How will it enable more pure drugs ? [ I assume they already have a clean needle program - most places have] - thre is no mention of support network or doctors on sites. The Portuguese model works-ish because the users are persuaded to join a rehab. Once they are in rehab - they cannot leave/just sign themselves out

? this is just decriminalising drug use - not chaing how it is made available, dealers are still going to adulterate as much as ever.

They were getting poisoned by de-natured alcohol, how is decimalisation going to help this ? dealers are not going to stop cutting stuff with shit

How will this reduce deaths ?

Help is readily available for alkholism - and there are fuktons of folk around who are not interested/dont ant to take that up - and there is no stigma/offence attached to that.

That was because of benzene a known carcinogenic substance.

"Around 300 staff walked out..." well I guess 178 is around 300. Also fails to say this is out of 2000 employed at Coventry

Yup, exactly. which is why entities* exist that check the kit from the ground up. Any malicious code, unexplainable hardware, reluctance of manufactures to explain = device fails ...

eg the Huawei set up in Leeds UK

F cages are used in secure environments - but granted for a CCTV camera it is a bit of a stretch

..would love to hear of an example of hardware that carries out a useful function without any form of coding/instruction set ?

Further in the context of this a piece of hardware that carries out data acquisition and onward transmission without any code

Indeed there are, however wifi/transmitters and data acquisition would not fall into that category. Security is is excellence in box ticking, if the manufacture can't explain the purpose of a chip = device not approved .. and NEXT!

While Huawei were fighting their losing battle to show their kit was safe and OK, there is/was a facility in Leeds [UK] that went through their kit to validate claims. *Huawei kit is now being removed from the UK 5G network roll out. Large UK company I was doing work for got taken over by a US company in a worldwide shopping spree, and from this perspective - any huawei kit to be removed from network in a quick time scale, no huawei phones for business purposes ... and so on

..anything in IT requires "code" . The checking is a literal line by line. V Sensitive stuff can [and often is] encased in a Faraday cage

This is not political decision it is government aka civil service decisin. there are LOADS of companies doing this. I have just finished a project ... The replacement cameras/systems are also made in china - however they have had their code checked and verified. It is simpler, easier, quicker and cheaper just to tear out the old and bung in the new "checked" cameras.

> hcare system impacts all of us. I might wear a mask because I see the writing on the wall, but I am also dealing wit

... I have several relatives working in front line health care - it is not covid cases that is clogging the system up

Mandates may have gone - but nothing to stop people carrying on wearing masks