Austin requiring face masks despite Texas governor lifting statewide mandate | TheHill

The Austin City Council announced Tuesday that customers will still be required to wear face masks inside Travis County businesses despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) lifting the statewide mandate.

Source: Austin requiring face masks despite Texas governor lifting statewide mandate | TheHill

Things I missed because of COVID-19

Weird and Wonderful

I put this in English so more people would understand what we are missing!!!!!!
I Miss Social settings like these:

Break rooms

Sitting in the break room talking to people on a job. Not the cafeteria because you can hardly sit down on the couch and read the newspaper or, have a laugh about things.

I have been working in pre-school here in Norway. They do a great job to make sure that everyone is sociable, and they have social committee’s that help.

I know several work environments where the atmosphere is very toxic but some actually have a social comity where they plan events for team building and they embrace other people joining in.

Even though we have a Christmas party together it is great to share things together about our lives and how we have overcome our problems.

Going to the cinema with friends, or loved ones.

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Did lockdown teach us something? • Neutral View Point

Absolutely Yes! It indeed injected the patience element over impatient people.

Some people, especially in the 21st century are very much impatient. Due to which the clarity among the people was missing. With patience alone, the clarity can be derived irrespective of what we do.

Source: Did lockdown teach us something? • Neutral View Point

Metal barrier becomes memorial for thousands of victims of femicide

Victims' names adorn metal barrier in front of National Palace. Mothers of murdered girls and women and members of feminist collectives have turned a metal barrier erected around the National Palace in Mexico City into a memorial for femicide victims.

The names of thousands of victims of femicide are now painted across the three-meter-high barrier, which went up Friday in anticipation of Monday’s International Women’s Day march. It was quickly denounced by critics as a “a macho wall of shame.

Activists added to the memorial by laying flowers, crosses and candles in front of the metal fence. One poster left next to the barrier read: “For those who hugged their mom without knowing that it was going to be the last embrace.”

Source: Metal barrier becomes memorial for thousands of victims of femicide

Fake Superiority | Chateau Cherie (Bullies)

Instead of putting in the work to improve and better themselves, bullies would rather tear down and destroy another person to look bigger and better than what they are. Understand that bullies never build up, they tear down. They do not create or restore, they destroy. And they don’t add to anything, but they subtract from everything. Source: Fake Superiority | Chateau Cherie

Home-Business Owners and the Government’s New PPP Loans

How Some Home-Business Owners Can Get the Government’s New PPP Loans

By Erin Flynn Jay

The Biden administration is offering a lifeline to small-business owners who’ve been struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic and the aid can be especially helpful to some with home businesses. The need is urgent: 44% of small business are at risk of closing, according to the Alignable Research Center, a referral network for small businesses.

Source: Home-Business Owners and the Government’s New PPP Loans

France has underestimated impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia, research finds | French Polynesia | The Guardian

A nuclear bomb is detonated at the Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia in 1971 The unpublished report, France’s first official recognition of the health impact of the tests, says the location of the cluster, “focused on the islands where the fallout was heaviest … leaves little doubt about the role of ionising radiation” in the cancers.

Thyroid, throat and lung cancers, as well as cases of leukaemia and lymphoma and bone and muscle conditions linked to strontium and caesium poisoning, remain prevalent across the islands, the researchers say, citing interviews with multiple inhabitants, many of whom were children at the times of the tests.

The researchers also cite a confidential exchange of emails dating from 2017 in which the French army acknowledges, reportedly for the first time, that as many as 2,000 of the 6,000 military personnel based in French Polynesia and involved in the tests between 1966 and 1974 have since contracted at least one form of cancer.

Source: France has underestimated impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia, research finds | French Polynesia | The Guardian