On England’s ‘Freedom Day,’ masks come off at nightclubs, even as coronavirus cases approach January peak – The Washington Post (Me: Stupid in Britain rules again – more will die from Covid-19 and will kill their loved ones as well!!!)

At the stroke of midnight on Monday, for the first time in 17 months, the staff of the Piano Works nightclub pushed back the tables, cranked up the volume and threw open the dance floor to mark “Freedom Day,” a go-for-it gambit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end almost all legal requirements to maintain coronavirus social distancing measures in England. “You could just feel it. The pent-up demand. It was like a jack-in-a-box. It just went pop! And everyone went berserk,” Tristan Moffat, operations director of the club, told The Washington Post.

Source: On England’s ‘Freedom Day,’ masks come off at nightclubs, even as coronavirus cases approach January peak – The Washington Post

Study: Azithromycin doesn’t prevent COVID-19 symptoms in outpatients | CIDRAP

A single dose of the broad-spectrum antibiotic azithromycin didn’t change the proportion of US COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms by 14 days, finds a randomized, controlled trial published late last week in JAMA.

The study, led by University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) researchers, involved assigning 263 non-hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients to either a 1.2-gram dose of oral azithromycin (171) or a placebo (92) from May 2020 to March 2021.

Participants, who had tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 7 days, were followed for as many as 21 days to gauge whether the antibiotic would prevent disease progression by 14 days. Most patients had symptoms at baseline.

There was no significant difference in the proportion of participants reporting no symptoms by 14 days (50% each), regardless of age. Differences between the two groups, however, were significant in terms of several outcomes.

Source: Study: Azithromycin doesn’t prevent COVID-19 symptoms in outpatients | CIDRAP

The Father of African Literature.

Joevic Africa

Chinua Achebe was born in Albert Chinualumogy Achebe on 16th November 1930 and unfortunately died on 21 March 2013. He was a great Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart is considered as his masterpiece and the most widely read book in modern African Literature. His first novel Things Fall Apart was translated into 50 […]

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A View From North Of The Border

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Last week I did a post based on Charles M. Blow’s column titled “Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0” about the history of racism in this nation and how, with the current wave of voter suppression laws targeting mainly Blacks, this nation seems to have made a U-turn and is heading back to the days of slavery, of segregation, of “separate but equal”, of “sit in the back of the bus”, of racist horror.

My post inspired our friend rawgod, a Canadian, to not only share my post, but to share his views from a Canadian perspective.  Y’know … I have often said that those who live outside the U.S. can often see our situation more clearly than we ourselves do, and … well, rawgod’s post gives voice to my claim, I think, as well of giving us some insight into racism in his own country.  Please give his words some…

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