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In more than a year of pandemic, the Brazilian has already assimilated the need to use a mask, alcohol gel, to maintain social distance and the most important: the vaccine! Source: Use Mask

Departe de orice, aproape de sine

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Meryemana, 2017

Din Izmir, am făcut o excursie de o zi, combinând situl antic de la Efes și Casa Fecioarei Maria, în apropiere de orașul Selçuc, în direcția muntelui, la cinci kilometri de poarta sudică de ieșire din situl arheologic de la Efes.

Unele texte sfinte susțin că ea și-a trăit ultimii ani și s-ar fi stins din viață aici, la Efes, într-o umilă căsuță, pe locul căreia s-a ridicat o biserică minusculă, ascunsă printre măslini seculari. Se presupune că a ajuns la Efes cândva între anii 37-45, în același timp cu Apostolul Ioan, a cărui basilică am văzut-o la Selçuc. Este cunoscut faptul că, înainte de a fi răstignit, Iisus l-a rugat pe Apostolul Ioan să vegheze asupra mamei sale și astfel se explică prezența simultană a amândurora la Efes. Pentru detalii, vezi Șapte.

Ca să ajungi acolo, ai de-a face cu un control multiplu de poliție, foarte riguros…

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Pfizer Vaccine: The Case for Booster Doses –PLEASE READ

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Newly released research based on global tracking of 45,000 adults receiving this vaccine shows that the effectiveness (“efficacy”) of the vaccine declines from 96% to 84% after 6 months. It’s certainly logical to expect that as time progresses, this fading would continue, but we won’t know for sure until we have data from the future.

Among those age 65 and over, the booster shot improves antibodies to the virus to a level that is eleven times greater than that achieved with the second shot, especially in fending off the Delta variant.

Taken together, that makes a strong case for getting the booster shot. Or pill, when that’s available.

Separately, there was an article today making the case that humans have less control over the progress of the virus than we like to claim. The same could be said about global warming. Now I really don’t care about the origins of…

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Arizona reports highest daily COVID-19 cases since March | TheHill

Arizona on Friday reported its highest daily COVID-19 case count since March, as the contagious delta variant drives up numbers across the country.

The Arizona Department of Health reported 1,965 new coronavirus cases on Friday along with 24 deaths. Hospitalizations have also ticked up, with 1,072 coronavirus patients in hospital beds on Thursday.

Source: Arizona reports highest daily COVID-19 cases since March | TheHill

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Devastating fires on legally protected land in the Amazon rainforest have surged under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a new report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Satellite mapping of blazes and data on illegal deforestation show the number of major fires on embargoed rural land increased from 77 in 2018, immediately before Bolsonaro took office, to 124 in 2020.

Source: As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Sancionada lei que institui crime de violência psicológica contra a mulher

Vivaldi translation of introduction: Law No. 14,188 / 2021 “establishes the Red Signal cooperation program against Domestic Violence”. Public law on July 29, 2021, certifies that “it causes emotional damage, harm, and disturb full development or aims to degrade, actions, behaviors and decisions”. Using threats, constraints, humiliations, the penalty for this case, is imprisonment from six months to two years. This is about psychological violence.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A Lei n° 14.188/ 2021 ” institui o programa de cooperação Sinal Vermelho contra a Violência Doméstica”. A lei pública no dia 29 de Julho de 2021, certifica que ” causar dano emocional, prejudicar, e perturbar o pleno desenvolvimento ou vise degradar, ações, comportamentos e decisões”. Usar de ameaças, constrangimentos, humilhações, a pena para este caso, é de reclusão de seis meses a dois anos. Isso é no que tange a violência psicológica.

Um segundo passo bastante significativo foi a inclusão, na 12.340/ 2006 ( Maria da Penha), onde agora afasta imediatamente o agressor do local de convivência. Todo esse avanço graças ao trabalho de muita gente importante que se preocupa com a saúde e a segurança da mulher.

Segundo o (CNJ ) Conselho Nacional de Justiça. Agora, essa lei é um instrumento importante para que a mulher possa denunciar o seu agressor diante de relacionamentos violentos. O programa já…

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Covid-19 vaccine: Can employers and the government legally require it? – Vox

In 1902, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faced a smallpox outbreak. In response, the local health board ordered the city’s residents over the age of 21 to be vaccinated against this disease. Violators faced a $5 fine.

After a local pastor was fined for violating this vaccine mandate, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court told him to pound sand in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905).

“The liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint,” Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote for the Court. He added that “there are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good.”

Under Jacobson, state and local governments — though not necessarily the federal government — may mandate vaccines for nearly all of their residents.

Under Jacobson, moreover, states should be free to order everyone within their borders to be vaccinated against Covid-19, although it’s far from clear whether the federal government could do the same.

Of course, there is no guarantee that the Roberts Court, which is eager to impose limits on public health officials and not especially bothered about overruling precedents, will follow Jacobson if a state does enact a vaccine mandate. But there is good reason to believe that it will. Even Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the most conservative members of the current Court, recently described Jacobson as a “modest” decision that “didn’t seek to depart from normal legal rules during a pandemic.”

The bottom line, in other words, is that, under existing law, numerous institutions within the United States may require their employees — and, in some cases, their citizens — to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Your boss probably can require you to get vaccinated

Employment relationships in the United States are typically “at-will,” meaning that an employee can be fired at any time and for any reason, even if that reason is completely arbitrary. If you have an at-will relationship with your employer, your boss can fire you because they don’t like your haircut. Or because they don’t like what you had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Or, for that matter, because you refuse to get a Covid-19 vaccine.

The general rule, in other words, is that your employer can fire you for any reason unless some outside legal force — a federal or state law, or maybe an individual or collective bargaining contract between you and your employer — intervenes to give you additional job security. And there is no federal law prohibiting employers from requiring nearly all of their employees to get vaccinated.

Source: Covid-19 vaccine: Can employers and the government legally require it? – Vox

HIPAA, the health privacy law, explained – Vox

Is it a HIPAA violation for your employer to require vaccines?

No.

Nor is it a HIPAA violation for them to ask for proof that you have been vaccinated, though many people seem to think that providing or even soliciting any sort of health information automatically becomes a HIPAA issue.

Employers do have to keep their employees’ vaccination statuses confidential, but that’s because of the Americans with Disabilities Act — not HIPAA, which, again, doesn’t apply here.

All this is to say that if you go to Starbucks (not a covered entity) and refuse to wear a mask because you say you have a health condition, it is not a HIPAA violation if the barista asks you what that condition is, nor is it a HIPAA violation if Starbucks refuses service to you.

If your doctor were to walk into that Starbucks and broadcast your health information to anyone within earshot without your permission, that would be a HIPAA violation. It would also be a good time to consider changing doctors. Fortunately, HIPAA allows you to request your medical records and bring them to a new provider. And if someone else happened to record your doctor’s outburst and put it on TikTok, that’s not a HIPAA violation, even though it does include information that was once protected by HIPAA.

Source: HIPAA, the health privacy law, explained – Vox