This is what’s left of the protest about an hour ago. This is the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit/Windsor. If you were standing looking in the same direction as the chopper your back would be facing the US. It’s about a mile from the bridge or about 1.5k because Canada.
Indeed, as well as the ongoing effort to keep us plebes fighting amongst ourselves, instead of uniting against the money-hoarders. That libertarian, seemingly grassroots drive is often very well funded.
or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle two years ago, which was harassed by drive-by counter-protesters until the resulting chaos could be used as an excuse to send in the stormtroopers
Pre-Omicron, pre-vaccine data, but correlation between severity of illness and sevetity of subsequent problems should bode well for vaccinated folks. Huge, well controlled study, but no way to know how it applies to our current situation.
One of the Telegram channels that was closed down belonged to conspiracy theorist and former vegan chef Attila Hildmann, who spread antisemitic messages as well as disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic to his followers on the platform, the paper reported.
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Further reading, if you are interested:
“His goal is probably to shock people and smash taboos simply in order to get as much short-term attention as possible,” explains Pia Lamberty.
Also, if you are fluent in German and want to look at some similarities in a C-class “celebrity” going down a terrible rabbit hole, I suggest you listen to this podcast:
(It is available on a many a platform.)
Thread from Orla Hegarty, an architect who has been pushing for building environmental mitigations to the spread of the pandemic, on how credulous news agencies amplify messages they would like to be true. One bad piece of journalism where the journalist either didn’t understand the data (that wasn’t there) or deliberately misled. Probably a bit of both to be honest. And it gets reported all around the world,not just by obvious bad actors (The Times, Breitbart) but by those taken in by the veneer or respectability the Fucking Irish Times has.
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The thread is worth it. Genuinely shocking to see a piece by a conservative know nothing making it into the footnotes in the BMJ etc.
There are definitely deeper reasons.
Their initial stated intentions were to eliminate the covid mandates at the US/Canada border. Kind of silly considering the same requirements were in place on the US side.
That expanded to eliminating all covid mandates. Again silly because the provinces are responsible for all other mandates.
Then they came up with a ridiculous Memorandum of Understanding demanding, among other things, a new election.
It’s a completely nonsensical shitshow. A look at the leaders and influencers gives some insight.
I wish they would have waited to do this, it’s emboldening(I think I used that right) people here to organize truck protests in the US.
I may have to change my prediction of no truck convoy to DC to… Crap, here they come.
If it wasn’t for covid I would be out there mocking them. This my neck of the woods. That is Canada across the water. They’ve been posting photos and video all day Saturday.
Other photos show a lot of the last guy flags. I’m still not sure what they are protesting. In Michigan there are zero mandates, mask, vaccine or any other lock downs. Haven’t been (should have been) for months.
Almost every school district has starting lifting mask requirements for kids and any trucker in line for Canada has been vaccinated.
They truly believe they are doing God’s work and are resistance fighters.
I can’t believe they watch the videos of themselves and think they look smart.
The truck protest people will likely try to take credit for it but the provinces are doing what they would have done anyway. The western premiers, in particular, have been eager to lift restrictions at the first signs of success.
Not sure how I feel about this, using Barry to chase off people. I would stick around for Barry Manilow music.
They have…but I feel like they also won’t mind the far right thinking that the protests are working to get them what they want, either. 
Was worth reading. But also was worth reconsideration before being shocked (SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked…).
The BMJ piece is some editorial news stuff, I think. Good enough for stupid journalists to “cite” as a credible source, but no researchers would take it as such.
The BMC Infectious Disease paper is a review, and they obviously didn’t only cite academic research papers but their search included public non-academic sources. One can misunderstand this, and it could propagate, but it’s usual academic practice for meta-analyses an some types of reviews. I would have to look at this more thoroughly to decide if I’d be cross with them.
I don’t want to sound condescending, but that other “paper” ? “An Action Research Project Based on Teacher Reflections on Their Pedagogical Practice in a Nature Preschool in the West of Ireland during Covid-19?” That’s not an example to worry about. This should be ignored.
Also, Science Direct is a platform. The journal “Urban Forestry & Urban Greening” hardly has any relevant leverage in anything related to the pandemic. As well: ignore.
The rest is just bad journalism, as always. So, after reading the thread and reconsidering, I think the OP is either blowing things up a bit too much to make their (valid) point, or misunderstood the sciency bits. There’s not much to see.
Just FTR: outdoor settings most likely do play a very, very minor role in transmission. But that’s not the point I’m trying to argue right now.
When Copacabana was peaking at number 8 on the charts, I had to listen to other schoolkids repeatedly sing it during hours-long school bus rides home. It can really wear on you after a while. /s
*Other popular sing-a-longs were The Gambler, and Coward of the County.
And there you go, not a single mask at the football game.
Super(Spreader)Bowl
