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they-them-pussy · 3 years

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shit that happened this year according to my journal entries

JANUARY

- first entry, december 31 2019, near midnight: "Here's to a chaotic year"

- wwiii scare, happens as early as jan 3

- ‎australia wildfires

- ‎watcher debuts

- ‎corona world tour begins

- ‎death note comes back with a one shot (?)

FEBRUARY

- kobe bryant passes

- ‎corona panic, people begin hoarding

- SONIC THE HEDGEHOG MOVIE

- ‎BIRDS OF PREY MOVIE

MARCH

- quarantines begin

- toilet paper shortage

- ‎tom and rita hanks test positive for corona

- ‎an nba player tests positive

- ‎US has 1000 confirmed cases

- ‎italy is on shutdown

- ‎everything in my city shuts down on march 13, friday the 13th. i go home to my province (i never go back, for the rest of the year)

- ‎canadian prime minister's wife tests positive

- ‎plague inc.'s popularity skyrockets

- ‎US stock market crashing

- ‎SPN stops production

- ‎idris elba tests positive

- ‎gun buying in the US increases (?)

- ‎ibuprofen and anti inflammatory drugs found to worsen the virus

- ‎italy's cases surpass china's

- ‎celebrities clowning about cabin fever in their mansions

- ‎trump wants to buy the vaccine exclusively for the US

- ‎earthquake in utah

- ‎USA has up to 35k cases

- ‎trump tells people to drink bleach, one man dies, a woman lands in the icu

- USA cases over 82k cases

- ‎boris johnson tests positive

- suspected that there are more deaths in china than are reported

- ‎USA has over 2400 deaths, 100k cases

- ‎Italy has over 10.7k deaths

APRIL

- antibody treatments are being looked into

- ‎chernobyl has fires around it

- ‎apparently a lot of talk about the quarantines ending on the end of april and i just said that it's gonna for the rest of the year??? OOP -

- ‎bernie drops out of the presidential race

- ‎people in my town realize the government doesn't give a fuck about us. begin communal garden

- ‎a lot of entries about animal crossing

- ‎USA almost at a million cases and 53k deaths

- ‎"It's like watching the fall of the US in realtime. It's like that one song, Survivor Guilt, I think."

- ‎2.9 M cases worldwide

- ‎BARDCORE BARDCORE BARDCORE

MAY

- ‎lockdowns opening up, cases spiking after

- ‎USA passes 100k deaths

- ‎"I'm tired and poor"

- ‎storm hits my town, destroys my ceiling

- i take a ton of pictures of the stars, stick them all over the pages

JUNE

- pride cancelled. only WRATH

- anonymous is back

- ‎BLM protests begin

- ‎terror bill being considered in the Philippines, protests against it begin

- ‎"2021 might be a downhill year" (?)

- ‎north korea looks like it might start a war

- ‎a weird, HUGE fucking bird lands on our roof. stays there for hours. watches me while im playing with my dogs in the backyard

- ‎shawn dawson gets cancelled. jefree star too???

- ‎news of russia placing bounties on US soldiers breaks. trump: 'y'all hear smth???'

- ‎a fascist gets voted in poland

JULY

- Osomatsu-san S3 announcement, fandom rises from the dead

- Hamilton

- ‎Spongebob anime

- ‎Classically Abby ads plague YouTube

- ‎TUA S2

AUGUST

- beirut explosion

- ‎attempts to sabotage the USPS begin. Death Stranding has ascended to prophecy status

- ‎heritageposts

- ‎"2021 feels explosive" (?)

SEPTEMBER

- #answerusyoutube trends on twitter

- ‎seasonal depression starts kicking my ass

- first day of Fall

OCTOBER

- THE HORSE IS IN THE HOSPITAL

- ‎claudia conway snitches on her mother

- ‎horse goes out to see his supporters, endangers security detail

- ‎horse gets out the hospital, but everybody's sus

- ‎osomatsu-san returns

- ‎i lose my yellow highlighter and agonize over this for several entries

- ‎hetalia announced to return

- AOC among us twitch stream

NOVEMBER

- US election

- ‎no results yet

- ‎NEVADA????

- ‎destiel goes canon

- ‎rumor of putin stepping down goes around

- ‎talks of a possibility of sherlock s5

- ‎ted bundy twitter roleplayer????

- ‎a bombing???

- THE HORSE IS OUT THE HOSPITAL

- ‎Biden/Harris wins, people rejoice

- ‎unus annus dies

- ‎supernatural s15x19 is a shitshow

- ‎supernatural s15x20 is a shitshow

- ‎destiel uncanons

- ‎supernatural season 16 begins

- ‎DESTIEL GOES CANON BUT IN SPANISH

- ‎#theysilencedyou / #theysilencedus trends on twitter

- ‎rancid nuts?

- ‎heller jensen ackles / jackles long con jokes skyrocket

- ‎samantha ferris says cw never contacted her to shoot what was supposed to be the heaven roadhouse scene

- ‎hindi dub destiel canon rumor goes around

- ‎italian dub destiel canon fake

- ‎several of the cast and crew reveal they're hellers

- ‎heller obama

- ‎rest of the fandom learns that the holy water in spn is actually lube

#2020 #2020 wrapped #i forgot... that the wwiii scare started SO EARLY.....#december #is it gonna kill us #perhaps #can't wait for the meteors to arrive and cause a global blackout :')

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96thdayofrage · 3 years

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Article: Mum, 39, dies four days after second Covid vaccine jab

Mum, 39, dies four days after second Covid vaccine jab

A 39-year-old woman with no underlying health conditions has died days after receiving her second coronavirus vaccination.

Kassidi Kurill, a single mother from Utah, received her second dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on February 1. Four days later her family were planning her funeral.

An autopsy is underway to determine what killed Ms Kurill and whether her death was a result of the vaccine. Utah's chief Medical Examiner said making such a conclusion is likely to be difficult.

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covid19updater · 4 years

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COVID19 Updates: 10/20/2020

Kansas: All 62 residents at Kansas nursing home have COVID, 10 have died LINK

Slovakia: Area testing refusers in Slovakia will be quarantined for 10 days LINK

US: CDC now "strongly recommends" masks on public transport and at hubs LINK

California: Younger People Now 68% Of LA County's New Coronavirus Cases LINK

India: India’s Daily Covid-19 Cases Less Than 50,000 For First Time In 3 Months LINK

Belgium: Belgium will stop testing people without Covid-19 symptoms LINK

Belgium: Belgium may need to return to full COVID lockdown: virologist

New Zealand: Covid 19 coronavirus: International seamen test positive at Christchurch isolation facility LINK

Utah: Southern Utah hospital opens ‘surge ICU’ as COVID-19 spike shows no sign of leveling off LINK

Sweden: Swedish virologist says her country's COVID-19 strategy has failed, but nobody will admit it LINK

Sweden: Sweden’s Anders Tegnell: We did not pursue “herd immunity” against Covid-19 LINK

Russia: Russia reports 16,319 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record, and 269 new deaths

Poland: Poland COVID update: Cases, hospitalizations continue to rise - New cases: 9,291 - Positivity rate: 22.3% (+1.5) - In hospital: 8,962 (+587) - In ICU: 725 (+53) - New deaths: 107

UK: Scarred for life’: Sage experts warn of impact of Covid policies on the young LINK

UK: Coronavirus: Sharp rise in weekly coronavirus deaths in England and Wales, ONS data shows LINK

World: Could certain COVID-19 vaccines leave people more vulnerable to the AIDS virus? LINK

Florida: Florida might stop releasing COVID numbers daily. “There are discussions ongoing as to when the best time to scale back the report frequency. The reasoning behind it is because it requires 24 hour staffing. Information won’t change and quality of the data will remain paramount.”

Sweden: Now 4-days' worth of #Coronavirus data from #Sweden 3,184 more cases of #Covid19 discovered. That works out at 796 per day. Saturday saw 1,180 cases, highest daily total since 26 June. After the previous update on Friday, Sweden's infection rate was 68 AD/M, it's now above 80

Germany: #Berchtesgaden in southeast Germany's Bavarian Alps has entered a new lockdown after becoming a #coronavirus hotspot. Restaurants and cafes have had to shut while people can only be outside if they have a good reason.

UK: NEW: UK reports more than 21,000 new coronavirus cases, biggest one-day increase on record - New cases: 21,331 - Positivity rate: 8.2% (+2.1) - In hospital: 6,899 (+506) - In ICU: 654 (+30) - New deaths: 241

Italy: ITALY: Daily coronavirus deaths at highest level since May, hospitalizations continue to rise - New cases: 10,874 - Positivity rate: 12.4% (-1.8) - In hospital: 8,454 (+778) - In ICU: 870 (+73) - New deaths: 89

Texas: CONCERN FOR SCHOOLS AS CASES RISE IN DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES LINK

India: AIIMS reports first case of Covid-19-related brain nerve damage in a child LINK

Spain: Spain COVID update: - New cases: 13,873 - In hospital: 13,288 (+343) - In ICU: 1,911 (+54) - New deaths: 218

US: Excess deaths in the U.S. rise to nearly 300,000, according to the CDC. Every week since March had more deaths than expected

Alaska: She’s in her 20s, fit ... and facing serious COVID-19 complications months after she got sick LINK

Texas: The following slides illustrate a model of how COVID-19 is spreading across the DFW region based on real patient data we have received from. Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties. LINK

World: Unexpected Ground-Glass Opacities on Abdominopelvic CT of a Patient With a Negative SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test Result and No Respiratory Symptoms Upon Admission LINK

Michigan: Emergency stay-in-place order issued for University of Michigan students to stop COVID-19 spread LINK

Ohio: Columbus City Schools postpones in-person learning for most students until January LINK

UK: Unmasked woman rants at, coughs on plane passengers heading to Scotland LINK

Germany: Germany COVID update: Daily deaths at highest level in nearly 5 months - @risklayer - New cases: 7,032 - In hospital: 4,163 estimated (+337) - In ICU: 880 (+25) - New deaths: 56

World: The next wave of the coronavirus is gaining steam LINK

China/World: China PANIC: Study exposes terrifying NEW COVID disease - scientists warn of latest threat LINK

Texas: While El Paso is doing more testing, rising hospitalizations and a 12.7% positivity rate for COVID-19 tests suggest that El Paso's outbreak is worsening. LINK

US: 1 in 4 US workers have weighed quitting, poll finds LINK

Wisconsin: HOSPITALIZATIONS RISING: Wisconsin hospitals overwhelmed by spiking COVID-19 cases are approaching capacity tonight.

Czech Republic: However the new #Covid19 case figures show Czech Republic has broken the old record by almost 900. New record 11,984. #Czechia also registers a new record number of deaths in a single day, breaking through the 100 barrier for the first time. One month ago on 21 Sep, after 8 months of the pandemic, Czech Republic had 500 deaths. One month later it's 1600+

US: MT, ND and SD are reporting stark increases in cases and hospitalizations. The 7-day average for new cases reported in all three has more than doubled in the past month.

Oklahoma: 'I thought I was immune': Woman who survived COVID-19 twice warns people to take virus seriously LINK

Washington: Washington state tells BNO News it's investigating 120 suspected cases of COVID-19 reinfection. All have at least 3 months between both episodes, but more research is needed to confirm or rule out reinfection

Argentina: Argentina COVID update: - New cases: 16,337 - Positivity rate: 43.6% (-2.1) - In hospital: 29,867 (+253) - In ICU: 4,451 (+59) - New deaths: 384

Canada: Canada sees 2,341 new coronavirus cases as deaths near 10,000 LINK

Wisconsin: 'We could see this spreading': Aurora St. Luke's latest Milwaukee-area hospital to see COVID-19 outbreak on rehab unit LINK

Australia: More than 200 Australians in hotel quarantine to be urgently screened for HIV after authorities admit to mixing up blood test devices LINK

Kentucky: Kentucky prepares for ‘grim’ COVID-19 surge. 1,312 new cases and 16 deaths. LINK

Texas: Texas officials today reported 4,588 people hospitalized with lab-confirmed COVID-19. That is up 269 from yesterday and this is up 44% since the start of October. It is also the highest number of hospitalizations since Aug. 26.

Greece: Greece sees highest virus spike since end of lockdown LINK

Montana: To avoid quarantining students, a school district tries moving them around every 15 minutes. LINK

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cksmart-world · 3 years

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SMART BOMB

The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

September 7, 2021

ROME FELL — THEN THE FOOD GOT BETTER

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. What else could he do? This is not about Afghanistan or Vietnam. It's about a country that some think is starting to look like Rome. A few years ago, Wilson and the Smart Bomb Band made a sojourn to Italy. No, they didn't shoot a man name Gray and take his wife to Italy, a la Bob Dylan's “Idiot Wind.” They got an invite from an group putting on a Funk Festival at the Piazza Campo De' Fiori, but that's not important. Upon return, Wilson reported that when they got to Rome the place was full of — wait for it — Romans. Imagine that. This despite the fact that Rome fell in 476 A.D. Wilson noted that it's almost impossible to find bad food in Italy — unless you go to a place where tourists eat. And the coda alla vaccinara is to die for. Ancient Rome conquered peoples from Judea to Spain — and seems to have been more successful at it than the U.S. Say what you will, but the Vietnamese food in this country got a lot better after our retreat from South East Asia in 1975 when a lot of Vietnamese came here. Smart Bomb's food critic, Maple Bacon, says we can anticipate an invasion of great Afghan food in the near future. Like Rome, the U.S. could fall, but the food isn't going anywhere. Bon appetite.

OH BEAUTIFUL FOR SPACIOUS MINDS: AMERICA THE STUPID

“Oh beautiful for spacious skies and spacious minds of grain, where we don't trust the government and vaccines are a pain. America, America, no brotherhood for thee and no masks or social distancing from sea to shining sea...” And that opens another fantastic football season here in the greatest country in world where we've had enough of the pandemic. So never mind all them people worried about super-spreader events or that kids can get sick and spread Covid. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said it best when it comes to the Delta variant: “Do this or do that or do what the legislature says or not. Real leadership means leave it to someone else, like the school board or the county commission but just don't make a stink or be, like too uppity when you say you're vaccinated and better than people who prefer to get their medical advice from QAnon.” Why should people have to wear masks at the hardware store or a football game. Yes the hospital ICUs are full again and now a lot more young people are dying, but there's really nothing much we can do about it. Everybody has to die someday and when it's your time, well that's the way it goes. Or like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to say: Don't let science and medicine steal your freedom. Screw it, let's party!

THE LONE STAR RAPE

Don't mess with Texas, where every life is sacred until birth. In Texas you're free to carry a firearm without license or training. In 2019, there were 3,683 gun-related deaths in the Lone Star State. In 2018, 73 percent of veteran suicides in Texas were by firearms; that year, 74 women were killed by male partners in Texas— 59 percent by guns; in 2019, 32 children ages 0-17 died from unintentional shootings there. Freedom grows from the barrel of a gun. But in the Lone Star State freedom ends where a woman's uterus begins. The new law says that even in cases of rape or incest, a woman cannot get a safe, legal abortion after six weeks or pregnancy — a time when most women do not know if they're pregnant. According to FBI crime statistics, Texas has a rate of 55.2 rapes and sexual assaults per 100,000 people — 15th in the nation. Although a Texas court has shielded Texas abortion clinics for now, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block it. And the anti-abortion law leaves enforcement up to anyone who wishes to sue a provider or even someone who drives a woman to a clinic. Well, what good are guns if you can't be vigilantes. In Texas, a good Christian place, there is freedom from masks and vaccinations and not least, freedom from empathy.

Post script — OK, that's a wrap for another history-making week here at Smart Bomb, where the staff knows one thing for sure and that's that we don't know nothin' for sure. Here's a New York Times headline to illustrate it: “Rupert Murdoch’s Australia News Outlets to Ease Their Climate Denial.” What? Australia's been burning up for years and now Murdoch senses that maybe the public is catching on? “It could be a breakthrough,” writes Damien Cave, “that provides political cover for Australia’s conservative government to end its refusal to set ambitious emission targets. If sustained, it could also put pressure on Fox News and other Murdoch-owned outlets in the United States and Britain that have been hostile to climate science.” What's really needed is for corporate American to defund Fox News, writes Diane McWhorter in The Daily Beast: “Fox has jacked up partisanship into a primetime dystopia that should give sponsors pause. Do they really want the babies in their disposable-diaper commercials to share airtime with a Texas politician comparing Seattle to a Middle Eastern town taken over by ISIS?” Murdoch and his hate mongers care nothing for this country or the planet, so long as they can profit. Boycott Fox sponsors. Pass it on.

Well Wilson, it's time to welcome our new immigrants, the Afghans, who are fleeing the Taliban after our 20-year war. They need a new home and it won't be easy for them. So warm up the band and let's show them the good side of America:

If you smile at me I will understand 'Cause that is something Everybody everywhere does in the same language I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side There's just one thing I got to know Can you tell me please who won?

Wooden ships on the water very free and easy Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be Silver people on the shoreline let us be Talkin' 'bout very free and easy Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cries Stare as all human feelings die We are leaving, you don't need us Go take your sister then by the hand Lead her away from this foreign land Far away where we might laugh again We are leaving, you don't need us And it's a fair wind Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder Guess I'll set a course and go

(Wooden Ships — Crosby, Stills & Nash)

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edwardwebb · 3 years

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Utah woman, 39, dies 4 days after 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine; autopsy ordered

Utah woman, 39, dies 4 days after 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine; autopsy ordered by Heidi Hatch, KUTV Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) – During a KUTV investigation into COVID-19 vaccine side effects and where to report them, we found four reported deaths, filed by Utah families and their caregivers to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Reporting System. One case stood out, a…

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writing-in-the-tiny-house · 3 years

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Unapologetic, with Caroline Nadine Helsing

S1E23 Unapologetic, with Caroline Nadine Helsing

To become a patron go to patreon.com/writinginthetinyhouse today!

Caroline Nadine Helsing is today’s guest.

www.carolinenadinehelsing.com

Instagram: @caroline_nadine_helsing_author

Find her on Facebook and Youtube to see supplemental material to the book.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarolineNadineHelsingAuthor

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaUCsUd28AhZSVoOXq9p_A

Follow this link to get her book Unapologetic: Tales of the Original Party Crasher.

https://amzn.to/3BkQDSB

The following is a transcript of this episode. The full transcript is available on the show’s website.

Devin Davis: If you ever choose to write a memoir about a loved one in your life, I recommend doing it the way Caroline Nadine Helsing did it when she wrote her book, Unapologetic: Tales of the Original Party Crasher. Caroline is our guest Today on Writing in the Tiny House. Hello, hello, hello! And welcome to Writing in the Tiny House. I am Devin Davis. I am your host and I am the guy living in a tiny house in Northern Utah, who is here to show you that the novel idea that you have floating around in your brain, it is 100% possible for you to buckle down and write it. And today's guest is a perfect example of how that is done and why that is done. These don't have to always be big works of fiction. Sometimes they can be works of fiction inspired by actual events. So let's take a second. And let's meet our guest. She is a woman living in California who grew up in Hawaii. And let's see all of the different things that she did before she actually started writing a book. She has done all the things you could ever imagine, my friends.

[00:01:47] Caroline Helsing: My name is Caroline Nadine Helsing. I can say I'm originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, and moved to California two days before my 23rd birthday.

[00:01:57] I feel like I've had multiple lifetimes. I almost feel like I reinvent myself every two years. So what brought me to the mainland was I was doing a bit of acting in Hawaii and the natural progression is to move to Los Angeles. So that's what I did. I came over with my little Lhasa Apso Bentley, and he used to jump on the bed and sleep with me. And I had gotten a new bed, a new mattress that was higher than my old one, and he couldn't jump up anymore. And so I made this dog step for him to get up onto the bed. And that essentially is what got me out of the acting business. It turned into a company, a manufacturing company for pet products. So we made dog steps and clothing. Our first slogan was "Bitches love me." I had that company for about 10 and a half years, and that's what brought me down to Orange County. And when I sold it-- gosh, I think I sold it in 2013-- I went back to one of my first loves, which is photography. And I started volunteering through the Rotary Program and started traveling with these mobile medical clinics. And we would go to Mexico, we went to the Amazon and the rainforests, the Peru, India. And I would document these trips and also volunteer where I could like in India was amazing.

[00:03:21] We were one of the last groups. Administer polio vaccinations via the droplets before they moved to injection. So it just was a very rewarding experience for me. And in documenting through my photography, I would also write and then I started writing and submitting stories to the local papers.

[00:03:41]And that evolved into just me realizing that I really loved writing. And in the back of my mind, I always had this seed of an idea to tell my mother's stories because she was unlike any mother I had ever grown up with. She was kind of like a cross between a Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's to like Moira from Schitt's Creek. She was, she was very unapologetically herself and she taught me the value of being authentic to yourself. She was one that just always followed her bliss.

[00:04:16]Devin Davis: So you can see that Caroline has done everything in her life. She's been a business owner, she has done photography. She has done writing. But I had to ask her, why now and why this book?

[00:04:34]Caroline Helsing: But I always loved creative writing in school. That was like my, I loved English. I love. I love that aspect. I was always journaling, so I was always writing. And I think in the back of my mind, you know, I I'd always said, I, I knew, I didn't know how, I didn't know what I was going to write about, but I knew I was going to write a book and I didn't know that it was going to wind up being a book about my mother. But it was the perfect avenue for me. It was almost like she was channeling through me because I got it done in a little over a year and maybe I have COVID, you know, the pandemic to thank. I was just, you know, home and I, I literally treated it like a full-time job.

[00:05:13] Devin Davis: But it was with her mother's passing that Caroline got started with her book.

[00:05:19]Caroline Helsing: Well like I said, I'd always had this seed of an idea to tell her stories. And I think after she had passed, my mother had passed in 2019 in January. Actually it was New Year's Day, which again, if you, know about my mother, I mean, it was the perfect day because she had to go with a big bang.

[00:05:35]In 2019 it was towards the middle end of the year, I started thinking maybe I'm going to kind of like start to jot down her stories. And I actually I took a memoir class just to kind of get my feet wet and the very first chapter I wrote was one of the ones that I put in the book.

[00:05:55]It was towards the end. It was basically my journey with her and her ashes. Before she passed, I had promised her that I would take her back to all of her favorite places in New York city. Cause she was from New York city and she was very much in New York and she loved New York, even though she wound up migrating west. When she met my father, they wound up settling in Hawaii and lived on an island for 36 years. But I promised her I would just take her back. She had said in passing, oh, when I die, I want my ashes spread across Bergdorf Goodman, which is this high-end, you know, department store in Manhattan. So that kind of gives you an idea of like her, her personality or character. And so, you know, when she died, we all were like, oh wait, she did.

[00:06:38] What did she want, like, what, you know, what do you think she would have wanted? And I said, well, she did say this. And I, you know, of course, I don't know what she kidding. I don't know, but in just sitting with it , it was the perfect thing for her to kind of like come full circle and, and bring her back to the city that she just adored.

[00:06:56] Seeing the city and going literally to all the places that I'd ever remembered her talking about to me truly enabled me to see that city through her eyes. It's like a gift that you give to your loved ones whom you leave behind. So that I think is what inspired me to write her story, once and for all to really do it. And so I I started November, December of 2019 is when I really started.

[00:07:26]Devin Davis: Sometimes when we start these big projects, it is really easy to feel isolated and alone, like many of us have experienced over the past 18 months. But it is also very beneficial when we are on these big endeavors where it's only us writing and nobody else helping us. It is very, very beneficial to form a writing group.

[00:07:53] To get a group of men or women or whomever else wants to listen to you, who is in the same boat as you and who will give good, honest feedback for the things that you are creating. And for Caroline, this kept her motivated and this brought her to the end to finish her book.

[00:08:19] Caroline Helsing: A few of the students and I decided to form a writer's group. I had to drive up there and I was fine to do it because it was just so nice to be able to bounce ideas off of another writer. And I consider them all so talented. We all had our backgrounds we added to the table, but that I feel is what got me through, kind of kept me accountable having this reference group for me personally. We met weekly, and for me, just in the back of my mind, knowing there was a group of people every Saturday morning waiting to read something from me, I had to at least write something.

[00:08:57]Devin Davis: Like with so many different projects that I have spoken about, including my own, but also others that I have heard about in recent years, Caroline's story evolved from how she envisioned it when she started to what it ended up being in the end.

[00:09:19] Caroline Helsing: When I originally started, it was just all about my mother. All I wanted to do was write about my mother. I didn't want to be in the book. It's about my mother, right? And they were the ones that kept saying No, Caroline, we want to know more about you. It helps us to understand her through your eyes and you know, whatever it was, they were saying. So I would like sprinkle a little bit of me here. So weird and odd, you know, like I didn't want to, and then just getting that feedback really helped. I wanted to create scenes with dialogue. And of course I wasn't there obviously prior to my being born and my mother's life, and I write a lot about my mother's youth, and they had said, you know, you can write as if. You obviously know her essence, so write as if. I had enough anecdotes, enough things, stories from different people from herself that I was able to take that information and create a scene as if it happened. I mean, I don't know the complete details the things that happened to her in her youth, but I feel like the point and the purpose was to give you an idea of what it could have looked like in the context of what actually happened. She was too much of a fun character to write. I couldn't not have fun with her.

[00:10:32]Devin Davis: But because so much of her mother's life happened before Caroline was even around, Caroline had to set out on an adventure of sorts to gather some of these other stories that she had only heard of before; these other stories of when her mother was young.

[00:10:50] Caroline Helsing: Other than the stories that I remember firsthand from my mother or firsthand from my own experience I talked to relatives, friends. I mean I write about the fact that I actually was getting to know the man behind my father, because he was someone that I called on Mother's Day because there was no one else to call, you know, and then we started talking about her and I was so impressed. My father is 94 years old and his memory is incredible. He remembered the fact that she was wearing a pink knit dress the day they met, and what song was playing in the background when he realized he was in love with her.

[00:11:33] So it connected me and my father. It connected me and her best friend, Marilyn. And it just kind of brought me closer to not only my own family, but the friends that were dear to her. And what was really cool is that it felt like my mother still is around me. This was such a therapeutic experience for me to not only digest and relive things, but make sense of who she was. When the book was done, I was worried that I would feel like I was losing her. Like I would lose her again because what would happen when I stopped writing about her? She was the thing that I thought about every single day. When I was done, what was that going to be like? And it, I have to say, I am probably more busy now than I was when I was writing, because I'm promoting it; I'm still talking about her. And this is probably exactly how she would've wanted it because she loved when people were interested in finding out about her. So she probably has had a hand in this too.

[00:12:36]

[00:12:36]Devin Davis: As she started writing her book, there were moments that were easy and there were moments that were challenging. And these are things that I can completely relate to as I write fantasy works of complete fiction. And as I have spoken to other authors who have been through the similar process of starting and completing a book, there are moments that are so easy to write, and there are other moments that are a struggle to get through.

[00:13:06] Caroline Helsing: I loved writing about the Catskills days. I loved writing about my experience with her towards the end, where I was traveling with her with the ashes. I mean, half the time I'm sobbing as I write it. So it's not like it was easy in that extent, but it flowed through me. I would say what was harder was the first chapter, for example, where it's just like, okay, I just have to set this foundation. She was born here I had to get to some extent that out of the way, the foundation of her mother and father. What was the most fun and enjoyable parts for me to write was the dialogue. And that's where I had my creative license. I was worried about writing about my father because my father is still alive and I didn't want to write anything to have made him take pause or sad in any way. He is a very private person so that was my biggest thing. Especially when I had the story finished I was just worried about what he would think about, you know, anything I might have written, you know, he really helped me and set my fears at ease when he said," Listen, this is your memories of your mother. Yes, I'm private, but I'll just have to take that into consideration when I read it. You've worked so hard on this book." It was almost like he gave me the permission to release her story. Cause there was a part of his that I don't know, maybe I just wrote it for me, you know, I want him to be okay with it.

[00:14:38]Devin Davis: One of the things that touched me, the very, very most in reading this book was Caroline's sensitivity toward her brothers schizophrenia. I have read many books with schizophrenia in them, either as part of the story or as part of the memoir. And I actually have close friends who deal with things that are similar to that.

[00:15:07] And the way that I had previously been exposed to schizophrenia in literature was that it was something to be feared, even though my personal own experience of it was not that way. It didn't always match that. And I loved that Caroline chose to make her brother's schizophrenia completely real. At the same time, it was just a part of him.

[00:15:34] It was just him. It was simply a way of explaining some of his quirkiness and the way that he viewed the world. And she said that when they arrived at a diagnosis, things became so much easier and it was such a blessing to be able to work with him, finally, understanding how he operated.

[00:15:58] Caroline Helsing: Nothing like the movies, you know, it's not like he hears voices, but he is a little different. Other people don't have to deal with the struggles that he's had to. And I write about the earlier days before we had this diagnosis. He would do things that we just kind of made you scratch your head, you know? And they were funny. They were funny. One of the scenes I write about was when he had stayed with my father's ex-wife. So he's staying with her and our half-brother for the summer. And anyway, he wanted to do something nice for them to say thank you. So he decides, "I'm going to paint the house and not just with one color, but with three." And it's just a simple white house, but he buys a can of yellow paint, a can of blue paint, you know, and he goes to town, just painting the trims.

[00:16:49] And I mean, so yes, he was quirky and funny. But he wanted to do something nice. He wanted the house to look really nice for my father when he came there to pick him up. But I think I wrote it with humor and love, and that was my intention. That was definitely my intention throughout. I wanted to tell the truth, but with love.

[00:17:06] Devin Davis: Not only did it help Caroline better understand her brother, but it also helped her mother too. And she shared that the relationship between her brother and her mother improved quite a bit after arriving at this diagnosis.

[00:17:22] Caroline Helsing: It really did kind of open up and connect deeper with my mother and they started traveling together. So it was nice that he was able to live a happy life.

[00:17:33]Devin Davis: So Caroline wrote the book, she published the book, but she had the entire work be only the story. There were no pictures. There were no maps. There were no visual representations of anything about the life of her mother or herself. And she did that on purpose. And I really liked the reason why she did it.

[00:17:56]Caroline Helsing: Sometimes your imagination is a lot stronger. And it doesn't really matter exactly what she looked like. But sometimes like you just imagining something, it's more powerful. So I made the decision not to have pictures in the book.

[00:18:09]Devin Davis: When I first got this book, I absolutely devoured it. I was dubious at first about reading a memoir or reading a biography of sorts, but this was such a wonderful way to do it. She describes that she included dialogue and she made scenes and it was as if she took her mother's personality and reenacted some of these important things that her mother did when her mother was younger. And I loved the spirit that it brought to my impression of who her mother was and still is. And it brought me a more important impression on the love that she has for her mother and the wonderful family dynamic that they all share.

[00:18:59] Choosing to take a fictitious spin on some of the things in this book was wonderful and it brought personality and it brought light and it brought interest and just a wonderful experience too, with a story of Caroline's mother. And it is something that I will consider doing when I write my own story about my life.

[00:19:21]I'm such a storyteller anyway. And so to take those experiences and to turn them into scenes with dialogue and action and create an actual story based on real memories and based on actual events is something that I love and is something that really, really speaks to me. This book was such a wonderful reading experience.

[00:19:45] Again, it is called Unapologetic: Tales of the Original Party Crasher, and it is available on Amazon. I got my copy on the Kindle. And if you wish to connect with Caroline, she has a website that I will include in the notes of this episode called www.CarolineNadineH elsing.com. And she is on social media with her full name on all of the places.

[00:20:16] Again, I will include links to that in the show notes of this episode. And otherwise that is it for today. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening to Caroline's story. A big thanks to all of my patrons. With our Patreon program, you can gain early access, an additional episode or exclusive time with me and other top tier patrons. Just go to patreon.com/writinginthetinyhouse if you wish to support me on this podcast. The social media that I have for my writing and for this podcast is at@authordevindavis if you're going for Instagram and @authordevind for Twitter. And please take a second to leave a review on whatever you are listening to this podcast through. Thank you so much, guys, have fun writing. We will see you next time.

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Red State, Blue State, Twin Outbreak: Behind Wyoming and Colorado’s Anomalous Covid Spikes

WHEATLAND, Wyo. — Brandon Graves said covid-19 arrived in Wheatland the way new movies do in this High Plains farming town: months after hitting the big cities and without much fanfare.

“It kind of trickled in and it never really exploded here,” said Graves, a lifelong resident and mayor of the town of about 3,500, the largest in Platte County.

Many residents say the virus that causes covid has felt more like an inconvenience imposed on them by outsiders than a public threat. For instance, utility bills came late because the company that prints them is in a city that was hit hard by covid. And the town is stuck repairing and re-repairing one of its aging trash trucks because the ordered replacement has been delayed by more than a year because of a covid-induced shortage in microchips.

Then there’s the “Colorado Navy,” the locals’ nickname for the parade of vehicles with boats in tow that cross the state line each summer. Their numbers swelled last year as people searched for lakes and campgrounds open during the pandemic, said Shawna Reichert, executive director of the Platte County Chamber of Commerce.

Campers were packed so tightly around Grayrocks Reservoir, a popular fishing spot outside of town, Reichert said, “it literally looked like a city.” The crowds trashed the place, and a rancher lost several cows. Plastic bags were found in their stomachs.

It’s no surprise many residents are lukewarm to the idea of covid vaccines: As of July 6, about 29% of Platte County residents were fully vaccinated, according to the state health department. And Wyoming, a staunchly conservative state, had about 32% of residents fully vaccinated, giving it one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation. Perhaps also not surprisingly, the state has one of the highest new case rates in the nation.

What might be surprising is that Wyoming’s neighbor to the south has recently experienced similar case spikes, too. Colorado is a Democratic-leaning state whose population is about 53% fully vaccinated, placing it in the top 15 states in vaccination rates. It also had the 12th-highest rate of new cases among states as of July 9, ranking a few states lower than Wyoming.

Within Colorado, one of the most vaccinated counties is San Miguel County, which, like Wyoming’s Platte County, has a population of a little over 8,000 people. Both counties entered June with high transmission rates and sustained them for several weeks straight, but their vaccination rates are inverses of each other: Fewer than a third of Platte County residents are fully vaccinated, while about a third of San Miguel County residents are not. The common thread in both places: pockets of unvaccinated residents.

Health officials are keeping a close eye on covid hot spots that have emerged in recent weeks tied to low vaccination rates.

“One of the things that we’ve been sounding the alarm about is the need for hyper-local data,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The state could look fine and you can think, like, ‘No big deal. We’ve got this.’ But then when you drill down at the county level, you could be seeing a much different story.”

The county level might not even be granular enough to show true risk. Small upticks in cases can be meaningful even in sparsely populated counties — and not just because of the potential for transmission to spill across county or state lines.

“Small rises in cases in rural areas can have devastating consequences because, chances are, there’s fewer health care resources in those places in order to save lives,” she said. “There’s been good studies that show that, partially, the ability of the virus to kill people depends on the bandwidth in the health system to save people.”

After months of reporting few cases, Platte County Public Health posted a warning on Facebook in early June that 14 people had tested positive for covid in the same number of days, and 12 ended up in the hospital.

That string of cases bumped Platte County into the “red zone” of high transmission rates. “Platte County contact tracing has shown that unvaccinated people are going to work and group gatherings while sick,” the post read.

Joan Ivaska, senior director of infection prevention for Banner Health, which runs a 25-bed hospital in Wheatland, confirmed that covid patients were admitted throughout June, though she declined to say how many. The hospital has only two adult intensive care beds.

She and other health officials continue to emphasize that better vaccine coverage is the only way to get back to normal.

The challenge, said Kim Deti, a spokesperson with the Wyoming health department, isn’t just the politicization of the covid vaccines, which has turned many against them, though that is a factor. It’s also that many people have resumed activities and believe the pandemic is behind them.

“We’ve had relatively low levels of covid-19 illnesses in most areas of the state for a while now, which affects threat perception,” Deti said. “There are many people working very hard and trying everything they can. Wyoming’s coverage rate is not for lack of effort.”

In San Miguel County, Colorado, people were fired up about getting shots from the outset. “Interest has been very, very impassioned since vaccines became widely available,” said county spokesperson Lindsey Mills.

San Miguel County hit President Joe Biden’s vaccination goal of getting at least one dose into 70% of adult residents weeks before July 4, the deadline the nation as a whole missed. Yet the county was experiencing a surge in covid cases similar to that of its Wyoming counterpart. More than 460 days after Colorado declared covid a disaster emergency, San Miguel County recorded its first covid death on June 14.

The reason? It turns out not everyone was as enthusiastic about the vaccines as San Miguel County’s high rates indicated. Numbers provided by the local health department show that on the county’s east side, home to the affluent ski resort community of Telluride, about 80% of eligible residents opted in. On the west side, what residents call the West End, only about half did. That left the county vulnerable to continued spread.

That east-west divide in San Miguel County reflects a preexisting cultural divide, according to Mike Bordogna, the county manager. The sparsely populated west side, which stretches to the Utah line, was historically the county breadbasket, growing crops and livestock that fed mining towns like Telluride, now known for skiing and its film and bluegrass festivals.

A KHN analysis of data provided by San Miguel County shows that, since the beginning of the pandemic, most of the county’s covid cases were on the east side, where most residents live. But in May, the tables turned. While the west side typically recorded less than 10% of the county’s cases over the first year of the pandemic, in May and June its share suddenly was more than 64%, aided by the arrival of the delta variant.

In late May, an unvaccinated woman in her late 70s living in the county’s West End caught the delta variant at a potluck following a funeral and died after a week in the hospital. Other unvaccinated funeral attendees caught the virus, too.

“Pretty much everybody that was there that was unvaccinated became sick after the fact — either tested positive or just became sick and didn’t test,” said Amanda Baltzley, contact tracing supervisor for San Miguel County Department of Public Health.

Sheila Grother, an EMT and contact tracer who works with Baltzley and has lived in the West End town of Norwood for more than 30 years, said she’s gotten nowhere trying to persuade people to get vaccinated — even though two vaccinated West End residents who contracted the delta variant around the same time as the woman who died, and were also over 70, recovered.

“I’ve been in people’s homes when they’re at their worst and I’ve been with them on their worst possible days,” she said. “I thought at one time that people, you know, trusted my judgment to some degree, and I think some do, but there are those that just — they’re not going to get the damn vaccine.”

But county leaders are holding out hope that some will have a change of heart. Bordogna said health officials are working on plans to set up surreptitious vaccination stations at the upcoming county fair and rodeo to make it easy for people to get inoculated without worrying about being spotted. The goal is to create a system in which attendees can, for example, tell a family member or friend they were heading for the bathroom and get a shot instead.

Back in Wheatland, few people were aware of the hospitalizations that happened in early June. Alice Wichert, who manages the Motel 6 in town, suspects most residents probably weren’t aware of a spike in cases at all.

“There wasn’t really anybody here who kind of had a strong fear of it,” she said. “We just pretty much went on with life.”

But that wasn’t the case for one temporary motel resident. Angela Brixius is a lab technician from Nebraska working a stint at the local hospital, where, among other things, she processes covid tests and regularly encounters patients convinced covid is a hoax.

“I worry about people that aren’t vaccinated who are out and about who talk to everybody that they meet about how this is not real,” Brixius said. “I meet people at the hospital: ‘I don’t need a swab. I don’t have covid. It’s not real.’”

“People are still dying of covid. It’s still going on, and it should be done,” Brixius said before heading out the door for food and fresh air before another 3 p.m.-to-midnight shift in the lab.

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Utah woman, 39, dies 4 days after 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine; autopsy now completed | WLUK

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Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online

The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent.

According to recent data from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, you're three times more likely to get struck by lightning. หวย บอล เกมส์ คาสิโนออนไลน์

But you might not know that from looking at your social media feed.

A new NPR analysis finds that articles connecting vaccines and death have been among the most highly engaged with content online this year, going viral in a way that could hinder people's ability to judge the true risk in getting a shot.

The findings also illustrate a broader trend in online misinformation: With social media platforms making more of an effort to take down patently false health claims, bad actors are turning to cherry-picked truths to drive misleading narratives.

Experts say these storylines are much harder for companies to moderate, though they can have the same net effect of creating a distorted and false view of the world.

"It's a really insidious problem," said Deen Freelon, a communications professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The social media companies have taken a hard line against disinformation; they have not taken a similarly hard line against fallacies."

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To date, the CDC's reporting system has not received evidence linking any deaths directly to vaccines.

And yet, on almost half of all the days so far in 2021, a story about someone dying after receiving a vaccine shot has been among the most popular vaccine-related articles on social media, according to data from the media intelligence company NewsWhip.

That includes the year's most popular vaccine story: a South Florida Sun Sentinel article, which was republished in the Chicago Tribune, about a doctor who died a few weeks after receiving the vaccine.

The story explicitly notes there has been no link found between the shot and his death, but it has received almost 5 million interactions on Facebook and Twitter nonetheless.

"This problem is not theoretical. It's not hypothetical," said Sarah Roberts, an information studies professor at UCLA. "This thorny issue directly lands in this gray area of an emergent information crisis that has really clear real-world implications."

Few deaths, many clicks

By just about any metric, it's clear stories linking deaths to vaccines have spread in such a way that wildly overstates real numbers.

Among the more than 85 million people in the U.S. who have now received at least one vaccination shot, less than .0018% of shot recipients have died sometime afterward.

Even that small number includes people who were vaccinated while also suffering from other health conditions.

Whether they have a vaccine or not, roughly 8,000 people die in the U.S. every day. And as more people get vaccinated, more vaccinated people will continue to die from unrelated causes, which the pharmaceutical company Pfizer alluded to in a statement earlier this year.

"It is important to note that serious adverse events, including deaths that are unrelated to the vaccine, are unfortunately likely to occur at a similar rate as they would in the general population," the statement said.

But UNC-Chapel Hill's Freelon said when it comes to conspiratorial thinking, stats and nuance often don't matter as much as tragic stories.

"This is something that we see repeatedly with human cognition," Freelon said. "It's the emphasis on the breathless anecdote and then the discounting of statistics that are much more representative."

The largest spike in death-related stories came at a critical time in the vaccine rollout.

In January, as the average number of shots administered quadrupled and people frantically searched for information as they considered whether to be vaccinated, it was also the time people were most likely to encounter a story linking a death to vaccination, according to the NPR analysis.

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Every day from Jan. 7 through Jan. 20, at least one story linking a vaccine to a death was among the 10 most-engaged-with stories about vaccines.

NPR analyzed NewsWhip's data by looking at each day's most-engaged-with stories that included the word "vaccine" in the headline, summary or metadata.

Engagement encompasses how many times an article was shared, commented on or liked across Facebook, Pinterest and much of Twitter.

On some days, such as Jan. 16 and 17, and March 11 and 12, 25% or more of the top vaccine stories on social media were about a person who died after being vaccinated.

This is not because many more people died during these periods; rather it's the result of multiple news outlets writing articles about the same small number of deaths and reaching a larger audience.

On March 11 for instance, all six of the stories in the top 20 most-engaged-with vaccine stories were about the same Utah woman who died four days after receiving her second vaccine dose.

One Facebook page with 20,000 followers posted a link to the article, with the caption "I'll pass on the vaccinations. I could care less of anyone's opinion ... this is horrifically sad."

Another page, with 10,000 followers, posted it saying, "[V]ery concerned about those getting the poke."

A few days later, however, the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner issued a statement saying that "there have been NO DEATHS caused by the Covid-19 vaccines to date in Utah."

In one of the news stories that was shared with anti-vaccine messages, the actual text of the article described how the father of the woman who died still decided to get the shot himself.

Exploiting the gray areas

The difficulty in moderating these sorts of stories comes from their truthfulness. A woman did die four days after receiving the vaccine in Utah. But there wasn't any causal relationship, according to the state's medical examiner.

Social media companies have made it clear that when it comes to sharing true-but-misleading information, they don't want to wade in.

"Content can't always be clearly divided into helpful and harmful," Kang-Xing Jin, Facebook head of health, wrote in a recent San Francisco Chronicle op-ed. "It's hard to draw the line on posts that contain people's personal experiences with vaccines."

But peddlers of misinformation, and even American adversaries, have discovered this gap in content moderation.

Russian state media such as RT and Sputnik News shared more than 100 stories linking the Pfizer vaccine to subsequent deaths of recipients, according to a recent report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy.

It's a phenomenon dubbed "lying through truth" by Bret Schafer, who wrote the report.

"The [social media] platforms look at an individual tweet from RT saying 23 people died in a nursing home after taking the Pfizer vaccine, and they can't do anything about it because it is technically true, while being wildly misleading," Schafer said. "That seems to be the new strategy."

On Thursday, the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google will appear at a U.S. House hearing centered around misinformation that spreads on their platforms.

In his opening remarks, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will tell lawmakers about the myriad ways the company is fighting to "keep harmful misinformation about Covid-19 from spreading," but the statement focuses only on false claims and makes no mention of these sorts of gray areas.

About 30% of Americans continue to express some hesitancy around getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Ann Bostrom, an expert on risk perception at the University of Washington, said many of these people are judging the situation incorrectly.

For people to calculate correctly the real risk involved in getting a shot, she said, they need to consider the hundreds of thousands who have died because they were not vaccinated against COVID-19, not just a random headline.

"We rarely get the contextual information we need," Bostrom said. "And it's really hard to judge the importance of something without that information."

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COVID19 Updates: 08/13/2021

UK: Can someone point me to where 'cases are stable' and vaccines are 'breaking the link between infections and serious illness'? Cases are rising from 30K/day, 615 deaths in the past wk & drops in hospitalisations have halted. This is literally PHE's own data.

US: 27 people test positive for coronavirus on Carnival cruise ship LINK

Fiji: 644 new cases reported on 13 August in Fiji, bringing the cumulative total to 39,456. Test positivity rate (7 day average) is 36.4%. #covid19 #covid19fiji

US: U.S. COVID update: More than 1,000 new deaths - New cases: 144,726 - Average: 125,533 (+2,987) - In hospital: 79,265 (+2,402) - In ICU: 19,271 (+655) - New deaths: 1,036

Indiana: BREAKING: The Supreme Court refuses grant Indiana University students’ request to block the school’s vaccine mandate. Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the request without referring it to the full court.

Mississippi: With hospital system near collapse, Mississippi begs for hospital ship to rescue state “The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues,” University of Mississippi School of Medicine Dean LouAnn Woodward said. LINK

Australia: 100s more Australian military personnel to deploy next week to Sydney, to help enforce city’s LD. This comes as officials report biggest daily in covid-19, & outbreak spreading beyond Sydney. Sydney’s nine-week LD now unlikely to end Aug 28, as originally planned;

Israel: Israel Health Ministry said it would be offering a third Pfizer dose to “people over 50, health care workers, people with severe risk factors for the coronavirus, prisoners and wardens”.

Thailand: Thailand projects that coronavirus cases in the country could double by early next month to 45,000 per day, despite lockdown measures. Thailand which recorded a record 23,418 new cases today and 184 new deaths, struggles to contain its worst outbreak to date;

Japan: Japan's daily coronavirus cases top 20,000 for 1st time LINK

Japan: Tokyo to set up 'waiting stations' to accept COVID-19 patients amid lack of hospital beds LINK

Japan: A woman infected in Japan's first case of the Lambda coronavirus variant has been identified as a person associated with the Tokyo Olympics, government sources said Friday. LINK

Germany: German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said the country could keep coronavirus restrictions until next Spring - BILD

US: NIH Director Collins says a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine could come "later this fall or early next year" LINK

US: New hospital admissions in the US due to COVID-19 rose +29.6% from a week ago.

Florida: New hospital admissions in Florida due to COVID-19 are up a further +22.3% from a week ago, to a new high.

Mississippi: ‘We are stretched to breaking point': Pulmonologist warns about the dire state of Mississippi hospitals LINK

Florida: After just the second day of school, 440 students were already quarantined in Florida's Palm Beach County due to detected cases of COVID.

World: American "archbishop" is distributing bleach as "miracle cure" for COVID LINK

Ohio: St. Vincent Medical Center saves patient with severe case of COVID-19 using ECMO technology LINK

Hawaii: 2 tourists were arrested in Hawaii in connection with fake COVID-19 vaccination cards, officials say LINK

Canada: Alberta to backtrack on plans to lift COVID-19 protocols, government source says LINK

UK: COVID-19: UK reports another 32,700 coronavirus cases and 100 deaths | UK News | Sky News

Tennessee: In the first two weeks of August, the Memphis Fire Department said it has been overwhelmed by a call volume 23 percent higher than this time last year. The Memphis dispatch center is taking an average of 469 calls a day. LINK

Tennessee: Methodist LeBonheur staff updates on Delta in the embedded video. Here is what it looks like here in the Mid-South. LINK

Israel: As of Wednesday, Israel had 451 seriously ill Covid patients in its hospitals. 276 are vaccinated: 266 fully, 10 partly. A year ago today, before vaccines existed, it had a TOTAL of 368 seriously ill hospitalized patients. If this is vaccine success, I'd hate to see failure.

Utah: With COVID-19 rates still holding strong, Utah's intensive care units are officially over capacity at 102% full. LINK

Vietnam: VIETNAM: COVID-19 lockdown extended in Hanoi's Chuong Duong through 28 August

Arkansas: #NEW: The number of #COVID19 patients admitted to Arkansas Children’s has slightly increased since Wednesday. 31 patients with coronavirus, 28 in Little Rock and three in Springdale. 14 are in ICU and seven are on a ventilator.

Arkansas: Arkansas now has TEN CASES OF THE LAMBDA VARIANT.

UK: Manchester United: For those attending tomorrow’s game, please consider downloading the NHS Covid-19 app onto your smartphone to be able to check in. You will be prompted to use the app when you enter the stadium.

RUMINT (UK): Had an old feller come in my covid testing clinic this afternoon, he is a cancer patient who has been isolating for the past year, double vaxxed, went out for the first time last weekend to watch a soccer match, woke up this morning, cough, sore throat, no taste or smell, came in to the clinic in a panic, the poor chap couldn't believe he had isolated that long, only to get infected at a soccer match

Texas: 96% of ICU beds across Texas are full as COVID cases surge: "Some wait hours, some wait days" LINK

RUMINT (Iowa): Nurse: We got a COVID+ admit last night here for the state fair. They are visiting with family from out of state. They knew they were COVID+. His family still plans to attend, "You can't catch covid outside."

UK: United Kingdom Daily Coronavirus (COVID-19) Report · Friday 13th August. 32,700 new cases (people positive) reported, giving a total of 6,211,868. 100 new deaths reported, giving a total of 130,801.

Arkansas: #BREAKING: Arkansas health officials report 1,458 #COVID19 hospitalizations, the highest ever since the pandemic began. The state recorded 3,023 new cases in the last 24 hours. #ARNews

World: Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.575.2 containing the E484K mutation in the spike protein in Pamplona (Spain) May-June 2021 LINK

Oregon: Is @OregonGovBrown and @OregonDHSAPD *trying* to repeat the mistake of NY gov Cuomo by moving COVID patients to long term care facilities? LINK

Iran: Iran’s Health System ‘Beyond Disastrous’ from Covid Surge

World: How SARS-CoV-2 Evades And Suppresses The Immune System (Part Two) LINK

US: BREAKING: Number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 tops 80,000

Tennessee: DRAMATIC! Latest @TNDeptofHealth data shows #COVID19 cases skyrocketing among Tennessee's school-age children - almost 4,000 cases reported so far this week.

US: Some U.S. hospitals have reported spikes in amputations as #COVID19 disrupted routine care. Major amputations shot up 42% last year at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, according to the hospital’s section chief for wound healing and tissue repair

Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, arguably the most important medical facility in the entire state of Tennessee, is "completely full." LINK

Hawaii: BREAKING: 1167 #COVID19 cases reported today, highest one day total but @HawaiiDOH says this is a combination of cases from the past 24 hrs plus cases from earlier this week not reported due to lab issues. Average daily count for the 3 days impacted = 729/day. #HawaiiNewsNow

District of Columbia: At Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., diagnoses of Type 2 Diabetes nearly tripled in the first year of the pandemic from a year earlier. Dr. Brynn Marks said school closures and decreased physical activity likely contributed to the spike

US: A COVID-19 patient in Oklahoma needed a bed. The closest one was in Boise,Idaho. It is 1,107 miles from Boise City, OK to Boise, ID. LINK

Alabama: #AL #Breaking Gov. Kay Ivey issues ‘limited’ COVID-19 emergency order; ‘No statewide mandates, closures’ LINK

South Carolina: Pickens County School District decides to go virtual after emergency meeting on COVID-19 cases LINK

World: Why the delta variant is hitting kids hard in the U.S. and how we can prevent that in Canada LINK

India: A 69-year-old fully vaccinated journalist has died of #DeltaPlusVariant of #COVID19 at Nagothane in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. LINK

US: U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 153,659 - Average: 128,680 (+3,147) - In hospital: 81,183 (+1,918) - In ICU: 19,856 (+585) - New deaths: 886

Philippines: 13,177 new Covid19 cases yesterday. Test Positivity Rate is 23.% Total tests done was 57,355 tests yesterday

Oregon: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon governor deploying up to 1,500 National Guard troops to support hospitals as COVID cases soar.

Iceland: Yesterday(12.08) Iceland 30 covid patients, 5 of them in the ICU, 4 on ventilators. 20 are fully vaccinated, 10 not vaccinated. Of the 5 in ICU, 4 are fully vaxed. 68 hospital admissions for this 40% not vaxed. 9 have been in the ICU, 6 of them vaxed. No deaths.

Georgia: Metro Atlanta school districts report over 3,000 cases of COVID-19 in first weeks. Georgia reports highest 7-day average of COVID-19 cases in children since start of pandemic. Georgia reported the highest 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases among children 17 and younger since the start of the pandemic Friday. Today’s 7-day average was 949.8 for children between 0 and 17 years old across the state. Just one month ago, on July 13, the state was averaging 69.1 cases in that age group. That represents over a 1,200% increase in cases over the course of the last 30 days. The previous highest 7-day average was 868.4 cases on Jan. 14, 2021.

RUMINT (Mississippi): What's the next level up from wild weasel? Because that's where Mississippi is today. Going parabolic over there. Two and a half times more cases than last Friday but nowhere left to put the sick.

New Jersey: @ABC7NY @CBSNewYork @NBCNewYork The State of New Jersey has almost 700 people in the ICU with COVID-19 variants. Eight died from COVID-19 on Wednesday. Southern New Jersey is a disaster.

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