Showing posts with label single use plastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label single use plastic. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Begone, single use plastics!

News blues

Yesterday, Prez Biden said, “The pandemic is over… We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think it's changing…”
Hmmm, shades of Donald Trump
Luckily, We the People have straight talking Dr Anthony Fauci to a reality check Biden’s wishful thinking:
It is unlikely the U.S. will eradicate the coronavirus and a “suspicious” new variant, BA 2.75.2, is on the horizon, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said Monday during a fireside chat with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“We are not where we need to be if we are going to quote ‘live with the virus’ because we know we are not going to eradicate it,” Fauci said. “The next question we ask: ‘Are we going to be able to eliminate it from our country or from most of the world?’ and the answer is unlikely, because it is highly transmissible and the immunity that’s induced by vaccine or infection is also transient.”
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The Lincoln Project:
Rally of darkness  (1:02 mins)
Rick Reacts: Contract with America  (1:50 mins)

Healthy planet, anyone?

Add your name to shut down single use plastics, at least in the US
Earlier this year, Oceana  joined 180 other organizations in calling on the Biden administration's General Services Administration (GSA) — the agency responsible for the federal government's purchasing policies — to prohibit federal agencies from buying single-use plastics. And now, the Biden administration is moving forward to examine ways to reduce single-use plastics.
We have an opportunity to make a real difference on the amount of plastic the United States purchases and uses, and we need your voice!
Right now, the federal government is accepting public comment on the use of single-use plastic products in the U.S. government.
Stand with Oceana and countless others to tell the federal government it's time to stop purchasing and using single-use plastic.

Add your name >> 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Post-chemo day 5
Mary reports “feeling better, diminished nausea though continued fatigue and hints of tinnitus.” (According to Dr Internet, “the chemotherapy drug cisplatin may cause ringing or other sounds in the ears, [aka tinnitus]. It may improve gradually after treatment ends but sometimes it can be permanent.)
A growing concern is that fatigue and weakness prevent Mary’s twice daily walks along the beach – 2 to 3 miles per day on good days. Lack of exercise exacerbates Mary’s old spine and hip injuries, the x-rays of which led to uncovering the epithelioid pleural mesothelioma squatting comfortably in her left lung.
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SF Bay Area:
Sunrise: 6:56am
Sunset: 7:08pm

KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:51am
Sunset: 5:54pm