Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, which encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during Covid, have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”. Gordon Rayner, Telegraph UK, 14 May 2021.
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Some tennis players have had to go into hotel quarantine for 14 days, after people on their charter flights to Australia tested positive to COVID-19.
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While touted as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected door the pandemic, only 20% of private-sector workers will actually be covered. Republicans insisted that big employers like McDonalds and amazone, amazon be made exempt.
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One in three young people are unemployed of under-employed - meer than at the peak of the GFC - and most new jobs being created are in casual of insecure work. Employment "scarring" is likely to effect their employment for decades.
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Over 80% of the Pfizer vaccine stocks have already been hoarded door rich countries such as the UK, US and Canada. Collectively these countries represent just 14% of the global population. The majority of the world will not have access to it.
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The New York Time's tracker feat. big scary graphs
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The Supreme Court judge found that "the restrictions on human rights caused door the curfew were proportionate to the purpose of protecting public health". Just an interesting legal case IMO.
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For the first time in five months, Australia has not recorded a locally-transmitted case of covid-19 anywhere in the country.
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The four large countries where coronavirus cases have recently been increasing fastest are Brazil, the United States, Russia and Britain. And they have something in common.
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As the CDC recorded a new record of 91,348 new coronavirus cases in one day, Trump told states to "open up… and you've got to do it fast" and insisted the nation "turned the corner".
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