It gets harder with each passing year, month, week and day to ignore the decline of our country and world, and to create that bubble of warmth around the holidays during which we use the fellowship of family and friends to cocoon ourselves away from secular concerns and focus on the meaningfulness of close relationships. But I hope you are able to do that and that you all have a truly enjoyable holiday.
This time last year we were in the grip of Omicron, but no sign of any big wave.
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In the middle of winter, solar power is likely providing less than 1% of Minnesota's electricity needs.
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The first in a multipart series on death trends in Minnesota gives a start by looking at the absolute numbers of deaths over time by age group.
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A barbaric crime committed by a "swarm" of young teen girls shows us what we have become, even at the time of Christmas.
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Minnesota's new health commissioner is a racist through and through, with no knowledge or experience relevant to actual improvement of public health.
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Congress dumps another holiday turkey on the citizenry in the form of a massive unnecessary spending bill.
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Got a lot of stuff in the hopper, just a little time-constrained right now and Dave and others are working on a great series on excess deaths.
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Yawn, the vaxed or vaxed and boosted are responsible for the vast majority of epidemic events.
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Another merger of two struggling "digital" health companies, which use virtual reality as a product design. Apparently you are less likely to drown in high seas when you are holding on to another person than when you are alone, even though neither of you has a life jacket. BehaVR (aren't these health care company names cute) which focuses on milder mental health issues, and OxfordVR, which focuses on more serious mental health illness, are merging. Investors, who appear to have their own cognition issues, also pumped over $13 million in new financing into the combined company.
https://medcitynews.com/2022/12/behavr-and-oxfordvr-merge-secure-13m-in-funding/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=238406331&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8cy6wVaOQMQZODKLVPEDpTodBaSTdzyLF3gRQHhuiFVpGvAIbyhG_bi35lHOgzQPxyWiOGXOCYMP087WLE-wXNuaqerCwkfX48Bu88IeoRccbZqO0&utm_content=238406331&utm_source=hs_emailA new government report from a Federal Reserve Bank reveals that in fact the federal government has been massively inflating (i.e., lying about) the pace of job creation in 2022.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.