With Age Comes Wisdom?

Covid in Canada right now is low as is the flu and RSV. I have noticed that there is not much coughing in public places. It would be great if things stayed like this for a while.

Stop telling women their Long COVID is menopause.

Five years later, no matter how much researchers have learned since the original COVID-19 virus hit the U.S. in early 2020, there are still unknowns about the virus and its effects on the immune system. One puzzling connection is popping up between COVID and autoimmune conditions, including type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to new research from the University of Utah published in the journal ImmunoInformatics.

New research shows Covid vaccines may boost cancer treatment, helping the immune system fight tumors and nearly doubling patient survival compared with those unvaccinated. https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/mrna-covid-vaccines-help-cancer-patients

If you are short of breath after a Covid infection this is a good read. Click on Facebook.com to read.

Patients who got an mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting checkpoint inhibitors were TWICE as likely to be alive after 3 years vs. the unvaccinated.

~1,000 patients. Multiple cancers. 2020–2023 data.

Presented at ESMO 2025. This is real.

Let that sink in.

We spent 3 years arguing about boosters.

Meanwhile, these shots were quietly doing something we never designed them for:

Waking up the immune system against cancer.

The study examined nearly 3,800 cases in which the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) confirmed that employees had contracted COVID-19 in connection with their work between 2020 and 2024. In total, 4,615 infected workers were identified in these investigations. Nearly two-thirds had died, and almost one-third required hospitalization.

The researchers found that the risk of exposure and infection was particularly high in health care and social assistance, public administration, and manufacturing. These occupations often involve close contact with other people or working in confined indoor environments where transmission can occur more easily.

The health care and social assistance sector alone accounted for nearly half of all OSHA investigations. Factory workers and others who work in close proximity to colleagues or the public were also overrepresented among those infected.

When the researchers compared the workforce with the general civilian population, they found that people in the labor force had about a 24% higher risk of dying from COVID-19 across the age groups studied. Men also had approximately a 15% higher risk of COVID-19-related death than women.

The researchers conclude that workplaces can play a major role in the spread of airborne infectious diseases. The findings show that workers in certain occupations face substantially higher risks than the general population and that stronger protective measures are needed to reduce illness, hospitalizations, and deaths during future pandemics.

The study is also a reminder that COVID-19 was not only an individual health issue but also an occupational hazard. The highest risks were observed in jobs where people could not work remotely and instead had to spend prolonged periods in close contact with patients, customers, clients, or coworkers.