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NKnkalamb.bsky.social

"In Gaza we watched malnourished mothers feed their underweight newborns infant formula made with poisonous water. We can never forget that the world abandoned these innocent women and babies." - 99 US health care workers in letter to Biden/Harris www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-o...

Virtually every child under the age of five whom we encountered, both inside and outside of the hospital, had both a cough and watery diarrhea. We found cases of jaundice (indicating hepatitis A infection under such conditions) in nearly every room of the hospitals in which we served, and in many of our healthcare colleagues in Gaza. An astonishingly high percentage of our surgical incisions became infected from the combination of malnutrition, impossible operating conditions, lack of basic sanitation supplies such as soap, and lack of surgical supplies and medications, including antibiotics.

Malnutrition led to widespread spontaneous abortions, underweight newborns, and an inability of new mothers to breastfeed. This left their newborns at high risk of death given the lack of access to potable water anywhere in Gaza. Many of those infants died. In Gaza we watched malnourished mothers feed their underweight newborns infant formula made with poisonous water. We can never forget that th
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PBprepperboards.bsky.social

New Post: Survival Sanitation: Waste Management in Grid-Down Scenarios https://buff.ly/4eKQ6fE

A family in a post-disaster scenario, wearing protective gear, sorting waste into different bins in their backyard, with a makeshift incinerator and compost pile in the background, under a clear blue sky.
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MRhimoonbird.bsky.social

You’re so kind- biggest need is connection/talking through this. Bluesky’s awesome w/ ko-fi tips til FEMA kicks in. Since I’m evac’ing folks still there have much bigger needs like amplifying needs of marginalized, unhoused & immigrant communities. Huge sanitation & health risks- we need eyes on🙏

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FWIW, it's basically a sizable chunk of civil service in blue states. Cops, firefighters, corrections officers, sanitation employees, water supply/sewer, and yes, transit employees. Male dominated, heavy OT positions.

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BCbcch.bsky.social

Public – public partnership ! In his closing remarks to the UH Human Rights Council, Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, stressed the importance of public – public partnership. @SRWatSan blue-community.net/2...

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FDfriendshipdave.wtf

they’re like natures sanitation workers , if they ate the garbage they were picking up 😂

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SIsteve-at.bsky.social

Sanitation among the passengers is important, too. But somehow tens of thousands of people manage to cruise and enjoy themselves and not get sick on the ship. There must be a trick to it.

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WLwicked-lizzie.bsky.social

Sanitation in food service is so fucking important

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AFkarmagypsy.bsky.social

(Also shoutout to the not one, but TWO burly sanitation workers today who honked and waved with big ol’ smiles at my frantically waving four year old this morning.)

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