Morning Reads for International Literacy Day (September 8)
Good morning! Today is International Literacy Day. There are still 773 million adults and children worldwide who lack basic literacy skills, including more than you think in the United States. Here is a list of demonstrably effective literacy programs run through UNESCO in case you know someone who might need a bit of help in this area.
Now, let’s move on to the news.
Pat Conroy
- Yesterday, Georgia broke yet another record with over 6,000 hospitalized in the state for COVID. Also, 97% of ICU beds are filled in the state.
- U.S. Representatives Hank Johnson and David Scott are calling on Governor Brian Kemp to place a statewide pause on elective surgeries amid the Delta surge. (Alternate link.)
- Shorter University in Rome has lost an assistant basketball coach to COVID. Ryan Dupree was 24 years-old.
- Morehouse College is canceling its homecoming festivities due to COVID.
- City Councilman Jim Sills of Grantville is using his recovery from a brutal case of COVID as a wakeup call to talk to his fellow conservatives about getting vaccinated against the disease.
- Meanwhile, former President Trump will hold a rally in Perry on September 25.
- Former Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson has been arrested for felony violation of oath of office and misdemeanor willful obstruction of law enforcement officers over the Ahmaud Arbery case.
- A high schooler is facing charges over attacking a fellow student draped in a Pride flag at Lowndes County High School last Friday.
- The Georgia-based Center for Black Health and Equity has come out against Augusta’s proposal to make an exception to its smoke-free ordinance for cigar bars.
Alice Walker
- The Biden Administration has set a goal for 40% of U.S. energy to come from solar power by 2035.
- Many Louisiana residents remain without power 10 days after Hurricane Ida.
- Richmond, Virginia’s Robert E. Lee statue has been removed.
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott believes his state’s new strict abortion law will stop rapists. (It won’t.)
- Former Senator Adlai Stevenson has died at the age of 90. (Alternate link.)
- The Paris trial over the 2015 terror attacks began today.
- The Mexican Supreme Court voted unanimously to decriminalize abortion.
- An employment tribunal in England has sided with Alice Thompson, saying that her former employer engaged in indirect sex discrimination against her.
- Hong Kong police have arrested the organizers of a Tiananmen Square vigil. (Alternate link.)
- Like the United States, Bulgaria’s low vaccination rate is leading to a deadly COVID surge.
Flannery O’Connor
- Three Vermont state troopers are accused of being involved in a fake COVID vaccination card scheme. (Alternate link.)
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Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning — warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized.
The move came as the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed in recent weeks. Idaho has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S.
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-idaho-db21f9a14254996144e78aafb1518259
That’s so incredibly sad, but I worry it’s going to happen here before this is over.
Definitely a legit concern as we seem to be on the cusp of a situation like Idaho.
A people over profits healthcare system in the richest country in the history of the world is just too extreme though….