China Wanted to Show Off Its Vaccines. It’s Backfiring. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/business/china-covid-19-vaccine-backlash.html #ChinaNationalPharmaceuticalGroupCorp(Sinopharm) #ThirdWorldandDevelopingCountries #VaccinationandImmunization #RumorsandMisinformation #WorldHealthOrganization #Coronavirus(2019-nCoV) #SinovacBiotechLtd #ModernaInc #PfizerInc #China
"In our review, we found a male bias in this discipline" https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/1/216
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Translated battle plans from #HongKong illustrating how the #frontliner role works alongside peaceful protestors, ballistics squad, flag bearers & "firefighters" -- check it out friends in the #chazseattle, #FloydUprising, #BlackLivesMatter
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“Intelligence is situational — there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. […] Currently, our environment, not our brain, is acting as the bottleneck to our intelligence.” https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec
1 Ensure all officers involved in the killing of George Floyd face legal due process,
2 Expel and prosecute officers for even one instance of excessive force or the failure to prevent it,
3 Ensure every police killing is independently and transparently investigated.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/george_floyd_loc/
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mencken-white-house-quote/
Public displays of #selfpity do reflect badly on leaders in important positions. Due to his tight links to #Beijing, #WHO president #TedrosGhebreyesus screwed up the response to #Covid19. For far too long he insisted that no #travelrestrictions for #China would be needed to limit the spread of the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus. Guess what? We are ALL enjoying the result of this fuck-up. And this inept boss is not getting flak for the colour of his skin FFS! #TedrosmustGo http://www.ketagalanmedia.com/2020/04/10/freddy-lim-tedros-who-taiwan-coronavirus-response/
>Ms. Kane cams for 12 hours a day, almost every day of the year, she said, and only took two days off last year. Though this schedule is physically exhausting, she said it’s worth it.
“That’s just something that comes with being an entrepreneur,” Ms. Kane said. “I’m trying to work as hard as I can while I’m young so I don’t have to later.”
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"everyone knew the Soviet system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to it so ordinary people entered into a play with those in power, to maintain a pretence of a normal society." https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-we-must-resist-this-exercise-in-hypernormalisation/
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>As evidence suggests COVID-19 could be transmitted before symptom onset, community transmission might be reduced if everyone, including people who have been infected but are asymptomatic and contagious, wear face masks. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30134-X/fulltext#.Xnao62sqgio.twitter
Location-tracking wristbands required on all incoming travelers to Hong Kong - The government says the wristband isn't privacy-invading because it won't track your location, per... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/20/location-tracking-wristbands-required-on-all-incoming-travelers-to-hong-kong/ #electronicwristband #locationtracking #uncategorized #quarantine #law&order #covid-19 #hongkong #privacy #rfid
"86% of all infections were undocumented... undocumented infections were the infection source for 79% of documented cases" #COVID19 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/science.abb3221.full
"The Hohenzollerns were by no means unrepresentative. Crucial to Hitler’s ascent to power was a coalition between the Nazis and Germany’s old conservative elites, who hoped they could use and control him for their own ends" https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/what-do-the-hohenzollerns-deserve/
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