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In the summer, with half of Memorial Drive in Calgary shut down to traffic, a group of protesters set up near the Peace Bridge to draw attention toa bewildering array of grievances. One sign attacked Justin Trudeau, another warned of 5G networks, some supported oil and gas, while others cautioned against "chemtrails."

But the main thrust of the gathering was to oppose COVID-19 restrictions, masks and vaccines.

As the pandemic dragged on, that group morphed and found new stomping grounds in front of Calgary City Hall. Coalescing around the banner of "freedom," they railed against government COVID-19 lockdowns, mask laws and public health measures. They marched through downtown Calgary with signs that proclaimed them lions, not sheep.

Alternative medicine hippies strode alongside yellow vesters in what at first seemed an odd countercultural pairingbut is a natural alliance based on a shared distrust of governments, health mandates, corporations and more.

The reason for their unity lies deep in our evolutionary history and the brute force of societal shifts that are shaking civilizational foundations.

Those forces have conspired to make Alberta a prime breeding ground for the kind of conspiratorial thinking on display, which pulls nuggets of truth from the flurry of science in real time and contorts it into a narrative of oppression. It is a near-perfect storm for the small minority caught up in it.

The question is: how did they find themselves in its path?

Humans have evolved to be really good at fitting into groups. Our malleable brains can adapt beliefs in order to thrive within our given tribe. But that sort of cognitive wiring can lead us astray.

Adrian Bardon, a philosophy professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and the author of The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics and Religion, has obviously spent some time thinking about how these sorts of movements come to be.

Writing in The Conversation, he says although the phenomena of denialism is "many and varied," the story behind it is "quite simple."

"Human cognition is inseparable from the unconscious emotional responses that go with it," he writes.

"Under the right conditions, universal human traits like in-group favouritism, existential anxiety and a desire for stability and control combine into a toxic, system-justifying identity politics."

It's why protesters against Trudeau and 5G and chemtrails and, and, and ... all came to march under the same banner, protesting public health measures supported by growing scientific consensus.

Speaking to CBC News, Bardon specifically breaks down the current storm over pandemic responses and says the combination of economic threats, politicization by elites and the visual/visceral effect of masks is a fearsome combination for fuelling science denialism and ideological polarization.

"It starts with the lack of trust, and then the reasons for the lack of trust comes next, and then you're already in an ideological community," he says.

"And then that explains why your community is all of one voice on what the story is, but this story is made up. The reaction comes first, and then you rationalize the reaction."

He sayscovering faces interferes with one of the most fundamental ways we interpret other people, but creates a new signal.

"At this point, after the politicization of it, not wearing a mask is immediately understood by the mask-wearing people to be a statement, and wearing the mask is an accusation. And it creates this incredibly toxic environment," he says.

There's also no better metaphor for a muzzle than something really darn close to a muzzle.

With the science around COVID-19 evolving in real time and government's struggling to keep up and keep track, the stage is set for our minds to fill in the gaps.

Another person who's spent some time thinking about the current moment is Steven Taylor, a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and the author of The Psychology of Pandemics.

Taylor says one major issue is the lack of scientific literacy in the world and the belief by many that "science is really no different from opinion."

Among those of a conspiratorial nature, there is also often an urge to feel special, he says, and possessing what you believe to be secret knowledge can be a big boost.

"It's going to feed your self-esteem," says Taylor.

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It works in tandem with a phenomenon known as psychological reactance, which Taylor describes as a "kind of allergic reaction to being told what to do."

"So if I came up to a person like that, and started to explain why I thought masks were effective, two things would happen," says Taylor.

"First, they would get very angry, and second, they would start to automatically generate reasons for themselves as to why masks are ineffective. So my strategy would backfire if I tried to directly confront them."

That, along with the fact that the vast majority of people support wearing masks, is why Taylor doesn't think governments should mandate their use.

Adding to the mix are the sometimes confusing debates and changing recommendations about public health that have allowed a wide opening for doubters and reactionaries.

All of those factors combine to make Alberta prime breeding ground for COVID denialism.

The first thing to note is that the protests against lockdowns and masks in Alberta are small. This does not represent the majority.

But still, there is a vocal core group that isn't going to go away and that has at points drawn bigger crowds thanmany expected. Recent polling, too, has suggested Albertans are the least likely Canadians to consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine as quickly as possible, if at all.

Bardon notes that denial of science rears its head pretty forcefully when the economy is threatened something that has been fraying nerves in Alberta long before the pandemic brought government shutdowns.

There is anxiety about income, about empty office towers in Calgary, about the continued existence of the oil and gas industry that once seemed a limitless well of wealth.

The economic powerhouse of Canada is sputtering and many look at a sort of global network of elites and their war on global warming as a major factor in its demise. Some of the same protesters that were out in yellow vests calling Trudeau a traitor while sporting "I Love Alberta Oil and Gas" sweaters are now out calling for an end to lockdowns as another elite attack.

Many in the province feel powerless in the face of global forces that have battered their world, and that leads them to reach for the comforts of a group and a belief system that nourishes them.

When Trudeau was re-electedin 2019, Albertanshad voted in droves for the Conservative opposition and the reaction to the minority government was angry.

Separatists were emboldened and started drawing more attention and crowds, attempting to walk off with a province because they disagreed with the outcome of a democractic election.

Sprinkle in some good old-fashioned Alberta myth-making, like the maverick spirit, egalitarianism and the belief that Albertans share a full-throttled libertarian-tinged conservatism, and the recipe is nearly complete.

With the addition of a provincial government that has preached personal responsibility, provided mixed messages, resisted some health measures and recently saw MLAs and cabinet ministers ignore the government's own travel advice, the meal is cooked.

It's not a stretch to see why many in the province feel left behind, without agency. That's something Bardon says is the very core of anxiety.

"You feel anxious, and then you look for something to project that on. Conspiracy theorists latch on to the conspiracy they just ran across, and if your community already has some preconceived notions as to what the threat is out there, you latch on to that," he says.

If you give yourself a story, it gives back.

That's not the way some in the protests see it, though.

Jake Eskesen is an organizer with Freedom Walk Calgary, which recently branched off from Walk for Freedom over an internal dispute.

Speaking just before Christmas, he says the weekly protests are about, well, freedom.

"We're standing, basically for our constitutional rights, which are currently being infringed upon by the government," says Eskesen, who previously organized events for what he calls the Alberta independence movement.

Personally, he doesn't think the COVID-19 statistics including death rates and hospitalizations justify the measures being taken by governments to restrict freedoms and the ability of people to earn a living.

He gets his information from places like Post Millennial and The Rebel and also directly from Alberta Health Services statistics, while largely shunning mainstream news which he feels is trying to sell one narrow narrative. The government, he says, is the enemy.

Eskesen possesses a complete certainty that his views are correct, while questioning every study, every public health recommendation, the way COVID tests are conducted and more.

He, like 20 per cent of Alberta respondents to a recent poll, says he would not get the vaccine until he's convinced it's safe and that would take a lot, he says.

In short, Eskesen has a high threshold for science to convince him that the virus is serious and the measures in place help fight it are worthwhile. Everywhere he looks he sees a lack of the kind of evidence he would need to change his mind even if his own convictions are based on less and often on misinformation or misinterpretation.

Yet he acknowledges that everyone pre-forms opinions and that they're "looking for information to support it." He says it's important to step back and honestly ask yourself whether bias is getting in the way of clearly understanding an issue.

So does he ever worry that maybe he's wrong and his actions are putting other people in harm's way?

"No. No, not at all."

We live now, for better or for worse, in a world of narratives. Storylines that carry us in their wake in a way that has never existed before, at least not to this extent.

Information overload, anxiety, rapidly changing technologies and societies have left people clambering for support and anchors. For answers to those empty pits in their stomachs and relief from constricted chests.

The more complex the world becomes, the more our prehistoric cerebral architecture kicks in, forcing our flexible thought processes into groupthink of one kind or another and further erecting barriers to thinking that threatens it.

We see the results in some dramatic ways, like the storming of the U.S. Capitol building last week. But also in smaller ways like the weekly marches through downtown Calgary.

But that's not to say it's all based on a lie, even if much of it is.

The official narrative is something that should never be considered sacrosanct, but neither should some of its conspiracy-laden counterparts.

So although COVID tests do, indeed, test for COVID, and there is a scientific consensus around masks and restrictions, there are still questions to be asked and answered.

There's no doubt small businesses and the people who own them and depend on them for incomes are suffering. Shutdowns have been painful.

And then there's the question of government making inroads into our daily lives.

"Honestly, with the governments' track record, I have a very hard time believing that once the vaccines are rolled out that they will then relinquish a lot of these powers," says Eskesen.

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COVID denialism and the Alberta context - CBC.ca

I grab a leaf of peppermint from a bed of mint leaves and taste the intense freshness. Next, I look at thyme and smell the powerful aroma. A little away, purple basil with a beautiful, coppery glow beckon. I crush a lemon balm leaf, and take in the uplifting, mild scent.

I am at Parna Farms, Coimbatores first urban hydroponic farm, located right in the heart of the city at an industrial building campus. Spread across 3,000 square feet, it grows 2,520 plants.

Our fresh lemon balm leaves impart a subtle flavour and fragrance, making it especially nice for custards, jam and jellies, cakes and tea, says Akhila Vijayaraghavan, owner of the farm. The purple basil is used for colour in salads. Except maybe amaranthus and palak (spinach), you can eat all the greens we grow here raw, says Akhila pointing to varieties of lettuce, basil, bok choy, and kale.

Asian water spinach (kang kong), red gongura, mustard leaves and methi (fenugreek) are some of the new additions. We also grow dill leaves, which are used as garnish for fish and meat dishes and pastas. Fresh peppermint extracts are used in baking. We constantly try new crops based on demand, after rounds of trial-and-error.

A graduate of Molecular Biology from the University of Glasgow, Akhila ran her own environmental consultancy for over 10 years before turning an urban farmer. I worked with a lot of companies, from pharmaceuticals to FMCG, and learnt that supply of quality end-product is a difficult task. Agriculture has always been one of my passions; I was interested in food crops. A herb can be used in cooking, to extract oil, extract nutrients in dry form, and maybe in alternative medicine, perfumery the possibilities are exciting, adds Akhila.

She researched hydroponic methodology and educated herself on farming before diving into it. Anyone can do it, it is not rocket science, she says.

Hydroponics combines both sustainability and technology. In indoor hydroponic cultivation, the control on nutrient supply ensures more quality produce, for example improved oil content in herbs, as well as better crop yield. A hydroponic mint has more methanol content than a soil-grown one. The system also uses 80% less water than conventional agriculture. The water is upcycled for reuse.

At Parna Farms, greens are grown using the nutrient film technique (NFT), where a thin film of nutrient-rich water with macronutrients like nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous and calcium nitrate, and micronutrients like manganese and zinc nourish the roots of the plants.

The farm has germination area that uses coco peat to sprout plants, and a nursery where net cups (small planters) are filled with clay pebbles. There is also the grow system, which involves metal stands and PVC pipes attached to a covered nutrient tank that pumps water to the plants. We incubate the net cups in a plastic tray for a couple of weeks. Once the plant grows roots, it is transferred to the main system with higher nutrients in the water. This is where it is fully grown and harvested, explains Akhila.

Hydroponic agriculture, she says, has existed for over 3,000 years, with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon being one of the often quoted examples of this technique. It is one of the more accessible forms of modern agriculture, tackling the dual problems of water scarcity and shortage of farmland. It reduces soil-borne pests and diseases.

Akhila says the objective is to ensure that customers get fresh, pesticide-free produce within three hours of harvest. Though a palak bunch from here costs 130, they are willing to pay the premium to enjoy good health, says Akhila, adding, You are what you eat. In hydroponics farming, every day is a learning curve.

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Two pain relief specialists argue that treating chronic pain with opioids can create a cycle of physical and social pain, increasing peoples risk of dependence and addiction.

Social rejection hurts, whether it is real or imagined. Nearly everyone will have felt the distress of unanswered messages or phone calls, for example, the perception that someone is avoiding us at a party.

While the physical pain of injury motivates people to avoid further tissue damage and allow time for healing, social pain prompts us to avoid further rejection and perhaps look elsewhere for companionship.

As a social species, we depend on others for our survival and well-being, so it comes as no surprise that we are wired to find friendship rewarding and rejection hurtful.

In fact, our brains handle physical pain and social pain in a very similar way, with overlapping brain circuits involved in both processes.

This helps explain the two-way relationship between pain and emotional distress, with research showing that each type of suffering can exacerbate the other.

Some evidence suggests that endogenous opioids, which are the bodys pain relievers, play an important role in social bonding.

The downside is that when the chronic use of potent prescription opioids disrupt the endogenous opioid systems, this not only perpetuates pain but may also promote social distress, isolation, and depression.

Writing in the journal Annals of Family Medicine, Mark D. Sullivan and Jane C. Ballantyne from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, argue that by suppressing the bodys natural system for regulating pain levels and distress, long-term opioid use creates a cycle of physical and social pain.

People can become dependent on the drugs: they take them to avoid the physical, emotional, and social effects of withdrawal. This, in turn, can lead to addiction.

Both Sullivan and Ballantyne prescribe opioids to their patients, but they believe the drugs should be reserved for short-term use that lasts no more than a month or so. They argue that alternative strategies are needed to treat chronic pain; they explain:

As prescribers of medical opioid treatment, we must recognize that when physical and social pain coexist, long-term opioid therapy is more likely to harm than help [L]ong-term opioid therapy that lasts months and perhaps years should be a rare occurrence because it does not treat chronic pain well, it impairs human social and emotional function and can lead to opioid dependence or addiction.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 1 in 5 adults in the United States experiences chronic pain, which it defines as pain that lasts longer than 3 months or beyond the time when tissue should have healed.

Many of these individuals take opioids prescribed by their doctors to ease the pain, such as codeine, hydrocodone, and fentanyl.

However, more than 11.5 million people in the U.S. aged 12 or older reported misusing prescription opioids in 2016, according to the CDC.

There is a strong association between mental illness and the use and misuse of opioids. People with mental health disorders are more likely to receive prescription drugs from their doctors and more likely to misuse opioids.

The drugs not only lead to dependence and addiction; they are also potentially fatal in overdose. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that in 2018, 128 people in the U.S. died every day from opioid overdoses.

The physical and emotional effects of opioid dependence are well known, but Sullivan and Ballantyne believe the social effects have been overlooked in Americas opioid crisis.

Endogenous opioids support the most important and unique human social functions, they write. Endogenous opioid systems are crucial for human social bonding, but when damaged, have a role in perpetuating isolation and chronic illness.

When chronic opioid use compromises the bodys reward and pain relief system, the mutually reinforcing effects of physical and emotional pain create a vicious cycle.

[R]ather than helping the pain for which the opioid was originally sought, persistent opioid use may be chasing the pain in a circular manner, diminishing natural rewards from normal sources of pleasure, and increasing social isolation.

To make matters worse, they write, people who choose to use opioids over the long term tend to be those with the most complex forms of chronic pain that contain both physical and social elements.

As a result, these individuals are particularly vulnerable to dependence.

Survival mechanisms that were already compromised by physical and social injury are compromised further because the [pharmaceutical] opioid can overwhelm the natural endogenous defenses, they warn.

They believe this may partly explain why people who stop taking opioids after long-term treatment with the drugs are at greater risk of suicide and all-cause mortality.

They conclude:

This insight into the overlap between physical and social pain should help redirect care for these patients away from opioid treatment that may ultimately worsen their underlying distress and social isolation.

As an alternative to long-term prescribing of opioids, they advocate multimodal chronic pain care, which combines physical, psychological, and educational interventions.

However, they acknowledge that the implementation and funding of such programs remains a challenge.

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Chronic opioid use may worsen the pain of social rejection - Medical News Today

The Union Budget 2020-21 will be announced by Union Union Budget 2021 Expectations for Health: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1.

Budget 2021 Expectations for Health and Wellness: With the coronavirus pandemic having left the entire world in a shock, the importance of keeping the healthcare sector updated came to light in 2020. The pandemic showed that no country can afford to leave its healthcare sector to fend for itself. Now, with the Union Budget 2021 around the corner, all eyes are on Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman to see what incentives she introduces for the healthcare segment. While in recent years, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced several health care reforms like the Ayushman Bharat scheme and the National Digital Health Mission, industry experts feel that more needs to be done to make the sector more robust, especially in the light of the pandemic.

Founder and Director of Cosmic Nutracos, the parent company of Gaia, Dolly Kumar told Financial Express Online, In the Union Budget 2021-22, our expectation is that the health and wellness industry will be given more preference and that the government will allocate more budgets to it. During the lockdown period, we realised how health and wellness essentials including health food and nutritional supplements are crucial and we cannot live without them, and thats why despite restrictions there was relaxation for us with new SOPs in place, and priority was given to supply chain management. We wish for more emphasis on this so that we can operate in the market places without any hindrances. Additionally in the bucket list, we want the government to focus and encourage health and wellness.

During the entire pandemic, due to the lack of effective vaccines and treatments, the entire stress to tackle the virus has been on prevention and precaution. Remaining healthy and maintaining immunity became key towards protecting self from the virus that wreaked havoc world over. This has shed light on the very important role played by preventive healthcare and the government should focus on this area.

Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences Founder Jyoti Dabas said, We have all heard the adage that prevention is better than cure. With the Union Budget 2021, the government can do a lot to improve preventive health care in the country. First, they need to focus spending on building and maintaining open-air gyms or sports facilities, parks, and public spaces. Apart from that, public campaigns advising people to move more (minimum 30mins activity every day) and address their nutrition gaps. Education on basics of health and nutrition so people can take care of their health. Lastly, they need to encourage startups that are using online training methodology to certify people in advising on preventive health care. Budget for up-skilling the youth to become Preventive Health Coaches, this addresses the problem of unemployment and builds on PM Narendra Modis Atmanirbhar mission. We need to look at coming out of this pandemic as a healthier and fitter country. The government can empower organizations that are doing work in this by giving recognition, power, and speed to such initiatives.

Some industry leaders have also called for nationwide educational campaigns to highlight the importance of preventive healthcare.

Shrey Kumar, Co-founder of Aadvik Foods, said, I think we should spend more on creating awareness about why preventive healthcare is important, more so with the ongoing pandemic. Food as a medicine should be promoted as much as possible. Benefits of making positive changes in your diet should be advertised. This can not be achieved without a nationwide programme of educating the masses. Developing better infrastructure for the FMCG industry will enhance the availability of these kinds of healthy and fresh food items.

AYUSH sector and alternative medicine played a key role in building the immunity of people during COVID-19, resulting in several ministers and stakeholders promoting the use of alternative medicine. Industry leaders now wish to see more budget allocations in the AYUSH segment.

Vishal Kaushik, Co-Founder and MD at Upakarma Ayurveda, said, During the pandemic, PM Modi has given the much-needed push to the domestic Ayurveda sector as he encouraged the world-class R&D enablement and manufacturing capabilities of India. The healthcare sector is looking forward to more promising announcements from Budget 2021. We are expecting the GST to be brought down from the current 12% which is levied on products that have the license to sell as Branded Ayurvedic Medicines. This will further help with cost reduction and easy accessibility of the product. The government can also look at providing funds for Ayurvedic practitioners and centers, which will further encourage the domestic and offshore investors to put faith in India for new product developments.

The Union Budget 2020-21 will be announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 during the Budget session of the Parliament.

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Budget 2021 expectations: Need for allocating funds to health and wellness sector visible from COVID experience - The Financial Express

Prince Charles: People thought I was 'dotty' over climate fears

The Prince of Wales will launch an appeal asking major businesses to contribute to his new sustainability programme today. The Terra Carta, also known as the Earth Charter, is a 10-year plan which aims to raise $10billion (7.3billion) towards protecting the planets resources. The name is a throwback to the Magna Carta the immensely important 800-year-old document which laid out the rights of every Englishman and perhaps reflects Charles ambitions for the magnitude of this project.

This is far from the first time Charles has stepped into the debate on how to tackle climate change.

He has been a firm advocate for preserving the Earths natural resources and protecting the environment for decades but this supposedly pro-science stance has come under fire.

Science writer Simon Singh examined Charles seemingly contradictory opinions towards the discipline, as he has long backed alternative medicines and unproven remedies while pushing the public to trust scientists on the climate emergency.

Mr Singh asked: So why does Prince Charles listen to scientists in relation to climate change but not listen to them in relation to alternative medicine?

My suspicion is that he never really pays attention to any scientists and has no real understanding of how science works.

Instead, he has a set of firm prejudices and if the science backs up the prejudice then great, and if it does not then the science must be wrong.

Instead of listening to his own voices, it would be better if Prince Charles began to listen to the scientific experts.

This is one of many debates Charles has been caught up in with scientists over the years.

Writing in The Guardian in 2009, Mr Singh was criticising the Prince of Wales just as he was embroiled in a spat over his Duchy Originals herbal remedies.

The royal was scrutinised for selling products which supposedly detoxed the consumer, despite actually having little effect.

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Charles also received a scathing attack for his attitude to alternative medicine when promoting unproven cures for cancer back in 1984.

Professor Michael Baum, cancer specialist at University College London, disputed Charles beliefs and said: The power of my authority comes with a knowledge built on 40 years of study and 25 years of active involvement in cancer research.

Your power and authority rest on an accident of birth.

While Charles has been on steadier ground with his activism towards the climate, even his environmental advocacy has been pulled apart.

Last year, he spoke at the Davos Summit about how corporations must change their attitudes towards the climate.

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He said: Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing to bring the world back from the brink in time to restore the balance, when we could have done?

He added: What good is all the extra wealth in the world gained from business as usual if you can do nothing with it except watch it burn in catastrophic conditions?

It was later revealed that he had flown to the conference via private jet, one of the least environmentally friendly methods of travel seemingly proving to his critics that his actions did not match up to his words.

His attack on the worlds wealthiest also seemed at odds with his own personal finances, as he is propped up by the 1billion Duchy of Cornwall.

Charles is known to be a firm believer in foxhunting, too, which contradicts his conservation efforts in the past.

Additionally, his green credentials have been called into question through his ownership of several extensive properties which have to be maintained all year round, undoubtedly adding to his carbon footprint.

Even so, the Prince of Wales has been more determined than ever this year to campaign for tackling climate change.

He has pushed for swift and immediate action to be taken, especially as the coronavirus pandemic has provided a window of opportunity to reset the economy.

Speaking in September, he said: The [climate] crisis has been with us for far too many years decried, denigrated and denied.

It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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