Good morning,
Covid ‘Mu’ Variant
I am amazed by some of the online lunacy declaring the pandemic is over and off the wall rants by moms and dads in the U.S. against mask mandates threatening armed insurrection and civil war.
This, while sober sane parents have to navigate an already complicated and unclear landscape of how to protect their kids in schools. My two boys return to their London schools this week. And thankfully the school is requiring preschool covid tests, and will ask students to wear masks in crowded hallways and where well ventilated areas are not possible.
As I write several new variants have been detected in South Africa and now in Columbia among other countries which may evade vaccines. Let me say that again - WHICH MAY EVADE VACCINES.
Wear your masks and stay informed by mainstream media. That’s the point of this newsletter which is to reengage people in media that is not peddling the ridiculous.
Speaking of ridiculous, talk show host Joe Rogan who is a vaccine skeptic has tested positive for Covid now, and he treated it with medications including ivermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that the Food and Drug Administration has warned Covid-19 patients against taking.
Rogan has a hugely popular podcast, just a lack of common sense and absence of facgt based journalism. And now you wonder where some of those raving angry Americans get their notions that vaccines are bad.
This while many reports say up to 14% of kids will have long covid and problems including brain inflammation and possibly reduced brain function? Wow.
Are you still hesitant to take a vaccine? Think again.
Third Vaccine UK
And the Government of Britain has announced 500,000 people who are considered to be vulnerable (compromised immune systems) will receive a vaccine booster or third jab.
I would take it if offered, if necessary but one wonders how many of these will be necessary?
New York Flooding
The Mayor of New York has declared a state of emergency from the remnants of hurricane Ida causing havoc and torrential rain. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was "enduring an historic weather event" with "brutal flooding" and "dangerous conditions" on the roads.
The National Weather Service said it had recorded 3.15 inches of rain in New York's Central Park in one hour. There has been at least one death reported and a building collapse.
Afghanistan
Fighting is reported in Northern Afghanistan by Afghans claiming to be part of the former Afghan National Army Commando’s. The northern Panjshir valley has always been a pocket of resistance in Afghanistan, and was the first place U.S. Special forces landed to recruit an Afghan resistance in 2001.
It is mainly a Tajik area, and the Taliban are said to be concentrating its fighting forces to take that area. Keep in mind the Russian’s even under Putin funded the Northern Alliance in the past, and may do so again to keep the Taliban from destabilizing parts of Central Asia including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Could this resistance to Taliban rule spread as economic collapse worsens and Afghans find themselves hungry and more isolated?
Ukraine
President Joe Biden assured Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday that the United States opposes "Russian aggression". But thats a far cry from Ukraines plea to join NATO and received open Western protection under article 5 of the NATO treaty.
NATO has trained Ukrainian forces as they fight Russia back separatists and supplied weapons including the anti tank Javelin, and drones, and missile launch radars.
The meeting with Biden is significant, but are promised from this U.S. President to defend and support democracy around the World hollow after he pulled the rug on Afghanistan?
U.S. Supreme Court-Abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to over turn a highly controversial abortion law introduced in Texas which strips most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state.
Polls in America show most people support a women’s right to choose, but the single largest political issue in the U.S. has even divided the Supreme court which voted 5-4 early on Thursday to deny an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others that sought to block enforcement of the law that went into effect Wednesday.
The draconian law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can a heart beat, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant.
By the way - it’s not pro abortion or anti abortion. It’s pro choice vs anti choice because even women who choose to abort a pregnancy, cannot be described as pro abortion.
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Have a good day !
Dana
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-six-week-abortion-ban/2021/09/01/e53cf372-0a6b-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/02/ukraines-zelenskiy-seeks-bidens-support-on-nato-a74946
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/who-says-it-is-monitoring-a-new-covid-variant-called-mu.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/joe-rogan-has-covid-19-says-he-took-ivermectin-to-treat-it_uk_61306a75e4b0aac9c01273f0
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1485327/vunerable-people-third-vaccine-dose-improve-covid-protection-coronavirus