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California, with highest HCW pay in the US, see strikes, retirements and critical staffing shortages. How about being nicer to your staffs?

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hr/california-hospital-workers-walk-out-as-labor-disputes-over-staffing-heat-up.html Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, disputes between unions and California hospitals over staffing shortages are intensifying, prompting healthcare workers to walk off the job and hold rallies, CalMatters reported Oct. 15. Strikes have occurred at hospitals including Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, Calif., and Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. Healthcare workers at Keck Hospital of USC and…

What did flu vaccine experts talk about before the swine flu pandemic occurred?

DHHS’s National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) met February 5-6, 2009. Here is a section of the NVAC minutes that dealt with the concept of vaccinating the public for a “Bird Flu” H5N1 pandemic–vaccinating before an epidemic appeared.  Remember that Bird Flu, though deadly, has not spread from one person to another, but only from a…

Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault/ The Guardian

• Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal • ‘War contaminants’ from 2004 attack could be cause  By Martin Chulov at the Guardian White phosphorous smoke screens are fired by the US army as part of an early morning patrol in November 2004 on the outskirts of Falluja, Iraq, in preparation for an offensive…

Another anthrax accident was reported at Fort Detrick in 2002

A letter published in the Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, April 2004 described two lab workers using standard procedures to grow and handle anthrax at USAMRIID. Despite this, medium leaked from a flask and spores were recovered from the nares of one of the workers. The potential for inhalation anthrax was considered serious, and…

Yesterday I gave a talk and warned that when the pandemic ends, climate change is likely to be the next “crisis” used for social control.

And I just came across Michael Crichton’s ‘Author’s Message’ from the book State of Fear, which elaborates on my concerns: AUTHOR’S MESSAGEA novel such as State of Fear, in which so many divergent views are expressed, may lead the reader to wonder where, exactly, the author stands on these issues. I have been reading environmental texts…

GMO Heat Rises Against Monsanto / Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Monsanto (NYSE:MON), the Missouri-based seed company, has stopped lobbying for GMO crops in Europe. The company is backing off because it has accepted that there is low demand for genetically modified plants in Europe. A Monsanto Germany spokeswoman, Ursula Lüttmer-Ouazane said ”We’ve come to the conclusion that this has no broad acceptance at the moment.” She also noted that it was “counterproductive…