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Why are things expensive: 4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market. 4 airlines control 80% of air travel 3 companies control 92% of the soda market. 3 companies control 73% of the cereal market. Why don't I hear about it? 6 companies control 90% of the news

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Mexico recently announced 20 new protected areas covering roughly 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres) across the country. The protected areas, which include national parks, sanctuaries and flora and fauna protection areas, are located in the states of Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Zacatecas, Chiapas and eight others, as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California. Mexico’s environmental agencies under the Obrador administration have been subjected to consistent cuts in funding since 2016, raising concerns among experts that the departments will not have the personnel or resources to protect the country’s 225 protected areas.

The newly protected areas will preserve habitat and ecologically important marine areas for various species, including whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), Mexican prairie dogs (Cynomys mexicanus) and jaguars (Panthera onca). They will also help safeguard ecologically important coral reefs and areas of cultural significance to Indigenous communities.

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The celebration of Advent is a Christian tradition that spans the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. Each Sunday is called an "Advent Sunday," and there is a specific theme associated with each one. The third Sunday of Advent is often referred to as Gaudete Sunday.

"Gaudete" is a Latin word that means "rejoice," and the theme of Gaudete Sunday is centered around rejoicing and joy as Christmas approaches. It is meant to be a joyful and celebratory moment in the Advent season.

In many Christian traditions, the liturgical color for Gaudete Sunday is rose or pink, symbolizing the joy and anticipation of the coming celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

During Gaudete Sunday, readings, prayers, and hymns focus on themes of joy, hope, and anticipation, emphasizing the joy that comes with the anticipation of the birth of Jesus. Many churches may use rose-colored candles in the Advent wreath to mark this particular Sunday.

It's important to note that specific traditions and practices may vary among Christian denominations and congregations.

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The second Advent, also known as the second Sunday of Advent, is a Christian liturgical season that marks the second of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. Advent is a time of preparation and anticipation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas Day.

Each Sunday of Advent is associated with a specific theme, and the second Sunday often focuses on peace. The lighting of the second Advent candle, typically a purple or blue candle on an Advent wreath, symbolizes the increasing light of Christ coming into the world.

While different Christian denominations may have variations in their observance of Advent, common elements include Scripture readings, prayers, hymns, and reflections that emphasize the themes of hope, peace, joy, and love. The overall purpose is to spiritually prepare believers for the celebration of the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

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Get ready to dive into the magical world of Advent! This special time of year is celebrated by millions around the globe, and it's all about anticipation, joy, and preparation for Christmas. So, what exactly is Advent and how is it celebrated?

Advent is a season observed in many Christian traditions leading up to Christmas. It typically begins on the fourth Sunday before December 25th and lasts for four weeks. It's a time of reflection, prayer, and getting into the festive spirit.

During Advent, there are various traditions and customs that people follow. One common practice is the lighting of an Advent wreath. This wreath consists of four candles, with one being lit each Sunday leading up to Christmas. Each candle symbolizes different themes like hope, peace, joy, and love.

Another popular tradition is the use of an Advent calendar. These calendars come in many forms - from traditional paper ones with little doors to open each day revealing a treat or surprise to digital versions that can be accessed online or through apps.

Many churches also hold special services during Advent called "Advent Mass" or "Advent Vespers." These services often include readings from scripture related to the birth of Jesus Christ as well as hymns and prayers.

In addition to these customs, individuals may also engage in personal practices such as daily devotions or acts of kindness during this time. It's a season that encourages introspection, gratitude, and spreading love to others.

So whether you're lighting candles on an Advent wreath or opening doors on your calendar with excitement each day leading up to Christmas Eve - there are countless ways to celebrate this enchanting season.

Let the countdown begin! Get ready for a month filled with anticipation, joyous traditions, and meaningful moments as we celebrate Advent together.

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Terrorized by gunmen, neo-Nazis and radical judges, the United States is breaking up into the Un-United States, with unforgiving values ​​and desires, socially, culturally, politically. On the one hand, there are the liberal coasts, where I used to live also, and a few islands in the Midwest. On the other hand, the landmass of the conservative – or at least conservatively governed – states in between: The two Americas are drifting apart more and more abruptly, like tectonic continental plates that are drifting towards the big bang, the historic, incurable earthquake of the century.

The first temblors can no longer be ignored. Mass shootings in ever shorter succession, a possible comeback by the autocrat Trump and the recent shock judgments of the Supreme Court, which has shifted the foundations of US society sharply to the right, only accelerate what has been fermenting for a long time.

On the 246th anniversary of this "great experiment America," as President Joe Biden puts it that day, as if living in a parallel reality, everything seems to be falling apart. Nothing is agreed on anymore: guns, abortion, climate, civil rights, education, history, media, even the recognition of election results - the bedrock of the system.

The reasons are not new: the thoughtless violence, the rampant poverty, the arbitrary death penalty, the world's highest incarceration rate, the power of the oligarchic class, the extremism disguised as patriotism. And America's surreally exaggerated self-image as "the greatest nation in the world."

America makes it hard for those who used to like it. It's a nation on the brink of collapse. This collapse was not brought about by invaders or immigrants, as the right would have you believe, but by enemies within, see January 6. 2021. Brutal, heartless, indifferent to the climate catastrophe, the impoverishment of millions, the mass deaths in Uvalde, Buffalo, Highland Park. "That's not who we are," they say reflexively, we're not like that. But that's exactly how too many of them are, again and again.

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For more than a decade, crime expert Edgardo Buscaglia, who teaches at Columbia University's law school, has been warning that Mexico's cartels are diversifying their businesses and operating in more and more illegal and legal markets - including forestry. In the past few years the criminal organizations have continued to expand and now have a large part of the timber market under their control. "Today more than half of the wood that comes onto the market from Mexico comes from illegal sources," says Buscaglia. "There are hundreds of local gangs in states like Jalisco, Michoacán or Chiapas illegally chopping wood, running logging companies and sawmills, and selling the wood cheaply to transnational criminal organizations." The Sinaloa cartel or the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) would then appear "as a broker" on the world market.

According to Buscaglia, the cartels control the ports; the goods are transported from Mexico by ship to Asia - especially to China, where controls are lax. The cartels would concentrate on the distribution of particularly fine wood, trees that are threatened with extinction - such as the Pacific Parota tree, Granadillo or Tampicirán. They could get high prices for the wood in China. Sustainability does not play a role, says Buscaglia - the criminal networks »are only interested in quick profits«.

According to the World Food Organization (FAO), around 127,770 hectares of forest disappeared in Mexico in 2020 - between 2010 and 2015, an average of 91,600 hectares were deforested per year.

The raid through Mexico's forests is accompanied by an extreme wave of violence in many regions: criminal gangs threaten, kidnap or kill community overseers and farmers from joint ventures who refuse the gangs illegal logging, do not want to sell them wood or refuse to pay protection money.

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Wash your hands to stay away from Covid-19. Wash your brain to stay away from ignorance! Storms, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis - we humans experience natural disasters again and again. Hardly anyone denies the danger it poses. The corona pandemic is also such a natural disaster - and yet there are those who are corona-weary, deniers, skeptics and objectors. Why is it so difficult for us to properly understand the phenomenon and act accordingly? Seeing dominates all other sensory perceptions: With the eyes we very quickly learn a lot about our outside world. In the event of danger, we particularly rely on our eyes because we can "see" them coming and react to them. At the same time, we tend to ignore things that we cannot see or, for example, cannot smell. We cannot perceive the coronavirus directly. That is why we are always inclined to forget it. Some even deny it. In addition, most people first have to experience drastic consequences before they can adequately assess something as a phenomenon: only comparatively few people see the sick in the clinic suffer.

Only now, in the second wave, is the virus getting closer and closer, and many know someone in their immediate environment who is sick with Covid-19. The pandemic is only slowly penetrating social consciousness as a real catastrophe.

We like to meet new challenges with too much optimism in terms of duration and costs: the Sydney Opera House opened ten years late, and it cost more than 100 million Australian dollars - the plan was seven million. This example was later followed by the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Berlin Airport in Germany.

In everyday life, too, we often underestimate objective risks: As is well known, the risk of death is much lower with a flight than with a car. However, we usually assess it the other way round, because we are behind the wheel of the car ourselves - that is the positive illusion of personal control. Underestimating the risk of infection ("just a flu") leads to careless behavior and turns many into distributors of the virus, even without wanting to.

Conversely, we systematically overestimate risks when we are very afraid: Many people no longer leave the house out of fear. We easily overlook the remaining scope for design. We now know that we can control the risk of infection with the coronavirus by wearing masks, keeping your distance, ventilating and ensuring good hygiene. We have to learn to integrate these new measures into our everyday lives - at least temporarily. Of course, this also entails considerable restrictions; we forego concerts, theater, and restaurant visits with friends. Why do we find it so difficult?

We living beings are evolutionary and can only survive in a group: a newborn baby needs a caring group. People are also dependent on caregivers for a particularly long time. As social beings, (almost) all people, despite strong personality differences, are highly dependent on close social contacts, be it in the family, be it during sport or at work.

Social encounter and recognition is what defines our life. That is why (almost) all people suffer from official contact restrictions. The social "loneliness" prescribed because of the virus hits our minds because it is directed against our "social nature".

What can we do in this situation?

We need new ways of social interaction: Many people already communicate via Skype, Zoom, WebEx, Facetime or Teams, for example. The oldest generation is still often excluded from this, here it is important to train our entire society in all areas of life and not to wait for the end of the pandemic.

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Over the past months, we have all adjusted our daily lives in response to the Coronavirus pandemic – working from home, restricting contact to families and friends, and minimizing travel. As we begin to restore our new normal, the health and safety of those around us still remains vital to prevent a future outbreak and protect our loved ones.

With precise and routine testing, we can finally get back to our new normal – uniting with loved ones, reconnecting with friends, working alongside colleagues, and finally having peace of mind. As we continue to battle the virus the best with given protocols, top officials are expected to to point to self-testing coronavirus kits as another weapon against the pandemic.

As soon as producers of these kits apply for an authorization from the German government, federal regulators will check the kits for their accuracy. It is particularly important that these kits do not produce false negative test results.

Centogene, a biotechnology company based in the northern German city of Rostock, currently offers a self-testing kit for online purchase.

Website Centogene

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Storms, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis - we humans experience natural disasters again and again. Hardly anyone denies the danger it poses. The corona pandemic is also such a natural disaster - and yet there are deniers, skeptics and refuser’s. Why is it so difficult for us to properly understand the phenomenon and act accordingly? We can't see the virus Seeing dominates all other sensory perceptions: With the eyes we very quickly learn a lot about our outside world. In the event of danger, we particularly rely on our eyes, because we can "see" them coming and react to them. At the same time, we tend to ignore things that we cannot see or, for example, cannot smell. We cannot perceive the coronavirus directly. That is why we are always inclined to forget it. Some even deny it.

In addition, most people first have to experience drastic consequences before they can properly assess something as a phenomenon: only comparatively few people see the sick in the clinic suffer. Only now, in the second wave, is the virus getting closer, and many know someone in their immediate environment who is sick with Covid-19. So the pandemic is slowly penetrating social consciousness as a real catastrophe.

Humans tend to make systematic misjudgments We like to meet new challenges with too much optimism in terms of duration and costs: the Sydney Opera House opened ten years late, and it cost more than 100 million Australian dollars - seven million were planned. This example was later followed in Germany by the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Berlin Airport.

In everyday life, too, we often underestimate objective risks: As is well known, the risk of death is much lower with a flight than with a car. However, we usually assess it the other way round because we are behind the wheel of the car ourselves - that is the positive illusion of personal control. Underestimating the risk of infection ("just a flu") leads to careless behavior and turns many into distributors of the virus, even without wanting to. Conversely, we systematically overestimate risks when we are very afraid: Many people no longer leave the house out of fear. We easily overlook the remaining design leeway. We now know that we can control the risk of infection with the coronavirus by wearing masks, keeping your distance, ventilating and ensuring good hygiene.

We have to learn to integrate these new measures into our everyday lives - at least temporarily. Of course, this also entails considerable restrictions; we forego concerts, theater, and restaurant visits with friends. Why do we find it so difficult?

Man is a social being We living beings are evolutionary and can only survive in a group: a newborn baby needs a caring group. People are also dependent on caregivers for a particularly long time. As social beings, (almost) all people, despite strong personality differences, are highly dependent on close social contacts, be it in the family, be it during sport or at work. Social encounter and recognition is what defines our life. That is why (almost) all people suffer from official contact restrictions. The social "loneliness" prescribed because of the virus hits our minds because it is directed against our "social nature".

What can we do in this situation? We need new ways of social interaction: Many people already communicate via Skype, Zoom, WebEx, Facetime or Teams, for example. The oldest generation is still often excluded from this, here it is important to train our entire society in all areas of life and not to wait for the end of the pandemic. We also need innovations for electronic communication. Of course, this does not replace personal encounters in the long run, but it is a new form of interaction with which we can expand the variety of our encounter opportunities. Why do many find it so difficult to accept new forms of social interaction as a substitute?

Humans are creatures of habits When a natural disaster hits us, such as the Oder flood in 1997, it usually only hits part of the country, in this case parts of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. The people in the affected areas are usually ready to adapt their everyday lives at short notice. At that time there was even a considerable wave of aid from all over Germany to secure the dams. This is not unusual: it was a visible catastrophe with a clearly limited duration, clearly identifiable affected persons and easily perceivable, clear measures (reinforcement of almost flooded dams) to avert worse. We like to help because we can see the suffering and know that we only have to help for a few weeks.

However, the situation is different when measures are designed to last. Many people in western countries already find it a severe restriction on their freedom if they are to wear a mask for large parts of the day. In the face of the pandemic, why not just change our habits, wear a mask everywhere except at home, keep our distance, ventilate?

From the point of view of psychology, we act most of the time according to ingrained behavioral patterns: We have been brought up to observe rituals of greeting, courtesy and encounter. We have internalized that.

Our automatic everyday behavior is controlled by implicit memory, while explicit conscious thinking requires an interplay of working memory and declarative memory. However, the forms of memory are to a very large extent independent of one another, in particular the implicit memory is strongly independent of what we call explicit thinking in everyday life: That is why a heavy smoker does not become a non-smoker by realizing that smoking is very harmful. The realization that you urgently need to lose weight does not usually change anything in your eating behavior. Even a lecture on ethical principles does not make us good people.

Daniel Kahneman describes this as the difference between two processing systems: While system 1 is responsible for the fast, emotional and automatic processing of information and thus sets our habits in motion, only system 2 enables slow, rational and reflective processing of information, i.e. it enables explicit reflection. Now the result of explicit reflection must also find its way into our habits, but these are primarily controlled by system 1. If we want to change these, not only does system 2 have to accept new thoughts, but these have to change the imprinting of system 1.

And this is only possible through systematic, and ideally also emotionally anchored training: A heavy smoker often only manages to quit by adopting a pleasant alternative behavior, for example he eats something instead of smoking. It is usually difficult to find a pleasant substitute behavior that does not replace the one addiction with a new problem behavior. That is exactly the challenge: only through the interplay of insight and training in appropriate, new behaviors is it possible to break fatal habits.

That seems to work if you really want to. But here again the fact that we usually do not yet perceive the pandemic as a natural disaster has an impact. In Angela Merkel we have a Chancellor who, as a scientist, recognized the seriousness of the situation early on: As early as March she said: “Since German unification, no, since the Second World War, there has been no challenge to our country that has it as much as we act in solidarity together.”She was right.

People believe that they are entitled to existential security, prosperity and individual freedom With the help of science and industry, we have largely overcome hunger, made floods and storms predictable, and with the help of modern medicine we have greatly reduced most diseases or at least made them manageable. We are used to growing up without existential challenges, so one of the most common causes of death in people between 15 and 29 is suicide (besides traffic accidents).

Most of them live in such a »secure« everyday life that they can limit themselves to shaping their individual preferences in everyday life: Which job fulfills me? Which hobby suits me? Where should the next vacation go? Basically only laws and our financial resources limit us.

The basic idea is that the freedom of the individual ends where he or she violates the integrity, dignity or freedom of the other. And that we also have to work for the community. Only then can a democratic society last.

We take a safeguard against existential challenges and a democratic society of freedom for granted.

However, a natural disaster calls that into question. Now, in the pandemic, the virus is unpredictably putting everyone's health at risk. Because even if there are risk factors, it can affect everyone to a particular degree in individual cases. Even our modern health system cannot guarantee survival for severely ill people: one in four people who are invasively ventilated dies. In addition, there is the imminent danger that the many Covid sufferers overload the hospitals. In the worst case, they would then have to turn away other patients. We don't just rely on our habits, but on a claim to normality. To reiterate, it is that without any particular effort, we expect that we need not have any physical or financial existential fear. That we can enjoy extensive individual freedom. And that we also have a right to our well-deserved vacation away with social contacts.

In extreme cases, this claim is combined with a denial of the pandemic, as the "lateral thinkers" movement often does: It cannot be that which restricts my everyday life in such a way. These partly anti-democratic movements make it clear that our real civil liberties are not endangered when we wear a mask and keep our distance, but when populists do not want to see the facts of the present or consciously distort them.

The solution? Science and common sense Even the previous reference to statistics and objective risks is only possible thanks to science. Even if the scientific standard is constantly evolving, new knowledge is added and old assumptions sometimes have to be withdrawn, scientifically based assessments and recommendations remain the best that we - and this includes politics - can take as the basis for our actions. With that we flew to the moon.

People can master incredible challenges if they see them adequately, accept them and tackle them with collective energy. Complementary procedures are definitely part of it: Doctors have now worked out clear rules of conduct. Science and the pharmaceutical industry have developed various vaccines in record time. If enough people get vaccinated, we can use it to stop the corona pandemic - before it develops the same proportions as the Spanish flu. But even with a (sufficient) vaccine, it takes a good organization of the mass vaccination, time, discipline and perseverance until the time comes. Unfortunately, many believe that now that the vaccine is finally here, they can go back to normal. Many people in Germany live their everyday lives with the attitude "My friends are not infected (and if so, it's worth it)".

We still have to strictly adhere to the rules of conduct, wherever this is justifiable. So we can keep the disaster in check until the vaccine protects us as a community. To do this, however, we have to change our everyday life, for example wear a mask for all encounters outside our own household. Is this an encroachment on personal freedom rights? Only if you think you can claim every egoistic interest of a person as freedom, even if this behavior threatens the entire community as well as its existence and freedom rights: Anyone who consciously breaks the necessary rules of behavior without sufficient reason behaves like someone who discovered the fire in an apartment, but neither warned the residents of the house nor alerted the fire brigade.

Anyone who refuses to be vaccinated without a medical reason acts like someone who steps out from a fire chain with buckets of water and says: I won't take part.

Isn't that a bit one-sided? What about the collateral damage? And don't we have other problems? That is certainly correct. When making decisions, politicians have to take many things into account, especially in this context: a functioning economy, the right to education, the preservation of fundamental freedoms. But also, for example, the suffering that the restricted contact triggers in people with mental health problems.

There will therefore only ever be a pragmatic compromise. But we should use science and common sense to clearly oppose denial, looking the other way and ignoring as well as any kind of Chinese dictatorship.

In liberal societies we have to find our own way of dealing with the catastrophe: Only if we are ready to fundamentally change our behavior in everyday life will we be able to preserve our everyday life in a democracy with great freedoms. Here the pandemic is a preliminary exercise for further challenges that are not so easily visible. The climate catastrophe, for example. Are we up to these challenges? "We make it!" Can we find a solution? "Yes, we can." If and to the extent that we are guided by reason, vision and a sense of community.

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2020 is set to become Mexico’s deadliest year on record. Despite hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic would slow down violent crime, it’s had the opposite effect. Reporters visited Culiacán a city of about 800,000, and the headquarters of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.

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Re-Opening rules and regulations for Baja California Sur. We did translate the auto-generated transcript of the video. No guaranty on the accuracy of that translation! Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis announced the implementation of a health alert system that includes the state's own criteria and circumstances for the gradual reopening of economic activity. It is a general framework, where own criteria are established on what can be done, how and when, and what will continue to be prohibited to achieve the necessary balance between pandemic control and economic recovery. 6 LEVELS OF ALERT This reopening strategy COVID was approved by the Health Safety Committee in which the 5 municipal governments participate in addition to the authorities in the matter, it works in coordination with the 4 parameters that the federal authority has determined and that are identified in a red, orange, yellow and green traffic light, and that in the case of the one designed for Baja California Sur there will be 6 alert levels instead of the 4 federal ones, that is, with greater gradualism and dynamism and they are:

Level 6: red color with maximum degree of alertness;

Levels 5 and 4: orange, critical and very high;

Levels 3 and 2 yellow color, medium alert level; and, finally,

Level 1 green and corresponding to the low alert level.

Each level has specific activities that can be carried out: from red where essential activities have been redefined, to green, which will correspond to the new normal, and it will be the State Committee on Health Safety that will determine and disclose the level in each week. the one that is the state: The first announcement will come into effect from next Monday, June 15, and economic activities will only be allowed under the sanitary and preventive protocols issued by the sanitary authority.

In the case of activities where direct attention is provided to the public, each establishment will measure the public attention space and it will be determined, depending on its size, how many people can be in the establishment simultaneously.

LEVEL 6, A CUSTOMER FOR 5 SQUARE METERS

At level 6 which is the current one and which could be extended and which corresponds to the color red, the essential activities that are allowed may receive only one client for every 5 square meters of service area; Each level will modify this capacity until reaching level 1 where one customer will be allowed for every 2 square meters.

He cited as an example a restaurant that has an area of ​​100 square meters destined to serve its guests; At level 1 green traffic light, this establishment can serve up to 50 customers since one is allowed, sitting at a table for every two square meters. The same restaurant, if alert level 5 were in force, could serve 25 customers by allowing one for every 4 square meters and the owners may decide to apply more restrictive measures than those stipulated to protect the health of customers.

BEACHES, PARKS AND STADIUMS, LIMITED

Regarding social and recreational activities, where by its nature, it is very complicated or impossible to use the formula described, such as the case of public parks, beaches and stadiums, the Committee established a system of gaps that gradually limits the total number of visitors to a specific place at the same time, the maximum number of people that can be in each group and the distance that must be between them; It will be the municipal authority that determines capacity, which places and at what time they may be opened to the public: the Municipality will authorize the opening according to its surveillance possibilities.

BALANDRA, ALSO WITH RESTRICTIONS

In the case of a beach, for example, Balandra, and a maximum capacity of 500 people was established; If in the week in which the opening is authorized, the alert system is at level 3, which is equivalent to a 60% capacity. The number of people allowed on that beach, at that time, will be 300 and the authority may also determine the minimum distance between people and between the groups that attend.

If the alert changes to level 2 that allows a capacity of 70%, 350 people will be allowed to visit simultaneously.

Mendoza Davis reported that, to determine alert levels, the State Health Safety Committee will consider the indicators corresponding to availability of COVID hospital beds and volumetric ventilators, trends in positive and suspected cases, results of tests carried out, among others.

TRAFFIC LIGHT, ALSO TO RESTRICT

He emphasized that this strategy applies both ways according to the behavior of the pandemic; that is, the announcements will not always be to allow opening more, it may be the case that it is to restrict, that will depend on the behavior of the citizenry, to comply with the rules and protocols, to keep distance at work, at home and on the street, to ensure that no more than two people travel per vehicle, to wash our hands frequently, not to touch our faces, to use our masks correctly, to stay at home, and especially, it depends on taking care of those who present additional risks In case of contagion, especially our older adults who have been shown to be the most vulnerable population.

ECONOMY, NOT AT THE COST OF HEALTH

We all want and need to reactivate our economy, but we cannot do it at the cost of our health or that of others; If we do not comply, we will not only have to close again. We will regret many deaths and put our health system at risk of collapse.

It depends on us that it does not happen, said the governor in a message spread through his social networks, in which he stressed that because of the Covid-19 pandemic we are in an extremely delicate moment, and in our state, the pace continues being stable.

THE FORCE OF THE STATE WILL BE APPLIED

Compliance with legal restrictions and compliance with current protocols and rules will be enforced with the force of the state. The list of activities will be released in the media, social networks and on the Baja California Sur coronavirus website.

Source: Gov. Carlos Mendoza Davis video transcript

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Women are being killed in Mexico at record rates, but the president says most emergency calls are "false". Since stay-at-home measures were ordered March 23 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, there has been an increase in homicides where women are the victims, according to government data released last week. April was the deadliest month in the last five years with a record 267 murders of women. Yet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed the scale of the problem, blaming the "neoliberal" governing model of his predecessors. "I'm going to give you another fact, which doesn't mean that violence against women doesn't exist, because I don't want you all to misinterpret me," the leftist leader said mid-May during his daily morning presser.

"Ninety percent of those calls that serve as your base are false, it's proven," he told a journalist when asked about his government's own data on emergency calls about violence against women.

Source / Credits: CNN

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Mexican health authorities reported 1,092 novel coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the highest toll in one day so far, with total infections surging past 100,000 as the Latin American country emerges as a major center of the pandemic. The number of deaths was more than twice a previous record, and daily infections were also at an all time high of 3,912 although Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said some occurred several days earlier.

These additions bring the total number of known cases to 101,238 and deaths to 11,729. Health authorities have previously said the true number for both figures is almost certainly significantly higher due to the low level of testing nationwide. Mexico’s testing rate ranks among the lowest in Latin America, with just 0.4 tests per 1,000 people.

Mexico had planned to start reopening the country from measures designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, deaths and new infections have scaled new peaks this week, dampening expectations for major changes. Latin America’s second-largest economy is at an earlier stage of the pandemic curve than its neighbor, the United States.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government has been under U.S. pressure to reopen major sectors of the economy to reactivate supply chains underpinning billions of dollars of business.

Source/Credits: Reuters

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Mexico on Saturday registered 2,885 new cases of coronavirus and 364 more deaths, bringing the total numbers to 87,512 cases and 9,779 fatalities, according to data from health authorities. Mexico’s daily death toll is now approaching that of the United States, at around, though Brazil leads in daily deaths with high 3 digit numbers. Mexico, with over 125 million people, has conducted about 230,000 tests to date, one of the lowest testing rates in the Western Hemisphere. Same as in the USA, with much earlier measurements and massive testing the number of victims of the Covid-19 virus could be much lower. With that acknowledged we can expect the true death toll to be much higher.

The true number for both figures is almost certainly significantly higher due to that low level of testing nationwide.Mexico’s testing rate ranks among the lowest in Latin America, with just 0.4 tests per 1,000 people.

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Between April 1 and May 12, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) suspended the service of electrical energy to 4,000 users in Baja California Sur due to a delay in the bills issued during that period; meanwhile, citizens denounce an increase in receipts and ask for its modification. According to an investigation by El Universal, the southern California entity was where the least cuts were made in the country; while, the State of Mexico had the largest amount, affecting 48,000 users. In the last month, the inhabitants of Baja California Sur have reported having an increase in the service rate of up to 200%, and in some cases up to 3 times more, which has caused widespread disgust.

Given this, the officials of the Fourth Transformation argue that the home receipt has caused more electricity to be consumed and, with it, that the receipts show this increase. For its part, the restaurant sector and merchants of the entity have indicated that, despite remaining closed, no decrease in rates has been reflected, even some will have to pay more than when they were open.

In this regard, Senator Lupita Saldaña Cisneros has organized a collection of signatures to urge the Federal Government to extend the preferential benefit "1 F" to Baja California Sur, due to the high temperatures that occur between May and October, a situation at that confinement is added by COVID-19.

The initiative of the federal official has the support of 7,000 firms from South Californians, who ask that this change in rates be addressed, remembering that it has one of the highest prices for electricity service.

Source: Baja Noticias translated with Google Translator

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Covid-19 in Baja California Sur strategy coordinator Ana Luisa Guluarte comments on further development of Corona-Virus situation. When participating in an interview with local media, the state coordinator of the strategies for the prevention of COVID-19 in Baja California Sur, Ana Luisa Guluarte Castro said that there will be no days without infections, because the SARS-COV-2 will continue to make the inhabitants sick South Californians.

"We are not going to reach 0 infections, there will always be someone who is getting sick, but we want it to go away (giving) over time, as long as we do not have medicines or vaccines, (so that) people who need a bed hospital or ventilator is available when needed, ”he explained.

The state official emphasized that the citizens of Baja California Sur should be reeducated around prevention measures, since they will not be confined to their homes forever and when they resume their activities they will be susceptible to contagion. "We have to go re-educating ourselves in this part, because until now, where there are no medicines and there are no vaccines, they are the only protection measures that we have and they depend on us," he added.

Guluarte Castro also suggested that when mobility resumes in Baja California Sur, either in June or July, the virus will continue to pose a risk to the inhabitants of South California. “The virus is here, the virus is in Baja California Sur, it is going to stay with us; If we resume mobility on June 1, June 15, in July, the virus will continue to be present because it is already circulating within our state and the risk of infecting us will be there every day, "he said.

Finally, the Health Coordinator explained that people will continue to be infected, and according to what is known so far, they will no longer get sick from Coronavirus, however, she emphasized that the data on immunity is barely being known.

"People are getting infected and these people are not going to get sick anymore, at least until now, how long does immunity last? It is something that we are just going to start to know, but the population is as susceptible, "he concluded.

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