See You in Afghanistan

19/03/2020

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I hope this post will not be viewed as political but more of trying to address issue on covid19. This came from my mail last night:

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The Coronavirus Cure (Sarah Morrison - Avaaz )

Dear friends,

Imagine there's a vaccine for coronavirus, but old and sick people across the world couldn't get it.

Why? Because Trump produced it exclusively for the US!!

Yes, Trump reportedly just tried to buy EXCLUSIVE access to a coronavirus vaccine! It's sheer insanity, and we need to stop him, and anyone trying to produce a cure just for their own people!

And we can: Next week, the G20 countries are going to convene an emergency meeting -- and it’s on us to make sure that any coronavirus vaccine is being produced for the world, and that governments and scientists across the globe work together to develop it as fast as they can. Or countless innocent lives will be lost.

Sign now -- once we reach 1 million, we’ll run massive ads in key international papers ahead of the summit!

Join the call for a coronavirus vaccine for all!

Developing vaccines is a tricky business. Billions of dollars in investment are needed, trials take time, and it’s hard to mass produce them - so richer countries often compete to get their hands on them first. But this is a global crisis and we need a global vaccine -- no region should be left behind!

Our decision-makers know this isn’t the time for business as usual. World Leaders at a G7 Summit just told Trump that medical firms must share research on a coronavirus vaccine and coordinate internationally, but we need to hold them to account!

If one million of us rally behind this one global call, it will become that much harder for leaders like Trump to prioritise politics over public health. And Big Pharma will realise how deeply unpopular they’ll become if they push for profit during a global crisis.

So let’s make our call massive before the emergency G20 Summit. Sign and share now and let’s demand an affordable vaccine for all!

Join the call for a coronavirus vaccine for all!

The coronavirus is scary, but we’re all in this together and right now our collective voices are more powerful than ever. So, let’s make something beautiful blossom from this crisis and protect all of us from this pandemic, no matter where we live or how much money we have. We’ve never believed more in our global community -- we can do this together.

With fierce hope,

Sarah, Alaphia, Chris, Bert, Muriel, Nick, Luis and the rest of the Avaaz team.

More information:

U.S. Offered ‘Large Sum’ to German Company for Access to Coronavirus Vaccine Research, German Officials Say (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/europe/cornonavirus-vaccine-us-germany.html

Coronavirus vaccine: Scientists race to develop prevention (BBC)

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51299735

New vaccines must not be monopolised, G7 tells Donald Trump (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/g7-leaders-to-hold-emergency-coronavirus-video-summit

The United States says it will share any vaccine breakthroughs with the world, but German officials appeared rattled by its reported overture to a biotech firm.

16/03/2020

Dear friends:
This is a war without smoke,
and we are all fighters.

To the fighters
We are facing a dark time right now.
Some of us are stuck at home
Some are stuck far away from home
Some of us have lost their jobs，
Some have to shut down their businesses
Some of us are cutting down the expenses
Some can’t even pay their rent and bills
Some can’t go back to school
Some can’t get back to their jobs
And some of us are still working day and night,
no matter how exhausted they are
Or how dangerous it is.
Some of us have become infected.
They are isolated from

their families, their loved ones,
and have to be alone in the wards,
Or even worse,
it is their children,their parents,
or loved ones that are infected
and they don’t even
have a chance to say goodbye
The virus is rampaging
The numbers are increasing
The rumors are spreading
The fear is growing
It seems that all of a sudden
the whole country lost its vitality and prosperity.
You are not the only one who is worrying,
you are not the only one who is fearing,
You are not the only one who is struggling
We are all facing a dark time right now,
Our whole world is facing a dark time right now.
This is a war!
It’s a war without guns, bombs, or smoke
But it’s a war with virus, doubts,
fears, rumors, and discrimination.
But we shall all be fighters, my dear friends!
Not just the doctors, the nurses, the policemen
and the scientists who should fight
All of us should be the fighters in this war
We shall fight against fear
We shall fight against uncertainty
We shall fight against doubts
We shall fight against selfishness
We shall fight against rumors
We shall fight against discrimination
This is going to be a fierce and cruel war
But don’t be afraid,
We’re going to win this war together in the end!
Our people may get sick,
our city may get sick,
but you----Iranian, as a brave nation,
will never ever get sick
Because you have the spirit,
history and determination to win.
you’ve been on this planet for over 5000 years.

you’ve witnessed much darker moments
you’ve been though much crueler trials
No matter it’s the war, invasion, starvation,
poverty or natural disasters
you’ve always survived and
you’ve always stood back up on our feet
You`ve always won in the end.
And you will definitely win this time.
We don’t know how long this will take,
or what cost we have to pay,

But there’s one thing we are 100% sure
That is
You are going to win this war in the end!
Because that’s what you’ve been doing
for the past 5000 years.
And that’s what makes IRAN
the great nation ever
It is only by going through dark times
that we can separate the greatest from the great.
In each dark time,
You’ve always fought together
No matter how strong your enemy was
Or how impossible it seemed to win
Just kept fighting
Because you are all fighters!
When all of this is over,
You’ll have another great and heroic story
to tell your children,your grandchildren
and they will tell the next generations.
That’s how you’ll pass this great spirit on,
and keep it alive forever!

12/03/2020

Our cow says you coming or what?