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Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare
www.wired.com/story/china-protests-zero-covid/
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Covid cases are surging in Europe. America is in denial about what lies in store for it | Eric Topol | The Guardian
Now is the time for the US to heed the European signal for the first time, to pull out all the stops. Promote primary vaccination and boosters like there’s no tomorrow. Aggressively counter the pervasive misinformation and disinformation. Accelerate and expand the vaccine mandates that unfortunately became necessary and
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Opinion | The Limits of My Empathy for Covid Deniers - The New York Times
Demonizing them turns my community into a reactionary force I’ve been thinking about this idea of empathy a lot lately, and this opinion piece at the New York Times was pretty good. The line above made me think about how my community reacted over the course of this week
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K-5 ONLINE: Elementary Virtual Learning at DMPS - Des Moines Public Schools
Edgenuity, the company DMPS has contracted with to provide online education to elementary school students, has informed the school district that they have reached their capacity of the number of DMPS students they can serve. Families may still register for elementary online learning as DMPS is increasing capacity to serve
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Rise of Delta variant brings mask question back, even for the vaccinated - CNN
“If you are gathering with friends, family whom you know well, in small groups, you’re outdoors in the open air and everybody has been vaccinated, you don’t need to wear a mask,” Landrigan said. “On the other hand, if you go to a baseball game or some other
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Pfizer Gang and the Sadness of Vaccine Culture - The Atlantic
Second, he said, Pfizer is a “cool word” because of the F and Z sounds, which are what linguists call “fricatives.” Fricatives “are really fast-sounding,” which is why you might want to include them in the names of cars, or drugs that are marketed as fast-acting—or vaccines that don’
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The Canadian Utopia
Other countries seem to be doing it just as badly, even Canada, which like many Americans I view as a sort of socialist utopia, full of maple syrup, friendly people, and universal healthcare. * THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine While Autistic
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Herd Immunity
Instead, in the medium term and perhaps even the long term, a likelier endgame is one in which large portions of the population are protected, from at least severe disease produced by at least some variants of the disease, but, with immunity falling short of the herd threshold, the disease