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[ NYC] COVID-19 Vaccination – Homebound Residents (Me: Wow, just wow!)

New York City is offering in-home COVID-19 vaccinations to any City resident who requests one. Any New Yorker requesting in-home vaccination will now have the option to request their vaccine brand preference (Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson).

Source: [ NYC] COVID-19 Vaccination – Homebound Residents

The Case Of Mr. Hervis Rogers

Racists do what racists can get away with – we need to resist, turn on the lights so the roaches scurry and we can out them for good.

Filosofa's Word

Texas, like many other states, has been desperately looking for cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election.  Finding none, they seized on a 62-year-old man … a Black man, naturally … to make an example, to plead their case for the latest round of voter suppression laws they are attempting to pass.  Charles M. Blow, writing for the New York Times, sums up the tragic case of Mr. Hervis Rogers … if this story doesn’t make you sick, doesn’t stir your ire, then I don’t know what will.


The Voter Fraud Fraud

By Charles M. Blow

Opinion Columnist

July 11, 2021

It was March 3, 2020, the day of the Democratic primary in Texas, and Hervis Rogers, a 62-year-old Black man, was intent on making his voice heard at the ballot box. He arrived at the polling place around 7 p.m. and joined the line.

The polling place…

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Do You Suffer With Diabetes?

Main stream media not needed to get the word out – am quite sure that Walmart will do its own advertising and that people who use this product will get the news out too.

In Saner Thought

Health care is a contentious issue these days…..and we have a ‘liberal’ Congress so it should be a no-brainer…..but it is anything but a given……let’s look at the Congress….. “Bad news for single payer prospects. With Biden and Dems controlling Congress, liberals in the House are in retreat. Bernie Sanders hasn’t even introduced his bill this year. Corporate giants keep hiking premiums, co-pays, prices, and demanding huge govt subsidies and tax breaks. Worse, health insurance giants race to take over Medicare itself via ‘trojan horse’ Medicare (Dis)Advantage, with Congressional and AARP’s complicity.”

Now on to the diabetes thing.

If you are unlucky enough to have this disease and must take a daily injection of insulin there may be some good news for you.

You know that the insulin you need is expensive and keeps going higher and higher….but Walmart my have an answer….

Walmart says diabetes patients can save up…

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Anti-Vax Lunacy

Ditto!!!

Filosofa's Word

I am as stubborn as they come, but I am fully vaccinated.  Why, you ask?  Because I believe that while I have every right to take chances with my own life, I have absolutely NO RIGHT to put others in danger.  It’s called ‘having a social conscience.’  It’s called ‘caring about others.’  It’s called ‘doing the right thing.’

I am appalled by those who have cited every excuse in the book for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID.  This pandemic has killed over 4 million people around the world … 623,029 in the United States, as of this writing, though by the time you are reading it, the number will be even higher.  And WE … You and I … have the key to stopping it in our hands.  If we fail to use that key, then we are complicit in those deaths.

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« ¿No entiendes por qué queremos proteger nuestro bosque? ¡Pregúntame, te responderé! »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Hombres Yanomami con pintura corporal y adornos de plumas preparando una sesión chamánica, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Brändli

«¿No entiendes por qué queremos proteger nuestro bosque? ¡Pregúntame, te responderé! Nuestros antepasados fueron creados con él al principio de los tiempos. Desde entonces, nuestra gente se ha comido su caza y sus frutos. Queremos que nuestros hijos crezcan riendo aquí.

En el pasado, muchas de nuestras personas murieron como resultado de tus epidemias. ¡Hoy, me niego a dejar que nuestros hijos y nietos mueran por el humo dorado! ¡Caza a los mineros de oro de nuestra casa! Son seres nocivos cuyo pensamiento es oscuro. Son devoradores de metales cubiertos por el humo mortal de la epidemia de xawara. »

  • El portavoz y chamán YanomamiDavi Kopenawa

El 30% de lo que ahora se reconoce como tierras ancestrales indígenas están en peligro de estar “legalmente” abiertas a la extracción de oro…

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Venezuela: Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation, Threatened by Invasions Resulting from Extractive Activities by Gold Miners and Illegal Criminal Groups propagating Covid-19 — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch By LUIS JESÚS BELLO* 8 July 2021 (IWGIA)** — The Jödi, the Yanomami and the Uwottüja living in voluntary isolation are threatened by the invasions that result from extractive activities and by the presence of illegal groups in the area: to the environmental impact we should add the socio-cultural and sanitary ramifications.[…]

Venezuela: Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation, Threatened by the Invasions Resulting from Extractive Activities, Illegal Groups, and Covid-19 — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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O genocídio colonial na Amazônia pode ser medido? —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Disputa de pesquisa sobre pólen em lagos e a concentração de CO 2 na atmosfera como medida da população pré-colonial na floresta tropical Membro do povo indígena Kayapó na Amazônia.Os Kayapó usam a floresta sem cultivar.Foto: Darrell Posey / Archive Suchanek Quantas pessoas viviam nas Américas antes da chegada de Colombo? E quantos deles na[…]

O genocídio colonial na Amazônia pode ser medido? —

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More On The Critical Race Theory

deja vu all over again – we inherit the wind – Scopes Trial – Wikipedia
Search domain en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v.John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to …

In Saner Thought

This is is big deal these days within the dwindle GOP ranks…..Red state after state is trying to pass laws against teaching this to students…..

In case you spend more time worrying about Britney and her stupidity let me flesh out the jest of the theory……..

Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.

  • Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant. It recognizes that science (as demonstrated in the Human Genome Project) refutes the idea of biological racial differences. According to scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, race is the product of social thought and is not connected to biological reality.
  • Acknowledgement that racism is…

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Day 50/67 of GED in Five Months, language learning, and libraries

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

 How can you determine what the meaning of a word is in a mathematical context?  And where would you find the resource that may put all of that information right at your fingertips?  Solving word problems in mathematics, and all life’s problems are really word problems, requires learning the language of mathematics, which every Adult needs to understand.

Today’s reading may be interesting to see how a word or theory can change over time, starting with two parallel slits that kicked off a world of new questions:

The Double-Slit Experiment
By the early 19th century, most physicists agree with Newton’s well-established theory of light, which says that light takes the form of particles—what we now call photons. But English scientist Thomas Young isn’t convinced, and in 1803, he designs an experiment to test the status quo. Young aims a beam of light at a barrier that has two slits…

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