Under proposed legislation called "Fight Flu Act," CONgress is proposing Taxpayer-Funded Mobile Flu Vaccine Units. Mobile medical units (MMUs) are also called "wellness vans" that bring medical services (healthcare, dental, training, mammograms) to you if you live in a rural area. Now, they propose to expand services to include Flu vaccines at your expense [...]
It's back! Remember back in 2010 when the Universal Flu Vaccine was first introduced? After various "risk groups" and age groups were identified, the CDC had only 85% coverage and wanted more. When CDC added the 18-49-year-old remaining age group in 2010, it made annual influenza vaccination a universal recommendation for everyone age 6 months [...]
Every year it seems that more people are added to The List of people who qualify! Qualify for what? Medical products! Of the $1.53 trillion market share of the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. takes the lead. Once upon a time, two main categories were always excluded: pregnancy and sick people. For evidence of such a [...]
Who has time to protest when you have to have a job to make ends meet? What if you are paid to protest? Suddenly protesting is a career choice! The World is a Stage How much do crisis actors get paid to go where the crisis is? According to ZipRecruiter, it works out to be [...]
What is the fastest way to shut down critical thinking and end conversations? Utter the phrase common knowledge. Used in a sentence: it's common knowledge that there are two types of people in the world, "essential and nonessential." Repeated often enough, designer phraseology hypnotizes the mind until accepted as fact, without question or verification (i.e., [...]
Orthorexia nervosa is the dinosaur in the room! As the latest fad diagnosis, Orthorexia nervosa reflects the de-evolution of our species. The diagnosis was unearthed in 2019 when science declared (without evidence) that eating clean is unhealthy. A recent December 2025 study concludes that Orthorexia nervosa is positively related with psychological distress among nursing, medical, [...]
Move over Barbie doll in a pretty pink dress! The global company, Mattel,™ has made a new Barbie doll to represent kids with autism spectrum disorder. The latest Barbie doll is said to "avoid eye contact." Don't all dolls do that? And that's not all! "'It comes with sensory tools such as a fidget spinner, [...]
Wisconsin the DairyLand! That means dairy cattle. Mooove over, milk! Wisconsin is also 9th state overall in U.S. beef production. That means beef cattle. Small Farms The Wisconsin beef farm industry is dominated by what might be referred to as smaller scale operations. In 2022, 63.7% had fewer than 20 head of cattle and 39.9% had [...]
It was inevitable that the disaster that is The Data Center would finally reach the interest of the average person. For a preview of past information on Data Centers read the September 2025 blog on Energy-Hungry Data Centers. Is it too late? Who Should Pay? Who should pay for the high energy demands of AI [...]
"Nursing No Longer a Profession." Recently, nurses woke up to find that nursing programs have been reclassified. Nursing began as a profession in 1860 during the Crimean war. Now the rug is being pulled out. And doctors are not fairing much better. Doctor Shortage Positions for medical doctors are also on the decline, with a [...]
