Notices by kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social), page 3

@dansup @pixelfed 👏

@shoq @gwaldby I misread that as “BALLETpedia” so that was slightly confusing

Comprehensive review confirms mask effectiveness against respiratory infections: strong evidence that masks & respirators effectively reduce the transmission of respiratory infections like #COVID-19
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/comprehensive-review-confirms-masks-reduce-covid-19-transmission

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to arid town in Ecuador: A historian discovered the water collection system long ago used by Palta Indigenous people & persuaded locals in Catacocha to apply it by building 250 artificial lagoons

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/an-ancient-indigenous-lagoon-system-brings-water-back-to-a-dry-town-in-ecuador/

This is a thoughtful reflection on a difficult issue in Palestine: "Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

ht Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/indigenous/

@jeffcliff m80 your replies to those folks are not encouraging re the quality of those inputs though 🤣

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

“The big difference…was that all of the scientists I worked with were incredibly frustrated. Everyone was at the end of their rope, asking: what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

Funny how many folks up north don’t realise that the #AuroraBorealis is not the only #Aurora - there is also the #AuroraAustralis down in the southern parts

Chinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after Chinese government shuts his lab

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0

From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 #BirdFlu

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/h5n1-bird-flu-hospital-wastewater-surveillance/

Probably the best and right commentary on the whole man vs bear thing right now.

Public policy and health in the Trump era via The Lancet

“Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health.”

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/abstract

@michaelgemar @cdarwin @bmacDonald94 the GOP really are stepping up their war on science

@bmacDonald94 yes indeed and it is sad to see them destroying hard fought public health initiatives for ideological reasons

Pretty petty: Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association

https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/

Texas Republicans Share Perfectly Normal Fantasies About Killing Women Who Have Abortions, IVF: “This past January, a group of Republican Party officals in Hood County, Texas, met with a group called Abolish Abortion Texas to discuss how they would like to put women to death — including minors, including victims of rape and incest — for having abortions or IVF, along with the doctors who perform them.”

https://www.wonkette.com/p/texas-republicans-share-perfectly

@GossiTheDog it’s so gonna happen in so many places 🤦♀️

UNRWA head says ongoing conflict in Gaza is a 'war against children': Philippe Lazzarini says more children have been killed in four months of war in Gaza than in four years of wars worldwide.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/03/15/unrwa-head-says-ongoing-conflict-in-gaza-is-a-war-against-children

The other thing that strikes me is how viciously the Nazis went after their “enemies” as soon as they got into power. They attacked leftists, communists, church leaders & intellectuals (as well as Jews). They had lists of people they wanted gone. And they ticked off those lists assiduously. Nobody expected this in a “civilised” nation.

I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.