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

Coronavirus: Vietnam says contagion ‘under control’ in virus epicentre but has spread elsewhere, SE Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

A new coronavirus outbreak in Vietnam spread to two more provinces on Wednesday (Aug 5), the country’s Health Minister said, as the Covid-19 task force declared the contagion “under control” in the central city where the outbreak began.

Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam contain earlier outbreaks, but it is now battling infections in at least 10 cities and provinces, after going more than three months without domestic transmission.

 

Source: Coronavirus: Vietnam says contagion ‘under control’ in virus epicentre but has spread elsewhere, SE Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

The Military Is Sick – LA Progressive

You would think that, as my husband enters his third year of “shore duty” as a Pentagon staffer, the immediate dangers of military service would finally be negligible. No such luck. Since around mid-June, as President Trump searched for scapegoats like the World Health Organization for his own Covid-19 ineptitude and his concern over what rising infection rates could mean for his approval ratings, he decided that it was time to push this country to “reopen.”

As it turned out, that wouldn’t just be a disaster for states from Florida to California, but also meant that the Pentagon resumed operations at about 80% capacity. So, after a brief reprieve, my spouse is now required to report to his office four days a week for eight-hour workdays in a poorly ventilated, crowded hive of cubicles where people neither consistently mask nor social distance.

My husband, in other words, is now unnecessarily risking his own and his family’s exposure to a virus that has to date claimed more than 150,000 American lives — already more than eight times higher than the number of Americans who died in both the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that followed.

Source: The Military Is Sick – LA Progressive

Russia sends mobile hospital to Beirut — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Russian Ministry of Emergency announced that five planes were immedialtey sent to Lebanon transporting mobile medical hospital for injured and specialists in search and rescue with equipment to work in the debris in the aftermath of explosion that occurred at Beirut Port on August 4. sends 5 planes with humanitarian aid to https://t.co/uehNtq09vJ %5B…%5D

Russia sends mobile hospital to Beirut — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Your Mail-In Vote

Vote like the life of democracy and your family depends on it – because it does!

In Saner Thought

There is a problem these days….voting will be a bitch and the solution that many have offered is that of a mail-in vote and of course that will not fit into the plan for Trump….he and his ilk are saying that a mail-in vote would be riddled with fraud.

He much prefers absentee voting.

Think about that for a minute.

Your ballot comes in the mail ……you fill it out…..then you mail it in…..

Do I need to let that sink in?

Let me help and explain a bit about mail-in voting…..

Vote-by-mail, mail-in voting, and absentee voting are essentially the same thing. We use these terms interchangeably. They all mean that a voter is submitting a ballot through the mail.

The process is fairly standard. First, a voter needs to apply for an absentee ballot if one has not automatically been sent in the mail. Once local election officials…

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Lebanon: EU deploys 100 firefighters — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

The European Union «offers full support to the Lebanese people» reads the declaration of the Commissioner Lenarcic issued in the afthermath of the Beirut blasts. «The civil protection mechanism has been activated at the request of onne & is coordinating the urgent deployment of more than 100 highly qualified firefighters, with vehicles, dogs and equipment» […]

Lebanon: EU deploys 100 firefighters — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

The Beirut Explosion Wasn’t An Attack, And That Makes It So Much Worse — A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

I was at my office, having just seen a couple patients in clinic, when my friend Elia texts me: “there’s been an explosion at the Beirut port, check on your family.” I had seen pictures of it on Twitter, affixed to the speculation that it was fireworks related. I didn’t think much of it until […]

The Beirut Explosion Wasn’t An Attack, And That Makes It So Much Worse — A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares