Notre Dame responds to student newspaper’s plea regarding Covid-19 – CNN

The university on Tuesday said it would move to digital learning for two weeks in an effort to stem the spread of the virus as the number of cases jumped. If the virus continues to spread, the school will shift to remote learning for the rest of the semester.
The Observer, a student newspaper for Notre Dame and nearby Saint Mary’s College and Holy Cross College, ran the editorial on its front page Friday, asking everyone — students, the administration and faculty — to do everything in their power to contain the virus.
“The University administration has largely blamed the COVID-19 outbreak on students attending off-campus parties,” the editorial said. “While this isn’t entirely misplaced, it has been used to deflect responsibility from the very administrations that insisted they were prepared for us to return to campus. Clearly, they were not.”

Source: Notre Dame responds to student newspaper’s plea regarding Covid-19 – CNN

Maine CDC now links 53 COVID-19 cases to Millinocket wedding reception – Portland Press Herald

The number of COVID-19 cases connected to a wedding reception in Millinocket continues to climb, with state health officials saying on Saturday that they could trace 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus to the reception. That’s up from 32 confirmed cases on Friday. Those affected range in age from 4 to 98 years old, with a median age of 41. A woman who did not attend the reception died on Friday after contracting COVID-19 from a person who did attend the event, health authorities said. They did not identify her, nor the guest she came into contact with.

Source: Maine CDC now links 53 COVID-19 cases to Millinocket wedding reception – Portland Press Herald

Open Thread | Once Again, This Administration Chooses Poorly | 3CHICSPOLITICO Covid-19 test; good or bad? No longer FDA approved – fraud access/promotion enabled

Andy Slavitt @ 
@ASlavitt

Aug 21, 2020

Replying to @ASlavitt

Instead the White House has one switch: Laissez-faire inaction & laissez-faire late action. So now it’s a free for all. Labs will be able to make and sell tests & you won’t be able to see the data on how well they work. False positive, false negative.

Source: Open Thread | Once Again, This Administration Chooses Poorly | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Another Covid-19 Treatment — In Saner Thought

I try to keep my readers up-to-date on the news around the Covid-19….some of it good….most not so…..like 5.7 million cases and 177,000 deaths…..like I said not so good…… Well we all know that social distancing works and masks help stem the flow of germs…..and Donald the Orange has offered several ways to help prevent […]

Another Covid-19 Treatment — In Saner Thought

Un estanque en el bosque, Amazonas, Venezuela – ¡¡¡NO a la destrucción de tierras indígenas en Venezuela por el Arco Minero del Orinoco de Maduro !!! — Barbara Crane Navarro

¡¡¡NO a la destrucción de tierras indígenas en Venezuela por el Arco Minero del Orinoco de Maduro !!! ¡¡¡NO a la retirada de Bolsonaro de protecciones a territorios indígenas en Brasil !!! NO al ORO del SANGRE !!!

Un estanque en el bosque, Amazonas, Venezuela – ¡¡¡NO a la destrucción de tierras indígenas en Venezuela por el Arco Minero del Orinoco de Maduro !!! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Forgive and Forget!

Until when! Until when are we going to hold on our grudges, grievances, anger, and bitterness? Until when are we going to remain trapped in the cage of waste and heavy feelings? They are only taking away our happiness from us and though subtle but generating anger within. Until when are we going to hold on? After all, whatever happened is over and is gone. Maybe at that moment circumstances were different, maybe people didn’t mean it the way I took it, or maybe situations were created intentionally. But all of that is done then why hold on?

Ride Through Thoughts

Until when! Until when are we going to hold on our grudges, grievances, anger, and bitterness? Until when are we going to remain trapped in the cage of waste and heavy feelings? They are only taking away our happiness from us and though subtle but generating anger within. Until when are we going to hold on? After all, whatever happened is over and is gone. Maybe at that moment circumstances were different, maybe people didn’t mean it the way I took it, or maybe situations were created intentionally. But all of that is done then why hold on?

The time is now, the day is new, new me, new you, elevated thoughts, pure feelings, but wait, is the mind quiet? Maybe not! Because somewhere down we’ve gripped heavy feelings tightly. Every now and then these feelings peep out and disturb the mind. They probably do not allow the mind to…

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I wish to dim the voices in my head

I wish to dim the voices in my head
Turn the knob and watch it die
As daylight fades my conscience dreads.

As I warmly snug myself in bed
The faceless voices come alive
I wish to dim the voices in my head.

After years of clutter I’ve been fed
The day or date, know not since when
As daylight fades my conscience dreads.

It oft intrudes at night, sodden wings spread
Shrouds me, I choke, I hyperventilate
I wish to dim the voices in my head.

This isn’t the path I’d wish to tread
My heart, my soul, my body aches
As daylight fades my conscience dreads.

By and by erodes the sanity thread
For it may snap and haul me to despair
I wish to dim the voices in my head
As daylight fades my conscience dreads.

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( Villanelle for the first time )

Cedar Rapids residents, frustrated by slow official response to derecho, take care of their own | The Gazette

After the winds died down and Cedar Rapids began the arduous task of cleaning up after the Aug. 10 derecho’s devastating effect, the helpers arrived.

Almost immediately, residents with chain saws helped clear off downed trees. Neighbors handed out food and water, sharing generators and what little power they had left as the electricity stayed off for several days.

“Within hours of the storm, you could hear chain saws and people banding together to get resources and figure out their situation,” Linn County Supervisor Ben Rogers said. “It shows the resiliency of this community.”

Several grassroots efforts also began gathering and distributing donations to displaced area residents, which more often than not was run by individuals who were facing the same challenges in their own homes.

For example, when people heard about the devastation at apartment complexes such as Cedar Terrace, where its majority immigrant residents were sleeping outside, dozens dropped off supplies for the displaced families.

Despite the support felt among their fellow residents, many said those efforts were the sole help Cedar Rapids residents had received to cope with the disaster after relief organizations and local officials failed to step up in a timely manner.

 

Some residents pointed to the fact the National Guard wasn’t sent out to survey the damage and to help with search-and-rescue and medical efforts until Friday, Aug. 14 — four days after the storm.

Gov. Kim Reynolds also received criticism for the pace on asking for federal aid. She sent a request to President Donald Trump for an expedited Presidential Major Disaster Declaration on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 16, nearly a week later.

 

Source: Cedar Rapids residents, frustrated by slow official response to derecho, take care of their own | The Gazette

Covid-19: Auckland level 3 restrictions to continue to Sunday night – Ardern | RNZ News

 

Masks will also be mandatory from Monday when using public transport at level 2 and above.

Announcing Cabinet’s decision at 3pm after a meeting today, Ardern says the rest of the country will remain at level 2.

The current restrictions – Auckland at alert level 3, and the rest of the country at level 2 – had been due to lift at midnight Wednesday and ministers met this afternoon to review whether community transmission has been contained.

 

Source: Covid-19: Auckland level 3 restrictions to continue to Sunday night – Ardern | RNZ News