bicmay

bicmay, 10 months ago to security

"President Biden has picked Dr. Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force major general who helped lead the Covid-19 response at the Pentagon, to head a new White House office created by Congress to prepare for and manage future biological threats...It will then be up to Dr. Friedrichs to set up the new office, the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/politics/paul-friedrichs-white-house-pandemic-office.html

#publichealth #preparedness #security

bicmay, 10 months ago to BTS

"I am absolutely ARMY! And RM should be president. My favourite BTS song would have to be Boy With Luv because I listened to it incessantly—like, thousands of times—throughout translating the BTS book. It is the perfect song. Everyone’s voice sounds so good but especially J-Hope’s in his rap, it pushes me to the brink of tears with joy."

Squee! This song sucked me in, too. It's the perfect pop song. You can't be unhappy listening to it.

https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/big-story/bts-book-anton-hur-beyond-the-story-jungkook-rm-111689871223138.html

#BTS #BTSARMY

bicmay, 10 months ago to literature

You may have heard how the Smithsonian cancelled the upcoming Asian American LitFest with a poor explanation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/07/14/smithsonian-cancels-asian-american-literature-festival/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQzMTY3NzU2IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4OTgyNTYwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY5MTEyMTU5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg5ODI1NjAwLCJqdGkiOiJiMjJjN2E4NC03MjBkLTRiNDQtYWM1OS1lNDRhMzZhY2QwYzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vYm9va3MvMjAyMy8wNy8xNC9zbWl0aHNvbmlhbi1jYW5jZWxzLWFzaWFuLWFtZXJpY2FuLWxpdGVyYXR1cmUtZmVzdGl2YWwvIn0.TmLE3UcJsD05qiqgt4KIrbo2wzJc81-1UPTr_l8mZjQ&itid=gfta

Sign on to the open letter and learn other ways to advocate: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-_8IhpP4e8IXD8Gb25WsrlRhfR1Er3CUSvejLpGJegE/edit

#aapi #aanhpi #literature #culture

bicmay, 10 months ago to random

"Throughout his career, Bruce Lee accepted students from across a variety of backgrounds; one of his first students was Jesse Glover, a Black man who would go on to be his first assistant instructor in the U.S. Glover, a victim of police brutality, had taken up martial arts as self-defense. Bruce Lee’s highly publicized friendship with NBA legend and civil rights advocate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also became a symbol of solidarity and allyship across communities."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/bruce-lees-daughter-explains-people-misunderstand-icons-legacy-rcna94141

#aanhpi

bicmay, 10 months ago to Texas

"Data from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice obtained from a state lawmaker showed its 68 prisons without air conditioning were sweltering last month, averaging well over 85 degrees. That would be a safety violation for a county jail, which mandates temperatures remain below 85 degrees.

But no such regulation exists for state prisons — some of which reached as high as 106

Cruel and unusual, non?

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-19/texas-prisoners-struggle-to-endure-heat-wave-in-facilities-without-air-conditioning

#prisons #incarceration #Texas #txlege #heat

bicmay, 10 months ago to Medicine

"In less than a month, seven U.S.-based providers affiliated with Aid Access...have mailed 3,500 doses of abortion pills to people in antiabortion states, according to Aid Access, putting just this small group alone on track to help facilitate at least 42,000 abortions in restricted states over the next year. If more doctors and nurses sign up, as current providers hope they will, the numbers could climb far higher."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/doctors-northeast-launch-abortion-pill-pipeline-into-states-with-bans/

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #medicine #doctors

bicmay, 10 months ago to random

"[Maine] Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law Wednesday that allows abortions at any time if deemed medically necessary by a doctor, making the law one of the nation’s least restrictive...'We must recognize the complexity of pregnancy,' Mills said. 'And like every other health care procedure, we’ve got to take government out of the decision-making process and put the doctor and the patient in charge.'”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/19/1188828153/denied-abortion-for-a-doomed-pregnancy-she-tells-texas-court-there-was-no-mercy

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #USpol

bicmay, 10 months ago to privacy

“Surveillance doesn’t stop at the state line. Even as progressive states seek to protect abortion and gender affirming care within our borders, anti-choice states are continuing to expand the threat that they will prosecute residents who leave the state to find evidence-based medical treatment. Every hotel reservation and bridge toll will be just one subpoena away from being used against a patient in court.”

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4103495-patients-seeking-abortion-gender-affirming-care-at-risk-of-increased-surveillance-report/

#healthcare #privacy #reproductivejustice #lgbtq

bicmay, 10 months ago to food

“We see a lot of growth in Korean hot dogs and Korean food in general and snacks, in between Sioux City and Kansas City. It’s the college towns. Asian immigrants are moving to middle America for jobs — Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong. Korean food is not just popular with white Americans but other Asian ethnicities because they’re listening to Korean music, watching dramas."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/korean-corn-dogs-are-frankly-hit-ny-kansas-rcna93669

#aapi #aanhpi #food #culture

bicmay, 10 months ago to iowa

"An Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.

That means abortion is once again legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy while the courts assess the new law’s constitutionality."

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-six-weeks-abortion-ban-lawsuit-ad0bb52064d094b91f5efbc135ed4437

#reproductivejustice #abortion #Iowa

bicmay, 10 months ago to Health

“My case is a cautionary tale, particularly for the ‘just a cold’ folks,” Wachter tweeted in a long thread about his ordeal Wednesday evening. “Mine definitely was not… I literally have scars to show for it.”

Wishing Dr. Bob Wachter a speedy recovery

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/13/ucsf-medical-chief-laid-low-by-covid-virus-he-had-guided-thousands-on-avoiding/

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #healthcare #health #PublicHealth #MaskUp

moonchildontheblueside, 10 months ago to BTS

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bicmay, 10 months ago to random

A combination of past and present, of tradition and modern, Khmeraspora also features a plethora of Cambodian American artists—from musicians (playing traditional Cambodian and western instruments) and traditional Cambodian dancers, to actors and composers—because as Ly puts it, “our community is so gifted, there’s so much talent in our community.”

https://joysauce.com/khmeraspora-a-celebration-of-cambodian-culture-and-arts/

#aapi #aanhpi #culture

bicmay, 10 months ago to environment

"Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative [creosote] that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor announced Thursday."

https://apnews.com/article/houston-relocates-residents-polluted-neighborhood-cancer-04adf611697ab3f5d0ef9dd0e9070394

#publichealth #environment #cancer #Houston

bicmay, 10 months ago to random

"Black women in the Americas bear a heavier burden of maternal mortality than their peers, but according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations, the gap between who lives and who dies is especially wide in the world’s richest nation — the United States."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/12/un-black-maternal-health-crisis-across-hemisphere-not-just-us/

#pregnancy #disparities #racism

mekkaokereke, 10 months ago to random

Sharing in case this helps someone.

The last time someone in our household got Covid, we were able to keep it from spreading to anyone else. ♥️🙏🏿 This time we were not so lucky. My Covid high score streak is finally broken! Rona got me y'all!

Completely unscientific observations of how this thing looks to have beat our mitigations:

Day 0: Contagious. No symptoms. Negative tests.

Day 1: Contagious. Slight symptoms. Negative test.

Day 2: Contagious. More severe symptoms. Positive tests.

bicmay, 11 months ago to conspiracy

"Q was much more than a hobby or an internet fixation. It was (and is) a support network that isolated followers from friends and family, becoming a close virtual community and impenetrable echo chamber. 'You have to rebuild your entire identity, so it’s a psychological, emotional, and oftentimes interpersonal crisis.'”

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a37696261/leaving-recovering-from-q-anon/

#USpol #conspiracy

bicmay, 11 months ago to random

"Asian American anti–affirmative action activists...are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives. They are building a key flank for the right wing across the nation, and the left must urgently recognize that right-wing politics precisely gain power by recruiting conservative ideologies among communities of color that overlap with, but retain distinct aspects from, white supremacy."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/asian-american-conservatives-white-supremacy/

#aapi #aanhpi #affirmativeaction

bicmay, 11 months ago to random

"On July 1, Idaho became the only state without a legal requirement or specialized committee to review maternal deaths related to pregnancy.

The change comes after state lawmakers, in the midst of a national upsurge in maternal deaths, decided not to extend a sunset date for the panel set in 2019, when they established the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, or MMRC."

So Idaho will let pregnant people die without investigation.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/idaho-drops-panel-investigating-pregnancy-related-deaths-as-us-maternal-mortality-surges/

#pregnancy #obstetrics

bicmay, 11 months ago to random

"Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.

Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within them – fared worse than others."

https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e

#healthcare #pregnancy #disparities

bicmay, 11 months ago to Netflix

"When Netflix launched in South Korea in 2016, workers and labor activists hoped that the global streamer, accustomed to stricter labor standards negotiated by Hollywood’s unions, would be an uplifting force in an industry notorious for abysmal working conditions...But the excitement of those early days has faded as the realities of the company’s business model have set in."

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-06-28/netflix-dominates-the-south-korean-entertainment-industry-but-has-done-little-to-raise-labor-standards

#kdramas #Netflix #labor

bicmay, 11 months ago to languagelearning

"Most babies start by learning words in both languages. But when they go to preschool they only continue with one. And why is that? Because suddenly there is only a focus on this one part of them and children soon sense that their other language is worthless. Worthless!"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-what-happens-when-you-cant-speak-your-parents-native-language

#aapi #aanhpi #languages

bicmay, 11 months ago to BTS

Q: What is something you would like to tell your juniors, or the people that look up to you?

A: Everything will be fine. There will be times when you feel at your worst. I’ve had that kind of time too. But when you look back at it, it becomes a memory, and you can learn from it. It’ll be okay in the end.

https://www.vogue.co.jp/article/2023-august-bts-suga-cover-interview-english

#BTS #BTSARMY #Suga #AgustD