How to photograph chaos

Photoblog Gerie Hermans

HOE FOTOGRAFEER JE CHAOS

They say that it is hard to make good photos of a forest because of the chaos in it. In this field of daisies I had a similar problem. Chaos. Here a few of my solutions. / Ze zeggen dat het moeilijk is om goeie foto’s te maken van een bos omdat het chaotisch is. Een soortgelijk probleem had ik in dit veld margrieten. Hier enkele van mijn oplossingen.

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Coronavirus: Ohio breaks daily case record at 2,366 (Southwest Ohio hotspot)

Ohio set another record for daily cases reported in the state with 2,366 added Wednesday. The last record was set Saturday with 2,234. It’s the fifth time in the last seven days Ohio has reported more than 2,000 cases a day and the fourth time the state broke the daily case record in less than two weeks.

Source: Coronavirus: Ohio breaks daily case record at 2,366

Corona cabinet: After nearly six hours, meeting ends with no progress – The Jerusalem Post (Politics over science in steps to support health of Israel?)

The coronavirus cabinet met for nearly six hours on Wednesday to discuss the plan for opening everything from retail and bed and breakfasts to weddings and schools. The meeting ended with a decision to make no decisions about these next steps.

Source: Corona cabinet: After nearly six hours, meeting ends with no progress – The Jerusalem Post

Factory farms are an ideal breeding ground for the next pandemic – Vox

Nelson has studied our system of raising pigs closely, and she argues that by moving pigs across the country and raising large numbers of pigs in very close proximity, we’re creating ideal conditions for a dangerous influenza virus to develop. And since she’s also seen how easily pigs can spread novel viruses to humans, she’s even more concerned.

Given the frequency of pig to human transmission, she says, we’re “playing Russian roulette” with our current system of factory farming animals.

Source: Factory farms are an ideal breeding ground for the next pandemic – Vox

Lebanon’s unfinished revolution: One year after protests, change has yet to come – Middle East matters

It’s been one year since anti-government protests broke out in Lebanon. They resulted in the resignation of the country’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri. However, the sectarian system of politics that protesters wanted changed remains intact today. Frustrations in the country came bubbling to the surface two months ago after a deadly blast rocked Beirut’s port. Since then, the political class has failed to form a government, and the people of Lebanon say they feel betrayed. Source: Lebanon’s unfinished revolution: One year after protests, change has yet to come – Middle East matters

Covid-19 News: Live Updates – The New York Times

In the past seven days, seven countries — Argentina, Brazil, Britain, France, India, Russia and the United States — have reported at least 100,000 new cases of the coronavirus, helping to push total cases worldwide to more than 40.7 million, according to a New York Times database.

In many cases, these countries are seeing numbers that are much higher than they were during the height of the pandemic in the spring. At that point most countries locked down, stopping movement and much interpersonal contact. Strategies have changed, and today local lockdowns are the way forward for most. There is more testing, giving a clearer picture of the pandemic. But the numbers continue to grow.

Over the past week in the United States, there have been 421,114 new cases, illustrating that the long-predicted fall wave of the virus is well underway. Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states are struggling to control major outbreaks. And the national trajectory is worsening by the day, as the cooler weather drives more people to stay indoors where the virus spreads easily. In some states, hospitals are almost full.

Beijing: What Life Looks Like in an (almost) COVID-Free Country – DER SPIEGEL

I benefit from the fact that Chinese have successfully brought the virus under control. We can now travel within the country, largely unhindered, a fact that allowed the Chinese to take 637 million trips as tourists during the fall holidays. The daycare centers and schools are open. When people want to party, they don’t hide in basements – they go to a club.

Here, in far away China, I can see how angry cookbook authors and the pop stars in Germany are claiming that some alleged coronavirus dictatorship is being imposed on the country. If that does exist, though, it’s more likely to be in the place where I’m living. And yet, the lack of freedom that COVID-19 has given us in China also allows us more freedom. That’s a paradox that takes some getting used to.

Source: Beijing: What Life Looks Like in an (almost) COVID-Free Country – DER SPIEGEL

Dogs detect coronavirus fast and reliably — why not use them everywhere? | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 21.10.2020

A dog can sniff a cloth wiped on a wrist or neck and immediately identify if it comes from someone who has contracted the virus as much as five days before any symptoms appear which would lead a person to go into isolation. “A dog could easily save so so, so many lives,” University of Helsinki veterinary researcher Anna Hielm-Bjorkman told DW, who says their testing has shown an accuracy level of nearly 100%. Source: Dogs detect coronavirus fast and reliably — why not use them everywhere? | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 21.10.2020

Limiting Coronavirus Spread Between Nursing Homes May Require Higher Pay And Better Mask For Workers: LAist

To make ends meet, Martha Tapia works 64 hours a week at two different Orange County nursing homes. She is one of the thousands of certified nursing assistants who perform the intimate and physical work of bathing, dressing and feeding the nation’s fragile elderly.

“We do everything for them. Everything you do for yourself, you have to do for the residents,” Tapia said.

And she’s also one of many in that relatively low-paid field, predominantly women of color, who move between facilities.

In March, when the coronavirus began racing through nursing homes the federal government banned visitors. But infections kept spreading. UCLA professors Keith Chen and Elisa Long decided to examine the people still entering nursing homes — the workers.

“The people who we can infer work in this nursing home, what other nursing homes do they work at?” Chen said.

Source: Limiting Coronavirus Spread Between Nursing Homes May Require Higher Pay And Better Mask For Workers: LAist