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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-covid-vaccine-mandates-unvaccinated-employees/ Biden Offers ‘Flexibility’ as Workers Nationwide Threaten to Quit Rather Than Comply With Vaccine Mandates The Biden administration is now suggesting federal employers and government contractors offer “flexibility” when enforcing COVID vaccine mandates against unvaccinated employees. This announcement is an about-face from the far-reaching rules President Biden laid out in a September speech where he lashed out at…
The Mask Debacle: How partisan warfare over mandates became a central feature of the pandemic/Tablet
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-mask-debacle Recent days have witnessed the emergence of a new rift in our pandemic debate. Strikingly, this time the dispute is not just partisan, but also splitting the Democratic Party. While Democratic governors appear to see where political winds are blowing, some blue cities are moving in the opposite direction. And many states that are dropping adult mask mandates are retaining them for kids,…
My disappeared post, and important comment, recovered from the WayBackMachine, about how US heroin comes mostly from Afghanistan, not Mexico, and the US Government could easily stem the supply, if it wished to
Saturday, January 30, 2016 NY Times’ penetrating look at the heroin epidemic gets the cause and solution all wrong On October 30, 2015 the NY Times published an in-depth article on the heroin epidemic, focused on New Hampshire, which saw the greatest increase in deaths from drug overdoses (74%) in the US between 2013 and 2014. New Hampshire…
WHO Director Chan begins instilling fear of bird flu/ BBC
From the BBC: Dr Margaret Chan says avian flu is more of a problem than swine flu The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned the global swine flu pandemic is not yet over and the virus could still mutate…. However she admitted she had not yet had a vaccine but said she…
Chertoff tells Leavitt: No Emergency, No Problem
In a particularly Kafka-esque memorandum, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt on September 23, 2008 and said bluntly that he had no evidence for an anthrax emergency… however, there exists a non-negligible risk there may someday be one, so feel free to invoke the…
Cook from scratch–or beware your future health!/ Guardian
I gave a “super-easy” cooking class this morning. Why is a doctor giving cooking classes? Because the quality of the ingredients in processed food is so poor, I believe it is ushering in an age of chronic ill health. At least when you cook from basic ingredients, you know what they are. I may have…