Idaho Republicans passed a bill on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, “to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child,” NBC News reported (here). Homosexuality and transsexuality are natural phenomenon, but Republica[...]
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March 9th, 2022 - 8:07 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Idaho’s GOP legislature threatens LGBQT kids with life in prison for getting sex-change surgery
March 6th, 2022 - 9:20 pm § in Health
Most Americans believe Covid-19 is nearly over, but is it?
You really can’t answer “yes,” because Covid-19 hasn’t gone away, and isn’t likely to. But most experts, “with some reservations,” think “in the US and much of Europe, the most destructive waves of Covid-19 are” behind us. (See article here.) In [...]
The ugly side of Ron DeSantis
This bully who picks on kids for wearing masks wants to be President. No way. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Capitol riot bullhorn doctor pleads guilty
Simone Gold (photo, right) is a Stanford-educated doctor, lawyer, purveyor of false Covid-19 conspiracy theories and quack cures, and insurrectionist. She’ll probably be pissed at me for not putting “Dr.” in front of her name. (When she pleaded guilty, “Never one to let peopl[...]
March 3rd, 2022 - 7:32 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
CDC releases 90% of Americans from mask tyranny
“Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Covid-19 levels have dropped significantly enough that more than 90 percent of people in the United States can go without masks,” NBC News reported on Thursday, March 3, 2022 (read story here). “Th[...]
More coffin nails in “lab leak” theory
Two new studies “offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China,” CNN reported on Saturday, February 26, 2022 (read story here). These are preprint studies, not yet peer-reviewed or publishe[...]
February 18th, 2022 - 8:14 pm § in Health
Do Canada’s stricter Covid-19 rules make a difference?
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
Canada’s approach to Covid-19 is different and better
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
February 8th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Health
Does a mask protect you if no one else wears one?
Less, but yes. With the Omicron wave subsiding, and infection rates declining, mask mandates could vanish soon. The virus certainly hasn’t vanished, and is unlikely to anytime soon, if ever. But many Americans are weary of caution, and want to pretend life is normal, even if it can’t be.[...]
Joe Rogan: Guilty or innocent?
Podcaster Joe Rogan (profile here), who self-identifies as a libertarian and free speech advocate, claims “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.” A lot of people beg to differ, including “270 scientists, physi[...]