Here is a scientist explaining the local effects of climate change, based on solid science, but ignoring the science of the airborne spread of #Covid and other pathogens while in a closed public space at a time when Canada is at a severe state of infection. We seem to choose what science we follow.
https://warktimes.com/2024/08/05/warning-no-ones-safe-from-potentially-lethal-climate-change/
“Every company that issued forced relocation ultimatums to their pre-pandemic remote workers will not only lose most (if not all) their top talent in the next year, but they will struggle to hire for at least the coming decade.
The bridge has been burnt, and the well has been poisoned.”
[Trust arrives on foot, but leaves on horseback.] —Dutch Proverb
https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/
#RTO #WFH
@3409b63c I use iNaturalist which covers all insects, birds, flora, etc. — pretty cool https://www.inaturalist.org/
BTW native honey bees are threatened species
“The provincial government has lowered the minimum age to purchase a bear or deer hunting licence to 12 from 16, the Department of Natural Resources and Energy recently announced.” — In other news, children under 16 in NB cannot choose their own pronouns to use in school
#TheLandTimeForgot #nbpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/hunting-12-bear-deer-new-brunswick-licence-1.6963213
“Droplets and surfaces are very convenient for people in power – all of the responsibility is on the individual,” he [Prof. Jimenez] said. “On the other hand, if you admit it is airborne, institutions, governments, and companies have to do something.” —The Telegraph 2021-10-02
“The very first canon of nursing … is this: to keep the air [the patient] breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him.” —Florence Nightingale c. 1850
https://jarche.com/2022/04/a-profound-failure-of-ethical-action/
#covid #DropletDogmatics
“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut
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