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Parashat Tazria, Sick Houses, and Health Care?

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     This week’s Torah portion,  Tazria,  is just over halfway (27th/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, it’s 54…) through the annual cycle, and the 4th Parashah in the book of Vayikra/Leviticus.

   This portion deals with illnesses, isolation, and even diagnosis: all the equivalent of modern Universal Health Care (and who’d have thought that the Leviim were doctors?).  Who knew that even a house, as we’ll see next week, could be ill, and this before the idea of Sick Building Syndrome came about, huh?  Obviously, both the home and the person need health care, from the reading of this week’s parashah.  Interesting, no?

      This week, I am on break, so please imagine and comment here:   What could equity of responsibility and citizenry look like, if every person had proper health care, and everyone had a safe home? health_pictogram

  I look forward to hearing your…

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Fur farming industry dealt a killer blow with passing of new bill

Fur farming industry dealt a killer blow with passing of new bill 

There was a major milestone reached in the 20-year struggle to ban fur farming in this country in recent days when the Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 passed its final stage in the Seanad.

The signing into law of the bill in the coming weeks by President Michael D Higgins will make it illegal to breed, rear, or keep specified animals “solely or primarily for the value of, or the manufacture of products from, their fur or skin”.

Source: Fur farming industry dealt a killer blow with passing of new bill

Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land | The Japan Times

Malaria cases among Yanomami Indigenous people living in the Brazilian Amazon have risen more than 700% over the past decade as illegal gold mining intensifies in the world’s largest rainforest, health researchers say.

Miners leave behind gaping craters in the ground as they clear huge tracts of forest, creating ideal conditions for the spread of malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes that thrive in standing water, said Paulo Basta, an epidemiologist specializing in Indigenous health.

Gold mining also destroys other plants, scares off wildlife and contaminates the soil and rivers with mercury, which is used to separate gold from other minerals, said Basta, who is also a senior researcher at leading Brazilian biomedical research center Fiocruz.

“This process affects the balance of the local ecosystem, creating favorable conditions for the proliferation of mosquito-transmitted diseases,” he said.

Source: Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land | The Japan Times

Qual é o melhor lugar do mundo para se estar?

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Muita gente adora a ideia de ter alguém para estar junto, namorar, viajar, fazer algo de improviso, compartilhar momentos bons e até aqueles onde o mal- humor se faz presente. É importante ter tudo isso. Faz parte dos nossos processos conhecer e desfrutar da companhia das pessoas, assim como também da companhia de quem se ama.

Quando há um relacionamento verdadeiro, as pessoas vivem de forma segura, ou seja, elas têm inspirações cotidianas que são comuns na vida de um casal, situações como, viver dando gargalhadas, fazendo declarações. Na verdade, você mistura o seu silêncio ao mundo barulhento do outro, e a coisa ganha sentido nisso. Nada escapa aos olhos de quem ama: ciúmes, queixas, atitudes genuínas. Tudo é válido. O amor, simplesmente é uma espécie de emergência onde você não desperdiça tempo, e se desperdiça, faz isso de forma consciente, porque compreende que as pequenas alegrias, é o que…

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