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A Question To Ponder

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I want to throw something out for discussion, and I’d really like your honest opinions here.  The question is when do we draw a line, or do we draw a line, on comments that cross a line?  I do not want to censor any comments, but in the past year or so, I have done so, particularly if the comment included extreme vulgarity or was disrespectful to my readers or myself.  When this blog morphed from one of mostly book reviews to a socio-political blog in 2015, I accepted that there would be some with opinions different than mine.  I still accept that, and I welcome it, for only by listening to one another can we possibly hope to understand each other.  These are troubled times all over the globe and we need to learn to listen, to meet halfway, but I think in order for such communication to have…

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Meu coração não sabe.

Estúpido, ridículo e frágil é meu coração.

Só agora descubro

como é triste ignorar certas coisas.

Na solidão de indivíduo

desaprendi a linguagem

com que homens se comunicam.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Mundo Grande

Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Literatura Comentada. Seleção de textos, notas, estudos biográficos, histórico e crítico por Rita de Cássia Barbosa. 3ed. Edição. São Paulo: Nova Cultural, 1990

Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 5 de outubro de 2022

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Survey: Half of US adults plan to get flu shot | CIDRAP

During the 2022 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) briefing yesterday, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NFID shared a new survey, which showed only 49% of US adults plan to get a flu vaccine during the 2022-2023 flu season, despite experts warning this year’s season may be severe. Source: Survey: Half of US adults plan to get flu shot | CIDRAP

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Rash of child deaths in Gambia linked to cough syrups made in India -WHO | Reuters

Tedros told reporters that the U.N. agency was conducting an investigation with Indian regulators and the company that made the syrups, New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Maiden Pharma declined to comment, while calls and messages to the Drugs Controller General of India went unanswered. India’s health ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

The WHO issued a medical product alert on Wednesday asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market.

Source: Rash of child deaths in Gambia linked to cough syrups made in India -WHO | Reuters

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We Are Not Enemies — Filosofa’s Word

Here we are once again … the closer we get to November’s mid-term election, the greater the threats of violence across the nation.  When violence is incited, directly or indirectly, by people who have a larger-than-life voice, it is particularly harmful, as Dan Rather points out in his latest newsletter … The Threat of Violence […]

We Are Not Enemies — Filosofa’s Word