The durability of immunity against reinfection by SARS-CoV-2: a comparative evolutionary study – The Lancet Microbe – (Me: Masking, contact tracing and boosters will have to continue)

The timeframe for reinfection is fundamental to numerous aspects of public health decision making. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, reinfection is likely to become increasingly common. Maintaining public health measures that curb transmission—including among individuals who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2—coupled with persistent efforts to accelerate vaccination worldwide is critical to the prevention of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Source: The durability of immunity against reinfection by SARS-CoV-2: a comparative evolutionary study – The Lancet Microbe

#AllOutForWedzinKwa

British Columbia, CA

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I first heard of the Wet’suwet’en peoples and their struggle to prevent the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline through their pristine land in January 2020. What caught my attention was the following video, “Coastal Gaslink Evicted from Unist’ot’en territory.” Having been engaged with protecting water from the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines for years, I was amazed at the peaceful eviction of CGL workers from Wet’suwet’en territories, temporary as it turned out to be.

Unfortunately, the interactions between the Wet’suwet’en and the Canadian government have not been peaceful. There have been many conflicts and arrests of Wet’suwet’en people by militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There are heightened tensions now as construction of CGL has reached the point of drilling under the sacred headwaters of the Wedzin Kwa river.

Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all Hereditary Chiefs of the five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed…

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Day 9 of GED in 5 months, salt, trade, and transit

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So, if salt is so important, how did they get it from one place to another before we had trains?   One of the key details of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement is public transportation, as important back in time as today, right?

 

Day 9 Lesson Plan
Khan Academy Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
optional extra GrammarBook.com activity: Comparatives & Superlatives
Khan Academy Multiplying Fractions
Khan Academy fractions-decimals
Day 9 ExitSlips
 
(Day 8Day 10)

Action Items:

1.) Why is salt important, biologically?

2.) Why was salt traded from place to place?

3.) Share your thoughts on whether salt supplies could have influenced wars.

4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to…

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India to pay $674 compensation for every death caused by covid-19

Joevic Africa

India’s supreme court has approved the government’s decision to pay 50,000 rupees ($674) as compensation for every death due to Covid-19. The Supreme […] The post India to pay $674 compensation for every death caused by covid-19 appeared first on Olajide TV.

India to pay $674 compensation for every death caused by covid-19

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La MORTE della NATURA – per la Merce in Oro e Diamanti – L’Arte del greenwashing da parte dei mercanti di lusso e la morte della natura e dei popoli indigeni … con parole loro … aggiornato 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

Fotomontaggio: serie “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – con pubblicità per Cartier, foto di un sito di estrazione dell’oro in territorio indigeno di João Laet e anello in oro Cartier® LOVE

In “Utopia” di Thomas More, pubblicato nel 1516, l’oro e le pietre preziose non hanno alcun valore. Anzi, hanno il peso del sangue, della schiavitù e della follia umana …

“La loro vera natura # 1 – FondationCartier”
Foto: FondazioneCartier– Luc Boegly / sito minerario d’oro – João Laet
foto di Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela e fotomontaggio – Barbara Crane Navarro

L’arte della manipolazione:

Il concetto aziendale di sponsorizzazione artistica è stato così perfettamente descritto da Hans Haacke in“Libre-Echange”, il libro di Pierre Bourdieu e Hans Haacke, pubblicato da Editions du Seuil / les presses du Réel nel 1994, che Cito qui un estratto: “Ma sarebbe sottovalutare la Biennale ……

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Canada: Are mining companies hiding Indigenous opposition from their investors? —

Barbara Crane Navarro

It’s time for companies and securities regulators to make sure the whole truth of Indigenous rights claims are brought to light through corporate risk disclosures BYDAYNA NADINE SCOTT AND DAVID PEERLA SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 Photo by Michael Swan/flickr. There was once a time when the worst thing that could happen to[…]

Canada: Are mining companies hiding Indigenous opposition from their investors? —

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