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More than 200 people being tracked for possible monkeypox exposure

Monkeypox

More than 200 people in 27 states are being monitored for possible exposure to monkeypox after they had contact with an individual who contracted the disease in Nigeria before traveling to the United States this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To date, no additional cases have been detected.

State and local health authorities are working with the CDC to identify and assess the individuals, and follow up with them daily until late this month, said Andrea McCollum, who leads the poxvirus epidemiology unit at the agency’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases.

“It is a lot of people,” McCollum acknowledged.

The efforts stem from the discovery that a U.S. resident infected with monkeypox traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, on an overnight flight to Atlanta that arrived on July 9; the person then traveled the same day to Dallas. On July 15, the individual sought care at a Dallas hospital emergency room, where the diagnosis of monkeypox was made.

Source: More than 200 people being tracked for possible monkeypox exposure

Day 54/67 of GED in Five Months, Equations of a line, and making a bee line to Save The Bees

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

So, why do you think that equations of a straight line, aka linear equations, may be related to bees, transportation, and bee lines?  And why do they call it a bee line, when bees never seem to move in a straight line, or do they? 

Today’s reading comes from a well-known source that is citing two major secondary sources: can you agree with the authority of the two sources cited?

“… the Christian Social Union, which had not been at the forefront of climate change conversations and tended to resist serious environmental protection measures, responded by voting into law what the petition called for. The law commits the government to preserve the environment, support organic farming, increase the number of natural meadows, prevent further losses of biodiversity, protect clean water and limit pesticide use. Along with saving the bees, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and wild herbs are to be protected.

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Pasadena to require COVID vaccines for all city employees – Los Angeles Times

City Manager Steve Mermell announced the requirement at a City Council meeting Tuesday, in tandem with another new rule that will again require people in Pasadena to wear masks in public settings indoors.

“When a police officer arrives at your home, a firefighter arrives at your home because you need our assistance, you don’t get to choose if we send the vaccinated ones or the nonvaccinated ones,” Mermell said. “The public has to come into contact with city employees. We want the city employees to be healthy, we want the public not to get ill.”

The new vaccination requirement comes days after approximately a dozen workers tested positive for COVID-19 and several others were forced to quarantine, city spokesperson Lisa Derderian said.

Source: Pasadena to require COVID vaccines for all city employees – Los Angeles Times

Ex-DEA agent from California charged in U.S. Capitol insurrection – Los Angeles Times

Multiple photos show Ibrahim posing with his Drug Enforcement Administration badge and gun on his hip as he stands among others waving pro-Trump banners, according to court documents made public Tuesday.

A broad spectrum of extremists — including members of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters — joined with hundreds of former President Trump’s most ardent supporters on Jan. 6 to storm the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Biden’s election, after Trump spent months promoting unfounded claims of election theft. More than 150 officers reported injuries, some permanent, with three officers dying in the aftermath of the melee.

Source: Ex-DEA agent from California charged in U.S. Capitol insurrection – Los Angeles Times

Tears Of Shame … Yet Again

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Over the past few weeks, we have read with horror about the discovery of unmarked graves at Canada’s boarding schools that housed indigenous children a century ago.  But guess what, folks?  We may well find the same here.  The U.S. does NOT have clean hands when it comes to the treatment of the original settlers in this land, the Native Americans.  The New York Times has presented a moving article that frankly brought tears to my eyes when I read it last night, so I have decided to share it with you, my friends.


Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools

Thousands of Native American children attended U.S. boarding schools designed to “civilize the savage.” Many died. Many who lived are reclaiming their identity.

The last day Dzabahe remembers praying in the way of her ancestors was on the morning in the 1950s when she was…

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DeSantis downplays increase in COVID-19 cases | TheHill (Me: more than a year into the pandemic and he is still denying what has un-necessarily killed thousands of Floridians and is advancing again!!!)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday downplayed the recent spike in coronavirus cases in his state, and criticized public health officials who continue to push unvaccinated Americans to get COVID-19 shots. “It’s a seasonal virus and this is the seasonal pattern it follows in the Sun Belt states,” DeSantis told reporters at a press conference (totally false claim). He also said that he expects COVID-19 cases to decline next month.  DeSantis’s remarks came as new cases of COVID-19 are on the rise, driven by the spread of the more infectious delta variant. Florida has emerged as the epicenter of the recent surge, with about one in five new cases nationwide coming from the Sunshine State.

Despite the spike in cases, DeSantis has leaned into the same laissez faire approach to the coronavirus pandemic that has earned him praise from conservatives over the past year. His handling of the outbreak has earned him rising-star status among many Republicans, while fueling speculation of a potential 2024 presidential bid. His reelection campaign recently released a line of merchandise taking aim at Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert who has become the face of the national response to the pandemic.

Source: DeSantis downplays increase in COVID-19 cases | TheHill

As COVID Deaths Soar, Myanmar Junta Urges Citizens to Recite Buddhist Verses

In Buddhism, to abstain from killing living beings is the most important moral precept. After killing more than 900 people—including dozens of children, some barely 6 years old—since its coup in February, the military regime, which describes itself as the defender and promoter of Buddhism in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, is now urging the people to take refuge in Buddha.

On Tuesday, readers were left open-mouthed when they saw a notification in the junta’s mouthpiece newspapers in which the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture urged them to recite daily in their homes the Ratana Sutta, a Buddhist discourse that followers believe can offset the effects of famine and disease.

Source: As COVID Deaths Soar, Myanmar Junta Urges Citizens to Recite Buddhist Verses

We’re Losing the Vaccine Race | NeuroLogica Blog

Perhaps the race is not entirely over. We can still sprint to the finish line with a huge pushback against misinformation, and making sure people understand how serious this delta variant is. It’s also likely not the pandemic’s last word – there will be more variants, and they may be more contagious and/or deadly. Science won’t passively save us. It is a tool only, but we have to use that tool wisely. Source: We’re Losing the Vaccine Race | NeuroLogica Blog

Usted es tan real

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Usted es tan real, aunque a veces suela callar y su nombre permanezca guardado en el botón de algún tulipán, envuelto en una gota de cristal, escondido en el romance de un poema. Usted, con su mirada de espejo, es tangible, y yo, para comprobar si existe y si su amor no es imaginación ni locura mía, la busco en cada línea impresa en las páginas de los libros, en las planas de los diarios, en las hojas escritas por mí cada mañana y tarde. Entro a las obras literarias, a los cuentos, a las novelas, a los poemas, con la idea de comprobar que usted no es mi imaginación, que es real, que no aparece como musa de otros artistas, que es quien inspira mis delirios, mis letras, mis motivos. Usted es tan genuina, que no necesité diseñarla…

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Black People Excluded From Missouri CRT Hearing

On Monday, a Missouri legislative committee held an invite-only hearing on Critical Race Theory and how the state’s educators should teach racism in K-12 schools. The committee is now under heavy criticism for excluding an enormously important element needed to have any critical and productive discussion on the subject of race and racism—Black people.

According to local news station KSHB 41, not a single Black parent, educator or scholar was invited to testify to the Joint Committee on Education. Not only did the committee preside over the Tim Burton movie of legislative hearings, but outside of a single official from Missouri’s education department, everyone who was heard from during the hearing was an opponent of the academic study conservatives across the nation are pretending to actually know anything about.

Source: Black People Excluded From Missouri CRT Hearing