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“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress!” — pe blog
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They no longer knew who to protect. Day after day revenue growth had drained all of the hospital’s resources. The supply of medicines had long since been suspended.The sick crowded in the corridors and the dead, in offices, laboratories and waiting rooms after the cellars and parking lots did not fit another soul. And when we thought we had seen it all, hunger arrived, well equipped with misery and frustration and sneaked into our homes without meeting the slightest resistance.
People were clamoring for justice, but the lawyers were exhausted and could not cope. The demands piled up one on top of the other, fiery, impatient, angry. We were all so busy with our problems, with our troubles, that no one realized that there were hardly any trees left to make coffins.
Opinion | I Was an E.M.T. While Covid-19 Devastated New York – The New York Times
Then things got worse. Scores of “diff breathers” turned into cardiac arrests, and worse — 83Rs and 83Ds — codes for dead after resuscitation initiated and for dead on arrival. That deep cough we once heard when we arrived on the scene was replaced by the agonized wails of inconsolable family members. A father or mother or grandparent had just died, and we couldn’t even offer the comfort of a hug because the virus was so contagious.
On one day in April, 800 people died.
The E.M.T.s and paramedics of the pandemic are the firefighters of Sept. 11. First in, last out. The risks have been consequential.
It was a terrible blessing to be an E.M.T. at a time when the city was in desperate need. Many of the people we tried to save died, but many lived. I still feel shaken when I think about those deaths. But I never felt hopeless inside the screaming ambulances that radiated so much light.
Guam governor offers Greene history book after falsely calling US territory a foreign land | TheHill (F. Gump: Stupid is as stupid does)
Guam has been part of the United States since 1899, and people born on the island in the west Pacific Ocean have been considered U.S. citizens since 1950. Guam’s roughly 170,000 residents do pay federal taxes but not federal income tax.
The island served a key military role during the Pacific campaign in World War II and there are roughly 6,200 active duty U.S. troops stationed there.
Greene made the gaffe last month during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, urging the U.S. to stop sending aid overseas.
“I’m a regular, normal person. And I wanted to take my regular, normal person, normal, everyday American values, which is: We love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America, not for what, China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam — whatever, wherever,” the Georgia Republican said.
Source: Guam governor offers Greene history book after falsely calling US territory a foreign land | TheHill
Oklahoma governor eliminates state’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions | TheHill (another GOP governor wants more of his citizens to die un-necessarily)
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) announced Thursday that he is lifting the state’s remaining coronavirus restrictions.
Source: Oklahoma governor eliminates state’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions | TheHill
Arizona House Republican says party thinks ‘everybody shouldn’t be voting’ | TheHill (only wants “quality” people voting?)
“Not everybody wants to vote, and if somebody is uninterested in voting, that probably means that they’re totally uninformed on the issues,” he said. “Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes, as well.”Source: Arizona House Republican says party thinks ‘everybody shouldn’t be voting’ | TheHill
Court nixes upcoming argument on Medicaid work requirements – SCOTUSblog
The Biden administration, which is unwinding the controversial Medicaid policy, asked the court in February to scrap a pair of cases in which the justices had agreed to review the policy. Acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that, in light of “greatly changed circumstances,” it no longer made sense for the court to take up the issue. She asked the justices to cancel the March 29 argument and instead vacate two decisions by a federal appeals court that the justices had agreed to review. Source: Court nixes upcoming argument on Medicaid work requirements – SCOTUSblog
Jamaica’s first vaccination day brings optimism, though COVID-19 numbers continue to soar · Global Voices (by Emma Lewis)
On March 10, the first anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival in Jamaica, a senior public health nurse who confessed to being “afraid of injections” was the first national to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. She received the vaccine at a faith-based centre for the homeless in downtown Kingston.
The day before the vaccination roll-out began, the Ministry of Health and Wellness announced that there had been 808 new cases reported in 24 hours, considered high for the country of 2.9 million. There have been 463 deaths recorded to date. Jamaica currently has close to 13,000 active cases and with 277 hospitalised, most public hospitals are close to or at full capacity.
A Small Town and a Spray of Bullets in Myanmar – The New York Times
Until Thursday, Myaing, a small town in central Myanmar, was best known for its production of thanaka, a bark that is ground for use as a cooling cosmetic.
But in the late morning of March 11, the town, which can be traversed in 10 minutes, became synonymous with the brutality of the military that seized power last month. Myaing’s rain-slicked streets were mottled with blood as police officers shot into a cluster of unarmed civilians, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 20, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
U Myint Zaw Win was among the crowd that scattered with the bursts of live ammunition in the late morning, outside Myaing’s police station. When he looked back, he saw a body with half its head blown apart, on a street that he has walked all his life. He did not know whose body it was, but he said a mason and a bus driver were among the dead.
“They were shooting people like shooting birds,” Mr. Myint Zaw Win said of the police officers, some of whom he said he knows personally because Myaing is a small town where almost everyone knows each other.
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