essays

all, commentary, essays

Public Health Debt

2024-01-05

Read More 2024-01-05

The image is 2 photos, one is of a man in a baseball cap, black leather jacket and tan cargo pants standing in a museum among life size statues of people including a shabbily dressed man with a duffle bag, trench coat and golf cap looking tired, another statue of a man in light blue overalls and a red scarf and train conductor hat standing straight back against a wall, and the third statue is of a businessman leaning back against a wall all in a black top hat, black long coat, black pants, black boots, a white shirt with a black tie, wearing white gloves and holding a black cane, and looking downward. Next to the top hat man is a yellow sign the image includes a closeup of the yellow sign which has a one line quote from J.P. Morgan saying I owe the public nothing. The caption on the image says Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton Pennsylvania USA. November 10, 2013. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

all, commentary, essays, scrapbook

Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

Read More 2023-12-25

all, commentary, essays, letters to the editor, scrapbook

The problem is, we’re not post pandemic.

2023-12-03

Read More 2023-12-23

all, commentary, essays, letters to the editor, scrapbook

Lockdown revisionist hysteria taken to its ultimate conclusion.

2023-12-20

Read More 2023-12-20

all, essays

Eugenics as an ideology

2023-11-30

Read More 2023-11-30

Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

all, commentary, essays

They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

Read More 2023-10-27

all, commentary, essays

Multiple layers for safety: public health is not an à la carte menu.

2023-10-15

Read More 2023-10-15

all, commentary, essays, scrapbook

The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents

2023-09-14

Read More 2023-09-14

all, commentary, essays

Anti-mask Woke-washing

2023-08-31

Read More 2023-08-31

all, commentary, essays, outdoors, scrapbook

Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public

2023-08-25

Read More 2023-08-25

all, essays

Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

2023-08-08

Read More 2023-08-08

all, essays

Manufacturing MILD

2023-08-05

Read More 2023-08-05

all, essays

Elite Panic.

2023-07-13

Read More 2023-07-13

all, essays

Thanks to vaccines, the threat is reduced – so we will no longer be requiring vaccination. Ba dum bump.

2023-07-01

Read More 2023-07-01

all, commentary, essays

Ally, role model, or celebrity influencer? For Thee But Not For Me is not public health.

2023-06-01

Read More 2023-06-01

all, essays, scrapbook

Cats in Wonderland – the Uncanny Valley of lying AIs

2023-05-29

Read More 2023-05-29

all, commentary, essays

Deplatforming is not silencing. Voila: the evidence.

2023-04-29

Read More 2023-04-29

Is this butterfly meme, but the guy is labeled Covid is over people, the butterfly is labeled a guy in a mask at the grocery store, and the caption reads Is this lockdown?

all, commentary, essays

Stop saying “post-pandemic”

2023-04-28

Read More 2023-04-28

all, essays, letters to reps, mail

ESSENTIAL SERVICES NEED MASK REQUIREMENTS

2023-04-12

Read More 2023-04-12

all, commentary, essays, letters to reps, scrapbook

Restricting vaccine access because of anti-vax bs or waiting for hospitals to overflow is unethical

2023-04-02

Read More 2023-04-02

all, commentary, essays, scrapbook

Socialism for me but not for thee. The Elite Panic of Star Trek’s Prime Directive.

2023-04-01

Read More 2023-04-01

all, essays

Risky Shift, a groupthink vulnerability

2023-03-19

Read More 2023-03-19