The International Skating Union and government of Stockholm are planning to host the World Figure Skating Championships with no bubble, close to no safety measures, and with kids as young as 15 attending without parents, who then would be quarantined in a foreign country without support if they get COVID-19.
The “safety measures” :
Arrival no later than 1- 2 days before the event starts. If participants want to quarantine before or after the event, they HAVE TO pay out of pocket.
Only 2 Covid tests administered.
A loophole if you happen have a positive PCR test .
Masks suggested not mandated
Only temperature checks after negative pcr tests
Symptoms self reported by athletes, there is no enforcement of this
The ISU has also not been forthcoming or clear with vital details- they say regular testing but have not given a schedule for testing and only detailed the first 2 tests
They have not given any information about if parents or family can accompany minors other than-no chaperones as part of the national team - nothing about if kids will have to be alone. This is because instead of increasing the measures like testing they cut down the number of people allowed (these details were also only given after fans petitioned)
Stockholm’s case count has also just doubled in 3 weeks, and their Crown Princess (Who’s supposed to be at the event) got infected
Sweden is also currently considered a high risk/incidence area by multiple countries- here’s Japan ( where 80% of figure skating’s money come from) and Germany’s classification (most flights to Stockholm also connect through Germany)
Covid-19s effect on athletes include but are not limited to- heart and lung damage, breathlessness, heart defects, asthma, here are just some accounts from figure skaters
Anastasia Shpilevya- Russian Ice dancer- has had to end her career due to covid complications
Evgenia medvedeva - 2x world champion, 2x olympic silver medalist - has lung damage
Daniel Grassl - 3x Italian national champion- now has a heart defect and lung damage
Many like Nathan Chen(2x world champ), Yuzuru Hanyu( 2x world champion 2x olympic chamiopn) and Jason Brown( Us national chmapion) have spoken about their concern for their own safety and the safety of their friends and fellow athletes.
Yuzuru has been raising his voice for moths now so you can check out his interviews at https://twitter.com/axelwithwings
These skaters have NO CHOICE but to go, most of the spots for the 2022 olympics are only available through this 1 competition. In speed skating, where the qualification is different, Korea, Japan, Britain and China pulled their teams out of the world championships (despite having 10x the safety precautions).
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Dustin Higgs is a Maryland based artist on Death Row for a crime he did not commit -
He was convicted and sentenced to the federal death penalty as an accomplice to the 1996 murders of Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black and Mishann Chinn. It was the first federal death sentence handed down in Maryland in the modern era.
Dustin was not the person who actually shot the three women. In fact, it was Willis Haynes who pulled the trigger, and he was sentenced to life in prison plus 45 years after a separate jury spared him the death penalty for the crime. With the resumption of federal executions in 2020, Dustin's life is at serious risk.
He is sentenced to be excecuted on Jan 15. 2021. 3 days before MLK Day and just 5 DAYS BEFORE THE NEW FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION IS PUT IN PLACE
Please if you have just one second or one spec of human decency, click these links.
Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.
Some positive graffiti for a change
- the way his voice goes down after the line “notice at all”
- the slight annoyance, not anger?, when he says “i’d rather fake pee than stand awkwardly or pretend to check a text on my phone”
- just,,, “when i was half of a pairrrr”
- the stress on the word “mine” in ‘no fault of mine’
- “picking at grout as i softly grieve”
- IM JUST MICHAEL WHO YOU DON’T KNOW, MICHAEL FLYING SOLO, MICHAEL IN THE BATHROOM BY HIMSELFFF, OH BY HIMSELF
- “I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!”
- the difference between the first chorus of “now i’m just michael in the bathroom” vs the second
- he sounds so upset and heartbroken
- “blame it on weed, or soME THING IN MY EYEE”
- IM JUST MICHAEL WHO YOU DON’T KNOW, MICHAEL FLYING SOLO, MICHAEL IN THE BATHROOM BY HIMSELFFFFFF
- knock knock knock knock
- the slight catching of breath on “anymore”
- “for a different tiImMMeeE”
- mmmmmmmichael in the bathroom at a party
- the way he sings the lines “wish i’d off myself instead, wish i was never born” with as much passion as he does
- IM JUST MICHAEL WHO’S A LONER, SO HE MUST BE A STONER, RIDES A PT CRUISER, GOD HE’S SUCH A LOSER, MICHAEL FLYING SOLO, WHO YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW, MICHAEL IN THE BATHROOM BY HIMSELFFFFFF, OHH BY HIMSELFFFF, OH BY HIMSELLLFFFFF
- “awesome party, im so glad i came”
did i mention i love michael in the bathroom yet?
The city of Philadelphia will pay $2 million to a Black woman who was pulled from a car, beaten by officers and had her toddler used for social media fodder by the police union, officials said.
Nursing aide Rickia Young was headed home in the early morning hours of Oct. 27, 2020, when she unknowingly drove into a large protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr.
She tried to make a three-point turn to get away from the tense scene when officers smashed out her windows with their batons, according to her attorneys.
Young was handcuffed and separated from her teenage nephew and 2-year-old son for several hours, and no one was ever charged or cited, according to the woman’s lawyer. The hearing-impaired toddler lost his hearing aids during the tussle.
The Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police labor union, posted a Facebook picture two days later showing Young’s toddler in the arms of a Philadelphia police officer just after the incident.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/philadelphia-pay-2m-black-woman-beaten-officers-separated-toddler-during-n1279134?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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woke: nwhl
bespoke: rename the nhl to the nmhl and rename the nwhl to the nhl
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So. Pavlos Fissas was murdered 7 years ago. He was stabbed in the heart in my neighborhood by a member of a neo nazi political party. He was murdered because he was considered dangerous for them. He was an important face in the antifa movement in Greece and he was punished for that. These people felt so comfortable in their ideology that they murdered a man in cold blood on a crowded street. It wasn't late at night. It wasn't in a dark alley. It was in front of the world. These monsters are the shame of my country and have terrorized people for years. Today the judge convicted them guilty not just for murder but as a criminal organization. And thousands upon thousands of people cheered on the streets.
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