COVID-19 rates rising ahead of Memorial Day weekend – The Durango Herald

“So while the community level is not showing as steep an increase as the wastewater is showing, we anecdotally hear a lot of reports of positive cases,” Jollon said. “We’re hearing from providers in the community, both pediatricians and primary care providers, a lot of demand for (COVID-related) visits and services.” Anecdotally, the health department can infer the real rate of transmission is likely higher than what its community data shows, and wastewater monitoring data backs that up. Even Durango Mayor Barbara Noseworthy has caught COVID-19, she said at the Thursday public hearing about the citizen-initiated ordinance that seeks to require more public hearings for police and fire department developments.

Source: COVID-19 rates rising ahead of Memorial Day weekend – The Durango Herald

Survivors of Uvalde shooting paint horrifying picture of terror and tragedy | Texas school shooting | The Guardian

Miah Cerrillo, 11, told a CNN producer her fourth-grade class was watching Disney’s Lilo & Stitch when the gunman entered the classroom and made eye contact with her teacher and shot her dead, as well as some of her other classmates.

Miah smeared her friend’s blood all over her body to make it look like she was dead in case the gunman returned from the adjoining classroom. She escaped alive, but was wounded.

A teacher at Robb elementary who did not provide her name to NBC News immediately ran to lock her classroom door when she heard gunshots down the hall. She said her students had practiced active shooter drills for years.

She said: “They knew this wasn’t a drill. We knew we had to be quiet or else we were going to give ourselves away.” The teacher called the ordeal the longest 35 minutes of her life.

Paramedic Angel Garza arrived on the scene at Robb elementary and learned his stepdaughter, Amerie Jo, was among the dead. He learned the news from Amerie’s best friend, who told him the blood in which she was covered belonged to his stepdaughter.

Samuel Salinas, 10, ended up with bullet fragments in his leg after the gunman entered his classroom and fired multiple rounds. Samuel told ABC News: “He shot my teacher and then he shot the kids. I think he was aiming at me.”

Edward Timothy, a second-grader at Robb elementary described the shooting sound to CNN as “popping … kind of like fireworks”. He recalled an adult woman entering his classroom, turning off the lights and telling the children to hide under their desks. He said: “I learned that we were having a real drill. We practiced a lot. We were safe because we practiced.” Edward said he now had a fear of guns and someone shooting him.

One mother of a third-grader told Motherly: “I do not want my son to go to school in America any more.”

 

Source: Survivors of Uvalde shooting paint horrifying picture of terror and tragedy | Texas school shooting | The Guardian

Stop scolding people for worrying about monkeypox – Vox

There are some solid epidemiological reasons to conclude that monkeypox doesn’t pose the same threat to the world that Covid-19 did in 2020. But instead of condemning alarmism, experts should acknowledge the many reasons for that alarm. The world is horribly vulnerable to the next pandemic, we know it will hit at some point, and the undetected spread of monkeypox around the world until there were dozens of cases in non-endemic countries — despite the fact it typically has low transmissibility — shows how profoundly we’ve failed to learn the lessons from Covid-19 we need to avoid a catastrophic repeat.

Source: Stop scolding people for worrying about monkeypox – Vox

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #79

Content Catnip

Hello hyperactive howler monkeys and restless gibbons and welcome to another edition of interesting things from the internet. I know you are all keen to get into it so here it is for you…

A trippy 3D interactive painting ‘Nose Garden’ by Doris Liou

Like stumbling upon a hidden enchanted part of a rainforest…

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A trippy 3D interactive painting ‘Nose Garden’ by Doris Liou

Via the Happy Broadcast

Phil Moore And His Orchestra – Return To Paradise (1959)

Phil Moore imagines a Polynesian paradise replete with howler monkeys screaming in the deep green shadows and naked curvaceous women on the beach at sunset. Nobody told him that howler monkeys actually don’t live in Polynesia but never mind…this is still a great cruisey song, perfect for winding down with an aperitif and some after dinner mints while sitting in a 1950’s bungalow.



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Marii Freire Pereira

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“A beleza tem, sim […] tudo aquilo que importa aos olhos. Mas é no coração que ficam registradas as nossas pegadas, não no rosto. O coração é igual beira de praia […] longo, porém ninguém se importa com a extensão, mas os rastros que nela ficam presos na areia.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 28 de maio de 2022

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Actions and Consequences: The Domino Effect Continues

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          Growing up, I was a headstrong kid. My mother reminded me more times than not that my action speaks louder than words. As I get older, I learned that inaction also speaks louder than words.

          What an emotional week this has been. I hadn’t planned on posting anything today because, like many of you, I am trying to remain positive as we navigate through the heartbreak of the tragedies we have seen broadcast over many news outlets during the past couple of weeks alone.

          Not to be a Debbie Downer or Negative Nancy (not throwing shade at the sweet, positive Debbie’s and Nancy’s out there), for some reason I am more emotional today as I reflect on more lives lost so senselessly this week. And as we gather to celebrate Memorial…

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