NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city’s public transit system needed to be cleaned and disinfected due to COVID-19. Cuomo said, “They can disinfect all trains and buses every nights,” and “It can best be done by stopping train service from 1 am to 5 am every night.” […]
Month: April 2020
A small glimmer of hope appeared on Tuesday, when Gilead, supported by Dr. Anthony Fauci, announced optimism about remdesivir, an experimental drug designed to shorten the recovery period for COVID-19. Fauci spoke at the White House, lauding the drug for showing clear-cut, significant, and positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. In response, the […]
On April 28, Pres. Trump announced that meat processing plants would stay open to prevent COVID-19 from impacting the national food supply under Defense Production Act. Unions are fighting back, however, asserting the danger present to workers in keeping the plants open. Just as Smithfield in South Dakota recently closed due to infections, more than […]
As Internet becomes one of the main sources of news, it is starting to show how unconfirmed fast news can ruin real lives of people. A US army reservist and a mom of two in Virginia is one of the most recent victim of this tragic situation. Maatje Benassi lives in Fort Belvoir, and was […]
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A Cup of Poem ~~ 참살이 텃밭/강병원
1 다사로운 봄 향기 달코롬한 에덴동산 참살이 텃밭가꾸기 퇴직 후 계속되는 십삼 년째 트랙터의 투투투 힘찬 걸음마 잠깐 동안의 날랜 쟁기질로 기경 끝낸 보들보들 명주고름 양팔 걷어올리고 맨발로 밟으며 비타민 D 섭취, 온종일 놀고 싶다 2 사나흘 지나 적절한 강우량에 촉촉히 젖은 엿가락 두룩들 토양 수분 유지와 잡초 억제 바닥 덮기 효자 비닐 멀칭 작업 […]
“어려운 시기 사역자양성의 발판이 되길” “버지니아 워싱턴신학교 신학생 생활필요 기부금 모으기 나서” “요한일서 3장 17절: 누가 이 세상의 재물을 가지고 형제의 궁핍함을 보고도 도와 줄 마음을 닫으면 하나님의 사랑이 어찌 그 속에 거하겠느냐” 워싱턴신학교 (이사장: 김택용, 이하 신학교)가 코로나 펜데믹으로 어려운상황에 처한 신학생들을 위하여 기부금모으기에 나섰다. 사역을 위해 신학공부를 하며 생계를 유지하여야 하는 학생들은 최근 […]
According to CDC, more than 9,000 health workers have been infected with COVID-19 as of April 14. Across the nation, doctors and nurses’ death tolls rise because of lack of protective equipment, National Nurses United said in a protest at the White House on April 21 in honor of nurses who have died of COVID-19. […]
(Photo from CDC) US is seeing a death toll at 42,897, with confirmed 799,515 cases as of April 21, and extreme rightists protesting to end quarantine. A new study from professor Li Lanjuan and colleagues from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China published in a non-peer review paper released on website medRXiv.org on Sunday, says that […]
(Photo from Google images, captured from the movie.”12 Angry Men”; authorized under Fair Use Act) On April 20, 2020, in a divided opinion, the Supreme Court ruled that only unanimous jury may convict defendants in criminal trials. In considering the Sixth Amendment’s “trial by an impartial jury trial” language, Justice Gorsuch wrote in an opinion, […]
Trump announced the halt in U.S. funding for WHO on Tuesday. He accused WHO, as a the world’s health agency, of misleading the world about the COVID-19 outbreak in China and blaming it for the resulting high death tolls around globe. Germany slammed Trump’s WHO decision as “blaming others” for the coronavirus. According to CBS, […]