US backs waiving COVID vaccine property rights | CIDRAP

A statement from United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai said, “The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines.” The statement was made during talks at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) general council meeting. The proposal was first floated last fall, but many wealthy countries opposed it. The WTO will require unanimous agreement on the temporary waiver of property rights, and is expected to formally vote on the issue in June. Proponents of the waiver say it will be in place for a handful of years, until the pandemic is under control. “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” Tai said. “The Administration’s aim is to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible.”

Source: US backs waiving COVID vaccine property rights | CIDRAP

Red Cross sounds alarm over Nepal’s COVID-19 crisis | CIDRAP (Me: India’s failure now impacts Nepal)

“Nepal is recording 57 times more cases than this time last month,” IFRC said, adding that the country’s test positivity rate was 44% last weekend, a sign that thousands of infections are undiagnosed and prompting fears of mass deaths if virus spread isn’t stopped.

IFRC’s Nepal chairperson Dr Netra Prasad Timsina said in the statement, “What is happening in India right now is a horrifying preview of Nepal’s future if we cannot contain this latest COVID surge that is claiming more lives by the minute.”

Source: Red Cross sounds alarm over Nepal’s COVID-19 crisis | CIDRAP

Let’s talk American History

The Mind of Brosephus

American history has been a hot topic as of lately, primarily because of Republicans striking out against what they’re calling “wokeism”, revisionism, or whatever the code word is for the day. There’s been a lot of crap being spewed from the Tennessee Republican claiming the Three-fifths Compromise was passed to end slavery to Tim Scott claiming America isn’t a racist country.

Individually, the statements that have been made are outrageously stupid and wrong. Collectively, these statements all feed into the cult-like behavior Republicans now exhibit where up is down, the sky is green, and grass is blue. This is dangerous because this creates a society ignorant of its own history of accomplishments and mistakes. You can’t know who you are if you don’t what you have and haven’t done.

So, first up is Rick Santorum and his statement on Native Americans. The easiest and quickest way to disprove his statement…

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سافر غريب الدار

Home ” when he leaves his homeland and loved ones and goes away, and alienation may be optional for the sake of studies or to seek livelihood and ambition for a higher material profit, and it is compulsory in cases of wars and instability in the country, so displacement and people join among refugees and displaced persons Their homelands. A Stranger
HomeTravelled

حلم الدرويش

شعور الغربة من أصعب الأشياء على الإنسان, عندما يترك وطنه وأحبابه ويذهب بعيدا , وقد تكون الغربة أختيارية من أجل الدراسة أو للسعى على الرزق والطموح فى ربح مادى أعلى , وتكون إجبارية فى حالات الحروب وأنعدام الإستقرار فى البلاد فيكون التهجير وينضم الأشخاص فى عداد اللاجئين والنازحين عن أوطانهم .

ويشعر الناس بالغربة لأسباب عديدة مثل الأماكن الجديدة _ السكن فى مواقع نائية _ اللغة الجديدة التى تحيط بهم , وقد أهتم الأدباء بموضوع الغربة وظهرت كثير من الأعمال الروائية التى تتحدث عن ألم الأغتراب وأشهرها :

1_ ثلاثية غرناطة : نجحت الكاتبة رضوى عاشور فى تجسيد مشاعر وآلام التهجير من خلال تصويرها لأحدى العائلات فى الفترة الأخيرة قبل سقوط الأندلس .

2_ شآبيب : آخر روايات الكاتب د / أحمد خالد توفيق حيث يخلق عالما خياليا ربما يكون فى المستقبل , بعد أن يضيق العالم بالعرب المسلمين والمسيحيين فيفكروا فى خلق عالم جديد خالى من المنطق والواقعية .

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 1, part 1

W. Edwards Deming pioneered similar planning method: Plan, Do, Study, Act in early 1950’s while working in post-WWII Japan on improving their productivity and quality. – PDSA Cycle https://deming.org/explore/pdsa/ – He wrote an article for me long ago.

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

This post begins the rough draft of  Chapter 1 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.     The overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter I

I’m still updating the detailed outline for the first chapter, as I revise several versions of the other chapter outlines.  Sorry I have no new words yet.

Last week was the sixth installment of this series…

 

Action Items:

1.) Consider some ideas you…

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A small post. – The Grief Reality “Let’s stop being so hard on ourselves.”

Let’s stop being so hard on ourselves. Mum always said we have a poison parrot on our shoulder who says stuff like “you should have tried harder”, “you should have done more” or “don’t do that again.” It compares yourself to other’s too: “They wouldn’t have done that”. Life’s hard enough without an eternal war in your head. Source: A small post. – The Grief Reality

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