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Showing posts with label covid-19. Show all posts
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21 December 2020

An evidence-based Alert system #nlpoli

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  Communication remains the single biggest chronic failure of the province’s COVID-19 response. As regular readers of these e-scribbles kn...
30 November 2020

Worry, fear, and the Zero Risk Bias #nlpoli

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 Accepting that life is all about risk is the first cognitive step. Mark Kingwell, On Risk (2020) T he reporter just wanted to confirm how m...
23 November 2020

A pandemic of fear #nlpoli

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 In Newfoundland and Labrador, politicians and public health bureaucrats are dealing more with a pandemic of fear than of disease. It is one...
21 September 2020

Rumpole and The Old Bull #nlpoli

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Mr. Justice Don Burridge (Not exactly as illustrated) Supporters of the travel ban won a victory last week as Supreme Court Justice Don Burr...
10 August 2020

Illusions of knowledge #nlpoli

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Last week, testimony in the travel ban case by the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and epidemiologist Dr. Proton Ra...
01 June 2020

The facts of the case #nlpoli

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From the start of the pandemic, the provincial government  took decisions for political reasons, not medical ones.  It continues to do so.  ...
26 May 2020

Fighting the Boogeyman with Dwight, John, and Janice #nlpoli

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford pleaded with Ontarians to get tested for COVID-19 on Sunday , even if they were not showing any symptoms. He rep...
12 May 2020

Ferkakte #nlpoli

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In the past 36 days,  the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has reported no new cases of CVD-19 on 21 of them. Three weeks worth o...
05 May 2020

Troubling travel ban may be illegal, unconstitutional #nlpoli

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Government of Newfoundland and Labrador  guards at COVID-19 Border Check Point (not exactly as illustrated) No other province in Cana...
04 May 2020

The trouble with bubbles #nlpoli

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Another type of Bubbles Stay in your bubble. A cute, clever little phrase that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have been hearing ...
28 April 2020

Bursting bureaucratic bullshit bubbles #nlpoli

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The daily average for new CVD cases has been declining since late March. In one of the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19,   Ontarians g...
20 April 2020

The three CVD19 pressures the NL government will face #nlpoli

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Last week, SRBP raised the likelihood that declining numbers of active cases of CVD19 in Newfoundland and Labrador will put pressure on th...
14 April 2020

Doctor Aggie's H'Answer #nlpoli

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“What do I have to do to get you to listen?” health minister John Haggie asked rhetorically and with considerable exasperation at Monday’s...
13 April 2020

Number of active COVID cases in NL declines dramatically #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador is already emerging from the first wave of the COVID-19 infection. The data from the provincial government’s...
23 March 2020

Experience Counts - COVID Economic Balls-Up Edition #nlpoli

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Update:   The links below don't work any more. Both the screwed up one (March 20) and the revised one (March 21) appear to have dis...