Adulthood

normabobb

We have to look at ourselves through our inner microscope and if we find one scintilla of evidence that our behaviours are juvenile then we have to self correct and retake our place as an adult. Our state of being is the direct result of our hypocrisy.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2022

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Vaccination Inequality: Blocking Progress

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

A new report fingers BioNTech as driving an initiative to block manufacture of mRNA vaccines in Africa. The purpose of this effort reportedly is to protect vaccine profit margins.

BioNTech has recruited a lobbying agency to try to discredit a technology transfer program of the World Health Organization (WHO). The lobby agency is the kENUP Foundation. The effort is to get the South African government to reverse a decision on the creation of a technology transfer hub, and instead support an alternative solution that experts characterize as “nonsense” — in other words, the alternative could never be implemented, leaving Africa dependent on imports of vaccines from existing manufacturers in Europe and Asia.

BioNTech is a partner with Pfizer in vaccine development. While Moderna is in negotiations with WHO, both BioNTech and Moderna subsequently have announced plans to build manufacturing plants in other countries in Africa.

Scientists argue that lack of…

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When the Death Certificate Omits the True Cause of Death – The New York Times

…More dramatically, Dr. Gill added, “Having accurate death certificates saves lives. It enables us to identify new and trending diseases and take appropriate action.” If someone is living or working in a building with a poorly installed or maintained furnace, for instance, they may be exposed to toxic levels of carbon monoxide that could eventually cause fatal cardiac and respiratory failure. The cause of death might be recorded as cardiac arrest, but in fact was a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, and the presence of the faulty appliance would likely be missed and could result in further casualties. In a research review published in the magazine Today’s Geriatric Medicine, Dr. Emily Carter, a geriatrician affiliated with the Maine Medical Center, and co-authors noted that the data submitted on death certificates can affect families with regard to life insurance, estate settlement, genetic risk factors and finding closure…

N.Y. Attorney General Can Question Trump and 2 Children, Judge Rules – The New York Times

Lawyers for the Trump family had sought to prohibit Ms. James, a Democrat, from interviewing Mr. Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. They had argued that she was politically biased against Mr. Trump and was inappropriately using her civil inquiry to aid the district attorney’s criminal investigation, which she is also participating in.

But the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, wrote that “this argument completely misses the mark.”

He ruled in favor of Ms. James’s lawyers, who had asked that the former president and the two adult children be interviewed in the next three weeks. The order also requires that the former president provide the attorney general with documents she sought in her subpoena.

“Today, justice prevailed,” Ms. James said in a statement, adding, “No one is above the law.” The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling does not mean that Ms. James will automatically receive the answers she is seeking. Mr. Trump and his children can invoke their constitutional right to not incriminate themselves, as Mr. Trump’s other adult son, Eric Trump, did when questioned by the attorney general’s office in October 2020. The Trump family can also appeal the decision.

An Hourglass Flipped

yaskhan

Time is a word, time is many a moon
They say time is the greatest healer
This fourth dimension that moves life
Irreversible sequence
That writes into our soul
Moving through our hearts
It takes and makes
Past, present
Future
To 
Take 
Charge of
To create
A now that comes
Calibrating life
A fleeting unstillness
Touching a kind of open
Living, breathing the act of being
The before, the after, and maybe
The instant and the constant that is time.

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Guest Post by Violet’s Vegan Comics, and Empathy-Building

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

How do we build empathy?

This is the fundamental pillar of Project Do Better.  I asked Violet for her thoughts on this topic, and about her children’s books: Violet’s Vegan Comics.  She was kind enough to share these thoughts:

Project Do Better

Shira Dest is an ambitious woman and she has an ambitious plan.  Some might say an over-ambitious plan.  Some might call it impossible.  But why should it be impossible?  Because most people are uncaring?  No.  Most people care.  Most people would prevent the suffering of a child if they could.  So what’s the problem?  Why aren’t all children safe?  The problem is a society and education system that conditions children to turn a blind eye to the suffering of other animals.

The moral code by which “good” people raise their children is inconsistent.  Its contradictions require that children are taught to apply the rules selectively…

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