While intended to unify, the pipeline deal will only deepen divides in Canada over the long run. My latest @ca.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/why-mark-car...

can someone please tell Google that Canadians do not actually observe the Anniversary of the Statute of Westminster

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Examples of common IV antibiotics and their sodium content: - Ampicillin: 731 mg/dose → 2,924 mg/day - Ceftriaxone: 55 mg/dose → 110 mg/day - Metronidazole: 324 mg/dose → 973 mg/day - Piperacillin-Tazobactam: 556 mg/dose → 1,668 mg/day - Vancomycin: 885 mg/dose → 1,770 mg/day

The City of Ottawa is nearing the finish line on its new zoning bylaw. Did you know Ottawa's zoning is only two degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🧵...

Hot take: I get there's a "stop talking about e-bike regulation when cars are the problem" reaction, but I don't think it's the right move. 1/4

On the first day of Christmas, Doug Ford gave to me: A Science Centre shut for “safety.”

jingle horses need a union

Thinking about this a lot as I watch my neighbours who use mobility aids navigate the icy ramps that are our sidewalks. They're plowed, sure, but it's the slope that gets you. Sloped for what?? Treacherous for the hundreds who walk here so a single car can comfortably cross once or twice per day.

this one minute video sums up today's opening of toronto's newest light rail, line 6. this is so, so infuriating. ~50 min to go 10 km; ~30 min to go 5km. in this case, the cross street is a minor road, yet the train is still held up for a minute for left turns

Can we put this in the Louvre?

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca

All the organizations, universities, and esteemed professors and publications who amplified and normalized this guy in any way should do some serious introspection about how they were able to overlook a deluge of content like this.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

So we can only meaningfully discuss public health strategies that demand the individual make a personal choice with their own body. We're not interested in engaging with broader discussions about the state's role in infection control. Even in publicly managed spaces like schools.