Around and Around We Go (IMPORTANT UPDATE)

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

We have a hepatitis outbreak among children in the US, UK, Canada and Japan, and now an additional 12 countries. This is a serious disease with a risk of permanent liver damage or death to the victim.

Hepatitis is usually caused by a virus, but at this point, scientists are uncertain as to which virus to blame. Current thinking points to a version of the adenovirus as the culprit. This is the virus that triggers the common cold. Some of the cases, but not all, have been shown to be infected with Adenovirus Type 41. Some also had Covid.

This type of hepatitus is new, and doesn’t match versions (A. B. C. D or E) that doctors have seen to date. That is, tests for standard hepatitis versions will be negative. Thus most of these cases up to now have been classified by hospitals as “unexplained liver injury.”

Thus far…

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I was a marathon runner with killer biceps – long Covid has stopped me in my tracks | Rose George | The Guardian

I ran 30 miles a week. I could turn up to a 20-mile fell race on inadequate training and run it, thoughtlessly. I did yoga, weight training and cycling. I had a low resting heart rate and strong biceps. For a 52-year-old menopausal woman, I was in extremely good shape.

But then on 3 January I fell ill with a sore throat, then flu-like weakness, a cough that hasn’t left me since, and a constant and persistent headache that is resistant to every painkiller. In the months since, I have been not ill, but not well. I have days of feeling fine, and then I don’t. As a runner, I can say that long Covid feels like the wall at mile 18 in a marathon, when suddenly your energy has gone, and you feel like a different person and you don’t know why.

Source: I was a marathon runner with killer biceps – long Covid has stopped me in my tracks | Rose George | The Guardian

Defecting online: How Myanmar’s soldiers are deserting the army – BBC News

Mr Lay is now a part of the organisation to which he once turned. He works remotely from a “liberated area” – one of the regions controlled by rebels, where minority ethnic groups are concentrated and the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) holds sway.

He described to me how Facebook and Telegram were central to both his awakening from what he calls “years-long brainwashing” and his escape.

People’s Embrace has more than 100,000 Facebook followers. Would-be defectors who make contact online are vetted, and those who are successfully extracted are provided with food, shelter, security and a stipend.

“If friends [of defectors] want to leave the military, they pass the link to each other,” he says.

The key role that social media plays in the defector pipeline is just the latest twist in the unusual and often troubling use of technology in the modern history of Myanmar.

Source: Defecting online: How Myanmar’s soldiers are deserting the army – BBC News

Risking jail and church ire, Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict | The Japan Times

Father Ioann Burdin, a 50-year-old Russian Orthodox priest, during an interview in his house in the village of Nikolskoye outside the city of Kostroma, Russia, on Monday. | AFP-JIJI The white-bearded priest in a black cassock is one of the few Russian Orthodox priests to have spoken out against Moscow.

In a quavering voice, but without hesitation, he explains: “I’m afraid I am a bad priest. I’ve never been against all wars but I’ve always been against any land-grabbing, aggressive war.”

Ukraine “is an independent state and let them build their state as they see necessary,” he says at his home in the hamlet of Novo-Bely Kamen on the banks of the River Volga in the Kostroma region, a six-hour drive from Moscow.

Since Russia launched its military action on Feb. 24, only a handful of priests from the Russian Orthodox Church led by Moscow Patriarch Kirill — which counts some 150 million believers across the world — have spoken out openly against the Kremlin’s military campaign.

Source: Risking jail and church ire, Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict | The Japan Times

Easy to Hate, Difficult to Love

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: Piotr Siedlecki

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. -Confucius

Today we begin a brand new month, the month of May. So let’s think a little about what we “May” and can do.

Month Of May Doodle

Image Credit: K Whiteford

May we hate less and love more.
May we be kind to one another, gentle with one another.
May we always be curious.
May we do something positive today and avoid the negative.
May we lift someone up instead of deliberately trying to tear them down.

May we offer to feed someone instead of turning the other way as they starve to death.
May we be better than we were yesterday.
May we be an angel of life to others instead of the…

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