USA’s mad Health Secretary
Kennedy, who is a nephew of late US President John F Kennedy, openly opposes the use of vaccines and has also backed several conspiracy theories, including on so-called chemtrails allegedly…
Health
TV commercial like no other
Recording TV programs, and then skipping through commercials during playback, I don't often watch live television. Today, a 30-second version of this video caught my attention:
Cost reductions = quality of healthcare reductions
"Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what…
Foolish and deadly
Defunding mRNA Vaccine Research Is a Catastrophic Mistake vs New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes.
How To Survive A Plague
2012 October. 13 years ago, Regina Public Library showed the film about how HIV AIDS was defeated by pressuring governments to take action. We still need this today in Saskatchewan,…
COVID Brain Is For Kids Too
It was a colossally bad idea to let every person catch COVID-19, as it is shown to have an impact on intelligence by infecting the brain. There are still publications…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Sattler rightly notes that by the time Donald Trump is removed from power in the U.S., there's going to be no meaningful…
Madmen and extremists…
One of the less frequently noticed luxuries of the postwar liberal order was the licence to be a fool. For the better part of a century, prosperous, scientifically minded countries…
In 2025, we need a vaccine against stupidity
In the summer of 1950, parents kept their children indoors for fear of a devastating and contagious virus: polio. That year alone, more than 33,000 Americans fell victim to the…
U.S. Surgeon General takes on booze
Back in the days of my foolish youth, I was a cigarette smoker. I quit... The post U.S. Surgeon General takes on booze first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
What An Insurance CEO’s Death Reveals About Canadian Healthcare
“Death by Bureaucracy Leads to a Society on the Brink” “A deliberate practice of denying a certain kind of care”, like not controlling infectious diseases in healthcare in Canada? That’s…
Big Pharma maximizes profits even if patients are harmed
Free-market conservatives believe industries should be allowed to do whatever an unregulated market allows. Many would object to Therapeutics Initiative (TI). It has value for all citizens. TI is part…
CEO killer Luigi Mangione explains
The second amendment means I am my own chief executive and commander in chief of my own military. I authorize my own act of self-defense in response to a hostile…
Murder most foul
A few days ago, fifty-year-old Brian Thompson was gunned down on a street in midtown Manhattan. Thompson was not an unimportant man. He was a senior executive of United Health…
Healthcare in BC
After more than seven years of responsibility for the sector, Adrian Dix is blamed for healthcare inadequacies. Indeed, real challenges abound. Yet solutions to apparent problems can take much time…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Hsu discusses how people massively underestimate the disproportionate climate damage done by the uber-wealthy. Mark Fawcett-Atkinson notes that the dirty energy industry is…
Drug overdose drugs are preventable
Last week, the British Columbia Coroners Service reported unregulated drug toxicity deaths of at least 192 people in July 2024. The leader of the BC Conservatives believes this is largely…
Outrageous! Is there anything left to be said?
I searched Google to see if Postmedia's Vancouver Sun had reported on this outrageous story. A friend thinks Tyler Olsen is probably BC's hardest working journalist. His tiny team at…
Insurance will not solve the Canadian Health Care Problem
Everytime, that I read a conservative criticism of the Canadian Health Care System, I am brought back to one of a variety of economics classes. Those classes all described the…
Helping hands
New research shows that the brain is more like a muscle – it changes and gets stronger when you use it. Scientists have been able to show how the brain…