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

COVID: Why is India censoring media during public health crisis? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 27.04.2021

Media watchdogs believe that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power at the federal level since 2014, simply cannot tolerate criticism and wants to control the public narrative.

“The government’s first instinct is to control information,” Pamela Philipose, media commentator and ombudsman for The Wire news outlet, told DW.

“Of course, pandemics lead to misinformation, but a blunt censorship tool such as wide-ranging takedowns is most unhelpful as it suppresses important information,” she added.

“Earlier, what we witnessed was shoot the messenger. Now, the government is shooting the platform too,” Sevanti Ninan, a media critic, told DW.

“Covering the pandemic is a huge challenge for the press and we need to know how it is playing it out on the ground,” said Ninan,  who is founding editor of The Hoot, India’s first media watchdog.

Source: COVID: Why is India censoring media during public health crisis? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 27.04.2021

Australians trapped in India during COVID-19 crisis fear for their families’ survival – ABC News

Shivang and his wife Krimja Desai

“Everybody here wants to go back home because it’s very bad up here in India,” he said.

Mr Desai is one of around 9,000 Australians in India who want to come home, with 650 of those considered vulnerable.

But the government’s decision to pause flights from India to Australia means they won’t be able to leave any time soon.

“Because I am really very desperate to come to Australia, I feel heartbroken,” Mr Desai said.

“But I totally trust that what [the government] is doing is for the greater good of the community.

“They are looking out for all Australians, which is considered a COVID-free country and of course [the government] doesn’t want to start the spread of COVID.”

Source: Australians trapped in India during COVID-19 crisis fear for their families’ survival – ABC News

Watch “GOVERNMENT MAKE LIST OF ACCUSATIONS THAT YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN CPI” on YouTube – Mágica Mistura✨

Continuing the saga of “ridicule that never ends” … the mismanagement of this “gentleman” passed his receipt of incompetence once again.

Let’s see this tragicomic video from Meteoro Brasil… since laughing is the best medicine… or anesthetic… I don’t know 

Source: Watch “GOVERNMENT MAKE LIST OF ACCUSATIONS THAT YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN CPI” on YouTube – Mágica Mistura✨

2nd Vaccine Dose

By Hook Or By Book

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I’m relieved to say that my husband and I have received our second vaccine doses. He of course is feeling no side effects. I however have a few. In addition to a small rash again at the injection site and feeling like someone punched me in the arm, I got a vicious migraine about four hours after getting home from the doctors, which thankfully has lessened quite a bit today, and I’m a bit achy and extremely tired. Honestly though, I’m not complaining. These are side effects that I don’t mind at all as opposed to getting Covid-19. I’m sharing Chris Mann’s latest parody where he’s embracing his inner teen girl who’s just been vaccinated. While, I’m far from my teen years, and I’m definitely still going to be wearing a mask and social distancing indoors, I can definitely attest to the relief that two little shots can bestow.

 

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Confronting Uncertainty – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

This perhaps is the jarring lesson of COVID — nothing in life is certain, including death and taxes. Will you wake up tomorrow? Or will you wake up in a hospital bed with a tube jammed down your throat?

Frankly, you don’t know the answer to those questions. If you think you do, you’re lying to yourself.

The insurance industry hates uncertainty. That’s why they think in terms of groups, not individuals, and rely on the Central Limit Theorem to make accurate projections of risk. The CLT simply says that the larger the group, the closer any estimate will be to the “true” result. Underwriters want to calculate risk as finely as possible to estimate expected loss payouts, and then price policies to make their target profit margin. When they can’t calculate risk, the reaction is close to panic.

Source: Confronting Uncertainty – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

In Hot Pursuit

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She is always in hot pursuit of a poem to write
Silent words speak, thoughts take flight.

When her imagination runs riot
She loses her feelings of disquiet.

She does not seek friend, foe or gobbledygook 
She seeks only her pen and scribbled handbook.

She can sit forever by the gurgling brook
Sometimes,  she takes her place by the inglenook.

She seeks not hope, wealth or love
She cherishes nature and the warm sky above.

Poetry is the light that she can read
Splash of blue to golden to knock Em dead.

Her healing is found in these offerings 
When a verse is inked, know that her soul is flying.

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Why do Social Changes & Movements Matter? — Beyond The Lines

Source – the conversation What is social change? Sociologists characterize social change as changes in human communications and connections that change social and social establishments. These progressions happen over the long run and frequently have significant and long haul ramifications for society. It is the changes in social foundations, social practices or social relations. Source […]

Why do Social Changes & Movements Matter? — Beyond The Lines