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Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners back Gaza hostage deal | Reuters
Source: Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners back Gaza hostage deal | Reuters

Covid charity scam trial juror says she was given bag with $120,000 cash to acquit defendants | US crime | The Guardian
Juror reported she was offered money to acquit seven charged with stealing more than $40m from program meant to feed children
N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air | CIDRAP
Staff photo by Mary Van Beusekom
Researchers who compared the ability of cloth and surgical masks and KN95 and N95 respirators to impede SARS-CoV-2 leakage into the environment show that the “duckbill” N95 won handily, stopping 98% of the virus that causes COVID-19.
A University of Maryland (UMD) research team, which published the findings last week in eBioMedicine, collected breath samples from volunteers with community-acquired COVID-19 infections starting in May 2020.
“The highly transmissible nature of rapidly emerging Omicron variants in the setting of high rates of vaccination and prior infection underscores the critical role of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as wearing face masks, to reduce inhalation (airborne) transmission of the virus by reducing the amount of virus in the air,” the study authors wrote.
Source: N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air | CIDRAP
Bogota-Colombia – 100CountryTrek.com
Stephen Dyer: Public School Funding in Ohio Drops Dramatically as “Choice” Expands | Diane Ravitch’s blog
(ME: Ohio GOP consciously killing public education while expanding welfare to rich private schools and re-segregation of schools)
Hidden Desires – Kaushal Kishore

Desires held close, within their bounds,
Whisper softly, scarcely making sounds…
But should they breach that fragile line,
Their whispers turn to cries with time…
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From secret wants, so small, discreet,
To public woes that loudly beat…
They leap from heart to courtroom’s street,
From personal to legal defeat…
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Contained, they’re but a private dream,
Unleashed, they find a harsher scheme…
Once they burst past modest seams,
They lose the grace of what they seem…
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So guard them well, those dreams inside,
For once unchained, they cannot hide…
From personal realms they swiftly glide,
To face the world’s unyielding tide…
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–Kaushal Kishore
Source: Hidden Desires – Kaushal Kishore
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian
After Anthony Fauci appeared at a contentious US House hearing on Monday, the former top public health official who led the nation’s response to Covid-19 singled out the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News as drivers of the “credible death threats” that he described to lawmakers.
“Whether it’s … news media – you know Fox News does it a lot – or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that … the deaths of X number of people [were] because of policies or some crazy idea that I created, immediately, it’s like clockwork: the death threats go way up,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN.
The ex-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases then alluded to how Georgia’s conspiracy theorist Republican congresswoman assailed him during his testimony on Monday, telling the CNN host Kaitlan Collins: “When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kinds of things that drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.”

Hiltzik: House Republicans attack Fauci, but fail to land a punch – Los Angeles Times
Here’s what we know about Dr. Anthony S. Fauci: As a staff member at the National Institutes of Health for 54 years and director of its National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, Fauci was a key figure in the development of therapies for HIV and ensuring that funding was available for the search for a cure.
Under his leadership, NIAID invested billions of dollars in research that resulted in the development of mRNA technology, which in turn resulted in the development of COVID-19 vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives.
Under Fauci, NIAID also sponsored research into treatments for pandemic flu and the Ebola and Zika viruses. When COVID struck, he was tapped as a top advisor to then-President Trump — one of seven presidents he has advised during his career, from Reagan through Biden…
…The subcommittee Republicans tried hard to contradict the notion that the lab leak hypothesis is a “conspiracy theory.” Fauci played along, up to a point. He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.
“What is a conspiracy theory is the kind of distortions of that particular subject, like, it was a lab leak and I was parachuted into the CIA like Jason Bourne and told the CIA that they should really not be talking about a lab leak,” he said. “That’s a conspiracy.” He was referring to a ludicrous accusation published in September, with great fanfare but no factual support whatsoever, by none other than Wenstrup…
Source: Hiltzik: House Republicans attack Fauci, but fail to land a punch – Los Angeles Times
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