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

Gold Mining Thugs Cut “Road to Chaos” Through Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Amazonian Preserve! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The surveillance plane eased …

Gold Mining Thugs Cut “Road to Chaos” Through Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Amazonian Preserve! — Mother Jones

Pt 2 of 2 In Memory of Ashley L. Peterson: Self-Publishing + Pod

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Blogging and publishing were lots more fun for Ashley with her beloved pets.
Blogging and publishing were lots more fun for Ashley with her beloved piggies.

As I posted last week with great sadness, Ashley L. Peterson, a mental health activist, blogger, author, self-publisher, and genuinely good person, recently passed away.

Her family continues her site: Mental Health @ Home: A safe place to talk openly about mental health & illness. There you’ll read her family’s comments. Moreover, they made this a memorial site to her with photos and facts about Ashley. Fellow blogging health activist Caz also posted about Ashley at her great Invisibly Me site.

Below and in today’s audio/podcast version, are Ashley’s second post for this site, in their original forms…

https://anchor.fm/s/622e2888/podcast/rss

Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM.  There you’ll  find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotifyand Apple Podcasts, to Google Podcasts and Pocket Casts, along with RadioPublic and

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Global estimates of excess deaths from COVID-19

Many deaths from COVID-19 went undetected in official reports from 2020 and 2021, because of limited testing capacity and misclassification of causes of death. This lack of data makes it challenging to quantify the mortality toll of short-term events, such as wars and natural disasters, as well as pandemics. For this reason, excess mortality — defined as the difference between all observed and expected deaths in a given period — is considered the gold-standard approach for estimating the mortality toll of short-term events2,3. But it is hard to find a universally effective way to measure excess mortality4,5, because there are substantial variations in underlying mortality trends and data availability across populations.

…The authors report that there were between 13.2 million and 16.6 million more deaths than expected in 2020 and 2021. This death toll was between 2.4 and 3.1 times higher than the officially reported number of COVID-19-related deaths…

Source: Global estimates of excess deaths from COVID-19

Post-surgery risks after COVID-19 infection may linger many months – UPI.com

It may be wise to wait for non-urgent surgery following COVID-19 infection because the odds of significant postoperative heart problems will diminish over time.

That’s the gist of a study that found this trend of decreasing cardiovascular risk persists longer than previously known — for as long as 13 months after a COVID-19 diagnosis.

Source: Post-surgery risks after COVID-19 infection may linger many months – UPI.com

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy | Nature

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1–3 during acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with some patients experiencing prolonged symptoms, termed post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (refs. 4,5). However, the burden of infection outside the respiratory tract and time to viral clearance are not well characterized, particularly in the brain3,6–14. Here we carried out complete autopsies on 44 patients who died with COVID-19, with extensive sampling of the central nervous system in 11 of these patients, to map and quantify the distribution, replication and cell-type specificity of SARS-CoV-2 across the human body, including the brain, from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset. We show that SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, predominantly among patients who died with severe COVID-19, and that virus replication is present in multiple respiratory and non-respiratory tissues, including the brain, early in infection. Further, we detected persistent SARS-CoV-2 RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including throughout the brain, as late as 230 days following symptom onset in one case. Despite extensive distribution of SARS-CoV-2 RNA throughout the body, we observed little evidence of inflammation or direct viral cytopathology outside the respiratory tract. Our data indicate that in some patients SARS-CoV-2 can cause systemic infection and persist in the body for months. A study reports the distribution, replication and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the human body including in the brain at autopsy from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05542-y

The Ageless Will

The Twisting Tail

There’s a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Rosamond Marshall

Here I am
Drawing lines
Creating
Words
Then, through them
I cross lines


The heavy
Weightlessness of care
You’re not there
And that
Is more than I can bare


When a loved one
walks out the door
Demand closure
You’re paying
the power bill alone now


On this Day in 1969:  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" single sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by John Denver hits #1 on US Billboard's Hot Top 100.


A threat is a kind of promise


Doctor
I’ve waited long enough
Take out
These pins and needles


The secret
To staying young
Is lying about your age


80% of children lie about their age on social media
44% of older workers lie about their age on job applications
20%…

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