Category: health
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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts and Jillian Ambrose at The Guardian reporting on this report from Oxfam: Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single…
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Global Inaction Against COVID-19 has Orphaned Estimated 10.5 Million Children
The collaborative commissioned a 2021 report, Hidden Pain, which provided some of the first concrete details on children orphaned by covid-19. To date, there are at least 10.5 million of these children worldwide, with studies showing that the burden has fallen heaviest on low income nations. One report in May 2022 revealed that an estimated…
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How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
This is an amazing article by Rachel Aviv for the New Yorker about elderly people in Nevada being tossed out of their homes and having their possessions taken by a genuinely evil system of guardianship that was supposed to take care of them. There is too much to quote in the article, but the main…
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Swine Flu Dance Hall
What is CDC’s recommendation regarding “swine flu parties”? CDC does not recommend “swine flu parties” as a way to protect against novel H1N1 flu in the future. While the disease seen in the current novel H1N1 flu outbreak has been mild for many people, it has been severe and even fatal for others. There is…
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(Free) Box of Kotex Tampons-Super Plus (via Craigslist)
Found tonight under the free section on Craigslist in Philadelphia: “Unopened box of Kotex Super Plus tampons. They will be in a plastic bag hanging on the mailbox at 359 Richfield Road in Upper Darby. Don’t bother emailing, just come and get them. Post will be removed as soon as they’re gone.”