Notices by Auscandoc (auscandoc@med-mastodon.com), page 4

In its October 2023 hearing into the conduct of Mark Trozzi, one of those scheduled speakers, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal noted that “in promoting a false narrative about 80 deceased doctors, he targeted private individuals, causing distress to their grieving families.” (2/2)

“But the people who continue to obsess over the supposedly negative impacts of these vaccines are neither rational nor reasonable. Instead, they’ll spend the rest of their lives moving the goalposts around the field in ways that help them avoid the inevitable confrontation with this scientific reality.” (3/4)

B#C. #HealthCareWorker #VaccineMandate gets court approval https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/vaccine-mandates-for-health-care-workers-reasonable-and-constitutional-bc-judge-rules-8740955 “B.C. Supreme Court Justice Simon Coval has sided with provincial health officer Dr. #BonnieHenry on vaccine mandates for health-care workers, largely dismissing claims they are unreasonable and unconstitutional.

In a May 10 ruling, Coval states that the province’s top doctor was justified in extending COVID-19 vaccine mandates from October 2021 via two renewed orders made on Oct. 5, 2023. (1/6)

@malwaretech this assuredly is not tech. 😉 https://mastodon.social/@cassiar/109430606283281600

#CLIMATEACTION IS CHEAPER THAN #CLIMATEINACTION
Costs of #ClimatePolicies by 2050 Costs of #ClimateDamages by 2050
Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L. The economic commitment of #ClimateChange. Nature 628, 551-557 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07219-0

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-climate-targets-b2529461.html “Seven countries now generate nearly all of their #electricity from #renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using #geothermal, #hydro, #solar or #wind power.

I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life. | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/04/1084209/vertex-exacel-approval-gene-editing-sickle-cell-disease-patient/ “I’d lived with #SickleCell my whole life—experiencing chronic pain, organ damage, and hopelessness. To me, this opportunity meant finally taking control of my life and having the opportunity to be a present father.

The drug I received, called #ExaCel, could soon become the first #CRISPR-based treatment to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration,”

German emissions at 70-year low as coal use drops https://phys.org/news/2024-01-german-emissions-year-coal.html “German #emissions were at their lowest point in around 70 years as Europe's largest economy managed to reduce its dependence on #coal faster than expected, a study published Thursday showed.

Europe's biggest economy emitted 673 million tonnes of the #GreenhouseGases last year, 9.8 percent lower than in 2022, “

“With all three respiratory viruses circulating at full force, you would think we’d be seeing people wearing masks everywhere in public. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The state of denialism and general refusal to take simple steps to reduce the risk of infection can be seen everywhere.”

“By wastewater levels, #JN1 is now associated with the second-biggest wave of infections in the United States in the pandemic, after #Omicron. We have lost the ability to track the actual number of infections since most people either test at home or don’t even test at all, but the very high wastewater levels of the virus indicate about 2 million Americans are getting infected each day.” #COVIDisNotOver #COVID https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/111698225140794627

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies

“study published on Wednesday in Nature has found that using online search engines to vet #conspiracies can actually increase the chance that someone will believe it. The researchers point to a known problem in search called "#DataVoids." Sometimes, there's not a lot of high-quality information to counter misleading headlines or surrounding fringe theories”

@britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy So far there’s nothing to indicate that SARSCOV2 is going to go away. Unfortunately. Its propensity to mutate to avoid immunity suggests the opposite.

Yersinia Pestis never went away. It is endemic in the rural South West of the USA for example. It was the conditions that helped it propagate that improved. Even then the multiple waves of the plague went well beyond a few years.

@georgetakei Yet she will remain blissfully unaware as will those of her base (unfortunately).

“the #HeatDome was a foreshock of the world to come, with impacts both immediate and long-lasting. Yet it occurred in a world that has only warmed, on average, about 1.2 degrees since 1850. We’re now racing to 1.5 degrees and are likely to cross that threshold by the mid-2030s.”
#ClimateCrisis https://mastodon.social/@ryanschultz/110906759659640682

“While the planet has warmed 1.2 degrees since the 19th century, when humans first started burning #FossilFuels at an industrial scale, Canada has warmed at twice that rate, and the Arctic at four times. ..An Earth that’s two degrees hotter translates to a #Canada at least four degrees hotter, on average. .“A hot, dry summer ..in the Canadian context that means forest fires, that means #CropFailures, that means urban #droughts .”

“In 2005, Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht first coined the term #solastalgia to describe the feeling of being homesick while still at home. It’s that feeling of loss and melancholia that kicks in as your home #environment changes before your eyes, and it will come to define the deep emotional and psychological distress that more #Canadians will confront as global warming drives their #climate past recognition.”

“scientists at the #CanadianForestService and the #UniversityOfAlberta projected that the annual footprint of #charred land in #Canada will more than double by 2050 and increase four-fold before century’s end. Some of the steepest increases will be in already hard-hit #WesternCanada, but also in swathes of northern #Ontario and #Quebec.

And those #fires will be fundamentally different—more beastly and less controllable”

“A study of #wildfire seasons conducted by scientists working with #HealthCanada and other federal departments estimated up to 240 deaths from short-term exposure, and up to 2,500 #PrematureDeaths in the long run, from fire events in 2017 alone. In parts of #BC hardest hit by that year’s wildfires, the smoke was estimated to reduce average #LifeExpectancy by a full year.”

“in #Canada, some 30,000 #children who were in utero during B.C.’s 2017 #wildfire season were later studied by #PublicHealth scientists. Those whose mothers lived in areas with the worst #smoke exposure were likelier to be born smaller and #preterm; they were also sicker, developing #croup, #laryngitis and #bronchitis at higher rates than other children.”

“Within a few decades, #Canadians in every part of the country will be faced with an inescapably altered #geography. #SeaLevels will rise up to half a metre on the #EastCoast by 2060 and approach a full metre by century’s end. Levels on the #WestCoast will rise more slowly, but the more urbanized coastline around #Vancouver and lower-lying communities will require massive upgrades to the #dikes keeping them dry.