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B.C. considers no-protest ‘bubble zones’ after vaccine protesters target schools | Globalnews.ca

Source: B.C. considers no-protest ‘bubble zones’ after vaccine protesters target schools | Globalnews.ca

Processos

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Quando a alma se apequena

A vida, os sonhos, os pensamentos

Ficam restritos dentro de nós.

Parece que o silêncio vira noite

A esperança perde a cor.

A vida deixa de ser um espetáculo grandioso.

E tudo torna-se irritadiço

Desigual.

A vida e os seus processos inflamatórios, criam

espaço

para a dor.

Feridas não cicatrizam

machucados vão para além da alma

Nos fazendo pobres de espírito

seres humanos decadentes

cujo as tribulações

Nos reveste de ressentimentos

Amarguras profundas.

Coisas, situações, acontecimentos que nos consome internamente

hábito repetitivos

Fervem os nossos processos inflamatórios

agressivos!

A vida é o que é

respeitemos as feridas e os machucados

Pois tudo o que inflama

Passa por um processo de reparo.

A pele seca recupera a sua miséria.

Olhos molhados

Deixa de necessitar de lenços

Não se nasce uma única vez na vida

Mas

inúmeras

dentro do que está quieto em nós.

Marii Freire Pereira

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COVID patients wait days for ICU beds in Central California – Los Angeles Times

Some hospitals in Central California are still so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that some critically ill people are waiting days to be transferred into the intensive care unit from the emergency room, officials said.

One Fresno area hospital had nine critically ill patients who were unable to get into the intensive care unit for more than three days, interim health officer Dr. Rais Vohra said at a news conference this week. This forces emergency room staff to treat patients needing ICU care, disrupting the healthcare of other patients with less severe illness.

“We’re basically really straining what the emergency department has to do,” Vohra said. “We still anticipate at least a few more weeks of thoroughly impacted operations” in ICUs and emergency rooms.

Hospitals in Fresno County are teetering on the need to ration healthcare and implement “crisis standards of care,” Vohra said. In these situations, hospitals conclude that they can no longer provide the same standard of healthcare to everyone, and must choose whose lives to prioritize to keep as many patients alive as possible.

Source: COVID patients wait days for ICU beds in Central California – Los Angeles Times

Birds from Walden Blue jay

Blue Jays, Cardinals and Red Wing Blackbirds take my breath away.

Words from Walden

Bluejays can be seen in the Northeast of the U.S. and Canada for the duration of winter even though they are also in places like Florida.

They are bright blue beautiful birds and are strikingly different from each other. There are skinny ones, fat ones, tall ones, short ones, young and old ones.

They are a tight-knit group and they often flock together often descending upon birdhouses en-masse.

Although they look pretty and cute these birds squawk loud like crows and they seem to be aggressive towards other bird species.

At times, these birds are even aggressive to other Bluejays.

Bluejays are too big for most feeders and when they try to sit on the perches of the smaller feeders, their wings start flapping as they try to get the food out. Realising their deilema they will defer to the open concept birdhouse instead.

I have been fortunate enough to…

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Using Shampoo Bars- A Great Way to Reduce Plastic use

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The zero waste plan has been helping people to pollute the planet less

When there is less pollution we will also have less stress

There will be less flooding when drains are clear

There are so many benefits attached to environmental care

Using a Shampoo bar is a great new way to reduce plastic use

This is one more way to protect the environment, this is good news


When we look out for more ways to pollute less

After a while we will have less stress

Photo by Sarah Chai on Pexels.com

When there is less plastic to burn and we have clean air

We will reap the benefits from using ecofriendly tips and paying

attention to environmental care

It is not that hard to change a few of the things we use each day

As we work towards sending the plastic pollution problem away

Photo by Magda Ehlers on

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Postura

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“A sua postura diz muito sobre você. A maneira de como se relacionar com as pessoas, constrói amores, fala, se veste. Por isso, seja o seu melhor”. Melhor no modo de ser, de expressar a sua própria linguagem.

A sua personalidade é uma marca pessoal. Cada pessoa carrega isso inconscientemente. A postura de cada indivíduo tem uma relação com a consciência. O que sou, como consigo agir diante de determinadas situações? Veja, você nunca será original se afastar daquilo que é. Você vive o que? Vive copiando as pessoas? Não, estabeleça a sua marca. Isso é interno, é meu e seu. Todos nós temos uma história de vida. Você pode ser extremamente sério e se vestir assim. Quem lê a sua imagem, vai encontrar traços pessoais com o seu modo de se vestir. Por exemplo, pessoas extrovertidas se vestem de um jeito mais colorido, descontraído talvez. Já pessoas determinadas, pessoas…

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Stories, TV, and mental health

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

   Can a story make a difference to our outlook, or even to our lives?   

Certainly for me, sometimes even a mere television show can make a difference, as in moment 2:20 of this 7th episode of the first season of Spanish Public Television’s “El Ministerio del Tiempo.”

In the very first scene of this episode, a major character is shown, years before the present date, about to take an action that would prevent her from ever contributing again.  She is standing on a ledge, about to leap to her death.  But the person who will become her mentor, leading her into an alternative that few people know even exists, recruits her to the new job by telling her that if she jumps, those who wanted her to fail will be over joyed.  Then he says:

“No los des ese gusto.”

“Don’t give them that pleasure.”

 

And so…

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They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment – The New York Times (Me: Politicizing Covid-19 vaccines – insane results)

Vaccine-resistant Americans are turning to the treatment with a zeal that has, at times, mystified their doctors, chasing down lengthy infusions after rejecting vaccines that cost one-hundredth as much. Orders have exploded so quickly this summer — to 168,000 doses per week in late August, up from 27,000 in July — that the Biden administration warned states this week of a dwindling national supply.

The federal government, which was already covering the cost of the treatment — currently about $2,100 per dose — has now taken over its distribution as well. For the coming weeks, the government has told states to expect scaled-back shipments because of the looming shortages.

With seven Southern states accounting for 70 percent of orders, the new process has unsettled some of their governors, who have made the antibody treatment central to their strategy for enduring a catastrophic wave of the Delta variant.

More supplies are on the way. The federal government bought 1.8 million more doses this week, expected to arrive in the fall and winter. But for now, some hospitals are uncertain of supplies, state health officials said, even as patients keep searching for doses.

“We have providers struggling to get the necessary product,” Kody Kinsley, who leads operations for North Carolina’s Covid-19 response, said in an interview. “I think what has happened is a classic logistics issue, where all of a sudden there’s much more demand.”

Amid a din of antivaccine falsehoods, monoclonal antibodies have become the rare coronavirus medicine to achieve near-universal acceptance. Championed by mainstream doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, the infusions have kept the country’s death toll — 2,000 per day and climbing — from soaring even higher.

And after months of work by President Biden and Southern governors to promote the treatments, they have won the affection of vaccine refusers who said that the terrors and uncertainties of actually getting Covid had made them desperate for an antidote.

“The people you love, you trust, nobody said anything negative about it,” Mr. Jones said of the antibody treatment. “And I’ve heard nothing but negative things about the side effects of the vaccine and how quickly it was developed.”