What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I bring you another destiny to video and today I bring you my day one progression my power level the Exotics I got crazy Exotics and a few of the bits and bobs fan yesterday within a black army DLC But before we go any further guys if you do enjoy the video We'd love to show you support you can by smashing that like button if you're new around here and enjoy daily destiny to videos Be sure to subscribe Okay, so let's start with my power level after one day I am currently sitting at a power level of 613 as far as I know I am the highest in the world Well when this video was being created, but no doubt these big old streamers who just farm farm farm all night 24 hours a day are gonna overtake me pretty easily now the way I got This high so quick I mean obviously I've done my standard weekly bounty stuff, which offers that reset But I also stacked many many Bounties from before the black army drops like gambit powerful reward bounties Hawthorne Ikora flash points. I had I am banner six I am banners I have quite a few the video will actually have me opening them all I dropped yesterday via YouTube if you do want to check it out But yes guys, so basically that's how I am a 613 at the minute I've still got one or two things to do I was basically leveling up so I could do the forge and get that one weapon which is a part of the quest a Heavy machine gun. I believe that drops of their powerful weapon too. Hopefully it helps me increase my overall power level But besides that I don't think as much as I can do Obviously when you do complete the forge for the first time you open all holster things via add a one within the tower But I haven't got that far yet. So I will keep you updated. So yes guys at the minute I'm a 612 so I've got a few things to do. I'll probably end the week about a 614 if I am lucky that is for damn sure now yesterday was a very good day for me Very good day indeed. I've got four new exotics within one for people for For for people for exotics within one day What is going on before the black army dropped? I hadn't had an exotic in about a month. No exotics for a month for in one day. Have they buffed exotic drops? I don't know but the ones I got were I got an old one which was the merciless fusion rifle I got the Lord of Wolves from a bounty and I also a black Talon from a bounty Actually got those via my opening video and you guys will see my reaction on screen now Oh One more here. I believe he has two new exotics. I've got I don't need you know Yes, I know I sound like a 12 year old kid from my top five reactions for people when you had an exotic in so long And one drops it pops up on your screen.  I do not know what is going on But yes, hopefully today I get the same look I was actually doing a night for last night with my brother You guys would probably have seen that night for exploit video where you can literally get Simple powerful rewards. You haven't seen that do check out my channel at the latest video besides this one I posted what it basically allows you to do is max out the score multiplayer in the night for 100 craze strike via your scorecard and It actually doesn't change anything.  It's really really easy I do recommend you check it out But I was doing that last night with my brother and he got two exotics drop two exotics drop on the floor from the same Damn night full actually excuse me. No, it wasn't it was two from two because we started the first one And we backed out because I put another modifier and started up a game and he got two exotics from two night falls But literally it was like one and a half runs if for that. I mean like really get him So exotics in my opinion, I'm pretty sure they've been buffed the way they drop I mean, let me know how many you've had if you had any new ones Let me know down below within that comment section people and to be honest about it There ain't much to do with the black army in my opinion I mean, I'm gonna make a video on it later reviewing it giving you guys my honest opinion on what we have I mean, I know we've got the mysterious box She's found within the Valendor forge you haven't seen that also you can check out video I posted on that on my channel Basically, it's a start of an exotic quest where you pick it up from a loot cave and you have to go out and find keys I believe these keys are awarded for each individual forge. There's four forges. There's four keys So we will see people we will see it just another time gated exotic quest You guys know how it goes and also I was informed that glad found a new puzzle I've only seen a picture of it, which I'll show you guys on the screen now If you don't know who glad is you're basically missing out. I'm one of the best PvE Destiny players out there. So do check him out people. So yes, he found this actual maze I don't think it's been solved yet But it hasn't been at the time of me making this video, but it what could it lead to Lee to wonder new for exhaust again because we are getting five new exotic so far We know about there's the arm blaster. There's the ball. There's a isn't argue's burden sniper rifle. There is the Fallen looking grenade mine launch and there's also the last word But we know the last word is part of a quest which comes January We know there is the one hide behind it's where we don't know. There's one hide behind this mysterious box But I'm pretty sure there's one hidden behind this mysterious box. So there's two, but it's three of us in the game Are they in the loop pool? I don't think anyone's got any yet. So they're probably all tied behind Exhaustic quest lines, but we will see people we will see what for me I've had an amazing day one so far in terms of loot drops and leveling up when it comes to actually black army content It's been far from amazing, but you guys will get my review on this later on to day people But guys, let me know how your day ones have gone Thanks as always for stopping by if you enjoyed the video leaving a lot of help out of your new round here And enjoy daily destiny videos be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


What's up everybody? Jayz here for jasperjasebrick.com. 2022 hip rate, jaspy's exclusive multi-sport six box case break. Random player number six just sold out. And again guys, 32 total spots, everybody gets a random player from the list below. Only one card per box and only six hits total. Some of the chasers are right here. I don't know which ones we've pulled yet. The last case I did actually didn't have one of these cards, but it did have players in this list like Herbert. I think we also pulled Anthony Davis, et cetera, et cetera. So I think there's only nine preview cards. Technically that was probably the one case that didn't have a preview. So the rest of these should. But it's been some fun stuff though guys. And again, the full list of players from Alan Iverson all the way down to Nolan Ryan. And of course, here's the dice roll, here's the list of customer names. So from Brad down to Ryan, got those straight up. And then Daniel D Lo down to Adam Coverman, one of those from Prismsello, pack number 12. And then of course there's the players. Dice roll, three to three, six times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six times, Steve Birch, down to Adam Coverman. And six times here, one, two, three, four, five, six. Six times, Tatis down to Juan Soto. All right, so let's see what you guys got really quick. So Steve Birch, Brandon Tatis, D Lo, Collar Mur, Jordan Alvers for Todd, Michael Higgins, Christiano Ronaldo. Jalen Greer for Brad Pauly, Alec, Jamar Chase, Taylor Hertz and Scotty Barnes, Steve with Shaq. Paul Sick for Adam, Alan with Mike Trout, Todd with Aaron Rodgers, Taylor with Judge, Jason K with KDB, Ryan with Ronald Acunha, Jason with Alan Iverson, Brad with Justin Herbert, Steven with Jordan Poole, D Lo with Wayne Rooney, Steve Birch with Jalen Waddle, Justin Fields for Chad B, Tyler with, or sorry, Todd with Anthony Davis, D Lo with Durant and Jonathan Taylor, Steve Birch with NB, D Lo with Nolan Ryan Alvers Pools, Steve, Yav Mac Jones, D Lo with Min Sun, Michael Higgins with Anthony Edwards, Jason K with Joe Burrow, Adam Coverman, Juan Soto. So if you guys do wanna make trades, I'd suggest putting out your player out there if you want to trade and if they're specifically a player you wanna trade for. And if you guys do it, then we'll confirm it. If not, I'm gonna close the window. Let me know if it's confirmed right now. I'll give you guys a minute. All right, so what are we trading guys? Is Higgins trading Ronaldo for Anthony Davis? Is that what we're doing? Ronaldo for Anthony Davis? Okay, TWC. Yes, I got you, Todd Dore. Okay, so let's take Higgins out there, put him there.  And then Michael, now you have Anthony Davis. Correct the Mundo? All right, cool, we got one trade done. All right, let's go. See if it pays off for him, Cotton. That's a bold move, Cotton. All right, we got case number two, I think. All right, here we go, guys. Three of 60. All right, let's see, we have a graded card coming up first. And it is a 2017 Bowman's Best. Best of 17 autographs, Atomic Refractor of Mike Trout. 23 out of 25, beautiful looking card, graded eight, nine, five. The autograph got a 10, I think it's only because it's kind of running out of ink right there. Still very nice card though. And Mike Trout, who has Mike Trout? Allen Murdock, there you go, man. Solid, solid here right there. Was that one of the chasers? Yes, it actually was. Mike Trout, 2017 Bowman's Best Atomic Refractor. So that is the biggest hit probably out of this case. So there you go, very nice. Next one. Now it doesn't mean there can't be other Mike Trouts. As you can see, there are duplicates of a lot of these players, it's just, you're looking for potentially one of those bigger cards in every case. Next one. And it's a Min Son, very nice. Young Min Son, that's number to 134 from Contenders, that's from, I think Chronicles. Look at that, Min Son. I think that's going to Delo, right? Delo. Very nice. Oh, that guys, I was actually, one of them guys are trading. Did they intercept the ball? Or did they just stop the Cowboys on down? And how about Jamar Chase, 31 out of 75. That's a rookie out of Chronicles, Crown Rail as well. And Jamar Chase, Alec Johnson. I don't know what happened. All right, halfway through guys. And how about a little Jalen Green? Origins on card. Jalen Green, that is Brad P. Very nice. All right guys, two more to go, 44 out of 60. All right, this one's a thicker card actually. Wow, look at that. Is that a, it's probably like a manufactured patch, right? NL MVP, 2005, 24 out of 25, Albert Bullholz. Yeah, it's a manufactured patch, but still very nice. Albert Bullholz, D low with another hit. Very nice. Last one here guys. Whoa, this is a thick, well it's a booklet actually. Justin Fields. And that's 57 out of 99. Justin Fields is Chad B. And obviously, this isn't like a Panini seal so let's show you what the booklet is actually from Playbook. A little Justin Fields. Very nice. And actually, let's do this better. Oh, a little jazzy one right there. Seal it up. And there you go folks. That was it there. Justin Fields, Bullholz, Jalen Green, Jamar Chase, Minsan and Mike. Another one in the books guys. We have seven, eight, nine, 10. We've got four more cases of potentially bigger hits hiding out there. So we can run one back guys. I'll put up number seven, jazbscasebreaks.com.


Welcome to NTN Nightly. I am Genelle Norville. This edition, Stop Stories. Amended COVID-19 prevention and control protocols take effect March 17, 2021. The current epidemiological curve indicates an encouraging downward turn. And the Simply Health Foundation makes its annual donation to St Lucia. Following a meeting of the National Emergency Management Advisory Committee, NIMAC, and based on advice from the Command Centre, the Government of St Lucia has amended the COVID-19 prevention and control protocols effective Wednesday, March 17, 2021, until Friday, April 16, 2021. Details on the adjustment in just a moment, first a look at the data that informed the decision process. At the presentation to NIMAC on Thursday, March 11, Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belmar George explained that we are still in a critical position when it comes to COVID-19. Although we have recorded successes and the current epidemiological curve indicates an encouraging downward turn in the rate of transmission. St Lucia at 12 of March 2021 had recorded 3,748 recoveries of COVID-19 cases. Speaking during an update to the nation, Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belmar George disclosed that the island had conducted some 33,348 COVID-19 tests and the number of active cases stood at 218, with 66 being at the Baudelaire Correctional Facility and 152 from the community. To date, the island has recorded 15 cases of the British variant, the only variant identified in country to date. The Chief Medical Officer said the Ministry of Health has noted a steady rate of decrease in positive COVID-19 cases. Our daily infection rate is 8.2 per 100,000. Our testing positivity within the last 7 days is 13% and within the last 7 days, the previous 7 days it was 20%. So we continue to see a decrease in our positivity and our rate of transmission is now at 1.6. There are three orange lines, the three taller bars. I just want to indicate that those three bars represent the cases that we are managing at the Baudelaire Correctional Facility and these are not community cases. Those three bars which seem to fall out of the EPI curve, I thought needed a level of explanation. These are due to the outbreak at the Baudelaire Correctional Facility. We note our small wave in March, which is a very little blimp. We had a second wave in October which went into November and our third wave that we've managed between January and February and it is coming which is clearing up at this point. We note the rate of decrease in cases and not just in our testing we see in the decrease. On a weekly basis we note a reduction in persons at the respiratory clinics. We've been noting through our surveillance a reduction in the number of persons with respiratory signs and symptoms and we've also been seeing reductions in terms of admissions at the respiratory hospital. Majority of the positive COVID-19 cases recorded to date fall between the ages of 25 and 49, followed by ages 50 years and older. Poor age groups account for a smaller percentage with school age that is 0 to 17 years, accounting for only 9.2% of total cases. These individuals have no too mild symptoms and recover well. 53% of the total positive COVID-19 cases are female. The distribution of cases is highest in the castries district, followed by grossly, barbano and ancillary canrys. Dr Belmar George warned that while majority of the indicators are pointing to the flattening of the curve, St Lucia is not yet out of the woods. We are pleased for the reduction in cases but it does not indicate that we are yet in a safe place. We still have, like I indicated, over 100 active cases, 152 active cases within the community and we would like to bring this number down further before we will feel comfortable. So it is important that although we are pleased with the rate of decrease to date, it is not an indication for us to let our guard down. We still have to ensure we are very vigilant and we maintain all of the measures. It is not an indication for us to socialize or to relax the measures. We still need to monitor very closely so we maintain the gains that we have seen thus far. The chief medical officer is urging all St Lucia's not to let the guard down but instead to continue to adhere to all stipulated protocols. Among the decisions announced was a curfew adjustment effective March 17 during the hours of 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily. During the Easter weekend, April 2 to the 5th, the curfew will run from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily and thereafter it will go back to 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. All agencies and businesses will continue to implement a blended service operations approach which includes work from home where possible for employees. Staff and board meetings will be held virtually or online platforms as much as possible. Separate provisions apply for key approved sectors, e.g. essential services, construction, manufacturing and call centers. Business operating hours. All business operations and commercial activities must end by 8 p.m. daily as guided by curfew enforced through the state of emergency. This requires all businesses including supermarkets and restaurants to completely shut their doors and business activities by 8 p.m. in order to curb movement past 9 p.m. Restrictions on social gatherings. Social gatherings are restricted to no more than 10 people of immediate family. In public and private settings, individuals are encouraged to limit their contact as much as possible and adhere to all necessary protocols as well as being mindful of general hygiene procedures. No allowance is given for mass gathering social events of any kind or loud music permits. Religious institutions. All daily or regular church and religious services are permitted in accordance with social distancing protocols. Religious institutions may carry out services according to the square footage of the church. This is guided by each institution's guidelines and protocols approved by the ministries of equity and health. Special religious rites including baptisms, weddings and funerals will be limited to a maximum of 50 individuals inclusive of observers and the service leaders. Funeral and wedding services should be by invitation only. Dates of burial services are not to be formally advertised. Special events. Both excursions for up to 10 persons. This is only permissible for crude yacht charters and family boaters. Excursion plans must be reported to the lighthouse ahead of the journey. Absolutely no day boat party charters will be allowed. Restriction on alcohol sales. The sale of alcohol is permitted at supermarkets, minimats, gas stations, restaurants and bars. Stand-alone bars to operate during the business hours of 11am until 8pm allowing only takeaway services. Licensed restaurants are permitted to serve liquor as part of dine-in services only. Strict measures of protocol enforcement and a no-tolerant policy will be in effect. Licensed restaurants and bars to display all necessary licenses and revised capacity as per COVID-19 protocol for the establishment in a conspicuous place. Restrictions on sporting activity. All competitive and high-contact sporting events including indoor and outdoor trainings, local competitions or social activities are prohibited. Provisions apply for individual or immediate family households to exercise in a safe open-air space. Gyms are permitted for square footage and protocols. Special permission granted for training athletes requiring one-on-one coaching training for non-contact sports, example tennis and swimming. Special permission is also granted for one-on-one personal training. Schools are to follow strict protocols and regulations issued by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education's continuity plan for schools in St. Usha to operate safely on a specified system. Further information on the commencement of in-class learning and dates will be communicated by the Ministry of Education. For more information on St. Usha's COVID-19 response please visit covid19response.lc The Ministry of Health and Wellness remains very concerned about the number of COVID-19 related deaths recorded in country. The island has recorded a total of 47 COVID-19 related deaths to date and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belmont George stated that every death is one too many. Individuals who have passed away rage in ages from 21 to 91 years. Of the 47 deaths recorded to date 81% have occurred in the 50-plus age range and males account for the majority of deaths. Dr. Belmont George noted the link between the risk and underlying illnesses in terms of poor outcomes for COVID-19. In terms of the risk analysis and given our mobility profile for diabetes and high blood pressure I thought it necessary to indicate on the cases that we've seen so far the risk analysis by those pre-existing conditions are you note for the diabetes is 36.4 for high blood pressure the risk ratio that is is 33.9 and for that both diabetes and high blood pressure is 32.1 so as much as possible our persons in solution we know we have a problem with diabetes and high blood pressure we need to ensure that your diet the necessary exercise and that you remain compliant because this is one of the ways that we and a very important way that we keep healthy we keep our resistance up as we manage COVID-19. The Chief Medical Officer indicated that there is a wide range of underlying illnesses that puts individuals at a higher risk when they contract COVID-19 therefore a lot of the Ministry of Health and Wellness strategies are focused on protecting high risk groups both in terms of age and pre-existing conditions to ensure their safety we have high blood pressure we have diabetes we have 21% having both high blood pressure and diabetes heart disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease obesity end-stage renal disease HIV cerebral raxial accident that is persons with strokes Hodgkin's lymphoma and asthmatics as well so for us locally those are the pre-existing conditions that we note with our COVID-related deaths now we use the term COVID-related deaths because we our policy of testing everyone who passes away some of those cases were from testing after passing away some of those persons did have serious other underlying conditions although they may not have developed the COVID-19 related pneumonia but because COVID was positive we report them for transparency the vaccination campaign launched in St. Lucia on the 17th of February 2021 was rolled out in a phased approach phase 1a and 1b comments with the highest risk individuals being vaccinated first including frontline workers and individuals with chronic non-communicable diseases as well as the elderly immunization manager Techlege Baptiste says it is important to protect the most vulnerable in the society and in phase 1b the focus at that time were persons in the elderly population persons living with comorbid conditions and I just want to bring back the point that Dr. Belma made just earlier in her presentation we note the comorbid conditions that most of our deaths you know that would have the comorbid conditions that were present so we had persons living with hybrid pressure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease and it is very important for us that persons living with comorbid conditions that they are protected because we know that they are at very high risk of developing the very severe form of the disease and of course we know that could lead to death the ministry of health and wellness indicated that the response and turnout has been encouraging with a total of 14,708 individuals getting vaccinated to date the immunization manager explained that the ministry will soon be moving into phase 2 of the campaign and urge everyone to pre-register we are at a point where there is a need for us to reach out to move a little further and to reach out to other persons who are at medium risk and as such we are going to be moving on to phase 2 where we will be reaching out to other persons who on a daily basis by nature of their job have very high interaction and also at risk and I speak of our hotel workers I speak about the commercial sector also persons from working in the hotel industry and we will be reaching out to them so we are encouraging those persons of course to visit the various community wellness community vaccination sites once they announce they can access the vaccine at the sites that are nearest to them that was immunization manager Tekla Shabbatiste St. Lucia received support from a key regional organization to aid in controlling the spread of dengue and other vector-borne diseases more in this report from Funnel Neptune the ministry of health recently received a donation of equipment and supplies from the Pan-American Health Organization PAHO to assist the country given the recent outbreak of dengue fever last year PAHO country program specialist Reynolds Ewett says his organization remains committed to assisting St. Lucia in strengthening its vector control measures these equipment and other access will be used for entomological surveillance and on behalf of the PWR, Dr. Ithides Gebre I hand over these items to the chief environmental health officer and where they use for controlling mosquitoes and help to reduce the indices of these mosquitoes in St. Lucia chief environmental health officer Pakal Ragnan says the donation of equipment and supplies is extremely needed to decrease the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes these items are indeed much needed as our stock have been significantly depleted we've also had dated equipment some that are non-functional at this time and so we want to ensure the Pan-American Health Organization that these items will be put into very good use for the benefit of the country as a whole and so we want to thank you again for them and look forward to continue collaboration with the organization in improving and sustaining the health of all St. Lucia's alike environmental health officer for vector control Shaleta Charles expressed gratitude to PAHO for the donation and says it will be used to fight the dengue battle in St. Lucia it is truly necessary for us to continue our battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito on the spread of dengue fever across the island so we'd like to say a big thank you and we'd also like to encourage our fellow St. Lucia's to remember that although we haven't been having so many cases of dengue that we should still be aware that dengue is endemic to the island and we may have cases and outbreaks in the future the donation from PAHO included posters, water boots, chemical gloves, air muffs, full face respirators hand-held foggers, vehicle mounted fogger and mosquito repellent to name a few reporting from the communications unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness I am Fennel Neptune International Charity the Simply Health Foundation has made its annual donation and supplies for the less fortunate in the St. Lucia Society Jesse Leos reports Residents of St. Lucia continue to benefit from the bonds of cooperation between their government and the Embassy of the Republic of Taiwan and the Simply Health Foundation In a recent ceremony, resident ambassador to St. Lucia His Excellency Peter Xia Yan Chen handed over 1,000 boxes of goods donated by the foundation Today, the love from the Taiwanese people and overseas Taiwanese The kindness, compassion, because small acts of generosity is a solid testimony to the fact that Taiwan and St. Lucia are not just partners in prosperity but also partners in adversity Taiwan will continue to work with St. Lucia to come out better from this pandemic Minister of Equity, Social Justice, Empowerment, Youth Development, Sports and Local Government Honorable Leonard Mantute expressed a sincerest gratitude to the foundation for their charitable efforts I want to assure you ambassador that we will spare no effort in ensuring that those who are most in need of what we have here to distribute will receive them It will be done on the basis of merit It will be done on the criteria of need And so on behalf of those people, the many who will benefit from the gifts that will be distributed who may not have the opportunity ambassador to meet you and to personally thank you I take the opportunity on their behalf to express sincere gratitude The Simply Health Foundation, composed of Taiwanese American businessmen and women is a charity that has been donating to those in need annually for seven years For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Layance reporting This is NTIA Nightly Up next, Primers Hutchingson with the NTIA Nouvela Quaiol 2020 is a year that we do not want to revisit It was tough, frustrating and scary From family to friends to co-workers and clients Someone we know has been affected one way or another from this pandemic Let us take responsibility for ourselves and the lives of those around us On an island of 182,790 people, one life lost rocks the entire nation So let us overcome this together Wear a mask, wash your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water Stay home and social distance Share accurate information Sanitize your hands frequently Get registered for your COVID-19 vaccine today Let us bring our society, economy and health back to normal Together Together Together Together Together Together we can win this war This message is brought to you by the management and staff of Invest St. Lucia Welcome back We join Primers Hutchingson for the NTIA Nouvela Quaiol Mr. Thangenele Mr. Madame, Department of Investability For information on government services, GIS And national television, NTIA NTIA For the NTIA Nouvela Quaiol For the Primers Hutchingson Special support from this financial administration I would like to say thank you to the NIMAC organization We visited several of these protocols To strengthen the protection of COVID-19 To continue to eat here We also have Grek NIMAC Assistant Chief of Police Milton Desi And we also have Solangeman Asoukofiwa To address the Western operations Before going to the market And then go But we also need to go to a restaurant To eat But we also need to go to a restaurant To make a way To observe the COVID-19 The NIMAC officers I agree that Kofiwa Jalongi Was set up to go to the market But she continued to go To the market And she continued to work And to exercise To make a condition That she could contact And then go to the market The school was also open But these protocols were made Even before For the boat to go to the sea Even before the assistant chief Of police Was set up to go to the market To go to the market We also have a new program To learn about the situation To know about the situation To go to the lighthouse To make the way To make the way to the lighthouse To go to the fisheries To make the way Through the radio To reach the radio To make the way For the Social To observe We have Dr. Rigobot Fekoponke-Bagway, a woman who has completed her professional life. It is also true that Westpay is a great place for women to work in the field, in the domestic profession, and especially in domestic violence. If you want to work, that's a good thing. And you can have a good life. You can have a family, a good business, you can have a good life, you can have family, you can have a good life. So I think it's a good job, but one more thing is the development of it. I don't think it's going to affect society. I think it's going to affect the quality of our society. So I think it's going to affect the quality of our society. Also, we have a lot of violence bills that we have to deal with in order to get rid of them. So, we have a lot of violence bills that we have to deal with in order to get rid of them. But if we don't have the money, we can't finish it. So, we hope that we can get rid of the violence that we have to deal with in order to get rid of them. I will start with the Posito and Timorso violence bills. These are decisions that the organization has made to establish a charge to cover the cases in order to protect the cases that are being moved during the corona pandemic. Chief Officer Medical Doctor Sharon Belma George explained that this is a critical situation that we need to set up in order to make sure that the situation is resolved. We need to make sure that the situation is resolved, and that the patients will be able to get rid of them. We have decided that we will be able to declare this as a huge challenge to resolve the situation that we face to make it easy for business payers. In the end, it's possible that the whole country and the whole public will be able to continue for a very long time and serve the mass as a way to sanitize, change their social distance, and also to provide for a very long time. Because the coronavirus has transformed us so quickly. The decision that I made was that Fiu was going to start working at 4 a.m. All the day, but the end of the week, it's the same thing that I started at 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. every morning, every day, because that's what I saw to go to 4 a.m. every morning. All the time, with Plastic Business, we can encourage people to continue to work at Kaipito. I will comment on all the discussions done by Zoom, KSAV Internet, and a lot of services that are necessary to build the manufacturers, etc. that continue. If there is more information about the business, I would like to make sure that we manage it. If there is more information about the business, I would like to make sure that we have a lot of time to work on it. I would also like to thank KSAV for providing us with this new product. Thank you very much. I'll see you in the next week. See you in January. Mess your pill primers. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Jeannelle Norville.


It's the time to crown another UEFA Champions League winners rapidly approaching, but the candidates are yet to be decided, here where it could be anybody's game. You don't want to miss a moment, so be there on Friday, March 15th to witness the final UEFA Champions League draw, find out who still has a chance to make it to the final in London. Live coverage begins at 5am, 6 ECT on Sportsmax 2 and on the Sportsmax app. You're always connected when you stream on the Sportsmax app.


Lines are open, we're taking calls now. Where are you headed this summer holiday? James and his editor-in-chief are seeing his mum while Vanya's kicking back on the coast. Not for lie, that's where I'm going. Misplained into the bushfire seasonally, it's no surprise we're seeing low humidity and temperatures in the high 30s and burning bodies all week long. Smithfield tanker responding to a campfire. Mount Thomas fire tower has noticed a cold with smoke from the tree.


We're live here from the human chain in Paris. People have come together holding hands to stand against climate change and violence. We are seeing thousands of people take to the streets of Paris where the march was banned, but people have found a beautiful creative way to come together still to make their voices heard. We are drawing a line against fossil fuels and calling for a just transition to 100% renewable energy. And we will certainly see more of the civil society mobilizing in the next couple of weeks as the COP officially kick-start tomorrow.


President Muammar Dubuari on Saturday extolled the virtues of Alhaji Ado Bayeiro, the diseased emir of Kanu, describing him as a man of remarkable culture and principles. He said the late emir staked his own life at several junctures in the defense of his people and urged his son and the new emir, Aminu Ado Bayeiro, to emulate his father. Malam Garbashiehu, the president's senior special assistant on media and publicity, said in a statement that President Dubuari stated these in a letter he sent to the new emir at his coronation, read and presented by the chief of staff to the president, Professor Ibrahim Gambari. Gambari is also an uncle to the new emir. Those who accompanied the chief of staff to the president's delegation to the event included the minister of defense, retired Major General Bashir Magashieh, agriculture and rural development, Sabo Nanunu, water resources, Suleiman Adamu and aviation, Hadi Sirika, among others.


In this video we'll be looking at Isotope RX8, and spoiler alert, it's absolute magic. I've also got a very special offer to tell you about, so let's get started. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. So once in a while a product comes along and it really blows me away. And that's been the case with Isotope RX8. In fact I'm kicking myself because I've never used the RX series before and if I had I could have saved myself hundreds if not thousands of hours editing glitches out of my audio. So in today's video I'm going to cover some of my favorite features of this package but I'm hardly scratching the surface. Check out the link in the description to find out about the different versions available and what included. It's really amazing. Now also stick around till the end of the video because I'm going to be telling you about a very special offer from my friends at Plugin Boutique to do with this package. So do stick around for that. So let's get stuck in and see what magic is inside RX8. So a great vocal performance can be ruined with plosives. This is the sound of wind rushing across the microphone and we particularly get it with puh and bust sounds. In the recording I'm about to play you it's being caused by a tuh sound on the second word. You've taken my heart and you give it up. And again you've taken my heart and you give it up. And one more time and remember to listen with headphones or studio monitors. You've taken my heart and you give it up. So I'm going to apply deplosive from RX8 on its default settings. Let's see what difference it makes. You've taken my heart and you give it up. Like magic. It's gone. So you can get really intimate sound from a vocal by having the singer very close to the microphone and singing nice and gently. The problem is we pick up all the pops and clicks and slaps that the human mouth naturally makes.  You've taken my heart and you give it up. Have a listen again. Listen to the word give. You've taken my heart and you give it up. It's really unpleasant once you can hear it. So let's apply the mouth de-click feature in RX8 and I've just adjusted the settings just a little bit with sensitivity and click widening and let's see what it's done. You've taken my heart and you give it up. I mean that's like magic to me and it's going to save me hours of time. So let's have a listen to this section where the singer takes a breath in between lines. Now it's natural for us to hear breathing in vocals and if we get rid of it completely it can sound very odd indeed.  Let's have a listen to it now. I've got breath control applied. Give it up. Try to fit. And again the original recording. Give it up. Try to fit.  Give it up. Try to fit. And just for fun because I know you're all going to try this if you get RX8. Let's get rid of the breath completely. Give it up. Try to fit. So at times we're going to pick up unwanted sounds from the headphones by the microphone. Let's have a listen to this recording where the drums have been picked up from the singer's headphones by the microphone. Okay so I'm going to apply D-Bleed in RX8 and I've also loaded up the original drums so it can use them as a reference. Now the first couple of seconds here doesn't have it applied so you will hear a couple of drum clicks. Let's see how it's done. And it's gone. So from time to time we'll pick up an awful squeak sound when we record guitars especially with chord changes.  Did you hear that? Sounds awful. I'll just focus in on that part so you can listen again. So I'm going to use the squeak feature which is within the guitar D-Noise feature in RX8. Let's see how it's done. I keep saying it's magic. So at times you're going to get some unwanted noise when recording electric guitar.  So I'm going to use the amp section from within the guitar D-Noise feature in RX8. Let's see how it does. No more humming. So eventually you're going to want the world to hear your music and you're going to have to create some different versions for different situations because the requirements for something say like Spotify are quite different to that of public radio for example. So in RX8 we have this wonderful loudness control which is full of presets to make this job easier for you. So I've got my original audio here and I've selected the music streaming preset because I think it's really suitable for Spotify. I'm going to click the compare button there to add that over here and we can listen to the original and then the Spotify version. So the original sounds like this. And then with the Spotify version it sounds like this. A lot louder as you can hear. So there's some really useful presets here including things like contemporary music master right down at the bottom here, public radio in the USA or of course you can create the settings manually. Now there may be occasions where you want to rebalance a mix but you don't have access to the original files. So in RX8 they have this music rebalance feature and you can see it's just like a simple mixer where we control the level of the vocals, the bass, the percussion and other instruments. Now it does take a little while to process files using this feature so I've pre-prepared some examples for you. So here is the original song as it was. And here is with a little bit of a vocal boost. Now on this occasion I've chosen to make the drums a little bit louder. So it's kind of amazing that it can do that with essentially a mastered file. Now just for fun and it's not really intended like this let's do some things like removing things completely. So in this version I've completely removed the vocals so we just get an instrumental version. Okay sounds a little bit weird but fun. Now in this version what I've done is get rid of everything else except for the drums. So as I say this is not what this was intended for but I've got to say I'm still kind of impressed. So I've been focusing on just a few of the music production features in RX8 but there's a lot more to it than that. If you're involved at all with the production of spoken word things like podcasts or maybe even video like this then you should definitely check out the features to do with that. Just follow the link in the description down below to find out about the different versions available and what they include. Now if you do follow that link it's going to take you to Plug-In Boutique. They have a very special offer on at the moment. If you buy any of the versions of RX8 then you're going to get a complimentary copy of Isotope Trash 2 and also Ujam Carbon which I covered on the channel before you can watch that video just here. It's an awesome offer I think it's available until the end of September 2020 so definitely take advantage of that. You're going to get around about $200 worth of software for free just by buying RX8. Now I want to know from you in the comments down below what was the most mind-blowing feature that you saw in this video. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. If you did like this video make sure you hit the like button and if you do like this kind of content subscribe and ring the bell on YouTube so that you're notified about my future videos. Don't forget you can now support me on Patreon as well. There's a link for that down in the description and I'll see you in the next video.


If you want to make quicker decisions on the field, you want to be a better decision maker, you want to play faster, you have to actually know what you should be doing when you have the ball in possession and when you don't have the ball, when you're out of possession. So many players have no idea what they should be doing, so when they actually get the ball at their feet. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. They just panic or they make the wrong decision or they miss out on an opportunity because they don't know what they should be doing. Now, I'm just gonna go through this really quickly to simplify this for you. When you're in possession, can you get forward? If you can get forward, get that ball forward and join in the attack, move forward, okay? So play forward with your passes or play forward with your dribbling and move forward with your movement, okay? So when you're in possession, can you play forward? If you can, go forward. To score goals, you have to go forward. So there's no sense in going sideways and backwards when you have the opportunity to go forward.  But even still, I think you should be going for goals. It's more fun that way as well. Okay, so if you can't go forward, for example, you get closed down, instead of forcing it, trying to take on three guys when you're all by yourself, realize that, okay, if I try to go forward here, I'm probably going to lose possession. So you wanna go forward, but you want to keep possession of the ball, okay? So very simple when you're in possession of the ball. So you know what you need to do when you're on the field. If you can go forward, whether by dribbling into space or by playing passes and combining with teammates, you need to go forward. You need to get forward. However, if you cannot get forward, you must keep possession of that ball. Do not give this ball away cheaply. Do not force the play.  If the option is there to go forward, then yes, go forward. Should you still take guys on? Absolutely. If that's the right decision and beating this guy will allow you to put a cross in the box or beating these guys will allow you to get a shot off, then go for it. But if you know it's a wrong decision, it's not likely that you're going to succeed by trying to go forward, then turn, keep possession of that ball. I quickly wanna talk about the defensive side of decision making as well, because that is decision making. That's a very important part of your game. If you think decision making and playing quickly is only what you do when in possession, you're missing out on half the game. So quickly, let's just go through a few ideas. I made a video on this recently and I'll put a link in the description of this video. But I said, when defending, you should ask yourself two questions. Number one, where should I be? Number two, what should I be doing? So where should you be? Well, when your team is defending, you wanna be in your team shape. So let's say you're playing five-a-side. This applies to seven-a-side or 11-v-11. It's all the same ideas. What is your team shape? Let's say you play a two-two-one, okay? So as soon as you lose possession, let's say we went forward and we lost possession, we quickly wanna get back into our shape. We wanna get close together. So now we can defend together. If we're spread out like this, it leaves massive gaps, okay? So we wanna get close together as a unit in our team formation. So what is your position and where should you be in your team's formation? That's where you wanna be, okay? And as the ball moves, we move together. So if that ball moves out here, we move together. So you're always thinking about where's the ball and where are my teammates? I need to move in relation to both of those things. So as that ball comes to the other side, we all shift and we all stay together. So question number one, where should I be? Question number two, what should I be doing? If you are the closest player to the ball, you should be pressing the ball, okay? You should be forcing him to make a mistake or forcing him to go backwards. He cannot score if he's over here. Our net's over here. If we keep them over there, they're not gonna have a very good chance of scoring on us, okay? So pressure that ball. If that ball comes to you and you're the closest to the ball, pressure that ball, okay? What does everyone else do? We think about the next pass. We think about where this guy may want to play and we stay in our formation and we close those passes down.  You wanna anticipate that that ball's coming in there and then you can cover like that and then everyone comes back into our positions, okay? But if that ball gets played there, you're the closest there. You press, everyone else is thinking about where the next pass may be and we're moving up together like this, okay? You can see everyone is covering the next pass. This guy closest to the ball is pressuring the ball, forcing him to make a mistake or forcing him to go backwards. These ideas are very simple but very important. It's impossible to play quickly if you're not ready to react. So standing flat footed on your heels is a bad habit you want to stay away from instead. Always focus on being on your toes ready to react at any moment, especially when you do not have the ball at your feet. When you do have the ball at your feet, you wanna be quick and sharp with your movement. Focus on your movement as much as your touches. As you see here, this is what some players do. It's just too casual, too relaxed, too slow. If you wanna make quicker decisions, also focus on being quicker with your touches, quicker with your changes of direction, quicker with your passes.    This is what I see all the time is players just watching the ball. They don't know what's behind them. They don't know what's around them. They're just focusing on the ball. You wanna stay away from this bad habit. Instead, you should always be looking over your shoulder. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the online Soccer Academy.  If you're receiving a pass waiting for the ball, know what's behind you.  Know what's to the side of you. So using your head, shoulder checking all the time, just gathering more information is going to help you make better decisions.  If your head is down, just looking at your ball, you can only see what's in your peripheral vision. You can only see two yards around you.  But you can't do that if you have your head looking at the ground.   Another thing I strongly suggest you do is watch professional football and watch a lot of it. Professionals can teach us so much if we're just willing to sit and watch and analyze what they do. I can't understand players who say things like, I don't like watching soccer, I just like playing it or I can't sit through a full game.  Chances are, they probably aren't the smartest players either. Honestly, the smartest players I've ever played with are usually the players who watch the most because they've learned how to play the game properly from the best teachers in the world. So if you want to become a smarter player, watch but analyze. And what do I mean by analyze? While I'm watching the game, I'm not just watching the ball. I may pick a certain player and I'll just watch him to see what he does in certain situations. Which types of runs does he make when his teammates have the ball? Which spaces does he try to get into? What does he do when he doesn't have the ball? Which defensive positions does he take up? Okay, so focus on his positioning and his movement as much as what he does on the ball when he has it at his feet. So also when he has the ball at his feet, you want to think about, okay, what type of decision did he make in that situation? Did he dribble there? Or did he play a little one-two? Did he try to go forward or did he turn and keep possession? Okay, so just by watching and analyzing, you can learn so much. And yes, analyze technique while you're at it. And the great thing is you can rewind. So I might rewind the whole play, maybe let's say a goal happened and maybe the fullback had a really good contribution in that goal. I'll rewind the whole thing and I'll watch from the very beginning. Okay, where did he start? The play started way over here, but he started on this side and he made a run all the way up and then he made a little combination. He whipped across into the box. Okay, so rewind, use rewind to your advantage and you can learn so much about decision making and certain positioning and just what to do on the field in certain situations will help you so much. Another great idea is watching analysis shows. So the show that I watched the most is football today. There's Sky Sports has some, there's lots and you can even search on YouTube for football analysis, but it's basically professionals, ex-professional players analyzing professional football. So they give you their opinions and they break down what makes players successful or which players, what players are struggling with at certain times. So it's a really great insight into what it takes to be a smart and good player. So really use this to your advantage, watching football, watching live games and also watching analysis shows. The final thing I want you to do if you want to become a smarter player is review your performances. So whether you had a practice or you had a game, usually at the end of the night, let's say I had a game, I'll be lying in bed and I'll just think of everything that happened in that game and I'll review every play that sticks out in my mind. Okay, some I may have made mistakes, some plays I was successful, but if you just play and you don't review, you don't think about that experience and learn from that experience, you'll never become better, you'll never become smarter, you'll just make the same mistakes again and again. So you really need to be your own best teacher. So at the end of the day, as I said, usually when I'm in bed, I'll just be laying in bed and I'll think about the game and I'll review all the plays in my mind and I'll try to think about what I should have done differently when I made mistakes and I'll remind myself to keep doing certain things that worked well. So if you really want to become smarter, learning to review and analyze yourself is soon. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner, you can download it for free, there's a link in the description below and for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.


a major figure contributing to the terrible increase in deaths is that illicit drugs have become so much more contaminated since the start of the pandemic. In the first months of 2020, before the pandemic began, the concentration of fentanyl that the coroner detected in illicit drug deaths was between 4% and 8%. In the last months of 2021, this increased to between 24 and 28% a staggering increase. Between COVID pandemic measures, the poison drug crisis, floods and fires, we've never asked so much from our health authorities and frontline workers and yet we need to do more. We're making historic investments in mental health and addiction supports across the full spectrum of treatment and recovery. British Columbia is tackling this crisis from all angles. We've given nurses the power to prescribe medication assisted treatment. That's a first in Canada. Today, there are 39 overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites in BC, including 13 offering inhalation. That's a particular contributor to loss of life as the coroner has noted. Only one of these sites existed in 2016. We're the first province in Canada to apply to decriminalize people who use drugs. That's an application before the federal government. We've added hundreds of new treatment and recovery beds. We're adding hundreds more. In the last few weeks alone, we've announced a new expansion of free and affordable community counseling across British Columbia. We've added the first of its kind complex care housing program to particularly connect people living with untreated mental health and addictions and sometimes brain injury. The most vulnerable people in British Columbia. Another example is a new primary care clinic in Qualicum Beach that will help those with complex medical and social needs and mental health and addiction challenges. I've been hearing firsthand that what we're doing is making a difference. Last month, Trevor Botkin of Hero Work Victoria told me about his experience with addiction in the construction industry. Men are affected the most by toxic drug deaths as the coroners noted almost 80% of toxic drug deaths and nearly 20% of those who died worked in trades or transport. It's the highest sector identified. That's why we've just funded a million dollars to expand the industry led tailgate toolkit program, bringing overdose prevention and treatment information directly to job sites to connect with people like Trevor. And I've also heard from frontline people and service providers how prescribed safe supply is helping separate people from toxic street drugs. Kate Hodgson, a nurse from the four directions team in the First Nations Health Authority told me this approach is already improving access to life-saving medication. Every coroner's report reaffirms to us why this work is so important. In December, the coroner called on our government to work more closely with prescribers to build their confidence so that they can connect more people with safe supply. And that's exactly what we're doing to support prescribers who are working closely with the BC Center on Substance Use, with doctors of BC, and with nurses and nurse practitioners of BC to provide resources and training to clinicians so that they can confidently prescribe safer supply. And I'm grateful that those last two organizations are here today to speak to the coroner's report. Since we first introduced prescribed safe supply in March 2020, there have been more than 12,000 people helped with this groundbreaking response. This critical medication has been prescribed by more than 3,000 clinicians with a number of prescribers increasing every month. In addition, more than 24,000 people each month receive medication assisted treatment with 1,700 clinicians prescribing medication for opioid use disorder up from 773 in 2017. The second phase of prescribed safer supply is now being implemented in health authorities and in federally funded programs. Our government is making historic investments and systemic changes to our healthcare system to build that comprehensive system of mental health and addiction support for British Columbia, one that did not exist before. Never have so many people worked so hard and stood up so many supports. And clearly these changes can't happen fast enough. We are swimming against a rising tide of need, and so we are determined to do more and continue to build those systems. We need to keep going. We need to keep working together. We will not stop working until we turn this public health crisis around. And I now welcome Dr. Remnick. Dr. Remnick DeSange, the new president of Doctors of BC, to say a few words. Thank you, Dr. DeSange. I'm Elkinson. Good afternoon. It's an honor to attend this event today. However, I'd like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which I'm speaking to you from is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, including the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Slewa-Tooth nations. Unfortunately, today, this is a very somber occasion. Lives continue to be lost, and families continue to be devastated in communities all across the province for reasons that could be prevented. The ongoing opioid crisis has had lasting impacts on everyone who comes into contact with it, including health care providers, first responders that are attending on the scene, and our doctors, nurses, and other health care workers in the hospitals and in our communities. We all know and can agree that change is urgently needed, that there is a need to prevent unintentional toxic drug poisoning. The reasons that got us to this place are complex, and the solutions to this particular public health crisis are equally complex. These are tough problems that require equally tough solutions. No one solution is going to work. What we have is a real need for a multi-pronged approach to prevent toxic drug injuries and death, an approach that is based on harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and enforcement. As an initial step, BC doctors support the effort to separate people from the illicit toxic drug supply. People need access to start using safer pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs. Access to regulated substances, instead of those substances that traditionally have only been available on the illegal market. Doctors of BC recognizes that evidence-based programs offering pharmaceutical alternatives are an important life-saving measure, and careful consideration should be given on how to improve access to these programs while mitigating potential risks. I don't mind telling you that as a doctor, it's not an easy decision to prescribe a narcotic even if it is regulated. There can be all kinds of ramifications for the patient and for the prescriber. Doctors will look at all extenuating circumstances before deciding on this approach. The government's program of prescribed safer supply is a rational option. Options are always good. Options for physicians who wish to participate in the provision of pharmaceutical alternatives and options that explore offering alternatives that do not require physician prescribing. The provision of safer supply and alternatives is again complex, and there is not a one-size-fits-all approach, just as each person's journey to wellness is different. All alternative options need to be examined holistically and considered in the context of longitudinal patient-centered care. What I also want to inform our public, our patients, the families is I don't understand the level of pain that each of you are feeling, and I want you to know that we are committed as the doctors of BC to work with you and work with our partners in collaboration to fix this problem, this pain that we see, it's visible and it's difficult to understand, but we are committed to doing the right thing, and in partnership we will. We will change the way things are, and this can no longer be a crisis in which we are responding to, but like Minister Malcomson said, we are committed to a collective solution, and we are in this together. Thank you. Thank you Dr. DeSanche so much for your partnership and to all the doctors that are out in the field helping connect people with care, the province is grateful, we're honored to be working with you in this difficult time. I'm now pleased that Michael Sandler who is CEO of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC is here to add his voice. Thank you Minister Malcomson. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Sandler and I am the Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC, or NNPBC. We'd like to start by acknowledging that I'm coming to you from the traditional and unceded territories of the CLX Nation, and that the offices of the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC are located on the traditional and unceded territories of the CLX, Musqueam, Slewa Tooth, and Squamish Peoples. British Columbia is now in its sixth year of the overall crisis, which continues to accelerate despite our current efforts. Each day we lose six people as a result of this crisis. This is simply unacceptable. So I am pleased to be here today to speak with you about the prescribed safe supply model, and the work currently underway to support nurse prescribing of safer alternatives to street drugs. Similar to other advocates who have been focusing on solutions to the overdose crisis, NNPBC supports and applauds prescribed safe supply as an important aspect of a robust harm reduction strategy. Nurses are positioned at the forefront of harm reduction within communities across BC to help address this crisis. As leaders and health advocates within our communities, we have seen firsthand the toll that this crisis has taken. Nursing's reputation is one of the most trusted professions that healthcare is based on our long history of working with vulnerable populations, and we therefore have a responsibility to protect and advocate for harm reduction solutions that continue to enhance on this trend. Safer supply through the expansion of prescriptive authority to registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses for safer alternatives to street drugs is a welcome, important, and critical enhancement to our harm reduction arsenal. In making this important and necessary change to include RNs and RP and nursing designations to the list of prescribers who can providers who can prescribe safer alternatives to street drugs, the province has taken a major step towards leveraging nursing knowledge and supportive better outcomes for patients. Nurses stand ready at all levels to interact with people who use substances and will utilize supportive harm reduction interventions coupled with increased prescriptive authority, as well as expanded access to referral for ongoing treatment and support to save lives. Working with our colleagues at various agencies such as the BC Center for Substance Use and the BC College of Nurses and Midwives, we have been collaborating with respect to how to guide nurses who wish to undertake this education necessary to prescribe these safer alternatives to street drugs for some time. Several hundred nurses have already registered for the training needed to support the scope optimization, and we expect to continue to see these numbers increase. Prescribed safer supply along with harm reduction measures are fundamental in eliminating stigma and bringing adequate attention to BC's overdose and toxic drug crisis. Lives are depending on these interventions and the nurses at BC stand at the ready to support this harm reduction strategy as part of a larger overall push to create meaningful outcome change. NNPBC and the nurses at BC look forward to continuing to provide strategic advice for and support creative solutions to these complex challenges. In closing, NNPBC and the nurses at BC look forward to continuing to work with the ministry, Minister Malcomson and her team on strategies to enhance current interventions and ways to promote additional measures to prevent overdose deaths. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this important issue. Thank you to doctors at BC and to the Association of Nurses and Nurse Prescribers of BC for standing with the province here today and in this work. And now to the media will take questions. Thank you very much. A reminder to media on the line, please press star one to enter the queue. You'll be limited to one question and one follow-up. Our first question today comes from Marcella Bernardo, CBC. Hi Minister, thank you for taking my question. Just hoping to see, I've been speaking with people here in Kamloops about what is needed most and they're saying that treatment on demand is not available. What efforts are being made outside the lower mainland to provide treatment services for people that can, you know, there's long wait lists of 50 people waiting for it. So what can be done now if somebody is ready to get the help that they want, but they just can't access it. The system of care that British Columbia is building towards and laid out in our plan and pathway to hope is that when people reach out and ask for help on mental health or addictions that they're met with care with dignity and they get access to that help. The same as you would with a physical injury, you know, a broken arm, anything like that. So that's the system that we are working to build from the ground up. This was not a system that was in place when we inherited government in 2017 and our healthcare system fighting two public health emergencies while building that system of care is being pushed to the limit. In the last year, we've opened the new 105 bed addictions specialized addictions in mental health treatment facility at Redfish Healing Centre. That's on the grounds of the former Riverview Hospital, now known as Samiqua Ella. It's also particularly specialized around with people that have behavior or particular aggression issues that have been hard to treat in other areas. We've opened 105 new publicly funded adult treatment beds and 30 youth treatment beds so far across the province in this most recent wave, another 20 youth treatment beds in the previous year, and 10 of those treatment beds were in Kamloops. We recognize absolutely that the wait times to get into treatment and the stages in between treatment are both real gaps in the system that we are continuing to invest in investing at historic levels and not withstanding all the new services that we've stood up over the last three years, last four years, there is still a lot of work ahead of us, but a particular area that that frontline people and people who have who use drugs and have access to treatment have let us know about are the gaps in between. So for example, I'm being able to get into detox right away, then having an intermediary support place so that people don't get discharged back to homelessness or don't get, don't wait to get then into treatment and then post-treatment to have more of a supportive recovery counseling system and particularly orienting people towards housing where they will be supported so that they can lock in what they've learned in treatment. So at all those stages across the continuum implemented by health authorities and often contracted out to experienced frontline groups across the province, including in Kamloops, we're continuing to work hard to build that system of care. We're not there yet, but we're determined to do more. Marcella, do you have a follow-up? I do. I guess it would be how concerned are you that the pandemic along with all of the other shortages that we're experiencing in health care right now is just going to further delay the treatment that people are seeking that they're hoping to get because here in Kamloops, the hospital is already overwhelmed with patients when it comes to COVID and everything else. How can these people expect to get support if there's just not enough people there to help them? This is a question that throughout government we speak about every day. You know, as Michael Sandler said for the Association of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners that we've given registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses the ability to prescribe medication assisted treatment. That's a first in Canada and a huge step forward. It's been a really impressive increase and we want to continue to expand their scope of practice. At the same time, we recognize that we're asking a lot of nurses. We are encouraged to see places like Interior Health really innovate with some of the outreach work that we've asked them to do. There are integrated treatment teams that work outside of traditional treatment centres or outside of hospitals to go and meet people where they're at. It may be that some people have had difficulty accessing treatment because of transportation challenges or family care responsibilities or shift work. In all those cases, Interior Health's integrated treatment teams are able to get out in the field and connect people with care. We're also the first province in Canada that has adopted a peer curriculum, training curriculum, and peer worker standards of practice. Again, it's been Interior Health that helped us pilot the formalized connection between the health authority and health care with peer workers. But Minister Ebi talks about this within his area of responsibilities, Minister Dix, within his very vital part of that navigation system of the health care system will be peer workers. In addition to the new care workers, the new nurses that we are adding seats under Minister Kang's leadership, but we are making up a lot of lost ground. We as a province have not trained all of the frontline people that we need. We recognize that those who are in the field already are tired. They're looking forward to that next wave of recruits and we just hope that they can hang in there so that they can mentor the new young people that are coming into the field. We're going to continue to take a diversified approach. Next question comes from Syngin Alexander, CTV. Hi, Minister. And actually, all of you, lots of talk about prescriptions. And we're hearing from some people who say prescriptions aren't working, that we need to just, there's too much stigma in asking for a prescription that a lot of people can't get it. And they're suggesting that we just have to get rid of the prescriptions and give those who need the substances directly. Your thoughts there? Well, I'll start by saying connecting people with safe supply is vital, especially given the terribly increased toxicity of the drug supply on the streets. It's a vital harm reduction intervention. And British Columbia being the first place in Canada that has adopted a safe supply system that we're rolling out not just with frontline workers in federally funded clinics, but also through every health authority. We learned from the first phase that we rolled out two years ago that both clinicians and people who use drugs said that they needed to have more types of substances and also more access points. In July, Dr. Bonnie Henry and I announced major expansion of March 2020's safe supply initial roll out and have directed, I've directed every health authority to integrate it into their programs. That expansion is under way now. So fair to say that when you're the first in the country that we are learning as we go and we're continuing to add new medications, for example, fentanyl patches can now be prescribed as a way to separate people from the toxic drug supply. Ventura and other substances are being added and will continue to be added. Already we've been able to expand the number of prescribers and the number of people being reached with safe supply is expanding enormously. We're working within the provincial powers that we have, which is a prescribed system and that's the work that we're doing with partners like nurse prescribers, nurse practitioners and doctors for whom we're grateful. And if either of our other guests would like to add in and describe what you're seeing, that would be great. Michael, do you want to dive in? Go ahead, Michael. I just wanted to reiterate the point that prescriptions are definitely the first step, but we definitely need to ensure that clients have access to as many points of care as possible. And so expanding prescriptive authority for nurses who work at the point of care is an excellent opportunity to continue to promote this first in Canada program. We see this as an opportunity to meet patients where they are at and it also helps to reduce the stigma, which was one of the points that was made by CBC in terms of accessing care and reducing barriers to access that care. At the point of care where the patient is at is extremely important. And so the opportunity to collaborate with the ministry to improve that is welcome. I'll just add Minister Malcomson. I'll just add to that. I think we all can recognize that the government has made great strides in including improved access to the safer pharmaceutical alternatives. But a reminder that dealing with substance use and addiction, we need to improve access to a range of community-based and culturally appropriate evidence-informed substance use prevention, harm reduction, and treatment programs and services. What we are embarking on, as Minister Malcomson has reminded us of, the way that we're moving forward has been exponential. And to recognize that growth and again to make sure that we are meeting our patients at the point of use is absolutely imperative. We have many physicians that are being equipped with the ability to manage this crisis, but it needs wraparound and full patient-centered care. So also addressing the social determinants of health, which the minister has alluded to, these are the things that are going to help in the community to decrease the urgent crisis. And I think we need to approach this in a collective and collaborative manner, but again, ensuring that we're responsive to the needs of our patients. Sinjin, do you have a follow-up? Yeah, and thank you. And I'll stick to this because it is, I think, important. I know Dr. you said it very well that it's very difficult at times to decide whether someone should be prescribed something. I'm assuming that people do get turned away and do we know what happens when those people are turned away? Or should you want to take that? I don't know exact circumstance of what happens in the particulars of that situation, but what I can say, what I see in the emergency department, both working as a frontline physician in the hospital and the community, someone that has been committed to both the Child Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Collaborative Efforts for some time, I can say to you that we need to do better. And in informing the decisions, we need to understand addiction and the substance use and concurrent disorders that have patients in these predicaments. And what I can assure you is that everyone in the frontline and the increase in the services that have been provided, both where nursing profession and our physician colleagues on the ground, as well as all of the ministry's efforts have substantially reduced that. And we are working collectively, but it's going to take all of us, the public as well, to decrease the stigma around addictions and those that are seeking care. They need to be recognized for even seeking help and that we change their attitudes collectively as public and bring this into awareness. These people are in pain. Addiction is pain and we need to address this from a collective, multifaceted, prong approach that makes sure that we are ensuring to look at connection and that sense of belonging again, where we bring people back into wraparound team-based care in which we can have multi- providers provide for that patient's complex needs. Addictions are very complex and we need to understand to be available on every aspect to help those patients in need. And this is exactly the direction that we are headed in. Next question comes from Les Lane, Times Colonist. Well, thank you. To anyone, I guess. I was just curious, based on the coroner's report this morning, looking at the some federal statistics fairly briefly, I have to admit that why is BC's rate of fatality rate, and I think most of the other metrics as well, why is it so disproportionately high compared to other provinces? The federal report I saw 90% of the fatalities are in three provinces, Ontario, Alberta and BC. BC and Alberta are roughly comparable. The BC's fatality rate is, like, I think it's almost double Ontario. So why is this basically a Western Canadian problem? And if you agree with that, why? Yeah, thank you, Les. British Columbia has been contending with the overdose crisis for longer than anywhere in Canada. I know my own community, Nanaimo, got hit early and hard by the overdose crisis. We were experiencing real terrible and disproportionate loss of life.  I'm particularly encouraged that now we have, the federal government has mirrored British Columbia's move, the Premier's decision in 2017 to create a dedicated ministry of mental health and addictions. Well, we've got our heads down fighting this crisis in BC very hard. I'm very pleased that I now have a federal counterpart and in Carolyn Bennett, in fact, a medical doctor. So I am going to be drawing on her reflections and analysis about how we're doing across the country. But she continues to say, as did her predecessor, the federal minister of health, Patty, I do say that they, the rest of the country is learning from how what British Columbia has learned because we've had to innovate. And it's a huge credit to the practitioners and people on the front line. The province is informed every day by what they're seeing and learning. And we're very grateful for their service and how they inform our work. Les, do you have a follow up? One other thing, I'm not clear on just the fatality rate based on the coroner's report, obviously. The rate has been so high it's been cited previously that it's actually impacting the life expectancy in this province. And you'd think that this horrible attrition rate, I think 8,600 deaths over the last year that in that relatively small pool of drug users, just that attrition rate would lower the rate of fatalities. But it seems to be the numbers and the rate seems to be increasing. Is there something going on that like there are more and more people starting to use these drugs despite 10 years worth of warnings about how dangerous it is? Or where are these users? Are there more users, I guess, basically? That's a question. We're in such a terrible time where the people that are reaching out for help with us standing up more and more clinics, more treatment beds, more supervised consumption sites, mobile testing, standing up new services and new ways to connect with people. We also note that as the coroner says, the majority of people that are dying of overdose are in their own private homes. This is not street use that is particularly taking people down. And I hear from firefighters in my own community and from the coroner also that a great number of people who are dying are dying alone. And I hear from their families and friends sometimes they have no idea that the person was battling with addiction. So those people are not likely to have a conversation with their primary care provider about a medical intervention. And so it's a fair criticism of our prescribed safe supply program. That is good for people with opioid use disorder and people that are chronic users. But there may well be someone that experiments. It might even be something that they do not think has any threat to their life. So this takes us in a couple of directions. One, the work that we're doing on drug testing and we're trying to expand and innovate on that so that people are able to, whether they walk into a center or whether they mail in samples, they can get that feedback about whether the drug that they're contemplating using is going to be life threatening. But also our decriminalization application to the federal government, where we use that to assert that drug use is a health care issue and not a criminal justice issue, we really need to remove the stigma so that if somebody is thinking about using drugs, we really do not want them to use a loan. If they are going to use a loan, use the lifeguard app. You can download that. This is a new program of our government. And particularly, if you think you're in trouble, please do talk to somebody in the health care field. They can connect you with the supports that you need. Using a loan often means dying alone with the terrible increases in toxicity. That's the biggest contributor that the coroner has pointed for us to have. Remember in 2019, drug deaths, drug overdose deaths, did fall. And then in that continued for the first two months before the pandemic was declared. We hit March 2020 and the terrible increase in toxicity was completely aligned with that increase in deaths. And I think that's where the coroner is going around looking at the trend lines and how this continues to take so many lives. Next question goes to Andrea Wu, Globe and Mail. Hi, thanks for taking my question. Several clinicians have said that they were audited by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of DC for prescribing safer supply. And it has seemed that the college does not support the initiative. Can you tell me about the discussions that there have been if any with the college? Thank you, Andrea. Because we're so reliant on doctors and nurse practitioners doing this vital work of connecting people who use drugs with prescribed safe supply, we want very much as a government to remove barriers to their success. We're doing that in a number of ways, providing some of the clinical support, working with the BC Centre on Substance Use and working collaboratively with the associations that you see with us today, developing that guidance and education and the kind of specialized backup support. And there's a helpline prescriber who's thinking of connecting a patient with prescribed safe supply can get that support. But we have heard about the effects of a chilling effect that the actions of the colleges can have. We are working with them to provide that guidance, trying to get at what's at the heart of the college with its multiple responsibilities about whether there is a system of prescribing that might be leading to actual abuses versus what is now recognized as a very mainstream practice certainly within our government. I know that the coroner and Dr. Henry have met directly with the college just in recent weeks to express these concerns and see what we can do to remove them. And we continue as a government to work with all the colleges of pharmacy and physicians and surgeons to resolve any concerns that they have around prescribed safe supply and remove from any barriers that prescribers might feel to connect people with this life-saving support. Andrea, do you have a follow-up? Yes, thank you for that. This is not something that you necessarily have authority over, but with more than 2,200 British Columbians dead last year, nearly 10,000 since 2016, I'm curious why, in your opinion, we have not seen a coordinated province-wide emergency response proportionate to the magnitude of this death toll. The work that we are doing province-wide to respond to the first public health emergency declared in 2016 and now COVID has absolutely stretched the healthcare system that when we formed government in 2017 that there was not a system of care for mental health and addictions, no continuum of care that had that seamless path through all the stages of addictions treatment and recovery. And then with the increasing terrible loss of life and the terrible increase in toxicity of the drugs, it has meant that we are building a system and fighting two health emergencies at the same time. But I'll say, notwithstanding, that clearly this isn't enough because we are still losing so many lives, our province is now spending every year $2.7 billion across multiple ministries to respond to the overdose crisis and to attend to people's mental health and substance use issues. That is being spent through health authorities, through the education ministry, through Ministry of Children and Family Development. Public safety is working very hard on the criminal justice aspects of this, pursuing drug dealers and drug trafficking with serious focus. We're building up the healthcare elements, working to combat stigma, working on treatment and recovery, and in an unprecedented way bringing out substance use treatment teams, community act teams, very street based, really hitting this with every element. And through government we've got a newly established cabinet committee that brings all the relevant ministries together. And also if you look at the mandate letters of government, this overdose crisis is pointed to multiple ministries. So we are coordinating our response, but I'll say again that fighting an overdose emergency, fighting a public health emergency and building a system of care at the same time just means we have double the work and it's more important and urgent than ever. We have time for one more question and we will go to Dustin Godfrey, Burnaby Beacon. Hi, thanks for the opportunity here. Quite frankly, we've seen a very slow pace of increasing access to safe supply over the last several years. You said in the past that this is to ensure that the government gets it right. I guess what I want to know is how you can justify that? I can justify airing on the side of underutilization when it's clear that thousands of people are dying while they wait, and especially when BC government was able to turn on a dime to respond to COVID. Yeah, thank you for the question. Fighting COVID on the foundation of an intact healthcare system is very different from fighting the overdose public health emergency while building a system of care at the same time. And British Columbia being the first province in the country to apply for decriminalization, the first province to give registered nurses the power to prescribe medication assisted treatment. We have had 24,000 people on medication assisted treatment. That's a big uptake in the province for us to be having added hundreds of treatment beds. We're going to add hundreds more to go from one supervised consumption site to 39. Again and again throughout the province, the expansion of services and supports is historic and it's not enough. On prescribed safe supply, again the first place in Canada to do this, so we didn't have within the federated system and the overall responsibility coming from on illicit drugs and regulation of controlled drugs and substances coming from the federal government. The only province that has prescribed safe supply, but 15,000 people over the last two years have been prescribed a safe supply. So and it's not enough. We're determined to do more and do that in partnership but we have unrolled. We have implemented an unprecedented program and the expansion of that program is happening right now with new substances being added. There's nowhere else in Canada that you can be prescribed a fentanyl patch for the purpose of separating people from the toxic drug supply. Ventura and other substances being added right now. Thanks to the addiction medicine doctors and people working on the front line who have innovated and tried things in new ways and as a province we've been able to come behind them. We all feel the urgency of this and we are determined to do more. My resolve on a day like this has never been stronger. Dustin, do you have a follow up? Yeah, so we've heard months after months that you know the government has a heavy heart over the crisis. I guess I kind of wonder how people can be expected to believe that when movement on this has been so slow. Well again I'll say Dustin the the loss of life tells us continued and terrible and unacceptable loss of life tells us that we need to do more and there's nowhere in the country that we have added new surfaces and supports at a greater rate than what British Columbia is and we have a lot more to do and we've already committed to doing that. It's already last year's budget had a half billion dollars for expanded treatment support overdose response. We're working with First Nations Health Authority building treatment centers in the north. We're continuing to innovate on on drug testing and and continuing to add and expand prescribed safe supply of 15,000 people on prescribed safe supply is is not nothing bringing new practitioners and training new practitioners supporting them. That's not nothing and it's not enough and we're determined to do more and and the pathway to hope our plan adopted by my friend and predecessor Judy Darcy the first Minister of Mental Health and Addictions in the country in 2018 is our roadmap and one that we're continuing to fund and implement with in partnership with prescribers and again thanks to both doctors of BC and the Association of Nurses and Nurse Prescribers for standing with me on this very hard day showing our our solidarity and our our united front determined to connect more people with this form of of life-saving response to the overdose crisis. Thank you very much everybody that concludes today's availability. Thank you for being here and thank you so much to our our partners Dr. DeSage and Michael Sandler. Thanks for being here. All the best keep safe.


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