Hey there, I'm Drew and you are definitely listening to the anxious truth. This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety anxiety disorders and anxiety recovery. So if you're struggling with things like panic attacks panic disorder agoraphobia or health anxiety, this is the place for you. This week on the podcast, we're talking about one of those weird subtle nuanced parts of anxiety recovery, which is the difference between being afraid during a panic attack and being afraid of a panic attack, which sounds strange, but it matters. So let's get into it now. Hello everybody, welcome back to the anxious truth. I am Drew Linsalata, creator and host of this fine podcast, and this is episode number 250, 250. We are recording in March of 2023 in case you're listening in the future. If you are new to this podcast and you just stumbled in or you just sort of accidentally stumbled upon the YouTube channel, welcome. I hope you find this content helpful and I hope you stick around. If you're a returning listener or viewer, we'll welcome back. I'm always glad that you're here. Today, we're going to talk about one of those really weird subtle and nuanced parts of anxiety recovery. And that is that there is really a difference and an important difference between being afraid during a panic attack and being afraid of panic attacks, which at face value sounds like the same thing, but it's really not hear me out. But before we do, I'll give you the abbreviated version of this. Head on over to my website when you have a minute at the anxious truth.com because there are a ton of cool resources there. There are workshops and courses. There are three books that I've written about anxiety and anxiety recovery. There are 249 podcast episodes that are completely free before this one. And there's a link to all of my social media platforms. I produce the material to try to help. So I would urge you to pop on over there, take a look at it all and evaluate yourself of the resources. They're there to help and hopefully they will. And if you're digging this work and it's helping you in some way and you want to find a way to support it, all the ways you can do that can be found also on my website at the anxious truth.com slash support and financial support is always appreciated, but never required. However way you support this work, whether it's just listening to the podcast, writing a review on iTunes or liking a YouTube video. I appreciate you very much. Thank you very, very much for your support, your time and your attention. So let's get into today's topic and that is the difference between being afraid during a panic attack and being afraid of panic attacks. Because the way we define recovery, and by the way, if you are not struggling with panic attacks, this episode might not necessarily completely apply to you, but I promise to keep it as brief as I can. You might get something out of it anyway. If you are struggling with panic attacks or panic disorder, then this is definitely aimed directly at you. So being afraid during a panic attack and being afraid of panic attacks are actually two different things. Recovery from something like panic disorder, which was my own personal experience, has nothing to do with having a panic attack and not being afraid during that panic attack. Even completely recovered people like me are afraid during the panic attack. That's just baked in physiologically, psychologically to human beings. We call it a panic attack for a reason, panic fear. It's scary. So during a panic attack, even a completely recovered person will experience fear. That's normal. And if you are working really hard to try to not be afraid during a panic attack, you can stop doing that because it's never going to work. And I see far too many people in this community aiming to that. They hear me say that I don't care if I have panic attacks, which is true. I do not really care if I have a panic attack today, tomorrow, next week or ever again. I don't know, but that doesn't mean that I don't have moments of fear when I do experience a panic attack, which can happen once or twice a year, maybe randomly. Who knows? I really don't know. So why do I say that this matters? Well, number one, it matters because some people are pointing at an unrealistic goal. They think that somehow you should be able to have a panic attack and feel nothing. But if you felt nothing, then it wouldn't be a panic attack, would it? Like you will feel the symptoms. You will feel the sensations. You will have scary thoughts. You will experience fear. For me, what it looks like is during those initial moments, when I when I know that it's going to bubble over to panic and that can happen to me. Like I said, maybe once or twice a year, maybe. But it's inconsequential in the end. And we'll get to that. But there's always that moment of, uh-oh, there's still an uh-oh moment. I can have that moment. That's normal. I can't get rid of the uh-oh moment, the oh-no moment, the OMG moment. Like it exists because I am alive. I am human and I work like every other human being does. So it would be unrealistic for me to think that I could experience panic or that anybody could experience panic and not have that uh-oh moment. Yes, I can think for a second. Oh my God, what's about to happen? Uh-oh, what is this? Maybe it's not a panic attack. I can have all of those thoughts and I do. You know, the last time I had a panic attack was going back months and yeah, for a couple of seconds, I had those thoughts because that is normal. That is natural. That is to be expected. That is part and parcel of the process. I cannot get rid of that nor can you so you can stop trying. But the difference is that for me, once I recognize what's going on and I recognize those OMG thoughts and that interpret that catastrophic interpretation, I have enough experience with this and enough practice and enough of a skill set where I can just take out half a step backwards from that and put a little bit of air gap between me and those thoughts. So I can disengage with them, let them race, let them run their course and then I'm basically in a non-reactive mode, although still feeling afraid. There's no doubt about that. The fear doesn't last as long as it did when I was really struggling. That's true, but initially I am as afraid as you would be. So just get that clear. I think anybody in the world that experiences a panic attack has that sense of fear, especially in the beginning of the panic attack. So why do I say that there's a difference between being afraid during a panic attack and being afraid of panic attacks? Because being afraid during a panic attack is a universal experience. And if you checked out my panic attacks workshop, which you can certainly find on my website at the anxious truth.com, I went through in that workshop. I went through statistics on the number of people just in the United States alone who will experience at least one panic attack in the next 12 months. And it's a lot of people. We have a lot of people here. So if we go by the most generally accepted and vetted sources of statistics that tell us roughly 10 to 11% of the US population will experience a panic attack or more in 12 months. That is well over 27 million adults. There's a lot of people here, which means a lot of panic attacks. And every one of them, there will be a sensation of fear. That's just the way it is. It's a universal experience. But the difference is that of that large number of people, a very small percentage of them will develop panic disorder. Now it's still a large number of people just because we have a lot of people here in the US, but a very small number of them will develop a small percentage of them will develop panic disorder. Even though they will have a panic attack or multiple panic attacks, there are many people walking the earth right now that have multiple panic attacks. They happen to them once every few months, a couple of times a year, once every few weeks. There are people who have regular panic attacks who, for whatever reason, hate each one, but do not develop panic disorder, where they become completely focused on the attacks, worried about the next one, trying to avoid the next one, making their lives smaller and smaller, trying to never be triggered. They don't wind up there. But they do share the universal experience of, wow, it felt like impending doom, something terrible was going to happen. It felt dangerous. There was a threat. My heart was pounding. They have the same experience that you and I have. They just never developed that fear of the attack, only during the attack. And why it matters is because in recovery, we are aiming to lose the fear of a panic attack. And you might say, okay, Drew, you're eight and a half minutes into this, but I still don't understand the difference. The difference is I am simply unafraid of a panic attack, even though during the attack, I recognize that I will be afraid for some amount of time because the panic attack to me is a discrete event. It starts, it peaks, it comes down, it ends, it's over. There are no ramifications beyond that particular event. So therefore I can look at it as an unwanted situation, something that I don't want to happen. It's disruptive. It's annoying in the moment.  So therefore I do not have to be afraid of the next one. So what we're working toward in recovery is not somehow being able to magically panic without fear. It's to panic with fear, manage that fear differently, relate to that fear differently, react or don't react to that fear differently than you do now if you're stuck and learn that like when the event is over, it is over. And it was really unpleasant, certainly impactful, but not anything that you have to worry about going forward. If it happens again, I guess it'll happen again. If it doesn't happen again, it doesn't happen again. Now, admittedly, that as you're going through the recovery process, the first time you do that, you'll feel like a huge superhero, which is awesome. It's a really great feeling when you just drop all resistance and let it run its course and you discover that, oh my God, this dude was right. It actually ended faster that way. It doesn't mean that's the last panic attack you'll ever have. But when you begin to have those experiences piled on top of each other, strangely, paradoxically, when you stop trying to prevent them and you know that, like, I don't like this, but I'm capable of moving through it, they do start to happen less and less. So I always say, the elimination of the recurring panic attacks or the breaking of the panic cycle is not the primary goal in recovery, it's the happy secondary effect. So when you learn that you can be afraid during the event, but don't have to be afraid of the event, then things change and then they do begin to happen less and less. And then if a panic attack does pop up now and then, which can happen, some recovered people will have them sometimes. They are still 100% recovered. You can disagree with me if you want, but I've answered those questions a couple of times. I'll answer them sometimes when they come up, but I'm not going to debate that. Somebody who is not afraid of a panic attack anymore, even though we're afraid during the attack, can be justified in saying that they are fully recovered because their life no longer revolves around panic in any way, shape or form. If I'm going to take a trip to Los Angeles and get on a flight to take six hours across the United States, in no way, shape or form is the word panic or anxiety ever even entering into the dialogue either externally or in my own head when planning that trip or considering it. It's a non-factor. I consider panic and anxiety when buying my plane tickets, just as much as I consider, I don't know, white rhinos. They exist, but they aren't terribly impactful in my life. See that? I mean, it's a crazy, I'm not trying to dismiss anybody's problems. Believe me, I was you, but the difference is when you are not afraid of the attack because you've learned a new way to relate to the fear during the attack, then things begin to change. But you have to point in the right direction. Put yourself on a path that gives you a chance to succeed. Putting yourself on a path that somehow is supposed to mean you panic without being afraid during the panic is not realistic.  You don't have to do that. You're just asking something of yourself that probably isn't possible. Now, I think operationally, if you asked, am I as afraid as I used to be? Probably in small moments, but I think I would say that those moments last much less than they used to. So the peak of my fear is probably as high as it always was, even in the days when I was struggling and not leaving my house and afraid of everything. I'm probably just as afraid, just that that level of fear is much, much shorter in duration now, but it still exists. Does it, it can it ever get to zero? I mean, we could probably make the argument that given the fact that I can have, say, an anxious day now and then, and it could start to bubble up, but then short circuit and never make it to panic. Well, that is because I'm not afraid of the attack. So since I'm not trying to stop it, I'm just going to let whatever happened happen that day. It doesn't come. So that could be, so you might argue, we'll see, you're not afraid. You're not afraid. Well, you're right, because I'm still not, I'm not afraid of the anxiety at a low level, at a medium level, at a rising level. I'm not afraid of it. I might feel uncomfortable. I just, I just understand I don't have to treat it like it's like it's dangerous. I don't have to treat it like it's an emergency. And that's what changes things. I'm not afraid of a panic attack possibly happening. I prefer it didn't, but I'm not afraid of it does. So I understand I'm not giving you a lot to go on in terms of like, here's step one, step two, do this, do that. It is, this isn't about that. This is sometimes about a framing about conceptualizing about how you approach these things. And I think it's important to look at recovery as the process of learning to not be afraid of panic. Not being unafraid in panic or during panic. And it might take you a while to get your brainer in that you might finish listening to this 15 minutes and say, I still don't get it, man. Like, you know, how could this not be the same thing? And I understand that when you are on the thick of it, and this all feels so incredibly important to you and so urgent and so dire and so impactful and so scary. It can be hard to tease these concepts apart. So it might be hard for you to see the get the clarity on this through that lens of the intense fear and urgency that you're looking through today. But I promise if you at least try to conceptualize it this way and give yourself a break. Oh, I'm allowed to be afraid during a panic attack. That's not the problem. The problem is that when it's over, I will continue to resist the next one before it even happens because I'm still afraid of it because I consider the fear I just experienced a real danger. If I at least start to make that change, I give myself a fighting chance of actually getting better and changing my life and getting the life back that I want. But aim at the right target and understand the concepts at least intellectually, even if emotionally, you have a really hard time buying into what I'm saying today. You might think afraid during panic, afraid of panic, same thing, man. This is just word salad and you're not helping me. I understand that. I really do. But if you think on it a little bit, especially in your more rational times, when you're not feeling super high levels of anxiety and panic, you may begin to see what I'm saying here. Aim, it's always aim at the right target. And we aim at the right target by allowing the fear during the panic and working on new ways to relate to that. It's not the it's not the sensation. It's not the thought. It's not the symptom. It's the relationships we form with those things that we work on changing in recovery. And that makes us less afraid of a panic attack, even though we're afraid during. So how's that for just a whole lot of words in 16 minutes and 15 seconds full of conceptualizing and framing and subtlety and nuance that doesn't have a lot of steps. It doesn't seem very programmatic or myth, you know, methodical here. I'm sorry I couldn't give you particular things to do. But sometimes you just need to sit and think about these things a little bit and try to reframe things just a little bit in this way to help sort of point you in the direction you want to go in. And that is it. That is a relatively short episode. Finally, have the anxious truth episode 250 in the books. You know, it's over because the music that is after glow by my friend, Ben Drake, who wrote that song inspired at least in part by this podcast several years ago and lets me use it in the podcast ever since. I'm eternally grateful for that because it's become kind of an identifying factor around here. And if you want to find Ben and his music, you can do that on his website at bendrakemusic.com go tell him that I said hello if you do that. And I will ask you a favor like I always do. If you're listening to the podcast on Spotify or Apple podcasts or some platform that lets you rate or review the podcast, leave a five star rating or maybe take a second and write a little review. 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argues the following. Again, it's very complicated. I just want to summarize this. President Reagan and the Republicans and many economists argued at the time what we have to do is deregulate markets. Remember where I started? It's a regulated capitalism and so the shift was to a more deregulated capitalism. We've got to get the state out of the business of trying to regulate various kinds of markets. One of the markets that was regulated at the time was the oil and gas market in the United States because we are a major producer of oil and gas. We still import a lot, but we're still a major producer. But the price of gas and oil was more or less fixed by the state. We set a price floor higher than the equilibrium price and we wouldn't allow that price to, I'm sorry, we set a price ceiling in the United States and we didn't allow the market price to rise above that. Meanwhile, because of OPEC, world prices were rising but they were being held steady in the United States and that's an impossible situation. So the argument was starting with this industry but then the airlines and a variety of other industries besides oil and gas, get rid of these price regulations for oil and gas, if I might just very simply do that one, the price of oil and gas of energy in the United States, we were over here. So the government was setting this particular price ceiling and not allowing the prices to rise above that, creating thereby an excess demand whereas world prices were rising. So the argument was get rid of this, let the world prices, this is the new demand, let the world price rise, so that's what happened in the airline industry, oil and gas and a variety of other industries across the United States which had been regulated. So let the prices of these things rise and then the argument there was which comes from neoclassical economic theory which in a sense was elected to office with President Reagan. So the Keynesian theory which had been hegemonic started to erode the neoclassical theory, the theory of markets started to become hegemonic and near the argument has always been that if you allow the prices to rise in the short run then hopefully that will stimulate two things, it'll stimulate existing firms to expand their supply and new firms to enter the industry because of the higher potential profits that they can earn or profit rate that they can earn and that will then shift the supply curve to the right for those two reasons and the price will fall as the short run turns into the intermediate and the long run and in fact that's what happened I think in the oil industry by getting rid of the regulation allowing the price in the United States to rise that gave an incentive to US firms to discover new oil fields in you know Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to re-drill in all field older fields and the supply probably the supply curve did become more elastic in the long run so there was a good deal of increased supply of oil and that put tremendous pressure on OPEC so in real terms the price of oil well these this if I can use a strong term this attack this war on these special interest groups in these different ways likely enabled the the industrial capitalists to redistribute more of their surplus from what they have been giving to workers what they have been giving to the state and corporate taxes what they have been given to OPEC to now increase capital accumulation to spend more and research and development for new kinds of products which would embody more surplus value they had more also for mergers they could buy one by each other up and become larger and with the idea that they would it be able to increase their productivity in so doing and the productivity of labor did rise in the United States I think that's an argument they could easily be sustained new technologies that were developed that's the computer revolution to make a long story short the United States stopped losing as much super profit as it did before as there was a recovery in the automobile industry recovery in the steel industry and new industries arose why because in part the United States was a place in which the price of labor power in real terms had fallen okay so corporate taxes had fallen it became a favorable place to produce precisely because of this attack so let me give you an example of this over here one of the remember if you go we go back we did average cost was very important remember this average cost was C plus V divided by UV one of the variables that became very important in terms of discussions in the United States was something called unit labor costs which was the price of labor power divided by the productivity of labor in our terms so you take the price of labor power and the argument was that this was too high in the United States in the 19 after World War two okay that the price of labor power was high and the productivity was low the reason for the high numerator was precisely the workers having this these strong unions and able to get a price higher than the value the reason for a low denominator because the capitalist didn't have the way with all to accumulate new machines and body new technology and hence the productivity was too low the automobile companies had to pay higher prices to the UAW workers because of the strong union there and the productivity of those automobile workers was too low okay because the capitalist in the automobile industry didn't have sufficient left to invest in new kinds of plant and equipment because they were being hammered by these three demands added to their other subsume glass payments so the idea was you could reduce unit labor costs in the United States by getting rid of the strong unions in the numerator and freeing up more of the the surplus to be distributed to capital accumulation of body embodying new technology that's robots to increase this whilst simultaneously you decrease this that would bring down unit labor costs to produce a car in the United States and that might allow the United States to then become competitive and stop losing super profits to its competitors make a long story short the United States would become a location in which the Japanese would stop producing the Honda Accord and perhaps even some of those Accords could be produced in the US and shipped to Japan because the unit labor costs had been driven down in in the United States I want to continue this story and finish up next time about what happened to American capitalism by telling you about a number of consequences on US capitalism and I shall stop there


Another beautiful day, cloudy but it's warmer at least. I don't even really need this. Yeah, it's going to be a good day. It's a good day to finish those Christmas lights. So I got all the way around the house except this corner here. It ends right there. You see that behind all the wires? Got lots of wires in this yard. These are just cable for like cable internet and TV and stuff. I got to go around that side there yet. So we got a little bit of work to do today yet but at least the weather is agreeing with us. How's everybody doing? Where's everybody? Where's everybody? The two little guys over there. Got a Chevy right here. Where's Wazel? Wazel? Oh, there he is. Oh, he left a present. Okay. Okay, we'll just let him do his thing there.   So we've got a little bit of heavy hearts in the family today. My grandpa's test results came back and they came back positive. He has COVID-19. He's pushing 90 years old. He's around 90 years old. He's still pretty healthy for a guy at that age. He's doing stable right now but he does have a couple of, you know, few underlying health issues. So if they do, if it does get worse and he were to need an ICU and a ventilator, they can't do that for him because of his other health issues. So he isn't able to go to the ICU if it gets worse. Right now they have him stable but it doesn't look good for if it starts to get bad and he starts deteriorating. So I just ask that you guys keep him in your prayers and keep us in your prayers. My mom is his caregiver. She was with him right when he went into the ambulance to go home. Well, at his home when he went to the hospital and we just got the news now saying that his test came back positive and that there's not much they can do if he starts deteriorating. So there's a very good chance he'll be fine that he'll get through this as long as things don't get worse. So that's the news on grandpa. Getting very close to home and mom is also isolating as well now and watching for symptoms. It's crazy world man. It's crazy. So we're going to try and have a good day but we're also going to remember that there are a lot of people just down the street at the hospital not having such a good day including grandpa. And of course he's there all by himself. No one's allowed to go visit him. I can't imagine how difficult that must be for his kids and my mom. He's our last grandparent and my grandma passed away a few years back just after Christmas. That was mom's mom and this is my mom's dad and you know she can't even go and see him. No one can. He's there all by himself and the doctors are just stretched thin. The nurses are stretched thin. Our country or our town here is still the hotspot of the country. So we're still on lockdown. A lot of people getting sick. Everybody seems to know somebody. Everybody's got somebody who's sick right now. It's crazy man. You know I used to have a much different opinion. I used to be very skeptical and thought that I knew more than doctors who have studied this kind of stuff their entire lives and careers and you know there's a lot of people out there who know what they're talking about. I don't. I don't know what's going on. I've told you this before. I have no idea what's going on. I don't know what this is. All I can do is just listen to the people who do know what this is. Every adventure starts. Drive thru is closed. Drive thru is closed. They're closed. Oh no. They did not shut down Tim's. Let's go read what it says on their door. It's closed. It's completely closed. They must have had an outbreak here. Oh no. Okay we're going to the other Tim's. We're all going to die. Oh boy. I'm just going to go read what it says on their door there so we know what's going on here. Huh. I wonder what happened. There's people inside there. I wonder if their system crashed. Maybe. The sign on the window there just says they're open to serve you at the drive thru. I saw that from here.  Tim A what are you doing? Maybe that their system crashed or maybe their drive thru box cacked out when they need a service repairment. They're asking for trouble though. People are going to be mad. It's funny how people think that they can go in though. Yeah people keep trying to go in. Watch this guy. He's going to try to go in. Nope. Sorry bud. I know they well everyone's assuming since drive thru is closed that you must have to go inside. It's upsetting that they don't even have a sign up like even just take a piece of paper make a makeshift sign. Tell your customers what's going on. This must have just happened though because there's still more people coming up beside me here. Yeah. And another guy just pulled in. I guess we're going to the other Tim's. I don't know what's going on but if this is the end I love you guys. It's been a good run. It's been a good run. 32 years. 32 years. So Britt was just saying that when she worked at Tim's this used to happen where the chase system would crash so you couldn't pay with debit or credit. You had to pay with cash. Well they're discouraging that right now so it could very well be something that simple that the chase system is down. So they have to wait for someone to repair it or call in and get it fixed over the phone. I don't know but Timmy's is closed. This is going to be front page news tomorrow. Tim Hortons shuts down all panic ensues. So this is a crisis. Not only are we dealing with this pandemic Tim's shutdown. This can't be good. We're about to go check out the other Tim's though. So if that one's still open we're okay and it was just just that store. That's okay. We're following like a parade of vehicles. All of those vehicles turning that they were also at that Tim's. It's like a parade from that Tim Hortons to the next Tim Hortons. Oh this guy too. That's funny. Please be open. I see people in the drive through. I see people in the drive through. Okay that's a good sign. All right we're at our backup Timmy's. Oh thank god. They're open but they got a little bit of increased business I see. It's okay we can wait. It's worth it. Super duper. Have a great day. So close. He said something. Yes he did. That's an improvement. Maybe we should come to this Tim's from now on. Make the other Tim's our backup Tim's. Oh my. All right so we've got the boys packed up here. We got our Timmy's. We're going on a little bit of an adventure. We hear that there's a dog park in Niverville which is a small town in southeastern Manitoba. It's in Hanover still so it's not too far away. We'll see see what it's all about and if there's no one else there we're gonna let the boys run around and stress their legs a little bit and see if it's open. I want to hear something that's very annoying and every local will get it. People who drive in the left lane all the way from Steinbach to Blumenart. One of my biggest pet peeves. Emily my parents actually lived here when I was born. I was born not here in this town but we lived here and then a year after that we moved to St. Pierre and then we moved to Blumenart and then we moved back to Niverville and then I moved out to Winnipeg. You guys moved a lot. I lived in one house. But this is new. This was not here. They have a traffic light now. I forget. I forgot that I saw that on on the news a while back. It made the news. It made it. Niverville got a traffic light. Look at this. Here we go. This place has blown up exponentially though. Like there are so many people here. Yeah a lot of city people moving out of the city to here because this this town is a lot closer to the city than Steinbach. Like Winnipeg. When we say the city we mean it's Winnipeg. We know Steinbach's city but it isn't really a city. It's our town. I think my sisters went to school here for a while. Wow this place has changed. Co-op got a got a facelift also. They got new pumps. Country snacks. That's what it's called. Very fancy. Wow. Way to go Niverville. Way to go. Super duper. Neato. Neato indeed. I'm going to park in one of these parking spots here. Right here. It's like I was saying a lot of childhood memories here in Niverville. Our church growing up was also based out of Niverville here. That lady's going there without them. Oh I thought she was walking in without a mask. I'll say whoa. That's just going to get in trouble. Yeah a lot of they have a country fair. I think it's called the Niverville old time country fair. I think that's what it's called. Every year they have a fair in town here. This summer I'm guessing is probably going to be canceled like every other fun event because 2021 is just going to be a sequel of 2020. That's what I'm thinking. This is where we used to have our family gatherings when I was a kid because our family is so big we'd rent the arena. Not the curling club but the arena here. So this is the off-leash dog park entrance. No parking here babe. No parking. That way. Okay well we'll park over here then. I'm a Chevy. I have special parking privileges. All right boys doesn't look like anyone else is here. Oh look there's agility stuff. Yeah that's what I was saying. What? So we're the only ones here which is good because we didn't want our dogs mingling with other dogs and stuff during this whole search. So we're the only ones here. Cool. You guys ready? Chevy is very excited. He's pumped.  This is gonna be very fun. Chevy you're gonna be scared of all the agility things? Yep. All right boys. All right. It's ready. It's ready. Excited. Oh boy.  Go go go. Chevy. Lots to sniff. Lots to sniff. Yeah this is the dog park. Look at this. This is fancy. I wonder if we can get Diesel to jump through this thing? Maybe. There's all kinds of agility stuff. Come through. Diesel come here. Chevy come. Chevy come here. No here. Here here Chevy. Okay come here. Come on. Chevy. Chevy come here. Oh good boy. Okay Chevy you don't like the jumping that much. We can get them to go up this. We can Diesel. Come here. Good boy Diesel. Good boy Chevy. Well at least they can do that one. We've done a couple others. Give them some credit. Come here again Diesel. Can you do the big one? Diesel. Diesel. Come here. Come on. No up here. Good try. You're trying. Try again. Come on. Start over here. Okay Diesel.  Good boy. I'm just gonna scare you. I trusted you. That one's a little wobbly. Something's wrong with him. Go for it Chevy. Oh shoot. Is it? Yeah there's some pieces underneath. Oh good boy Chevy. Oh is that good water? Is that good water? Refreshing? Very full man. Very very nice. Any more? Are you good? You're good? Want some more water? There's some more in the bowl. You got more right there in your bowl. Look. This is actually pretty cool. I wish Steinbach had something like this. Hint. Hint. Hint. Hint. Not trying to hint or anything but. So when I was a kid this and this. These were the only buildings here. That's the arena. That's where the Niverville Clippers played. We played against them. I played for Landmark but we had our family gatherings in that building on my dad's side because there's a well you you've seen our family gatherings in the past right? We have over 200 people in that family. My dad had 17 brothers and sisters in that family. This curdling rink was here. Those apartments were not there. It was just an empty field and this whole thing here is the high school apparently. They moved the high school. The high school used to be in the center of town and now they built this out here. That's all new. I've never seen that before. Looks like it's still being built. There's still construction crews here. So lots has changed since I've been in this town. It's looking great. You've been doing a good job Niverville. You guys ready to go? Yeah I think they're getting tired. Yeah. Just grab the water in the bowl and we'll be on our way. So if you are in southeast Manitoba it's a nice dog park in Niverville behind the arena beside the curling club. A little hidden way back here. That's a little hidden gem. It really is. I think we'll come back. Absolutely. All right boys come here. Come here. Up you go. It's time to go. Just in time. Someone else came with their dogs. All right. That was fun. You know exactly where they're going. There they go. You know what buddy? After the world is in a better spot we'll let you make lots of friends. Yeah we'll let you make friends then okay. Right now it's just not a good time. At least you have your brother now. Remember when we just had the two littles he always seemed so out of place so lonely. This outdoor rink was not here last time I was here either. That is awesome. I am impressed with Niverville. It used to be just you know just like a little village little town nothing special but now this is like everything is really nice here. Yeah. This is where I told you guys in the vlog several times that when I took my driver's test I was in a gravel parking lot and I didn't put my signal on to leave my parking spot in the gravel parking lot. I got points against me for that. That was this parking lot right here in front of us. This is the culprit. I was parked close to that pole right there. This is where I took my driver's test when I was 16 just my regular license and I did not signal when I turned left to go out the driveway in a gravel parking lot. I got five points against me for that. You have to signal even in parking lots even in gravel parking lots apparently. Coming up to the intersection 59311 they put up traffic lights here and there was still an accident by the looks of it. I hope that school bus wasn't involved. Oh jeez.  Why did it take him so long to realize that? He was mesmerized by all the shiny lights. I guess so yeah. Oh there's a school bus right there. Oh no. Oh that's a bad one. It wasn't the school bus. That just happened. Yikes. Fire departments are just getting there. Oh everybody's gonna go and take a look at it. Or don't cause another accident people. Oh they wanted to turn left. Yeah. Now that road's closed they still can't go that way. They're gonna have to go on the gravel roads. Oh people. There's gravel roads, the grid roads every mile road. Just go around on the gravel. Yikes. Gravel scare city people. Yeah. Oh they got the highway shut down over here or this is just another mountain coming.  There was a car who hit the back end of a box truck, just a tandem truck without a trailer and went underneath it and it looked like the bumper went right into the passenger seat by the looks of it like through the windshield. Oh I hope nobody was sitting there but I hope the driver learned a very valuable lesson. Watch what you're doing and slow down. I don't know one of them must have run the red because there's traffic lights there. Yeah. Here comes another mountain. Oh it's an ambulance. It's nice to see that a lot of people are actually following the laws though and pulling over. Usually you just see all kinds of people not carrying and just flying past you anyways and trying to beat the ambulance. Yeah a lot of times but they just don't even notice the flashing lights in their mirror and they just they don't get out of the way. Those are the people that cause accidents because they're not aware of their surroundings. Yeah. I saw the guy behind me who wanted to blow past me but he had a moment of conscience just before then and pulled him onto the shoulder behind me. I was watching him too. He would have got you on film buddy. Yeah he just about made it on to YouTube. It's a nice Cadillac too. That's actually the intersection where my oppa my dad's dad died. He was t-boned or rear-ended. Bad accident anyways in 93 I believe 1993 and he died at that intersection. That was long before they put up those traffic lights and apparently those traffic lights still aren't preventing every accident. These people aren't paying attention. Then again we don't know what happened.  We live in a society where people do not take responsibility and always look to blame others for anything in their path. And there's another one coming.  No he's following your lead. Right there uh like we were saying before people don't look behind them. He saw him at the last moment that he was flying up behind him and he slammed on the brakes. I understand the instinct to want to just slam on the brakes when you see emergency lights in your rear view mirror but not exactly the best decision. All right guys we just got a little bit of a snowfall okay. Diesel you coming out too. And maybe a little bit snowy out there okay.  You wanna see it? You wanna see it? Come on boys. Come on. Let's go this way. Britt and I get so excited when we see snow. I love snow. I just don't like it on the road. And it's actually on the road sort of. But everywhere else it makes everything look so clean and fresh you know.  No you wanna go back in? Oh dear. All right there you go.  I know he's gonna jump right on my pillow I bet. Maybe we get really excited. Christmas lights are up there. Looking good. Looking good. I haven't gotten any more done. I got I'll have to I'll have to work on it tomorrow a little bit but hopefully I don't want to get those icicles hanging up yet. Those are my favorite Christmas lights. The icicles that hang down.  Just the big guys are left. And that's it for tonight everybody. It's time to crawl into bed and cozy up. Start me get a little chill or you're out. Can't wait to climb under the covers and fall fast asleep. I'll see you right here tomorrow morning. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that like button. See you tomorrow.


Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 are hard at work constructing a new electronic test facility at Naval Station Rhoda. The new Shipboard Electronic Systems Evaluation Facility, or CSEF, will directly support U.S. Six-Fleets operations. This complex is going to be used for the ships going out to the ocean. They're going to basically calibrate their equipment to the radar and the tower. And it'll just calibrate all their systems to make sure they're good to go before they set out to sea. It's very important because we have a lot of U.S. ships here and also the Spanish facilities as well. It's a huge impact for the Seabees as well because this is a really good project for everyone all around for NFC-133. Nomeier also said the work is not only progressing ahead of schedule, it's providing new experiences all around. So far we've put in about 1,400 feet of waterline and we have about another 500 to do. It's taken us about a month and a week to do about 1,400 feet. We're moving along pretty well and all these construction men and junior petty officers doing a really good job doing it. I feel like it's a great opportunity not only for myself but also the junior guys, they get to learn how to do their rates and for me it's a big role of being a crew leader for this. It's one of my first times being able to do that so it's going smoothly so far. The facility is slated to be completed July 29th. Lance Corporal Anna Kamoudi, Naval Station, Rota.


Delayed-onset muscle soreness is the discomfort that starts the day after a particularly grueling workout. Micro tears in the muscle lead to inflammation, and so the leading pharmaceutical intervention is over-the-counter NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, provided people are offered a reasonable guidance on the dangers of their use. The use of NSAIDs is associated with serious upper and lower gastrointestinal side effects including upset stomach, stomach ulcers, stomach and intestinal bleeding, and perforation. Of all the NSAIDs, ibuprofen is probably safest, significantly safer than naproxen. Still, there may be about a 100 chance we'll end up at our doctors with some problem, and up to about 1 in 500 chance we could end up in the hospital because of taking simple over-the-counter ibuprofen. And that's mostly for the stomach. NSAID drugs also can damage the small intestine. Within hours of taking ibuprofen, it can make our gut leaky, and within days inflame our bowels. Up until the mid-80s, we thought the small intestine was relatively unaffected by these drugs, but now we know they may disrupt our intestinal barrier function. There's got to be a better way to deal with muscle soreness. Previously, I reviewed the role cherries may play in reducing muscle soreness, thought to be because of anti-inflammatory flavonoid nutrients. Interestingly, while the absorption of these phytonutrients can help with exercise, exercise may help with the absorption of these phytonutrients. Here's the absorption of fruit phytonutrients and sedentary volunteers. Compare that to how much triathletes get from the same amount of fruit. If you look at each of the individual phytonutrients they looked at, they were all significantly better absorbed by the athletes. The thought is that elite training may modify the activity of the good bacteria in our gut, which then boosts my availability. But back to muscle soreness. Any other fruit that may help? Watermelon. Researchers in Spain had a group of men engage in intense physical activity after drinking two cups of fresh blended watermelon, or watermelon-free placebo drink. And the next day, those that pre-loaded with watermelon were significantly less sore, around 1 on a scale of 1 to 5 compared to closer to 2 after placebo. They conclude that functional compounds in fruits and vegetables can play a key role in the design of new natural products by the food industry instead of synthetic compounds from the pharmaceutical industry. But why design new natural products when nature already designed the products we need?


Welcome to Street Smart Samurai. I'm Dana Abbott and I will be your guide throughout this video series on Kenjutsu, how to wield a Japanese sword. At the beginning of any endeavor, one must have a plan of action to follow and abide by. To become proficient, focal points are used as a guide. Focal points help set up and execute the various techniques. There are many focal points to choose from, but to keep it simple at this time, I will only demonstrate the ones that will help you fight better. The first focal point to taking consideration is the triangle. The triangle is based off of your hips when you first bring the sword out and transition into any of your stances or technique. From this triangle, it allows you to easily and effectively go down, front, or even upward without telegraphing. How I want you to look at this is if I put my elbow to my hip and I bring my hands together, forming a triangle this way. A lot of times when you don't have a triangle and you reach for the sword or the stick, you have a tendency to come over here to this side, which leaves this whole shoulder area open. If you maintain the triangle, no matter what way you're going to execute a technique, you will always be on target easier, sooner, and faster. Here are some other focal points to taking consideration. When you lift the sword above your head and execute technique from here, it is very ambiguous as far as the striking and the reason why is a lot of times it isn't consistent. To be consistent, a focal point is a plus. Remember, if I lift this above my head and I swing down and I lift it again above my head and swing down again, chances are the same angles won't be seen. To help perfect this, we created focal points. So if I want to start my cut from here off the side of my head, I make sure my focal point here is my temple. If I look up over on the top of my head, how high should I lift the sword? Lift it about a fist distance up and that will be your focal point. When I get ready to strike down onto the target, where do I strike or how do I do that? Well, of course, there's many ways to train, but if you bring your hand up to your nose with this focal point and then bring it straight up, it will be always consistent because most of the time when people grab the sword, they usually come this way one time, this way another time, this way another time. Therefore, you can even see yourself that cuts and the strikes won't be consistent. How about a focal point to your opponent? Usually, if you keep the sword right at his throat, this is a very good strong center mass focal point. Another focal point keeps you from following through too far. Of course, when you cut, you have a tendency to come down and hit the target, but a lot of times people use too much pressure and they bring the sword down so far where the tip hits the floor, the back of the blade is to the opponent opening you up. What I want you to look at, if you use a focal point here, I want you to throw the sword out, but by the time the tip comes down to your opponent's knee area, right where this is, this will stop your sword from over adjusting and putting you into difficulty. Let's review some of these personal focal points again. Focal point, the tip of the nose. When you do lift your hand up to the sword and grasp the handle, make sure it passes over your nose and touches it every time to be consistent. When you lift the sword above your head, either on the right or left hand side, have your thumb go into the temple area and bring it up that way. Just to make sure that if you're doing a right or left downward diagonal cut, it will be consistent. Another focal point to remember is the fist above your head. If it stays a fist above your head, you'll be able to cast consistently all the time. Your triangle is another important focal point I want you to use. Moreover, if you see your personal focal point coming down below your knee or your opponent's knee, remember that you'll overshoot your technique and be put into difficulty. From these personal focal points, I want you to practice until your muscle memory sets in and then you will become more consistent in all your techniques.


Hi, good morning, and welcome to today's products and focus the US 30s managed to post another positive Candle there that brings its tally to about 30 Sessions with only three losses. We're slightly in the back for this morning, but we're quite close to retesting an all-time high as 17 895 Moving on to the UK 100 Firmly in the back for version golfing pattern yesterday We're moving the lower again today. Actually Germany 30 looks a little bit nicer than the UK 100 The next potential support is at 66 86 with the house pricing index coming out slightly worse than expected But just showing a little bit of a slow down But yeah, it does it does look that the UK 100 is Feeling a little bit of pain this morning is still dropping just as we speak not a huge directional move But enough to put the bears in control this morning looking at Japan 2 to 5 We've got an ascending triangle formation right here a potential a setting triangle formation right here Yens from in the back foot youth dollar is aggressively moving against all other major FX peers Not on the back of any major macro news, but I can see cables dropping your dollars dropping and dollar yen is shooting up So that weaker yen is helping to propel Japanese equities up to we test potential resistance at 17 for 96 So looking in that dolly in position what we had yesterday is that we bounced off potential support at 117 spot 36 Japan is battling an Deflation issue right now Where the lower oil prices now are impacting the price of goods? So the real real value of goods and services are is actually dropping because of that And that's actually a potentially a bit but a headache You want to have a bit of inflation in Japan to help spur on a little bit of economic growth So we are bouncing this morning. This is a bullish and built-in pattern potential resistance is at 118 Maybe 119 so we are still in the middle of two ranges pressure still remain The Japanese could do that actually having a little bit of inflation instead But what are they going to do to do that especially when they're already talking about extra stimulus? So dolly in is a very interesting one. I would be kind of surprised if we broke 119 We didn't get close to 120 And that's when things get a little more difficult for the bank of Japan I guess a big story is going to be the old pet meeting Saudis really much dominating those those sessions and Not having a cut in production and you know, they say it's to do With trying to put some of the shape of the US shale gas companies at a business In reality if you consider the pain at Russia Venezuela and Iran are probably going through with oil down these prices. It feels so political rather than an actual Supply and demand aspect so broken through potential support at 70 spot 41 next potential support is at $64 Dollars things are the fundamentals are pretty negative in the short term You know, this isn't going to change overnight either for people that are thinking about getting in to oil right now Bear in mind that that oversupply that's currently affecting the markets is not going to dry up overnight And there's a lot of fundamental factors as to why this is getting pushed down even further Keep your eye on any Chinese data like the PMI that's due out on Monday Which might add an accelerant to this downward-moving action very mind that we were off the session lows last night But we have actually dipped a little bit lower already again today, and we're still a negative territory today. So $70 spot 40 is the cap of potential resistance on any our operas movement that needs to get broken before You would look to be a bit more bullish and crude oil goals broken through potential support at 1186 Getting close to that 21 SMA we do break and close below that that opens up a move back down towards 1137 I'm still not a massive fan of goal either direction to be honest. It's a bit of hard to read right now Moving on to your dollar your dollars back on the retreat next potential support one spot 2367 And we do have some eurozone data due today. We've got see CPI data As I said the dollar is broadly advancing And if we break one spot 2367 the next potential support is up 120 47 So we do have a little bit of a move there if we break and close below that I think that would be a significant technical break Compounded by the fundamentals behind rising US rates and a potential cut in the eurozone as all those economies are still flagging a little bit And all the ECB monetary stimulus the fundamentals are not pro-euro dollar At the moment I'm finishing up with GBP USD before first course again smashing through potential support one spot 5743 short-term potential support remains at 155 94 But the longer-term potential support is at one spot 54 24 We've already had the UK housing price data come out a slight slow down and and house prices still advancing of course, but I'll say a slight slow down the year-on-year slow slow down But if you look at the revision right here, it was 0.7 last month to revise that back down to 0.5 So the UK housing market certainly slowing down ever so slightly But an 8.5 percent growth year on year I think is still a significant milestone For the property market. It has a great two years. You're not gonna get that that you're not gonna get these figures again next year Keep you on the chart form as ever look at insights going forward And if we fast forward just very quickly onto Monday, you can see you've got Chinese PMI UK PMI and US PMI So Monday's pretty much PMI day and join me then on Monday to find out what happened next


Good morning We're on the side of the road It's uh, it's dirt's a little softer than I thought. We're outside Palouse Washington and Today we got a pretty solid day of driving, but I just want to show you guys my parking spot Last night I tried to show it off, but uh, it was a little bit too dark. The Milky Way was out Half of the moon was out It's just we're in the middle of nowhere. It's awesome. This is um One of my favorite types of parking situations because I have a motto If you're in the middle of nowhere or if you're I Even forgot my own motto. It's too early.   I saw your snapchat.  We're just catching up with Eli out here. He's into hiking and road trips and Tell everybody what you were thinking about doing after high school getting a sprinter van. Yeah, something like that Yeah, and then what living in it. There you go. Yeah, there you go high five for the van life save some money be smart and Then he's gonna get himself. He's gonna get himself into law enforcement. I think so right on man. You're a good dude Thanks for coming out really appreciate it You got it All right, so you guys been hearing me talk about San Diego style Mexican food So we're in Spokane, and it's funny because the sign out there actually backwards You can see it says San Diego's best burritos. We're in Spokane, Washington like what the heck? This is what's left over for my breakfast burrito. I definitely ate way too much food, but you know who even more is this guy there will tacos in Carnas out of burrito scale to 10 What are you rate it? 7 and you had a I need half of mine. It was a full size, like they put everything in this burrito. It was really good. What do you think, one to ten? Seven. Pretty good value, you know, decent food. Not the best place, but it's still like, you know, if you're out here in Spokane, it's probably the best thing. Buildings, it looks like a town from the gold rush days. I feel like some people would have had some duels over here, over some mining claims, and some gold. There's gold in Dendur. Check out this massive force fire happening right next to the freeway. We just happened to notice it a few miles back, and the closer and closer we get, the more and more intense it looks. So it's covered with smoke. You can start to see the flames. Well not flames, but the smoke billowing up right above the flames over there. It's unreal. I don't know if I've ever been this close before. The whole air, it's terrible. Actually, I might need to borrow Josh's gas mask, bro. I got you. Thanks, bro. I don't know if this was on fire me, but it's still going over here. It looks like it's still on fire. I'm on to the second fire. I was still going in the store, and then I ordered another one to go. That's how good they are. If you guys haven't been, you gotta go. You know what I'm talking about. So anyways, Jimmy John, take me up, wrap my bus.  I'll show you the hammock later, but it's in the bag from Capellas. So anyway, John, we've got a couple more out. Kodu's on the roof. It's still smoky. I'll zoom in on the, that's the moon. You can't really see it, but just take my word for it. It's rather orange. Josh's throwing banana peels. We've had a couple of snacks. That's it for today. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Tomorrow for more crazy antics. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment, and check out these crazy guys as well.


Very good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankara Ace Academy. Here are the list of news articles chosen for discussion today and the video is timestamped for your convenience. Let's go on to the first news article. See this news article mentions that Telangana state government has not implemented the Ayushman Bharat scheme of the central government. So poor and middle-class patients are denied the opportunity of getting free treatment for COVID. So in this context let us know more about the Ayushman Bharat scheme and why is it important to implement it? See Ayushman Bharat literally means healthy India. So it's a national initiative launched as a part of national health policy of 2017 and it was launched to achieve the vision of universal health coverage that is health for everyone. This initiative has been designed on the Alliance of Sustainable Development, goal number three and it is underlining commitment which is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages which we just saw as universal health coverage. Its vision is to provide a comprehensive, need-based healthcare services. So it covers health at all three levels. See primary, secondary and tertiary levels. See what is this primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare? See primary involves anything that does not involve hospitalization. For example, if you walk into a clinic say you walk in for a consultation or a general opinion or say for vaccination or for some simple injection all these in-clinic procedures, the primary preliminary procedures are primary healthcare. Anything that would involve hospitalization or any medical procedure will come under secondary and tertiary level. So as we can see the primary healthcare plays an important role in reducing the progress of the disease to the secondary and tertiary level as well as preventing the disease from occurring itself. So primary healthcare is much more important compared to the secondary and tertiary level according to health experts. Hence, see coming back to the scheme, the Ayushman Bharat covers prevention, promotion, ambulatory care or outpatient care on all these three levels that is primary, secondary and tertiary levels. And it comprises of two interrelated components. So first component is establishment of health and wellness centers. See these health and wellness centers pertains to creation of 1.5 lakh health and wellness clinics which will bring healthcare closer to the homes of the people. That is accessibility is being achieved under health and wellness centers. These centers will provide comprehensive primary healthcare and it can cover both maternal and child health services and non-communicable diseases. See it also includes providing free essential drugs and diagnostic services. So it is largely pertaining to primary healthcare. And the second component is Pradhan Mantri Jhan Harogya Yojana which is abbreviated as PMJAY or the National Health Protection Scheme. So it is a public health insurance or assurance scheme which is aimed to provide health protection cover to poor and vulnerable families against the financial risks that arises out of catastrophic health episodes. So like what is happening right now like the COVID situation etc. So Pradhan Mantri Jhan Harogya Yojana provides financial protection by offering an insurance benefit cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year. Students pay attention here the insurance benefit covers Rs. 5 lakh per family per year. And when we say per family per year the family size has not been mentioned. So everyone from the family can be a beneficiary under this scheme. In short it aims to reduce the out-of-pocket expenditure that is it aims to minimize the expenditure from the savings of the patients. And note that for availing the benefits of Pradhan Mantri Jhan Harogya Yojana there is no cap on family age as well. So this ensures that nobody is left out of the mission. And the financial protection is provided to more than 10 crore families who are poor, who belong to deprived rural families and to identified occupational categories of urban worker families as per the socio-economic caste census data. Okay so what is the coverage of this mission? It covers medical and hospitalization expenses almost all secondary care procedures and most of the tertiary care procedures. So it covers surgery, medical daycare treatments including medicines, diagnostics and transport etc. This means the beneficiary will not be required to pay any charge for the hospitalization expenses including pre-hospitalization and the post-hospitalization expenses. And another notable feature here is this scheme is completely cashless and paperless. So this creates a record for every transaction that is being carried out. Hence there this is believed to infuse transparency also. And it can be availed at public hospitals as well as impaneled private hospitals. And also please note that the apex body for implementation of this scheme is National Health Authority which is an attached office under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. See students this article is very important from the prelims point of view. These facts that we discussed right now is very important from prelims point of view. And apart from that from the mains perspective you may be asked to analyze this scheme with the pros and cons and along with way forward. So that brings us to the end of this discussion. Now let us take up this op-ed. It is about corporate tax. See recently the United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen proposed a global minimum corporate tax. If the major world economies agrees for such a tax structure it would give a huge implication. So let us discuss more about it. So this is the syllabus for your reference. So first let us understand what is a corporate tax. See a corporate tax is also called as a corporation tax or a company tax. It is a direct tax imposed by a jurisdiction on the income or the capital of the corporations or analogous legal entities. See the corporate tax is significant because it is a policy tool in attracting the foreign investments. See lower the corporate tax higher is the investors feel the country to be attractive for investments so the country will receive higher investments. See the idea of lowering the corporate tax to attract foreign investments has its genesis since 1990s. Now let us discuss that as we know that the Soviet block collapsed in 1990. The nations in the eastern Europe were barely hit by this collapse and they needed capital infusion to recover their economy. So in order to attract global capital the corporate tax rates sharply. So as expected this move brought them a lot of foreign capital but this also resulted in a race to bottom scenario. See many nations in Europe were forced to cut their taxes in response to this one after the another to attract the capital but also to prevent the outflight of capital from their own countries. Even to this day many countries are fighting in this race to get to the bottom of the tax rates and they are constantly slashing their corporate tax rates to attract foreign capital and this move has negative implications also. Let us see about it. See firstly the corporate tax is an important source of national income. So by cutting down this tax a nation becomes short of funds that is the government has lesser income and this shortage of funds translates to cutting back expenditure on public services such as education, health and civic amenities and this will severely affect the weaker sections of the society because the weaker sections depend on the government services for their education, health and other civic amenities. So now let us move on to the next major negative. The lowering of the corporate tax leads to regressive taxation regime. See in a regressive taxation system low income individuals end up paying higher amount of taxes compared to the high income owners. See we know the essence of taxation itself is wealth redistribution or income redistribution. So earn a regressive taxation the opposite happens where the low income individuals are taxed more compared to the high income earners and we know corporates of big entities and under the regressive taxation or the cutting of the corporate tax corporate entities end up paying lesser taxes and besides for revenue the government can ramp up the indirect taxes. So if you know most of the indirect taxes are regressive see the lowering of the corporate tax which is a direct tax has made the governments more dependent on the indirect taxes leading to regressive taxation structure. For example the value added tax and the goods and services tax the GST have been increasingly being relied on by the governments to generate revenues and such heavy dependence on the indirect taxes will put enormous strain on the weaker sections of the society. See apart from that indirect taxes can also prove to be inflationary in nature and in the long run it will also widen the inequality in the society. So far we have discussed two negatives one is shortage of funds in the hands of government and the second one is regressive taxation structure that will result in cutting down of corporate taxes. Now let us move on to the third one see because of corporate taxes slashing the world experience a phenomena called base erosion and profit shifting. Base erosion and profit shifting refers to the phenomena where the company shift their profits to other tax jurisdictions which usually have lower taxes. For example many of the most profitable companies like Google and Facebook are accused of shifting their profits to Ireland and other tax happens. So by shifting their profits to the lower jurisdictions these companies pay less amount in taxes but because of this phenomena many countries lose their revenue and it is said that US loses about 100 billion in revenue every year because of such practices. Therefore to overcome such scenarios the United States Secretary of Treasury Janet L. Allen proposed a global minimum corporate tax that is a corporate tax that is globally in practice. Such a global minimum corporate tax will increase the funds for the country that is it will put more money in the hands of the government thereby it will strengthen the public services especially after the pandemic and it will also pave the way for progressive taxation in the future and besides also by having a minimum global corporate tax we can discourage the practice of debts. See currently many economies are suffering because of COVID pandemic. The government needs resources to help people it needs funds to transfer benefits provide public services and prevent business failures and many countries are proposing relief packages to recover economies during this pandemic. For example the US administration has provided a massive $3 trillion package to boost their economy and such relief packages needs a lot of money and this in turn can lead to fiscal deficit in the absence of such measures. See what is a fiscal deficit? Fiscal deficit is the difference between the government's total expenditure and its total revenue which excludes the borrowing. So a fiscal deficit occurs when the expenditure exceeds the revenue generator. The US administration believes that by having a global minimum corporate tax the tax collection of the country will increase and these additional tax collections will help reduce the large fiscal deficits and it will also provide funds for better public services especially to help the lower income section of the society. So how has this proposal been received? The proposal for minimum global corporate tax has received a mixed disruption so far. For example the president of the World Bank has opposed it according to him such a tax structure would hinder poor country's ability to attract investment. For example a poor country which wants to attract investment can lower its corporate tax and attract investment but if you are giving this policy tool as a global tool the poor country will have limited space to man over and reduce its tax structure to attract any investment. Along with him some businesses and conservative legislators have also resisted this proposal. However some rich entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett have supported this idea. Hence the reception for this idea has been mixed so far. So what are author's final thoughts? See the author believes that the global minimum tax rate is worth a try in spite of its objections. According to him such a tax structure can reduce inequality and it can provide better public services and little base erosion and profit shifting and it can also reduce poverty he believes. And he also says that the role of the US is crucial in making this proposal true largely because of its power and the global cloud which can make the countries agree and cooperate for a global minimum corporate tax. With this we have come to the end of this discussion. In this discussion we learned about corporate tax issues related to slashing of the corporate tax, what is regressive taxation, what is base erosion profit shifting and global minimum corporate tax. Now let us take up these two editorials which talks about the problems in the new vaccine strategy of the government especially in the light of vaccine inclusivity. See what is this vaccine inclusivity? See vaccine inclusivity is nothing but the availability and the accessibility of the vaccines to the general population. The greater the vaccine inclusivity then greater amount of population the more people will be accessible to the vaccine. The lesser the vaccine inclusivity only small portion of the population will be accessible to the vaccination. So in this context let us discuss both the articles in a brief. See this is the syllabus for your reference. So we all know that with the second wave of COVID-19 the spread of virus has reached catastrophic proportions and in this regard the author talks about the revamped vaccine strategy of the government of India which will be implemented from May 1st. Here according to the authors there are three key elements of this new strategy. Let us see them one by one along with the issues raised by the author. Let's go to the first issue. The first issue is that see the vaccine is available to the entire population from May 1st who are 18 years of age and above. That is the vast majority of the population in India. Remember that when the vaccination drive started a few months ago it was rolled out in a phased manner and it was in sync with the availability of the vaccine in the country and the demand and at that time the availability was very minimal. But according to the author the issue is that a demand supply mismatch will begin to appear with this new vaccine strategy. This comes when the coverage of the vaccine eligible population has expanded with the new strategy coming in and the author also notes that the Serum Institute of India which is the largest vaccine producer in our country has initially promised a supply about 100 million doses of vaccine a month but in reality because of fund crunches and because of lack of access to raw materials because of the ban from the US government if you remember SII could provide only about 50 million to 60 million doses per month. Here until now only 2% of the population has received vaccines I mean the both the doses while only 9% has received at least one dose. So this questions the efficacy of the new strategy. So coming to the second element the second element is a significant deregulation of the vaccine market. So know that the central government plans to give up its control over the market for vaccines and in this regard the vaccine manufacturers have the freedom to sell 50% of their vaccine production to the state government and the private hospitals. Also the central government has not yet fixed the vaccine prices and it allowed the producers to pre declare the prices they would charge from the state governments and private hospitals. So you may recollect the price ranges have been told by the Serum Institute from 600-400 you know. So all these has been criticized by the author. Now what happens here see previously the central government played the role of a sole procurement agency and this helped in driving down the prices of the vaccine by the new strategy. Fragments the market into three layers with the central government as a procurement agency, state government as a procurement agency and the private hospitals and this would allow the producers to charge high prices from the state governments and the private hospitals. Also note that now the responsibility is with state governments to take the decision regarding free vaccination for people above 18 years. So here know that the central government will continue to support vaccination for people above 45 years healthcare workers and frontline workers and all and state governments for the rest of the population above 18. So this implies that the vaccination of a significant section of the population will depend on the finances of the each state government or which state may be able to procure and provide it free for the people but the poor state will not be able to do that. So it will have to charge from the people so the poor states will perform badly that is the vaccine coverage among the people from the poor states will be bad. Now comes the third element according to the author there is a 45 billion rupees grant for the two vaccine manufacturers the serum and steward of India and the varit biotech to boost their capabilities. Here it should be noted that the United States government has similarly provide financial support for vaccine producers but they still charge high prices for the vaccines from the people. So the question is why should the tax paying public bear the high prices of vaccine when their taxes are already used to support the vaccine producers. So the people stand to lose at both the funds and author thinks the same can be the scenario in India also. So author in essence says that the government should urgently address the serious doubts over the affordability of the vaccine to increase the vaccine inclusivity. This should be done by ensuring a competitive market for vaccines and vaccine manufacturing should be incentivized to ensure uninterrupted supply of the vaccine especially in this scenario. So this is about the first editorial coming to the second editorial. The second editorial also criticizes the new vaccine strategy of the central government. It says that giving the two vaccine manufacturers a free hand to decide the price has made the universal COVID-19 vaccination a difficult task to achieve. See this is largely because a huge percentage of those aged 18 to 44 years do not have the resource to pay for vaccines and so a lot of people are at the risk of being excluded. See this point is very similar to the essence that was discussed in the first editorial right and also the amount of 50% supplies to the state government and the private hospitals can lead to competition even between the states and the private hospitals. This in turn can drive up the prices from the supplies of the vaccine which will again exclude the poor from the universal vaccination drive and all these could lead to dangerous situation where the containment and the mitigation measures will become even more difficult. So the article says that the states will have to take a leading role in the free immunization program that is the central government should step up to the situation and they should compel the government and the companies to make pricing more transparent and assure timelines in the receiving of the supplies and the distribution of the vaccine. Only this will improve the vaccine inclusivity in India which in turn will further enable the containment of the disease spread in the nation. This brings us to the end of the discussion on the new vaccine strategy. Now look at this news article. Recently the Karnataka state government decided to implement the one district one product ODOP commonly called policy during the next five years at an estimated cost of rupees 493 crore and this article talks about that. So in this context let us learn about one district one product which will be referred as ODOP subsequently in the discussion. Now coming back to ODOP the objective of one district one product is to identify one product per district as a specialty. The identification of the product should be based on the potential and strength of a district and the national priority and after identification of the product this initiative will develop a cluster for that product in that particular district and this cluster will be able to produce a wall class product with quality, scalability and brand and this cluster will also provide market linkages. See initially this initiative was first launched by the UP government for their state and nationally this initiative is now merged with the districts as export hub initiative being implemented by DGFT director general of foreign trade department of commerce along with the department of promotion of industry and internal trade as a major stakeholder. See the department of commerce through DGFT is engaging with the states and the central government agencies to implement this initiative. See the objective is to convert each district of the country into an export hub. So how are we planning to achieve it? Firstly identifying products with export potential in the district is of prime importance. See some product will be specialty in some particular district and we are first identifying that product and secondly we address the bottlenecks for exporting. So what are these bottlenecks? It could be transport, it could be raw materials whatever it is right. So if the production area the district is located in a very remote area taking it from there to an export friendly area will be very difficult. So that will be a bottleneck and that will also be addressed and thirdly supporting local exporters and manufacturers to scale up manufacturing. See we know the traditional specialties of some districts are being produced at a very small scale because of technological inadequacy or fun crunches whatever may be the reason. But this ODOP tries to support the local exporters to manufacture more of the specialty item of that particular district and finally we'll also find the potential buyers outside India with aim of promoting exports which means the marketing of that particular product outside India will also be a component under ODOP. So what will this create? This in turn will create employment opportunities in the district and apart from that it will also promote manufacturing and the services industry in the particular district in consideration. See the ODOP is an initiative that is seen as a transformational step towards realizing the true potential of the district and it is expected to fuel economic growth, generate employment, promote rural entrepreneurship and take us to the goal of Atman Erbar Bharat that is being prominently envisaged in the recent times. And if you see the inspiration of the scheme it is very interesting. The inspiration of the scheme comes from the Japanese business development concept which gained prominence in 1979. The Japanese business development concept aimed at promoting a competitive and a staple product from a specific area to push sales and improve the standard of living of that particular local population and over time this concept gained prominence in Japan and has been replicated in other Asian countries as well. Now it is India's turn and in India the ODOP aims to give a major push to the traditional industries synonymous with the respective districts of the state. So this topic is very important from the prelims point of view and note that this scheme ODOP is under ministry of commerce but it has also joined hands with other ministries like ministry of food processing industry for promoting food related products apart from that even agricultural products are also included under this scheme. Now let us take up this oped article which talks about the challenges faced by different frontline workers especially the police force of India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. So let us discuss them in detail. Students here is the syllabus for your reference. See the impact of the pandemic has been discussed in an other article in today's discussion but here we will discuss more about the contributions of the police force in combating the pandemic. So the government has taken various steps for the migrants and the other people who have been suffering from the pandemic. Many initiators like Pradhan Mantri, Gharib Kalyan Yojana, Uttar Pradesh, Rosgarh Abhyan, Atman Ibar Abhyan etc have been put in place but the challenges faced by the police force and the relief for the police force has probably not got enough attention that it actually deserves. In this article the author mainly concentrates on the different challenges faced by the police force of our country. First is with the respect of enforcing the rules and regulations that came along with the various lockdowns especially with the first wave. Since the punishment for violating COVID-19 protocols and the lockdowns was kept mild, the police had a tough time in dealing with these violators. So enforcement of the lockdown by the law enforcers was very difficult. The second challenge is with respect to the increased number of cases of cyber fraud particularly those relating to online purchases and fishing. See with the lockdowns we know the online trade has gone up exponentially and with that the cyber fraud has also increased and the police have been burdened with the responsibility of dealing with these cases in the pandemic situation as well. And the third is related to the congested prison. We know that Indian prisons are overcrowded and in the COVID-19 situation it has brought to light the hazards of prison overcrowding and its implication for the public health. So in this regard the author notes about a recent instruction from the Supreme Court of India in perseverance of a sewer motor petition in re contagion of COVID-19 virus in prisons 2020. Here the Supreme Court instructed the high courts to decongest prisons the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. And the Supreme Court said this must be done by releasing the convicts on parole and the undertrial prisoners who are charged with offences punishable with maximum punishment of up to seven years and who were in jail for three months or more on temporarily bail. So all this can add to the work of police force. Next it should be noted that a pre-handed criminal can be COVID-19 positive. And taking the COVID-19 positive individual to the prison can lead to the transmission of the infection to the policemen who arrested that criminal. So they carry the risk of being exposed to the virus. And along with these they also have the job to tackle the menace of people holding scarcely available medical products and maintaining public order in front of hospitals etc. See we repeatedly hear news about Remdes were being hoarded and black marketed. So that has to be dealt with the police force and we see that the hospitals are being overcrowded and people are fighting for their beds in the hospital and there also police forces needed to maintain order and peace. So according to the author it is very difficult for a policeman to be safe while being on duty. And many policemen have succumbed to the virus and numerous others are getting infected while helping others. So the author concludes by saying that the government should be considerate towards the police force. How can this be done? And in this regard the scheme of a special insurance cover of 50 lakhs which was notified for the medical fraternity and the John should also be notified for the police force. And it should be not only extended for the police force but must be revived and extended to all the frontline workers including the and that brings us to the discussion on this oped article. So now look at this news article. Another wave spells more nutrition loss. So as we know during the first wave of pandemic and all thousands of people suffered from loss of employment and livelihood and many of us are yet to even overcome the impact of the first wave of the pandemic. So in that context let us see this editorial which discusses about the potential economic shock of the ongoing second wave. Here is the syllabus for your reference. First of all let us understand what is member food security because author discusses about food security throughout this article extensively. Food security is defined by United Nations Committee on World Food Security which means that all people at all time have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. It should meet their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. It is important to note that over the coming decades a changing climate, growing population, rising food prices, environmental stresses will have uncertain impact on food security. That is it might threaten the food availability for the people as defined above. So one such example is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Coming to India, our food security was no better before the ongoing pandemic. In the 2019 global hunger index, India ran one or second out of 117 countries. With a score of 30.3, the index said India suffers from a level of hunger that is very serious and the author says the political and the social handling of the pandemic have added to the persisting issue of food security faced by millions in India. Those who are already on the brink of subsistence would be suffering the most. Now let us focus on the impact of the pandemic on rural India. So data provided by the rapid rural community response in short for RRCR to COVID-19 shows the persistence of food and financial insecurity among the poor residing in rural India. Know that this survey is a collective of over 60 non-governmental organizations supporting COVID-19 prevention efforts in our rural areas. It's a most recent study was conducted between December 2020 and January 2021 about covering 117,00 households that is 11,700 households across 64 districts and the states covered include Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, mostly the northern states and the important findings is even today rural people are cutting down on food consumption and the most impacted state was Jharkhand and the most impacted social groups were Dalits and the migrants who have less access to food security schemes suffered the most have a look at this analysis for a better understanding. It is clear that nearly 40% of the sample cut down on food during the first lockdown annually 25% continue to cut down on food during the most recent survey and those who have reduced the consumption of food are 80% of the women of the households and 73% are men 24% of boys and 20% are girls and the report also says that the protein intake has been curtailed by most of the respondents this includes on milk on vegetables egg meat pulses oil etc as you can see these are the healthy food options that is being cut down as already suggested by the national family health survey 5 that is conducted between 2019-20 and the global food policy report 2021 the reduced intake would further accelerate the impacts on the child's nutrition so as we all know cutting nutrition is a consequence of people losing their jobs are being pushed into lower income brackets over time due to the nature and the handling of the pandemic and this is exemplified by the fact that the middle class in India has shrunk by over 32 million households in the past year which means they have gone into the poverty have a look at the figure to understand the impact of pandemic in India and China according to the author over 70 percentage report to reduction in the income in the post pandemic period that is on the lockdown period and prior to the pandemic 55 percentage of the household reported earning less than 5000 per month but this number has swollen to 74% during the December 2020 Jan 2021 period and as a result around 30 percentage sample households were seeking loans and at least half of them needed loans for even food the basic need of food these figures indicate the debilitating food and financial insecurities of poor households in India especially after the pandemic and among the rural households it is the migrants who suffered the most they have lost their livelihood during the lockdown during the first phase and at the same time when they migrated again to the cities the second wave is now forcing them to go back to their villages so the author says that about 74 percentage of the sample households had migrant members who had returned to villages during or after the lockdown and then 57 percentage of the sample had gone back to the destination city for the job see 74 percentage where migrants of the sample and of the 74 57 went back to the cities for the job and 59 percentage of the remaining migrants who stayed back in the rural area they also want to go back this shows that the government support provided to the migrants such as etc were fairly inadequate because they want to go back isn't it so they want the job back so this seems a little inadequate so the households where migrants where the main breadwinners could not reap with their life back to track while they exhausted their savings and fell into the vicious debt trap which is a sad state of condition and it is of no doubt that the government policies must focus on them as they will be hit severely during the second wave and for migrants stuck in the cities without work community kitchens are required and a good example for this is the Amma canteens in the TN which provides very affordable food for the migrant workers the state can also ensure food security by restarting the Pradhan Mantri Gharib Kalyan Yojana according to the author so Pradhan Mantri Gharib Kalyan Yojana is a very important topic from the prince perspective let us take a small moment to know more about it so know that Pradhan Mantri Gharib Kalyan Yojana is a scheme a part of Atman Irmar Bharat to supply free food grains to migrants and the poor during April November 2020 period more than 80 crore people were provided 5 kg free wheat rice per person per month with rising number of cases center promised to provide 5 kg of rice or wheat per person per month for the next two months which is a welcome step and the author says that the government needs to provide similar support for much longer periods the scheme shall also be expanded to include nutritious foods like pulses because we saw from the study these kind of nutritious food like pulses eggs meat milk they were being cut down in consumption apart from this existing issues in Manrega such as the delay in wages and the rationing shall be resolved at the earliest and similar to Manrega new potential urban employment schemes should also be explored see the existing policy makers shall give utmost priority to children by ramping up the existing schemes such as providing ration to children through Anganwadi's public distribution system and midday meals scheme because the children hold the future of the country so with this we have come to the end of the discussion on this particular article so with all those articles we are now in the fag end of today's discussion which is practice questions so we have two questions for today's discussion let's go to the first one with reference to Ayushman Bharat which of the following statement is or are correct so first statement goes like this the component of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana offers the benefit cover of rupees 5 lakh per year for the families having not more than four members see we can see from the discussion that statement one is incorrect there is no cap on the family size and age under the scheme to ensure inclusivity and greater coverage of the scheme so the first statement is wrong and consider the second statement it covers surgery medical and day cat treatments and we saw again in the discussion that it covers primary secondary and the tertiary component and this is provided under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana component of Ayushman Bharat so statement two is correct consider the third statement the benefits can be availed only at the public hospitals and primary health care units see this statement is again wrong because the benefits can be availed even at the impaneled private hospitals see what are these impaneled hospitals these are the private hospitals that have agreed to take up this scheme under their umbrella okay so the correct option is option c that is two only the statement one and statement three are wrong coming to the second question the objective of one district one product is to identify one product per district and develop a cluster capable of producing a world-class product with quality scalability and a brand from the discussion of the article we know that the first statement is correct consider this second statement the initiative of one district one product came from a Japanese business development concept and the second statement is also correct we saw it as a very interesting concept how we adopted from the japan so the correct answer is option c both one and two so this brings us to the end of today's discussion so we have main's questions with every discussion writing two answers every day will give you a significant edge in the preparation for mains as well as your preliminary exam so post your answers in the comment 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