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Parrot and Bag of Sugar — A Voice from Iran

178th story Many years ago, a merchant brought a parrot to his country from India. The parrot and merchant became best friends. After that, the merchant believed the parrots are the most loyal creatures in the world. The parrot was always with the merchant. He sometimes carried the parrot on his shoulder or hand. The […]

Parrot and Bag of Sugar — A Voice from Iran

Public policy and health in the Trump era – The Lancet

Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies have impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and imperil advances against HIV and other diseases. And Trump’s bellicose trade, defence, and foreign policies have led to economic disruption and threaten an upswing in armed conflict.
Although Trump’s actions were singularly damaging, many of them represent an aggressive acceleration of neoliberal policies that date back 40 years. These policies reversed New Deal and civil rights-era advances in economic and racial equality. Subsequently, inequality widened, with many people in the USA being denied the benefits of economic growth. US life expectancy, which was similar to other high-income nations’ in 1980, trailed the G7 average by 3·4 years in 2018 (equivalent to 461 000 excess US deaths in that year alone). The so-called war on drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon widened racial inequities and led to the mass incarceration of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people. Overdose deaths soared, spurred by drug firms’ profit-driven promotion of opioids and the spread of despair in long-afflicted communities of colour and among working-class white people. Market-oriented health policies shifted medical resources toward high-income people, burdened the middle class with unaffordable out-of-pocket costs and deployed public money to stimulate the corporate takeover of vital health resources.

Source: Public policy and health in the Trump era – The Lancet

Tears flow as Fresno doctors get 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose – Los Angeles Times

Extended Ramiez family at their home in Fresno.

One evening, after another brutal shift, he joined his wife to pick up food at a taco truck. Many people in line weren’t wearing the cloth face masks that could help slow the spread of the virus. One unmasked man made eye contact with Rene and commented to his companions about some people being sheep.

“You want me to take my mask off? I’ll be happy to,” he told the man. “But you should know that I’m an ER doctor and I just did CPR and intubated a COVID patient.”

The man stepped back.

Rene said that when he broke down after getting vaccinated, it wasn’t mere relief at being able to care for patients without falling ill. He said that everything that he had pushed down, welled up: the frustration, anger, gratitude and grief. The exhaustion. The fear that people will refuse the vaccine or that the delivery of the shots will falter.

“I want my kids to be able to do the things they want to do. I want us as a couple to do the things we want to do. I want our son to know his grandparents,” he said.

“I want to go places. I want to hold my family the second I walk in the door. I want our life back.

“And we have this one shot.”

Source: Tears flow as Fresno doctors get 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose – Los Angeles Times

A Prayer To Lord🙌🏻🙏🏻

Soni's thoughts

Hey folks, i have written a prayer to Lord Sai in hindi and also have translated sentence by sentence in english… do have a look😊😊

Oh Lord Sai,
Show some kindness to human being!

Save the world from this pandemic…
Now all hope only on you Sai🙌🏻

Please show mercy on people…
All are tired of this long going battle!!

Have heard you show divination…
Now why are you sitting with no motion!

Whole world is praying…
Save us oh lord sai!

You lessen everyones sorrow…
You understand everyones trouble!

In this difficult phase, please do not leave our hand…
You can only give life to a stone!

You light fire from water…
You can only save us from this pandemic, no wonder!

Small, big, poor and rich, you never differentiate…
You embrace everyone whoever come at your place!

You have never dissapointed anyone…
In this situation, kindly come oh…

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calibrating the waking

yaskhan

In the warmth of moon's pale reflections
I gather stars in my night
Sipping midnight dew ambrosial
I sleep
Sleep awakens my dreams
In monochrome of sepia
Perceptions hue thought transitions
Weaving a tapestry of a thousand suns
Calibrating the waking

Sky whispers
On calathea breath
Butterflies dance
On a sunshine lattice
Birds dash through
Quivering sunrays
Nectar scents bloom

My ink follows
birth of
the milky way...

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# Face the truth with pleasure!

My experience

Accepting the truth is not always easy. But when you have the courage to see the truth and adopt it, then life becomes very easy.What happened if there is a bad phase at this time? What if the time is not giving up? What if the other are going ahead? Instead of being distracted by these things, if you accept that at the moment is not with you at the moment, then your fear will be reduced and you will be able to fight with the situation more strongly. But it is also important for everyone to have a fire in the mind. If the mind becomes completely peaceful, then the desire to move beyond you will also end. Therefore, learn to bout against the opposite conditions and believe it, by doing so, you will be able to make yourself a better person.

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Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA | Nature Human Behaviour

Interestingly, more respondents in both countries would accept a vaccine if it meant protecting family, friends or at-risk groups (than if the vaccine was for themselves): 63.7% (95% PI 62.2 to 65.1) of respondents in the UK and 54.1% (95% PI 52.5 to 55.7) in the USA say that they would ‘definitely’ get vaccinated to protect others (Table 1). The exposure to misinformation again induces a decrease in intent to accept the vaccine to protect others, by 5.7 percentage points (95% PI 3.5 to 7.9) in the UK and 6.5 percentage points (95% PI 4.1 to 8.8) in the USA (Table 1) for the treatment group relative to the control. The treatment effects when conditioned on pre-treatment vaccination intent show a similar picture. For instance, in the USA there is a net decrease in those who previously responded ‘definitely’ by 8.7 percentage points (95% PI 5.3 to 12.1) and a net increase in those who previously responded ‘no, definitely no’ by 10.0 percentage points (95% PI 2.1 to 18.7). The same substantive results hold for the UK. Source: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA | Nature Human Behaviour

A Natureza é a Verdadeira Joia!

Cannibal gold… Our elders didn’t know about money… Money doesn’t protect us… it doesn’t create our joy. For whites, it is different. These whites are earth eaters covered by epidemic vapors.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Canoas na margem do rio, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela 

« Ouro canibal … Nossos mais velhos não sabiam sobre dinheiro … O dinheiro não nos protege … ele não cria nossa alegria. Para os brancos, é diferente. Esses brancos são comedores de terra cobertos por vapores epidêmicos. Eles pensam que são todo-poderosos, mas suas mentes estão cheias de escuridão. » – pelo porta-voz e xamã Yanomami Davi Kopenawa, A Queda do Céu

“Este anel Cartier tão especial” – fotomontagem: série “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – com o anel “LOVE” da Cartier pingando sangue simbólico, anúncio da Cartier, destruição da mineração de ouro foto: João Laet

« Nós injustiçamos, corrompemos e arruinamos … Nós somos culpados, nós traímos … Nós roubamos, nós caluniamos … Nós pervertemos e enganamos … Nós erramos … Nós nos cortamos longe da verdade, e a realidade existe para nos entreter. Nós nos escondemos…

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