Doctors and Nurses Are ‘Living in a Constant Crisis’ as Covid Fills Hospitals and Omicron Looms – The New York Times

Through surge after surge, caregivers in the unit at Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw, Mich., have helped ailing patients say goodbye to their relatives on video calls. The medical workers have cried in the dimly lit hallways. They have seen caseloads wane, only to watch beds fill up again. Mostly, they have learned to fear the worst.

“You come back to work and you ask who died,” said Bridget Klingenberg, an intensive care nurse at Covenant, where staff levels are so strained that the Defense Department recently sent reinforcements. “I don’t think people understand the toll that that takes unless you’ve actually done it.”

The highly contagious Omicron variant arrives in the United States at a moment when there is little capacity left in hospitals, especially in the Midwest and Northeast, where case rates are the highest, and where many health care workers are still contending with the Delta variant. Some researchers are hopeful that Omicron may cause less severe disease than Delta, but health officials still worry that the new variant could send a medical system already under pressure to the breaking point.

About 1,300 Americans are dying from the coronavirus each day. The national case, death and hospitalization rates remain well below those seen last winter, before vaccines were widely available. In Connecticut and Maine, reports of new infections have grown by around 150 percent in the last two weeks. In Ohio and Indiana, hospitalization rates are approaching those seen during last winter’s devastating wave.

Keep Mason City’s Racist Mascot in the Past

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December 20 at 5:30 PM the Mason City Community School District will be meeting at 1515 South Pennsylvania Ave in Mason City (be there by 4:30). Map below.

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Monday, December 20, 2021, from 5:30 – 6:30 PM CST
Mason City Community School District Administration Building
1515 South Pennsylvania Avenue, Mason City, Iowa

Important Notes:
– Enter the building on the South side.
If you would like to speak then you must be signed up to speak before 5:30 PM.
– We are encouraging folks to show up by 4:30 PM to fill the room with positivity!
– Folks signed up to speak have 5 minutes allotted, but we encourage shorter testimonies so more may be heard.
– We are there only to make a case to the Mason City School Board that they must NOT reinstate the mascot. We DO NOT encourage any interaction with the “Save the Name”…

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How a missed trash can led to Formation Tortue, but learning languages may help…

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This is a slightly edited re-posting, to finish the theme of how childhood trauma informs and affects our adult lives, that has been going this past few weeks of Some Tours being Worth Marching, and then Some Beatings being Worth Taking, after Floating on the ceiling as Punishment for hitting your elders in the Jaw, and learning that I Shouldn’t Exist?

Why did that paper ball flying over my head make me dive for the floor?

Shortly after I turned 51 years of age, a young coworker launched a simple balled up bit of paper at the trash can in front of me. It missed. What I saw was not a mere bit of paper becoming litter, however. Out of the corner of my eye, something came flying at me from behind. I reacted instinctively: by ducking. Since this was not the normally appropriate behavior for a…

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #65 — Content Catnip

This week I look closely at the faces of Lambs of God and examine the meaning of the world through the lens of the internet, amongst other unknown pleasures. Hope you will join me… Korean Style Vegan Ratatouille I love the calming music, ASMR sounds of the food prep and cooking and the high quality […]

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #65 — Content Catnip

Mulheres que gostam de girassóis

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O Girassol é uma flor em tom amarelo e laranjado que volta-se em direção ao Sol, busca a luz como fonte de vida, e muitos acreditam que ele traga a felicidade.

De acordo com o dicionário português, o girassol é uma planta do gênero Helianthus ” pertencente à família das compostas, onde tem flores são voltadas para o Sol. Originária dos Estados Unidos, essa planta é bastante usada em ornamentação “. O Girassol é uma flor que simboliza entusiasmo, a esperança, o equilíbrio, o crescimento espiritual e pessoal de cada indivíduo. Há inúmeras definições dentro da simbologia dessa flor. Mas, o mais bonito dela é que a mesma, representa a positividade, a maturidade, a sabedoria.

A flor do girassol tem cores vibrantes, o que transmite a ideia de vida, esperança, amor próprio, conhecimento, sabedoria e longevidade. Muitas pessoas gostam de usar essa flor como símbolo da capacidade de descobrir a…

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In the heart of the tropical forest! – «Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl»  — Barbara Crane Navarro

illustration from « Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » « A Christmas present this year, we spread the telling of this story over several evenings, reading it out loud. Our 8-year-old son couldn’t wait to hear what would come next.  This subject matter was new for him, and he was fascinated by […]

In the heart of the tropical forest! – «Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl»  — Barbara Crane Navarro

The Insanity of Pointless Indulgence: 10 Things I Learned at Crate & Barrel Today – a reflection on priorities — Bonnywood Manor — Barbara Crane Navarro

Note: It’s the holiday season, which means it’s also time for me to drag out some of my admittedly over-shared “Christmas” posts. Let’s start with this one, a reflection on priorities. And yes, “Crate & Barrel” is a real chain of fancy-ass emporiums. Ah, that time of year when the desperation factor intensifies as you […] […]

The Insanity of Pointless Indulgence: 10 Things I Learned at Crate & Barrel Today – a reflection on priorities — Bonnywood Manor — Barbara Crane Navarro

The Impact Fast Fashion Has Made on Bangladesh – Deadly demands in order to meet consumer “needs”? — Anna Golisz — Barbara Crane Navarro

The Country of Bangladesh Trends go in a style very quickly, and brands have to keep up with these demands to meet consumer needs. Companies such as Fashion Nova release anywhere from 600-900 styles every week. To keep up with these demands, companies look for places to manufacture their garments quickly and for a low […] […]

The Impact Fast Fashion Has Made on Bangladesh – Deadly demands in order to meet consumer “needs”? — Anna Golisz — Barbara Crane Navarro

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