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Self improvement {Accepting who you are}

Mmeme Mbambo

Rather than striving to be the best it’s always better to always do your best

In life you are not always gonna be the best at everything, somewhere along the way and not even once there are some people who are going to prove that they just do certain things better than you can and that does not mean you are any less than them. The best thing for you is to always do your best by putting your best effort and you will get get what you deserve.

Never judge yourself by the results of other people, Never compare yourself with other people. Learn to be fruitful with your life, learn to focus on your life and learn to be content with what you have.

Keep doing what you do, Keep doing what you can do and never be upset with what you can’t do. Learn to live in…

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Russia blocks military archives in further effort to distort the truth about World War II (Me: translation… Russia wants to control and pass on its own distortions)

Russia’s Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu has issued orders which effectively block almost all access to Russian military archives from the period of the Second World War.  The move is especially alarming given the current regime’s systematic attempts to push its own narrative about that period, distorting or muffling historical facts, for example, about the Soviet Union’s collaboration with Nazi Germany from 1939 to June 1941.

Source: Russia blocks military archives in further effort to distort the truth about World War II

Australian researchers find COVID-19 aerosol spread that puts some healthcare workers at risk over others – ABC News

Much of the current official guidance about personal protective equipment is designed to protect the wearer from droplets, and infection spread by aerosols is only considered a risk when caused by medical interventions such an intubating a patient.

“Surgical facemasks provide inadequate protection against aerosols and staff safety can only be increased by more widespread use of specialised tight-fitting respirators (N95 or FFP3 masks) and increased indoor ventilation,” Proffesor Tovey said.

Professor Guy Marks from the University of New South Wales, who was also involved in the study, said the findings had broad implications beyond hospital workers.

“The generation of both droplets and particularly aerosols by everyday breathing activities reinforces the importance of maintaining social distance, having excellent ventilation in buildings and transport,” he said.

Many schools in Europe now mandate that windows must be open to ensure good ventilation.

Source: Australian researchers find COVID-19 aerosol spread that puts some healthcare workers at risk over others – ABC News

Arizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes | Human Rights Watch

The provision of such broad immunity is particularly problematic for nursing homes in light of growing evidence indicating that during the pandemic, nursing home residents have suffered considerable harms from neglect and prolonged isolation, in addition to the risk of Covid-19 itself. Source: Arizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes | Human Rights Watch

America’s Covid-19 grief and bereavement crisis, explained – Vox

It’s been nearly a year since Julie Horowitz-Jackson’s mother, Arlene, died of Covid-19 in a nursing facility in Philadelphia. “What hit me recently is that the world is opening back up, and my mom’s still dead,” Horowitz-Jackson says.

At this point in the Covid-19 pandemic, as vaccines get rolled out in the United States and around the globe, there is a glimmer of hope that life will safely start shifting back to “normal” in the coming months. But so many people, like Horowitz-Jackson, are still working through their grief, and it won’t just disappear when the virus does. Horowitz-Jackson, 51, says she was coping well with the loss of her mom until recently, when, in Chicago, where she lives, she saw many people out and about, celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in large crowds. “I get angry,” she says. “I get angry that people aren’t taking it seriously.”

With over 550,000 reported Covid-19 deaths in the US and 2.8 million worldwide, a massive grief crisis is upon us — with large, unaddressed mental health and economic implications.

“For a large share of people, these [losses] lead to bouts of prolonged grief disorder and depression,” says Ashton Verdery, a Penn State sociologist who studies the societal costs of bereavement. “But also they have huge impacts on their finances, on their employment, on their relationships, and on all kinds of aspects of thriving in the world.”

And new research here provides a broad window onto the lasting scope of our national tragedy.

“These losses that are felt now will be felt for some time to come — even individuals who aren’t born yet will potentially be missing these relatives who might have been alive during their formative years,” says Mallika Snyder, a graduate researcher at UC Berkeley who is also working on estimates with colleagues of the “excess bereavement” felt in the United States and other countries this year.

Source: America’s Covid-19 grief and bereavement crisis, explained – Vox

‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter – BBC News

Several of the high-profile accounts have been suspended by Twitter. It told the BBC that Amazon Ambassadors are subject to Twitter’s rules on spam and platform manipulation.

Accounts which impersonate or falsely claim to be affiliated with a company, can be temporarily suspended or removed.

Any parody account should have a disclaimer in its Twitter bio, the company added.

It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors.

Source: ‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter – BBC News