"COVID accelerated the push towards #off-premises #dining, which requires a different kind of staffing set up. You don’t need servers if there are no customers sitting at tables to serve."
"... #COVID has us re-thinking the amount of human-to-human contact as we get our food. We won’t know what the lasting impact [] on our #psyche will be, but there is a good chance we will be more wary of strangers & more cognizant of the number of people who touch our food."
"After a while, the enduring concerns about technological unemployment will recede as societies emphasize the need to restructure the workplace in a way that minimizes close human contact." - The #GreatReset, 2020 World Economic Forum
"automation technologies are particularly well suited to a world in which human beings can't get too close to each other or are willing to reduce their interactions. Our lingering & possibly lasting #fear of being infected w/ a virus [] will thus speed the [] march of automation"
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Imperial academics serve on the #WEF Global Future Councils that "set agendas for technologies & systems that will define the 'fourth industrial revolution.'"
March 2019: "Moderna’s gamble: what’s behind biotech’s biggest-ever IPO?"
"#mRNA acts as a biological instruction manual, the blueprint behind the proteins that carry out virtually every function in the body. Moderna calls mRNA 'the software of life'...
Key theme: rebuilding #trust - in order to obtain new social #contract - required for global #greatreset that will secure/serve ruling class & corporate power expansion.
Accounts to follow, followed by Klaus Schwab account:
The "new social contract" will be sold via the global rebranding of capitalism. #StakeholderCapitalism is the branded concept of a capitalism w/ #Purpose.
"CEOs [] are rightfully concerned about the increasing fragility [] & the threat to capitalism..." #BRT#Imperative21
[Accounts appear in order chosen by account admin.]
5th & 6th accounts followed: #GlobalShapers & Young Global Leaders. Youth are a key target demographic, to be shaped/molded for #GreatReset. Jan 2021: Global Shapers opens 444th hub in Morocco #Africa:
"We find that #India could become one of the first places in the world to experience heat waves that cross the survivability limit for a healthy human being resting in the shade, & this could occur as early as next decade."
"The massive growth of #data centers that began in the US is now standard in Europe, w/ hyperscale data centers now expanding into #SouthAsia where average yr round temps for the humid region hover around 27°C."
N. India has historically exhibited some of world’s hottest wet-bulb temps. According to scientific lit.: "35° wet-bulb temp. is commonly regarded as [] limit for human survival. At 35°C wet-bulb a healthy human being can survive, resting in the shade, for approx. five hours."
If I am to be suspended with so many other independent journalists, writers, which is likely... along with my brothers and my sisters... there is one more thing I must do.
And that is to share this single Lucy Parsons quote.
In response to negative comments, those unsettled by quote. The expression must be understood not as violence, but as self-defense. Freedom fighters, fighting against imperial invasions/occupations - fighting for their own lives & the lives of their loved ones, understand this.
Land defenders, Indigenous peoples that resist the #colonizers - that must defend themselves against a genocide that has never ended. Those fighting for their own lives, the lives of their loved ones, & the land to which they are connected & belong to. They understand this.
"To date this season, 51 influenza detections have been reported (Figure 2), which is significantly lower than the past 6 seasons where an average of 8,784 influenza detections were reported for the season to date."
#McKinsey Data visualizations from "Charting the Path to the Next Normal". "Globally, governments allocated a stunning $10 trillion for #economic#stimulus in just two months. That was triple what they spent during the entire 2008–09 financial #crisis."
"#Digital became the way to get many things done—from visits to doctors to shopping to #socializing. The reliance by Asian governments & businesses on six digital & mobile technologies would become a model for the world."
#McKinsey is a World Economic Forum strategic partner.
On Jan 25-29, "The #Davos Agenda", will focus on "the future of work, accelerating stakeholder capitalism, & the Fourth Industrial Revolution." #Social, #human & "natural capital".