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Headache-Inducing Snarky Snippets

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The makers of such over-the-counter medications as Tylenol and Advil must be raking in the profits these days, for a headache is a natural state of being for most of us as soon as we boot up the computer or turn on the television news in the morning!  So anyway, after popping four ibuprofen with my morning Joe, here I am back with even more of those snarky snippets.


This dude …

… was one of the insurrectionists that stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempted coup on January 6th 2020.  His name is Timothy Hale-Cusanelli and at the time of his felonious insurrection he was a member of the U.S. Army Reserves … you know, those guys who are supposed to protect us in times of trouble?  Well, turns out Hale-Cusanelli is a Nazi supporter … don’t ask me how the Sam Hell he got into the U.S…

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Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Que tipo de pessoa sente ” prazer ” com a dor do outro? Que tipo de ser humano ao colocar uma mulher na posição de constrangimento, rir com a intenção de machucar? A violência contra a mulher é um acontecimento histórico vergonhoso. Portanto, requer ” Conscientização ” não sadismo.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Santarém, Pá 28 de maio de 2022

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‘Daughter’s long Covid makes us prisoners in our own home’ – BBC News

A woman whose nine-year-old daughter has not recovered since catching Covid in 2020 has told how long Covid has made them “prisoners” in their own home.

Helen Goss, who also has the post-viral condition, said daughter Anna’s illness “upturned” their world.

More than 150,000 people in Scotland are thought to have long Covid.

The Scottish government said it was spending £3m per year to support care for patients with long-term symptoms.

But Ms Goss, who now represents the charity Long Covid Kids in Scotland, has called for more support – specifically for children.

 

Source: ‘Daughter’s long Covid makes us prisoners in our own home’ – BBC News

Covid-weary Americans enter Memorial Day with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic – The Washington Post (Me: Weary? Weary of living? Neither the Post or many people have the spine to fight and win against Covid!)

“This one is really revved up, and it’s probably getting up there with something as transmissible as measles,” said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College, describing the BA.2.12.1 subvariant now accounting for more than half of new cases. “Over the Memorial Day holidays, if you are in settings where you are indoors with large numbers of people without masks … there is a good likelihood you will suffer a breakthrough infection.” Source: Covid-weary Americans enter Memorial Day with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic – The Washington Post

Do Better: Can Teacher Rotation Give US Proportional Representation?

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

Here is another paragraph that, thanks to Violet’s observation on verbosity, I think can be removed as redundant. Yes, it is an important one, but these details are mentioned later, in Part II,

             

Finally, at the end of Phase III, we finish advocating for and building some new tools in preparation for new policy crafting, and a new paradigm, coming forward in the next and final phase of this project. By that point, the federal Department of Education may be able to begin doing on a nation-wide level what many states may have begun some years earlier: rotating teachers all around the US. New teachers are rotated already in many European countries. Similarly, the movement for a Constitutional Convention could suggest several updates for future needs based on an educated population that did not exist in 1787, including the use of…

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Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox | Reuters

While monkeypox is not as transmissible or dangerous as COVID, these scientists say, there needs to be clearer guidance on how a person infected with monkeypox should isolate, more explicit advice on how to protect people who are at risk, and improved testing and contact tracing.

“If this becomes endemic (in more countries), we will have another nasty disease and many difficult decisions to take,” said Isabelle Eckerle, a professor at the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases in Switzerland.

The WHO is considering whether the outbreak should be assessed as a potential public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), an official told Reuters. A WHO determination that an outbreak constitutes a global health emergency – as it did with COVID or Ebola – would help accelerate research and funding to contain a disease.

Source: Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox | Reuters

COVID-19 rates rising ahead of Memorial Day weekend – The Durango Herald

“So while the community level is not showing as steep an increase as the wastewater is showing, we anecdotally hear a lot of reports of positive cases,” Jollon said. “We’re hearing from providers in the community, both pediatricians and primary care providers, a lot of demand for (COVID-related) visits and services.” Anecdotally, the health department can infer the real rate of transmission is likely higher than what its community data shows, and wastewater monitoring data backs that up. Even Durango Mayor Barbara Noseworthy has caught COVID-19, she said at the Thursday public hearing about the citizen-initiated ordinance that seeks to require more public hearings for police and fire department developments.

Source: COVID-19 rates rising ahead of Memorial Day weekend – The Durango Herald

Survivors of Uvalde shooting paint horrifying picture of terror and tragedy | Texas school shooting | The Guardian

Miah Cerrillo, 11, told a CNN producer her fourth-grade class was watching Disney’s Lilo & Stitch when the gunman entered the classroom and made eye contact with her teacher and shot her dead, as well as some of her other classmates.

Miah smeared her friend’s blood all over her body to make it look like she was dead in case the gunman returned from the adjoining classroom. She escaped alive, but was wounded.

A teacher at Robb elementary who did not provide her name to NBC News immediately ran to lock her classroom door when she heard gunshots down the hall. She said her students had practiced active shooter drills for years.

She said: “They knew this wasn’t a drill. We knew we had to be quiet or else we were going to give ourselves away.” The teacher called the ordeal the longest 35 minutes of her life.

Paramedic Angel Garza arrived on the scene at Robb elementary and learned his stepdaughter, Amerie Jo, was among the dead. He learned the news from Amerie’s best friend, who told him the blood in which she was covered belonged to his stepdaughter.

Samuel Salinas, 10, ended up with bullet fragments in his leg after the gunman entered his classroom and fired multiple rounds. Samuel told ABC News: “He shot my teacher and then he shot the kids. I think he was aiming at me.”

Edward Timothy, a second-grader at Robb elementary described the shooting sound to CNN as “popping … kind of like fireworks”. He recalled an adult woman entering his classroom, turning off the lights and telling the children to hide under their desks. He said: “I learned that we were having a real drill. We practiced a lot. We were safe because we practiced.” Edward said he now had a fear of guns and someone shooting him.

One mother of a third-grader told Motherly: “I do not want my son to go to school in America any more.”

 

Source: Survivors of Uvalde shooting paint horrifying picture of terror and tragedy | Texas school shooting | The Guardian