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Blood of recovered COVID-19 patients shows little benefit as treatment – The Jerusalem Post

Using blood of recovered COVID-19 patients – or so-called convalescent plasma – as a potential treatment is of little benefit in helping hospitalised patients fight off the infection, according to results of a clinical trial in India.

Published in the BMJ British Medical Journal on Friday, the results show that convalescent plasma, which delivers antibodies from COVID-19 survivors to infected people, failed to reduce death rates or halt progression to severe disease.

Source: Blood of recovered COVID-19 patients shows little benefit as treatment – The Jerusalem Post

Report: Trump Supporters Obstruct And Intimidate Voters In Albuquerque | KRWG

A voting rights group says that caravans of flag-waving President Donald Trump supporters appeared to obstruct and intimidate voters at two polling location in predominantly ethnic-minority neighborhoods last weekend in the Albuquerque area. Common Cause New Mexico Director Heather Ferguson said Wednesday that the incidents took place on the first day of balloting at voter convenience centers in the South Valley area and the western reaches of Central Avenue. The areas are heavily Latino. She estimates that dozens of potential voters in each location left without voting as a result of the incidents. Local prosecutors say they are investigating. Source: Report: Trump Supporters Obstruct And Intimidate Voters In Albuquerque | KRWG

Armed Men Who Claimed to Be Hired by Trump Showed Up at a Florida Polling Place

Pinellas County elections supervisor Julie Marcus, a Republican, said that the men, dressed like security guards, arrived at an early voting site in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, pitched a tent, and told sheriff’s deputies they’d been hired by the Trump campaign, according to WFLA, NBC’s Tampa affiliate. They also said they’d be back on Thursday. Source: Armed Men Who Claimed to Be Hired by Trump Showed Up at a Florida Polling Place

North Carolina man arrested with van full of guns and explosives, had plans to assassinate Joe Biden | TheHill

A North Carolina man who was indicted last month on charges of child pornography also had plans to commit a mass shooting during the holidays and assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Source: North Carolina man arrested with van full of guns and explosives, had plans to assassinate Joe Biden | TheHill

In the Second Wave – GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.com – Covid-19

Nearly ten months after the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, life in most countries in East and Southeast Asia has mostly returned to normal. Together, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the People’s Republic of China (with Hong Kong) have never recorded more than 1,000 new infections a day since September, according to a recent US media report. Thus, bars and restaurants are bustling, concerts and sport events attract large crowds.[1] In the above mentioned four countries with their total population of nearly 1,6 billion, the pandemic is still under control. In fact, relevant surveys show infection rates of only three persons per 100,000 inhabitants in Japan, one person in South Korea and Singapore and 103 throughout China over the past week.

In reference to the global loss of prestige of Germany, the EU and the West, Economics Minister, Altmeier told the Asia-Pacific Conference on Monday, “We must prove that we can be just as effective in fighting the Corona crisis.”[12] CSU Secretary General Blume had previously stated, “The western, liberal system must prove that it also can deal with this kind of pandemic.”[13] How that is supposed to be done – given the current development of the pandemic in Germany – is not quite clear. Siemens CEO Kaeser, on the other hand, argued that, given the obvious defeat, in the fight against the pandemic, it is that much more important to stand up for “western values.”[14] This means that, to the extent that Germany sinks deeper into the second wave of infections, the greater the crescendo of agitation around anti-Chinese “values” can be expected.

Source: In the Second Wave – GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY.com

Cecília Meireles

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Ó grandes oportunistas,

sobre o papel debruçados,

que calculais mundo e vida

em contos, doblas, cruzados,

que traçais vastas rubricas

e sinais entrelaçados,

com altas penas esguias

embebidas em pecados!

Ó personagens solenes

que arrastais os apelidos

como pavões auriverdes

seus rutilantes vestidos,

todo esse poder que tendes

confunde os vossos sentidos:

a glória, que animais, é desses

que por vós são perseguidos.

Levantai- vos dessas mesas,

saí das vossas molduras,

vede que masmorras negras,

que fortaleza seguras,

que duro peso de algemas

que profundas sepulturas

nascidas de vossas penas,

de vossas assinaturas!

Considerado no mistério

dos.

Considerai no mistério

dos humanos desatinos,

e no polo sempre incerto

dos homens e dos desatinos!

Por sentenças, por decretos,

pereciveis divinos:

e hoje sois, no tempo eterno,

como ilustres assassinos.

Ó soberbos titulares,

tão desdenhosos e altivos!

Por fictícia austeridade,

vãs razões, falsos motivos,

inutilmente matastes:

vossos mortos são mais vivos;

e…

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Nina Simone

”The name of that song is cursed Mississippi

And I want to say every word.

Hunting dogs on my trail

Schoolchildren sit in prison

Black cat crosses my path

I think every day will be my last

Lord, have mercy on this land of mine

We will all pick you up at the right time

I don’t belong here

I don’t belong there

I even stopped believing in prayer… ”

Nina Simone. Mississippi Goddam

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” O nome dessa cançãoé maldito Mississipi

E eu quero dizer cada palavra.

Cães de caça em meu rastro

Crianças em idade escolar sentam- se na prisão

Gato preto cruza o meu caminho

Eu acho que todo dia vai ser meu último

Senhor, tem piedade nesta minha terra

Nós todos vamos buscá-lo no momento certo

Eu não pertenço aqui

Eu não pertenço lá

Eu parei até de acreditar em oração…”

Nina Simone. Mississipi Goddam

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 22 de outubro de 2020

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Sotomayor Dissents in Alabama Voting Case | Law & Crime

The justices voted 5-3 to lift an injunction of the curbside voting ban, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining court’s conservative bloc and the liberal justices dissenting. While the majority did not include the legal reasoning underlying the decision, Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a brief yet biting dissent to the “shadow docket” ruling.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/sotomayor-tears-into-5-3-supreme-court-decision-allowing-alabama-to-ban-curbside-voting-for-people-with-disabilities/