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Better Waste Management and Reduced Spread of Diseases — FunWritings

The number of Rodents, Roaches and Mosquitoes are greatly reduced when there is better waste management This should cause us to do more to protect the environment With reduced spread of diseases we can have better health care It is time for us to spread the word about the need for environmental protection awareness everywhere […]

Better Waste Management and Reduced Spread of Diseases — FunWritings

Midnight Swimmers

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

On the eve of Christmas in 1892, a young monk from Kolkata jumped into the shark-infested waters of the Indian Ocean off the shores of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu at the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula. He swam across to a rock perched in the middle of the rough waters, but what did he want to gain?

The twenty-nine-year-old yogi reached the monolith wading through the tempest unscathed. There, like through some sheer divine inspiration, he sat to meditate for the next three nights and days, under the starlit sky, with lashing sea mist on his face, only to rise once he found the purpose of his existence.

A century later from the very same spot on the same shores, jumped into the water, another young man with intentions perhaps very same. The night was very similar to the one a hundred years ago. He struggled to swim. There…

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School District of Philadelphia is set to reopen 22 more school April 5 | Local News | phillytrib.com

The school district has put in place layers of safety including:

Mandatory mask wearing or other facial covering, which will be provided to students and staff.

Rapid testing for students and staff.

New classroom setups and signage for social distancing.

Touchless hand sanitizer stations.

Plexiglass partitions.

Maximum occupancy signs.

Enhanced cleaning protocols.

A COVID-19 testing program in place for students and staff.

Source: School District of Philadelphia is set to reopen 22 more school April 5 | Local News | phillytrib.com

Arkansas legislature passes bill to allow EMTs & doctors refuse to treat LGBTQ people / LGBTQ Nation (totally unconstitutional – would allow people to say your religion does not allow you to treat opposite sex, different race, different religion, ethnicity – so hateful…)

The bill to allow health care providers to turn away patients due to their religious beliefs is headed to the Republican governor’s desk…

Source: Arkansas legislature passes bill to allow EMTs & doctors refuse to treat LGBTQ people / LGBTQ Nation

Global COVID-19 continues climb amid widening vaccine gaps | CIDRAP

As the world’s COVID-19 cases spiked for the fifth week in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) today said the vaccine gap between rich and poor countries continues to widen.

At a briefing, the WHO’s director said vaccine doses deployed in high-income countries are far outpacing doses administered through COVAX, a situation he said is “becoming more grotesque very day.”

The agency’s stark assessment comes as concerns over vaccine safety and supply roil countries, especially in Europe, and comes on the same day AstraZeneca released promising findings on efficacy and safety from a US trial of the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with Oxford University.

Source: Global COVID-19 continues climb amid widening vaccine gaps | CIDRAP

Some LAUSD Campuses Will Reopen Early, But Most Parents Hesitant To Send Students Back

A relative handful of Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will begin reopening earlier than expected, during the week of April 12, Superintendent Austin Beutner announced Monday.

But as LAUSD surveys families, Beutner said, a pattern is emerging: most parents are reluctant to send their students back to schools — especially in neighborhoods where COVID-19 vaccines are scarce.

Source: Some LAUSD Campuses Will Reopen Early, But Most Parents Hesitant To Send Students Back