The political fight over vaccine mandates deepens despite their effectiveness Demonstrators gather outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston to protest COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates. The political divide on the issue is only deepening, as Republican leaders of other states take more steps to thwart mandates. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images The science is clear: Vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death from the coronavirus, and vaccine mandates are an effective tool in promoting widespread vaccinations. Still, the battle to inoculate the nation against the coronavirus has reached a fever pitch in recent months. President Biden has focused on getting as many Americans as possible vaccinated against the coronavirus, most notably rolling out wide-reaching vaccine mandates for government employees and for businesses with more than 100 workers. But Republicans have grown increasingly hostile to the notion of mandatory vaccines — despite vaccine mandates existing in the background in parts of the United States since the 19th century — and have parlayed the fight against COVID-19 into a political battle, with vaccine mandates as the latest frontier in the great American defense of freedom and liberty. These lawmakers decry the Biden administration's actions as government overreach, but now themselves are telling employers they can't impose mandates even if they want to. Take for example Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, who earlier this week issued an executive order banning mandatory vaccines within private companies. "No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19," Abbott wrote in his order. The order notes that vaccines are "encouraged" for those who are eligible but should remain "voluntary." Abbott is himself fully vaccinated against the virus and survived a brush with COVID-19 this summer. Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — also vaccinated against the virus — has vowed to sue the Biden administration over its federal vaccine mandates. So far, he has made good on his promise to keep such orders out of Florida, having previously fined a county in the state $3.5 million for imposing vaccine mandates on its employees. "We're going to make sure people are able to make their own choices. We're not going to discriminate against people based on those choices, and you're going to have a right to operate in society," DeSantis said, painting the issue of vaccines as a matter of civil liberties. A uniquely American predicament Most Americans have in fact received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. A September Pew Research study found that in August, 73% of American adults said they had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and a majority said they had received the full course of the vaccine. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, 86% said they were at least partially vaccinated against the virus, compared to 60% of Republicans. Unvaccinated Americans also tend to be younger than 50 and less educated. For some of those who have not been vaccinated, the message from conservative leaders like Abbott and DeSantis about choice and liberty resonates, despite public health guidance on how to prevent serious illness and death from the coronavirus. "Somehow it has morphed into not getting the vaccine as a way to defend their freedom and resist this 'tyranny,' " said Ken Resnicow, a professor in the school of public health at the University of Michigan. "There's not many countries that have this dynamic." Resnicow referenced a study on which he was the lead author that found a correlation between a person's belief in conspiracy theories and the apocalypse, and their willingness to actively prevent th

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American missionary abducted in Haiti sent desperate WhatsApp message: report The group was reportedly kidnapped by the "400 Mawozo" gang, which controls the town where the missionaries were abducted. AP One of the 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday sent a harrowing cry for help on WhatsApp as the group of 16 Americans and one Canadian were being abducted, according to a report. “Please pray for us!! We are being held hostage, they kidnapped our driver. Pray pray pray. We don’t know where they are taking us,” group message said, according to a report in the Washington Post. The terrifying message came as the group — which includes adult missionaries as well as their children — was being taken from a bus bound for the airport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, according to reports. Gangs have been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, police officers, busloads of passengers and others. Christian Aid Ministries The bus full of missionaries — including children — was reportedly headed to Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. AFP via Getty Images Haiti has faced upheaval since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by gunmen in his home in July, a case that has yet to be solved by local law enforcement. The missionary group was kidnapped by the “400 Mawozo” gang, which controls the town where the missionaries were abducted, and is known both for targeting religious groups and mass kidnappings, the Washington Post said. Gangs have been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, police officers, busloads of passengers and others as they grow more powerful. In April, 400 Mawozo kidnapped five priests and two nuns, a move that prompted a three-day protest.  At least 328 kidnapping victims were reported to Haiti’s National Police in the first eight months of 2021. AFP via Getty Images Haiti has faced political turmoil since July, when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. AP The group includes adult missionaries as well as their children. AP At least 328 kidnapping victims were reported to Haiti’s National Police in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a total of 234 for all of 2020, according to a report issued last month by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti known as BINUH. With Post wires https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/us-missionary-abducted-in-haiti-sent-desperate-whatsapp-message/

American missionary abducted in Haiti sent desperate WhatsApp message: report The group was reportedly kidnapped by the "400 Mawozo" gang, which controls the town where the missionaries were abducted

Bill Clinton released from Southern California hospital ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection, and will head home to New York to continue his recovery, a spokesman said. The former president left the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m. with Hillary Clinton on his arm. Dressed in jeans and a sports coat and wearing a face mask, he made his way out of the hospital slowly and stopped to shake hands with doctors and nurses lined up on the sidewalk. He gave a thumbs-up when a reporter asked how he was feeling, and he and Hillary Clinton then boarded a black SUV. They departed in a motorcade escorted by the California Highway Patrol and headed to the airport. Bill Clinton’s “fever and white blood cell count are normalized, and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” Dr. Alpesh N. Amin said in a statement shared on Twitter by a Clinton spokesman. Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the hospital southeast of Los Angeles with an infection unrelated to COVID-19. He plans to continue his recovery at his Chappaqua, New York, home, officials said. Spokesman Angel Ureña had said Saturday that Clinton would remain hospitalized one more night to receive further intravenous antibiotics. But all health indicators were “trending in the right direction,” Ureña said. Hillary Clinton had been with her husband at the hospital and was accompanied there Saturday by daughter Chelsea. President Joe Biden said Friday night that he had spoken to Bill Clinton, and the former president “sends his best.” “He’s doing fine; he really is,” Biden said during remarks at the University of Connecticut. An aide to the former president said Bill Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream but was on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition. The aide, who spoke to reporters at the hospital on the condition his name wasn’t used, said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital but wasn’t receiving ICU care. In the years since Clinton left the White House in 2001, the former president has faced health scares. In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of breath. He returned to the hospital for surgery for a partially collapsed lung in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery. He responded by embracing a largely vegan diet that saw him lose weight and report improved health. Clinton repeatedly returned to the stump, campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably Hillary Clinton during her failed 2008 bid for the presidential nomination. And in 2016, as Hillary Clinton sought the White House as the Democratic nominee, her husband — by then a grandfather and nearing 70 — returned to the campaign trail. ___ Associated Press writers Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco and Lou Kesten in Washington contributed to this report. https://apnews.com/article/bill-clinton-released-hospital-98cfbab9c7cb593a8449d4ca8c916cbf

Bill Clinton released from Southern California hospital ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection, and wi

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https://themummichogblog.com/migranti-imbarcazioni-di-salvataggio-tornano-ai-mari-del-mediterraneo-dopo-la-pausa12-06-2020/ Migranti imbarcazioni di salvataggio tornano ai mari del Mediterraneo dopo la pausa Due barche di beneficenza hanno di nuovo diretti verso il Mediterraneo, dopo due mesi di pausa nelle operazioni di salvataggio di migranti, come i gruppi umanitari attendono una nuova ondata di arrivi. Gli esseri umani italiani ONG Mediterranea Salvataggio ha detto nella notte di Martedì che la sua barca noleggiata, Mare Jonio, aveva lasciato il porto siciliano di Trapani per pattugliare il Mediterraneo centrale sulla sua ottava missione.

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https://themummichogblog.com/prime-pagine-di-oggi-11-giugno-202012-06-2020/ prime pagine di oggi - 11 Giugno 2020 Le storie migliori giornali di Malta il Giovedi Di seguito sono le storie migliori giornali di Malta il Giovedi. Times of Malta rapporti che secondo l'indagine dell'Associazione un Malta Datori di lavoro, ottimismo scarseggia tra le imprese in cui guardare dopo Covid-19. Si riporta anche come i membri del gabinetto sono sotto inchiesta penale per presunto utilizzo di fondi pubblici per creare materiale per il loro account personale di Facebook.

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https://themummichogblog.com/parlamento-europeo-per-sollecitare-regno-unito-per-rivedere-brexit-parla-posizione12-06-2020/ Parlamento Europeo per sollecitare Regno Unito per 'rivedere' Brexit parla posizione Il Parlamento europeo sarà il Venerdì stimolo Bretagna "di rivedere con urgenza la propria posizione negoziale" per evitare una rottura post-Brexit negoziati commerciali, in base a un progetto di risoluzione visto da AFP. La bozza dice che Londra dovrà accettare che il futuro legami UK-EU disciplinati da "un unico, completo e orizzontale meccanismo di governance" al rispetto oversee con un "level playing field" delle norme economiche.

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https://themummichogblog.com/vado-in-trance-latleta-si-prepara-per-epico-nuoto-sicilia-malta12-06-2020/ Vado in trance ': L'atleta si prepara per epico nuoto Sicilia-Malta Neil Agius spera di attraversare il tratto 95 chilometri di acqua a fine mese Sfidando le correnti della superficie del mare, esaurimento, e meduse, un atleta di Malta si prepara a fare il bagno dalla Sicilia a Malta in una sfida epica. Neil Agius farà scattare da Pozzallo a fine mese e prevede di copertura 95 km prima di arrivare a casa a Sliema.

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https://themummichogblog.com/statua-di-cristoforo-colombo-decapitato-a-boston12-06-2020/ Statua di Cristoforo Colombo decapitato a Boston Le chiamate a sculture rimuovere commemorano colonizzatori e schiavisti spazzata dell'America Una statua di Cristoforo Colombo a Boston è stato decapitato, la polizia ha detto Mercoledì, come le chiamate per rimuovere sculture commemorative colonizzatori e schiavisti spazzare America sul retro di proteste anti-razzismo. Una statua di Cristoforo Colombo è stato anche vandalizzato nel centro di Miami, e un altro è stato trascinato in un lago all'inizio della settimana a Richmond, Virginia, secondo i rapporti locali.

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https://themummichogblog.com/quando-la-guerra-e-venuto-a-malta-e-migliaia-divenne-rifugiati12-06-2020/ Quando la guerra è venuto a Malta e migliaia divenne rifugiati La seconda guerra mondiale per Malta ha iniziato 80 anni fa 11 giugno 1940 sono reso conto, come il giorno, senza nubi, calma qualsiasi altro Maltese inizio estate e con una promessa di calore. lavoratori Dockyard stavano radunando fuori dai cancelli o nei negozi di caffè nelle vicinanze, in attesa che le 7 e il segnale che preannunciava il lavoro di un altro giorno. Altri erano entrambi sulla strada o si prepara a partire per il lavoro. E 'stato il modello normale della vita lavorativa maltese.

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https://themummichogblog.com/da-birra-a-caffeina-la-nascita-di-innovazione12-06-2020/ Da Birra a Caffeina: La nascita di Innovazione 2014/06/28 12:00 ET Aggiornato 27 Agosto 2014 Trecento anni fa, durante il secolo dei Lumi, la casa del caffè divenne il centro di innovazione. Allora, la maggior parte delle persone sono passati da bere birra al consumo di caffè (vale a dire di essere ubriaco ad essere cablato) e le idee hanno cominciato esplodere.

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