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Sabotaging pandemic progress

vendredi 1 avril 2022 à 00:19

*From "herd immunity" to today, Covid minimisers are still sabotaging our pandemic progress.*

This proposal specifies a minimum policy of readiness for future developments (including new variants). It does not try to avoid leaving millions of people incapacitated. I have seen no statistics on how what fraction of people become incapacitated after an infection of Omicron, nor of what fraction remain incapacitated after 3 months.

The wrecker's phone call log on 6 Jan 2021 has gap from before noon to almost 7pm

vendredi 1 avril 2022 à 00:19

The wrecker's phone call log on 6 Jan 2021 has a surprising gap from before noon to almost 7pm. He made calls during that time, so apparently he either prevented them from being logged or destroyed part of the log.

Parthenon marble sculpture

jeudi 31 mars 2022 à 10:49

The Institute for Digital Archaeology requested to scan one of the Parthenon marble sculptures and use numerically controlled tools to cut a perfect imitation out of similar marble. The British Museum refused. The Institute says it will sue for permission.

The project seems like a good one, and should go forward, but the article doesn't explain on what grounds the institute could win such a suit.

Tax-dodging haven countries

jeudi 31 mars 2022 à 10:49

Russian billionaires use the same tax-dodging haven countries to evade sanctions that other billionaires use to dodge taxes. By changing the laws that were designed to facilitate this, we can crack down on wrongs.

Biden's promises

jeudi 31 mars 2022 à 10:49

Progressives have warned Biden that victory at the polls in November will depend on his using executive orders to fulfill promises.