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Nuances

Vivaldi translation: Life passes like a taste of wind
And happiness lasts only at times
Today was already yesterday
Alas, we will not be able to do everything
Tomorrow is here and now
Leaving the impression of already seen
Who would have believed it ?
The sun sets every day
Behind the velvet clouds.

De malinha pronta

La vie passe tel un coup de vent
Et le bonheur ne dure qu’un instant
Aujourd’hui était déjà hier
Hélas, on ne pourra pas tout faire
Demain c’est ici et maintenant
Laissant l’impression de déjà vu
Qui l’aurait cru?
Le soleil se couche chaque jour
Derrière les nuages de velours.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Wondering Wednesdays, Do Better, Chapter 7 Intro: mapping out Phase I

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

This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 7, for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.  

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for some of chapter 7 will be at the bottom of this post (JYP!).

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter 7 Introduction:

( Chapter 6, section IV was last week…)

 

Chapter 7 Introduction: How Phase I…

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Unsolicited

yaskhan

I hear sirens in the 2 a.m sky, red lights revolve into reflections. I blink ....my eyes vermillion in the shadows of sleep. I walk the streets under flickering neon lights.  Fog settles on hunched figures ...slumber bent. A quick wind rustles dust, leaves in umber.

Hoodwinked owls cry
Stalking trees
Where bats fly

Smog stalks the streets...weed ridden breaths wheeze in a sleep concocted by social discrepancies. Dreams fancy themselves behind eyelids too dreary. ..sleep's stillness brought by little things that slide down throats.

Moon shines dowbn:
Stores with drawn blinds
Blank stares 
Empty faces

I am bemused by the muteness of sleeping figures. Rats crawl out of nowhere and slip into hidden crevices...scurrying across yellow lit pavements. .cold bitter...impersonal 


Social imbalance 
A requisite for life?
Poverty unsolicited 
Sorrow irrevocable 

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Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP

…Most patients can continue taking immunosuppressants

The authors said that patients taking immunosuppressive drugs can safely continue, but that those on rituximab should talk with their physician about their options.

“At a minimum, people who take rituximab should continue to protect themselves from developing COVID-19,” lead author Kayte Andersen, MSc, a doctoral candidate, said in a Johns Hopkins University press release. “It also makes it all the more important that people around those taking rituximab get vaccinated.”

In a related commentary, David Liew, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Melbourne and Philip Robinson, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, both in Australia, said that patients taking rituximab can either continue taking it and use post-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) with monoclonal antibodies or new small-molecule antiviral treatments or pre-exposure prophylaxis with long-acting monoclonal antibodies.

Alternatively, Liew and Robinson said, physicians might prescribe other therapies, which they acknowledged is difficult in the treatment of some indications for which rituximab is first-line therapy.

“The detriment from choosing an inferior option…will need to be balanced against potentially improved outcomes with COVID-19,” they wrote. “This equation will vary with new SARS-CoV-2 variants, changing epidemiology, and between individual patients; currently, such a complex decision lacks data to inform it…”

Source: Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP

The worst of the worst…

Lolsys Library

So I was just reading some comments of why people didn’t want to get the COVID vaccine, and most of them…were pretty pathetic to be hones with you, lol.

Like one person was saying how they would get the vaccine, but they just didn’t want to have to take continual boosters…Once a year, and how much they were annoyed that they might have to get two jabs if they want to travel overseas. Sorry, but, there are ALREADY countries where you have to do this anyway. I am also coming from a place though where, I know people and myself. Who take medication every single day to keep them alive, in pill and/or syringe type form.

One of the others was because they “heard” that they were using crushed up fetuses’ …

Now, my mum and I have actually dealt with this “theory” before, lol. A family friend is one…

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Post-COP26: Where are we going now? — The World is On Fire

Barbara Crane Navarro

The graph above displays our choices for the future. Do we keep the planet within livable space for everyone or not? Since the beginning of COP 26 years ago, our paths have never been so clear. More than ever, the science can tell us what different socioeconomic-emissions paths will mean in terms of future temperature.[…]

Post-COP26: Where are we going now? — The World is On Fire

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