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Mar 5, 2021 • 297 tweets • 88 min read
The real migrant crisis..
Demand for migrants is high and growing
"Exodus of foreign workers ‘a threat to UK recovery’ Construction, care and hospitality industries all at risk from major shortage of employees, say business leaders"

theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
"The gap between jobs needing to be filed and the skilled talent pool capable of filling them continues to grow wider in many industries... The ability to retain labor from abroad is essential to closing this gap,"

lexology.com/library/detail…
[In South Africa] "78% of employers struggle to recruit critically skilled resources and 74% indicate that an international search would help to find these resources.” [tho note source is a international recruiting agency...]

businesstech.co.za/news/business/…
This will create the ultimate migration crisis...

"Malaysia offers 8,600 jobs for locals to pick fruit for palm oil giants... Despite offering higher wages and perks, efforts to recruit locals have had little success"

straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/m…
The global competition for migrants is heating up.

"Irish builders are leaving the country to find work....Hundreds of workers have moved to England and continental Europe in recent months, fuelling concerns the country will face a skills shortage when the industry reopens."

newstalk.com/news/its-like-…
“Hong Kong’s IT sector facing shortage of skilled talent as Covid-19 keeps foreigners away and locals mull migration”

scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
“Coronavirus: Migrant influx 'critical' to post-pandemic revival...[Australia] facing a shortage of skilled labour almost unprecedented in our history ...”

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"[Australian] Farmers are slashing the size of strawberry crops or not planting at all out of fear fruit will rot on the ground amid a picker shortage that is expected to jack up prices at the supermarket."

abc.net.au/news/2021-03-1…
"18,500 vacant positions in the [Israel] tech sector... unable to hire local talent, companies are being forced.. overseas, with 27% of Israeli companies saying they had already opened development centers or software testing facilities in other countries"

calcalistech.com/ctech/articles…
"the number of foreign guest workers has been... declining since 2015 due to Russia's deteriorating economy & the weakening of the ruble. In the long term, Russia risks facing a major lack of manpower as many migrants seek work in Europe, Turkey & Iran"

today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1…
The real migrant crisis
"The South Korean government and National Assembly are looking to ease regulations on employing foreign nationals and for immigration in the face of labor shortages brought on by the prolonged pandemic."

koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
"A survey of dairy farmers conducted by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) in December and January, found 63 per cent of farmers struggled to recruit in the last five years."

westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/farming/1…
"Grand Cru Bordeaux estate Château Pédesclaux in Pauillac has enlisted the help of refugees in order to fill labour shortages brought about by the pandemic."

thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/03/refuge…
The real migrant crisis is coming for China...

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Soci…
"Malaysian plantation firm charters flight for Bangladeshi workers amid labour crunch"

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"It is a matter of survival for [Australian] businesses in the accommodation, hospitality, cafes and restaurants sectors to access skilled migration. But there is also a critical need for more professionals such as... engineers, surveyors & veterinarians"

miragenews.com/acute-skills-s…
"[China's] working age population has shrunk by more than 5 million people in the last decade as births have dropped... that’s forcing companies to relocate or increase automation...."

cnbc.com/2021/04/09/chi…
"In the future, the [Hungarian] hospitality and hotel industry could suffer from a chronic labor shortage, as the sector has lost much of its popularity among young people as career choices...."

bbj.hu/budapest/trave…
"{Australian] Farm labour crisis sparks competition among states to get overseas workers"

queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/7202668/…
"Taiwan has planned to loosen rules to attract foreign talent since last year...This is one of the government’s answers to Taiwan's low birth rate and ensuing labor shortage."

www2.staffingindustry.com/row.../Editori…
"The COVID-19 pandemic [in the US] has thrown the century-old problem of finding, hiring, and keeping truck drivers into sharp relief...solving the shortage will take more than pay and additional time at home..."

joc.com/trucking-logis…
The COVID-19 situation caused significant agricultural challenges [in Norway] due to border shuts and quarantine requirements that lead to a shortage of foreign workers, mainly affecting the fruit, vegetable, and berry sector..."

schengenvisainfo.com/news/norway-to…
"The [labor] shortage is occurring in almost every industry in [Quebec] from tourism to manufacturing.... Analysts say lawmakers need to increase immigration levels so that more foreign workers can be hired"

globalnews.ca/news/7764505/q…
"Chamber of Commerce: Finland needs target of 30,000 for skills-based immigration"

helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finlan…
"Between visa issues and COVID, Jersey Shore attractions worry about labor shortage"

nj.com/coronavirus/20…
Note the very reasonable responses to this tweet... not all labor shortages are the result of the real migrant crisis....

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The real migrant crisis
A Norfolk [UK] strawberry grower fears he may not have enough seasonal workers to pick his crop this summer due to post-Brexit immigration red tape... he currently only has 11 of the 62 workers he will need to harvest his crop..."

edp24.co.uk/news/business/…
The real migration crisis
"Currently 1,586,494 expatriate workers are in Kuwait. 151,990 workers permanently left Kuwait in 2020, 350,000 workers are stuck abroad with valid residency. Kuwait is facing 31% of labor shortage...."

arabtimesonline.com/news/350000-ex…
The real migrant crisis
"Quebec plans to tackle its severe shortage of labour caused partly by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also its own government’s policies, by increasing immigration."

cimmigrationnews.com/quebec-to-tack…
"Builders in S'pore hoping for more govt help amid foreign worker crunch after new entry ban"

straitstimes.com/singapore/buil…
"About 2.7-million Americans age 55 or older are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic, US government data shows."

businesslive.co.za/bd/world/ameri…
The real migration crisis: Not enough migrants...
The real migration crisis
"Singapore offers foreign worker levy rebate to companies facing labour shortage"

deccanherald.com/international/…
"One in 10 EU nationals in the UK are considering leaving after 30 June, the deadline for applications to remain lawfully in the country post-Brexit... respondents feared they would be victims of the Home Office’s hostile environment policy..."

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
"Immigration Is A Road Safety Issue.... A long-running skill shortage in the [NZ] automotive sector threatens vehicle inspection and the industry's capacity to train for the future,..."

scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2105…
"The [Australian] hospitality industry alone needs 8,000 chefs and is calling on the government to start recruiting workers from overseas...."

thecaterer.com/news/hospitali…
"UK ‘faces labour shortage’ as Covid and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers... Experts say recovery at risk amid sharp fall in EU workers and dwindling interest in UK jobs from abroad"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"There are also far fewer foreign workers seeking employment in the UK, with overseas interest in UK jobs more than halving from before the pandemic...."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The UK’s retail and hospitality employers are struggling to find staff as lockdown lifts due to the combined effects of the coronavirus and Brexit."

retail-week.com/people/uk-reta…
"Complaints from [US] businesses about not being able to find workers are actually the precursor to a long-term labor drought—what Emsi calls a sansdemic, literally “without people”—that’s been building for decades."

thedispatch.com/p/our-current-…
"It’s no wonder there’s a shortage of food service workers [in the US]; the job’s lousy" [Much to this: labor shortage (and so the real migrant crisis) is showing up first in less attractive jobs]

baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/…
"Labour-starved Australia offers cash to 'work in paradise.... Queensland is offering US$1,400 to anyone who moves there to work in the tourism sector'"

france24.com/en/live-news/2…
"Norway is short of ... foreign rafting guides,... Swedish battery-cell manufacturer Northvolt needs 3,000 workers... An EU report in December identified shortages in construction, engineering, software development and ... health care."

businesslive.co.za/bd/world/europ…
The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

Maine edition.

"S'pore's construction blues: Manpower shortage exacerbated by bar on South Asian workers"

straitstimes.com/business/compa…
If China wakes up to the potential role of immigration in fixing this problem, the real and global migrant crisis will get considerably more acute.

"The entire private sector is struggling to engage employees because of the exodus of foreign workers driven by the pandemic, Malta Employers’ Association head, Joe Farrugia said Friday."

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
"China's population is growing at its slowest rate in decades, while the number of people aged between 15 and 59 dropped below 900 million to about 63% of the population in 2020 — down some 7 percentage points from a decade earlier."

cnn.com/2021/05/31/eco…
"The number of migrant workers in Singaporean building sites, shipyards and factories plunged by 16 per cent in 2020 to 311,000, according to government statistics. The total number of international workers also decreased by 14 per cent."

dtnext.in/News/World/202…
"Who could possibly have known in advance that getting rid of 188,000 people from abroad who did jobs [in the UK] would leave us with a workforce that was 188,000 short?"

independent.co.uk/voices/tim-mar…
"The labour shortage was severe in manufacturing and for white-collar jobs, with companies in eastern Hungary importing thousands of workers from Ukraine...."

wsau.com/2021/06/08/ana…
"The [UK] Road Haulage Association... said there were about 60,000 driver shortages and that there used to be about 60,000 drivers from the EU...."

bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
"international job search websites such as Adzuna have seen a "massive collapse" in the number of foreign workers seeking jobs in the UK."

bbc.com/news/business-…
“a big reason employers can’t fill jobs... In many cases, the workers they want simply don’t exist.”

etftrends.com/entrepreneur-e…
Exodus of EU workers leaves UK construction industry facing shortages
ft.com/content/6ddd9b…
More pay for working people is good. But no-one to fill jobs at a good wage is bad. The real migrant crisis is about jobs that can’t be filled (by natives or available migrants) even when the pay is good.

thenevadaindependent.com/article/its-no…
"Chicken wings prices have shot up 99% because farms can't get enough workers, a Buffalo, New York, restaurant owner said"

businessinsider.com/labor-shortage…
"Post-Brexit labour shortages deal blow to UK cannabis production"

The real marijuana crisis: not enough migrants

ft.com/content/496968…
"“The prices that people are asking [to work in UK construction] now... makes it uneconomical... There’s a massive, massive labour shortage...' [the] weekly pay of bricklayers had jumped by nearly 40% in the 12 months to April 2021”

building.co.uk/focus/so-much-…
"[Australian] Miners want skilled migration lifted to combat worker shortage"

thewest.com.au/business/minin…
"The [UK food] supply chain is creaking under pressure due to worker shortages ... There is a lack of drivers, as well as those working in harvesting, manufacturing, and packaging."

express.co.uk/life-style/foo…
"{a labor shortage in the [US] trucking industry has contributed to supply chain problems [in fuel supply].... the baby boomer drivers that are out there in their late 60s and 70s are starting to get out of it and go into retirement."

thedenverchannel.com/news/local-new…
"The [UK] poultry industry is reporting a 10% fall in the number of birds being slaughtered for meat in recent weeks... the industry heavily reliant on EU nationals... But migrants have been returning to their home countries"

bbc.com/news/business-…
"Restaurant owners in New Zealand will switch off their lights to raise awareness of the crippling skill shortage... calling for the government to make changes to the current visa rules to allow a significant portion of the migrant workforce to remain..."
hcamag.com/nz/news/genera…
"Film director James Cameron says he and wife Suzy have been unable to expand their vegetable growing operation in the Wairarapa due to the labour shortage gripping [New Zealand]... Lately they have resorted to grazing..."

nzherald.co.nz/business/out-o…
"Somerset cheesemaker Norseland says Brexit 'partly' behind factory staff shortage"

business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/…
"the [UK engineering] industry needs to attract more engineers or the UK will struggle to deliver major infrastructure schemes, the boss of Crossrail has warned."

building.co.uk/news/crossrail…
"[US] Immigrant and non-immigrant visas issued during the year ended October 2020 were down by nearly five million, or 54%, from 2019."

axios.com/immigration-la…
"German companies [are] already missing around 270,000 qualified men and women.... this at least partly due to a drop-off in skilled EU immigration, which includes craftspeople, engineers, nurses, care workers, cooks and metal workers...."

thelocal.de/20210623/germa…
The real migrant crisis: not *nearly* enough migrants to fill this gap.

"A shortage of doctors and nurses in Japan’s aging population contributed to the country’s sluggish Covid vaccine rollout, says Keio University professor Sayuri Shirai... In an aging society it’s very difficult to find doctors and nurses."

cnbc.com/2021/06/24/doc…
"The federal government’s Integration Commissioner, Annette Widmann-Mauz, has warned that Germany is facing a critical shortage of skilled workers, after migration to the federal republic dropped off significantly last year”

iamexpat.de/expat-info/ger…
"EU workers leaving ‘will leave UK industries in total crisis’...
A post-Brexit exodus has left the hospitality, construction and trucking sectors with severe labour shortages – and the worst is yet to come."

bigissue.com/latest/employm…
"22 new occupations have been added to [Australia's] Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List ... to address ongoing skills shortages" [list now includes auditors, surveyors, doctors, engineers, nurses, software engineers, social workers, chefs]

lexology.com/library/detail…
"farmers, & many other parts of the agricultural & food supply chain in the UK, have been heavily dependent upon European workers over the past 10-15 years but over one million EU nationals have left the UK in the last 12 months, & many may not return..."

businessleader.co.uk/could-a-nation…
"Sheffield ... schools might have to use dry pasta and fish fingers among other emergency standby ingredients [for school meals]... as a result of fewer drivers...."

thehill.com/policy/interna…
"Post-Brexit labour shortages deal blow to UK cannabis production"

californianewstimes.com/post-brexit-la…
"The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the government needed to immediately update its “shortage occupations list” to include several areas where employers are finding it difficult to recruit staff, including butchers, bricklayers and welders."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The number of corporate calls [mentioning] “labor shortage” is surging,... until 2021, there had been fewer than 60 mentions per quarter of the phrase “labor shortage.” In the second quarter of 2021, [it] was referenced 136 times."

qz.com/2025987/from-f…
"Lloyds... said its monthly survey of [UK] businesses showed that almost a fifth report difficulties getting staff with the right skills.... 16 months of coronavirus restrictions and Britain’s exit from the European Union have inflicted long-term damage"

livemint.com/news/world/uk-…
"22% of employees in [UK] construction are 51-60... workers are entering retirement, leading to a significant loss of skills ... without anybody else coming in to plug the gaps."

pbctoday.co.uk/news/planning-…
"Malaysia, the world second-largest palm oil producer, is facing a labour shortfall of around 32,000 people due to corononavirus restrictions... estimated to cause ... $2.41 billion... in losses anually due to unharvested ripe palm oil fruits"

reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
"The [Thailand] Department of Fisheries is expediting the renewal of sea books for registering migrant workers to shore up labour shortages in the industry...."

bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…
“Currently, if you’re an IT analyst, a vet or a graphic designer you can come back to UK, but it doesn’t include bathroom fitters, kitchen installers, fencers, tree surgeons, locksmiths. There’s a very long list.”

cityam.com/eu-nationals-l…
The real migrant crisis....

"41% of [Canadian] businesses said a lack of skilled labour was limiting sales and growth. Another 28 per cent said a shortage of un- or semi-skilled labour was affecting operations... 'The big issue is immigration has slowed sharply,'”

financialpost.com/executive/exec…
"Brandy McCombs runs a construction business in Missouri. To attract workers, she pays about double the U.S. median wage. But that's not enough. .."

npr.org/2021/07/01/101…
"UK employers struggle with worst labour shortage since 1997
Rush to reopen and departure of overseas workers have caused problems in areas including transport, hospitality and construction..."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The labor shortage is causing havoc in the Hamptons, with understaffed restaurants, beauty salons booked up for weeks.... A resident said he'd taken to mowing his own lawn."

(Oh, the humanity)

news.yahoo.com/labor-shortage…
More on the Hamptons lawn quality collapse caused by the real migrant crisis:

"‘My brother just showed me how to use the thing that trims the weeds. Yesterday, I finally did that. I had to take my $800 sneakers off first...."

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
"Hungary will allow temporary workers from non-EU states to alleviate a labour shortage and help the economy recover, according to Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto"

www2.staffingindustry.com/eng/Editorial/…
"[US} Demographers have predicted this large worker shortage for two or three decades and the pandemic expedited the change... Baby Boomers... are leaving the workforce, and we have a labor force participation rate that is dropping”

pix11.com/news/national-…
"Businesses depending on a summer boom in tourists, beachgoers and other seasonal clientele to pull them out of the pandemic slump are struggling to bring enough foreign workers to the U.S., holding them back from a recovery."

politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
"More than half of Chilean fruit producers face a serious shortage of workers .... 36 per cent of respondents cited a lack of foreign labour..."

fruitnet.com/americafruit/a…
"City leaders in Port St. Lucie [Florida] are pleading with... the city's garbage service, to find a solution to long-standing trash in residential areas. 'Right now, we just don't have enough drivers,' said Keith Banasiak, Waste Pro SVP."

wptv.com/news/region-st…
Response to the real migration crisis is going to take new and expanded models for supporting the movement of people. The global skills partnership is one exciting example. Learn more about it here:

gsp.cgdev.org
"for [Chinese] industries facing the most severe labour shortages... 4.95 million immigrants at least would be needed annually."

weforum.org/agenda/2021/07…
"Together, [US] hotels, restaurants & manufacturers had over 2 m openings in May.... Immigrants already hold a disproportionate share of jobs in those industries, & one [Texas] restaurant owner says they’re needed to staff up & get business growing again"

governing.com/work/could-the…
"Migrant workers filling skill shortages [in New Zealand], such as teachers, nurses, doctors and engineers, are running out of patience with the Government's lack of a clear pathway forward for them."

tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-z…
"Food deliveries... would never have taken off if there were no foreign students to do this type of work. There are no Cypriots working on farms, in petrol stations, as kitchen help in restaurants and hotels..."

cyprus-mail.com/2021/07/31/our…
"Tokyo wants to upgrade Japan’s defense capacity. A demographic crisis could get in the way.
Recruiting military personnel has become increasingly difficult as the population ages..."

The real national security crisis: not enough migrants.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"a lack of migrant workers is threatening [Thai] exports.... Key exporting industries such as food and rubber production can rely on migrant workers for as much as half of their workforce..."

reuters.com/article/thaila…
"20% of Helsinki's taxi drivers are of foreign background, and it is likely that foreigners will need to be recruited in order to make up for labour shortfalls. "

helsinkitimes.fi/finland/news-i…
"The skills gap is now a skills chasm for New Zealand and there is no solution that does not include people crossing our borders...."

stuff.co.nz/business/prosp…
"US companies are recruiting truck drivers from South Africa as the country struggles with a severe shortage."

news24.com/fin24/companie…
"AUSTRALIAN and American beef processors face a labour shortage that might be the worst in the two countries’ history"

beefcentral.com/news/kays-cuts…
"[UK] Commercial laundries are already on their knees... lobbying the Government to allow greater access to overseas workers and has requested further classifications of workers to be added to the shortage occupations list."

laundryandcleaningnews.com/news/newstsa-l…
"Mushrooms are grown all-year-round [so] the [US] government doesn’t allow ... for seasonal visas to increase its labor force. 'The number-one issue that we have is labor.. Most companies right now can’t harvest all... they have sitting on mushroom beds'"

dailylocal.com/local-news/mus…
"The UK could suffer a shortage of chips and roast potatoes... flooding and a combination of the COVID pandemic, Brexit, labour shortages, increased fuel and distribution costs, created a 'perfect storm' that led to the potato problems..."

news.yahoo.com/chips-and-roas…
"The U.S. census has been surveying North Carolinians throughout COVID-19 about how the pandemic is impacting their lives, and the responses point to a big increase in the number of people who consider themselves retired..."

pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2021/08/08/abo…
"Thailand’s exports have been a rare bright spot ... but migrant worker shortages are threatening labour-intensive sectors... exporting industries ... rely on migrant[s] for as much as half of their workforce... jobs that Thai workers don’t want to do"

reuters.com/article/idUSL4…
"Under pressure from businesses and public sectors facing a worker shortage that policymakers fear will fuel inflation, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is due to unveil plans this week to reopen the country's borders"

reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
"The [New Zealand] Government is being warned that homes, schools and hospitals won't be built unless it simplifies the border exemption process for construction workers."

newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
"Half a million migrants have left Australia since the COVID-19 pandemic hit... a lack of skilled migrants and near-record-low unemployment has resulted in major labour shortages, in areas including engineering and agricultural technology."

sbs.com.au/news/parliamen…
The real migrant crisis: not enough immigrants
"bringing in more automation is the [New Zealand] Government's plan to resolve current labour shortages in the meat industry...We have many, many roles within the industry for which there simply isn’t any automation or technical solutions available"

newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-e…
"Urgent action is needed to address a looming shortage of at least 110,000 aged care workers over the coming decade [in Australia], including boosting pay and conditions and creating a new dedicated migration path to boost the labour force."

theguardian.com/australia-news…
"Under pressure from businesses and public sectors facing a worker shortage that policymakers fear will fuel inflation, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is due to unveil plans this week to reopen the country's borders."

khaleejtimes.com/world/rest-of-…
"We’re facing an immigration crisis in [the US], but it’s not at the border. It’s in our businesses that rely on skilled and expert labor across every sector of the economy....Companies are not able to employ enough or the right type of workers"

globalatlanta.com/commentary-lab…
Labor shortages... put the squeeze on Nebraska’s state parks, leading officials to make the unprecedented move to cut hours and services at parks across the state."

sandhillsexpress.com/state-news/lab…
"Rural America’s population losses spotlight shortages of farm, ranch labor"

chicago.suntimes.com/business/2021/…
'The labour-shortage problem [Finland] faces is serious, and needs a comprehensive programme of measures to tackle it.... for several years, more people had retired from the labour market than joined it"

ipe.com/news/keva-ceo-…
"UK job vacancies climb above 1 million for the first time ever as labor shortage intensifies"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencie…
"Scottish Pubs Face Beer Shortage After Labor Shortage Threatens Supply"

The Real Ale Crisis: Not Enough Migrants.

vinepair.com/booze-news/sco…
"UK plunges towards supply chain crisis due to staff and transport disruption... Shortage of workers and disruption caused by Covid and Brexit push retail stock to 38-year low"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"Germany needs 400.000 immigrants a year... From care and air conditioning to logisticians and academics: There will be a shortage of skilled workers everywhere... I don’t understand why nobody is talking about this.”

iamexpat.de/expat-info/ger…
"Painters and postal workers in demand as UK faces labour shortage"

news.yahoo.com/recs-uk-jobs-m…
"The Sarawak government must begin to re-focus on assisting labour intensive industries which are facing shortage of workers, including foreigners, such as oil palm plantations, manufacturing and construction."

theborneopost.com/2021/08/14/mp-…
"A "potentially disastrous" backlog of thousands of pigs is building up on East Anglian [UK] farms due to labour shortages at meat processing factories, said industry leaders."

edp24.co.uk/news/business/…
"Helsinki should consider declaring itself an English-language city, its mayor has suggested, arguing that too many highly skilled international workers are shunning the Finnish capital..."

theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
The real migrant crisis includes rubbish piled in the streets.
The real migrant crisis is also dirty laundry. At a time when fighting infection is front of mind, that UK industries that support sanitation are struggling to find workers should be a bit of a worry…
"President Biden is trying to get the economy back on track. ...the shortage of skilled infrastructure workers as a serious challenge ahead..."

npr.org/transcripts/10…
"Alberta ski towns face severe labour shortage: Lack of foreign workers and local job-seekers forces hospitality sector to make tough decisions..."

westerninvestor.com/british-columb…
"shortage of unskilled labour in [Malaysia] construction... the industry relies very much on foreign labourers for dirty, dangerous and difficult (3D) jobs."

[The real migrant crisis would be mitigated by better pay & conditions for all]

malaymail.com/news/malaysia/…
"A shortage of around 200,000 foreign construction workers in Moscow is contributing to higher house prices, [said] Deputy Mayor Vladimir Yefimov ..."

wtvbam.com/2021/09/13/mos…
"On-farm labour and haulage driver shortages are leaving broccoli and cauliflower growers in the East of Scotland with losses of between £10,000 and £90,000 every day... it is the darkest hour for growers"

thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19570022.…
"The number of [UK job] vacancies in the three months to August rose above one million for the first time since records began in 2001."

news.yahoo.com/job-vacancies-…
'[T]he Mayor of London, will say that the Government must introduce a temporary, time-limited visa to “help attracted international workers into key roles to support our economic recovery.'

cityam.com/mayor-calls-fo…
"Nearly two million EU workers have left the UK, creating a big gap to fill. The government never envisaged the negative economic impact of this labour shortage gap. "

leaderlive.co.uk/news/19591977.…
"Europe’s lorry driver crisis to deepen next year, warns haulage boss"

ft.com/content/0c4f98…
"Businesses are being urged to prioritise their hiring and staff retention policies amid new data revealing that the number of UK sectors reporting output growth fell to a six-month low in August, dragged by labour shortages."

scotsman.com/business/uk-se…
"According to hospitality trade association HORESTA, Denmark’s hotel and restaurant industry alone is short-staffed by 12,000 people... 'The problems are of such a magnitude that we can not solve it alone with the people who are already in this country,'

thelocal.com/20210917/is-in…
"Nova Scotia Nurses' Union warns staff shortages have reached critical point"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-nu…
The real migrant crisis…
... not enough migrants...
...and the real migrant crisis in the UK was forecast...

The Daily Mail (!) on the UK's real migrant crisis...

HT @scepticalranil

"‘High cost and scarcity of daycare’ is contributing to [US] labor shortage, says Cleveland Fed President Mester"

The real migration crisis has direct and indirect effects...

marketwatch.com/story/high-cos…
...including on school lunches.

"Tacoma [Seattle] Public Schools told parents last week that menus will be limited and meal plans could change frequently from school to school. Supply chain problems are being blamed..."

q13fox.com/news/labor-sho…
"Without a “significant change around the status of the border”, New Zealand’s wine industry will continue to have a seriously depleted workforce, an industry leader says."

stuff.co.nz/marlborough-ex…
"Around 24 cargo ships and oil tankers are stuck waiting to dock off the coast of Long Island, New York, due to a surge in demand for consumer goods and short-staffed ports."

businessinsider.com/cargo-ships-st…
"The workforce shortage in the public health-care network, which is causing a crisis of “totally unprecedented” magnitude, is hitting hospitals across Quebec"

thestar.com/news/canada/20…
"...there’s a huge army of people who are about to retire in the United States... We’re going to need a source of labor to provide them services, and to keep the economy running. I think that the perception needs to change about immigrants"

mlive.com/public-interes…
““The EU workers we speak to will not go to the UK for a short-term visa to help the UK out of the shit they created themselves…”

The real migration crisis hits the fan…

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
More on potential emigrant response to HGV crisis in UK
"If you’re a business in California, there’s good and bad news for the next couple years... You’re going to have more demand than you know what to do with, but you’re not going to be able to hire anybody. Get used to it... It’s not temporary.”

spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/bus…
"To alleviate the labor pressure confronting the post-Brexit industry, this weekend, the UK government said 5,000 foreign truck drivers and 5,500 poultry workers"

qz.com/2065613/to-sol…
"The fashion and homeware chain Next has warned it may struggle to deliver its normal service in the run-up to Christmas unless the UK government relaxes post-Brexit migration restriction"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"lobbyists in post-Brexit Britain are warning of another looming skills shortage: bankers."

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"discussions are taking place in the [UK] government to ease visa restrictions for another 1,000 foreign butchers into the country amid industry warnings that a shortage could hit Christmas food supplies"

thecable.ng/report-uk-may-…
"More than a quarter of [UK] firms polled said the lack of staff was putting pressure on their ability to operate at normal levels...Businesses blamed the pandemic and Brexit for the shortage..."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"Hospitals across the US are having to limit the number of patients they admit because there aren't enough staff to treat them."

businessinsider.com/labor-shortage…
Canada: "vacancies in hospitality and food services.... an all-time high.... vacancies in [health care] sector increased by 40,800... highest number of vacancies for [manufacturing] since 2015... vacancies in retail trade increased to 84,300..."

ctvnews.ca/canada/these-c…
"Ho Chi Minh City is apparently staring at a labour shortage problem and further disruption to manufacturing as tens of thousands of migrant workers left the city over the last weekend...."

fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-n…
"t’s too simplistic to assume automation and robotics will save the day, because technology strategies hinge on integrating people, processes and systems to the right degree."

ft.com/content/347e74…
"Hospitality recruiters in the UK have attempted to recruit seasonal pickers from farms in a bid to stem labour shortages"

www2.staffingindustry.com/eng/Editorial/…
"World-famous shortbread-maker Walker’s has warned labour shortages caused by Brexit and Covid will cost it sales as it attempts to rebound from its “toughest year in living memory.”"

pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/35…
Sh*t gets real with the UK's real migrant crisis:

"Nestlé says worker shortage could hit Quality Street supplies at Christmas"

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
The real migrant crisis: not enough bacon.

HT @vijramachandran
The real migrant crisis: neighbors going home.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"[Australia's New South Wales] premier pushes for international borders to open amid worker shortage... Businesses are grappling with staff shortages due to a pandemic plunge in skilled migration and overseas backpackers..."

sbs.com.au/news/nsw-premi…
"It’s been 18 months since the UK government introduced the Global Talent Visa (GTV)... around 1,400 applications for the GTV were received in the previous 12 months. ... But... the UK tech industry reportedly faces vacancies of up to 100,000 per month"

itpro.co.uk/business-strat…
"[UK] Lorry shortage may soon spread to bus industry as drivers quit to take on HGVs"

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/l…
"BRITAIN’S roads could become icy death traps this winter as councils face a shortage of gritter drivers... Local authorities are scrambling to find people to drive the mammoth salt spreaders over their highways in the coming months."

thesun.co.uk/news/16381744/…
'"Tesla CEO Elon Musk ...raised concerns about staffing at the company's new Gigafactory plant outside Berlin... "We really need great talent to come here from all over Europe."'

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesl…
The real migrant crisis: no houses.

"Boris Johnson’s [UK] election pledge to build 300,000 new houses a year is in serious jeopardy in the face of labour and material shortages...."

theguardian.com/society/2021/o…
"“It is essential that companies can get the required labour to ensure continued growth,” said [Denmark's] employment minister, Peter Hummelgaard." [Response includes] Assisting companies in recruiting more European labour..."

cphpost.dk/?p=128468
"Over the past few weeks, lorry drivers from EU countries have been patiently explaining ... why they find the [UK] government’s new three-month visa scheme, intended to keep shelves stocked and petrol pumps full in the runup to Christmas, unattractive"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Canada's travails in the competition for migrant talent will become more widespread as the real migrant crisis worsens.

"Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday passed a law that allows overseas-trained doctors to practise in the Chinese-ruled city without taking a local licensing exam to ease a medical staff shortage,"

usnews.com/news/world/art…
Domino’s Pizza CEO says U.S. needs more immigration to address nationwide worker shortages

cnbc.com/2021/10/15/dom…
'Childcare – or lack thereof – “significantly” exacerbates labor shortages, [said US] Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo... with workers leaving the industry in droves, that could spell trouble for economic recovery....'

newsnationusa.com/news/finance/b…
"Worst-ever labour shortage triggers supply crunch for the world’ most consumed edible oil...
Malaysia's output for palm oil production may slide below 18 million tonnes in 2021, a drop of at least 6% from last year..."

theprint.in/world/worst-ev…
"Canadian ski resorts face labour shortage, government slow to issue working visas"

thestar.com/news/canada/20…
"[UK] Farmers to slash food production after worker shortage causes ‘unprecedented’ waste...
Growers forced to scale back next year as blueberries, tomatoes, and daffodils rot in fields"

independent.co.uk/news/business/…
"“I will keep arguing for the urgent necessity for folks to get visas to come and work in nursing and social care [in Scotland] ..."

thenational.scot/news/19668751.…
"A huge chunk of the labour force of Thailand was migrant workers. To be specific, 10% of the labour force before the pandemic hit ... many of these migrant workers are trying to come back to Thailand but are unable to do so..."

chiangraitimes.com/lifestyles/why…
"The US needs roughly 10 million people, including low-wage and high-skilled workers, to fill job openings nationwide — and only 8.4 million Americans are actively seeking work."

vox.com/business-and-f…
"South Africa is suffering from a shortage of qualified truck drivers [and] a shortage of professional drivers in the United States and United Kingdom has led to companies recruiting drivers from South Africa, with the promise of better pay...."

businesstech.co.za/news/trending/…
"Thai tourism and service industries will face a severe labour shortage of 300,000 to 500,000 people after the relaxation of Covid-19 control measures [because] Over a million and perhaps as many as two million migrant workers... have left the country"

bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio…
"Child labor laws in some states may be weakened as US industries look to hire teens"

(Better: (i) raise wages (ii) attract more migrants)

theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/0…
"Subway franchisee pulls teen son out of school to work in store amid labor shortage... Cockayne said she’s hiked wages by $2 an hour since the beginning of the year, but she’s still been unable to get enough applications."

The real migrant crisis.

nypost.com/2021/11/02/sub…
"shortages in labour... represent a long-term threat to the US economy... causes of the demographics squeeze [are] the decline in births in the US... in 2020, the US had 1.3m excess retirements, [and] restrictions in immigration..."

icis.com/explore/resour…
"Wanted: goat farmers, acupuncturists and zookeepers....lockdowns forced many waiters, cooks, pastry chefs, fishmongers and butchers to return to their home countries...'Australia is going to be built on the quality of immigration we bring in'"

bbc.com/news/business-…
“An ongoing labor shortage plaguing the US has left existing employees under strain…business owners are making an extra effort to thank their employees by sending them robot-written thank-you notes”

A truly idiotic response to the real migration crisis

businessinsider.com/gratitude-robo…
"Justin Trudeau panic: Canada calls for French help over labour shortage"

La vraie crise migratoire

express.co.uk/news/world/151…
"Mitch Allen, 'Head Elf' at staffing agency Hire Santa... says that he has seen a 121% increase in requests this season after a pandemic-slowed 2020 but that there are about 15% fewer professional Santas available."

#santaneedsanH1b

wsj.com/articles/labor…
"Businesses in Northern Ireland are struggling to recruit ...In recent years, migrants made up more than 10% of [Mid Ulster's] population... However, since 2016, 18,000 migrants have left Northern Ireland...."

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants

bbc.com/news/uk-northe…
The real inflation crisis: not enough migrants.
The real migrant crisis in the US: 1.9 million plus and growing…
"[The UK] will need up to 627,000 extra care staff by 2030/31... investing in improving the [care] sector, alongside attracting migrant workers, is the only way we will be able to provide safe and high-quality care."

cgdev.org/blog/staffing-…
"One reason people [in the US] can't go back to work is because they can't find childcare, and they can't find childcare because there's a shortage of childcare workers.

wsj.com/podcasts/the-j…
"U.S. Labor Shortage Gives Mexico Munition for Migrant Visa Plan"

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"Including layoffs, retirements and deaths, some 6.2 million [people in the US] left their job in September...."

marketwatch.com/story/u-s-work…
"UK job vacancies surge to record high 2.7 million as labour shortage worsens... Employers posted 221,000 job adverts last week, with driving instructors, prison officers and forklift truck drivers seeing the biggest rise in vacancies..."

independent.co.uk/news/business/…
"Labour shortage in Lithuania prompts businesses to call for guest workers from neighbours"

bnn-news.com/labour-shortag…
"[US] Childcare centers say they're turning down desperate parents because they don't have enough staff to look after more kids"

businessinsider.com/labor-shortage…
The real migrant crisis…
Discussed the case of Japan here:

cgdev.org/sites/default/…

It has been struggling to find people to come, on the bleeding edge of the real migration crisis.
"The massive influx of money for [US construction] projects comes as the pandemic has put the squeeze on an already tight construction labor market.... more than half of U.S. construction firms [report] “high difficulty” finding skilled workers."

dglobe.com/news/governmen…
"German aerospace suppliers have given broad backing to plans by Airbus to increase jet production but warn that growing labour shortages are the chief risk to the industry's growth."

money.usnews.com/investing/news…
"3 million workers are missing amid the labor shortage, and 2 million of them are immigrants who never came to the US because of Trump-era policies"

businessinsider.com/immigration-co…
"[Durango, US] Shortage of substitutes puts superintendent in the classroom"

durangoherald.com/articles/short…
"[Thailand's] businesses estimate a shortfall of 400,000 needed labourers for working in construction, tourism services, restaurants, food stalls, and other local businesses that are often supported by immigrant labour"

thethaiger.com/hot-news/econo…
1 S. Korea's foreign-born population from <2% to >4% of total in 10 yrs. Still, Covid restrictions => "firms & farms ...faced a disruption in production"

2 Most EU immigrants Ex-EU despite open borders in EU: limited demand to move = real migrant crisis

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Image
'The Australian Council of Trade Unions believes Australia doesn’t have a labour shortage, but instead a “pay rise and secure job shortage.”'

(I believe Australia has both, and both are connected to the real migrant crisis).

6pr.com.au/union-reveals-…
The real migrant crisis: underappreciated.
"Higher prices, supply chain interruptions and labor shortage worsening in Texas manufactured housing..."

The real migrant crisis: nowhere to live.

bizjournals.com/dallas/news/20…
"The [Malaysian] government is worried about losing key agricultural workers [to Australia].... dependence on foreign unskilled labour [and that] Malaysia’s farmers are aging rapidly, creating an agricultural workforce crisis..."

jordantimes.com/opinion/m-niaz…
"A skills shortage and competition from the private sector is making life difficult for [New Zealand] councils trying to recruit key staff from zookeepers to urban planners and building inspectors."

stuff.co.nz/business/indus…
"'We've run out of alternatives': [UK] Vets carrying out pig abortions as labour shortage crisis continues... meat processors have been taking around 25% fewer animals than contracted"

news.sky.com/story/weve-run…
UK appliance maker Dyson "severed ties with ATA IMS over the Malaysian supplier's labour practices... migrant workers are subjected to abusive working and living conditions... forcing workers into excessive hours due to labour shortages..."

news.trust.org/item/202111261…
"'Tomorrow's too late' - [New Zealand] Borders open not fast enough for labour shortage... Rural contractors struggling with a labour shortage are relieved the borders opening next year, but say they need workers sooner"

rnz.co.nz/news/covid-19/…
How to make the real migrant crisis worse...

“a shortage of workers in the [Thai] construction and industrial sectors was among the primary causes of the trafficking of workers”

pattayamail.com/thailandnews/f…
"[Malaysia] Ministers blamed for labour shortage which caused price hikes"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants (leads to higher prices)

freemalaysiatoday.com/category/natio…
"[Australian] New mum Haley Devereux is growing nervous as she starts hunting for daycare so she can head back to work next year....''here are very long wait lists,' Devereux says....

theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/child…
"latest [US] jobs data showed that the number of daycare workers dipped in November. Childcare has emerged as one of the drivers for the labor shortage, ... parents can't return to work without it."

The real migrant crisis: parents can't go back to work.

businessinsider.com/why-labor-shor…
The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

"After almost two years of restricted international travel, developed nations are racing to recruit migrants to add to their labour forces. But what’s Australia doing, and is it enough to compete?"

sbs.com.au/news/a-global-…
"[Omicron] Variant is a blow to [US] efforts to attract more migrant workers amid a collapse in immigration and serious labor shortages"

wsj.com/articles/omicr…
"Hiring immigrants, workers from around globe key to solving labor shortage problem in Ohio"

news.yahoo.com/hiring-immigra…
"Israel planning trial import of foreign tech workers amid shortage"

reuters.com/world/middle-e…
Japan is further into the real migration crisis than any other country and it increasingly recognizes that.
The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

The real migrant crisis….
"European workers [are] the "backbone" of the hospitality industry in London and [there was] "zero thinking" over how they would be replaced....94,000 more EU nationals are estimated to have left the UK in 2020 than to have arrived"

euronews.com/2021/12/30/a-y…
"The economy of the world’s largest country is reaching a point where its productive capacity is unable to keep up with growing demand due to labor shortages, a senior official at the Bank of Russia has cautioned."

emeatribune.com/russia-faces-d…
"US Catholic clergy shortage eased by recruits from Africa"

The real salvation crisis: not enough migrants

mankatofreepress.com/region/us-cath…
"Specialist border exemptions 'drop in the ocean' for NZ's tech sector"

itbrief.co.nz/story/speciali…
"The UK construction industry has grappled with shortages of skilled workers for years as a result of ageing workforces, but the double shocks of Brexit and Covid have exacerbated these problems."

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
"The [UK] Government is to relax immigration rules on care-worker jobs as the social care sector increasingly struggles to attract and keep staff.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/care-w…
"IT IS going to be a challenging task for Malaysia to get about 600,000 migrant workers for the manufacturing sector to help production return to pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels."

thestar.com.my/metro/metro-ne…
"A sharp decline in the number of foreign workers and students due to pandemic measures has also had a significant impact on the labour shortage, shining a spotlight on Japan’s reliance on foreigners in the workforce."

phnompenhpost.com/business/labou…
"Every [Chinese Communist Party] member should shoulder the responsibility and obligation of the country’s population growth and act on the three-child policy.”

China's real migrant crisis shaping up to be the largest of them all.

grid.news/story/global/2…
"Germany will need increased immigration to prevent severe labour shortages from undermining productivity and endangering a successful energy transition, its economy minister said"

The real climate crisis: not enough migrants

reuters.com/world/europe/g…
"China’s factories are wrestling with labour shortages... By 2025, there will be a shortage of nearly 30 million workers in the manufacturing sector"

scmp.com/economy/china-…
"The US Army has boosted its maximum sign-on bonus by $10,000 as it struggles to find new recruits amid the labor shortage"

The real national security crisis: not enough migrants

businessinsider.com/labor-shortage…
"There are 3.3 million more retirees as of October 2021, than January 2020...There are about 2 million fewer working-age immigrants in the U.S. because of Covid immigration restrictions... there is nothing in our system that allows us to catchup."

axios.com/labor-shortage…
“Our child policy goes to eleven” vibe. China’s largely closed door policy to immigrants is going to cost it.
"The Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to an ageing population and declining birth rates, has created a labour shortage in Thailand.... the ratio of working-age Thais [to] Thais aged 60 and over is expected to decline from 3.6 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2040."

thethaiger.com/news/national/…
"More than a few companies [in Thailand] are now lamenting they cannot find staff in time for a recovery.... Migrant workers who were laid off moved back to their countries during the peak of the pandemic last year and have not returned..."

bangkokpost.com/business/22485…
The US is in a global competition for migrants. It is losing its edge.

"if the broader trend of plentiful jobs and not enough workers continues, it can have major implications for growth, inequality, and inflation [IMF research] found that lower participation among older workers not returning to work is the common thread"

blogs.imf.org/2022/01/19/why…
"Trade union FOA warned in its 2020 report that there will be a shortage of 40,000 social and health (SOSU) workers [in Denmark] by 2029. The Danish Nurses’ union... anticipated in 2018 that there will be a shortage of 6,000 nurses by 2025."

thelocal.dk/20220119/opini…
"the [Australian] government is planning to rebate the visa application fees of students and backpackers in a bid to entice more workers to the country. Australia is currently suffering from a worker shortage..."

hcamag.com/au/news/genera…
"Staffing shortages in America are a glimpse into its future....
Even as the pandemic ebbs, the pool of potential workers may be permanently smaller than once assumed"

economist.com/united-states/…
"Immigration, which slowed during the pandemic, could help ease a shortage of workers in the U.S. that’s pushed job vacancies to an all-time high, according to policy makers at the Federal Reserve."

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…
"As [US] labor shortages deepen, bosses ask, ‘Where are the immigrant workers?’"

The real migrant crisis: not enough migrants.

The real inflation crisis: not enough migrants.

ft.com/content/8ca4b6…
"COVID halved international student numbers in Australia. The risk now is we lose future skilled workers and citizens"

theconversation.com/covid-halved-i…
"Eurozone jobless rate hits record low of 7% as worker shortages spread"

(Sign of the real migrant crisis but, also: yay!)

ft.com/content/fc3d94…
"[Irish] Hospitality groups lobby for new overseas recruitment campaign to bring in skilled workers... there are 40,000 vacancies in hospitality,"

businesspost.ie/hospitality/ho…
"80% of [UK construction] contractors have experienced labour shortages during the past quarter. Nearly 70% are expecting it to continue to negatively impact the industry going forward...."

The real housing crisis: not enough migrants

pbctoday.co.uk/news/hr-skills…
"The [New Zealand] Government’s border reopening plan is too late for primary industries struggling with critical staff shortages this season..."

stuff.co.nz/business/12767…
"Where's the tuna melt? Worker shortages mean smaller menus, limited choices and fewer shows"

The real tuna melt crisis...

usatoday.com/story/money/20…
"Australia's economy takes a $180BILLION hit from Covid border closures - as skilled worker shortage leaves bosses struggling to find staff"

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
"there are around 2m people in the 25-54 [age] groups [in the US] who could potentially return to work, bringing employment back above the pre-pandemic level. However, with nearly 11m unfilled job openings... this would not be enough..."

ubs.com/us/en/wealth-m…
"[Malaysia's] labour shortage... a serious problem [leading to] delays in completing government projects such as roads, hospitals and schools ..the government could consider allowing the construction industry to employ Indonesians."

thestar.com.my/metro/metro-ne…
"Kuwait seeks pact with Ethiopia to ease domestic labour shortage"

gulfnews.com/world/gulf/kuw…
"There are 1.1 million fewer people in the [UK] workforce than there would have been had pre-pandemic trends continued. A third of that is because the population is smaller, as more people have left the UK and fewer people are coming in..."

theguardian.com/business/2022/…
"The Japanese government will consider easing its three-month-old entry ban on nonresident foreigners, amid growing criticism from academic and business circles..."

bangkokpost.com/world/2263171/…

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I think ending $1.90/day poverty utterly *isn’t* ‘ending poverty,’ looking at absolute numbers is a valid way to look at the data and there is stuff in this thread that brings important perspective, but three things…
First, the number of people living on less than $10 a day is rising because fewer people are dying young in poorer countries (that’s true in absolute numbers and as a percentage).

More than what’s happening to income, that I think is the best single measure of human progress.
Second, for all $1.90 is far too low, it is also what more than 90% of the planet lived under for nearly all of human history. And $1.90 used to buy you even less (quality of) life than it does now -mortality rates of people living in $1.90 poverty used to be higher than today.
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My new book for middle schoolers, Your World Better: Global Progress and What You Can Do About It, available to download free from my blog, or you can buy kindle or hard copies (with author payments going to UNICEF).

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Broad message: America and the world are better places to live than they were when your parents or grandparents were young, but there’s still a lot wrong and some stuff getting worse. Working together, your generation can help fix that.
Motivated by talking to my kids and their friends, who seem a bit depressed about the state of the planet. (Who can blame them after the past year?) The idea is to tip readers back from helpless despair towards action motivated by realistic optimism.
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I just got vaccinated by a woman born in Vietnam, with a vaccine created by two Turkish refugees living in Germany and manufactured by a US company run by a Greek migrant. Thank you, world.
(Apologies re. "Turkish refugees" actually a Turkish migrant and a German born to Turkish parents).
See also the Ebola vaccine, a combination of donors help pay for the vaccinations, it was developed by researchers in US, Germany, Canada, vaccine trials in nine countries, support from WHO.
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I'm told people in the UK who ordered The Plague Cycle are going to have to wait a little longer to get it. In very partial recompense, I present my utterly arguable list of top ten pandemics, ranked by impact on human history....
1. Neanderthal herpes: Neanderthals were already at home and well adapted to life outside Africa before anatomically modern humans arrived. Why did the Neanderthals end up extinct?
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