Monday [7 to 11]

And onwards.

11.  Advent

Quick quiz question - what is supposedly wrong with the number of candles here?  By the way, this evening's quiz is not in the same form - it will be based on four themes, not necessarily religious, it will be open ended.

10.  DAD

https://dailyuspost.com/us-news/canadas-indigenous-health-expert-carrie-bourassa-loses-job-when-ancestry-claims-prove-false/

A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud. 

Carrie Bourassa, a public health expert who served as scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, was suspended on Nov. 1, five days after the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a lengthy expose on her background. 

Far from being a member of the Métis nation, as she had long claimed, a laborious trace of Bourassa’s family tree revealed that her supposedly indigenous ancestors were in fact immigrant farmers who hailed from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

She does look a bit Red Indian though, don't you think?  Shirley 1/1024th?

9.  Swiss referendum

So two-thirds of the Swiss have voted for a combined bill giving mass payments to Covid victims joined with vaxx passports.  Two-thirds turnout, two cantons held out, showing why it was unconstitutional.

8.  DS mailing has this

The Department for Education has issued new guidance today requiring secondary school students to wear masks in communal areas starting tomorrow. The DfE sent an email update to schools and childcare providers which said: “Face coverings should be worn in communal areas in all settings by staff, visitors and pupils or students in Year 7 and above, unless they are exempt. “Pupils or students (in Year 7 or above) should continue to wear face coverings on public and dedicated school transport, unless they are exempt.”

Yes, the Science of course is that chn getting this mild variant cannot get it below Year 8 - a most socially responsible and compassionate virus to demarcate like that.

7.  Arthur C. Johnson, mad keen Beatles fan

Why did John Lennon look so sick and emaciated toward the end of his life? 

Because he was sick and emaciated. During the 70s, he was doing heroin (and blaming it on Paul, when it was Yoko who by all accounts started John on heroin), cocaine, cannabis , possibly angel dust (although there is no direct evidence, it was being consumed heavily by Harry Nilsson while he was hanging out with John) and other drugs that were given him by his LA and NY friends, to the point that he needed nose surgery to restore his septum. He contracted bulimia as well sometime in the late 1960s or 1970s, possibly in reaction to the weight he put on during what he later called “my Fat Elvis period.”