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15 Jul, 18 tweets, 13 min read
Dramatic scenes of flooding around Europe have underscored the stakes as the EU launches plans to tackle climate change; trending under #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming
Water bursts through a drain in the Belgian town of Spa: photo François Walschaerts/AFP Image
A caravan is carried away in Rech, Germany #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming
Emergency responders struggle against the force of the floods in the district of Aachen
A car is carried away in Theux in the Liège province of Belgium, in this video by Laurent Klein
The Rhineland towns of Bad Neuenahr and Dernau in Germany lie submerged in these photographs shared by @DavSauer ImageImage
An underpass in Cologne, by Marius Becker / dpa Image
Before/after photo of a street in Pepinster, Belgium, where local media report a dozen homes have collapsed and residents were awaiting rescue on their roofs as floods reached as high as four metres
Hotel guests are evacuated by a digger in Valkenburg in the Netherlands, via @MauriceDeHeus #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming

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Flooding causes Germany's worst mass loss of life in years with 19 dead, dozens missing as heavy rain causes houses to collapse irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
Residents struggle in the flood waters in Liège, Belgium, in this photo by @BrunoFahy #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming Image
Acting mayor Christine Defraigne of the Belgian city of Liège, where the Meuse river threatens to burst its banks, recommends to @lesoir that those able to leave the city calmly do so, and otherwise move to the first or second floor lesoir.be/384170/article…
Cars piled up by the floods in the Belgian city of Verviers #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming Image
A shocking image of the flooded parish of Altenburg, Altenahr shared by regional authorities in Germany, which says at least four people are dead and 30 are missing.
Here is how the area looked in better times. #hochwasser #inondations #overstromingen
mdi.rlp.de/de/service/pre… ImageImage
Belgian journalist Anne-Catherine Croufer pauses her reporting for public broadcaster RTBF to help evacuate Liège residents with her surfboard
The scene during the night in Valkenburg in the southern Netherlands; 12,000 people have been evacuated in the region
Photos of the aftermath in Rech, shared by a local community Facebook page.
German authorities say the death toll is now 81, with 1,300 people missing in the region of Rhineland-Palatinate m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… ImageImageImage
A house began to collapse in the background as @HLN_BE interviewed the local mayor in flooded Pepinster in Belgium; people could be seen scrambling out from the roof #belgiumfloods hln.be/video/producti…
A dike has broken in the southern Netherlands, forcing the sudden evacuation of thousands of people from villages and towns.
Here, two women try to get their animals out of the evacuation zone in Voulwames, Limburg

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165 people have so far tested positive for Covid-19 in the Netherlands after a single disco that had 650 guests.
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I wrote about how Irish MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly use their European Parliament speaking time, media platforms and legislative power to champion the views of authoritarian governments, particularly those of Putin and Assad
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The grilling of Hungary today by ministers from other member states is said to have been passionate and heated -- at least two in the room were themselves gay.
“It basically links homosexuality with paedophilia," @ThomasByrneTD said of the law
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The map is stark
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18 Jun
Belgian court finds AstraZeneca "deliberately violated" contract with the EU by excluding British factory Oxford Biomedica in supplying contracted vaccines, and orders it to use the factory if needed to meet orders.
"AstraZeneca did not make its "Best Reasonable Efforts" it finds
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- EU claimed victory as well, as the court found AZ violated its contract and that it should use the British factory
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In 2019, international vaccine deniers descended on the Pacific island of Samoa.
In the measles outbreak that followed, 1 in every 150 babies aged 6-11 months died.
My piece on a cautionary tale as anti-vaxxers exploit the pandemic for platforms and power.
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The WHO produced guidelines to help public health officials deal with vocal vaccine deniers in 2016.
It explains how to counter the false claims, and that the audience is not the vaccine deniers (who will not be convinced) but the broader listening public
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Some interesting observations from the WHO:
- the arguments of vaccine deniers have not changed much since the invention of vaccines
- out-and-out vaccine deniers are a very, very small group. But they can influence a much larger group of people who are persuadable either way
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I think the evidence that Covid spreads through air, which has been apparent since the earliest days of the pandemic, was ignored and denied because its implications required institutional change. 'Distance and wash hands' puts emphasis on individual.
We knew how to reduce transmission in schools last summer before they went back and just... didn't do it
I'm not saying there was a deliberate conspiracy or something. Just a kind of laziness, cowardice, preference for whatever requires the least action -- basically a lack of leadership.
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