{"id":112258,"date":"2021-04-05T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112258"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:46:16","slug":"take-a-wider-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112258","title":{"rendered":"Take A Wider View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wadsworthgeese-11-26-06b-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wadsworthgeese-11-26-06b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wadsworthgeese-11-26-06b-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wadsworthgeese-11-26-06b-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just as we think we\u2019re bad off because of all those restrictions, the morning news is that the CV19 bug is starting to spread again (likely partly due to the Spring Break college crowd) and the infection rate is up. No sign so far that lock-down restrictions will ramp up again, but it is not a surprise to me that this is happening. But as several local physicians have said, \u201cget the shot, period\u201d and move on.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I want Spring and Summer to be normal again, but let\u2019s please remember that the Black Death swept through Europe at least three times, carried by rats loaded with plague-infested fleas jumping off merchant ships that had docked in European ports. Like that Plague, and like the 1918-1919 Spanish flu, this infestation will also have its cycle and then become just another annual vaxx.<\/p>\n<p>And if we think we have it bad, then read this about what is going on elsewhere, not related at all to the CV19 plague:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yemen\u2019s food crisis is so bad that children are literally starving to death. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/this-is-hell-un-food-aid-chief-visits-yemen-fears-famine-yemen-sanaa-world-food-program-addis-ababa-houthi-b1815124.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/this-is-hell-un-food-aid-chief-visits-yemen-fears-famine-yemen-sanaa-world-food-program-addis-ababa-houthi-b1815124.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 It remains unclear where more money might come from. Beasley predicted more catastrophes in 2021 if world leaders do not prioritize helping the most vulnerable countries including Yemen, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout May, June, July, if we don\u2019t have massive amounts of monies put into these places, you\u2019re going to have mass starvation, mass destabilization and mass migration,\u201d Beasley said. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>Note: the child in the photo that accompanies that article is showing clear signs of starvation. In a world where people scrape food into the trash bin and toss it, because they take it for granted, this is something that should never happen to any child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the ongoing conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Tigrayans have been involved in mass atrocities.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/28\/scale-of-tigray-horror-adds-to-pressure-on-ethiopian-leader\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/28\/scale-of-tigray-horror-adds-to-pressure-on-ethiopian-leader<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tigray being an Ethiopian province between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the TPLF has acted as an independent force, committing mass atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>From the article: Nearly one million people remain inaccessible to aid groups, according to the UN, amid armed conflict with TPLF forces, which Ethiopia still maintains has officially ended. Earlier this month, in a leaked recording of a meeting between foreign diplomats and an Ethiopian army general, Yohannes Tesfamariam, he described the conflict in Tigray as a \u201cdirty war\u201d and civilian victims as \u201cdefenceless\u201d in the most significant acknowledgement from Ethiopia\u2019s authorities that fighting and threats to civilians were ongoing, particularly in Western Tigray. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few of the disturbances which never seem to die down, and they are worldwide, not just here and there. Here is one more.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has been repeatedly sending the Uighurs in XinJiang province to \u201cre-education camps\u201d (gulags) and put them into forced labor. While there are some Uyghurs who are Christian, the majority are Muslims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang\">https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About eleven million Uyghurs\u2014a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group\u2014live in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people since 2017 and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.<\/li>\n<li>The United States sanctioned officials and blacklisted dozens of Chinese agencies linked to abuses in Xinjiang. In 2021, it determined that China\u2019s actions constitute genocide and crimes against humanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few instances of what is going on in China, with that government trying to hide it.<\/p>\n<p>So if you think you have it bad because that bewildered soul who is currently head of the CDC wants us all to take precautions and try to avoid spreading what is essentially another nasty bug, please put yourself in one of those hostile places for just a short term.<\/p>\n<p>After all, China and Iran have just signed a new deal this past week for trade, investment and defense.\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong there?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-china-us-deal-b1824034.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-china-us-deal-b1824034.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we think we\u2019re bad off because of all those restrictions, the morning news is &hellip; <a title=\"Take A Wider View\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112258\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take A Wider View<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,296,385,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-china","category-exploitation","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112259,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112258\/revisions\/112259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}