classics digests, reflections and reviews
I’ve been extremely busy in the past months, and had no time to write a proper blogpost. But a recent event has obliged me to speak up, for “silence gives consent”, and I do not think it right to give consent to a comment made by a pubic health officer concerning my colleagues. “If people are in our healthcare system and not recognizing the importance of vaccination, then this is […]
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Government officials around the world have been telling the public that their response to the pandemic is “guided by science”, and that they rely on their scientist-advisors regarding which public health measures to put in place. Most people have abided by these measures, which have effectively slowed the spread of the virus, and prevented a collapse of our healthcare system. The truth is, however, that science never guides. It may […]
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COVID-19 and Capitalism The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production and with them the whole relations of society. Everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. Man is at last compelled to face soberly, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. In Manifesto of the Communist Party written almost two centuries ago, […]
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Four weeks ago, on March 21, a few days after an official declaration of state of emergency, I plotted three graphs on the number of active COVID-19 cases in Asia, America and Europe. Updated graphs indicate changes in the past four weeks: In Europe, Ireland, Spain and Belgium have overtaken Italy in terms of active cases per 10,000 population; In Asia, Singapore and Turkey have seen dramatic increase in the […]
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A Historic Moment Living in a tourist destination has its advantages and disadvantages. We’ve mostly enjoyed the immense advantages here, but COVID-19 has changed that dramatically in the past couple of weeks, and perhaps weeks and months to come. Our city is one of the hardest hit by COVID-19 in the country. We’re also one of the first states/provinces in North America that have just declared a state of emergency: […]
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