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Estas tardes nebulosas

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Estas tardes nebulosas, volteo atrás, a los muchos instantes y horas de mi ayer, entre remembranzas y suspiros, en busca de pedazos míos y de otros hombres y mujeres, todos con nombres y apellidos, con quienes compartí una historia, episodios irrepetibles, y de los que solo encuentro trozos y percibo ecos, al lado de espacios vacíos y listas de ausencias. Estas horas vespertinas de lluvia, parecen despertar antiguos recuerdos, fragancias de antaño, imágenes que ya no están, nostalgias que se prenden conforme llegan las sombras nocturnas. Estos minutos, al irse el día, como se fueron la gente y las cosas de otro tiempo, llegan recuerdos distantes, porciones de mi infancia y de mi juventud, partes de mi edad madura y adelantos, parece, de lo que alguna vez será mi vejez. Navega mi existencia, mi biografía, en fragmentos lejanos e…

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LA County Mandates COVID Shots For In-Home Care Workers | LAist

In-home health aides perform intimate, everyday tasks such as feeding and bathing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are paid through the state’s regional center network, but those jobs have so far not been included on any of the state health department’s coronavirus vaccine requirements.

That’s changing in Los Angeles County. LAist obtained a letter sent by county Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis to regional center administrators on Sept. 9, clarifying that in-home care workers are included in a previous county health order requiring workers to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30. With the deadline fast approaching, workers can only get the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine since both Pfizer and Moderna’s require weeks between doses.

Source: LA County Mandates COVID Shots For In-Home Care Workers | LAist

France recalls its ambassadors to US and Australia in submarine deal backlash • FRANCE 24 English – YouTube (Me: Ignore headlines that imply something more threatening – calling home for consultations not the same as ending relations…)

France on Friday said it was immediately recalling its ambassadors to the US and Australia for consultations after Australia struck a deal with the US and UK, which ended a $40 billion French-designed submarine deal.

Key nursing home staff lag in COVID-19 vaccination, study shows | CIDRAP

“Physical distancing is impossible,” they wrote. “For this reason, nursing homes would be the most sensible place to introduce a vaccine mandate, because unvaccinated nursing home staff present an imminent risk to the vulnerable residents in their care.”

Ward and Covinsky also said that CNAs have a positive influence on resident care while working very hard for low pay, with few key benefits such as sick leave.

“We believe low voluntary vaccination rates among CNAs suggests a failure of nursing home owners to effectively partner with their most essential workers and provides one more indication of the need to improve the pay and working conditions of this group,” they wrote.

Source: Key nursing home staff lag in COVID-19 vaccination, study shows | CIDRAP

FDA advisors OK Pfizer COVID booster for seniors, high-risk groups | CIDRAP

Federal vaccine advisors today approved a third booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on an emergency use basis, but only for the most vulnerable groups, which includes those age 65 and older and people at high risk of severe disease.

The final vote passed unanimously on an 18 to 0 vote.

Source: FDA advisors OK Pfizer COVID booster for seniors, high-risk groups | CIDRAP

Countries need better journalists.

Murdoch who? lol – I do not read or listen to any Murdoch outlets or media that follow his approach.

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We just do. I think it should be a rule or a Law, that is you spread misinformation regarding serious situations like COVID. If it was intentional, you should be pulled off air. If it was intentional, but that journalist’s what to “play”, be pulled off the air. When they make mistake, not only should they correct it in a BIG way, but they should go back to journalism school and re-learn how to verify things.

The ones that are any good, you rarely hear from, because like Murdoch. A lot of loud journalists like to make themselves the story. I think we, as a society, all over the world need to promote these good journalists ourselves. Murdoch and co aren’t going to do it.

I say it’s time the people start listening and start promoting the journalists that they want to hear from, rather than let industries like Murdoch…

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É impossível medir a profundidade do oceano colocando somente a pontas dos dedos na margem

Vivaldi translation of introduction of short and insightful brief essay: It is impossible to measure the depth of the ocean by placing only your fingertips on the bank
“Don’t blame life. Rather, allow yourself to improve with problems.”

Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“Não censure a vida. Antes, permita-se melhorar com os problemas.”

Marii Freire Pereira

Às vezes rompemos tantos protocolos nessa corrida louca da vida para sentirmos um pouquinho de felicidade, mas, felicidade com ” F” maiusculo, algo profundo, abissal, não é molhar os pés e achar que foi capaz de ter lavado a alma. Não, falo daquilo que transcende o combustível da vida – o amor.

Qualquer pessoa pode conseguir. (…) Muitos julgam difícil, porém, tudo é uma questão de esforço. Na verdade, ele é o que consome, grande parte da energia do que fazemos. Há quem queira conquistar lugares, fama, posição, ter reconhecimento, amor, disciplina, mas bate em retirada porque acostumou-se com os rasos da vida.

” Ninguém toca o fundo do oceano molhando as pontas dos pés “.

É importante adentrar, saber que aquilo que toca, já se manifestou internamente, e o que quer que seja, que encontre pela…

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FDA panel approves COVID booster plan for elderly, high-risk – Los Angeles Times

An influential federal advisory panel has overwhelmingly rejected a plan to give booster shots of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to most Americans, but it endorsed the extra shots for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease…

The FDA advisory panel was the first major hurdle that the Biden administration plan faced. The FDA itself has yet to make its own determination but typically follows the recommendations of its expert panel.

In yet another step to the process, a CDC advisory committee that sets policy for U.S. vaccinations campaigns is set meet on Wednesday to debate who, exactly, should get boosters and how many months after their second dose should them receive the extra shot.

The CDC has said it is considering boosters for older people, nursing home residents and front-line health care workers, rather than all adults.

Source: FDA panel approves COVID booster plan for elderly, high-risk – Los Angeles Times

Without intervention, war in Michoacán will keep escalating: conference

The Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán is a war zone and the situation will worsen without federal intervention, according to attendees at a virtual conference organized by public policy think tank México Evalúa.

Jenny Pearce, a political scientist at the London School of Economics who specializes in Latin America, told Tuesday’s security-focused conference that she was extremely concerned about the situation in Tierra Caliente, a notoriously violent region of Michoacán that borders both Colima and Jalisco.

“… I’m hearing a lot from my friends in Tierra Caliente and … they’re suffering displacement, highway blockades [set up by organized crime groups], they can’t get food. It’s really a situation that I acknowledge as a state of war, it is war,” she said.

“The state ultimately has to take this problem seriously. I don’t see any progress if there is no federal policy against what is happening. It’s a war … [and] it needs an immediate response,” Pearce said.

If there is not urgent federal intervention, the “war” will continue to escalate, the academic said, referring to the conflict between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Cárteles Unidos.

Source: Without intervention, war in Michoacán will keep escalating: conference

Hostess Attacked at NYC Restaurant for Enforcing Proof of Vaccination Policy

While it’s unclear from the video footage exactly what happened, the beating is just the latest in a long string of abuses leveled at workers who have consistently been forced to enact covid safety policies handed down by governments and upper management without a whole lot of support. In August, a California teacher was hospitalized following an attack that occurred after asking a parent to wear a mask. A July 2020 survey found that 44 percent of surveyed McDonald’s workers said that they had been physically or verbally assaulted for trying to get patrons to wear masks.

As the Hospitality Alliance calls on lawmakers to increase penalties for those who beat the shit out of average citizens just trying to do their jobs, which now include being the vaccine police, there has to be a better solution than making every 22-year-old just trying to seat people at Applebee’s a public safety officer.

Source: Hostess Attacked at NYC Restaurant for Enforcing Proof of Vaccination Policy