In October, 2017, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security issued a report titled POSSIBLE FUTURE IN 2025. The 70-page report assumed a pandemic and how health professionals would respond to various nuances of the outbreak.
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I've befriended inmates all my life. I'm not a fan of prisons; they do not accomplish anything positive. That doesn't mean I'm soft on punishment; it just means I don't see any efficacy in the current American prison system. That's a topic for another day.
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I toyed with the humor of calling this TWO DAYS OF MISINFORMATION but thought that might be too bold, so I went with TWO DAYS OF TRUTH. The two kind of go hand-in-hand these days.
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Friday's Wall Street Journal carried a full page story titled The Microbiome Makeover divided into numerous little snippets: Born this Way, Probiotics of the Future, Better Cleaning with Bacteria, Eating Right, Absorbing Fat, Furry Friends, The Impact of Covid-19, and Bring the Outdoors In.
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Some of us are old enough to remember when Ted Turner, media mogul, became the largest owner of agricultural land in the U.S. His love of the west generally and bison specifically led to a massive accumulation of ranch lands.
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For many years people have tried to get me to do a video curriculum but nobody brought all the pieces to make it work. I actually don't like video and camera work much--it's way too tedious ("Wait, a jet is flying over. Wait, a cloud just went by and changed the lighting.")…
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Greg Glaser is the general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), which has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the President of the United States for the national vaccination program. The request includes prohibitory injunction against the program and the ultimate relief, a national informed consent exemption.
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I have to chuckle when something mainstream catches up to what I've said for decades. Such was the case last week when the Wall Street Journal carried a nearly full-page story titled "For Better Health, Just Head Outdoors. " Like many headlines, it's a bit misleading, but worked to attract my attention.
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My post last week about whether or not farm aspirants should attend college stimulated some extremely thoughtful and heartfelt responses; thank you all for chiming in. I was going to leave the discussion there but one young fellow asked if trade school would be beneficial to have a skill as a back up plan to the farm.
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"I can go to agriculture college tuition-free (scholarship) but it is most likely based on conventional thinking. I don't want to farm conventionally. I'm 17; should I go or not go?" And then the final question: "Is it realistic for me to think I could own a farm some day?"
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What a delight to know I have real farmers reading these posts. And non-farmers who actually care about these nitty gritty issues. Thank you everyone who responded to yesterday's post about freezing calves during this cold snap through Texas, Oklahoma, and the mid-west.
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