Interesting Links for 18-10-2020

[andrewducker]

UK Drivers to be banned from picking up mobile phones

(tags:phones driving UK safety )

Why Are Some Bilingual People Dyslexic in English but Not Their Other Language?

(tags:languages dyslexia )

Who are governments currently borrowing from? And what will happen to it?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317393590683914241.html
(tags:economics pandemic )

The real, true, absolutely certain story of how Neil Gaiman invented death

(tags:death neilgaiman )

When fighting Nazis be the bus driver, not the janitor

(tags:protests Nazis history )

Adorable thread of corgis crossed with other dogs

(tags:dogs cute )

Pets! With! Children!

(tags:cute dogs )

Moody's downgrades the UK's credit rating because our democracy is shit

(tags:UK economy government )

If we want to contain the pandemic then we need to actually enforce isolation. Trusting people's common sense is asking for disaster

(tags:pandemic law police surveillance )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

"If we want to contain the pandemic then we need to actually enforce isolation. Trusting people's common sense is asking for disaster"

Sadly, very true in my country too. A lot of French people won't do what's best for everyone on their own. Their motto is "the law is for everyone but me" or "the laws are stupid so I won't follow them". We lack strong penalties and law enforcement and look where it got us : back to where we were in May for hospitalized people in severe condition. Deaths and positive cases in institutions for seniors on the rise again. sigh

[andrewducker]

Yeah, very common here too. Which is fine for some things - but absolutely doesn't work with a pandemic.

Well!

[lsanderson]

Of course you can trust common sense! Why, just look at North and South Dakota for a great example of trusting common sense! They're #1 and #2 at helping keep the U.S. #1!