I hear sirens in the 2 a.m sky, red lights revolve into reflections. I blink ....my eyes vermillion in the shadows of sleep. I walk the streets under flickering neon lights. Fog settles on hunched figures ...slumber bent. A quick wind rustles dust, leaves in umber. Hoodwinked owls cry Stalking trees Where bats fly Smog stalks the streets...weed ridden breaths wheeze in a sleep concocted by social discrepancies. Dreams fancy themselves behind eyelids too dreary. ..sleep's stillness brought by little things that slide down throats. Moon shines dowbn: Stores with drawn blinds Blank stares Empty faces I am bemused by the muteness of sleeping figures. Rats crawl out of nowhere and slip into hidden crevices...scurrying across yellow lit pavements. .cold bitter...impersonal Social imbalance A requisite for life? Poverty unsolicited Sorrow irrevocable
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP
…Most patients can continue taking immunosuppressants
The authors said that patients taking immunosuppressive drugs can safely continue, but that those on rituximab should talk with their physician about their options.
“At a minimum, people who take rituximab should continue to protect themselves from developing COVID-19,” lead author Kayte Andersen, MSc, a doctoral candidate, said in a Johns Hopkins University press release. “It also makes it all the more important that people around those taking rituximab get vaccinated.”
In a related commentary, David Liew, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Melbourne and Philip Robinson, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, both in Australia, said that patients taking rituximab can either continue taking it and use post-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) with monoclonal antibodies or new small-molecule antiviral treatments or pre-exposure prophylaxis with long-acting monoclonal antibodies.
Alternatively, Liew and Robinson said, physicians might prescribe other therapies, which they acknowledged is difficult in the treatment of some indications for which rituximab is first-line therapy.
“The detriment from choosing an inferior option…will need to be balanced against potentially improved outcomes with COVID-19,” they wrote. “This equation will vary with new SARS-CoV-2 variants, changing epidemiology, and between individual patients; currently, such a complex decision lacks data to inform it…”
Source: Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP
The worst of the worst…
So I was just reading some comments of why people didn’t want to get the COVID vaccine, and most of them…were pretty pathetic to be hones with you, lol.
Like one person was saying how they would get the vaccine, but they just didn’t want to have to take continual boosters…Once a year, and how much they were annoyed that they might have to get two jabs if they want to travel overseas. Sorry, but, there are ALREADY countries where you have to do this anyway. I am also coming from a place though where, I know people and myself. Who take medication every single day to keep them alive, in pill and/or syringe type form.
One of the others was because they “heard” that they were using crushed up fetuses’ …
Now, my mum and I have actually dealt with this “theory” before, lol. A family friend is one…
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Post-COP26: Where are we going now? — The World is On Fire

The graph above displays our choices for the future. Do we keep the planet within livable space for everyone or not? Since the beginning of COP 26 years ago, our paths have never been so clear. More than ever, the science can tell us what different socioeconomic-emissions paths will mean in terms of future temperature.[…]
Climate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26 — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch By Navdanya International (Vandana Shiva) – TRANSCEND Media Service* The climate emergency we face today is part of several interlocking crises involving our health, our soils, and the biodiversity on the planet. The same line of thinking and actions that are driving climate change is leading to biodiversity loss and extinction of[…]
Muitos compradores de ouro estabelecidos em países ricos; Suíça, Canadá e Reino Unido compraram 72% das exportações de ouro do Brasil e contribuem para a violência, desmatamento, poluição e contaminação mortal por mercúrio associada à mineração ilegal de ouro! – Se você compra ou usa ouro, isso também pode estar relacionado a você!

«Meus ancestrais morreram da mesma coisa que estou enfrentando agora; mineração ilegal de ouro e epidemias espalhadas pelos garimpeiros. Mineiros de ouro trazem Covid-19 xawara e violência.»
- Dario Kopenawa Yanomami

No início de novembro de 2021, Dario Kopenawa Yanomami soube do recente assassinato de três de seus parentes em uma comunidade remota, Moxihatëtëa, por garimpeiros ilegais. Sua preocupação é que à medida que os garimpeiros e os criminosos que os apóiam se tornem cada vez mais violentos, possa haver outro incidente como o massacre de Haximu em 1993, no qual dezesseis Yanomami foram massacrados por pesquisadores. Os sobreviventes de Haximu lembram: «Os garimpeiros mataram nossos irmãos e irmãs e também mataram nosso pai com facões; alguns, eles morreram de armas de fogo.»

«São feridas abertas…
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Musée du Louvre | Louvre Museum — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

wallpaper et fond écran musée du Louvre museum. à voir : PARIS et TOURISME
Musée du Louvre | Louvre Museum — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE
Couple Amoureux | Couple in Love — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

wallpaper et fond écran couple amoureux love. à voir : COUPLE et AMOUR
Couple Amoureux | Couple in Love — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE
U.S. Plans to Spend Billions to Increase Covid Vaccine Supplies – The New York Times
…“This is about assuring expanded capacity against Covid variants and also preparing for the next pandemic,” Dr. Kessler said. “The goal, in the case of a future pandemic, a future virus, is to have vaccine capability within six to nine months of identification of that pandemic pathogen, and to have enough vaccines for all Americans.”
The move comes as the Biden administration also plans to buy enough of Pfizer’s new Covid-19 pill for about 10 million courses of treatment to be delivered in the next 10 months, paying over $5 billion, according to people familiar with the agreement. The government has also pledged $3 billion for rapid over-the-counter tests, which are needed to detect the virus before the Pfizer drug can be prescribed.
Taken together, the investments amount to an aggressive effort to vanquish a pandemic that is heading into its third year. When given promptly to trial groups of high-risk unvaccinated people who developed symptoms of the disease, the Pfizer drug sharply reduced the risk of hospitalization and death. Pfizer applied on Tuesday for federal authorization of the drug on an emergency basis…
As Gas Prices Surge, Biden Asks F.T.C. to Investigate – The New York Times
…President Biden asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to consider whether “illegal conduct” by large oil and gas companies is pushing up gasoline prices for American consumers, the latest effort by the administration to target concentration in the energy industry in a bid to bring down prices at the pump.
The move is unlikely to spur immediate action by the F.T.C., which has the power to break up large industry players, and it is unlikely to affect gasoline prices materially any time soon.
But it could spur the commission to open an investigation to gather data on how companies set gasoline prices, which could be used in future enforcement actions.
Mr. Biden’s letter to Lina Khan, the antitrust champion he appointed as chair of the commission, claims “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.” The president noted that prices at the pump have risen even as the costs of refined fuel have fallen and industry profits have gone up. The two largest players in the industry, ExxonMobil and Chevron, have doubled their net income since 2019, he wrote, while announcing billions of dollars in plans to issue dividends and buy back stock…
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