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Doctors and Nurses Are ‘Living in a Constant Crisis’ as Covid Fills Hospitals

Hospitalizations across the country have increased 20 percent in two weeks, taxing already exhausted health care workers as the United States confronts the Omicron variant.

Britain's pig farmers on Friday warned of a pork crisis unless the government urgently eased an acute shortage of abattoir workers that has left up to 150,000 pigs backed up on farms and facing a costly cull.

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Save our pigs, British farmers demand as cull looms

Hippocrates once proclaimed: “If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” Well, centuries have passed but the Greek physician still has a point, writes Andrew McCarthy. Andrew discovered the power of taking strolls years ago when he traveled 500 miles across Spain on the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route. “Has anyone ever emerged from ambling through nature for an hour and regretted their improved state of being?” Not likely, Andrew says. Walking “not only nourishes the body but also soothes the mind while it burns off tension and makes our troubles recede into a more manageable perspective.” In other words, "Spring has sprung. Lace up." Read more: https://nyti.ms/3GrvmdM

Most people in the UK have never been inside an abattoir - and for good reason.

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'Working in a slaughterhouse affected my mental health'

amble

verb

1. walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.

   "they ambled along the riverbank"

abattoir
名
〈フランス語〉食肉処理場◆【同】slaughterhouse
発音ǽbətwɑ̀ːə、カナアバトゥワー、変化《複》abattoirs、分節ab・at・toir
単語帳

abattoir effluent
食肉処理場排水単
abattoir waste
〈英〉食肉処理廃棄物◆slaughterhouse waste

abattoir worker
食肉処理［解体］場（の）作業員単語帳
beef abattoir
牛肉処理場単語帳
cattle abattoir
牛肉処理場単語帳
public abattoir
公設食肉処理［解体］場


shamble 
verb [I + adverb or preposition]
to walk slowly and awkwardly, without lifting your feet correctly:
Sick patients shambled along the hospital corridors.
He was a strange, shambling figure.pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

1. 1. A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin: “The economy was in a shambles” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
   2. Great clutter or jumble; a total mess: made dinner and left the kitchen a shambles.
2. 1. A place or scene of bloodshed or carnage.
   2. A scene or condition of great devastation.
3. A slaughterhouse.
4. Archaic. A meat market or butcher shop.

[From Middle English shamel, shambil, place where meat is butchered and sold, from Old English sceamol, table, from Latin scabillum, scamillum, diminutive of scamnum, bench, stool.]

WORD HISTORY A place or situation referred to as a shambles is usually a mess, but it is no longer always the bloody mess it once was. The history of the word begins innocently enough with the Latin word scamnum, “a stool or bench serving as a seat, step, or support for the feet, for example.” The diminutive scamillum, “low stool,” was borrowed by speakers of Old English as sceamol, “stool, bench, table.” Old English sceamol became Middle English shamel, which developed the specific sense in the singular and plural of “a place where meat is butchered and sold.” The Middle English compound shamelhouse meant “slaughterhouse,” a sense that the plural shambles developed (first recorded in 1548) along with the figurative sense “a place or scene of bloodshed” (first recorded in 1593). Our current, more generalized meaning, “a scene or condition of disorder,” is first recorded in 1926.