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(2) Let the Good Times Roll – Harry Nilsson – YouTube – It’s Friday!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
(2) Fats Domino – I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday – YouTube
Thank you, Brendan: Homelessness, Bathrooms, and COVID — Blind Injustice
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post talks about one of the hidden but important issues during COVID: the ability of the poorest among us to find restrooms.
Searching for a Turning point
A global pandemic, economic collapse A civil unrest has galvanized us. Questioning science causes turmoil, Searching for a turning point. Career politicians put our lives in suspense Power drunk, they are killing each other. Arguing if pips need a stimulus check Interrupting the progress to go further. Searching for ways to move on, Move on beyond the ravage of COVID We begged for a vaccine to save us all Now, that it’s here, we are silent and stolid. Picking through cracks of structural divides Most keep opinions a secret Watching the country falling apart Pretending that we are all equal. Woke up in the morning, turned on news With hope to hear about our savior coming. Only to learn that overnight More souls left the Earth and in heaven humming. A year of daily nightmares has passed Surgical masks still in fashion The Q people hit the country with blasts…
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Sunset At Sea
Flaming amber
Immersed in his reflection-
The sun.
Sea-washed;
A flickering skyline
Filled with charcoal clouds blooming with aurum scents:
A world of gold
In every drop of sea
Sun rays drip
Copper shadows
Into the dying light:
Incandescent
Sea sunset~
The night starts
In a blaze.

Notes #17 — SensiSpirit
Delay of Shots From India Slows Britain’s Speedy Vaccination Drive – The New York Times
Although the death toll from Covid-19 in Britain now exceeds 125,000, the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has outpaced the rest of Europe with a vaccination program that has already provided first doses to more than 25 million people.
But that giddying pace is set to slow as a result of the delay in the delivery of about 4 million doses from India, underscoring the extent to which even successful vaccination programs are at the mercy of supply chains.
In April, Britain will concentrate on completing vaccinations of those 50 and above, and those who have medical conditions, as well as administering a second shot to 12 million people who were the first to be treated. That is a priority because the second injection needs to be done within 12 weeks of the first inoculation, Mr. Hancock said.
“The problem at the moment is that there is no spare capacity, every single factory that could possibly turn out a vaccine is working 24 hours, seven days a week to try and do that, but inevitably there are problems,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation and a scientific adviser to the British government.
What must be avoided is “this idea of export controls and nationalism,” Professor Farrar said. “Contracts need to be honored,” he added.
Holding that line looks increasing hard. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of the Serum Institute of India, told the BBC that his company had been permitted to export 50 percent of the 95 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine it produces.
“Having said that, the government wanted to scale up its vaccination drive, they needed the maximum volumes they could get from us,” he said. “And that is why I had to send out a message to all our partners that were expecting more doses in these two to three months only that they would be facing a few delays.”
Myanmar Protesters Answer Military’s Bullets With an Economic Shutdown – The New York Times
Since the military seized power in a coup last month, an entire nation has come to a standstill. From hospitals, railways and dockyards to schools, shops and trading houses, much of society has stopped showing up for work in an attempt to stymie the military regime and force it to return authority to a civilian government.
While demonstrators continue to brave bullets — at least 220 people have been killed since the Feb. 1 coup, according to a local group that monitors political imprisonments and deaths — the quiet persistence of this mass civil disobedience movement has grown into a potent weapon against the military. For all the planning that went into the putsch, the generals seem to have been utterly unprepared for the breadth and depth of resistance against them.
China Punishes Microsoft’s LinkedIn Over Lax Censorship – The New York Times (protecting feelings of political leaders via bowing to their desire for censorship is not good business)
China’s internet regulator rebuked LinkedIn executives this month for failing to control political content, according to three people briefed on the matter. Though it isn’t clear precisely what material got the company into trouble, the regulator said it had found objectionable posts circulating in the period around an annual meeting of China’s lawmakers, said these people, who asked for anonymity because the issue isn’t public.

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