I want to give a big shout out & thank you to all the Americans who are cheering on and encouraging us Canadians, as we step up our boycott & response to Trump’s tariffs. It means a lot. We know you are not Trump and we are all in this dystopian nightmare together.
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I’m officially on Substack, writing about public lands in the American West managed by the Bureau of Land Management—our least understood, least protected, and largely unknown endowment of public lands.
Wallace Stegner said it best: “We simply need that wild country available to us, eve…
gonna start posting some of my etymology charts on here; here’s one that shows the common origins of suffering, euphoria, and ferret
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Due to the advent of Omicron variant, Australia has had a record number of over 60,000 positive cases over the past 24 hours from 47,000 the previous day in a population of 25 million. Australia has a double vaccinated rate for adults over 16 years of 91.5%. Vaccination and the other draconian measures such as indoor masking does not seem to be slowing the spread of Omicron.
Omicron is a GOOD thing. The more that get it, the more that we are safe from the other 'worse' ones. Then we'll be on the way to being over this. (That's just my understanding from what I've read.) Our docs here in US seem to be feeling that unless I am totally missing what they say.
I agree that Omicron is a good thing as we move from pandemic to endemic. The danger is the authorities doubling down with booster shots etc as has happened in Israel where they are giving 4th doses of Pfizer.