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Sunday, 15 March, 2020 | 6

The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.

It is always present within you.
You can use it any way you want.

The current WA Resolution, Disease Naming Compact has been posted on our off-site forums at:

https://bnationstates.runboard.com/t84173

General Assembly Resolution At Vote

Disease Naming Compact

A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.

Category: Health

Area of Effect: Bioethics

Noting that both novel and recurring communicable diseases affect a diverse array of species in many member states, and that names for these diseases (as well as their vectors) can offer consistency and clarity whenever used,

Dismayed that there is no international consensus on the naming of novel communicable diseases, in particular those which could cross borders, and thus no single reference point for them; so imperiling the safety of those infected and the sanity of doctors who have to slug through pages of bureaucracy simply to find out what is to be treated, and

Committing to confidently cut down the currently cumbersome, copious compilations of confusing classifications which can crop up continually in the catalogue of communicable conditions...

The General Assembly hereby:

creates, within the Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Center (EPARC) of the World Health Authority, an Agency for the Branding of Communicable Diseases (ABCD),

tasks ABCD with proposing in short order to EPARC's Medical Ethics Board names for those communicable diseases with no suitable name in common use, which have not previously been detected in sapient species and are likely to lead EPARC to confirm an international outbreak; and publicising those names once speedily confirmed by that Board to be appropriately informative,

requires member states and healthcare organisations to use ABCD-publicised names for particular diseases when communicating about them to the public (but encourages other entities to use such names as intended); and to refrain from funding internal attempts to name such diseases where ABCD can do so efficiently, speedily, and on an international scale, and

clarifies that this resolution does not affect the naming or taxonomy (such as binomial nomenclature) of disease vectors.

Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region

Today’s Featured Nation:

Portsky

” Change isn't us, it's around us”

WA Category: Democratic Socialists

Civil Rights: Average
Economy: Frightening
Political Freedoms: Average

PortSky's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Time Relic.
PortSky is ranked 4,677th in the world and 17th in NationStates for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 8,440.5 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

Mikeswill

Yesterday’s Answer: What is Albatross?

Congratulations:
The Holy Empire of Landover Baptist Church
The Republic of Concordare

Only telegrammed responses will be considered
All responses must be in the form of a question

MOVIE MUSICALS

WATER PRESSURE ISSUES IN CULVER CITY, HOME TO MGM, IMPACTED THE FILMING OF AN ICONIC SCENE IN THIS 1952 MOVIE MUSICAL

What is … ?

Happy Gilmour wrote:

Sunday, 15 March, 2020 | 6

The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.

It is always present within you.
You can use it any way you want.

so far, no hoarding of the Tao paper

Monday, 16 March, 2020 | 7

The Tao is infinite, eternal.
Why is it eternal?
It was never born;
thus it can never die.
Why is it infinite?
It has no desires for itself;
thus it is present for all beings.

The Master stays behind;
that is why she is ahead.
She is detached from all things;
that is why she is one with them.
Because she has let go of herself,
she is perfectly fulfilled.

Today’s Featured Nation:

Liata

” Valar morghulis”

WA Category: Civil Rights Lovefest

Civil Rights: Superb
Economy: All-Consuming
Political Freedoms: Excessive

Liata's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Liata is ranked 6,485th in the world and 29th in NationStates for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 33,261.71 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.

Mikeswill

Yesterday’s Answer: What is “Singin’ In The Rain”?

Congratulations:
The Dancing Is A Man's Game of Gene Kelly

Only telegrammed responses will be considered
All responses must be in the form of a question

U.N. MEMBERS

IT INCORPORATED THE "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS" PRINCIPLE IN ITS CONSTITUTION IN 1982 & PUT IT INTO PRACTICE AFTER A 1997 REUNIFICATION

What is … ?

Tuesday, 17 March, 2020 | 8

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Elabria
Belle sauvage

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

WKNS Radio: REM

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

That's great! It starts with an earthquake,
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane;
and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn.
World serves its own needs, don't mis-serve your own needs.
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no strength.
The ladder starts to clatter with fear of height, down height.
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
In a government for hire and a combat site.
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck.

Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low plane! Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, Common Food,
But it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light;
Feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Six o'clock. TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign tower.
Slash and burn, return,
Listen to yourself churn.
Lock him in uniform and book burning, bloodletting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive.
Step down, step down.
Watch a heel crush, crush.
Uh oh, this means no fear; cavalier.
Renegade and steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament,
A tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine

It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

The other night I tripped a nice
Continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line.
Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev,
Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? (Right!)

It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

Thanks to John Cummins, Mike Karbo, Vince M for correcting these lyrics.
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Wednesday, 18 March, 2020 | 9

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.