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This Week In Sanity: "Pestilence"

This Week In Sanity: "Pestilence"

In a March Q&A with Anchorage Press, Matt Hickman asked me what I thought Anchorage's future looked like. I suggested that should any Republican candidate for mayor win the election — the city would travel a bumpy road. "I’ve sat and thought about what the

'Thoughts & Prayers,' a Florida Tragedy Unfolds in Alaska

'Thoughts & Prayers,' a Florida Tragedy Unfolds in Alaska

Adapted from public social media posts from August 1 to September 3, 2021. It was all so seemingly benign. A Florida couple headed to Alaska in the middle of a global pandemic on a dream vacation, stopping first in Oregon, where they spent time on the Rogue River taking pictures

This Week In Sanity: 'It Really Is Insane'

This Week In Sanity: 'It Really Is Insane'

As our healthcare system teeters on the brink of collapse, Bronson supporter Jamie Allard and her group of plague rats from Save Anchorage, Open Alaska, and Alaskans for Children's Right to Breathe march onward with their non-patriotic, non-science-based quest to rid the Anchorage School District of its universal

COVID-19 Three-Dose Vaccine Series for Immunocompromised Individuals Available Now

COVID-19 Three-Dose Vaccine Series for Immunocompromised Individuals Available Now

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is encouraging all Alaskans who are immunocompromised to follow a national recommendation to get a three-dose vaccine series now and is also closely following news about a federal plan to offer booster doses starting in late September to all

The Tiniest Soldotna Rally

The Tiniest Soldotna Rally

The tiniest rally was held in Soldotna today.

This Week In Sanity: Queen of the Plague Rats

This Week In Sanity: Queen of the Plague Rats

I don't know about you, but I am VERY excited to be writing about a group of people hell-bent on facilitating a vaccine-resistant variant of COVID-19. I'm even more excited to be writing about COVID-19 in general. AGAIN!

Clinical Update: Vaccine Mandates & Vaccine Resistant Variants

Clinical Update: Vaccine Mandates & Vaccine Resistant Variants

This week's Clinical Update released by Alaska DHSS has some interesting information in it—not that it doesn't typically, it's just that this week it has a little something extra that's certain to cause a high degree of mouth-frothing amongst social media scientists and constitutional scholars.