‘It’s awakened me’: UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing event | Climate change | The Guardian

Sir David Attenborough speaks at the first UK-wide citizens’ assembly on climate change in January 2020, Birmingham.

Other participants’ lifestyle changes have not been quite as drastic but have still had a profound impact. Max, 17, the assembly’s youngest member, who also asked for his full name not to be used, became a pescatarian after learning how meat-eating was having a negative effect on the planet – despite the jibes of his school mates. “My friends thought it was stupid at first, but over time they’ve got used to it,” he said. “I just saw how much carbon dioxide was released from each type of meat and I thought, ‘Wow, this is something I need to think about a lot more’.”

Max, 17, the UK assembly’s youngest participant, became a pescatarian earlier in the year.
Max, 17, the UK assembly’s youngest participant, became a pescatarian earlier in the year. Photograph: Climate Assembly UK

Charley Winter, 26, from Northamptonshire, works in PR and used to jetset around the world on about six holidays a year to indulge her love of travelling – but when the pandemic is over, she doesn’t plan on going back to normal. “It needs to change. If it does negatively impact me I understand that and I’m willing to make changes in my life for the better,” she said, adding she plans to rethink how many flights she takes and go on more UK-based holidays in the future.

Although some participants said it was too early to gauge the impact of the Climate Assembly report, many were pleased with how it had been received by the government and said they felt the recently announced 10-point green plan mirrored some of their suggestions.

Source: ‘It’s awakened me’: UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing event | Climate change | The Guardian

Covid: France ‘pandering to anti-vaxxers’ with slow vaccine rollout | France | The Guardian (French recipe for failure?)

By Wednesday evening only 332 people had received the vaccine according to health ministry officials. The ministry has said the aim is to vaccinate 1 million elderly and at-risk people in January, requiring more than 31,200 vaccinations every day.

The health minister, Olivier Véran, admitted France was vaccinating more slowly than other countries and suggested this was a deliberate policy to enable an information campaign – rather than the result of a lack of vaccines or a logistical failure.

“We have the same number of vaccine doses as our German neighbours, we have the same aims and we will have the same results,” Véran told French television. “It’s taking a while to get off the ground … I don’t confuse speed with haste,” he added.

The president, Emmanuel Macron, and ministers have promised the vaccine will not be obligatory and officials have assured the public there will be no list compiled of those who refuse to have the Covid-19 jab.

However, Macron said people should be guided by “reason and science”. “The vaccine is not obligatory. Have confidence in our scientists and doctors,” he said.

Source: Covid: France ‘pandering to anti-vaxxers’ with slow vaccine rollout | France | The Guardian

Ode to a teacher felled by COVID-19 and the boy she left behind – Los Angeles Times – RIP

At 9:56 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13, my phone rang. “Lisa Agredano,” it read. Relief washed over me. She hadn’t been responding to messages. Then I heard Manny’s voice.

“My mom died last night.”

Manny lived in Lawndale with his mother and his grandfather, Manuel, the man he was named after. Five days after losing his mother to the coronavirus, the soft-spoken Lawndale High School sophomore lost his 83-year-old grandfather to it, too.

Source: Ode to a teacher felled by COVID-19 and the boy she left behind – Los Angeles Times

Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine – Los Angeles Times – (cannot be voluntary – not sorry – this is life or death for all of us)

At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.

So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said.

Source: Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine – Los Angeles Times

COVID besieges Filipino, Vietnamese Americans in Bay Area – Los Angeles Times

Vietnamese Americans accounted for 28% of coronavirus cases among Asian Americans in Santa Clara County between June 1 and Dec. 3, yet they make up 19% of the population of Asian Americans in the county, according to slides Cody presented at a Board of Supervisors meeting earlier this month.

Filipino Americans, 13% of the Asian American population in the county, accounted for 21% of such cases during the same time period.

A bar chart compares coronavirus cases. Source: COVID besieges Filipino, Vietnamese Americans in Bay Area – Los Angeles Times

Covid rule-breakers ‘have blood on their hands’ – BBC News

“It is making me actually very angry now that people are laying the blame on the virus, and it is not the virus, it is people, people are not washing their hands, they are not wearing their masks,” he said.

‘People will die’

And he warned anyone not social distancing or following the rules that they “have blood on their hands”.

“They are spreading this virus. Other people will spread it and people will die. They won’t know they have killed people but they have.”

He added: “I am watching whole families getting wiped out here, and it’s got to stop.”

Source: Covid rule-breakers ‘have blood on their hands’ – BBC News

Brexit: Boris Johnson’s father applies for French citizenship – BBC News – 

Stanley and Boris Johnson (2016 pciture)

ROTFLMAO

Stanley Johnson told France’s RTL radio that he had always regarded himself as French as his mother was born there.

The 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

His son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.

“It’s not about becoming French,” he told RTL. “It’s about reclaiming what I already have.”

He pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. “I will always be European,” he added.

Stanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.

Brexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister’s sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.

Their brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.

Source: Brexit: Boris Johnson’s father applies for French citizenship – BBC News

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” Senado Argentino aprova aborto legal e mulheres comemoram nas ruas de Buenos Aires” [ Brasil247.com]. O projeto de lei permite o acesso à interrupção voluntária da gravidez. Agora as gestantes têm o consentimento na forma escrita, ou seja, virou letra de lei. O acesso ao aborto legal é permitido até 14 semanas, tornando seguro e gratuito.

Esse tema do aborto é polêmico, porém, essa decisão me parece como a mais assertiva. Os países evoluídos caminham para isto, digo para essa realidade de não se tornar alheio, mas tratar do problema com o respeito que ele merece. Quando você leva em consideração por exemplo, o alto índice de mortes de mulheres em decorrência de abortos feitos em condições precárias, se avalia várias situações. Como disse, é um tema bastante delicado, porém necessário a discussão. Neste caso, o aborto acaba sendo uma escolha livre da mulher.

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