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Coronavirus live updates: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine neutralizes Brazil variant as experts warn of rapid spread – The Washington Post

Source: Coronavirus live updates: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine neutralizes Brazil variant as experts warn of rapid spread – The Washington Post

Brazil coronavirus: Outbreak spawns new variants, threats – The Washington Post

“All of the variants of concern are more transmissible … and this means an accelerated phase of the epidemic. A disaster.”

Scientists across Brazil expressed deep pessimism for the coming weeks. The ICU occupation rate is at least 80 percent in most states, much higher in some. Patients are being transferred from state to state — sometimes traveling hundreds of miles — in a nationwide hunt for hospital resources. Without ventilators, nurses have pumped infected patients’ lungs manually. Cemeteries are running out of space to put the bodies. Refrigerated containers wait outside hospitals to take the overflow. People all over the country are dying at home, unable to get treatment.

The situation is unpredictable for both Brazil and the world. As viruses course through a population, they inevitably mutate. Most genetic changes are functionally insignificant. The coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 117 million people worldwide, has produced countless variants.

But uncontrolled outbreaks in communities with mounting immunity, scientists say, can give rise to more dangerous variants. It’s not by coincidence that one of the world’s most virulent variants emerged in Manaus, one of the world’s hardest-hit cities.

Source: Brazil coronavirus: Outbreak spawns new variants, threats – The Washington Post

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine may be made in Italy as Europe seeks to expand options – The Washington Post

The deal, first reported by Bloomberg News, would see Swiss pharmaceutical firm Adienne Pharma & Biotech SA manufacture the Russian vaccine in the Milan region, according to the firm’s president, Antonio Francesco Di Naro. Source: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine may be made in Italy as Europe seeks to expand options – The Washington Post

Things I missed because of COVID-19

Weird and Wonderful

I put this in English so more people would understand what we are missing!!!!!!
I Miss Social settings like these:

Break rooms

Sitting in the break room talking to people on a job. Not the cafeteria because you can hardly sit down on the couch and read the newspaper or, have a laugh about things.

I have been working in pre-school here in Norway. They do a great job to make sure that everyone is sociable, and they have social committee’s that help.

I know several work environments where the atmosphere is very toxic but some actually have a social comity where they plan events for team building and they embrace other people joining in.

Even though we have a Christmas party together it is great to share things together about our lives and how we have overcome our problems.

Going to the cinema with friends, or loved ones.

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Did lockdown teach us something? • Neutral View Point

Absolutely Yes! It indeed injected the patience element over impatient people.

Some people, especially in the 21st century are very much impatient. Due to which the clarity among the people was missing. With patience alone, the clarity can be derived irrespective of what we do.

Source: Did lockdown teach us something? • Neutral View Point

Metal barrier becomes memorial for thousands of victims of femicide

Victims' names adorn metal barrier in front of National Palace. Mothers of murdered girls and women and members of feminist collectives have turned a metal barrier erected around the National Palace in Mexico City into a memorial for femicide victims.

The names of thousands of victims of femicide are now painted across the three-meter-high barrier, which went up Friday in anticipation of Monday’s International Women’s Day march. It was quickly denounced by critics as a “a macho wall of shame.

Activists added to the memorial by laying flowers, crosses and candles in front of the metal fence. One poster left next to the barrier read: “For those who hugged their mom without knowing that it was going to be the last embrace.”

Source: Metal barrier becomes memorial for thousands of victims of femicide

Fake Superiority | Chateau Cherie (Bullies)

Instead of putting in the work to improve and better themselves, bullies would rather tear down and destroy another person to look bigger and better than what they are. Understand that bullies never build up, they tear down. They do not create or restore, they destroy. And they don’t add to anything, but they subtract from everything. Source: Fake Superiority | Chateau Cherie