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It is not created by state and it is not controlled by state. Although state demanded creation of it because of mentioned doping scandal. Also it isn't actually direct descendant of FINADA, but fusion of several different organizations. Also Ministry is allowed to join as Olympic committees and Sports Medical society have controlling votes, meaning that they have power to remove ministry from the organization. "new independent organisation" <- as this clause in the text you quoted tells, it is independent of state control. And its company form is private non-profit registered association. Which means that EU regulations forbid direct state control over it, even when they have power to appoint people in its board of directors. EDIT: Also doping test were compulsory before FINADA was formed and done by sports unions.

Anti-doping and Integrity in sports organization in Finland, FINCIS/SUEK is private entity (non-profit organization, founded by Finnish Olympic Committee, Finnish Paralympic Committee and Finnish Society of Sports Medicine, which are also private non-profit organizations Although FINCIS/SUEK has given Ministry of Education and Culture power to appoint 2-3 members in its board of directors because organization get most of its funding from state. For reasons there are no state owned sport organizations or statutory sport corporations in Finland, even though majority of sports rely on state funding. Also Sweden's and Norway's anti doping agencies are private organizations that have similar dependency on state funds Also mentioned regulations aren't written in laws but instead done by agreements which individual need to accept in order to compete in sports on levels that those regulations concern.

UK, Sweden and Norway for example don't have criminal code against doping, just anti-doping regulations and established anti-doping agency EDIT: Import and sales bans for certain substances don't necessary need own anti-doping laws, so it is possible that UK, Sweden and Norway have banned imports and sales of growth hormones, anabolic steroids etc. according to Anti-Doping Convention 1989

Italy for example has laws that steroid (and some other doping) user can be imprisoned Finland has laws that forbid importing and selling certain doping substances but actual using isn't illegal Germany has anti doping law which carries up to three year sentence for athletes that test positive Austria has law which carries up to 10 years prison time for athletes that test positive

Question was about medical privacy in sense that person needs to show employer their medical records to proof that they fulfill employer's demands and go through testing demanded by employer in order to have right to work. Would mandatory vaccine demand be more acceptable from employer if they offer alternate that person can instead of vaccination records show every morning negative covid test?

There are no special antidoping laws in most of the countries (and in most cases those special laws are that doping is illegal, not that doping test needs special permission), meaning that sport organizations were able to create those antidoping regulations using current laws, meaning that any employer can make similar regulations and they have even easier time as they don't probably don't need do it world wide.

"But still anti doping regulations are codified both by internal country laws and internationally. It's not like some sport organization does it on it's own." Individual sports organizations determine themselves what substances are prohibited in their sports. Individuals that for medical reasons need to use those substances need to prove that to WADA and their local doping organizations.

Proving that you don't use doping by giving periodically compulsory pee- and blood tests and reporting your location for WADA so that they can come test you any time they want is medical treatment that parallels to employer demanding proof that you have got covid vaccine

Required doping test for professional athletes show how futile it is to appeal to privacy of medical records when you want to do sports for living. As we demand such loss of privacy in medical matters from one group of people in order them to make their living we can determine that our laws will allow employers to do so also in any other field as we have our equal treatment clauses in our laws.

"Last year, in an analysis for The European (in German), I referred to the pickup trucks as the insurgents’ equivalent of Germany’s light tank force during their Blitzkrieg campaigns in World War II. Like the German tanks in the 1940s, the images of Hilux trucks armed with machine guns and with hooded ISIS fighters on top of the vehicle serve as much as psychological weapon to intimidate opponents as they add real value on the battlefield." https://thediplomat.com/2015/10/japans-largest-company-is-isis-car-maker-of-choice/

These are both true at least in some sense. Pfizer says that their studies in Israel show antibodies of people who had two shots in January have dropped in six month, but are still high. Also vaccine seem to still protect very well against worse version of covid and keep need for hospitalizations low. It depends on who is buying https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281 "South Africa’s government found itself on the defensive this week after a senior health official revealed that 1.5 million doses of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine just purchased for use among health workers would cost $5.25 (£3.84; €4.32) a dose, more than twice what the European Union is paying at $2.15." Although cheap price don't necessary help when you don't get vaccines as AZ has still not delivered all the dozes to EU that they promised in first quarter and there is real risk that they need to pay 500 million euros to EU for those undelivered dozes, which probably will increase price of AZ's vaccine for other countries.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-05/california-prisons-consider-gender-identity-housing-requests "Just over 1% of California’s prison population — or 1,129 inmates — have identified as nonbinary, intersex or transgender" "The new California law follows other changes in the state’s treatment of transgender prisoners. In 2018, a law took effect removing obstacles for prisoners to change their gender and name. And in 2015, California became the first state to create policy for transgender inmates to apply for state-funded gender-affirming surgery. According to the prisons agency, from January 2015 through February 2021, 65 out of 205 requests for surgery were approved and nine were completed." "Inmates can request transfers to their correctional counselor, which are then considered by a committee that includes the warden, custody, medical and mental health staffers, and a PREA compliance manager. Staffers review the inmate’s criminal record, health needs, custody level, sentence and safety concerns." https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/sep/2/condoms-now-available-prisoners-three-states/ "Legislation in California, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2014, allows prisoners in the state’s 34 adult correctional facilities access to condoms." "In a February 2016 statement to Fox 26 KMPH, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) spokesman Joe Orlando emphasized the anticipated benefits of the law to California communities. “Ninety percent of these guys are going to be sent home,” said Orlando. “So when they get back to the communities and to their families, let’s make it as safe as we possibly can.” San Francisco has been passing out condoms in its jails since 1989, while Los Angeles County’s jail system – which averages more than 18,000 detainees at any one time – has been distributing them for more than a decade, thus giving Brown enough empirical evidence to sign the bill into law. Two previous versions of the legislation were vetoed – first in 2006 by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and again in 2008 by Brown. Both governors cited California Penal Code section 286(e), which outlaws “sodomy with any person of any age while confined in any state prison ... or in any detention facility,” as the reason for vetoing the legislation." "“It’s only logical to put things in place to keep people safe,” said Sha Wallace-Stepter, incarcerated at San Quentin. “But me personally, I’m completely against it, because I don’t encourage homosexuality in prison.”" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-prisons-condoms-idUSBREA4C0ZB20140513 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pilot.pdf "In 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime joined WHO and UNAIDS in recommending a range of risk-reduction measures, including confidential condom access for all male and female prisoners" Seems that daily wire has bit overblown the issue

Prisoners can't consent to sex with prison guards or other members of prison staff or law enforcement, because those have power to punish and otherwise make life harder for prisoners, so it almost impossible to say if prisoner agreed to have sex because they wanted it or because they feared consequences if they don't agree on the sex. But usually sex between two prisoners is by default considered to be consensual, but of course that depends on prison and state/country. Although because rules are usually written from perspective of heterosexuals, so they may not actually even consider that prisoners in all male/female prison would have sex with each other.

Vaccine manufacturing uses global supply lines where over 60 countries participate to make those vaccines, but it is countries that do final steps in process that decide who gets the vaccines But vaccine hoarding accusations aren't because of that, but because of countries preventing of sell vaccines that they have not themselves approved because they want to keep them as insurance policy

Merck is manufacturer of Stromectol which is one of fewq ivermectin product that is approved for humans in USA and EU and they don't have any other products that compete against it when it comes to covid. Their statement sound more like that they fear law suits because of adverse effects without proven positive effects. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

For some reason drug's manufacture speaks against the drug Earlier this year ivermectin manufacturer Merck said there was “no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against Covid-19” and “no meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with Covid-19.” https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_firm_earns_us_patent_for_covid_drug_containing_ivermectin_and_hydroxychloroquine/11946611 Although Finnish drug manufacturer Therapeutica Borealis says that in combination with other drugs and targeted correctly it will prevent infections. Although they have not yet proven that in clinical trials.

Viking era ended before we started keep records and Finnish were mostly receivers of viking raids instead of doing them, but probably there were some Finns that become vikings. There have been all sort of people during years. Cotters, serfs, teachers, blacksmiths, yeomen, soldiers, prisoners of war (maybe surprising but when you are kept as ransom for several decades you probably could count it as occupation I guess) etc.

That is question that people asked during last summer protest in USA

They are breaking EU's policies not sell weapons to countries that use them to start conflicts or break human rights, but that policy has never been strong until, but lately Germany has started to act like it should be actually be followed. I am not really any way passionate about Kosovo, just commenting your post because I by chance knew that it wasn't that accurate

That article don't isn't accurate about Germany's law https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/research/armaments/transfers/transparency/national_reports/germany/Germany_03_english.pdf I am originally from Finland, my family has lived here at least from 13th century when church started to keep record of Finnish people.

Germany recognizes Kosovo as independent state with 96 other countries. Kosovo is also member of World Bank, World Customs Organization and International Monetary Fund, so at least two formal institutions recognize it. Kosovo is also member of Venice Council Also Germany has banned sales of small side arms to non-allies (EU, Nato, Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia) Kosovo has standing army, Kosovo Armed Forces transformed form Kosovo Security Force in 2018. Germany didn't ban from bigger weapon systems, because French and British manufactures who use German parts were effected by them as they could not sell stuff to Saudi Arabia. I am only able to find that H&K was seeking license to sell weapons to Kosovo. Not that they have got such license.

Soap is best against SARS-CoV-2, because it destroys it protein shell and prevents it from infecting cells. Sanitizer is bit less effective but good to use if you aren't able to wash your hands with soap.

Millions. infants died in malnutrition, caused by combination of several factors. Powdered milk was already lacking some nutriments Water in poorer countries contained impurities that caused that powdered milk didn't mix well which caused that babies bodies had difficulties to adsorb nutrients from the milk and leading to diseases in infants. Powdered milk was relatively expensive, lots of people used too much water in order to save powder, causing nutrient amount that babies got from the milk to close to zero. Using milk powder often leads in decrease of milk that mother produces

https://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/events/events/2021/04/european-immunization-week-2021/news/news/2021/04/covax-helps-make-equitable-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-a-reality-in-the-who-european-region COVAX aims to deliver 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, which should be enough to protect high-risk and vulnerable people, including frontline health workers. Its goal is to ensure equitable access for all participating economies across the globe, regardless of size or income level. So far, COVAX has shipped over 40.5 million COVID-19 vaccines to 118 participants. This includes both self-financing and funded countries and territories. Within the Region, COVAX has delivered initial batches of Pfizer–BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as Kosovo (in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 [1999]). Team Europe, which brings together the European Union and its Member States, is one of the lead contributors to COVAX, with over €2.2 billion pledged to help secure 1.3 billion doses of vaccines for 92 low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2021. We need only 10 billion dozes more and we can put this pandemic behind us.

I would not call it objective source of information when your source itself says that it is just their opinion EDIT: It seems that neither of the authors of that opinion piece have any expertise on virology