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New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World – Scientific American

Posted: June 23, 2021 at 6:43 am

COVID appears to be in retreat in the U.S. and other nations that have widespread access to vaccines. But some developing countries with high infection rates have become hotspots for viral variants that may be more transmissible or resistant to vaccinesand these variants can quickly cross national borders. For example, the B.1.167.2 variant (now dubbed Delta) that was first detected in India has spread to more than 70 countries and regions, including the U.S.

Much of the developing world lacks the capacity for viral surveillanceefforts to monitor the spread and evolution of new variants. This process requires expensive genomic-sequencing technology and trained workforces that many nations do not have. Nepal, for instance, has sequenced just 0.01 percent of the more than 600,000 cases reported in the country so far. New variants could undo hard-won progress in curbing the pandemic, according to Alina Chan, a postdoctoral fellow specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Variants that evolve to be able to reinfect previously infected people are likely to also reduce the efficacy of vaccines, she says.

Scientists and organizations around the world are now working to build capacity to hunt for variants in developing countries. They are mobilizing to deliver funds, training and equipment to where these resources are needed most, with aspirations of creating a lasting viral surveillance infrastructure. COVID is the catalyst, says Jairo Mendez-Rico, a microbiologist and adviser on viral diseases at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), headquartered in Washington, D.C. But we also need to survey for other pathogens that for sure will come in the future.

In India, 27 laboratories have now banded together to create the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG). The group plans to sequence 5 percent of all positive COVID cases in the country (the current rate is only 0.09 percent). Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Indias Ashoka University, says that bringing existing surveillance capacity under a single umbrella could, in principle, make that a feasible goal. But there are not enough trained field-workers, he says, and the laboratories have acute shortages of chemical reagents needed for genomic analyses.

International experts are now stepping in to help. Recently, a nonprofit volunteer group called INDIA COVID SOS formed to assist with the pandemic response in the country. It aims to scale genomic surveillance across India, as well among neighboring South Asian nations. Aditi Hazra, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, co-leads the groups sequencing team, which meets regularly on video conference calls with the directors of Indias sequencing consortium. She says a key objective is to extend viral surveillance to more people in rural areas, where much of the population lives.

Rural surveillance is a priority in Africa as well. Millions of people on the continent live in remote areas that are also hot spots for disease outbreaks, says Akaninyene Otu, a medical doctor and a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar in Nigeria. Several new partnerships aim to boost sequencing in African countries. Otu highlights the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI), which launched last year with support from international donor organizations and private companies. Most of the sequencing capacity in Africa is concentrated in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco and Egypt. The Africa PGI, which is headed by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is setting out to create a pan-African network of sequencing centers to serve the continents 54 countries.

In Latin American countrieswhich are currently reporting some of the highest COVID infection rates in the worldPAHO is spearheading the COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Regional Network. Some countries in the region already have fairly strong sequencing capabilities, but the network is leading efforts to build surveillance capacity where it does not exist at all, which is the case throughout much of Central America. In the interim, two large reference labsone in Brazil and one in Chileare sequencing samples sent by other countries at PAHO's expense, Mendez-Rico says.

In addition to building partnerships and networks, scientists are also exploring low-cost sequencing technologies that could be deployed easily in the field. Nearly all of the SARS-CoV-2 cases sequenced so far have relied on large, expensive instruments housed in climate-controlled lab facilities. As an alternative, INDIA COVID SOS is encouraging wider use of a handheld sequencing device made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies in England. The device, called the MinION, can run on a battery pack, processes 96 samples at a time and uses software to generate whole genome sequences that can be stored on a laptop. We're looking for technologies that are cheap, efficient, scalable and portable, and this is an example, Hazra says.

Keith Robison, a computational biologist at Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based biotechnology company, agrees that the MinION is a practical option for developing nationsespecially in rural settings. The portable technology was widely used during the recent Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other West African countries. You can generate sequences with it from anywhere, he says. The MinION has its drawbacks: the quality of the data is not as good as what the lab-based instruments provide, Robison notes. However, that can also be computationally corrected if you have many copies of the same sequence, he says.

Tue Sparholt Jrgensen, a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology at the Technical University of Denmark, argues that whole-genome sequences may not always be needed. All the important SARS-CoV-2 mutations identified so far, he says, sit on the same stretch of genome encoding the microbes well-known spike protein. Jrgensen says scientists can simply target this piece of the viral geome with an alternative method called Sanger sequencing. This method, which was used as part of the effort that led to the sequencing of the complete human genome back in 2003, is still employed by labs all over the world. Unlike whole-genome methods that sequence millions of genetic fragments simultaneously, the Sanger method sequences one fragment at a time. Sanger can't replace whole-genome sequencing, but you can use it for targeted analyses at a fraction of the cost, Jrgensen says. People have been using it in small labs for decades. Id use it to monitor for known variants, [to] qualify samples for whole genome sequencing and for contact tracing [of infected people] in hospitals.

Jrgensen and his colleagues are now working with health officials in Rwanda on plans to expand Sanger-based COVID surveillance in the country. If a new variant emerges in Rwanda and starts spreading [elsewhere] in Africa, then we want to know about it, he says.

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Indonesia’s Covid-19 fight hindered by weak lockdown, lack of genome-sequencing data – The Straits Times

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JAKARTA - A weak zonal lockdown system and a lack of whole-genome-sequencing equipment to detect more transmissible new Covid-19 variants are the two main challenges Indonesia is facing, experts say.

They called for a quick fix as the world's largest archipelagic nation of 17,500 sprawling islands saw Covid-19 cases surging past the two-million mark on Monday (June 21).

Instead of a large-scale lockdown, Indonesia has so far imposed only localised ones based on a colour-coded regime. Badly hit regions are labelled red zones and subject to tougher restrictions. Those with fewer Covid-19 cases are labelled either orange or yellow.

The country has 34 provinces that are made up of more than 500 cities and regencies.

The zoning system covers even small neighbourhoods, each having between 10 and50 households. A neighbourhood is labelled a red zone if there are cases in at least 10 households in the past seven days. Green is for areas with no detected infection.

Cities and regencies are labelled based on factors such as hospital bed occupancy ratios (BOR), positivity rate and mortality rate.

Those with an average of above 80 per cent BOR are red zones, while those with 60 per cent to 80 per cent rate are labelled orange or yellow - depending on other parameters such as their total hospital bed capacity relative to the total suspected and confirmed cases.

A green zone is one with BOR of below 60 per cent.

There are 29 red zones currently, including Bandung (West Java province), Bangkalan (East Java) and Pekanbaru (Riau).

But many believe the system and the "micro lockdowns" are not working well.

Dr Aman Bhakti Pulungan, chairman of Indonesian Paediatric Society, said: "We do not acknowledge those green, red zones because there are no borders."

For example, it is not a standard measure to set up a checkpoint between regions labelled red and green that filters the number of people going in and out to contain the spread of the virus. The government does it only in certain emergency situations.

For instance, the local authorities set up a temporary checkpoint on the causeway between Madura island and the main Java island earlier this month to screen people coming from Bangkalan regency in Madura. This was after a surge in Covid-19 cases in Bangkalan, where many patients died within 48 hours of being hospitalised.

Dr Pandu Riono, from the University of Indonesia's medical school, said another shortcoming of the colour-coded system is that no one knows how to label a region with a low testing rate.

In addition, the government has not monitored the implementation of measures or punished breaches adequately, Dr Pandu told The Straits Times.

"Whatever form of social restrictions we take, what is most important are implementation, evaluation and punishment," he said. "We can use the ubiquitous CCTV to monitor. Next, we can take action to ensure there are penalties and incentives."

The government encourages regions to punish residents who flout the mask-wearing rule. Those in Jakarta, for example, pay a fine of 250,000 rupiah (S$23) or do an hour of community work such as sweeping pavements.

Experts are also concerned with the lack of whole-genome-sequencing equipment to detect new variants of the virus, and the non-disclosure of test results.

"Not every province has it In some cases, it is equivalent to walking in the dark and blind-folded. We want to wage a war but we cannot see the enemy," Dr Pulungan said.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has confirmed that based on genome sequencing tests, cases in Jakarta, Kudus in Central Java province, and Bangkalanare dominated by the Delta variant.

Dr Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a health ministry spokesman, told The Straits Times that there are 17 laboratories across Indonesia that have genome-sequencing equipment.

"We are planning to add between three and five, " she said.

Dr Pulungan also said there needs to be a system where hospitals or health departments of provinces and cities do sampling, regularly collect genome-sequencingdata and share it with the public.

"This is what the WHO (World Health Organisation) wants," he added.

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Lab staff in Karnataka to be trained for genome surveillance ahead of third COVID wave – The New Indian Express

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BENGALURU: The Genomic Surveillance Committee, formed by the State Government recently, has come up with an action plan to scale up genomic sequencing by training laboratory staff through online and on-ground training.

The plan follows a recent announcement by Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar that seven genome sequencing labs would be set up at five government medical colleges, Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru and Vijaypura district hospital.

The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms(C-Camp), IBAB and IT-BT Department, with the support of Strand-HCG Hospital, IISc and NCBS, will train the laboratory staff online on and on the ground as to how to carry out genomic surveillance, said Dr Vishal Rao, a member of the States Genomic Surveillance Committee and Regional Director -- Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, HCG Cancer Centre.

Genomic sequencingof positive samples started in the State this yearafter the UK variant was found and a total of 127 tested positive. Later, the South African variant surfaced with six infections. Now, theDelta and Kappa Indian variants have infected 318 and 112 people in the State.

Committee officials said the technology and staff are needed to be ramped up to carry out better genomic surveillance.

We have so far conducted genome sequencing of 350-400 samples in the past few months in the State. Ideally, we should have done at least double that. We need to scale up technology and conduct at least 1,000 sample tests a week. This is the only way we can keep a clinical track of the variants, Dr Rao added.

One of the committee members pointed out that it will take at least three to four months for medical colleges to start genomic surveillance. Merging of existing capabilities of IISc and Strand Life Sciences Pvt Ltd will play a key role, he added.

The committee is also planning to follow the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which has set up a Covid tracker dashboard, to make genome sequencing and analyses freely available to all primary healthcare centres.

Dr Rao said that it is imperative to rely on machine learning models and AI algorithms to execute genomic surveillance efficiently.

Dr Vijay Chandru, Lancet Commissioner and a member of Genomic Surveillance Committee, said, It is time for us to bring the best-in-class capabilities in the country to drive better genomic surveillance. The public effort driven by INSACOG has laid a foundation, but we now need to scale it up and have real-time dashboards to enable early warning signals to manage the next wave.

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The global agrigenomics market is estimated to be USD 3.3 billion in 2021 and is projected – GlobeNewswire

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New York, June 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Agrigenomics Market by Application, Sequencer Type, Objectives And Region - Forecast year 2026" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p04147669/?utm_source=GNW The large-scale genetic characterization in some of the commercially relevant crops has provided a framework that is applicable to other crops as well. With the mounting dual challenges of population growth and climate change, new strategies, including genetic advancements, must be available to producers to address concerns of yield optimization and food security.

The market for livestock is projected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2021 and 2026.The livestock segment is projected to gain further growth traction during the forecast period owing to rapid adoption and commercialization of the novel genotyping platforms and related techniques such as marker-based selection (MAS) and marker-based breeding (MAB) to identify complex inheritance traits.The global demand for animal-based food products is expected to increase by 70% by 2050.

The implementation of advanced genetic technologies in livestock production will ensure minimal environmental impact with optimized animal health & fertility.A shift from traditional animal breeding to genomic selection is estimated with the introduction of genome analysis tools. The presence of next-generation sequencers has enabled researchers to quickly and effectively determine the single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with commercially important phenotypic traits and estimate the breeding value (EBV) at an earlier stage of young animals.

The Marker-assisted selection by objective is projected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2021 and 2026.The Marker-assisted selection is expected to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period as it is cheaper and faster than any conventional phenotypic assays, depending on the trait. Marker-assisted selection or marker-aided selection (MAS) is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker (morphological, biochemical, or DNA/RNA variation) linked to a trait of interest (e.g., productivity, disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and quality), rather than on the trait itself. This process has been extensively researched and proposed for plant and animal breeding. It uses conventional breeding approaches and does not involve transgenic approaches. Marker-assisted breeding uses DNA markers associated with desirable traits to select a plant or animal for inclusion in a breeding program early in its development. This approach dramatically reduces the time required to identify varieties or breeds which express the desired trait in a breeding program. The marker may be the sequence of the gene that determines the trait, but in most cases, it is a DNA sequence which is located very close to the gene of interest and is therefore always inherited with the trait. Desirable traits include disease resistance, salt tolerance, and high yield. Hence, DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection.

Illumina HiSeq Family by sequencer type is projected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2021 and 2026.The Illumina Hi Seq Family held the largest share in 2020 and is also expected to grow at the highest rate as it is an efficient ultra-high-throughput sequencing system that supports the broadest range of applications and study sizes. Based on sequencer type, Illumina Hi Seq Family led the agrigenomics market, exhibiting a significant share of in 2020, registering a value of USD 1,393.2 million. It is also the most widely utilized next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology owing to its high throughput and exceptional operational performance. It also exhibits greater sensitivity to detect low-frequency gene variants. PacBio and solid sequencers are also expected to exhibit decent growth rates during the forecast period. Sequencing by ligation (SOLiD) utilizes DNA ligase, an enzyme widely used in biotechnology for its ability to ligate double-stranded DNA strands owing to its two-base sequencing method, it is the most accurate and economical second-generation sequencing platform.

The agrigenomics market in the Asia Pacific region is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The Asia Pacific region is projected to be the fastest-growing in the global agrigenomics market at a CAGR of 10.6%. The growth in the region is projected due to the progress in research and development activities in India, China, and Japan. The availability of high-quality reference genome sequences for a majority of crops has strengthened the foundation of functional genomics in the region. Asia Pacific is the most populous continent with growing concerns for food and nutritional security. The region also produces important food crops such as rice, wheat, barley, chickpea, and pigeon pea. The agrigenomics solutions adopted in a full-fledged manner across the key markets of the region can emerge as a strong tool in the attainment of zero hunger as a sustainable development goal.

In the process of determining and verifying the market size for several segments and sub-segments gathered through secondary research, extensive primary interviews have been conducted with the key experts.

The breakup of the profiles of primary participants is as follows: By Manufacturers: Tier 1 20%, Tier 2 50%, and Tier 3 30% By Designation: CXOs 31%, Managers 24%, Executives 45% By Geography: Europe 29%, Asia Pacific 32%, North America 24%, South America 12%, and RoW 3%The key players in this market include Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (US), Agilent Technologies, Inc. (US), Illumina, Inc. (US), Eurofins Scientific SE (Luxembourg), and LGC Limited (UK). Some of these playersThermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (US) and Illumina, Inc. (US)are both, technology and service providers who have streamlined their supply chain in providing agrigenomics services.

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Global CRISPR Genome Editing Market Precise Outlook and Study of Top Players 2021 : Editas Medicine, CRISPR Therapeutics AG, Horizon Discovery PLC.,…

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Jane Coaston Wants To Have Better Arguments – Sojourners

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Jane Coaston, host of The New York Times podcast The Argument, understands why most people shy away from arguing. Good arguments are hard to come by, she told Sojourners, and thats part of what motivates her interest in hosting the podcast.

You kind of want to create what you arent seeing right now, and I think that for me was the act of good argumentation, she said. Im definitely one of those people thats said before, I hate arguing, Coaston said, adding that she hopes the show will model better arguements than the ones she sees.Thats a skillset Ive always been working on and developing. Its like a muscle.

Getting guests to talk with each other, rather than at each other, is one of Coastons specialties.

The Argument is an opportunity for peoples views to be challenged by people who are just as smart and just as passionate about the exact same issue, but on the opposite side, she said.

Take the episodeRepublicans Are Very, Very Close to Driving Democracy Into a Ditch, where Coaston talked with two people with different views on the value of Biden's approach to bipartisanship: Jason Grumet, who is founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Aaron Belkin, the director of Take Back the Court, a campaign that seeks to rebalancethe Supreme Court by adding four more seats.

When Belkin suggested that bipartisanship would be appropriate during a moment of normal politics, Grumet replied that the idea that we should let four years of one president kind of break our democracy and give up on it, again, is kind of shortsighted. At this point, Coaston interjected.

[Belkin,] you said that bipartisanship was appropriate for a time of normal politics, but this isnt that moment. When did we have normal politics? Coaston asked. I was born in 1987. I have never known normal politics So it seems to me that we keep thinking about this halcyon time of normalcy. But has there ever really been one? By challenging her guestsassumptions, Coaston pushed them to expand and reconsider their argument.

The Argumenthas been produced since 2018, but Coaston took over as host earlier this year. She said the job is the culmination of a dream, and described her role on the podcast as part moderator, interviewer, antagonist, and ally. The job, she said, is not just to explore disagreements on a given topic, but to get people to recognize some of the flaws in their own arguments.

Before joining the Times, Coaston was a senior politics reporter at Vox, writing primarily about U.S. conservatism, the Republican Party, and white nationalism. She previously reported on politics for MTV News,worked as a speechwriterfor the Human Rights Campaign, and wrote about football for SBNation.

Coastons reporting for Vox often led her to write about Christians, specifically white evangelicals. Coaston grew up Catholic and now attends a Methodist church; she is also queer and biracial (her father and mother married in the late 1970s, when American support for interracial marriage was less than 40 percent).

My parents are very liberal Democrats, union Democrats. We went to church every single week, and my mom was on parish council, she said. ... Whether Ive been close to [Christianity], or walked away from it for a time, its always existed in this context its kind of like a web or netting around me.

Though she often covers Christians who haveacted with antagonism rather than ecumenism toward Christians like her, she remains compelled by the faith. The messy, complicated, imperfect nature of Christians tracks well with the story of the Bible, which Coaston describes as a story of people who were beloved by God, even though they drove him absolutely nuts.

Coaston often finds that Christian arguments, especially political arguments, subscribe to a view of God that is too narrow.

I think there are aspects of people attempting to discuss politics in Christian terms, or people interpreting their politics through a Christian lens, thats always going to lead to terrible arguments, she said. God cares about politics, Coaston said, but not in such a literal way that God has an opinion on something like Medicaid expansion. To those using God-talk to drum up votes, Coaston asks: Why would you want God to be that small?

Where some Christians of all political persuasions can be hyper-specific and declarative in their application of biblical themes, Coaston sees faith as larger than modern policy debates. The faith of those who committed themselves to the liberation of the poor, for instance, has always inspired her.

Coaston understands that some would find liberation theology which some associate with Marxism objectionable. But she said she always looked up to people like Jean Donovan and St. scar Romero, who were both murdered by U.S.-assisted forces of El Salvador because of their commitments to the poor and resistance to state power.

These were people who were living out their values, and they were living out, I believe, what Christiainty was supposed to be, [and] especially what Catholicism can be.

The desire to protect the marginalized and those with less power in society is also what drives Coastons political philosophy: libertarianism.

Libertarianism is a political philosophy that seeks to reduce state interference in lives and markets. While Coaston acknowledged that many of her fellow libertarians might be self-interested in their pursuit of limited government, one of the nice things about libertarians is that you dont have to agree with other libertarians, she said. And true to character, her own politics dont conform to cultural conceptions about libertarianism.

For Coaston, libertarianism is a way to empower others, especially minority groups. Take, for example, her approach to policing: In an opinion piece for the Times in 2017, she wrote about how too many laws can contribute to racial oppression and injustice.

For millions of Americans, laws can be safely ignored. Jaywalking is sometimes the easiest way to cross a road without sidewalks or where the crosswalk is far away. Speeding, though unsafe, happens when youre late for work. And sometimes you forget to signal when driving into the grocery store parking lot. But for other Americans black Americans any of these simple decisions can result in arrest, fines or even death, she wrote. If some people can ignore a law, and others cant, that law is not being enforced fairly. And if some people can flout law enforcement and survive, and others obey it and die, law enforcement is not doing its job properly.

Where others are seeking to limit the control others have on their lives, Coaston sees libertarianism as a statement about power: who should wield itand how.

I understand the corrupting nature of power, especially for myself, and I think about what if I had everything I wanted politically, what would that mean for someone else, she said. And if someone else had everything they wanted politically, what would it mean for me, and why should either of us have that much power over one anothers lives? I think thats the basis of it.

These are some of the meta-questions behind political debates, and Coaston isnt planning to shy away from those with different perspectives.

Too often we get ourselves hyped up by the people who already agree with us but this show is something where I can be the entity that asks the right questions; I can be the entity that raises the right points to challenge both the minds of the people on the show and the minds of the audience, she said. This is an opportunity to have the conversations Ive always wanted to have.

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Right Wing Crazies & Libertarians Join In On Socialist Rally To Defund The Police With Hilarious Results – Free Keene

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Defund the police rally in Keene, NH

A socialist led organization the NH Youth Movement has been rallying its troops across NH this past week in an effort to get cities and towns to defund their police forces. However the rally that was planned for Keene didnt go quite as the organizers expected.

While there isnt a significant socialist presence in New Hampshire there are plenty of socialists in surrounding states that from time to time muster up the occasional rally in NH through the busing in of left wing extremists. This is particularly easy to do in Cheshire with the county neighboring Vermont and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being right next door plus students from out of town attending Keene State College.

A few days before the rally was to occur the Keene City Republican Committee Chair Anne L. Farrington got wind of the socialists organizing of a protest and rallied her opposition country-folk to attend a counter protest for the same time and date.

We want to show our support for law enforcement by coming out in strength to Back the Badge! The rally will be in Central Square tomorrow from 5:30pm-8:00pm. Please join us and bring friends who support our police!

Anne L. Farrington

This attempt at undermining the NH Youth Movements protest turned out to be as hilarious as one might have anticipated. Not so much because there were people shouting back and forth, but in that it appeared that the rally attracted all of one intentional NH Youth Movement member and another five or so socialists who just happened upon the Republicans counter-protest.

To make for an entertaining afternoon a handful of libertarians got together to join in on the fun making a few signs in advance of the event, saying things both opposing sides would theoretically agree with and disagree with at the same time, like Defund the pigs & end socialism. Is it a socialist protest? Is it a right wing protest? Who knows, but certainly the passerbys didnt quite follow what was going on with all the shouting from every side and direction. Both from protesters and from passing cars alike.

After numerous conversations with the right-wing nut jobs and left wing extremists it turned out that each side had a lot in common. Both the republicans and the socialists were in favor of socialist programs, but the agenda for which programs to fund and defund were different. The young socialists wanted to see free college tuition and police dollars redistributed to other social programs like housing the homeless. The counter protesters expressed a desire to continue funding social security and the police state.

What both the left and right failed to grasp was that the money doesnt exist to fund all of these programs. The use of violence and the state to take money from the populous only works up to a point before that theft becomes so great that it undermines the revenues that can be generated. This leads to a failure of the programs both sides are trying to fund through theft.

Now this doesnt mean that all parties cant get what they want, but the means by which those funds are raised must not be through the violence that is the state. The overhead of state mandated programs is significant, the inefficiencies great, and the ever increasing amounts undermining to the objectives of both sides.

When the state gets involved a significant portion of the revenues generated are eaten up by the extraction of those funds from the populous and the overhead of management- not to mention corruption. When people are left to decide for themselves by comparison individuals pick the least expensive options which deliver the maximum benefit thus reducing costs and making such services affordable. Between competing offerings individuals can afford to pay for college when competition is left to run its course, government isnt handing out free money, and security (policing) doesnt cost six figures per employee. Lets end all of the social welfare programs: Police, education, health care, social security, corporate welfare, and so on, and then hand back the financial resources to the people by eliminating the taxes that make these programs perform poorly as only then will those dollars stolen be best and most efficiently utilized.

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Noticing the common good | Religion | themountaineer.com – The Mountaineer

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Last Tuesday was my first trip to the library since COVID shutdowns. On my way in, I admired the 10 or 15 volunteers working to beautify the grounds. I walked through a pollinator garden noticing all kinds of insects, hopping from the milkweed to the butterfly bush or the coneflowers, as though they had entered the Promised Land!

Once inside the cool air-conditioning, I couldnt help myself from checking out some DIY booklets about making curtains and flavored vinegars. A few retirees perused periodicals. Folks were busy with all kinds of things on the internet in the public computer area.

Downstairs I asked the friendly child librarian where I could find books at reading level F, so that my kindergartners brain retains some of the lessons hard-won by a combination of her and her teachers hard work. An added bonus is that I got to enroll both my kids in the summer reading program.

Libraries are a concrete expression of the abstract term, the common good.

Most people agree on the benefits of having a library in a community (though I suppose some libertarians might oppose taxpayer funded libraries!). They offer resources, incentives for learning, places to connect with others both physically and across time and space through reading. My trip to the library was a gift that challenged the veracity of the popular narrative of our ever-deepening division and tribalism.

I wonder where you, dear readers, go to see, participate in and appreciate the common good.

The Blue Ridge Parkway or tubing down Deep Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? The dog park or playground, the local health department? And how do you support the common good? Paying taxes, yes, but how else? Picking up trash as you walk in your neighborhood? Voting? Reading the paper? Stewarding your land for the next generation?

The idea of the common good occurs very early in Christianitys ancient story.

In Genesis, even as God enters a special partnership with Abraham and his descendants, Gods intention is to bless the whole world (Gen 12:3). Or think about the prophet Jeremiah telling the Jewish exiles in Babylon that their well-being, as a distinct tribe, depended on the well-being of the whole city (Jeremiah 29:7).

Fast forward to the New Testament where Paul is teaching about the diversity of spiritual gifts. He reminds the early Christians that their gifts are given for the common good (1 Cor 12:7).

Just what is the common good? In Catholic Social Teaching it is defined as the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.

The common good stands in contrast with many isms, such as utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number; tribalism, the greatest good for people in my group; and individualism, which consistently prioritizes the good of the individual over the community. With the common good, the individual good and collective good benefit one another, like a single player on a winning sports team.

While policy-makers cant easily derive public policy from this concept, I believe trying to discern the common good is vital to help us frame productive civil discourse.

Life is always evolving, and so our vision of the common good changes and shifts over time. Yet one thing is constant in our pursuit of it: to remember that we do not live for ourselves alone. The temptation toward self-centeredness lurks within us and surrounds us, but with Gods help it need not overcome us, at least not all the time.

The Rev. Joslyn Ogden Schaefer is the Rector at Grace in the Mountains Episcopal Church in Waynesville.

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How a GOP Senate resolution condemning critical race theory distorts the facts – Poynter

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In Americas fraught debate over race and justice, a blend of Republicans, libertarians and conservatives have focused their ire on critical race theory.

Its not a well-defined target.

Supporters describe critical race theory as a collection of ideas, not a single doctrine, that explain why racial inequality and disparities persist long after civil rights laws and court rulings barred discrimination.

Opponents use it as a blanket label for any discussion of white privilege, and they have encouraged local school districts to forbid the teaching of anything that addresses systemic racism.

TheFlorida State Board of Educationbanned it from classrooms June 10, putting it in the same category as denying the Holocaust. Idaho alsopassed a lawto keep it out of public schools.

At the federal level, Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott recently introduced aSenate resolutionthat said critical race theory serves as a prejudicial ideological tool, rather than an educational tool, and should not be taught in K-12 classrooms. The resolution encourages states and localities to take actions that would discourage critical race theory.

In the style of resolutions, the measure is built on a sequence of Whereas clauses to establish what the sponsors consider to be the factual basis for the resolution.

We vetted a handful of these clauses in Scotts resolution, and found that they included distortions of critical race theory and practice to present a one-sided view of a more complex issue.

We asked the three senators who co-sponsored the resolution for specific information to back up their claims. We also contacted three groups that play a dominant role in fighting critical race theory in schools. We got no answers.

This is wrong.

TheCivil Rights Act of 1964 was the fulfillment of decades of work by civil rights activists to end legal discrimination. Supporters of critical race theory generally applaud those efforts. Their complaint is that the legacy of discrimination persisted after the law passed.

When the law passed, it was hailed as a major step towards equality.

President Lyndon B. Johnsonsaid when he signed the bill July 2, 1964, those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the classrooms, in the factories, and in hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to the public.

The law and its proponents envisioned that discrimination would be weeded out of government programs, out of housing, and out of the job market. That didnt happen.

The gap between the promise and the results is what drove the formation of critical race theory. Almost exactly three decades after Johnson spoke, Harvard philosopher Cornel Westcreditedthe founders of critical race theory for exposing societys failure to deliver on the possibilities for human freedom and equality.

In her 2018 book Critical Race Theory: A primer, University of California-Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges noted that Blacks remained disproportionately poor. The Civil Rights Act, Bridges wrote, was necessary but insufficient.

Critical race theory seeks to make real the promises of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Bridges told PolitiFact. To claim that it is inconsistent with the Civil Rights Act is dishonest.

We found no current article by a critical race theory supporter that advocated resegregating schools. If the desire exists, it appears to be limited.

According to theCivil Rights Projectat the University of California-Los Angeles, desegregation peaked in 1988. That year, about 6% of minority schools were classified as intensely segregated that is at least 90% of the students were non-white. By 2016, the fraction of intensely segregated minority schools tripled to 18%. So non-white students are increasingly segregated.

Taking a snapshot of the mix of ethnicities in schools, in 2016, the typical white student went to a school where nearly 70% of the other students were white. The typical Black or Hispanic student went to a school where about 25% of the students were white.

Dorinda Carter Andrews, education professor at Michigan State Universitys College of Education, said talking about race, racism and oppression in the classroom is not the same as teaching students critical race theory. It is, though, important to cover.

Young people are not colorblind or color mute, Andrews said in aJune 4interview. If children of color are old enough to experience racial discrimination and injustice, then all children, especially white children, are old enough to learn about racism in ways that enhance their cross-cultural competency, racial literacy skills and skill set for improving our democracy.

A1993 bibliography of scores of articleson critical race theory identified some writings that held that people of color can best promote their interest through separation from the American mainstream. But that was just one out of 10 themes the researcher tracked. It showed up infrequently and, when it did, was only occasionally directed at schooling.

The intellectual grandfather of the theory, law professor Derrick Bell, had a pragmatic take on desegregation. Integration alone, Bell said, was a poor guarantee of an equal education.

Bell was less concerned about Black and white students going to the same school, and more about them getting the same quality schooling the same books, the same course offerings and the same sort of facilities.

While the rhetoric of integration promised much, court orders to ensure that Black youngsters received the education they needed to progress would have achieved much more, Bell saidin 2004.

This is unsupported.

In the first place, officials who want to ban critical race theory cant point to examples where it is being taught in their K-12 schools. So the indoctrination of schoolchildren described in this claim would be difficult.

There is classroom teaching around historic and ongoing racism, which is an element of the theory. One of the pioneer theorists, University of Wisconsin professor emeritus Gloria Ladson-Billings, wrotein 1998that critical race theory starts with the premise that racism is normal, not aberrant, and the strategy becomes one of unmasking and exposing racism in its various permutations.

As for hatred of American institutions, the U.S. economic system does come under fire for its emphasis on private property. Ladson-Billings wrote that at the countrys founding, property defined who could vote. And by allowing humans to be owned, the founders put property rights above human rights.

African Americans represent a unique form of citizen in the United States property transformed into citizen, Ladson-Billings wrote. This process has not been a smooth one.

Ladson-Billings does not denounce capitalism. Neither does she equate it with democracy, which she aims to uphold.

We may have to defend a radical approach to democracy that seriously undermines the privilege of those who have so skillfully carved that privilege into the foundation of the nation, she wrote.

The incoming president of the National Academy of Education, Carol Lee, said critical race theory is one of several perspectives that can shine a light on American society. Lee oversaw the academys guidance to schools onteaching civic reasoning.

We essentially argue that young people, in fact all citizens and those living within the U.S., need to understand both the inequalities that have (been) and continue to be embedded in our practices and institutional configurations, Lee told PolitiFact. But at the same time they must understand the unique and powerful features of legal governance in the U.S. that provide pathways for engaged citizens to struggle peacefully to transform laws and practices that oppress people.

This distorts the 1619 Project and how it was received.

In 2019, the New York Times Magazine unveiled aspecial editionon the legacy of slavery and racism in America. The project, which took its name from the year that the first slaves arrived in the colonies, also made curriculum materials available to schools.

The magazines editor-in-chief, Jake Silverstein, bluntly explained the premise of the project. Out of slavery and the anti-Black racism it required grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional, Silverstein wroteDec. 20, 2019.

The 1619 Project drew two letters of critique from historians.The first, signed by five historians from Brown, Texas State, Princeton and City University of New York, said the project provided a praiseworthy and urgent public service. But they raised several issues of fact.

They objected to the claim that the colonies declared independence in order to ensure slavery would continue. They said the article cherrypicked Abraham Lincolns thinking on slavery. They also took issue with a line that said for the most part, Black Americans have fought their freedom struggles alone.

The New York Times pointed to the historical facts it relied on and ultimately softened the wording about independence and slavery.

We recognize that our original language could be read to suggest that protecting slavery was a primary motivation for all of the colonists, Silverstein wroteMarch 11, 2020. The passage has been changed to make clear that this was a primary motivation for some of the colonists.

The magazine got a second letter from12 historians. Its central complaint was that giving slavery such a pivotal role in American history oversimplified matters and left out too much context. Like the first group of historians, they also said Lincolns words had been misrepresented.

Silverstein replied that criticism of the project is separate from errors of fact. The magazine shared its notes on historical points and made no corrections.

The project drew criticisms, but to say it was debunked goes too far. Plus, the classroom version came with more materials and wasnt identical to what was first published.

This article was originallypublished by PolitiFact, which is part of the Poynter Institute. It is republished here with permission. See the sources for these fact checkshereand more of their fact checkshere.

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