COVID-19: a Stamp of protection

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	Austria - Embroidered COVID-19 mask - Mint souvenir sheet

Source: Nordfrim.com - https://www.nordfrim.com/austria-covid-19-maske?

.. with apologies for the reminder!

'Fake news' - nothing new under the Sun

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	PD Reporter with "fake news" from an 1894 illustration by Frederick Burr Opper

Kruck, D. A 'ROYAL' BIT OF FAKE NEWS. Gibbons Stamp Monthly, August 2021, pp.28-30.

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https://aleteia.org/2018/02/09/fake-news-post-truth-and-technology-in-the-19th-century/

A model insufficiency to realise Health for All - La santé pour tous

The Bio-Psycho-Social model is insufficient to realise -

Health for All - La santé pour tous

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In a time of physical, emotional, mental . . . pollution, the 'wrapper' is non-disposable:
the human SPIRIT that also sees and acts to achieve Planetary Health.

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World Health Day 2018: Universal Health Coverage

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Stamp	World Health Day 2018 Stamps
Stamp	NY postmark

WHO: World Health Day 2018

Description (UNSTAMPS)

"Today, at least half of the world’s people are unable to obtain essential health services. Many households are being pushed into poverty because they are forced to pay for health coverage out of their own pockets. This strain on the populace seriously undermines a country’s ability to develop socially and economically.
This is why Member States of the United Nations have pledged to provide universal health coverage for all people globally by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3.8). This means ensuring that all people have access to the health services they need. Countries have pledged to ensure that these services will be of sufficient quality to be effective and also that their people will not suffer financial hardship when paying for these services.
When this happens, people’s health will improve. Universal health coverage reduces poverty, creates jobs, drives economic growth for all, helps improve gender equality and can stop disease outbreaks turning into epidemics.
Each year, WHO offices, Member States, civil society and partners around the world observe the Organization’s signing of its Constitution and founding on 7 April, World Health Day. In 2018, WHO is dedicating World Health Day, its seventieth birthday, to universal health coverage: #HealthForAll.
The World Health Organization is delighted to be working with the United Nations Postal Administration to promote worldwide awareness and action to achieve health for everyone everywhere."

Blanc:Individual:Population - Dichotomy, Polar Opposition, Planetary Health

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Pole-to-Pole (Upper Marginal)

Image: WOPA, Greenland, Pole-to-Pole

Stamping about the world and Hodges' model

I don't know if they say things about stamp collectors but there's one over here. In mitigation I'm of the dormant type, it's more about buying gifts for junior family members. Things to keep if the recipients are minded to. Over the years stamps have taught me a great deal: the rise plateau and fall of an empire; the changing face of Africa and the 'Rest of the World', the politics of the world and the truth and lies behind geographic projections. Like painting, drawing and other possibilities the stamps are there, imprinted on my brain as a possible thing to do.

As a mental health nurse I've come across many people (demographically predictably usually males) who have planned for retirement for quite a while and then when it happens the impact is a psychological sledgehammer. While it's also surprising to learn of the people who do not have any interests, you can also see how trite, inappropriate, insensitive ... the question of "Do you have any hobbies?" can seem.

That's because when you listen and hear:

the harried, hesitant, hopeless bound accounts of not knowing who is looking back in the mirror in a morning. Why am I standing there at all? Walking the dog, whatever the month, you see the crucial umbilicus is failing. The one that connects me simultaneously to myself, others, the world at large and joie de vivre:

then you know.

Then you listen and watch for the positive change working with colleagues. You look for the chinks of light that might show the darkness is perforating and the light shows through. Maybe then there is promise in hobbies and interests of all kinds. Keeping mind, spirit and body active, alive. 

Maybe though - it is just being able to be once again.

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Dr. Arieti, Italy, pinterest.ca	Einstein, stamp, ebay.com
Australia, Community, Stampgallery	UN Stamp: End Violence Against Children unstamps.org