Interesting Links for 05-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Sick Workers Connected to 41 Percent of US Food Poisoning Outbreaks

2. Who wants an Ea-Nasir Bracelet - now available in Akkadian!

3. Since they discovered "The Evolution of Dance" it's been an unusual evening that we don't have to put it on for the kids to dance along to.

4. More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

Comments

[andrewducker]

Minor issue with tags today. Am helping the guy behind Pinboard track it down.

[calimac]

3) That's a mightily selective view of 60s popular music.

4) That was certainly true of my friends who caught it from their daughter, who is a preschool teacher. Guess where she got it from.

[andrewducker]

3) Oh yes, very biased towards the modern. I'd love to see a decent walkthrough of dance crazes through time, but I suspect that would be a good 20-30 minutes long.

4) From a horde of tiny plague carriers?

[calimac]

4) It only took one.

[dewline]

1. Worrying. Especially now! Paid sick leave is an issue that we've been trying to get the various provincial and territorial governments on board with in Canada since before the Pandemic emergency declaration was first made!

2. Heh!

4. Doug Ford and his "education" minister Stephen Lecce and his "health" minister Sylvia Jones all seem set on making this happen across Ontario.

[andrewducker]

Paid sick leave would make such a difference generally.

[hairyears]

The article say exactly that, directly below the headline:

Paid sick leave policies could reduce the risk of spreading disease, notes the agency

Whatever political will exists to implement it, will face entrenched opposition from class hatred and the Libertarian anathema against the concept of Public Health.