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Antoine FLAHAULT

18 Dec, 9 tweets, 2 min read

1/9 - “Denmark, one of the star performers in Europe’s first wave of #COVID19, is having a chastening November and December.”
ft.com/content/f99f19…

2/9 - “First came the botched cull of its 17m mink, which continues to have political, legal, economic and environmental repercussions. Then this week Danish PM Mette Frederiksen ordered a second national lockdown from Christmas Day as cases of coronavirus continue to spiral.”

3/9 - “We thought we could manage it the Danish way. The Danish mentality is: when there’s a storm around the world it’s a slight wind in Denmark. We thought we had the magic formula in place.”said Soren Riis Paludan, prof. in the department of biomedicine at Aarhus University.”

4/9 - “Denmark’s path mirrors that of its southern neighbour Germany: decisive action in the first wave brought plaudits for it and Ms Frederiksen, who carved out a reputation for taking bold decisions as one of the first European leaders to close borders and schools in March.”

5/9 - “In this autumn’s second wave, the Social Democrat prime minister tried to find more of a balance, imposing restrictions in some areas but keeping schools and businesses open.”

6/9 -“The government was forced to admit that the killing [of minks] was unlawful; millions of the creatures were buried, they first started to resurface bloated by gases and then it transpired the graves were too close to drinking water supplies, potentially contaminating them.”

7/9 - “The prime minister [Ms Frederiksen] has conceded that mistakes were made on mink but that the threat of #COVID19 was real and demanded action.”

8/9 - “The mink scandal had overshadowed the second wave for most of November with perhaps disastrous consequences. [...] For three weeks we didn’t discuss the number of cases going up. It took the focus away from the pandemic, and, under the radar, the number of cases went up.”

9/9 - “The winter months may well be the most difficult,” Ms Frederiksen said. Shopping centres [and schools will] close, while all shops except those selling food or medicine will close from Christmas Day. The national lockdown will last until early Jan.”

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1/15 - “The first days and weeks of the pandemic were crucial. So why was no action taken? Through a six-month investigation in the city, the FT has uncovered the answers.[...] This is the first part of a major Financial Times series.
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2/15 - “During the investigation, some of the people approached were threatened by police, who said that the FT had come to the city with “malicious intent”, raising doubts about whether Xi Jinping’s administration is really willing to facilitate the impartial investigation.”

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0/4 - “What the Trump administration has done to diminish the CDC will take a long time to repair. Even if all four of these suggestions were implemented tomorrow, rebuilding trust in the agency will be a gradual process, taking years of sustained effort.”
healthandcommunications.com/articles/rehab

1/4 - “Make the CDC an Independent Federal Agency
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2/4 - “Appoint the Director from an Independently-Generated Shortlist, Stagger the Director’s Term.
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1/9 - “Sweden’s king has admitted that the Scandinavian country has failed with its #COVID19 strategy, which has left it with a far higher death toll from the pandemic than its Nordic neighbours.”
ft.com/content/d1e581…

2/9 - “Carl XVI Gustaf told Swedes in his annual Christmas address that the country had suffered “enormously in difficult conditions” and that it was “traumatic” that many relatives of the almost 8,000 people to die with #COVID19 had not been able to say goodbye to them.”

3/9 - ““I think we have failed. We have a large number who have died and that is terrible. It is something we all have to suffer with,” the king added.”

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1/7 - “#COVID19 has accelerated the world into the future. Here are five powerful forces that were at work before #COVID19, that intensified during the pandemic and will still affect the world in 2025, and far beyond.” ft.com/content/dd3593…

2/7- “First, technology. The march of computing and communications technology continues to reshape lives and the economy. Now, broadband communications, together with Zoom and similar videoconferencing software, has made it possible for a huge number of people to work from home.”

3/7 - “Second, inequality. Many higher-paid office workers have been able to work from home,while most others could not. In western countries,many of those most adversely affected are also members of ethnic minorities. Meanwhile,many of the those already powerful have prospered.”

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