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Parents were fine with sweeping school vaccination mandates five decades ago – but COVID-19 may be a different story | PhillyVoice

School vaccination mandates have been around since the 19th century, and they became a fixture in all 50 states in the 1970s. Vaccine requirements are among the most effective means of controlling infectious diseases, but they’re currently under attack by parents who consider them intrusions on parental rights.

Source: Parents were fine with sweeping school vaccination mandates five decades ago – but COVID-19 may be a different story | PhillyVoice

Jacobson v. Massachusetts :: 197 U.S. 11 (1905) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center

A state may enact a compulsory vaccination law, since the legislature has the discretion to decide whether vaccination is the best way to prevent smallpox and protect public health. The legislature may exempt children from the law without violating the equal protection rights of adults if the law applies equally among adults.

Source: Jacobson v. Massachusetts :: 197 U.S. 11 (1905) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center

Here’s How Philadelphia’s Covid Mandate for Health Workers Worked – The New York Times

While the national vaccine mandate for health care workers remains mired in the federal courts, government officials say there is ample proof that requirements work — and do not cause a mass exodus of employees that some critics had feared.

Philadelphia, which issued a vaccine mandate in August, would seem to be a case in point. Virtually all hospital employees there are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a group of local hospitals that met last week with officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which issued the national rule. About 95 percent of nursing home employees are also fully vaccinated, according to the city health department, compared with an average of 75 percent across the country.

Still! Not Wednesday, but Do Better: 3nd draft is (a re-write!) done…

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

     For those who are interested,  especially Beta Readers, I have finally finished my third draft of DoBetter, formerly known as BabyAcres, or Baby Floors, though the formatting still remains to be fixed.  I had a little technical problem, which I managed to fix, but seems to have nixed part of my dictionary for spell checking, so I’ll do that before finishing my fourth draft.

I’m still posting the rough draft sections so that when I post the update draft excerpts or comments, there will be a line of progression to follow, to help me track my own craft learning and writing process.

Action Prompts:

1.) Would you be interested in reading and commenting on a draft copy of Do Bettter?

2.) If so, let me know in the comments, here, please.

3.) Share your thoughts on how continuing empathy-building cooperation…

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Self-Proclaimed Proud Boys Member Gets 10 Years for Violence at Portland Protests – The New York Times

A self-professed member of the Proud Boys from Texas who traveled to Portland, Ore., to confront protesters there last year was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said.

The Texas man, Alan Swinney, 51, was a “white nationalist vigilante cowboy,” who went to Portland to engage in political violence during protests there in the summer of 2020, prosecutors said.

In social media posts, he made threats against “the left” and “antifa,” prosecutors said, and he tried to recruit people to form a militia to fight in what he believed was a civil war.

Mr. Swinney, who appeared at several demonstrations in the Northwest, became a “known entity” in Portland, as he instigated and committed violent acts under the banner of free speech and pro-police sentiments, prosecutors said.

On two days — Aug. 15, 2020 and Aug. 22, 2020 — he led a small group of like-minded people and engaged in multiple acts of violence during demonstrations stemming from the murder of George Floyd, prosecutors said.

Mr. Swinney caused a serious eye injury by shooting a man in the face with a paintball gun, and he discharged bear mace on multiple occasions — spraying some people directly in the face — and aimed a loaded Ruger .357 magnum handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said. He also shot people with paintballs, prosecutors said.

Forgiveness, when there is active bleeding in your wounds

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

When there is active bleeding The pain's not receeding I used to be Christian through and through And all along, I was taught to do Even in a day, forgive seventy times seven And that is the way to go to heaven But, when there's active bleeding That pain's not receeding Forgivesness to some people comes rather easy Because they prefer to breathe light and free Even still, when the wound is fresh These people may find it difficult to pass the test Because when there's active bleeding The pain's not receeding And when those wounds are sutured time and again They're gonna cringe from previous stabs recalling those bloodstains And since I'm an ardent propogator of love and forviveness I believe we must keep attempting; how else will you celebrate Christmas! But,when there is active bleeding The pain's not receeding Sure, forgiveness is important. But, maybe step out of…

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