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

UCLA anesthesiologist, vocal against COVID vaccine mandates, is escorted out of workplace – Los Angeles Times (Me: When Faux-Freedom frenzy poisons reason…)

UCLA Health said in a statement that active employees not working remotely must be vaccinated or receive an exemption, in compliance with the state public health order. “Those out of compliance are subject to progressive discipline, including restricting access to work sites and being placed on leave,” the statement said.

It is unclear what consequences Rake faced as a result. Rake did not respond to a request for comment.

UCLA Health employees are required to receive the annual flu vaccine and to provide documentation of vaccination or immunity to certain infectious diseases including measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, pertussis and meningitis.

This year, the flu and COVID-19 vaccines were added to the UCLA immunization requirement list for students.

At the Aug. 29 anti-vaccination rally, Rake urged onlookers not to request any exemptions for the vaccine. He claimed that asking for an exemption “was agreeing with the totalitarian lie that some other group has authority over your body.”

Source: UCLA anesthesiologist, vocal against COVID vaccine mandates, is escorted out of workplace – Los Angeles Times

Biden administration boosts at-home COVID-19 test supply | CIDRAP

President Biden today announced he is investing $1 billion dollars to quadruple the national supply of at-home COVID-19 tests by December.

“We will have a 200 million test supply by December,” said Jeff Zients, COVID-19 coordinator, during a White House press briefing. “At the same time we are increasing the supply of at-home tests, we are expanding access to free testing. Every American, no matter their zip code, can access free testing.”

Zients said the Biden administration was also focused on expanding the number of free, community-based testing sites to 30,000 across the country, including 20,000 sites at pharmacies.

Source: Biden administration boosts at-home COVID-19 test supply | CIDRAP

Cada instante que pasa

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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En cada instante descubro un paisaje de mi existencia, un pedazo de mi historia, una huella de mi caminata. En cada minuto que pasa, miro transitar los motivos de mi vida, las rutas a otros destinos, algo de lo que fui y de lo que soy, con la posibilidad, en un quizá de cristal, de lo que, finalmente, seré. En cada movimiento del péndulo, al columpiarse bajo las manecillas inquietas del reloj, observo a la gente que estuvo conmigo, a quienes aún se encuentran a mi lado, y siento sus abrazos y su presencia, percibo sus fragancias, escucho sus voces y veo sus miradas. En cada día que se consume y se agrega a mi biografía, detecto los segundos, los minutos y las horas que se acumularon y se llevaron algo de mí, y así, con asombro, contemplo los…

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Superstition Galleries

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

….continued from the chapter “Reavis Ranch Autumn Sweep”

These are three galleries of photographs from my Superstition Wilderness postings. You can click on any gallery and page through the photographs.

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Cancanuri

Cannes Film Festival, 2021

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Cannes, 2021

Doamne și domni cu papion, rochie lungă și ecuson se îndreaptă hotărâți într-o singură direcție, spre Palat. Soarele încă n-a apus, dar simți briza înserării. Așa începe scurtul moment pe care l-am petrecut în tumultul festivalului de film care anul acesta a fost aerisit, deși canicular.

M-am plimbat pe străzi, m-am fofilat până la covorul roșu,

am admirat ținute vestimentare și am vânat rumori.

Am privit la curioșii care așteptau răbdători dincolo de gardurile de protecție din preajma hotelurilor unde sunt cazate starurile,

în speranta de a ochi vreuna în hol,

pe terasă ori la ieșire.

Pe firul apei erau improvizate săli de protocol sau ateliere

și, nu doar pentru festival, ci pe toată durata verii,

o bibliotecă gratuită pentru însetații de lectură.

Șarmantul și lăudabilul muzeu de artă al urbei, gazda primelor ediții festivaliere, fusese rechiziționat pentru una din secțiuni.

Perfect integrată pe orizontul maritim, a poposit…

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Fossil Fuels Received $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies in 2020, Report Finds – Yale E360 – (Me: Grotesque and greedy gutting on the earth)

Coal, oil, and natural gas received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020 — or roughly $11 million every minute — according to a new analysis from the International Monetary Fund.

Explicit subsidies accounted for only 8 percent of the total. The remaining 92 percent were implicit subsidies, which took the form of tax breaks or, to a much larger degree, the fact that health and environmental damages that were largely not priced into the cost of fossil fuels, according to the analysis.

“Underpricing leads to overconsumption of fossil fuels, which accelerates global warming and exacerbates domestic environmental problems including losses to human life from local air pollution and excessive and road congestion and accidents,” authors wrote. “This has long been recognized, but globally countries are still a long way from getting energy prices right.”

The report found that 47 percent of natural gas and 99 percent of coal is priced at less than half its true cost, and that just five countries — China, the United States, Russia, India, and Japan — account for two-thirds of subsidies globally. All five countries belong to the G20, which in 2009 agreed to phase out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies “over the medium term.”

Source: Fossil Fuels Received $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies in 2020, Report Finds – Yale E360

Do I Still Need a Pulse Oximeter at Home to Monitor Covid-19? – The New York Times

Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News

New research from South Africa shows that using a pulse oximeter to check oxygen levels after a Covid diagnosis really does save lives. For the study, 8,115 high-risk patients were given a pulse oximeter to use at home after Covid-19 was diagnosed. The study focused on the highest-risk patients, including older people, those who were pregnant or those with chronic illnesses like heart disease, hypertension or diabetes.

After a Covid diagnosis, the patients were given a pulse oximeter and received a follow-up call to make sure they were using it correctly. They were asked to record their oxygen saturation and heart rate twice a day, and instructed to call a doctor if the reading started to drop below 95 percent.

If the reading fell below 90 percent, they were instructed to go to the emergency room. And all the patients were told to seek emergency care if they had difficulty…

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Do I Still Need a Pulse Oximeter at Home to Monitor Covid-19? – The New York Times

New research from South Africa shows that using a pulse oximeter to check oxygen levels after a Covid diagnosis really does save lives. For the study, 8,115 high-risk patients were given a pulse oximeter to use at home after Covid-19 was diagnosed. The study focused on the highest-risk patients, including older people, those who were pregnant or those with chronic illnesses like heart disease, hypertension or diabetes.

After a Covid diagnosis, the patients were given a pulse oximeter and received a follow-up call to make sure they were using it correctly. They were asked to record their oxygen saturation and heart rate twice a day, and instructed to call a doctor if the reading started to drop below 95 percent.

If the reading fell below 90 percent, they were instructed to go to the emergency room. And all the patients were told to seek emergency care if they had difficulty breathing, regardless of the number on the device.

The study group was then compared with about 30,000 patients in the general population who were seen by doctors across the country between March and October of 2020. During the study period, 544 people (out of 38,660 patients) died from Covid-19, including 49 in the study group.

But the risk of dying was 52 percent lower among the patients who had been instructed to monitor their oxygen at home. Based on the overall mortality rate, it was expected that 95 people in the study group would have died. But using a pulse oximeter appears to have saved the lives of 46 people.