#Lockdown

The number of new cases has risen, despite flattening the previous few days. With higher testing, a continuing rise is inevitable given the low absolute number of cases relative to
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Having spent time discussing COVID with Sweden based friends Iโ€™ve reaccessed some of my earlier thoughts on this.I still think the Swedish strategy deeply flawed - particularly if COVID doesnโ€™t
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After news of lockdown leaked on 30 October, something changed in England. Right across the country, people started to go outOver the next five days, movement surged in towns and
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I really don't know what the "stop the lockdown" people want. No lockdowns will sooner or later mean the virus will be everywhere in NZ. That won't bring back tourists
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The extent of disabled death caused by the pandemic and a government policy of violent exclusion, abandonment and viral warfare was unveiled this weekend. It accounted for 96% of total
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How about this messaging from the Government? Dear People Who Celebrate #Christmas: Christmas is going to be disrupted this year. And I know that's so sad and hard to hear,
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A few thoughts on Abe's balancing act last night, and the thinly disguised tension between the central and Tokyo governments. The Wuhan "lockdown" actually caused a mass exodus of millions
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On forcefully banning of Azaan in UP:Muslim sisters and brothers, stay vigil. This might be an attempt to push you to break the lockdown and come on streets. There's no
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I've now had 3 people tell me in the last 24 hours that they have broken lockdown, citing Dominic Cummings as justification.His resignation is genuinely required as an urgent and
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A 'hidden history' of COVID-19 kicks off....https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1253241261483528192 It always comes to this: despite the wealth of info and expert opinion available, the small revelatory 'fact' is spotted amongst th
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There is an angle to all of this that I believe is being missed. Lockdown governors probably did not save lives, despite many claiming that they did. They either caused
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CALLING BULLSHIT: ITALIAN VERSIONHOME QUARANTINING: MISTAKEWe dont have any data on SAR (secondary attack rate)but it is quite astonishing that after 20 days from a full lockdown we still have
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Govts will find it difficult to reduce oil prices because:1. Oil refineries purchase crude 2 months in advance so there is a considerable lag which will be even longer because
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Found out that a friends gran passed away this week & heโ€™s understandably really upset bc he hadnโ€™t seen her since long before lockdown & when I told Ma about
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Question for Arts student to develop new sociology, anthropology, psychology and economics considering Corona is here to stay, untouchability of corona patient, maintaining social distance, trying your locality to be
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The authoritarian dream of โ€œcontrolโ€ of the virus, that these punishing measures will โ€œwin the warโ€ + โ€œsave livesโ€, is underwritten by a fatal fallacy: that life is something separated
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