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Hospitalization

vendredi 2 avril 2021 à 02:00

Almost a third of the patients hospitalized for Covid-19 in the UK have been in the hospital in 4 months.

So even if you get better, you're very likely not really better.

Guilty democracy

vendredi 2 avril 2021 à 02:00

*Hong Kong democracy leaders found guilty over peaceful 2019 protest.*

Welfare for people in penury

jeudi 1 avril 2021 à 02:00

The UK offers some welfare support to people in penury — but it is not enough to live on, so they go hungry.

The US, by contrast, offers nothing to many Americans in penury and they end up begging on the street.

Attacker of NYC caught

jeudi 1 avril 2021 à 02:00

The man who attacked a stranger of East Asian descent, in NYC has been caught. He was previously convicted of killing his own mother.

I condemn the surging violence and hatred against people who have ancestry in East Asia and the Pacific. Like all forms of ethnic hatred, it is a evil that we must denounce and try to stop.

But I feel we should call those people by a term that doesn't define India and other large parts of Asia out of existence.

More exact than "Asian Americans" would be "East Asian Americans." However, that is not perfect, since the same hatred also targets ethnic groups from Pacific islands, which are not in Asia at all.

Cruelty of an elite English boarding school

jeudi 1 avril 2021 à 02:00

A former victim describes the cruelty of an elite English boarding school.

I got a taste of that just once while attending a private school in New York City. Being made to thank the school's head for slapping me hard and knocking me off the chair was far less than what the article describes, but I hated him after that.

One day I put a sign, "Ministry of Love," on his office. I put signs for the other three ministries of Oceania on other people's offices.