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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-covid-inquiry-has-laid-bare

#UK #Covid #Covid19 #SarsCov2 #crisis #healthCare #NHS #mortality

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Making sense... of evidence, data, and the stories they tell

apiecha 1d ago

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #analogueArt #painting #mentalCinema #contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #inkjetPrint #mixedMedia #acrylicColours #climateActionNow #saveBioDiversity #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #skull #death #mementoMori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #ants #insects #society #helicopter #transport #woodenTub #gardenSnails

Giuseppe Michieli 1d ago

#Infant #mortality rises in #Argentina, breaking long-term trend https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/03/27/latam-argentina-infant-mortality-rises/1851774624301/

Infant mortality rises in Argentina, breaking long-term trend - UPI.com

Infant mortality in Argentina, a key indicator of health, social and economic conditions, increased slightly, breaking a two-decade downward trend.

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apiecha 2d ago

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for mental cinema!
#kunst #analogueArt #painting #mentalCinema #contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #inkjetPrint #mixedMedia #acrylicColours #climateActionNow #saveBioDiversity #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #anatomyModel #muscles #pedestal #masculinity #dancingdeath #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #chicken #roosters #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #despair

DOLLSEXPOSED.COM 2d ago

"Ephemera" highlights the collision of sex work, mental health, and death through a series of photographs with sixth-scale dolls.

https://dollsexposed.com/2026/03/ephemera/

#dollsexposed #photography #sexwork #gay #mentalhealth #mortality #depression

Ephemera – DOLLSEXPOSED

Dollsexposed's Ephemera is a series of three tableaus that attempts to capture intimacy and mortality.

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TinJar 2d ago

2/ "This erodes a fifth of the average worldwide decline in #maternal #mortality achieved since 1990." #GOP actively kills women not just in the US but globally. May they rot in hell!!

TinJar 2d ago

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14915/us-presidential-party-switches-are-mirrored-in-global-maternal-mortality

"We estimate that a switch from #Democratic to #Republican party, for an aid-receiving country with above-median reliance on #US #family planning #aid, is associated with an additional 0.6 deaths per 1,000 #women , an increase of 8%. This erodes a fifth of the average worldwide decline in #maternal #mortality achieved since 1990."

#GOP actively kills women not just in the US but globally. May they rot in hell!!

US Presidential Party Switches Are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or servic...

WIST Quotations 2d ago

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

   Wherein, then, is your grievance? You are not ejected from the city [life] by any unjust judge or tyrant, but by the selfsame Nature which brought you into it; just as when an actor is dismissed by the manager who engaged him.
   “But I have played no more than three of the five acts.” Just so; in your drama of life, three acts are all the play. Its point of completeness is determined by him who formerly sanctioned your creation, and today sanctions your dissolution. Neither of those decisions lay within yourself.
   Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go.

[τί οὖν δεινόν, εἰ τῆς πόλεως ἀποπέμπει σε οὐ τύραννος οὐδὲ δικαστὴς ἄδικος, ἀλλ̓ ἡ φύσις ἡ εἰσαγαγοῦσα, οἷον εἰ κωμῳδὸν ἀπολύοι τῆς σκηνῆς ὁ παραλαβὼν στρατηγός;—ἀλλ̓ οὐκ εἶπον τὰ πέντε μέρη, ἀλλὰ τὰ τρία.—καλῶς εἶπας: ἐν μέντοι τῷ βίῳ τὰ τρία ὅλον τὸ δρᾶμά ἐστι. τὸ γὰρ τέλειον ἐκεῖνος ὁρίζει ὁ τότε μὲν τῆς συγκρίσεως. νῦν δὲ τῆς διαλύσεως αἴτιος: σὺ δὲ ἀναίτιος ἀμφοτέρων. ἄπιθι οὖν ἵλεως: καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἀπολύων ἵλεως.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 36 (12.36) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8281…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #actor #curtain #death #departure #direction #drama #exit #grace #gracefulexit #life #lifespan #living #mortality #peace #purpose #serenity #stage #stoicism