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

Tahiti cruise passenger confirmed Covid-19 positive

They just don’t get it – cruising is done until pandemic is over or vaccine is found!

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A cruise ship passenger in French Polynesia has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing all travellers on board the Paul Gauguin to isolate in their cabins.

Facebook refuses to remove doctored Nancy Pelosi video

Vile cowards!

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Factcheckers put ‘partly false’ label on video that has been circulating since Thursday and viewed more than 2m times

Factcheckers monitoring content on Facebook have put a “partly false” label on the latest video that it said was manipulated to make it appear as if the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was drunk or drugged, but by Monday the social media giant had refused to remove the video from its platform.

The video had been circulating on Facebook since Thursday and by Sunday night had been viewed more than 2m times, CNN reported.

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House committee requests hearing with postmaster general amid mail-in voting concerns | TheHill

“While these changes in a normal year would be drastic, in a presidential election year when many states are relying heavily on absentee mail-in ballots, increases in mail delivery timing would impair the ability of ballots to be received and counted in a timely manner—an unacceptable outcome for a free and fair election,” the letter said.

Source: House committee requests hearing with postmaster general amid mail-in voting concerns | TheHill

Houston mayor warns of $250 fine for not wearing face mask | TheHill

“For months, we have been focusing on education and not citations, but now I am instructing the Houston Police Department to issue the necessary warnings and citations to anyone not wearing a mask in public if they do not meet the criteria for an exemption,” the mayor reportedly said.

Source: Houston mayor warns of $250 fine for not wearing face mask | TheHill

Public Health Decision Making during Covid-19 — Fulfilling the CDC Pledge to the American People | NEJM

A recent report on contact tracing from South Korea, however, sheds light on this issue: household contacts of children 10 to 19 years of age had the highest rate of Covid-19 (18.6% tested positive, as compared with 11.8% of contacts of infected persons of all ages), while contacts of children 0 to 9 years of age had the lowest rate (5.3% tested positive).4 Rates of infection among nonhousehold contacts were low, but the study was done at a time when schools were closed, which limited the opportunity for transmission from children to people outside their households. The effects of school reopening on transmission of Covid-19 in communities are also not well understood. The value of school closures in reducing the spread of seasonal and pandemic influenza has been demonstrated, but whether these findings apply to Covid-19 is unknown.5

Source: Public Health Decision Making during Covid-19 — Fulfilling the CDC Pledge to the American People | NEJM

Remembering the El Paso Massacre, One Year Later

A memorial at the Walmart in El Paso where a white supremacist killed 22 people and injured two dozen more, pictured in October 2019.

The shooter targeted El Paso because of what it is—a predominantly Latinx community on the western edge of Texas, embracing Mexico as much as it does the United States.

After listening to Castro and Gonzalez, I fully understood that who we are and where we live on the border is how we are able to cope with the trauma of an attack that tested this resilient city.

The gunman told police he had come to El Paso to “kill Mexicans.” He drove from North Texas, traveled more than 650 miles and 10 hours “to stop the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” He outlined this in a diatribe posted on an online message board promoting white supremacy.

 

Source: Remembering the El Paso Massacre, One Year Later