I Am Not Sure The Government Is Being Totally Frank With Its Intentions With The New Internet Regulation Legislation.
These two articles appeared last week. First, we have: Facebook whistleblower ‘deeply sceptical’ of Australia’s online safety laws Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter 3 February 2022 The former Facebook worker who blew the whistle on the company’s disregard for user safety last year is “deeply sceptical” of Australia’s co-regulation approach to online platforms, a dvocating instead for a model independent of tech giants’ input that forces transparency. American data scientist Frances Haugen disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook’s internal documents to US regulators last year, alleging the company was puttin...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
All Roads Lead to Big Government: Heritage Takes on Big Tech
ConclusionAlthough not persuasive as policy analysis, Frederick ' s paper is of use to those interested in the history and anthropology of American conservatism. The paper embraces the use of political buzzwords such as " woke, " and " left-wing orthodoxy " while using words such as " monopoly " and " oligopoly " in a manner that suggest they have suddenly changed meaning. This kind of rhetoric will be familiar to those who have been paying attention to " Big Tech " policy debates over the last couple of years. Much of it is not a surprise. What may well be a surprise to many readers is that America ' s leading conservativ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 3
What is the third most important saying of all time, one that will encourage wisdom and happiness, justice and equity? The saying is, "It is not right to do evil in order to bring about good." This saying is, first, a warning against moral short cuts, against choosing expediency over morality; for such is the great temptation of man, whether the temptation presents itself as covetousness, lust, greed, a handy lie, the imitation of justice, or any other dash around the right way. Secondly, this saying entails another classical guide to wisdom: "Truth is always best." Whatever you suffer from tell...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 9, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 4
The fourth timeless truth in the Book of Ten Sayings is one that our impatient and fearful age needs to meditate on. The fourth saying:This too shall pass. The traditional story is that an ancient Persian king once ordered his wise men to invent a saying that would be true and applicable to every time and in every season, a saying that would comfort him in times of sorrow and temper him in times of joy, a saying upon which he could meditate profitably regardless of his situation, or what he faced, or how he felt. The saying they brought him was, "This too shall pass." Sometimes quoted as, "This, ...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 9, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Q & A with Dr. Wendy Suzuki on the parasympathetic nervous system and harnessing anxiety for good
Anxiety can feel like a heavy weight that we didn’t ask to carry. Who wouldn’t love to get rid of it?
But neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki wants to challenge the way we look at our anxiety. In fact, her new book is called Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion.
If you’re skeptical, so was I. But Suzuki’s point is that anxiety is a natural human emotion, one that evolved to serve a purpose. We feel anxious when there is some kind of danger; it primes our body to fight or flee from that danger, in hopes that we’ll end up better off (i.e., alive). In the same way, our modern anxieties can be...
Source: SharpBrains - February 7, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning anxiety chronic-stress deep breathing hippocampus human emotion neuroscientist parasympathetic nervous system prefrontal-cortex Stress Response uncertainty Source Type: blogs
Our Canary in the Coal Mine: The Rapid Viral Testing Mini-Lab
Like a beggar telling other beggars where to find bread, I have to talk about our pediatric emergency department mini-lab for rapid viral testing and its undeniable positive impact on our practice during the pandemic. We had begun discussions with Abbott Laboratories months before the COVID-19 pandemic about setting up rapid testing for flu, RSV, and strep. Hospital administration approved moving forward with the concept, but like most big endeavors, administrative delays and other distractions resulted in many months passing without much apparent movement on the contract. And then it happened: The COVID-19 pandemic...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - February 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Spotify, Joe Rogan, and Health Care
By KIM BELLARD
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d have to write: the most interesting discussion in healthcare in the past week has been about Neil Young versus Spotify.
For those of you who have not been following the controversy, Neil Young gave Spotify an ultimatum: it could have his music or Joe Rogan, but not both. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.” Spotify chose Rogan.
Mr. Young was not the first to express alarm at some of the Covid “informat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Joe Rogan Kim Bellard Misinformation Neil Young Spotify Source Type: blogs
Welcome Back Kotter: New York ’ s next 1115 Waiver
The objectives of DSRIP 1.0 – a laundry list of HEDIS measures – made the program difficult to manage “on the ground” and too tightly tied to medical measures of success.
Too many choices. PPS were given choices about which projects they would work on – and by extension – which projects would be funded and measured. The projects were tactically expressed – and therefore too prescriptive – not just defining goals to be achieved – but presuming that DOH knew how goals would best be achieved. In many cases – this mismatch between what to do and how it would be done was...
Source: Docnotes - January 30, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Politics Technology 1115 DSRIP VBP Source Type: blogs
More about Robert Burns
If you are in the UK, here are two very interesting BBC programmes that aired on Burns Night 2022.First, made in 1996, the poet Maya Angelou (whose name I have consistently mispronounced since for ever, it seems, and I am sorry about that) explores the poetry of Burns. You ' d need to be in the UK towatch it, Angelou on Burns, on the BBC iPlayer, sometime in the next 29 days. Angelou draws comparisons between her upbringing in Arkansas and Burns ' life in Ayrshire. Heed the warning about upsetting scenes - because she talks about enslaved people in the southern United States, there are some...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: poetry Robert Burns Source Type: blogs
The Intersection of 911 and 988: Decriminalizing Mental Health Crises
By BEN WHEATLEY
Effective July 2022, a new three-digit telephone number (988) will become the number to call in the case of mental health emergencies. Currently, 911 serves as the default number for people to call, placing the acutely mentally ill on a direct track toward police involvement. The new system is meant to ensure that every person experiencing a mental health crisis will receive a mental health response instead—help, not handcuffs.
In November 2021, 15 prominent organizations including NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Well Being Trust joined together to reimagine what a crisis response...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Mental Health Miles Hall Miles Hall Foundation National Alliance of Mental Health National Suicide Prevention hotline Source Type: blogs
Diabetes Symptoms: An Early Warning Sign That Happens At Night
Correcting this disorder in diabetics would benefit them as well as many anti-diabetes drugs. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Omicron Variant: The 5 Most Common Symptoms And 4 More Unusual Ones
Besides the top 5 warning signs, more symptoms are appearing for those infected with Omicron. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
Putting two and two together
Paul Campos comes right out and says it. The Republican party is in the midst of getting hundreds of thousands (at least) of Americans needlessly killed by COVID, because the GOP ’s leaders have calculated that failing to ameliorate the pandemic is bad for Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats.This is incontrovertibly true. As Campos says, it is mass murder, but nobody wants to say that because the idea is just too grotesque. (Let me reiterate: get vaccinated, get boosted. That will make your risk of ending up in the hospital or dying close to zero. Anybody who tells you not to get vaccinated is trying to kill...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 11, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
PM Scott Morrison Seems To Say That You Are On Your Own If You Get COVID19!
This appeared an hour or so ago:
Scott Morrison says healthcare system can cope despite warnings of Covid-19 pressure Scott Morrison has called for people to ‘manage their own health’ as hospital staff and paramedics feel the strain of soaring Covid-19 cases. Catie McLeod January 3, 2022 - 9:20AM NCA NewsWire Rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations continue to put enormous pressure on parts of Australia’s healthcare system as hospitals grapple with staff shortages and ambulances are delayed. There are at least 188,000 active coronavirus cases in the country, with almost 2000 people in hospital and almost 150 pat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
COVID: 4 More Omicron Symptoms Have Emerged
Besides the top 5 warning signs, more symptoms are appearing for those infected with Omicron. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
