#LockDown

The pro-lockdown crowd fortunately all sing from the same hymn sheet. The most recent talking point against the rational voices echo the new fear of "long covid". The frightening boogyman
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If there's something we do a lot over here, it is to boast with our past glories:"Giant of Africa"."Nigeria is rich".However, the realities of the times show that we are
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MSRDC will demolish a British-era Amrutanjan bridge along the Mumbai-Pune expressway using controlled blasting.(this 'bridge' was part of the original railway line alignment dating back to 1860s. It was rendered
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A #mentalhealth tweet as a call for consideration.On Facebook this morning, I “liked” a friend’s photo. To my astonishment, moments later a message arrived exhorting me to post a similar
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Not going to defend cig ban, but ciggies, t-shirts, and alcohol constitute AT MOST, say, 3% of the regs and massive prep happening now in SA. The intensive focus on
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Read my thread on timeline of COVID-19 crisis in Pakistan: Feb 2020: 1st COVID-19 case diagnosed in Pakistan. March 2020: Sindh Govt asked Center to close borders. On the contrary,
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+UPDATE+German media now discussing research from their Coronavirus experience that *suggests* virus spreads far more in mass gatherings than previously thought..but less in places like shops or via surfaces.NB: it
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NEW: ahead of tonight’s main thread, some fresh analysis of the factors that do — and do not — appear to influence the pace of countries’ covid-19 outbreaks.First, for the
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Blaise Pascal would have found the Coronavirus fascinating. The line of his that people keep quoting is his claim that "all man's unhappiness results from his inability to sit quietly
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From the beginning of this #COVIDー19 crisis, the idea that british people would not adhere to lockdown rules if applied too early was the start of the confusion caused by
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In 'Grapes of Wrath' people buy cars, leave home and drive in search of a better future. In India, those stories are playing out in reverse. It's people abandoning the
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I fear that when we look back on the pandemic, this week will be, among others in February & March, a week which was pivotal in the way England -
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A lot of people are looking at the daily 100+ cases in Tokyo and asking if we're headed back to a state of emergency. Here's some of the reasons why
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Her words are being twisted but finally someone on the same page as me. Certain restrictions (Social Distancing, large gatherings - inc sports/concerts etc, shielding of elderly & vulnerable) have
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Does anyone else live next door to a child they would now happily volley into the nearest canal? Next door's kid plays Fortnite all day, every day. His friend Tyler
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is anyone else who is otherwise having an objectively comfortable lockdown feeling like, burnout levels of physical fatigue the longer this goes on? have not felt like this since i
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