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9 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I wonder which other European countries have similar secret deals with China?
"There were no provisions to supervise the agents’ activities beyond their work with Swiss authorities. What is more, because the agents’ unofficial status probably meant they were travelling on tourist visas," ...
"they could have had access to the whole Schengen area, said Peter Dahlin, the director of Safeguard Defenders." theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
Without downplaying the relevance of this case, it needs to be pointed out that there's a history of allowing non-European powers to violate human rights within European jurisdictions, as in the case of CIA black sites bbc.com/news/world-eur…
The full deal is made available by @SafeguardDefend @Peterinexile

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Germany's tabloid @BILD reports that by now 94% of all infections in Berlin are untraceable. Local health administrations often do lack (after obviously useless months of preparation) basic software and data processing tools bild.de/politik/2020/p…
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Its difficult to explain why so many leading Western #epidemiologists and #virologists, against all advice from East Asia, still openly or indirectly suggest that "herd immunity" should be the ultimate strategic rational for Western governments responding to #Covid_19 /1
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The discussion about China's official #Covid_19 statistics is important, for political and epidemiological reasons. What can be said about it? @dhnexon @namalhotra @OttoKolbl @DrEricDing @yindavid @chenchenzh @XihongLin @cjw_phd @yangxifan @Dali_Yang Please add/correct/refine
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Beyond the international "blame game" heating up, epidemiologists, virologists and health studies researchers need proper data and/or plausible estimates on many aspects of the pandemic. Since China is weeks ahead of the curve, its data are critical to understand #Covid_19 better
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Ein Beitrag im Tagesspiegel zeigt klar was falsch läuft mit der Wissenschaftskommunikation in Deutschland während (und vor der) Corona-Pandemie. Beginnen wir mit einem Zitat zur "Letalität" von Covid-19. 1/
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Western countries responded very late to #COVID19. But it is not too late. Learning from leaders would be helpful. We have enough reports about the lessons from Asian countries. That's a summery how to combat #COVID19 @kakape @florian_krammer @niccijsmith @chenchenzh @C_Althaus/1
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Flatting is also a totally contradictive appraoch: while the epidemiological goal is to make the pandemic last longer, the economic logic is to make the pandemic as short as possible to prevent economic systems around the world from collapsing. Flattening does not make sense /3
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