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Monkeypox vaccinations underway; over 500 Quebecers vaccinated | CTV News

According to the World Health Organization, monkeypox is transmitted through close contact with an infected uindividual. Transmission between people is thought to primarily occur through large respiratory droplets, which generally do not travel far and would require extended close contact. However, the virus can also be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, as well as contact with infected material and surfaces.

Bergeron said anyone who believes they may have monkeypox should self-isolate and notify those they’ve been in contact with.

Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes and sores.

 

Source: Monkeypox vaccinations underway; over 500 Quebecers vaccinated | CTV News

Exclusive: Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies | Reuters

State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation into unauthorized attempts by allies of former President Donald Trump to access voting systems.

The previously unreported records include search warrants and investigators’ memos obtained by Reuters through public records requests. The documents reveal a flurry of efforts by state authorities to secure voting machines, poll books, data-storage devices and phone records as evidence in a probe launched in mid-February.

The state’s investigation follows breaches of local election systems in Michigan by Republican officials and pro-Trump activists trying to prove his baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Source: Exclusive: Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies | Reuters

Communicating doctors’ consensus persistently increases COVID-19 vaccinations | Nature

Our results shed light on the role that misperceptions of the distribution of expert views have in vaccine hesitancy, and also show how this barrier can be lifted by providing accurate information. We provide evidence that (1) the vast majority of medical doctors in the Czech Republic trust the approved COVID-19 vaccines, (2) the vast majority of respondents in a nationally representative survey substantially underestimate the percentage of doctors with positive views of the vaccine, and (3) correcting these misperceptions has lasting positive effects on vaccine uptake. Although existing experiments have made progress in identifying low-cost strategies to increase vaccination intentions4,13,14,15 and uptake5 measured shortly after the intervention, this paper integrates the experiment in longitudinal online data collection and contributes by identifying a low-cost, scalable treatment that has lasting effects on behaviour.

Source: Communicating doctors’ consensus persistently increases COVID-19 vaccinations | Nature

A small place in Grenada: Coral Cove and its turtles threatened by development

Petchary's Blog

In the Caribbean, we are small. Although in Jamaica we tend to think of ourselves as a “larger” island, in the scheme of things only Cuba and Hispaniola can claim to be quite sizeable.

And yet, as they say, “small is beautiful.” And one place that fits that description perfectly is Coral Cove in Grenada. It is one of those quiet corners of a small island, where the sea brushes the sand and old, weather-beaten trees lean across a narrow beach. Brown Pelicans patrol and dive in the waters. It is one of those lovely spots where you can easily while away a few hours, daydreaming.

Weather-beaten trees at Coral Cove.

And if you are lucky, an endangered Hawksbill Turtle (all our Caribbean turtles are listed as endangered, by the way) will emerge from the sea to dig her nest on the beach. It is a laborious task that is…

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SORRY….

NANMYKEL.COM

(I admit I’m younger in the photo)

I have trouble ignoring what’s happening out there in my world.  Personally, I’m starting to “lose it” at almost 87, but I cannot ignore it.

From the NY Times June 3, 2022:

Again and again

Shootings that kill multiple people are so common in this country that they often do not even make national news. They are a regular feature of American life. Tulsa has become the latest example — yet another gun crime that seems almost ordinary here and yet would be extremely rare in any other country as wealthy as the U.S.
To give you a sense of how common these shootings are, we’re devoting the rest of the lead item of today’s newsletter to a list of every documented mass shooting in which a gunman has killed at least three people in the U.S. so far this year. …Every identified…

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Turkish Tuesdays, and Last Lessons from Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s2e8, on Learning via Empathy, and Empathy as a Sacred Duty

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

What do we learn from season 2, episode 8?

Lessons:
1.)  Know your friends and your enemies: empathy will show the difference.
2.)  Even when the struggle seems hopeless, empathy is what will keep volunteers working on the Sacred Duty to help others.
    The Crimean War was a while ago.

Faysal is a master manipulator, so what is he after, bringing them together.
And Levent has a point:  people have ruined this world, but we can Do Better.
That is why Hakan accepts the Kutsal görev.
Faysal just has to be in charge, even when he’s not.
And he always wants a weakness he can use against even his servants, which they are, right now: to help him get Rüya back.
Why don’t they wear flak jackets?!
This is the last review I will do for this series, unless I hear from Readers who’d like to see more.

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« Sabemos que – La Tierra no es del hombre, el hombre pertenece a la Tierra. El hombre no ha tejido la telaraña de la vida, es solo un hilo. Todo lo que hace con la red de la vida, él se hace esto a sí mismo. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

«¿Les está enseñando a sus hijos lo que nosotros les enseñamos a nuestros hijos? ¿Que la Tierra es nuestra madre? Lo que le pasa a la Tierra le pasa a todos los hijos de la Tierra. Sabemos que la Tierra no pertenece al hombre, el hombre pertenece a la Tierra. Todas las cosas están relacionadas […]

« Sabemos que – La Tierra no es del hombre, el hombre pertenece a la Tierra. El hombre no ha tejido la telaraña de la vida, es solo un hilo. Todo lo que hace con la red de la vida, él se hace esto a sí mismo. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Journal des peuples originaires au 5 juin 2022 — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Publié le 5 Juin 2022 Guyane dite française : Quand est-ce que ce pays : la France s’occupera du sort des autochtones de la Guyane ? De ces vagues de suicides de jeunes qui sont récurrentes et reflètent le mal-être provoqué par la colonisation ? Quand est-ce que ce pays, la France reconnaîtra enfin la Convention […] […] […]

Journal des peuples originaires au 5 juin 2022 — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro