Dozens in Central Florida Contract COVID-19 After Being Fully Vaccinated
March 30th, 2021Via: Click Orlando:
They’re called COVID-19 breakthrough cases — people who have been fully vaccinated yet still contract the virus more than 14 days after their second shot.
The cases are popping up around the country, including in Central Florida.
Man’s Skin ‘Peeled Off’ in Rare Reaction to Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine
March 30th, 2021Via: New York Post:
A Virginia man suffered a rare reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine that caused a painful rash to spread across his entire body and skin to peel off, doctors said.
Richard Terrell, 74, of Goochland began suffering strange symptoms four days after receiving the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, news station WRIC reported.
“I began to feel a little discomfort in my armpit and then a few days later I began to get an itchy rash, and then after that I began to swell and my skin turned red,” Terrell told the outlet.
But soon the rash covered his entire body, Terrell said.
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He went to the emergency room at the hospital, where doctors determined that he had experienced an adverse reaction to the vaccine, WRIC reported.
“We ruled out all the viral infections, we ruled out COVID-19 itself, we made sure that his kidneys and liver was okay, and finally we came to the conclusion that it was the vaccine that he had received that was the cause,” Dr. Fnu Nutan told the outlet.
She said that the medical episode could have been life-threatening if left untreated.
The Sabbatical YouTube Channel
March 30th, 2021Sabbatical Tommy’s travel videos are fascinating. So far, besides English (he’s from New York), I’ve seen him speaking Spanish, Nahuatl, French, Chinese, Russian and Swahili.
My eyes bugged out when he was translating Swahili into Chinese for the girl he hitched a ride with in Zanzibar.
I wonder if he has a “day job” in a linguistics department somewhere…
It’s hard to believe that he only has around 1600 subscribers.
Anyway, check out Sabbatical.
10 Reasons Why Freedom Is DANGEROUS
March 29th, 2021Via: Awaken with JP:
Congress Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively
March 29th, 2021Via: Glenn Greenwald:
Over the course of five-plus hours on Thursday, a House Committee along with two subcommittees badgered three tech CEOs, repeatedly demanding that they censor more political content from their platforms and vowing legislative retaliation if they fail to comply. The hearing — convened by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Chair Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and the two Chairs of its Subcommittees, Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) — was one of the most stunning displays of the growing authoritarian effort in Congress to commandeer the control which these companies wield over political discourse for their own political interests and purposes.
Boston Dynamics Stretch
March 29th, 2021Via: Boston Dynamics:
U.S. Military Ordered ‘Clandestine Burning’ of Toxic Chemicals in Poor Neighborhoods
March 26th, 2021Via: Common Dreams:
New research conducted by environmental justice scholars at Vermont’s Bennington College reveals that between 2016 and 2020, the U.S. military oversaw the “clandestine burning” of more than 20 million pounds of Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam in low-income communities around the country—even though there is no evidence that incineration destroys the toxic “forever chemicals” that make up the foam and are linked to a range of cancers, developmental disorders, immune dysfunction, and infertility.
“In defiance of common sense and environmental expertise, the Department of Defense (DOD) has enlisted poor communities across the U.S. as unwilling test subjects in its toxic experiment with burning AFFF,” David Bond, associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College, said in a statement earlier this week.
Noting that scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and even Pentagon officials have warned that “burning AFFF is an unproven method and dangerous mix that threatens the health of millions of Americans,” Bond characterized the decision of the military to dump huge stockpiles of AFFF and AFFF wastewater into “a handful of habitually negligent incinerators” as a “harebrained” operation as well as a manifestation of environmental injustice.
“In effect,” he added, “the Pentagon redistributed its AFFF problem into poor and working-class neighborhoods.”
The Ancient Method That Keeps Afghanistan’s Grapes Fresh All Winter
March 26th, 2021Via: Atlas Obscura:
“We use mud from the village, mix it with straw and water, and then form the bowls,” explains Ahmadi’s daughter Sabsina, 11, who, during the harvest, helps her father after school.
After laying the bowls in the sun for about five hours, they place the grapes in the dry bowls, which they seal with more mud and store in a dry, cool corner over the winter. Most families in the village do the same, in a process that takes up to 20 days. Grapes that aren’t preserved are either eaten or dried and made into raisins.
“This Is The Thing That Biden Does Not Want You To See”
March 26th, 2021“This is absolutely an open border situation.”
Via: Senator James Lankford:
Suez Canal: Attempts to Refloat the Massive Container Ship Have Failed
March 26th, 2021Via: Al Jazeera:
Dislodging the ship that is stuck in the Suez Canal could take days or even weeks, experts said, as an ever-greater backlog of ships is gathering in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean waiting for passage.
As of Friday morning, the giant Ever Given vessel remained grounded in the same position, with tugboats and dredgers still working to free it, according to Canal service provider Leth Agencies.
