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Group of Florida mayors call on DeSantis to issue mask mandate | TheHill

The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the mayors of Miami Beach, Sunrise, St. Petersburg, Hialeah and Miami Shores Village urged DeSantis to take a range of actions to confront the outbreak, including expanding state testing and contact tracing efforts.

“It’s unmistakably clear that Florida’s approach to managing this pandemic is failing pretty horribly,” said Miami Beach’s mayor, Dan Gelber (D) according to the newspaper.

“The window is closing and closing fast,” added Hialeah’s mayor, Carlos Hernandez (R). “If we sit here and don’t do anything, I don’t want to be the one sitting here talking about closing businesses again or the hospitals are overcrowded.”

Source: Group of Florida mayors call on DeSantis to issue mask mandate | TheHill

Great Greek Wednesdays, emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual self-care, and Health Care For All — The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

I think most will agree that most of us do not take proper care to care for ourselves on each of the four levels that I can think of: emotionally, mentally or intellectually, physically and spiritually. But that makes me stop and think: what on earth or in heaven above exactly is spiritual health? Come […]

Great Greek Wednesdays, emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual self-care, and Health Care For All — The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

İnsanlığın Yolu

It’s time to thank the eyes we see and the ears we hear. It’s time to love and tolerate human beings as human beings… It’s time to think about every heart we break and learn that it’s not worth two days of life… Religion, belief, language etc. Whatever happens, it’s time to live in brotherhood… It should not be forgotten that the gamut that touches a soul should touch all humanity. A stone thrown into a belief is thrown to all humanity. The hatred that hears a glance is the hatred of all soul. It is absolutely wrong to attribute natural disasters, which are the order of the world, to people, ideas and beliefs.

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Güzel bir şeyler söylemek isterim bugün yine. Lakin insanlık yorgun, kalplerimiz yorgun…

Umudumuzun tam bittiği, hayallerin, geleceğin kaygısına kapıldığımız anda İzmir depreminden sağ çıkanlar umut oldu bizlere. Şikayet ettiğimiz, usandığımız hayatlara bin şükürler ettik. Utandık pişmanlığımıza.

Beğenmediğimiz yemekler, israf ettiğimiz sular, elektriğimiz, en çok da gün ışığı ah ne değerliymiş meğer, bilemedik…

Bizlere düşen insanlık yasımızı tutup yine de umudu kaybetmemek! İnsanlık yası diyorum, insana olan empati…

Gördüğümüz göze, işittiğimiz kulaklara bin teşekkür etme vakti. İnsanı insan olarak sevip hoşgörme vakti… Kırdığımız her kalbi düşünüp iki günlük ömre değmeyeceğini öğrenme vakti… Din, inanış, dil vs. ne olursa olsun kardeşçe yaşama vakti… Unutulmamalıdır ki bir cana değen gam, tüm insanlığa değmelidir. Bir inanca atılan taş, tüm insanlığa atılır. Bir bakışa duyan nefret, tüm cana duyulan nefrettir. Dünyanın düzeni olan doğal afetleri insanlara, fikirlere, inançlara bağlamak kesinlikle yanlıştır, yapılmamalıdır.

Kardeş tohumlarının filizlendiği bu coğrafyada peki düşmanca vuruşmak niye? Gelin bir olalım, insan…

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Georgia secretary of state says wife has received threatening texts about recount | TheHill

Text messages sent to his wife and obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta reveal personal threats against Raffensperger and his wife, which he said came from members of his own party.

One text message read, “You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.” Another said, “Your husband deserves to face a firing squad.”

A third text aimed at the couple read, “The Raffenspergers should be put on trial for treason and face execution.

Source: Georgia secretary of state says wife has received threatening texts about recount | TheHill

GAO highlights COVID vaccine supply chain, drug transparency issues | CIDRAP

Problems scaling up for mass production

The report details the challenges of scaling up mass production of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs, including needing to add new manufacturing capacity—or shift capacity from other products—because most was already in use before the pandemic.

Even when large quantities of vaccines and drugs are manufactured, they must be sealed in sterile containers in finish-fill facilities, the current scarcity of which could lead to production backlogs. Supplies of products needed for this process, including glass vials and syringes, are also limited.

The report cautions that manufacturing supply chains may struggle to keep up with demand because of coronavirus-related disruptions such as changes in worker availability, fluctuating demands for certain products, and some countries’ export restrictions.

“For example, officials at one COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing facility told us that they have experienced challenges obtaining materials, including disposable reactor bags, reagents, and certain chemicals,” the report states. “They also said that due to global demand, they sometimes must wait 4-12 weeks for items that before the pandemic were typically available for shipment within one week.”

Source: GAO highlights COVID vaccine supply chain, drug transparency issues | CIDRAP

West Virginia Man Sold Machine Gun Conversion Devices to Extremists, U.S. Says – The New York Times

Among Mr. Watson’s customers was Steven Carrillo of Winters, Calif., prosecutors said. Mr. Carrillo purchased a “Portable Wall Hanger — Single” through Mr. Watson’s website in January, they said. In May, the authorities said, Mr. Carrillo shot two security officers outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, killing one of them; in June, the authorities said, he shot two Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputies, killing one of them.

An AR-15 rifle recovered at the Santa Cruz scene was linked to both shootings, according to federal officials. The weapon appeared “to be a Privately Made Firearm (PMF) with no manufacturer’s markings,” federal officials said in the criminal complaint against Mr. Carrillo.