Interesting Links for 25-11-2021

[andrewducker]

Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review - Have your say!

(tags:slavery Edinburgh viaDanielDWilliam )

Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks

(tags:drones Israel Palestine war )

Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law to tighten up device security

(tags:security UK law technology )

Why isn't the UK getting hit by the same winter COVID wave as the rest of Europe? (boosters and much higher infection rates in the last few months)

(tags:UK Europe Pandemic vaccination )

Germany Will Legalize Marijuana And Promote Drug Harm Reduction, Governing Party Coalition Officially Announces

(tags:Germany marijuana legalisation )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

"Why isn't the UK getting hit by the same winter COVID wave as the rest of Europe? (boosters and much higher infection rates in the last few months)"

France also started vaccinating a bit later than the UK and I think you went through age brackets more quickly than we did. The 6-month waiting period between dose #2 and dose #3 means most of us in France have to hold up until late December/early January. We got our first cluster at school this week among 6th graders who are in the same class and are too young to get vaccinated. It hasn't spread to vaccinated siblings and adults so far. We're all anxiously waiting for our booster shot.

[andrewducker]

Also 6 months here.

But we've got 60% of our 12-15 year olds done. What age is 6th grade?

[ninetydegrees]

10 or 11 at this time of year. We also have a very good vaccination rate for older minors.

[andrewducker]

Looks like we might go younger than that. But not until next year.