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I like to go for walks and look at things. Sometimes I draw them. Migrant from political-twitter. I want a different life here.
#gardens #cats #drawing
People do not understand how to equate things with “lower” risk into their daily lives. Most are pretending that #COVID19 is so low risk, they act like it's gone. They do this, even though COVID remains a top three cause of death in the US and took 0.08% of Americans' lives last year. If 0.08% of US flights crashed and killed fliers, that would mean 36 plane crashes and 2,300 people dead EVERY SINGLE DAY. If that were the case, almost no one would get on a plane. So, why won't we #WearAMask?
COVID cases among infants born to infected moms 5 times higher amid Omicron

The authors said findings support the importance of vaccinating women during and after pregnancy.

Lights off on the pandemic: Johns Hopkins University to retire COVID-19 tracker

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus resource center said yesterday that after three years of reporting on the COVID pandemic they are shutting down their much relied on tracker.

World Socialist Web Site

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The Strange and Charming World of Finnish Artist Antti Laitinen

In his water phase, Finnish artist Antti Laitinen made an island in the Baltic Sea by piling sandbags, from the seafloor up, over a period of three months

Gardenista
Guns confiscated at US airports hit record levels

More than 6,000 firearms were found on passengers so far this year - most were still loaded.

BBC News