So, it s very gratifying to see so many companies, organizations, communities and even state governments encouraging and incentivizing people to protect themselves and others by getting vaccinated.
While some states, like New Jersey and Connecticut, are offering a free beer or nonalcoholic beverage to encourage more people to get vaccinated against Covid, others like Ohio and Maryland have gone much further.
Last week, Maryland held the first of its $40,000 lottery drawings for people who have been vaccinated. There will be 40 consecutive days of drawings for a $40,000 prize, ending on July 4 with a final drawing for a $400,000 payout.
Ohio is also holding a series of drawings for cash prizes, although its Vax-a-Million contest ups the ante significantly.
New research looks at air pollution as a cause of anosmia, the loss of sense of smell. The researchers say long-term exposure can almost double the risk.
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Quality of life. What is it?
It’s tough to define exactly what it is, but most of us know when it’s not there. And it’s safe to say that during the last 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic despite the heroic efforts and compassion of our long-term care workers most Canadians would agree that in many nursing homes it was lacking.
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1 Jun 2021
One of the world’s most renowned experts on the transgender phenomenon declared in an interview he is “absolutely convinced” the transgender movement is “folly and it’s going to collapse, just as the eugenics folly collapsed.”
In an interview at the end of May with Matthew J. Franck, contributing editor of Public Discourse, Paul McHugh, M.D. the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, warned puberty is a complex biological process that has been “over-simplified” to the detriment of children with gender dysphoria who are being treated with puberty blockers.
One of the key recommendations is for the province to bolster home care services and keep our elderly out of long-term care facilities as long as possible