COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and "donate" or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go "Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3" when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.
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While Darwin is often credited as the father of the Theory of Evolution, itâd be more precise to say that he was the father of the Theory of Evolution âby Natural Selectionâ.Â
Darwinâs genius was not in realizing that animals change over time, but in identifying the mechanisms by which these changes occur.Â
The idea that animals evolve over generations was proposed by a number of scientists and philosophers in various forms. And today, we will look at Al Jahiz, who proposed the idea some 1000 years before our English naturalist.
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.
There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.
There is no plan.
Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.
We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.
This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.
We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.
People are dying.
People are dying.
People are dying and there is no plan.
More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.
My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.
Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.
But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.
She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.
So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.
Even a small amount of 5 or 7 or 10 of foreign currency will help a lot. Our government has essentially abandoned us. People have turned to social media for help. WhatsApp groups and DMs on twitter/insta is where we find help. Our helpline is a Google doc. Situation is so dire that hospitals are discharging patients due to lack of oxygen. Every night the same story, oxygen running out in hospitals, citizens running around to somehow arrange for oxygen with minutes to spare. Last night, we had manged to get oxygen to a hospital with 14min to spare.
Reblogging with more links. Listen to @groundzero-and-deku âď¸ they know what they're talking about.
Some of you in the US have asked what else you can do. I'm not the best person to answer this since I'm not from there, but I do know that Biden is being urged to ship supplies to India. Maybe a more informed person can chime in with how best you can help but calling your representative and registering your concern sounds like a good starting point.
From one democracy to another, thank you. Please keep this going, you're all amazing.
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.
There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.
There is no plan.
Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.
We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.
This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.
We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.
People are dying.
People are dying.
People are dying and there is no plan.
More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.
My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.
Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.
But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.
She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.
So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.
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In the MCU the language is referred to as Xhosa. Even in the subtitles of Black Panther. The director, actors ESPECIALLY John Kani who played King T'Chaka and Xhosa being his native language worked too damn hard for the closed caption team of future MCU projects and fans to call that very real language 'Wakandan'. John Kani speaks fluent Xhosa and the cast felt it was right to make that the native language of Wakanda. So to REITERATE OP's point AGAIN: STOP calling the very REAL Xhosa language "Wakandan language".
as of 22nd April 2021 we have about 16.3M new cases and a death toll of 187K . Only about 1.4% of the population has been fully vaccinated yet.
on top of that, we've been facing a major shortage in oxygen supply (to the point where the govt has decided to airlift oxygen from other nations), a shortage in hospital beds and services. The numbers keep rising and with the spread of the new strain, the scenario has transformed into something deadlier than ever.
our infrastructures are falling apart and we need all the help possible at this very moment so the nation can be atleast saved when there's still a chance. I've already lost two of my friends, a teacher and family to the second wave and I can only imagine how much worse it can get. so i would like to take this opportunity to link in some donation posts belowâ
Donate to trusted local nonprofits in India responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Your gift is eligible for tax benefits in the U
> Here is Akshaya Patra's Covid-19 relief serviceâ help provide meals and packed grocery to those in need
Protect India from Coronavirus
Getting the word out at this time of crisis matters.
Pro-Capitalistâs defense of capitalism is just explaining how it works, and then when you say âyes I know, I just think it shouldnât be like thatâ they explain it to you again but angrier this time
They say âItâs fair because the people who own capital earn all the rewardsâ and then you say âI dont think owning capital entitles you to all the profitsâ and then their brain short circuits
In my experience with my students (8-12 year olds), if given a question like, say, âlist five famous Africans and what they are famous forâ, they will type verbatim into google âlist five famous Africans and what they are famous forâ, click on the first youtube video, and if that doesnât give them the exact answer they need, immediately give up.
This is also my experience with my 16-18 year old students. Though they will at least look at the first three articles google gives themâŚand then give up if they canât find the exact information
I just wish they knew how to use keywords. Yes, search engines have become really good at interpreting full phrases and pulling keywords from conversational requests, but you can search so much more efficiently if you donât make them do that.
This also speaks⌠badly⌠for the future of misinformation on the internet. No matter how many classes we run about reliable sources.
We literally just had a really great discussion in my class (library of information science degree) about information literacy and who is teaching it to the newer generations and how linked data fits in with it. The answer for some of it is the english teacher does for the most part but kids retain it better and use it faster when the teacher works with the school librarian. Also it depends on what device is being used. Because of the data that search engines keep a teacher and a student can search for the same exact phrase or terminology and they will have completely different results. With the teachers being more relevant because they use their device for work rather than play.
#the keywords confuse the shit out of me#I canât keep them straight in my head and mix them all up#half the time when I use them it tells me there are no search results.#they only told me about them my junior year of collage so I was already fuckedÂ
If you wanted to yell your request for information to your friend on the other side of a loud, crowded party in, like, 3 words, what 3 words would you pick? Those are your search terms.
So in our example in the first post, you do NOT type the full question into your search engine. Making google parse things like âlistâ, â5â˛, and âexplainâ is going to muddy your results, and this is especially true if you care enough about your data that youâre not using google. Your search terms (WITHOUT quotation marks) would be âfamous Africansâ, or âfamous African peopleâ or âprominent Africansâ if you want to be more discerning about what kinds of answers you get.
If you do a lot of online research (as kids in school should do), you pretty quickly get a sense of what sorts of terms are best. For instance, âfamous African peopleâ is better than âfamous Africansâ because the latter is likely to be keywords in a lot of fluff journal article titles, whereas âfamous African peopleâ is more likely to bring up lists. âProminentâ will bring up more wealthy businessmen and political leaders, whereas âfamousâ will bring up more entertainers. But any of these will work. Just pretend the search engine is someone who canât hear you very well and wants the clearest question in the smallest number of words.
(Although this specific example is bad because anyone with internet research experience answering this question would just go straight to wikipedia, who have lists of these kinds of things, and pick 5 names they like the sound of).
Also, if you wanna get fancy, print this out and stick it on your wall:
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It will make your life SO MUCH easier. (And, as you can see, this is why typing some questions into google verbatim is a bad idea, especially if you donât use quotation marks. Not using the quotes and typing in anything with âandâ or âorâ in it can confuse the search engine.)
Oomph, for the whole keywords thing if you are on a school database or any database with peer reviewed journals/articles, there will be a thesaurus or an index where you can search for the keywords (aka the controlled vocabulary) that are used on that database. Itâs generally kept by the tools or help button or searched easily enough if they dont out right post the button. So if you are looking up journal articles on a specific topic or by a specific person you can search the index for that topic or term and it will tell you outright how many times that term appears within the database and give you alternate terms that are close to it. For example if you are searching for Mary Bolin it might bring up results for
Bolin, Mary
Bolin, Mary A.
Bolin , Mary K.
And so on.
If you are searching for a topic it will tell you the same thing or might even bring up alternate like terms so if you were searching for Behavior Therapy it might bring up
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior
Therapy
Skinner, B. F.
And so on.
Legit controlled vocabulary or (CV) will change with each database but the only nice thing about big publishers having control over all of the articles is that the CV doesnt change as much.
Here is a quick video that explains what boolean operators are and how to use them on databases and search engines that will help narrow or broaden your searches even more.
I have another class day today and donât want to get started on boolean or Google.
I dont go to this library school but it seems legit enough.
Also check out your local library they generally have awesome databases you can use that are prepaid through your tax dollars if you live in the states.
Y'all need to start giving Black and African women intellectual credit for their work. Not doing so is also a tactic of violent capitalism and patriarchy.
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France has always and I mean ALWAYS had a history of IslamophobiaâŚbut, for those of you who donât know whatâs going on right now:
Theyâre trying to ban the slaughter of Halal chicken, citing animal cruelty and claiming Halal (I believe they also discussed Kosher) methods of slaughter are unethical compared to the European practice of stunning the animal (the Halal way of slaughter would be a cut to the jugular vein so that the animal feels no pain).
They then proceeded to ban the wearing of the Hijab (the Muslim headscarf) for girls under 18 in public places.
They also banned Hijabi mothers (women who wear the Hijab) from accompanying their child on school field trips.
Furthermore, they banned the Burkini (a swimsuit that a lot of Muslim women wear) at public swimming pools.
These restrictions (I have definitely not covered a lot of them) fall under Franceâs Separatism Bill which still needs to be passed by the National Assembly. France maintains that these actions are to uphold secularism (the separation of religion and state).
However, these targeted laws and the statements accompanying themâŚ
The Hijab ban was the âprohibition in the public space of any conspicuous religious sign by minors and of any dress or clothing which would signify an interiorization of women over men.â This is a commonly used trope about Islam and Muslim men; that they are oppressive of women which is absolutely not trueâŚtake it from a Muslim woman! đ§đ˝
Emmanuel Macron said that Hijab is ânot in accordance with French idealsâ. This again alludes to the misconception that Hijab is oppressive and that by taking it away, we are liberating women. I donât deny that there are women who had Hijab forced upon them, but what France is not acknowledging is that the forcing of any religious action upon people is completely the opposite of Islamic teachings and that there are actually women out there who can make decisions about what they want to wearâŚSurprise! It may come as a bit of a shock to themâŚ
âŚjust showcase how deeply rooted these laws are in Islamophobia and how France is maximizing restrictions on daily Muslim life just toâŚbe a white saviour?
There are five million Muslims in France right now and they are all being affected by this.
from Jessica Price on Twitter:Â âAs people from non-Christian backgrounds/traditions/cultures keep telling everyone, the western idea of a ânonreligiousâ society is a white Christian society with the serial numbers filed off.â
Full thread here that explains why culturally Christian countries claiming that only they are the arbiters of whatâs âreligiousâ or not is discriminatory and nonsensical and anti-pluralist.
also, from Just Say Christian:Â âThe thing about describing countries or people as being completely devoid of religious association by calling them âsecularâ is that âsecularâ is, itself, a term originating within Christianity, based on Christian texts and connoting a Christian perspective on religion.â also a thread there.
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