Today across the whole of India. Even in other parts of the world. We are celebrating the festival of Holi. You might be reminded of so many memories of how you celebrated Holi every year. 825 more words
Life Lessons I learned From The Holi : The Festival Of Colors! — gladsomejyot
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Arizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes | Human Rights Watch
The provision of such broad immunity is particularly problematic for nursing homes in light of growing evidence indicating that during the pandemic, nursing home residents have suffered considerable harms from neglect and prolonged isolation, in addition to the risk of Covid-19 itself. Source: Arizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes | Human Rights Watch
America’s Covid-19 grief and bereavement crisis, explained – Vox
It’s been nearly a year since Julie Horowitz-Jackson’s mother, Arlene, died of Covid-19 in a nursing facility in Philadelphia. “What hit me recently is that the world is opening back up, and my mom’s still dead,” Horowitz-Jackson says.
At this point in the Covid-19 pandemic, as vaccines get rolled out in the United States and around the globe, there is a glimmer of hope that life will safely start shifting back to “normal” in the coming months. But so many people, like Horowitz-Jackson, are still working through their grief, and it won’t just disappear when the virus does. Horowitz-Jackson, 51, says she was coping well with the loss of her mom until recently, when, in Chicago, where she lives, she saw many people out and about, celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in large crowds. “I get angry,” she says. “I get angry that people aren’t taking it seriously.”
With over 550,000 reported Covid-19 deaths in the US and 2.8 million worldwide, a massive grief crisis is upon us — with large, unaddressed mental health and economic implications.
“For a large share of people, these [losses] lead to bouts of prolonged grief disorder and depression,” says Ashton Verdery, a Penn State sociologist who studies the societal costs of bereavement. “But also they have huge impacts on their finances, on their employment, on their relationships, and on all kinds of aspects of thriving in the world.”
And new research here provides a broad window onto the lasting scope of our national tragedy.
“These losses that are felt now will be felt for some time to come — even individuals who aren’t born yet will potentially be missing these relatives who might have been alive during their formative years,” says Mallika Snyder, a graduate researcher at UC Berkeley who is also working on estimates with colleagues of the “excess bereavement” felt in the United States and other countries this year.
Source: America’s Covid-19 grief and bereavement crisis, explained – Vox
‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter – BBC News
Several of the high-profile accounts have been suspended by Twitter. It told the BBC that Amazon Ambassadors are subject to Twitter’s rules on spam and platform manipulation.
Accounts which impersonate or falsely claim to be affiliated with a company, can be temporarily suspended or removed.
Any parody account should have a disclaimer in its Twitter bio, the company added.
It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors.
Source: ‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter – BBC News
Party in Kentucky compares vaccination passports to yellow stars – The Jerusalem Post (Racist and dumb… vaccines against polio, small pox, measles save lives as do Covid-19 vaccines…)
The Libertarian Party noted that the vaccination program is comparable to the yellow stars sewn on the clothes of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Source: Party in Kentucky compares vaccination passports to yellow stars – The Jerusalem Post
Three female polio workers gunned down in Afghanistan – The Washington Post (Me: Taliban… same old, same old dictators)
Targeted killings in Afghanistan began last year as peace talks were launched between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and they are now a near-daily occurrence in cities such as the capital, Kabul and Jalalabad.
Source: Three female polio workers gunned down in Afghanistan – The Washington Post
WHO report indicates animal farms in Asia were likely origin of COVID-19 – UPI.com (Me: Most likely the Covid-19 source)
Daszak told NPR that China shut down the wildlife farms in February 2020. The wildlife farms are part of a project that the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years.
“They take exotic animals, like civets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoon dogs and bamboo rats, and they breed them in captivity,” Daszak said.
Then on Feb. 24, 2020, the Chinese government shut down the farms.
“What China did then was very important,” Daszak said. “They put out a declaration saying that they were going to stop the farming of wildlife for food.”
Daszak said the farms could be where the coronavirus jumped from a bat into another animal, and then into people.
The farms in the southern province of Yunnan breed animals known to carry coronaviruses. Virus experts found a bat virus that’s genetically 96% similar to SARS-CoV-2 in an area where many of the farms are located.
Daszak said evidence suggests these farms were supplying vendors at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan. That market was shut down on Dec. 31, 2019.
Source: WHO report indicates animal farms in Asia were likely origin of COVID-19 – UPI.com
Japan suspends new aid to Myanmar over military coup
Japan has suspended the provision of new aid to Myanmar in response to last month’s military coup, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday, as the violent crackdown against protesters draws a wave of international condemnation.
The move follows criticism Japan was taking a soft stance on Myanmar compared with the United States and other Western countries that have placed sanctions on individuals and companies linked to the military junta that ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Source: Japan suspends new aid to Myanmar over military coup
Myanmar protests: Death toll passes 500 | News | DW | 30.03.2021
Three of Myanmar’s armed ethnic rebel groups issued a joint statement threatening the military with retaliation.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army and the Arakan Army (AA) said if the junta did not stop the bloodshed, they would “cooperate with the protesters and fight back.”
Source: Myanmar protests: Death toll passes 500 | News | DW | 30.03.2021
Officials are getting creative to vaccinate homebound seniors – Los Angeles Times
On Friday, the Glendale Fire Department and Glendale Memorial Hospital co-launched a pilot program to vaccinate homebound seniors living in the Jewel City. Shaw was one of the first to receive a dose. The program is one of several grass-roots initiatives that have sprung up in recent weeks to bring shots to those too sick to leave home, a vulnerable population that some fear is being left behind even as vaccine access rapidly expands.
Source: Officials are getting creative to vaccinate homebound seniors – Los Angeles Times
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