Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

Why COVID-19 is not like the flu

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Sabina Becker

A simple, straight-forward explainer, in video form: Use your social distancing, folks. It’s all we have that can stop it from spreading further and faster than it already has.

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Are WE the virus?

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Sabina Becker

I dunno. What do YOU say, Ash Sarkar? Ah. Aha. For all the dark jokes I may make about COVID-19 and all the stupid people who go out of their way to court it, this much is serious: No, this … Continue reading →

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COVID-19: An opportunity for the Shock Doctrine — or its opponents?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Naomi Klein expands, briefly, on ideas from a book she wrote several years ago: I especially love how she takes a quote from far-right economist Milton Friedman (the author of the original Shock Doctrine, which Klein critically examined in her … Continue reading →

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What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us about public health today

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Sabina Becker

John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza, talks about how badly the US handled a pandemic that most likely started on home turf. Secrecy, censorship, and denial prevailed during the 1918-19 flu pandemic. The public were often lied to, … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx does Doomsday

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Sabina Becker

It’s been a hot while, but the Manx is meowing again. Yes, folks, the calico kitty is back, with some short news items for y’all. And this time, it’s all about the imminent end of the world. So strap in … Continue reading →

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Headline Howler: The NYT’s epidumbic moment

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Won’t someone please think of all the crapitalists (and the taxes they’re not paying)? I’m sure that even without the highlight, you could see what the fuck was so wrong with this headline.

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So THAT’s how they got the CN trains moving again.

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sabina Becker

This afternoon, one of the CN trains parked on the rails (there are three pairs of them, plus one set of CP tracks) behind my house finally departed for points east, after the blockade near the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory was … Continue reading →

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Heroes for Today: The cat rescuer of Wuhan

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Sabina Becker

A short video of a volunteer who checks on pets left behind in Wuhan by quarantined owners who were caught out of town as the coronavirus epidemic took hold (and still grips the city). It seems like a small thing … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Karl Kraus on demagoguery

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Remind you of anyone???

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Music for a Sunday: Don’t try to live my life

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Sabina Becker

One for the Brexiteers. A forgotten cautionary tale from the British industrial decline of the ’80s that could have been filmed yesterday: Don’t tell me if I’m right.

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