https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/12/31/COVID-Six-What-Learned/
"Last year on this date, I published a
Tyee article about the fifth
anniversary of the first public announcement of what we now know as COVID-19.
My conclusions then were that we hadn’t learned much from the experience. A
year later, many of us have unlearned the value of vaccination. Outbreaks of
measles and whooping cough have predictably followed. Alberta has stopped
reporting COVID-19 in hospitals.
But looking back over the past year, I can see that some of us have learned a
lot. For example, a Toronto hospital is now helping patients pay their rent,
giving them a financial “vaccination” against eviction and homelessness —
conditions known to produce bad health outcomes.
We’re also learning, for example, how such viruses can spread through the air,
and what their long-term impacts can be on us and our children — not to mention
our politics.
We’re beginning to worry about avian flu, H5N1, which has killed millions of
American chickens and turkeys and which continues to infect U.S. dairy cattle.
Mercifully, H5N1 hasn’t yet learned how to jump reliably from human to human.
But it keeps mutating and recombining with other viruses; it will stumble on
our immunity password eventually."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Covid: January 1, 2026
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-january-1-147125357
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
