$15.50 per 50-mg pill
Well, it could be worse. My doctor wants to put me on Skyrizi for Crohn’s disease and psoriasis.
Someone needs to pay for all that advertising.
If you are paddling the Petawawa in Algonquin Park 
, the park rangers maintain a few springs. The water comes out very cold and filtered through millennia of sand deposits. The better maps of the park (Jeff’s Maps are my favourite by far) have these marked. Filling our water bottles from those made for a really pleasant trip.
Otherwise: bring a filter.
If you drink straight out of the river there’s a decent chance you won’t be able to paddle more than 30m from shore for a couple of days, and a solidly non-zero risk of a case of Beaver Fever.‡
‡ Colloquially named for the popular understanding that the parasite in question is endemic to slow-moving water near the dams constructed by our industrious national mascot. Like the capital of Saskatchewan, it’s one of those terms say with a perfectly straight face as a point of national pride.
“The city that rhymes with fun.”
Just in time for climate breakdown and exponential knock-on effects:
Microbes have this crazy way of not understanding borders and maps etc.
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2025/01/31/vcu-uva-stop-trans-youth-care-trump-order
Fucking a…
I guess it was inevitable, but damn…
Driving the news: On Thursday, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told VCU and UVA Health, in a memo obtained by Axios, to immediately stop giving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries to patients younger than 19.
Among those who signed it were a self-described journalist, a certified public accountant, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree “with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology.” The signers include at least 75 nurses, as well as physician assistants. More than 90 did not include any credentials at all.
Over 20 were chiropractors…
Scientists Discover First Henipavirus in North America, Raising Pandemic Fears
Dr. Rhys Parry from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences confirmed the presence of Camp Hill virus in shrews in Alabama, USA.
“Henipaviruses have caused serious disease and death in people and animals in other regions,” Dr Parry said
“One of the most dangerous is the Hendra virus, which was first detected in Brisbane, Australia, and has a fatality rate of 70 percent.
“Another example is Nipah virus which has recorded fatality rates between 40 and 75 per cent in outbreaks in Southeast Asia, including in Malaysia and Bangladesh.
