First Reading of Parashat Emor on Day 20 of the Omer: Health Care & Public Libraries

I mentioned earlier that I really don’t get into this particular parashah, most years, until after the Monday morning reading, which is the first public Torah reading, of Parashat Emor. The year before last, I made some comments that do not seem, this year, to be very clear, as I read them again. It’s bad when you read your own comments from just two years ago and cannot remember what you meant to say. This is why the Rabbis established the Chevrutah (partner learning) system. Anyone want to study Torah (or even Daf Yomi) in the Public Library with me? So, back in 12022, I said:

“The parashah also details some of the use of that authority for gathering purposes,” which I assume was meant to refer to the use of authority for gathering in resources for later use, I hope, kind of like what Joseph did in Egypt. But without the turning everyone into the property of the big guy, Pharaoh, of course. Hopefully. Like, gathering volunteered resources to improve local neighborhood public libraries, hopeful. But now, I need to reread the parashah to figure out what on earth I was talking about. Obviously authority had much to do with it.

Sorry about that, folks. We’re now just past the halfway point in the Torah, and parshiot are starting to get longer, as they do for the summer, when we read some of the longest portions of the year, if I recall correctly. Many a parashah in this book, Leviticus/VaYikrah, are a leyner’s nightmare, due to the repetitive nature of the text as details of sacrifices and layout of the Tabernacle are described. But Parashat Emor (פָּרָשַׁת אֱמוֹר) does not, as I recall, give us much interesting gristle to chew on. Just gristle. I’ll chew on it some more while reading the text. Feel free to chew me out for being lame today. I’ll get back to the main library tomorrow, since it is better equiped.

So, Sunday night begins the 20th day of the Omer:

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5 Iyyar · Sun night, 12 May

יְּסוֹד שֶׁבְּתִּפאֶרֶת Foundation within Beauty

Hebcal’s Day 20 line of their grid for the Omer count, this year, 5784.

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Thanks once more, HebCal, for giving us The Official Ideas nested ideas for the day, .

And once again, here is my personal idea note as, it hit me some years ago , in a post jotted down quickly back then, with my own not so official ideas:

And getting back to the connection between public health and the public library system, it should be obvious, based on the number of people who get so much information on public health and on getting to their doctor’s appointments via information desk employees at our public libraries, not to mention the social workers rotated into many inner city libraries in cities like San Diego, and even the role that library staff play in administering anti-overdose medications like Narcan in public spaces, that libraries are a critical part of the American public health infrastructure, nowadays. Not only for information on health and body basics, but even for providing information on how to access resources like public transportation or rides for the elderly and disabled to doctors’ appointments, and of course providing information on why and how to get vaccinations of various types, and obviously the updating of basic public health sanitation information for current events related issues. So my Omer count includes the intersection of these two key public resources so that we can remember to support and improve both of them, which gives more in the sum than either of the individual parts. Or the whole, when combined, is greater than the sum of its parts, as the saying goes.

Shavuah Tov, and healthy counting at the library, gang,

Shira

Speaking of Parashat Emor on Day 19 of the Omer: Hope in Health Care

Sunday begins the new week, and the new parashah, פָּרָשַׁת אֱמוֹר in this case, which begins with the word Say/Speak, hence the name of the Parashah, although we actually read the first three aliyot of this week’s parashah at Minchah on the Shabbat before the week officially starts (but since by the time you daven minchah, Havdalah cannot be far off, I guess it was deemed a good idea to start in on the new parashah a bit early…). So, Motzei Shabbat begins the 19th day of the Omer:

• Saturday night, 11 May 2024
• 4 Iyyar 5784
• 19th day of the Omer
• הַיּוֹם תִּשְׁעָה עָשָׂר יוֹם, שְׁהֵם שְׁנֵי שָׁבוּעוֹת וַחֲמִשָּׁה יָמִים לָעֽוֹמֶר
• Today is 19 days, which is 2 weeks and 5 days of the Omer
• הוֹד שֶׁבְּתִּפאֶרֶת
• Hod sheb’Tiferet
• Splendor within Beauty

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Thanks again, HebCal, with the traditional Jewish idea set .

My personal idea set is here, originally explained, in a post some years ago, with my personal 7×7 concept of non-official ideas:

To be frank, I don’t remember too much in general about Emor until we start reading on Monday mornings, most years, and then by the Thursday morning reading I have generally started to catch up. So, give me a few days on this parashah, please, and do feel free to contribute your own thoughts on it: (I am quoting HebCal, which gives the Sefaria location/translation choices, out of lack of time/energy to do better at the moment)

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Parashat Emor is the 31st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Leviticus 21:1-24:23

Emor (“Say”) opens with laws regulating priestly behavior, working in the Mishkan (Tabernacle), and consuming sacrifices and priestly food. It describes the biblical holidays of Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, and ends with a story about a blasphemer and his punishment

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Project Do Better focuses heavily on public health care, which is of course one reason that Health Care figures so prominently in my personal seven (forming the 7×7 Project Do Better grid, at least for the ShiraDest community of the Project, since every community is free to shape the Project to their own needs…) concepts.

I am still in the week of Health care, and day 5 of each week is Hope. I see that I will need to do something about the image, as it is getting cut off mostly by day 5. My idea for this day is that hope is an integral part of healing. Anyone care to elaborate on that for me, please?

I hope that tomorrow I will have time to Do Better.

Shabbat Shalom, and I Hope for accessible Health Care for all of Humanity,

Shira

Ending the Week of Parashat K’doshim on a Chai Note

Chai, Y’all, as some Jewish Southerners, like my friend Dvorah/Elizabeth, who now lives in an Intentional Community, like to say! Today is Shabat Parashat Kedoshim, assuming that my scheduled post has not gone awry, which is Life Day, Chai, Day 18 of the Omer, and our final and full reading (ok, on the Full Kriyah, aka the Annual Cycle, which is mostly only still read in the Orthodox world, the vast majority of Conservative/Masorti, Reform, and Reconstructionist congregations, Chavurot, and Minyanim having gone with the Triennial cycle years ago) of this parashah, and my last comment on the importance, even the beauty, of standing up for one another, and working hard not to do to our neighbor that which is hateful to ourselves. Hopefully I will have time to ponder and maybe even leyn/chant again from this parashah next year, and thanks again, HebCal:

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• Friday night, 10 May 2024
• 3 Iyyar 5784
• 18th day of the Omer
• הַיּוֹם שְׁמוֹנָה עָשָׂר יוֹם, שְׁהֵם שְׁנֵי שָׁבוּעוֹת וְאַרְבָּעָה יָמִים לָעֽוֹמֶר
• Today is 18 days, which is 2 weeks and 4 days of the Omer
• נֶּֽצַח שֶׁבְּתִּפאֶרֶת
• Netzach sheb’Tiferet
• Eternity within Beauty

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I mentioned in previous posts that the above quote from HebCal is the official 7×7 grid of days within days of concepts around the Sphirot is citing the official story, as it were, of traditional Jewish ideas (each week being nested in one of either gvurah/strength, chesed/mercy, etc in the traditional view) by the folks of Hebcal, and my own system is mentioned, first, in a post some years ago, with my own personal 7×7 concept of non-official ideas:

This week my focal concept is Health Care for everyone, particularly on the public health care system. Since this is day 4 of this week, it intersects with public transportation, thus making this particular day a day of focus on public health care as it hits the public needs for transportation accessibility in order get to accessible health care services. But the two ideas also interwine in that transportation all by itself relates to health, especially when a sensitive person spends lots of time stuck in traffic jams watching other drivers being unkind to one another, and also to the pedestrians. The stress of driving, traffic, and having to keep up with the needs of owning a car can also take a toll on a person’s health, no?

I see that I missed the green on the Transportation row for this post, but I don’t have time to fix the image before scheduling it just yet, as I need to run, but the next day’s image will hopefully be corrected, if I have time to Do Better.

Shabbat Shalom, and Choose Life for all of Humanity,

Shira

On Empathy, Smoking, and Suicide the Week of Parashat K’doshim During the Omer

This post began over a year ago, and has sat in my drafts folder awaiting the time to be edited and posted. Both due to lack of time in my life for any writing, and also due to the difficulty of dealing with this topic. This week, two things are happening that I feel are very important. First, this week is Parashat Kedoshim, the weekly Torah portion in which we read one of the verses which for me is what the Torah and all of human rights stands upon:

“do not stand idly by while the blood of your neighbor is shed “

I discussed this just a little bit a few years ago, but as I was also standing on one leg, probably hopping over a stumbling block, I did not have time to go into any details, then. The idea of not doing to your neighbor what is hateful to you, and also of not standing around allowing others to be harmed, goes together with not putting a stumbling block before the blind: they are things that anyone with empathy does not do to other human beings. We’ll get to the smoking and suicide after mentioning the second important thing going on this week.

That second thing is that this is also the period of the Omer. Now, the Jewish community is counting the days (even if some of us have lost the official count, already!) between the seven weeks from Pesach to Shavuot (Passover to Pentacost), and many are contemplating the official 7×7 grid of days within days of concepts around the Sphirot. I mentioned those official ideas (each week being nested in one of either gvurah/strength, chesed/merci, etc in the traditional view) in a post some years ago, and I also mentioned in that post my own personal 7×7 concept of non-official ideas:

1. empathy

2. housing

3. health care

4. transportation

5. hope

6. libraries

7. free legal consumer education for ending poverty-related debt traps

What would be your seven concepts, Thoughtful Readers, for each week (and thus each day having your two concepts for your own 7×7 grid)?

Now, applying all of this to the problem of smoking and suicide, connecting the dots for those who have fewer allergies, here is how putting the stumbling block of body triggers in front of the life-blind, aka those who struggle with suicidal thoughts regularly, works. A non-empathetic smoker knows that a neighbor is allergic to smoke, but continues to smoke near the windows or doors anyway. That neighbor has then to deal with sudden intense heightening of the constant suicidal thoughts, every time smoke enters his or her space. If that smoke-allergic suicidal neighbor has no strong support system, this is a serious problem. For those with no family support and, such as those in the foster care system, orphans, or even people with nominal family, but who are effectively emotional orphans, such as children of addicts, children of narcissists, and children from abusive families or abusive family systems, there needs to be a way of replacing the nuclear and even immediate extended family with healthy support systems that act as family. That is where Phase II of Project Do Better comes in, with the Serving Adults who volunteer to find and support all of the vulnerable people, children and adults who want that help, by helping to deliver the necessities of life and also connect everyone with others seeking to build connections. Phase I, of course, works earlier on building up the existing public health care infrastructure, which is partly where this issue must be dealt with on the front lines, from smoking and vape prevention, to suicide counseling, to dealing with the physical traumas caused by the substances being put into the air by those smokers and vapers.

For all of these important reasons, Project Do Better aims to contribute tools for current and future use that can help all of humanity reach our collective goals, both as individual people, and as an entire united Homo Sapiens.

Standing Idly By…

    This is true cruelty, or insanity, or both, when you know that you are creating crippled adults decades down the line:

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“Sandel says she is most concerned about stunted growth, weight loss and poor performance in school among the kids she treats.

What we’re starting to see is kids flatlining, kids who should be growing, should be gaining weight, should be, frankly, growing the brain that they need for the rest of their lives. And we’re seeing kids not grow. We’re seeing kids lose weight. Which when you’re 3 or 4 years old, that is a medical emergency. What’s going on? And a lot of times when we really dig deeper, it’s simply because people can’t afford enough food and are stretching beyond what they can deal with.

Sandel does call out inflation and the rising cost of housing for adding an additional burden to already struggling families. But she says effective policy can help families navigate those factors.

And so what I don’t want people to walk away from is to say, “Oh, well, inflation, it doesn’t matter if you give people more money, it’s just going to be spent and it won’t travel as far.” I do think that in many ways, it really is about the positive effects of putting money in people’s pockets.

How does this make her feel as a pediatrician?

Mostly, Sandel says she doesn’t understand why the policy was allowed to expire.

We have something that worked really, really well. And so I want to ask, what are the ways in which, you know, we can say to ourselves, this is worthy of investment? Because what I like to say is I can do my best role as a physician to help kids grow. But what I need is policymakers to do their job to be able to help kids grow, too. And that is really in their hands.

So, what now?

Sandel says she is not ready to stop fighting for policies to help kids and families, adding that the new child poverty rates are a “wake-up call” for all involved: “I’d love to be able to come on in a year and be able to talk about that we got the number back down to 5% and beyond.”
And as Ludden reports, the child poverty rates have also fueled political debate over bringing back an expanded child tax credit — although it’s been at a stalemate in Congress.”

This is simply insane, and affects not only the physical and emotional health of the kids involved, but also the future of our nation, and the rest of the world. Children around the country are growing into malnourished and under-educated adults who will then take part in shaping the future of this nation, whether short-sighted lawmakers understand that or not.  This is literally standing idly by while the blood of your neighbors’ children is shed, if you are a legislator withholding approval of the child tax credit renewal.  This is criminal neglect of the nation’s affairs, rather than governing for the Common Good.

   Thank you to NPR’s Lauren Hodges.

We must Do Better.

Shira

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Hygiene in public places

Shira and I had an email exchange about this topic and we thought it is important enough to be brought to the attention of people.

Our conversation was in French, but as I cannot see that Shira has a translation button on her page, I will let an English translation follow to the French text.

Bonjour Birgit,
Je suis en train de penser à quelque chose que quelqu’un m’a dit dans la gare pendant qu’on attendait le train.  C’est que les gens sans abris, c’est-à-dire sans domicile fixe (SDF), qui j’étais en train de plaindre qu’ils étaient bannis des salles de bain publiques, et je disais qu’ils avaient besoin de se baigner, de faire le besoins quelque part, et un homme qui disait travailler en la livraison me disait que, oui, c’est vrai, mais le problème c’est que ces gens ils sont dangereux parce qu’ils font les drogues dans les salles de bain public et il font leurs injections des drogues et nettoie les utiles des drogues avec les papiers hygiéniques !!  Ça mets on danger tous les gens, évidemment j’étais choqué mais c’est ce qu’on peut dire c’est vrai que dans ce cas-là il faut les interdire des salles de bains publics pour la sécurité des gens publiques mais pour la santé mais en même temps il faut leur donner des moyens de se baigner, de se faire leurs besoins physique, de vivre, quoi, mais je suis tellement horrifié parce que personne ne sait qu’il est dangereux d’utiliser le papier hygiénique dans les salles de bain public: qui aurait pu penser à quelque chose pareil ? 

Donc, je ne sais pas si je veux écrire un article sur le sujet, mais c’est hyper important que les gens sachent qu’il est plus sage de s’apporter leur propre papier hygiénique avec si ils vont utiliser les  salles de bain publics ou les gens qui font le drogue peuvent aussi utiliser parce que c’est dangereux même si ça justifie les bannissement des gens sans abris il faut donner des moyens de vivre.

Je ne sais pas si je veux ou même peux, dans ce moment, écrire un article pour mon blog sur le sujet, qu’est-ce que tu en penses, Birgit ?

Bi.:
Les toilettes publiques sont dégueulasses généralement. Ont peut s’attrapper un tas des maladies. Ca s’applique aussi aux toilettes dans des hôpitals. Je prends un mouchoir de papier pour toucher les clenches et pour relever la lunette de W. C., et je jette les premier pièce du papier hygiènique. Je ne m’assois jamais sur les toilettes publiques ou lesquelles aux hôpitals. Au Danmark ils ont des petits boxes de métal pour les syringes etc.
On n’exclude pas les gents sans abris ou les gents toxicodépendantes, ce n’est pas possible, il n’y a plus de personnel qui est là tout le temps. Ils viennent seulement pour nettoyer. Alors, tout le monde y va, et on doit prendre garde à soi-même.

Ici (Danmark) on doit payer pour les bains publiques. Si on peut payer, on peut entrer.

Je suis sure que mon frêre a attrapper MRSA dans un l’hôpital. C’est un des maladies on typiqement attrappe là, à côté de pneumonie. 

Mon conseil:
Ne touche rien directement, ni dans les toilettes/salles de bain publiques, ou aux hôpitals.

Hello Birgit,
I’m thinking about something someone said to me in the station while we were waiting for the train. It’s that homeless people, that is to say people without a fixed address (SDF), who I was complaining about were banned from public bathrooms, and I was saying that they needed to bathe, to relieve yourself somewhere, and a man who said he worked in delivery told me that, yes, it’s true, but the problem is that these people are dangerous because they take drugs in public bathrooms and they inject drugs and clean their utensils with toilet paper!! It puts everyone in danger, obviously I was shocked but that’s what we can say, it’s true that in this case we have to ban them from public bathrooms for the safety of public people but for health but at the same time we must give them the means to bathe, to do their physical needs, to live, whatever, but I am so horrified because no one knows that it is dangerous to use toilet paper in public bathrooms: who would have thought of something like that?

So, I don’t know if I want to write an article on the subject, but it’s super important that people know that it’s wiser to bring their own toilet paper with them if they’re going to use public bathrooms. or people who do drugs can also use them because it is dangerous, even if it justifies the banishment of homeless people, we must provide the means to live.

I don’t know if I want to or even can, at this moment, write an article for my blog on the subject, what do you think, Birgit?

Bi.:
Public toilets are generally disgusting. We can catch a lot of diseases. This also applies to toilets in hospitals. I take a tissue to touch the latches and to raise the toilet seat, and I throw away the first pieces of toilet paper. I never sit on public toilets or those in hospitals. In Denmark they have small metal boxes for syringes etc.
We do not exclude homeless people or drug dependent people, it is not possible, there are no longer staff who are there all the time. They only come to clean. So, everyone uses the facilities, and we have to take care of ourselves.

Here (Denmark) you have to pay for public baths. If we can pay, we can get in.

I’m sure my brother got MRSA in a hospital. It’s one of the diseases one can typically catch there, alongside pneumonia.

My advice:
Do not touch anything directly, not in public toilets/bathrooms, or in hospitals.

Why Do We Need Intergenerational Interaction? Because Young People Don’t Get It, On Eating, Vs. Prescriptions

So, I grew up spending the summers, when I was four, five, and six or seven years old, back in the early to mid 1970s, with my adoptive great grandmother, Grandma Marie, who lived at what we used to call “the old folks home” on Connecticut Ave, NW, Regency House, just an apartment building with a communal dining room upstairs, NAACP meetings on the rooftop every week, it seemed, and maybe a nurse, or a caretaker of some sort, named Juanita, downstairs in a very small office in the basement next to the Rec Room, as I recall. Oh, and a bus on some days of the week to take folks to the grocery store. We, Grandma Marie and I, used to take the metro bus down to the National Zoo on the weekends the day before church, at Mt. Zion UMC. Along the way, sometimes we would see scary things, like a man wobbling as he got on the bus, struggling to stand upright, and she explained to me that that man had a metal plate in his head, from the Vietnam War. I was not to be afraid, but to understand that he had a difficult time, and was not dangerous, but vulnerable, and needed help, so I got up and offered my seat to him, as one ought to do. We always sat near the front, you see, because Grandma Marie was very old, even when she took care of me over the summer breaks from school up in NJ. That is how I came to understand that older means tired, and having less energy. But the young people these days seem to lack that understanding, for some reason.

I was just on the phone with a pharmacist, checking to see if my medicaid has finally been updated to cover the CVS COVID vaccine. It has not, yet, and when I asked why this did not show up in the online system as I checked my scheduled appointment in the app, he simply laughed and said that it had to be checked manually, or I could just come in and ask, as if just coming in to the pharmacy was a simple thing, after being on hold listening to bad music while trying to edit various pieces of my work for the past hour or so. I explained that it was not that simple to merely come in to the pharmacy, and he laughed again, saying that oh, well, different insurers update their systems at different times, and I could just come in to check, as there were appointments available. Again, I told him that this was less simple than he seemed to think it was, especially for older people, like the very old gentleman I saw nearly in tears back on Saturday, sitting in the pharmacy after being told that his medicare coverage did not yet cover the new COVID vaccines, while we all watched others with non-government insurance get their COVID shots. My heart went out to this man, who looked old enough to have possibly fought in WWII, yet be turned down now for lack of ability to pay, in the very country he fought to defend, a bit like that man with the plate in his head (although admittedly the Vietnam war was not at all like WWII, going to that place was not likely to have been his actual choice, given that most soldiers, even in my graduating class of 1988, went military for lack of other job offerings…). This young pharmacist on the phone again laughed, so I told him that when I was a child, we learned why Medicare was important from the TV commercials that showed old people eating dog food because they had to choose between buying food and paying for their prescription medications. This, I commented, should not happen in our country, to which he finally stopped laughing. I guess he never had a Grandma Marie to explain these things to him. I wish that this kid had been able to see that episode of the show Good Times, where JJ nervously accidentally begins grace with “The Lord is my German Shepherd” before the poor elderly lady who had invited his family over for dinner explains that she no longer has to eat dog food, since she has started getting a little bit of help with her grocery bills. And that doesn’t even count whether or not a person is able to drive, and has the time, let alone the energy to muster going back to the pharmacy, yet again, to check on getting a shot that others have gotten days or even weeks ago, because they had better insurance. Sometimes it makes it feel as if it would be easier to simply give up, die, and get it over with.

This should not happen in our country.

We can really Do Better.

Venting Rant Post on Public Health Non-Care

This is insane: medicare and medi-cal patients in California are unable to get, at least at CVS pharmacies, the Moderna Covid vaccine, while other people with other insurances are getting it, despite being able to get the new flu shot. And even worse, the local health centers are not getting the vaccines until October. Yet, people with other insurance have reported getting their vaccines last Monday, even before it was announced that the under 65 year old crowd would also be getting them. This is insane and obscene, to watch an older gentleman sitting in bewilderment as he was told that he would have to pay for the vaccine because Medicare did not yet seem to have it in the system, as far as one pharmacist could guess, while other insurers were paying for this same vaccine before his very eyes. What kind of a country do we live in, where it feels as if those on Medicare and Medicaid are being very clearly down-prioritized, especially when we have all been urged to get these vaccines as soon as possible? Why waste the time and energy of those who are more vulnerable than the folks who can afford ‘better’ health insurance? Why waste the time of the government employees who will now inevitably be inundated with complaints and questions as to why there is a delay for the more vulnerable members of our society whom these safety nets are supposed to be meant to protect, rather than leaving exposed? Why do we live in a country where lives are so clearly weighed, judged, and found wanting?

With a heavy heart,

Shira “We can Do Better” Destinie

Turmeric, Health, and Citizen Action

     Now this is an easy thing to do: use more turmeric in your food, and remember to tell everyone who will listen that it came from the East, not a pharmaceutical company.  I first learned about turmeric when I began research on how foods and moods interact, as well as how to fend off pre-diabetes by actually eating, rather than waiting until I was starving, since I frequently had no appetite, and then eating pasta, since I was also very poor until I finished college and found a professional job.  No, my childhood and my twenties were not great for food, or much else.  But I did survive long enough to study up on some things.  I learned that this spice, along with several others, helps in regulating many of the bodily systems, and seems to be rather popular and important in the East for fighting illnesses.  Now, science seems to be confirming this importance.  And stealing it.  While I am not fond of the taste of this important spice, I use it in just about everything, and add either cayenne or some other spice to cover it, which generally works pretty well, for me.

      Thank you to NPR’s Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, Erika Beras, Molly Messick, and Willa Rubin. 

Shira

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Better Health Infrastructure Can Prevent Heat Related Deaths

    This also means creating new types of infrastructure, as Project Do Better has also suggested.  One heat expert says that “governments need to collect better data and employ targeted public awareness campaigns, among other solutions, to make the dangers of heat known.”   And it is true, that with the right planning:

“No one has to die from this. With the right information and a place to go, nobody has to die.”…

   This was reported by NPR last week.

Shira

Action Items:

1.) Share your thoughts on how we can improve the lives of many more people right now, even as we work to put new safeguards in place for the future, please.

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