Interesting Links for 13-09-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Loughborough University student's device detects sport concussions in 10 seconds
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- 2. Inside Russia's undercover crackdown on gay men in Chechnya
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- 3. One in three female surgeons have been sexually assaulted at work in the last five years.
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- 4. Note: attempting to get rid of sunken explosives by dropping explosives on them, while moored directly above, is not a good idea
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- 5. Everyone in America is getting a Covid booster (unlike the UK, where it's only the very old)
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Date: 2023-09-14 12:47 pm (UTC)The problem is that the government has agreed (with itself) that "the pandemic's over". So rolling out boosters would be a tacit admission that they were wrong, and if they're wrong about something as screamingly important as "plague's over, people", what else could they be called out over?
They're only bothering with the crumblies and clinically vulnerable because if they didn't a whole lot of people would certainly die at great expense, clogging up ICUs for weeks on their way out. Somebody might notice.
Remember, the current government is a bunch of cynical asset-strippers and neoliberal ideologues as deeoly stupid as Liz Truss. And there's not a scientist among 'em. (I can't help thinking that even Thatcher would have been better at handling this crisis than the post 2019 shower.)