Let's compare NYC & Hong Kong #COVID19 experiences.
NYC population = 8.4 million; HK = 7.5M.
NYC is averaging >40K cases/day, totaling nearly 2M since Jan2020, with 35,883 deaths.
HK has had zero-to-7 daily COVID cases over last 8 mos, 12K since Jan2020 w/200 deaths.
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2/ What's the difference?
HK has strict border controls, testing, tracing and mandatory quarantines in hotels & detention centers, under observation, with jail for violators.
NYC, like rest of USA, has near-nil track/trace/test/quarantine in use. NY "control" - persuasion.
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3/ Of course, China shut the border with HK, sealing the City off from Mainland. And over last 2 yrs PRC has imposed a police state on HK. People have no choice but to obey mask, vaccine, quarantine laws.
But, most vaccination is with lousy Sinopharm & Sinovac which offer...
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4/...zero protection against #Omicron & weak defense anti-#DeltaVariant .
While USA is trying to "learn to live with the virus" HK and PRC say only zero virus is tolerable.
Two of the many shames in the #pandemic are in this NYC vs HK saga.
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5/ 1.) You can't stop a respiratory #pandemic by begging for public compliance, or with #vaccines + masks, alone.
2.) But imposing track/trace/test/quarantine strategies means setting limits on civil liberties, which faces stiff resistance in most nonauthoritarian states.
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Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…
Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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In this Century, Congress has proven most capable of legislating -- doing its job -- when #Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Conversely, its performance and productivity plummeted when under #Republican control. Just the facts, Ma'am.
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With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.
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Ocean heating now in all of the 7 Seas is so severe that coral reefs are sickening (bleaching) & dying. And this has so accelerated in recent months that @NOAA added 3 new alert levels for reefs.
"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as: 1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.) 2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.) 3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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If you've been watching #CliveOwen in "Monsieur Spade" you may have realized it's about a whole lot more than your average murder whodunit. And you may be confused. Except for flashbacks, the story is set in 1961, in a French village. But a lot of it is about #Algeria .
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To understand what's going on, and learn about the French/Algerian war, and France's Nazi collaboration legacy, here you go -- can't really follow the Sam Spade saga without:
There are characters in "Monsieur Spade" who are in the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-right French 1960s dissident group inside the Army, battling Algeria's FLN -- Front for National Liberation.
Refs to "the Mehdi" are probably Mehdi Ben Barka. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben…
Biden @NIH today :
"You can have the exact same drug made by the exact same company in the United States, and you buy it in America for one price. You go to Toronto, Paris, Berlin, or any other major capital in the world, you’ll find they’re paying 2 to 3 times less..."
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"...than the American is paying at an American drugstore. Folks, it’s wrong. The results? Seniors are skipping doses, cutting pills in half, foregoing prescriptions entirely because they simply can’t afford their prescription drugs."
Announced 48 more drugs on new...
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#Medicare list for price negotiations & rebates.
"And we’re not only working to slow price hikes, we’re also working to bring drug prices, period -- just bring them down."
In August #BidenAdministration targeted 10 drugs, saving Medicare $160 billion over next 10 yrs.
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Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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2/#Biden
-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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3/#Biden
-"...& the circumstances in many places is because of #DonaldTrump ."
-New #Democrat election victories are, "just because the #Republican friends found out the power of women in America. Well, Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in 2024."
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