Marauders

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Some of us have the license to ensnare, intimidate, humiliate, kill, and terrorize others. People operate like systems, they know what they can do with impunity. We can’t blame the players, it is the system that supports them. We have to unmask ourselves.

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Florida Power Company Sentenced in Worker Death Case | OPA | Department of Justice

Judge Charlene Honeywell sentenced TECO to a $500,000 fine and three years of probation, along with the requirement that TECO comply with a safety compliance plan. Federal law makes it a class B misdemeanor to willfully fail to follow an OSHA safety standard, where the failure causes the death of at least one employee. The class B misdemeanor is the only federal criminal charge covering such workplace safety violations. The maximum punishment for a corporation such as TECO that violates this provision is a $500,000 fine.

“TECO’s willful violation had catastrophic consequences, including five workers dead and several more injured, underlining the importance of workplace safety standards,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “The department takes this conduct very seriously, and accordingly pursued the maximum remedy available under the law.”

“Tragically, five individuals lost their lives on June 29, 2017, following the explosion at the TECO facility. Our hearts go out to the victims’ families as well as other TECO employees and contractors impacted by this catastrophic event,” said U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. “Our office is proud to have partnered with DOJ’s Environmental Crimes Section, the FBI, and the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General to shine a light on this willful violation of OSHA safety standards in order to deter such conduct and ensure that workers are protected in the future.”

In a plea agreement with the government, TECO admitted to willfully failing to hold a pre-job briefing with the workers performing the work. Such briefing should have included information about the hazards associated with the job, the work procedures involved, any special precautions, energy source controls, and personal protective equipment requirements. Instead, the work proceeded without such a briefing and in contravention of the procedures governing the work to be performed, which could not be located. As a result, certain critical safety-related steps were not taken, and five individuals lost their lives when an explosion caused a violent release of molten slag throughout the work area.

Source: Florida Power Company Sentenced in Worker Death Case | OPA | Department of Justice

US will manufacture monkeypox vaccine in bid to expedite delivery | The Hill

The priority will be to fill and package 2.5 million vials of the Jynneos vaccine that were ordered by the Biden administration in July. Jynneos is the only monkeypox vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration.  Officials said in a statement that the technology transfer of the production process from Bavarian Nordic to Grand River has already been initiated, with the aim of completing it within three months.  The process could normally take up to nine months, health officials said. “This partnership between Bavarian Nordic and GRAM will significantly increase the capacity to fill and finish government-owned doses – for the first time in the U.S. – and allow us to deliver our current and future supply more quickly to locations nationwide,” White House monkeypox response coordinator Bob Fenton said in a statement.

Source: US will manufacture monkeypox vaccine in bid to expedite delivery | The Hill

Covid-19: Most people are still infectious five days after symptoms begin | New Scientist

Two-thirds of people with covid-19 are still infectious five days after their symptoms begin, according to the most comprehensive study yet of people catching the virus in real life.

The research also found that lateral flow tests – also called rapid antigen tests – give incorrect negative results about a third of the time when people are in the first days of developing covid-19, although they are much more accurate for detecting when people stop being infectious at the end of their illness.

Seran Hakki at Imperial College London and her colleagues studied people before, during and after they developed covid-19 between September 2020 and October 2021. They did this by asking those who had been in close contact with known cases to carry out frequent nasal and throat swabs and keep daily symptom diaries.

Source: Covid-19: Most people are still infectious five days after symptoms begin | New Scientist

French Friday w/Madame Bovary & A Little More Empathy, Please

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Sorry, lovers of M. Flaubert, I know this is a classic book, but I just did not like these characters at all. None of them. I did sympathize with the first Mdme Bovary, poor lady, just asking for “en peut plus d’amour, si’l te plait/a little bit more love, please.” Very sad.

Too annoying by page 110 to finish even as bathtub reading that I would not have minded dropping in the bathtub. Far too tired to care about the spoiled young Mrs. B. having hysterical fits which her idiot Dr. hubby cannot resolve (though at least he does care enough to try).

Yet another French classic that I couldn’t come to enjoy.

Shira

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