#Coronavirus insights

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COVID: what we know about new omicron variant BF.7

Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster Since the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing, and is contributing to a wider surge of COVID infections in China. But what is this new variant, and should we be worried? Although…

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#China #Coronavirus insights #Covid-19 #Omicron variants #pandemic #فيروس كورونا #كوربيديا للاخبار #كوريباديا #كوفيد -19 #مرض كوفيد 19

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Global Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Is Estimated To Witness High Growth Owing To Increasing Investments in R&D

The global Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market is estimated to be valued at US$ 15,912 million in 2020 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 17.5% over the forecast period (2020-2027), as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights.  Market Overview: The Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market comprises various pharmaceutical products and therapies developed to treat and manage the symptoms of coronavirus infection. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for effective treatment drugs has surged globally. The market offers a wide range of products such as antiviral drugs, monoclonal antibodies, immunomodulators, and convalescent plasma therapy. These treatments aim to alleviate symptoms, reduce the severity of illness, and prevent further complications associated with coronavirus infection. Market Key Trends: One key trend observed in the Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Growth  is the increasing investments in research and development (R&activities. Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions are actively engaged in exploring potential drug candidates and therapies for the treatment of COVID-19. The race for developing a safe and effective vaccine against the virus has further accelerated the R&D efforts. For instance, Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE have invested heavily in their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which has shown promising results in clinical trials. PEST Analysis: Political: Governments worldwide have taken various measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including regulatory approvals for emergency use of drugs and vaccines. Policy initiatives have been implemented to fast-track the development and distribution of coronavirus treatment drugs. Economic: The economic impact of the pandemic has led to an increased focus on developing affordable treatment drugs. Companies are also exploring partnerships and collaborations to ensure widespread availability of these drugs at affordable prices. Social: The global healthcare infrastructure has been severely impacted by the pandemic, leading to an increased demand for effective treatment drugs. The public awareness and acceptance of these drugs have also increased, driving market growth. Technological: Advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, are being used for drug discovery and development. These technologies assist in identifying potential drug candidates and predicting their efficacy against the virus, thereby expediting the drug development process. Key Takeaways: - Key players operating in the global Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market include Serum Institute of India, Pfizer Inc., AstraZeneca plc., Bharat Biotech International Limited, Cadila Healthcare Limited, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, GlaxoSmithKline plc., CanSino Biologics, Sinovac Biotech, Novavax, Inc., Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, and Merck & Co., Inc. These companies are actively involved in developing and commercializing treatment drugs for COVID-19. In conclusion, the global Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market is projected to witness significant growth in the coming years. The increasing investments in R&D activities, coupled with technological advancements, are expected to drive market expansion.

#Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market #Coherent Market Insights #Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Value #Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Size . Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Share #Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Growth #Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Coronavirus Treatment Drugs Market Analysis

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Stolen van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Returned in a Ikea Bag

The painting was stolen in March 2020 from the Singer Laren Museum.

A Dutch art detective has helped recover a missing Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum, east of Amsterdam, in March 2020.

The "Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring," painted in 1884, was stolen from the famous Dutch museum in a daring overnight smash-and-grab heist during the coronavirus lockdown.

Dutch art crime detective Arthur Brand, who has spent decades tracking down some of the world's greatest masterpieces, announced on Tuesday he had recovered the stolen masterpiece.

In a video posted on Brand's Instagram, the detective can be seen unwrapping the coveted artwork, holding it up as he poses for the camera.

"So here it is! The Spring Garden by Vincent van Gogh which was stolen three and a half years ago on Van Gogh's birthday from a museum in the Netherlands. We have searched for it for more than three and a half years," he said.

Brand said he was able to recover the famous artwork in "close coordination" with Dutch police, deeming it a "great day for all Van Gogh lovers worldwide."

The painting -- estimated to be worth between about $3.2 million to $6.4 million -- was handed to Brand by an unnamed man in a blue Ikea bag at his Amsterdam home, he said.

"Finally, it's here, it's back," said Brand, announcing he is set to return it today to the Singer Laren Museum director.

The recovery followed the emergence of "proof-of-life" photos of the painting circulating in online Mafia circles in June 2020, three months after the dramatic heist. One of the images showed the multimillion-dollar artwork -- which measures 25-by-57 centimeter -- flanked alongside a copy of The New York Times international edition and a book about a famous art thief.

In April 2021, Dutch police spokesperson Maren Wonder announced in a video statement that a 58-year-old man, named only as Nils M, was arrested in Baarn, Netherlands, on suspicion of stealing paintings by van Gogh and Frans Hals with an accumulative value of £18 million, or about $22.4 million.

"This arrest is an important step in the investigation," Wonder announced at the time. "Both paintings have not yet resurfaced with this arrest. The search continues unabated."

In a statement sent Tuesday, Dutch Police confirmed that the perpetrator was in custody and that the famous painting has been recovered, soon to be ready to be viewed by the public.

"The perpetrator is in custody and the painting is back. We are very happy with that result," said Richard Bronswijk, of the Dutch Police's Art Crime Unit.

"We know hat these types of items are used as collateral within organized crime. Intercepted messages have given us good insight into the criminal trade in these types of valuable objects."

The penalty for stealing a painting is imprisonment of 8 years.

"The search for Frans Hals' painting continued unabated."

By Emma Ogao.

#Vincent van Gogh #Vincent van Gogh 'Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring' 1884 #Stolen van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Returned in a Ikea Bag #Singer Laren Museum #Arthur Brand #stolen #looted #recovered #art #artist #art work #art world #art news

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🤩 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: lucy1021lego Hello everyone! It's time to direct the spotlight toward our community members, and today we will get to know better lucy1021lego!

"Hello everyone, I'm Lucy, and I live in Japan.

My journey into LEGO photography began when I gifted my sons a LEGO set for their birthday. Inspired by their imaginative creations, I started using my smartphone camera to instantly capture those special moments.

Even now, I rely solely on my smartphone camera for my LEGO photography. It's convenient and always at hand. Most of the time, I shoot in natural sunlight, though I occasionally have to wait for clear weather. My behind-the-scenes setup is fairly simple.

To soften the harsh sunlight, I use a tissue to cover the models. In the absence of a reflector, I've discovered that aluminum foil, typically used for cooking, can work just as well. And when I need to stabilize the minifigures' feet, I use a kneaded eraser. I do all this right in my living room and kitchen. It's easy and accessible.

My favorite style of photography is capturing scenes from everyday life because I want viewers to believe that these minifigures actually have a place to call home. For example, imagine spending the whole day immersed in a good book. If that's my plan, I naturally want to recreate the experience with bricks. I find it fun and rewarding.

In all my pictures, I use the same minifigure with freckles. I discovered her three years ago when I bought my first Paradisa set. I was immediately drawn to her adorable appearance. This happened around the time when the coronavirus was spreading and I was feeling down. However, her smile had a powerful impact and lifted my spirits.

Every now and then, I'll have a spontaneous idea, like incorporating a sewing machine into my scene. The next morning, I start building a sewing machine to bring that idea to life. While my mocs are often inspired by my daily activities, the true joy lies in the creative process itself. LEGO bricks allows me to explore endless possibilities and embrace the unexpected.

That's a glimpse into my world of LEGO photography. It's amazing how a simple gift for my children has sparked this passion. Through my smartphone lens, I capture the magic and bring it to life in unique and surprising ways."

Thank you for accepting our invitation and let the community knows you better!

If you want some insights on the exclusive picture and for a better view of the others, head to our blog at https://brickentral.net/.

- @theaphol, Community Outreach Manager

#afol #lego photography #lego #brickcentral #toy photography #legophotography #toyphotography #brickcentral member #minifigures #brickcentral artist spotlight #artist spotlight

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Disaster preparedness for chill people doesn’t really seem to exist. Like many personal finance nerds, I am a resource hoarder to my squirrelly little core. I finish every video game with a massive pile of money and top-tier supplies I worked feverishly to acquire, but never actually used.

It’s not a virtue… it’s an -itis. Don’t be like me, kids! Use those megalixers!

Given this facet of my personality, you’d think I’d be drawn to the survivalism (aka “prepping”) community. And I am—but I’ve never really gotten into it. Because most survivalist literature is too extreme for me. Exxxtreme, you could say. I swear I’ve read more than one “beginner’s guide” suggesting tools for your inevitable DIY dentistry. There is no Hint of Sea Salt prepping! FLAVOR-BLASTED ONLY!

But the coronavirus pandemic gave everyone fresh, realistic insights into what a modern large-scale disaster really looks like. Additionally, mine and Piggy’s homes have recently taken a pounding from unusual weather events caused by climate change (floods and storms for me, wildfires and droughts for Piggy). So I spent a lot of time this year thinking about this question:

What have I done—or owned—that made me actually safer or happier during a disaster?

It was hard to articulate… but it definitely wasn’t iodine tablets and camp stoves! See? I was right! As usual, I always find retrospective validation for my laziness, unpreparedness, and/or procrastination.

After a lot of deep thinking, I finally feel prepared (PREPPED?!) to define my own brand of survivalism. This is disaster preparedness for chill people!

- Frugal Disaster Preparedness for Chill People

#disaster preparedness #pandemic #emergency prep

[naturalrights-retard]

A new pre-print paper published at bioRxiv reveals that long after a person gets “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) with an mRNA series of injections, the spike proteins generated as a result of the shots persist in their brain tissue.

Researchers out of Germany and Denmark evaluated brain tissue samples both in mouse models and post-mortem humans, looking for the presence and distribution of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. They specifically looked at the skull-meninges-brain axis.

They found that spike protein from the shots accumulates in the skull marrow, brain meninges, and brain parenchyma, further explaining that the “injection of the spike protein alone caused cell death in the brain, highlighting a direct effect on brain tissue.”

(Related: Experts warned this would happen but were ignored.)

Even long after a “positive” covid test and infection has passed, spike proteins continue to remain lodged in the human brain. Researchers say these lingering spike proteins could contribute to long-term neurological symptoms such as brain “fog” and brain tissue loss.

“The spike protein was associated with neutrophil-related pathways and dysregulation of the proteins involved in the PI3K-AKT as well as complement and coagulation pathway,” the paper explains.

“Overall, our findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein trafficking from CNS borders into the brain parenchyma and identified differentially regulated pathways may present insights into mechanisms underlying immediate and long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 and present diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities.”

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Personal Vent: The Internet Has Just Been Sadder Lately

A lot has been on my mind lately about the landscape of the internet in my view. A lot of it stems from me looking back at the past and how it contrasts with how I experience the internet today and if you know me for anything, it's that I fucking hate looking back at the past. My actions & inactions? Shit. Terrible. Fuck me as a young, stupid, naive human being. How other people have treated me? Varies completely across the range from some of the most kind-hearted & generous people I've ever met to people who know nothing more than complete spite, hatred & villainy. The overall landscape itself? I couldn't tell you the difference between wholeheartedly welcoming communities and people who are more than ready to shoot you down, dismiss you or think of you as lesser than them, outside of their superiority & elitist cliques.

I guess the reason why I title this post after the whole internet being sadder lately is sheerly & solely due to the fact that I am seeing it all now more than ever. I am looking back at over a decade of me exploring & investing myself in this overall online space and I am using the detriment of hindsight to realise just how toxic it all can be.

Some of y'all are too fucking good for the internet in its current state. Twitter is now a radioactive wasteland that everybody dreads being stuck in and finding no way out. Me and some of the people I know close to me are lucky enough as we are, but if you're looking for clean, spotless, perfect alternatives, then just give up now & settle for the fourth best thing. Not that one. No, not that one either, that's got cryptobros involved. No, that one's not secure either.

Oh my god, Twitter used to be such an okay place. There used to be these memes like "mutuals, like this post and I'll send an anonymous compliment" or "hey, look at this fun chart or joke I just made" or some bullshit like that; It was bullshit but it was fun! I used to have so many fun & insightful conversations in replies & direct messages that in hindsight were not all that fun or insightful at all and we were all just dumb & stupid. Now a third of those people are inactive or just gone from the face of the earth, another quarter are moving on to other platforms I don't even wanna be on, another third of them are still with me on the platforms I've moved on to and yet they are equally as drained of their enthusiasm & happiness as I am and the remaining twelfth, bless them all, they are still young, vibrant, happy & full of energy and I'm so happy to see them in my life, but they feel so much smaller altogether than they used to feel in the grand scheme of this fucking world wide web.

Then there's just the fact that the world itself is in a far worse state than it was exactly five years ago! In 2019, we did not have the coronavirus pandemic, we did not have wars mercilessly killing several thousand Ukranian or Palestinian civillians for no real fucking reason, we did not have billionaires being as loudly shitty as they have been lately, we sure had abhorrant & hateful right-wing influencers & political figures, but they're not swarming in droves like they have been lately and we're seeing more hatred, abuse, violence, negligence & dismissal worldwide in the public than ever before.

And now there's an extra layer to all of this that I really don't want to blame on fellow zoomers and the coming gen alpha, but I'm seeing a lot of people take in the communities they're joining at face value, seeing the toxic, negative energies & events they were known for in the past that were really powerful five years ago and that we're really trying to move past from today, and they're just getting ready to absorb that energy and unleash it onto others when even the slightest wrongdoing is noticeably committed. I have never felt this unsafe joining & frequenting other communities since either 2018 or 2020 and I've had to resort to making my own community / friend server multiple times even though it still makes me feel like I'm trapped in my own bubble these days. (Join LikesMusic, link in pinned post.)

After writing all of that, I just don't have a hopeful conclusion here. I am very well aware that it always gets worse before it gets better, but everything has just been much worse & worse & worse the more time passes on and the littlest betterments are thankfully present, but I'm still waiting for a point where we all just begin to soar and learn from how bad all of this has gotten and how we can just be fucking good again. I hope that one day, I can just walk into a community, immediately feel welcome & unintimidated and just grow into it organically like I used to almost a decade ago. I am hopeful for all of that, but I don't have that much hope at this current point in time. (Not to mention my body has been feeling like shit the past several weeks.)

#vent #vent post #cw vent #twitter refugees

[mariacallous]

Meduza's The Beet: Crossed out

Hello, and welcome back to The Beet!

I’m Eilish Hart, the editor of this weekly dispatch from Meduza that brings you feature stories from across Eurasia. If you missed last week’s long read about the trials and tribulations of Belarusians living in exile, you can now read it on Meduza’s website. That’s also where new readers can join The Beet’s mailing list. We’re approaching our next subscriber milestone, so if you could help us cross the finish line, we’d really appreciate it.  

Over the summer, I started coming across media reports about monuments going missing in cities across Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror were pried from the walls of the buildings where they last lived. A plaque commemorating Anna Akhmatova, a poet famous for chronicling the terror, disappeared from the defunct Kresty Prison. Much larger monuments to the victims of repressions, deportations, and war were also destroyed and disappeared, including in far-flung cities like Tomsk and Yakutsk. 

In the case of the Akhmatova memorial, a local lawyer named Vladimir Filatov later came forward and handed the plaque over to the police, who reportedly passed it along to the prison authorities for safekeeping. Ironically, Filatov told journalists that he took down the plaque because he feared it would be destroyed. “It represents great meaning, great value, and historical memory in an era of globalism,” the lawyer said. “I absolutely would not want anyone to break this monument with their filthy hands.” 

Curiously, it’s not just Stalin’s bloody legacy being erased from public view. Back in June, a memorial to the Polish exiles killed during the 1866 Baikal Insurrection was destroyed in Rechka Mishikha, one of several tiny villages perched on the southern shore of Lake Baikal that make up the Tankhoy settlement. Although it’s unclear who was responsible, it turns out that residents had been complaining about the monument for years. And their efforts to campaign against it offer a fascinating insight into how the Kremlin’s memory politics foster grassroots support for rewriting history. So, for this week’s issue of The Beet, Meduza news editor Sasha Slobodov has translated a nuanced investigation into the controversy, first published in Russian by the Siberia-based outlet People of Baikal. The following English-language translation has been lightly edited and abridged for context and clarity. Enjoy! 

Crossed out

On the shore of Lake Baikal, a memorial to Tsarist-era Polish exiles meets an unfortunate end

By Alina Golovina for People of Baikal

A metal marker stands in a small clearing on the shores of Lake Baikal, where the Bystraya River flows into the world’s deepest lake. The riverbank is overgrown with bushes, but there’s a trampled path coming from the nearest village. The locals come here to fish hoping to catch omul, a type of whitefish, though there are barely any left in the lake.

Apparently, this is where Tsarist troops fought rebelling Polish exiles in the summer of 1866. The Poles killed in the short-lived revolt were buried in a mass grave not far from Lake Baikal — and the metal marker supposedly indicates its location. The village of Mishikha is just a few hundred meters away. 

“We’re removed from civilization altogether,” says Rakhimzhan Suleimanov, waving his hands expressively. “We don’t have schools, daycares, stores — nothing. We used to have everything, but now there’s nothing.”

Suleimanov, a 66-year-old Tatar who goes by “Uncle Roma,” came to Buryatia in the early 1970s to serve in the USSR’s Automotive Troops. He met his wife Nazira here, a fellow Tatar whom everyone in the village called “Natalia.” Her family came to Buryatia even earlier to escape famine in the Volga region. Two years ago, Nazira fell ill with the coronavirus and was shuttled back and forth to a hospital 100 kilometers (62 miles) away. She died a month later at a hospital in the regional capital, Ulan-Ude. 

Mishikha is one of six small villages on the shores of Lake Baikal with a combined population of about 1,000 people, 900 of whom live in the main village of Tankhoy. The others are home to just a few dozen people each. After train service here stopped in 2013, life in the villages practically reached a standstill. 

The metal marker shows where the original monument to the exiled Poles used to be, Uncle Roma says confidently. “But as far as I can remember, there was never a cross here,” he continues, adding that sometimes fresh flowers appeared. His neighbors told him they were laid there in memory of the dead. 

That this could be a mass grave site doesn’t surprise Uncle Roma. He recalls what his late wife’s elderly grandfather always told him: “Son, under every railroad tie here, there’s a human life.” 

‘Separatists, insurgents, and rebels’

After the January Uprising of 1863–1864 (an unsuccessful rebellion against Russian rule in partitioned Poland), the Tsarist regime exiled between 18,000 and 22,000 people to Siberia. 

In 1866, a group of exiles assigned to construct the Circumbaikal Highway plotted another rebellion. They had hatched an adventurous plan: disarm the guards, ride on horseback to the Chinese border, and, from there, board English ships and return to their homeland — Poland. 

“March to Siberia” (1866) by Polish painter Artur Grottger depicts the deportation of Polish rebels after the January Uprising

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN POZNAŃ / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

On June 24, 1866, several dozen exiles working on the road near Kultuk (a village in the Irkutsk region) left their posts, captured weapons and horses, and set off eastward along Lake Baikal. The mutiny was supposed to grow into an uprising of Polish prisoners throughout eastern Siberia. But a few days later, Russian troops caught up with the rebels at the Bystraya River, 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Kultuk. A battle ensued, and 15 to 30 people died. 

The surviving rebels were put on trial and publicly executed in Irkutsk, their bodies buried in an old industrial area on the city’s outskirts.

“Of course, from a 19th-century point of view, they were separatists, insurgents, and rebels. In the Soviet context, it was a struggle for your freedom and ours — a struggle against Tsarism. And if you’re looking at it from a modern point of view, then it’s a completely different situation. Right now, everything is tense and strained,” historian Evgeny Semyonov carefully explains.

Semyonov is the deputy chair of Nadzieja, a Polish cultural organization founded in Buryatia in 1993. Today, it has 37 members. “We’re Russian citizens, but we preserve and remember our roots,” explains the organization’s chair, Yulia Petelina. 

According to Semyonov, the executed Polish prisoners were buried in a mass grave marked with a cross, as shown in a surviving photograph from the late 19th century. However, as one local told him, the remains were reburied in another location after the waters of Lake Baikal flooded the burial site and washed the bones away. Scientists conducting field research last documented the grave’s location in 1973. They photographed a mound where the rebels may have been buried, but it’s hard to tell its exact location. Buryatia’s list of cultural heritage sites catalogs the mass grave as a “lost object” located 300 meters (328 yards) east of Mishikha station, near the railway track. 

In 2001, the Polish authorities helped finance the construction of a memorial cross in Rechka Mishikha, a village five kilometers (three miles) from the battle’s presumed location. The cross stood above a marble plaque affixed to a concrete mound covered in large stones. According to Semyonov, the monument’s location was “purely symbolic” and in no way connected to the site of the mass grave. 

‘A provocative act’

The memorial cross annoyed locals almost immediately. 

Every year, in early July, a delegation from the Polish cultural organization would visit the cross for a commemorative ceremony and hold a memorial dinner at a nearby campsite. Locals would peek through the fence to see the spread. They describe the memorial dinners as “real feasts” and claim that the Poles who came from Ulan-Ude drank a lot. 

Evgenia Shelest, a local councilwoman in Rechka Mishikha, says she began receiving complaints about the monument immediately after she became a deputy. “I’d be walking with my kids, and locals would come up to me and say, ‘Evgenia, we don’t like that it’s still standing.’” 

Most of the complaints came from the village’s summer residents, Shelest explains. Only 13 people live in Rechka Mishikha all year round, six of whom belong to the deputy’s family. The summer residents own different types of homes, but they all have extra space to accommodate relatives from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other major cities who come to vacation on Lake Baikal. The land here doesn’t come cheap — a dilapidated, 30-square-meter (300-square-foot) house far from the lake costs around $20,000. 

“Every year, they [the Poles] come here to celebrate and lay wreaths! We went to [Lake] Baikal, looked, and there were nuns, the cross, and music was playing from a speaker. Our eyes bulged: Who gave them the right?” recalls Lyudmila, a retiree from Ulan-Ude who owns a dacha closer to the highway. 

“Of course, it’s very convenient for them: a federal highway, a gorgeous, quiet place. It’s as if we’re being pushed to the side, even though this is our land,” Lyudmila fumes.

In 2021, locals discovered that the Poles had come to pay their respects not in July, as usual, but late in the evening on Victory Day, May 9, when Russians celebrate the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. They noticed the fresh wreaths at the memorial cross on the morning of May 10. “We have our holiday, and they have their memorial day. They came deliberately to make a point. Even to me, this felt unpleasant, like a provocative act,” Shelest recalls. 

The memorial cross in 2013

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

After Victory Day in 2021, residents began their campaign against the Polish memorial in earnest and officially appealed to their local deputy. Lyudmila wrote a letter arguing that “Poland is our enemy, an unfriendly state, and nobody shot any Poles in [this] village.” At least 15 people signed the letter, she says.

“Before that, people had only told me verbally that they didn’t like that it [the memorial] looked like a grave. They said that this is a place for people to vacation. And when Russophobic hysteria kicked off in Poland, the patriotic feelings people already had started coming back up. They started to remember their fathers and grandfathers, who fought in the Great Patriotic War — people started to feel a sense of injustice,” Shelest says. 

The councilwoman brought the appeal to the Kabansky district administration, which initiated an inquiry into Nadzieja, but the Polish cultural organization had allegedly changed its address, and district officials couldn’t even find its phone number. (The organization’s chair, Yulia Petelina, says she never received any communications.) In the end, the case fell by the wayside.

Smashed to pieces

At least two memorials commemorating Poles and Lithuanians have been destroyed in the Irkutsk region since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In May, someone dismantled a Polish monument and a Lithuanian cross commemorating the victims of Joseph Stalin’s 1937 terror interred at a mass grave site in Pivovarikha. And in the Ziminsky district, a court ordered the demolition of a monument at a local cemetery that bore the names of 107 victims of Stalinist repressions. According to Evgeny Semyonov, local activists have also been campaigning for years to remove Polish graves from a cemetery in Buryatia’s Tunkinsky district. 

In early June 2022, while sunbathing on the shore of Lake Baikal with her neighbors, Lyudmila noticed that the memorial cross had been wrapped in a Polish flag. Enraged, she went over to the mound and, grasping the wooden cross, ripped down the red-and-white banner and threw it in the trash, along with a wreath bedecked with ribbons and inscriptions in Polish. However, she didn’t write any more letters of complaint.

One year later, on June 1, 2023, residents of Rechka Mishikha and neighboring Mishikha organized a gathering. Only a dozen or so people came, Uncle Roma recalls. As usual, they complained about the poorly cleared roads in the winter — and about the Polish cross. Tankhoy settlement head Marina Titoruk says locals again expressed their discontent over the Victory Day incident two years prior. “What disregard for our victory! It’s tasteless, [the Poles] are doing this on purpose to upset us and demean the memory of our ancestors,” locals reportedly told Titoruk. 

A wooden Orthodox Cross on the shore of Lake Baikal. A Rechka Mishikha resident put up this cross in 2001, in response to the installation of the Polish memorial.

PEOPLE OF BAIKAL

Almost immediately after the gathering, the cross disappeared: Someone chopped it off at the base. All that remained was the concrete mound and scattered wreaths. 

Semyonov says he had feared the cross would be vandalized, but he never thought it would be destroyed completely. “It was a fact of history. These things should still be noted somehow. But now this memorial site in Mishikha wasn’t just ruined, it was smashed to pieces. Someone probably thought it was an appropriate response to the way they treat Soviet monuments in Poland,” the historian says. 

Since 2016, Poland has permitted the demolition of Communist-era monuments under a law prohibiting the promotion of totalitarian ideology. This process accelerated after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, the head of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Nawrocki, said the authorities planned to tear down 60 monuments to Soviet troops. Four memorials to Red Army soldiers were demolished that October. 

‘These bastards want to finish off Russia’

While some locals are glad the Polish monument was destroyed, others appear indifferent. Only Marina Titoruk openly condemns it. “We have a bloody history, but it’s ours, so why pull the wool over people’s eyes and say something didn’t happen?” she asks rhetorically. 

“It bothered us morally! Because somewhere deep within Russia, there’s a little village where they come hanging their Polish flags under our noses,” Lyudmila says, cursing. “There were absolutely no Poles here. There were no battles! We’re all outraged!” 

While Lyudmila concedes that the Polish exiles did exist and that many of them did good things — teaching in schools, working as doctors — she insists that “peace is impossible now.” “Everyone here hates the Poles. The memory of our fathers has risen from the depths of our souls. These bastards want to finish off Russia.”

A discarded wreath from the destroyed memorial in Rechka Mishikha

PEOPLE OF BAIKAL

Shelest doesn’t believe that local retirees could have sawed off the cross. In all likelihood, it was soldiers on leave from the frontline, she speculates. The local deputy adds that she doesn’t oppose the monument but thinks it should stand “in the historically accurate place” — namely, the neighboring village of Mishikha. 

Titoruk also thinks the monument should be restored but doesn’t know where to put it.

“We’ll set it up in your village,” she tells Uncle Roma. 

But Uncle Roma waves his hands and says his village doesn’t want the monument either. At the same time, he admits he was impressed when he first saw it. “I thought, look at that. How beautiful: a marble slab and a huge cross. I forget what it said. Something like — they fought for life, and they were heroes, I think.” Asked if the memorial bothered him, Uncle Roma replies, “Nah.” 

At first, Lyudmila theorizes that the Poles demolished the monument themselves. (Allegedly, the marble plaque wasn’t broken but carefully removed.) But then she gets heated and suggests that “partisans came and chopped it down.” The concrete mound will also be removed, she adds. 

“An excavator will be put to work, and it will be demolished. We want to put up something athletic — for working out,” she says, vigorously moving her arms as if she were on an exercise machine. “That’s better than crosses, especially Polish ones.” 

Asked how she would feel if the monument were to be restored, Lyudmila grows silent and then turns serious. “We’ll blow it up in the night,” she replies. 

Thanks for reading! 

To learn more about memory politics in Russia, check out this episode of The Naked Pravda about the Kremlin’s new history textbook and what schools are teaching students about the invasion of Ukraine. Until next time,

Eilish

[rubireads]

the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood, five stars.

A striking effect of any novel, particularly a dystopian fiction one, is its ability to place its audience directly into the world the author builds. The aim is to create a shocking society that predicts a future the reader can envision themselves eventually living if they are not too careful. The Handmaid’s Tale achieves exactly this.

This dystopian fiction novel follows a woman the reader knows as Offred serving The Republic of Gilead as a Handmaid for a married couple in a higher position. Due to natural disasters, secular immorality and the formation of new diseases, declining birth rates have become a severe and national issue. By staging a coup of the US Government, the founders of Gilead have created a state in which women serve to reproduce for her society, consequently diminishing female rights altogether. Through this regime, Handmaids are routinely forced into ritualistic sex with their Commander. The reader can immediately grasp that they have not been willingly put into this position but forced there through the totalitarian regime of the state. Throughout the novel, flashbacks to a time before the state takeover are shown, slowly piecing together Offred’s previous life. Her current name represents the Commander she serves, but Atwood never reveals the protagonist’s real name. The meaning behind this aspect significantly highlights the loss of identity women experience within this future, transforming them from their own person into the property of a man. Whilst she makes it clear she does not choose this name for herself it is the only name the reader knows her by. This loss of identity is further expressed through the clothing each economic class is forced to wear in an attempt to maintain the division in society and enforce the hierarchies. Atwood successfully portrays what the book is attempting to argue regarding the decline in female rights and how the increasing laws being placed on women’s bodies, societal stereotypes and upheld outdated traditions will ultimately lead to a totalitarian world in which women ultimately have no choice and men do not follow, creating a state of secrecy. Through the oppressing character of Aunt Lydia, Atwood portrays the thoughts behind this new regime as a form of saving grace for women, protecting them from incidents that occurred such as molestation or rape as ‘women were not protected then’[1]. The reader can clearly see the irony in this, as Handmaids are now being raped under legal justifications instead. They are even less protected than they were before. Whilst it is clear they are trapped, Aunt Lydia’s suggestion they are now free brings the reader to question the true meaning behind the word as well as allowing the reader to dwell on the state of society they are living in, thus evoking important questions.

Atwood provides a very clear and accurate insight into the era this novel was published as well as predicting a scarily accurate future through the tragedies presented. The process that women in this novel went through when slowly losing their rights can be seen in parallels to real life, such as the transfer from a cash to a cashless society. In the past few years, the tendency to spend physical cash has been dwindling due to ease, speed and more recently the need to avoid unnecessary physical interactions on account of Coronavirus. Whilst this feels more convenient to the individual spender, it is easy to forget the effects a cashless society may have on its citizens. The use of purely card transactions leads to greater government control through the access of digital data. This monitoring of economic activity can lead to eventual restrictions put in place which Atwood illustrates as the precursor of the declining women’s rights when the protagonist attempts to purchase a packet of cigarettes and is told her bank account is frozen, any money being transferred control to a male next of kin. The acceptance of a cashless society made this shift to a totalitarian state all the easier to initiate. Whilst one can hope the same ending does not occur, it is interesting to see how Atwood predicted the ways in which our society would develop to such minute detail.

A further noteworthy detail are the parallels to natural disasters within the novel. It is not a secret that our planet is experiencing a climate crisis and on the brink of becoming unliveable, with climate change being an international emergency for the last 30 years and not enough being done about it. The Australian fires that made international news throughout the beginning of 2020 is enough proof that the worlds extreme weather patterns are causing irreversible danger with the world ‘already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since the preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical boundaries’[2]. Atwood attributes the increasing infertility in women to these environmental concerns as well as man-made environmental disasters. Before publication, the Three Mile Island incident was the worst nuclear disaster in US history[3] and ironically shortly after publication, the Chernobyl incident in Ukraine became the most notorious nuclear plant accident, successfully portraying Atwood’s anxieties. Albeit the 1980s concerns of nuclear threats Atwood refers to are no longer as prominent, we can see a transformation to 21st century concerns of the climate crisis contributing the current decreasing birth rates. Not only is the increasing pollution viewed to have a direct link with infertility, but people are making the personal decision to not have children due to fears of amplifying global warming or forcing them to endure the knock-on effects of it[4]. Sexually transmitted diseases were also a contributing factor to falling fertility rates in Atwood’s 1985 novel. Spread by sexual activity, this real-life pandemic was first recognised in the early 80s and was well reported by the time of the publication of The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood accurately used the public fears and consequential homophobic tone surrounding this pandemic as a political backdrop in her novel.

The book explores objectification of women to morbid extremes. Using women as purely baby making machines; breeding and bringing up girls to be complacent; limiting education to futile things such as cross stitching; banning the teachings of reading and writing as the pen is just too powerful for them - the list goes on. The author herself stated that when she wrote the novel ‘nothing went into it that had not happened in real life somewhere at some time’[5]. Whilst Atwood is referring to ‘aspects of 17th century New England Puritanism and dictatorships seen in different eras across the globe’[6], all it takes is a look at the abortion debate in the US to know the relation this novel has to current trends is outstanding. In October of this year, a Native American woman named Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter of her unborn son after having a miscarriage. The reader does not even have to look beyond the setting that Gilead is based on to see that Atwood’s dystopian future is closer than they think. This idea of women constantly being at fault links back to the ideas of the 1980s that Atwood draws upon within the novel, one being that women were responsible for the sexual assault they experienced based on their own actions and clothing. It is a scary realisation that things are or have been as bad as a dystopian novel and Atwood uses this fear cleverly to grip the reader into a novel that feels more reality than fiction. The narration of the Handmaid forces the reader to experience life through the perspective of the most violated female role within Gilead rather than any of the other roles women were subjected to such as a Martha – a maid – or a trophy wife in order to emphasise this injustice.

Along with real-life events, Atwood modelled her novel after some horrifying aspects of many popular dystopian novels she read such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. These inspirations are clear to the reader through the ‘Big Brother’ type of world that Atwood has created in Gilead, using ‘Guardians of the Faith��� and ‘Angels’ to rival the terror of the ‘Thought Police’. Atwood has become an icon of science fiction through The Handmaid’s Tale but rejects this notion and instead attributes her novel to speculative fiction, contributing to its own type of genre that states there is precedence in the world for the fiction that is written[7]. Whilst this has created controversy within the science fiction world, I cannot deny that I agree with her.  

Atwood uses impactful methods such as constant time jumps between the past and present by means of flashbacks, giving the reader an important insight into life before the takeover of government in a way that suggests these memories have been repressed. This further connects the reader to the reality of the changing state by allowing them to relate to a society that is similar to their own. It is revealed that Offred was separated from her daughter and husband when attempting to flee the changing government of the US and the mysteries surrounding her loved ones maintain a suspenseful tone throughout the novel.

The character development is also a commendable aspect of the novel. Offred starts off being a reserved and obedient follower of the regime which consequently leads to feelings of frustration from the reader. Her character, however, eventually blossoms into a rebellious and proactive one that the audience desires to read about in a novel about challenging the patriarchy and pushing boundaries. Additionally, it is interesting to note the development of the relationship between Offred and her Commander who, over the course of the novel, build an alliance in which he allows her to perform tasks normally prohibited to women – such as reading - in exchange for her consent in kissing him. This unexpected budding relationship humanises Commander Fred and grounds him from a symbol of oppression and power to the position of a simple male who craves innocent affection. The reader gains the sense of how even in a totalitarian state benefitting men as the superior gender, not even they are satisfied.

The acknowledgment of external national powers, such as Canada, opposing to Gilead as a society is another a praiseworthy mention of this novel. Unlike more recent dystopian novels such as The Hunger Games, which fails to acknowledge what is going on in other parts of the world and how they react, The Handmaid’s Taleuses opposing states and resistance group ‘Mayday’ that are still rooted in the present to mirror how the real world would and does react to state atrocities such as Gilead. This acts as evidence to the reader that this state is as concrete as the states around them and is significant in intensifying the reality of the book by transforming it from a dystopian novel into real life.

Atwood has created a terrifyingly realistic account of a totalitarian future that does not seem so separate from our own within The Handmaid’s Tale. She constructs the terrifying truth in a bleak but necessary way and uses simple techniques to portray the difference between the protagonist’s past and present, as well as the similarities between her present and ours, making the novel disturbingly thought provoking for the reader. Those who desire to expand their knowledge on women’s rights, either due to not understanding the seriousness of our current pace in the word or are simply looking to educate themselves further, would benefit from reading this novel along with any avid reader of science fiction and dystopian novels.

Bibliography

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale (London: Vintage, 1996).

Barajas, Joshua, ‘Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’’ (2021), PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/margaret-atwood-on-the-dystopian-novels-that-inspired-her-to-write-the-handmaids-tale [accessed 24 November 2021].

Evans, Greg, ‘’Handmaid’s Tale’ Author Margaret Atwood Tells Online Writing Class Those “Bad Things” Really Happened’ (2018), Deadline <https://deadline.com/2018/07/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-masterclass-writing-class-bad-things-really-happened-1202424424/> [accessed 24 November 2021].

Gordon, Lewis, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale contains a chilling environmental warning’ (2017), Little White Lies, < https://lwlies.com/articles/the-handmaids-tale-environmental-warning/> [accessed 28 November 2021].

Milman, Oliver and others, ‘The climate disaster is here’ (2021), The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/oct/14/climate-change-happening-now-stats-graphs-maps-cop26 [accessed 28 November 2021].

Shead, Sam, ‘Climate change is making people think twice about having children’ (2021), CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/climate-change-is-making-people-think-twice-about-having-children.html [accessed 28 November 2021].

[1] Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 34.

[2] Oliver Milman and others, The climate disaster is here’ (2021), The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/oct/14/climate-change-happening-now-stats-graphs-maps-cop26 [accessed 28 November 2021].

[3] Lewis Gordon, The Handmaid’s Tale contains a chilling environmental warning (2017), Little White Lies, < https://lwlies.com/articles/the-handmaids-tale-environmental-warning/> [accessed 28 November 2021].

[4] Sam Shead, Climate change is making people think twice about having children (2021), CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/climate-change-is-making-people-think-twice-about-having-children.html [accessed 28 November 2021].

[5] Greg Evans, ’Handmaid’s Tale’ Author Margaret Atwood Tells Online Writing Class Those “Bad Things” Really Happened (2018), Deadline < https://deadline.com/2018/07/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-masterclass-writing-class-bad-things-really-happened-1202424424/> [accessed 24 November 2021].

[6] Joshua Barajas, Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (2021), PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/margaret-atwood-on-the-dystopian-novels-that-inspired-her-to-write-the-handmaids-tale [accessed 24 November 2021].

[7] Barajas, Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.

#book reviews #margaret atwood #the handmaid's tale

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COVID vaccines: should people under 50 in the UK be offered a fourth dose?

Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Alessandro Siani, University of Portsmouth It’s been nearly two years since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive an approved COVID vaccine at a clinic in Coventry on December 8, 2020. Since then, almost 13 billion doses of various COVID vaccines have been administered globally. And they are estimated to have prevented millions of…

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“…Since Spike gene and mRNAs have been extensively picked up for vaccine development; the knowledge of host immune response against spike gene and protein holds a great significance. Our study therefore provides novel and relevant insights regarding the impact of Spike gene on shuttling of host microRNAs via exosomes to trigger the neuroinflammation.”

#covid-19 #covid-19 vaccine #sars-cov-2 #neurodegeneration #microglia #spike protein #save for later #print this off later

[hadit93]

Scarlet Imprint, Peter Grey, and Gordon White. An Update.

Some time ago I wrote a post about Peter Grey and Gordon White concerning a video for Gordon's course which they released publicly. Towards the end of this video Peter Grey said something regarding the language of division which I still disagree with now. I believe labels should be applied where a certain behaviour is being exhibited so that we can make a judgement about that person and whether we want them around our circle.

This being said, I do believe my own reaction to these words was reactionary and also I have to admit, they were fuelled and inspired by others who had shown the clip to me and it seemed to inspire me to really go into attack mode. Something I take little joy in doing and try to avoid as much as possible. The post got reblogged and it seemed a lot of people agreed with my stance, but also, a lot just wanted to hate on Grey and his work for reasons that were not all that justified in my opinion. I even stated in my post that I quite enjoyed his work, his work is not of issue to me. His words in this video were of issue to me, however, I also did not reach out to him directly and asked for an explanation. I took a short snippet of a conversation and assumed I knew his moral compass from such a small insight into his thoughts.

This is fundamentally wrong to do, I have judged someone prior to knowing their actual stance or giving them a chance to defend themselves. I have engaged in a cancel culture surrounding Grey and Scarlet Imprint and I do not want to be involved in that.

I have deleted the post, however, I cannot delete the reblog. I hope that if anyone who did reblog the post will delete it for me.

I still disagree with Grey on this occasion, however, I apologise to him for my words and quick-to-judge attitude on the occasion in question. And for jumping on the bandwagon at the time. It was wrong of me to do, and also not in line with how I like to conduct myself. There are reasons I was keen to do so at the time, however, I do not wish to go into them as they are personal in nature and were caused by myself rather than any third party.

I would also like to apologise to Gordon White. I still believe his views on the Coronavirus are wrong. But I should not have dismissed his entire work because I disagree with one of his ideas or opinions. I believe his opinion could be damaging, but only to adults who should have the mental capacity to make their own informed choices. In this instance, it is none of my business what he or others believe. Again some of my anger came from reasons such as a family member nearly dying from this virus he was stating didn't exist or 'wasn't that bad'. It has ruined lives and at that time I was angry.

These people have absolutely no idea who I am, probably never read the post in question, and will most likely never read this. However, apologising in this instance feels like the correct thing to do- I can disagree with someone's ideas and still enjoy their work. Crowley being a prime example.

This post is long overdue, I apologise for that too. I meant to address this much sooner. I wish Grey and White the best in their future endeavours.

#apology #Scarlet Imprint #Peter Grey #Gordon White

[mrolympialive]

Mr. Olympia 2023 Returns to Orange County Convention Center

The most recent release of Joe Weider's Wellness and Execution Weekend was facilitated in its long-lasting home of Las Vegas, Nevada last December. In a new post made on Instagram, the coordinators reported 2023 Mr. Olympia will get back to Orlando, Florida Nov. 2-5 and will occur in the Orange Region Conference hall.

Since its beginning in 1965, the Olympia weekend has filled in as the head stage for the best weight lifters on the planet. It is broadly viewed as the most esteemed show in lifting weights.

With the quick development of lifting weights across the globe, the challenge tracked down a home in Vegas, where the occasion was held from 1999 to 2019. In 2020, the show had to migrate to Orlando, Florida because of neighborhood limitations welcomed on by the Coronavirus pandemic. Previous double cross Mr. Olympia Mamdouh 'Huge Ramy' Elssbiay brought back home the top award at the 2020 version and proceeded to win one more in 2021.

The most recent Olympia weekend was facilitated in Vegas last December. North of 400 competitors from 11 divisions advanced toward the 'Amusement Capital of the World' two months prior to partake in the opposition.

Men's Open champion Hadi Choopan ousted Ramy to win his lady Sandow prize. Previous 212 Olympia victor Derek Lunsford put sprinter up in front of Scratch Walker, who completed third and won the Olympia Public's Winner Grant. Rising sensations Samson Dauda, Andrew Jacked, and Michal Krizo dazzled in their Olympia debuts also. With respect to Ramy, he came up short and dropped down to fifth.

Chris Bumstead expanded his predominant reign in the Exemplary Build division by overcoming Brazilian competitor Ramon Rocha Queiroz and German contender Urs Kalecinski. He added a fourth Mr. Olympia title added to his repertoire. In the mean time, double cross 212 boss Shaun Clarida recovered the title after Lunsford picked to contend in the Open.

2023 Mr. Olympia set to get back to Orlando in November In a new Instagram post, the coordinators of the 2023 Mr. Olympia reported its re-visitation of the Orange Province Conference hall in Orlando, Florida occurring Nov. 2-5.

"Subsequent to granting almost 1.7 million bucks in prize cash in December, obscuring records for ticket deals, sponsorships and overall compensation per-view crowd," they reported. "Coordinators of the wellness business' most lofty occasion have entered the arranging stages during the current year's Olympia Weekend.

"Booked for the few days of November 2-5, the 59th version of Joe Weider's Olympia Wellness and Execution Weekend is affirmed for Orlando, Florida at the Orange District Conference hall, appraised as one of the top assembly hall scenes on the planet."

Olympia president Dan Solomon gave an assertion making sense of the choice for move the occasion back to Orlando.

"Our new turn among Orlando and Las Vegas has brought about colossal development, permitting us to associate with fans, backers and exhibitors on the two sides of the Joins States. The assembly hall in Orlando is remarkable in light of the fact that it makes room for us to have two adjoining host lodgings. In the event that you appreciate comfort, you will cherish the current year's Olympia, a completely associated insight!"

The insights about have inns, celebrity bundles, and general tickets will follow soon. For exhibitor and sponsorship open doors, requests can be shipped off [email protected].

Working out legend Jay Cutler voiced his dissatisfaction with regards to the 2022 Olympia behind the stage creations. He focused on the need to focus on the Men's Open division, which fills in as the primary fascination. Men's Open rival James Hollingshead scrutinized the unfortunate circumstances for the members behind the stage also. What's more, Samson Dauda communicated a comparable opinion when he uncovered his experience contending at the show.

Now that the authority dates and area for the 2023 Mr. Olympia have been declared, competitors will get to resolve laying their arrangements. Fans will be eager to see one more extreme fight between the best jocks on the planet in front of an audience not long from now.

#mr olympia #bodybuilding #Mr Olympia 2023

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Drone Package Delivery Market Are Estimated To Increase During Period 2029 USD 31,188.7 Million At Exhibiting a CAGR of 53.94%

The global drone package delivery market size is projected to reach USD 7,388.2 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 41.8% during the forecast period. Widespread deployment of drones to deliver medical and food supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to aid the market make substantial gains, observes Fortune Business Insights™ in its report, titled “Drone Package Delivery Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Type (Fixed Wing and Rotary Wing), By Package Size (Less Than 2 Kg, 2-5 Kg, and above 5 Kg), By End Use (Restaurant & Food Supply, E-commerce, Healthcare, Retail Logistics & Transportation and others), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2028”.

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Emergence of Drone Startups in Logistics to Augment Market Potential

The growing demand for enhancing the efficiency of logistics operations has triggered a sudden emergence of startups specializing in drone technologies to cater to these needs. For example, DroneScan, a South Africa-based startup, designs drones that transmits live data of scanned items in warehouses, making inventory management more efficient and upping the productivity quotient of workers. An Italy-based startup, Archon, provides autonomous robotic drone services to facilitate supervised as well as unsupervised inspection of warehousing and logistics operations. The drone startup culture is gathering momentum in developing countries as well. For example, in India, several startups have spawned in the past few years that are providing next-gen drone services. Aarav Unmanned Systems, for instance, was started in 2013 and is India’s first drone company to develop drone solutions for commercial applications in the public and private sectors. These developments are expected to power the drone package delivery market growth in the forthcoming years.

Regional Insights

North America to Top Other Regions Backed by Rising Preference for Drone Deliveries by Shoppers

North America is set to dominate the drone package delivery market share during the forecast period owing to the increasing inclination of online shoppers towards delivery of goods through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). With a market size of USD 237.7 million in 2019, the region is likely to retain its leading position, which will be supported by the strong financial support to drone startups in the US and Canada.

In Europe, the market is anticipated to be driven by the growing presence of tech companies that are expanding their operations in the region through collaborations and partnerships. Asia Pacific is expected to create exciting opportunities for market players on account of the emerging trend of online purchasing of groceries in the large cities of India, China, and Indonesia.

Competitive Landscape

Supportive Regulations to Novel Ideas to Feed Competitive Ardor of Key Players

With the scope for innovation widening, key players in the market drone package deliveries are engaged in coming up with novel drone solutions, especially during the current coronavirus crisis. Supporting their efforts are regulatory bodies that are easing flying norms and rules to ensure timely delivery of essential supplies to people.

List of Key Companies Profiled in the Drone Package Delivery Market Report:

DroneScan (South Africa)

Cheetah Logistics Technology (US)

Flytrex (Israel)

Flirtey (US)

Matternet, Inc. (US)

Boeing (US)

Amazon Inc. (US)

Wing Aviation LLC (US)

Workhorse Group Inc. (US)

Drone Delivery Canada Corp. (Canada)

Zipline (US)

DHL International GmbH (Germany)

United Parcel Service of America, Inc. (US)

FedEx (US)

Industry Developments:

August 2020: Amazon secured clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deploy its Prime Air delivery drone fleet to efficiently and securely deliver packages to customers. Amazon is now the third company to receive FAA approval to operate drones on a commercial scale after UPS and the Alphabet-owned company, Wing.

May 2020: Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced that it has made thousands of drone deliveries in Australia during the pandemic. Launched in Canberra in 2019, the demand for Wing’s services rose by 500% between February and April 2020.

#Drone Package Delivery Market

[unterwaesche]

As a 911 ems operator in Atlanta I can tell you that there were definitely overloaded hospitals during the Covid pandemic.

But here's the twist: they were ALWAYS overloaded, even before the pandemic. In fact it was considered a "slow" day if it took only 30 minutes for a bed to become available for an incoming ambulance.

Also while, yes, hospital admissions went up during Covid, it wasn't just from coronavirus admissions. As it turns out, forcing your citizens into curfews and self-quarantine tends to cause a lot of other health problems, such as stress, suicide attempts, and injuries sustained due to domestic violence situations breaking out.

The hysteria caused as many deaths if not more than Covid itself.

Very interesting insight! And you're absolutely right, the lockdowns were an utter disaster for people's health and well-being.

I remember right at the start of lockdowns and mask mandates in my state, I was walking into a store putting on my mask and a guy coming out said "Hey man, you don't gotta wear that til Monday." So I took it off lmao

It just all felt so...if not fake, then certainly they were riding on bad data and misinterpreted causality.

Plus I still haven't recovered financially and I got shingles from the stress of it, which is now common enough that Walgreens is offering cart wipes to prevent shingles from spreading rather than COVID.

Kinda went off the rails. But thanks for sharing!

[wellnessweb]

Medical Marijuana Market Size: Impact of Legalization

The Medical Marijuana Market size was valued at USD 16.68 Bn in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 80.88 Bn by 2031, with a CAGR of 21.81% over the forecast period of 2024-2031.The medical marijuana market has experienced significant growth and transformation in recent years, driven by increasing legalization and evolving public perceptions of cannabis as a legitimate therapeutic option. Valued at billions of dollars globally, this market is characterized by a dynamic interplay of innovative product development, regulatory advancements, and robust research into the medicinal benefits of cannabinoids. Countries and states with progressive policies have become hotbeds for investment, fostering an ecosystem where pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and startups collaborate to create sophisticated cannabis-based treatments for a range of conditions, including chronic pain, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. As consumer demand for alternative therapies rises, the medical marijuana market continues to expand, poised for further growth as scientific validation and regulatory acceptance continue to evolve.

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