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Beauty

Lignes invisibiles

A fast poem I wrote in two minutes after starting singing alone the lyrics inside my room, out of nowhere.


What is beauty?

Everything that falls

breaks and crawls

everything, which can not be fixed

but when you look at it

you still find the trick

to enter everything in it

What is beauty?

Everything that falls

invisible airs

and things one never knows

There is no beauty

that can not be serene

and if you see something

peaceful and at ease

maybe you have found beauty

just for once

and please

do not hesitate to try and touch it

but be sure that

is hard to reach it

What is beauty?

I do not know

and the lyrics I am writing

are the result of a mind

which high on some sort of flow

/inner flow.

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16 Books To Declutter Your Home & Spring Clean Your Life – Invisibly Me

Spring cleaning isn’t just about getting rid of stuff & cleaning the house. While tidying your physical space can have a positive knock-on effect to your motivation levels and sense of mental wellbeing, you can spring clean other areas of your life too, like decluttering your mind, decluttering your emails and computer files, organising your work life and so on.

Whatever you’re tackling, the aim is to declutter, make more space, get organised and let go of what’s not used or helpful. This should make life going forward a little bit easier and more manageable, freeing up time so you can have more of it to spend on the other important things in your life.

Source: 16 Books To Declutter Your Home & Spring Clean Your Life – Invisibly Me

Face masks and vaccines: 3 reasons wearing masks indoors is still important – Vox

Experts explain where we still need to keep our masks on, and when we might be able to leave them at home.

1) Lots of people remain vulnerable to infection who can’t get a vaccine yet — including babies and kids. Some of them also can’t wear masks.

2) New variants could put us all at higher risk.

3) When the majority still isn’t vaccinated, masks help others feel safer.

(Me: don’t let deniers and fools bully you about masking up!!!

Source: Face masks and vaccines: 3 reasons wearing masks indoors is still important – Vox

Brazil rejects Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in blow to Moscow’s soft power efforts – The Washington Post

The ruling from Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency, or Anvisa, cited a range of concerns with the vaccine’s development and production, including what it said was a lack of quality control and efficacy data, as well as little if any information on the shot’s adverse effects. Source: Brazil rejects Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in blow to Moscow’s soft power efforts – The Washington Post

Why Russia is betting on Myanmar’s military junta | East Asia Forum

Moscow’s close ties with Myanmar date back to the 1950s. Given that for most of its modern history the Southeast Asian country has been governed by the military, Russia has developed a working relationship with its uniformed rulers. Incumbent strongman general Min Aung Hlaing has visited Russia on numerous occasions, most recently in June 2020 to attend the Victory Day parade in Moscow, and is known as a champion of Myanmar–Russia ties.

Under Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar–Russia military cooperation has received a boost. After China, Russia is the country’s second largest supplier of arms, being the source of at least 16 per cent of weaponry procured by Myanmar from 2014–2019. Myanmar’s military is now awaiting the delivery of six Su-30 fighter jets ordered in 2019, and in January 2021 the two sides signed contracts for a Russian air defence system and a suite of surveillance drones.

Source: Why Russia is betting on Myanmar’s military junta | East Asia Forum

Thousands Flee as Myanmar Junta Planes Bomb Kachin Villages

The Myanmar military has been conducting frequent airstrikes on villages in Momauk Township, Kachin State for the past several days, forcing thousands of local residents to flee their homes. The air raids follow fierce fighting between regime troops and a local ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), in the area.

Fighting has intensified near Myothit and Sihark villages in Momauk Township since the KIA attacked two police outposts and a military base at the Tarpein Bridge on April 11.

“The military has been bombing our villages for four days. Usually they carry out three or four airstrikes a day,” said a local staying near Myothit Village.

Source: Thousands Flee as Myanmar Junta Planes Bomb Kachin Villages

Avian Flu Diary: CDC Update: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases

While it is undoubtedly a substantial undercount, as of April 20th the CDC has been notified of 7,157 breakthrough cases – a roughly 25% increase over their initial report of April 13th.

This is a reassuringly low number when compared to the nearly100 million fully vaccinated individuals in the country, but it is a reminder that vaccination is not an ironclad guarantee of protection.  Hence the need for vaccinated individuals to continue to observe some of the same social distancing measures as those who remain unvaccinated.

These breakthrough numbers will undoubtedly rise substantially over time.  Even if our current vaccines should prove to be 90% effective in preventing COVID infection – and no one is claiming that – millions of breakthrough infectious would still be expected over the next year or two.

Where COVID vaccines are expected to have their greatest impact is in reducing severe disease, which should manifest itself in lower hospitalizations, and far fewer deaths.  How effective they will be in preventing mild or asymptomatic infection remains to be seen.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: CDC Update: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases