"Why the world’s first pandemic treaty may never happen
With less than six months to go, countries are still not really negotiating, say diplomats."
"The U.S., EU, U.K., Canada, Switzerland and United Arab Emirates have all indicated that they aren’t happy with the entire article on the mechanism.
The first diplomat said they believed that industry is the “main pressure” on high-income countries, with countries stating in talks that the private sector doesn’t want the mechanism."
LB: it's good that people out there are starting to do the literal math on the very real financial costs of not mitigating covid infections, using the data we have on the odds of stuff like long covid, cognitive impairment, reduced immune system function, lost productivity and people washing out of the labor force (and so needing to be replaced by businesses altogether)
Doing the right thing shouldn't be a cost saving approach but if that's the only way to get movement on this issue I'll take it
@eniko
The problem with #COVID19 - like with #HIV / #AIDS is that it's #lethality isn't obvious and pronounced like #Ebola, but that it kills slowly and indirectly...
For better or worse we don't have streets lined with filled bodybags and corpses and only hearses creating traffic jams at the parking spaces at crematories instead... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1TSP7CTqk
Today in Labor History December 20, 1971: Doctors Without Borders was founded by French doctors and journalists in the wake of the Biafra succession. Their first mission was in support of victims of the 1972 Nicaraguan earthquake. In the mid to late 1970s, they provided aid to refugees from the Khmer Rouge. They spent 9 years (1976-1984) in Lebanon during their civil war. They’ve spent decades in Africa helping in the battles against AIDS and Ebola. Their volunteers have been attacked by soldiers, kidnapped and bombed. In 1999 they won the Nobel Peace Prize. They are currently working in Gaza and have called for an immediate ceasefire. They are currently working at Nasser Hospital, in the southern city of Khan Younis.
“The emergency department at Nasser Hospital is completely full and new patients are being treated on the floor,” according to Chris Hook, MSF’s medical team leader in Gaza. “Doctors are stepping over the bodies of dead children to treat other children who will die anyway. More and more temporary structures are being erected and tents are used as wards and temporary clinics. More hospital beds are desperately needed.”
Was macht ein Virus zum Killer? #Ebola ist eine extrem schwer verlaufende Infektion. Selbst mit intensivmedizinischer Behandlung stirbt etwa ein Drittel der Betroffenen.
Doch warum ist Ebola so tödlich?
A physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity.
Between what's going on at #BurningMan this year and what happened at #Fyre, I think it's just best to never attend an enormous isolated social event named after anything flamey.
Knowledge Fight: #892: January 19, 2024 (knowledgefight.libsyn.com)
In this installment, Dan and Jordan enjoy a day full of Alex crafting and practicing a conspiracy about the Globalists' plans to give everyone Ebola.