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Water-Is what we drink as clean as we think

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Today was a little shocking for me. I am here in France visiting family when a friend arrived with a special machine for testing the quality of water This machine is called a Water Electrolyzer and is sold as a "simple and effective water quality apparatus by the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A) of the United States. I happened to have two bottles of water which I had not drunk in my bag for her to test.  The first bottle contained water taken from a water tap at Dubai airport when I passed through just over a week ago on my way to France. I had an empty plastic bottle in my backpack which I filled in case I got thirsty  while waiting to board the plane to France. The second bottle was purchased from the local supermarket in Prades called SuperU. The water also contained peach flavouring and is a local brand. The method for testing is indeed simple. You put the water you wish to test in a glass that has enough space for the two prongs on the small machine to be inserted. Y...

Choice. Risk. Death

My daughter shared a Facebook post today of a nurse who was sharing publicly her hurt at losing her job  because she is being forced by Government mandate to vaccinate and was unable to get a vaccine exemption. She has 19 years experience. As a nurse I would presume she knows not only how to take care of patients but also herself. She has made a personal choice about her own body and health, but because of the attitude this government and some other governments have taken over mandating health and essential workers to vaccinate or lose their jobs, she is being fired. Crazy behaviour by so called democratic nations when we need all our nurses whether they are vaccinated or not since everyone can get and spread covid and potentially require hospital care or die.  It is my view that those that wanted to vaccinate against this virus have done so by now. They like many others have made this choice and I have no problem with that choice for each of them. Why cant those that do not w...