Military bases struggling with personnel shortages, internal review finds

The average base has about three-quarters of required personnel actually working, with Canadian Forces Base Halifax flagged as a serious concern with 62 per cent able to work. PHOTO BY POSTMEDIA NEWS FILE

 The result was that the average base has about three-quarters of required personnel actually working, with Canadian Forces Base Halifax flagged as a serious concern with 62 per cent able to work. While the shortages pose a threat to military operations and other activities, the reviewers also found shortages create a «cycle in work fatigue». That in turn hurts the military’s ability to recruit and retain troops, which has been flagged as a concern for the Canadian Armed Forces in the past, and undermines its claim to be a positive workplace. «Traditionally, the CAF utilizes base postings to provide an opportunity for a less stressful and more stable work environment enabling CAF members to reconnect with their families,» the reviewers wrote.

How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in March. “We really don’t know what the real number is,” he said recently. Credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times

Since the start of the pandemic, the figure that many epidemiologists have offered has been 60 to 70 percent. That range is still cited by the World Health Organization and is often repeated during discussions of the future course of the disease. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying «70, 75 percent» in television interviews.

And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said «75, 80, 85 percent» and «75 to 80-plus percent». Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. Fauci’s conclusions, prominent epidemiologists said that he might be proven right. The early range of 60 to 70 percent was almost undoubtedly too low, they said, and the virus is becoming more transmissible, so it will take greater herd immunity to stop it.

Vitamin D, other everyday vitamins could counter coronavirus effects: report

Studies reveal nine out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if people had adequate Vitamin D levels

“When a person’s on a ventilator with COVID it’s not a good thing." So, the outcomes aren’t great, so if we can keep people off of ventilators and we can keep their immune system supported really well with nutrition, that ideally that makes the most sense,” he explained. Additional studies also revealed nine out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if people had adequate Vitamin D levels, the FOX 26 report said. In the winter, Vitamin D levels are reduced because fewer people are outside and not soaking it up from the sun, the report noted.

Dustin ‘Mr. Cannabis Law’ Robinson, The Attorney Advocating For Psychedelics Reform In Florida

Dustin Robinson is the founding partner of Mr. Cannabis Law and the founder of Mr. Psychedelic Law, a 501(c)(4) organization advocating for responsible legal reform of psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics in the state of Florida. PHOTO COURTESY MR. CANNABIS LAW

A total of 36 states across America have legalized cannabis while 15 offer adult-use and medical marijuana, so keeping track of the nation’s patchwork of laws is no easy task. One Florida lawyer has spent the last several years dedicating himself to serving all areas of the nation’s cannabis and hemp industries, and after his involvement in the landmark bill to legalize drugs in Oregon, he’s working to draft a psychedelics legalization bill in his home state. Dustin Robinson’s career as a cannabis lawyer began after spending several years as the chief financial officer of a multi-state manufacturing company. The lawyer and accountant had friends in Colorado’s cannabis industry who wanted to conduct a deal with a company based in Oregon, and needed someone with his legal expertise to help guide them through the transaction.

« This is the cannabis industry, and we understand who our clients are».

The Mystery of Taiwan

 

Indeed, Taiwan presents an anomaly in the mitigation and overall handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. In terms of stringency, Taiwan ranks among the lowest in the world, with fewer controls than Sweden and far lower than the U. In general, Taiwan rejected lockdown in favor of maintaining social and economic functioning. Taiwan has seen 573 cases, which is remarkably low for a country with a population of close to 24 million and a population density of 1,739 people per square mile. Of the deaths, the individuals were in their 40s to 80s, the majority with preexisting health conditions.

To put this in perspective, in a stringent terrority with similar demographics, LA County’s population is 10 million and population density is 2,500 per square mile — meaning slightly denser but less populated — but by contrast, it has had 309,000 cases and 7,000 deaths.

Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence

 

The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable. There is no relationship between lockdowns and virus control.

Perhaps this is a shocking revelation, given that universal social and economic controls are becoming the new orthodoxy. In a saner world, the burden of proof really should belong to the lockdowners, since it is they who overthrew 100 years of public-health wisdom and replaced it with an untested, top-down imposition on freedom and human rights. They took it as axiomatic that a virus could be intimidated and frightened by credentials, edicts, speeches, and masked gendarmes. The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models, and then merely positing that stringencies and «nonpharmaceutical interventions» account for the difference between the fictionalized vs.

A New Fund Dedicated to Psychedelic Investments Has Launched in the UK

A firm touting itself as «Britain’s first psychedelic healthcare fund» has launched with the intention to invest more than £10 million in psychedelic focused companies.

With much of the current investments occurring in the US and Canada, Neo Kuma aims to capitalize on the European psychedelic market.