At 101, she’s still hauling lobsters with no plans to stop

 

At 101, she’s still hauling lobsters with no plans to stop ABC

Betty Reid Soskin is 100 years old today and is the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service. A colleague once once described her as "sort of like Bette Davis, Angela Davis and Yoda all rolled into one".

Becoming popular in China and Japan... QR codes on gravestones. Scan the code and find out more about the person buried there, some have videos about the person's life.

Why the Bezzle Matters to the Economy Michael Pettis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From August, still germane.

World Bank Ends Doing Business Report in a Landmark Victory for People and Planet Oakland Institute. Wilmer Hale’s report to the Board of Executive Directors.

The U.N.’s Own Humanitarian Crisis New York Magazine

The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica New Scientist

  Antimicrobial coating for orthopedic implants prevents dangerous infections.We 

MORE COVID-19 HYPOCRISY: San Francisco Mayor London Breed Partied Maskless at a Jazz Club.

The video makes it look like a really hopping time. But notice that there isn’t a mask in sight, even though Breed’s own COVID-19 orders require bar, restaurant, and club customers to wear masks when not actively eating or drinking. A local news channel asked Breed about this, and here’s what she said:

No, I’m not going to sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask on, eat and put my mask on. While I’m eating, and I’m drinking, I’m going to keep my mask off,” Breed said.

In response to getting up and dancing without the mask on while at the Black Cat, she said she was sitting at her table with her drink but got up to dance because she was “feeling the spirit” and she “wasn’t thinking about a mask, I was thinking about having a good time, and in the process, I was following the health order.”

Breed is right: It is ridiculous to require vaccinated people to mask up under such circumstances. But the obvious solution here would be to rescind the mandate. Breed shouldn’t have to follow it, because no one should have to follow it.

“Feeling the spirit” and “thinking about having a good time, and in the process, I was following the health order,” should be every vaccinated person’s cri de coeur when the mask nazis come in 2021.

Flashback: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.

The Sacrificial King Charles Eisenstein

 

The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries Bloomberg. I was going to write this up….a very good, in depth account.

 

California governor signs legislation to protect warehouse workers Reuters