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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Avoiding COVID was about more than just keeping 2 metres apart, study finds | Euronews

“Once you’re a short distance from someone, it’s the duration that matters. If you’re exposed for 10 seconds, you must be very unlucky for the particles from the mouth of the infected person to get to your mouth or your nose. But if you stay there one hour, of course you will try your luck 60 times with respect to one minute”.

The researchers found that longer exposures at greater distances had a similar risk to shorter exposures at closer distances.

There’s no golden rule about how much time you can spend with an infected person before getting COVID-19 yourself, as this can change according to what the infected person is doing. For example, if they were coughing a lot, the other person would have more chances of getting infected.

But the longer someone spent with another person who was sick, the more likely they were to get sick themselves, even if they kept a 2-metre distance at all times.

Source: Avoiding COVID was about more than just keeping 2 metres apart, study finds | Euronews

Die Erde gehört nicht dem Menschen an / … The earth does not belong to man – Stella, oh, Stella

Foto: paulvangrieken.nl

… The earth does not belong to man,

Man belongs to the earth.

All things are connected like blood that unites us all.

Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.

Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

– Chief Seattle

Source: Die Erde gehört nicht dem Menschen an / … The earth does not belong to man – Stella, oh, Stella

Dec. 25: Special Event in Tel Aviv, Launching Erella’s Book Based on Villages Group Activities | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

Erella at the event

Ehud’s Words at the Book Launch of Erella’s Standing Voiceless

Erella was born in Haifa under the British Mandate, a mixed city where Jews and Arabs lived next to each other. Joining her mother who served as a public nurse, to home visits with families in the Arab neighborhoods, was a formative experience in her life. This is where her commitment to peace blossomed, not as a heart-felt wish, plan or solution, but as a way of life that requires fulfilment at all times, under any circumstances…

Source: Dec. 25: Special Event in Tel Aviv, Launching Erella’s Book Based on Villages Group Activities | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine