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CDC drops 5-day isolation guidance for Covid-19, moving away from key strategy to quell infections March 1, 2024 (CNN) -- People who test positive for Covid-19 no longer need to routinely stay away from others for at least five days, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Friday. The change ends a strategy from earlier in the pandemic that experts said has been important to controlling the spread of the infection. The agency says it’s updating its recommendations for Covid-19 to bring them in line with its advice for other kinds of respiratory infections, including influenza and RSV. Offering a single set of unified guidance will make people more likely to follow it, agency experts said in a news briefing Friday. Namely, the CDC now says people who have Covid-19 should stay home until they’ve been fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours and their symptoms have been improving for 24 hours. (more) https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/health/cdc-covid-isolation-recommendations/index.html "For people with COVID-19 and influenza, treatment is available and can lessen symptoms and lower the risk of severe illness. The recommendations suggest returning to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, symptoms are improving overall, and if a fever was present, it has been gone without use of a fever-reducing medication. Once people resume normal activities, they are encouraged to take additional prevention strategies for the next 5 days to curb disease spread, such as taking more steps for cleaner air, enhancing hygiene practices, wearing a well-fitting mask, keeping a distance from others, and/or getting tested for respiratory viruses." https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html

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If I recall right, there were past plans to move the Eastern bus terminal to a spot out on Bangna Trad Road, which actually would have made sense. To me, moving the EBT to the same central city location as the Central station makes no sense. Also, both the current Ekkamai location and the previous Bangna relocation location have/would have had BTS station connections, so saying Bangsue is connected to MRT isn't such a great comparative advantage. It's Mochit bus station that's always been lacking in that area. It too has been subject of many relocation plans thru the years. I've always thought the Transport Ministry plans such things not to improve transit for the public, but instead, to line the pockets for various govt and private sector interests involved.

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With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return? An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin from behind bars cost him his life. There was one question that Russians repeatedly asked the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic penal colony on Friday, and he confessed that he found it a little annoying. Why, after surviving a fatal poisoning attempt widely blamed on the Kremlin, had he returned to Russia from his extended convalescence abroad to face certain imprisonment and possible death? Even his prison guards, turning off their recording devices, asked him why he had come back, he said. “I don’t want to give up either my country or my beliefs,” Mr. Navalny wrote in a Jan. 17 Facebook post to mark the third anniversary of his return and arrest in 2021. “I cannot betray either the first or the second. If your beliefs are worth something, you must be willing to stand up for them. And if necessary, make some sacrifices.” That was the direct answer, but for many Russians, both those who knew him and those who did not, the issue was more complex. Some of them considered it almost a classical Greek tragedy: The hero, knowing that he is doomed, returns home anyway because, well, if he didn’t, he would not be the hero. (more) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/why-navalny-returned-to-russia.html or https://web.archive.org/web/20240217104831/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/why-navalny-returned-to-russia.html

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Alexei Navalny: Police in Russia crack down on protests as human rights group claims 'at least 100 arrested' "Police in Russia have cracked down on people who gathered to mark the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny - with one human rights group claiming at least 100 people have been arrested. Footage and pictures from Russia's two largest cities - Moscow and St Petersburg - showed officers ripping away placards from protesters and dragging others away from makeshift memorials to Mr Navalny. Journalists at the site in Moscow - set up at a monument to victims of Soviet repression - were also filmed being detained. (more) https://news.sky.com/story/alexei-navalny-police-in-russia-crack-down-on-protests-as-human-rights-group-claims-at-least-100-arrested-13073537

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