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Ann Telnaes

@AnnTelnaes

3 Jan

Another reason- and urgent, because you know this won't be the last time we have to deal with a pandemic- to change our health-care system--->

Perspective | Vaccination is going slowly because nobody is in charge washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…

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Ann Telnaes

@AnnTelnaes

28 Jun 20

Individual windows (thread)
"Pandemic Windows"
5' x 10.5'

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Ann Telnaes

@AnnTelnaes

26 May 20

I followed events in China closely during my early editorial cartooning days. When Hong Kong was handed over to mainland China in 1997, I didn’t have much hope that the freedoms its citizens previously had would survive the transition.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

“One country, two systems” was touted by Chinese advocates and offered as an assurance to foreign investors.

To convince the human rights skeptics, supporters of the handover used the argument that opening up the markets would lead to more freedoms overall and an eventual transition to democracy for all Chinese people.

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Ann Telnaes

@AnnTelnaes

18 Apr 20

infuriating--->

BBC News - Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America's biggest outbreak bbc.com/news/world-us-…

"Mayor TenHaken formally requested that Governor Noem issue a shelter-in-place order for Sioux Falls' surrounding counties as well as an isolation centre. She denied both requests."

"Despite the steep increase in cases, Noem also continued to decline to issue a shelter-in-place order in South Dakota, specifically saying that such an order would not have prevented the Smithfield outbreak.

'That is absolutely false,' she said."

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