關於 long march 5 failure ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

George W Bush's statement:
Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we have resisted the urge to speak out, because this is not the time for us to lecture. It is time for us to listen. It is time for America to examine our tragic failures – and as we do, we will also see some of our redeeming strengths.

It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country. It is a strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future. This tragedy — in a long series of similar tragedies — raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.

America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity. The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union. The answers to American problems are found by living up to American ideals — to the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by God with certain rights. We have often underestimated how radical that quest really is, and how our cherished principles challenge systems of intended or assumed injustice. The heroes of America — from Frederick Douglass, to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — are heroes of unity. Their calling has never been for the fainthearted. They often revealed the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine. We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised.

That is exactly where we now stand. Many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. Black people see the repeated violation of their rights without an urgent and adequate response from American institutions. We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means. Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress. But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.

This will require a consistent, courageous, and creative effort. We serve our neighbors best when we try to understand their experience. We love our neighbors as ourselves when we treat them as equals, in both protection and compassion. There is a better way — the way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice. I am confident that together, Americans will choose the better way.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/george-w-bush-statement-on-george-floyd/index.html

大麻救了她，武漢病毒殺了她
一個改變大麻政策小女孩的故事
　　
美國科羅拉多州的小女孩夏洛特（Charlotte Figi），她出生後不久後被診斷出一種罕見的癲癇疾病「卓飛症候群」（Dravet Syndrome）。到3歲時，儘管服用了7種不同的藥物，但每週都要經歷300次如地獄一般的癲癇發作。
　　
夏洛特在被診斷出卓飛症候群後嘗試了許多正規或偏門的治療方式，從飲食、針灸到藥物各種方法都試過了，但病情始終毫無起色，有些藥物甚至差點害她送命。
　　
夏洛特的爸爸麥特，某天在網路上搜尋到一支影片，內容是一個小男孩透過大麻來緩解癲癇症狀，於是他開始與妻子討論要給夏洛特嘗試大麻，但他的妻子佩吉則是面有難色的遲疑。直到夏洛特的病情每況愈下，他們也嘗試過除了大麻之外的所有方法都無效，才真正開始考慮給夏洛特服用大麻的可能性。
　　
然而，要給夏洛特服用大麻卻也並非易事，因為當時美國大部分在市面上流通的大麻都是屬於高THC成分，這是大麻裡面主要會讓人感到興奮的物質，而夏洛特需要的卻是大麻中另一種大麻素CBD，它沒有娛樂效果，是可以讓大腦鎮靜的成分。
　　
對於夏洛特的父母來說，讓夏洛特服用大麻不是一個決定，而是剩下唯一可以實行的選擇。夏洛特的父母在當地大麻店找到高CBD的品種，並請人從中提取出CBD的成分讓夏洛特能口服，在她服用過，治療效果非常驚人。在第一次服用大麻當天甚至隔了好幾天，夏洛特完全沒有發病，若是在先前的狀態，夏洛特可能已經發病好幾百次了。
　　
2012年秋天，夏洛特嘗試了由科羅拉多州從事大麻生意多年的史丹利家族所研發，一種非常罕見的醫療大麻品種，含有21%CBD、1%THC，這正是夏洛特父母要找的東西。在用了這款大麻後，原本一個禮拜癲癇會發作300次，變成一個禮拜只發作一次，夏洛特的病情再次因為大麻得到顯著的改善。她開始可以不用依賴餵食管，可以自己吃飯，也開始可以講話甚至走路，連主治醫師都肯定大麻的療效。
　　
在美國聯邦層級，大麻仍是一級管制藥物，科學家要得到批准研究大麻非常困難，但仍有許多學者正在努力，希望造福許多正在受苦的病患。女童夏洛特就是一個令人振奮的例子，看到她能夠因為大麻而逐漸康復，開始正常生活無疑是一件令人開心的事情。
　　
當初史丹利兄弟給她服用的大麻品種，也正式以這位5歲小女孩來命名為「夏洛特的網」（Charlotte’s Web），近來年已有許多名罹患「卓飛症候群」的孩子在美國科羅拉多州使用這種大麻，得到非常好的治療效果。
　　
雖然夏洛特的疾病因大麻得到緩解，然而卻在2020年這波武漢肺炎疫情中不幸逝世，得年13歲。如果官方證實死因，她將是科羅拉多州最年輕的死於新型冠狀病毒的人。
　　
大麻品種「夏洛特的網」發明者史丹利兄弟得知死訊後，在官網向夏洛特致敬：「她是一盞照亮世界的燈。她是一個小女孩，把我們全都扛在了她的小肩膀上。她在一整個社群的愛與保護下成長茁壯，她讓世界見證了她的苦難，敦促世人找到解決的辦法。她每天都挺身而出，以她的勇氣和微笑喚醒人們內心的良知。」
　　
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在本文引發廣大關注後，網路上有些討論質疑夏洛特是否真因新冠肺炎（武漢肺炎）而死？目前多家具有公信力的媒體報導都指出其死因「很可能」就是新冠肺炎，紐約時報最新的報導也指出：「夏洛特的父母證實了她的死亡，病因很可能是與新冠肺炎（Covid-19）有關的併發症，一種由新型冠狀病毒引起的疾病。夏洛特媽媽表示，雖然夏洛特對新冠病毒的測試呈現陰性，但接受測試的時間點來得太晚了。（紐時註解：假陰性是當前冠狀病毒測試中的一個已知問題）」
　　
Her death was confirmed by her parents, Paige and Steven Figi, who said the cause was most likely complications related to Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
　　
Ms. Figi said that Charlotte’s test for the coronavirus came a month too late. (False negatives are a known problem with the current coronavirus tests.)
　　
資料來源：https://www.nytimes.com/20…/…/09/us/charlotte-figi-dead.html
　　
紐約時報先前也曾發表專文指出，假陰性是當前冠狀病毒測試中的一個已知問題，目前的檢測可能存在很高的漏檢率，結果呈陰性不代表沒有感染。假陰性的檢測結果——即你已經被感染，但檢測表明你沒有——似乎是十分常見的現象。
　　
為何新冠病毒檢測會出現「假陰性」：
https://cn.nytimes.com/…/coronavirus-symptoms-test…/zh-hant/
　　
在此我們也貼出夏洛特的媽媽4/7所發出的公告：
　　
「我們想澄清一些信息。從3月初開始，我們全家都生病了近一個月，但最初並不符合所有新冠肺炎測試標準。因此，除非症狀加重，否則我們被告知在家進行自我治療。夏洛特的症狀卻加重了，因此她於4月3日被送入小兒科加護病房。她使用了已製定的所有醫療規程，在新冠肺炎指定的樓層接受了治療。在4月3日（星期五）接受了測試，結果新冠肺炎檢測陰性，並在4月5日（星期日）開始好轉時出院。然而夏洛特於4月7日凌晨再度發作，導致呼吸衰竭和心臟驟，癲癇並不少見於此類疾病，醫護人員又將夏洛特送回小兒科加護病房。考慮到我們一家人一個月的病史，儘管檢查結果陰性，夏洛特仍被視為可能的新冠肺炎病例。」
　　
We’d like to clarify some of the information that has been shared. Our entire family had been ill for close to a month starting early March, but did not initially fit all of the criteria for COVID-19 testing. For that reason, we were told to self-treat at home unless the symptoms worsened. Charlotte’s symptoms worsened, so she was admitted to the PICU on April 3rd. She was treated on the COVID-19 designated floor using all of the medical protocols set in place. On Friday April 3rd, she was tested, the results were negative for COVID-19 and discharged on Sunday April 5th when she seemingly began to improve. Charlotte had a seizure in the early morning on April 7th resulting in respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Seizures are not uncommon with illness and paramedics were called returning us to the PICU. Given our family’s month-long history with illness and despite the negative test results, she was treated as a likely COVID-19 case.
　　
資料來源：https://www.facebook.com/paige.figi/posts/10157904490519765
　　
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MY JOURNEY OF MASTERING METAPHYSICS (I)

QUESTION: Is it easy to learn to be a Chinese Metaphysics practitioner?

MY ANSWER: That depends on what caliber of Feng Shui Master you aspire to be.

With the Internet, it's easy to learn anything. But the trade secrets will never be found online but from an accomplished Master.

That also means it is an awful idea to figure out your Bazi and Feng Shui through online reading all on your own.

Learning is easy, mastery is another issue.

How far are you willing to go to earn your credentials?

I first wrote this post last March. I added more content this time, so here's a glimpse at how I began my journey into this fascinating and magical world of Chinese Metaphysics.

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Ten years is a long time to be learning anything.

I read that in the internet marketing world, it takes only 6 months of total immersion in your chosen niche to make yourself an expert and gain authority.

I had spent a decade. Learning Buddhism and Chinese Metaphysics.

Shifu gave me a name for my practice in 2009. I was reluctant. I don't think I am 'there' yet.

Shifu had high hopes for me. I was to be his second disciple, out of the fifteen he had, whom he felt is qualified to practice.

I half-heartedly registered the domain in 2011 and let it expired after a year.

After years of merry-go-round around bright shiny objects, last month, I bought the domain again, got the hosting and installed the Wordpress theme.

The next logical step would be to write the About Me page.

But I got stuck for months. Every imaginable material that teaches how to write a snazzy About Me, I probably have it somewhere in my laptop. Yet my brain throws up a blank screen, every time I use the search function. I could not even hand up the three articles that I promised Tavia. Even this post took me a week to write.

What a cruel joke for my brain to play on me. Perhaps all it will take is some random FB posts, for my brain to rewire its circuitry.

I was a very poor teenager student. I lived in a one-room flat for a decade. My family struggled to make ends meet. So I had this fancy ambition of making it big in life. Don't know how big but I was convinced I would be somebody who can give my family a better life.

Then one day, my parents got a Feng Shui master in to audit our home. Our home had gained a notoriety of having bad Feng Shui. Throughout the audit, I hovered around my parents, listening to every word the Master had to say.

What is this strange thing that promises to change our lives for the better? It sounded so magical. How does it work? If it is so powerful and effective, why are there people still suffering? Why can't it help everybody? Then nobody has to be in poverty!

My parents did not know how to answer my 101 whys.

The Encyclopedia Brown in me was determined to find out.

I maxed out my library card to borrow eight books, every weekend I was at the library. I poured over books on Feng Shui, Bazi and divination. This went on for a good 4-5 years.

The new-found ancient knowledge fascinated me. If this has the immense potential t o improve my family's and my life, I am going to learn it well.

Fast forward to my working life, I was delighted when I had saved enough to afford the courses conducted in Malaysia. But the thought of travelling alone to Kuala Lumpur and staying there for a week unnerved me. Ironic, when I fly for a living.

I was mulling over Lilian Too from Malaysia, Master Li Kuiming from Hong Kong and...

While scouring the net for alternatives, I found Master Raymond Lo, a professional Hong Kong practitioner who would be in town to run a Four Pillars of Destiny course.

I had never heard of him before, but he had a very credible profile. And within a month, I found myself sitting in a seminar room of 30 odd students, listening attentively to Master Raymond Lo. At 24, I was probably the youngest student there. My classmates flew in from all over South East Asia. Many of them were graduates from courses by other Masters like Joey Yap and Lilian Too etc, and a few of them were practising on a small scale.

The middle-aged lady, Sally, who sat beside me was from KL. She told me she had spent almost Ringgit $76K in her years of learning Chinese Metaphysics, yet she still felt ill-equipped to read a Bazi very thoroughly.

Such passion and dedication to learning. I was so inspired.

I bought my first Luo Pan (Chinese compass), tons of (expensive) books and wrote so many notes, that my right hand cramped.

It was weird to see English characters on a Luo Pan, but I guess it facilitated usability for the international students.

I had this tinge of sadness when there were more non-Chinese students than Chinese ones. Not that I think such wisdom should only be taught to the Chinese though.

I was also that irritating student who asked the most number of questions in class, holding back everyone from their breaks. I started understanding the world with a whole new perspective.

It was INTENSE.

I did not stop at learning only Bazi. I lapped up the I-ching divination and Feng Shui courses. I threw down thousands and thousands of dollars to learn it well. It wasn't easy to switch my flights around so that I can have that many consecutive off days in Singapore, but by a stroke of luck, everything fell into place.

I must have been so hungry for knowledge that the Universe had to grant me my wishes.

With my new-found amateurish divination skills, I tried my hand at predicting soccer results for the boyfriend-now-husband and had some small success.

(Bad bad thing to do, and I eventually learnt a lesson the hard way.)

Then, I got into my first food business and all those long hours of learning got thrown to the wind.

When my business closed after a brief three months, I remembered this forgotten interest of mine.

One fine day, I called Master Dai Hu, while waiting for the train at Jurong East station. He came recommended by the Husband's colleague and I was told that he was looking for a disciple.

What a dumb idea of mine to call someone important for the first time, at a busy and noisy station platform.

In that phone call, Shifu told me how my Chinese name wasn't favourable and that I should change it.

I had, honestly speaking, never bought into the Chinese name thingy. I told Shifu that I liked my name as it only had one Chinese character instead of the usual two.

That was despite him telling me that my name boded of hospitalisation and operations in my upper body before I hit 20 years old and poor inter-personal relationships.

Shifu was amazingly accurate, even though he didn't have my Bazi but just my name.

In the course of five years, I had landed in hospital twice and underwent two eye operations on separate occasions.

I was always the odd one out during schooling days. I didn't fit in anywhere much.

During my SQ training days, I was also the one who didn't have a lunch buddy and in my flying years, I was once bullied badly by a senior crew for a period of time. So badly that even our flight supervisor noticed and held a team meeting during our stay in LA, just to address this bullying issue.

Poor inter-personal luck also affected my entrepreneurial efforts. My first business failure led to a legal tussle between the landlord and a few of us tenants.

I learnt early in life that blind diligence does not mean I will succeed. Fat hope if I think my customers will acknowledge my hard work sooner or later and buy from me. Strong sales numbers will not last from empathy.

Yet despite the truth in what Shifu said, I rejected firmly his good intentions twice in the phone call. I assumed he was trying to do sales.

#yayapapayame #不知天高地厚

It was a call that moulded my next ten years.

What a nice fairytale ending it would be to say I finally found my life-calling. But life rarely happens perfectly.

To be continued.