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Mild COVID-19 infections leave long-lasting symptoms up to 8 months – Study Finds

Around 10 percent of patients with a mild COVID-19 infection still suffer at least one moderate to severe symptom eight months later, according to a recent study.  Source: Mild COVID-19 infections leave long-lasting symptoms up to 8 months – Study Finds

E-cigarette aerosols contain thousands of potentially harmful chemicals, study finds – UPI.com

Vaping devices contain thousands of unidentified chemicals that users inhale, a new study has found. Photo by kevsphotos/Pixabay E-cigarettes and other vaping devices contain thousands of unknown chemicals and substances not disclosed by manufacturers, including industrial materials and caffeine, a study published Wednesday by Chemical Research in Toxicology found.

The aerosols produced by these devices contained more than 2,000 chemicals, the vast majority of which are unidentified, the data showed.

Of that could be identified, six were potentially harmful, including three chemicals never previously found in e-cigarettes, according to the researchers.

Source: E-cigarette aerosols contain thousands of potentially harmful chemicals, study finds – UPI.com

Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Floors, Chapter 5: Section II, The Vision

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

This post finishes the rough draft of  Chapter 5 for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.  

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

    I am nearly done editing this draft, to complete my “shitty first draft,” as Stephen King would say, so bear with me, and I hope that the outline marks are interesting for those following the writing process.

 

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…

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Yanomami and Trees – Gold Mining and Gold Luxury items / COVID-19 propagated by Gold Miners « No – Pas de Cartier ! » – The Exhibition is prolonged now through next year until 4 December 2022

Barbara Crane Navarro

Performance: Fire Sculpture, La Miroiterie, Paris, France – 2006: Barbara Crane Navarro

«The Yanomami shamans who fight thexawaraepidemic see the disease’s image appear in the form of strips of scarlet fabric. Thexawaraepidemic is approaching and its smoke is glowing red! It is making the sky become ghost and is devouring all the human beings in its path! It must be driven away!»

– Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesman and shaman, Roraima, Brazil from his book «The Falling Sky»

«Yanomami shamans struggle againstxawara– smoke of epidemics»
installation – mixed media
Barbara Crane Navarro

Shamans in the Alto Orinoco region of Amazonas, Venezuela, describedoru a wakëxi –the gold smoke – to me in these terms decades before I read Davi’s words. Dreaming in my hammock in the Yanomami collective house, the shabono, I saw the totemic sculpture I would later create when I returned to…

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