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>memes are sometimes causing tensions, says BBC gender and identity correspondent
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/11/amid-coronavirus-flu-cases-record-low/4127197001/
Record low flu cases show how COVID-19 is more contagious and 'less forgiving,' experts say
As COVID-19 raged last year, the seasonal flu all but vanished, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
During the 2019 flu season from Sept. 29 to Dec. 28, the CDC reported more than 65,000 cases of influenza nationwide. During the same period this flu season, the agency reported 1,016 cases.
Health experts said that high vaccination rates against the flu – combined with social distancing, mask-wearing and hand-washing employed to stop the spread of the coronavirus – played a huge role in preventing influenzatransmission.
The drop occurred despite a sixfold increase in testing at public health labs, most of which checked for influenza A and B along with the coronavirus.
Clinical lab testing was slightly lower during the last quarter of 2020 as physicians orderedfewer flu tests because less of the illness was circulating.
“The public health labs test for more surveillance purposes rather than patient care reasons and are therefore a better measure of influenza burden each season than clinical labs,” CDC spokesperson Kate Grusich told USA TODAY.
Though many experts are relieved to see public health measures working against flu spread, they said the numbers speak volumes about the transmissibility of COVID-19.
“It says that it’s more contagious and that it’s less forgiving of any lapses of these types of prevention measures,” said Dr. David Hooper, chief of the infection control unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Hooper said one reason the coronavirus is more transmissible is because people can shed the coronavirus days before exhibiting any symptoms, if they develop symptoms at all.
>Muslim worshipers expelled the #Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem from al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented him from completing his sermon.
Ooh?
>Moose
Take some hydroxychloroquine, one maricopa router, Bette Midler's toe nail, and one of Raskin's hairs.
Mix it all together and BAM astral projection
>arrest of Childs
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/new-jersey-corrections-officer-charged-receipt-child-pornography
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/press-release/file/1005496/download
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/former-new-jersey-corrections-officer-sentenced-five-years-prison-receipt-child
>https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/press-release/file/1005496/download
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/pa-mufti-expelled-from-prayers-at-al-aqsa-for-not-supporting-hamas-gaza-668819
PA mufti expelled from prayers at al-Aqsa for not supporting Hamas, Gaza
Protesters shouted slogans in support of Hamas and denounced the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, for his affiliation with the Palestinian Authority.
In an unprecedented move, Muslim worshipers on Friday expelled Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Mohammed Hussein from al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented him from completing his sermon.
The protesters shouted slogans in support of Hamas and denounced Hussein for his affiliation with the Palestinian Authority.
Hussein is considered the most senior representative of the PA at al-Aqsa Mosque compound. A resident of east Jerusalem who holds an Israeli-issued ID card, Hussein often appears next to PA President Mahmoud Abbas at public events.
The protesters accused Hussein of “ignoring” Hamas and the Gaza Strip and forced him to stop his sermon.
“We are the men of Mohammed Deif,” hundreds of angry worshipers shouted as bodyguards whisked the mufti away from the mosque.
Deif is the supreme commander of Hamas’s military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Other worshipers shouted: “Go away, go away, we don’t want to see the dogs of the Palestinian Authority.”
The incident came shortly after tens of thousands of Palestinians celebrated at al-Aqsa Mosque compound what they called Hamas’s “victory” against Israel during the last round of fighting.
At the end of the celebration, dozens of youths threw rocks and petrol bombs at police officers, who entered the compound and responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.
Palestinian medics said at least 20 people were injured during the clashes.
The assault on the mufti of Jerusalem came after weeks of pro-Hamas rallies at al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
During the rallies, which began at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and spread to other parts of Jerusalem and the West Bank, thousands of worshippers chanted slogans in support of Hamas and called on the Gaza-based terrorist group to fire rockets at Israel.
In some instances, they also chanted slogans accusing the 85-year-old Abbas of being a US “agent” and an Israeli “collaborator.”
On the last Friday of Ramadan, thousands of worshippers raised Hamas flags and placed posters of the group’s leaders in many areas of the compound. Posters of Hamas leaders Deif, Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashaal, Yahya Sinwar have also appeared on the walls of several neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
Some activists belonging to Abbas’s Fatah faction who tried to remove the Hamas flags and posters were beaten by Hamas supporters.
The pro-Hamas rallies are seen by Palestinians as a sign of the erosion of the influence of the PA and Jordan over the Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount.
The Islamic Waqf Department, which is in charge of administering the site, belongs to the Jordanian government. But the PA and other parties, including the Islamic Movement in Israel and Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) also have their representatives at the site.
In the past, senior PA officials who visited al-Aqsa Mosque were also attacked by protesters who accused them of being “traitors” for their alleged readiness to make peace with Israel and for the ongoing security coordination between the Palestinian security forces and the IDF in the West Bank.
PA officials condemned the attack on Hussein and praised him for his “defense” of the mosque against Israeli “aggression.” The officials pointed out that the mufti had played a major role in the 2017 protests that reportedly forced Israeli authorities to remove the metal detector gates they installed at one of the entrances to the compound.
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said that the attack on the mufti was an “assault on the holy sites and national unity.”
Mahmoud al-Habbash, religious affairs adviser to Abbas, denounced the assailants as “mercenaries working to serve the agenda of the occupation.”
https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/05/17/2-americans-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges/
Two Americans arrested over kidnapping linked with failed gloves deal and loss of ฿93 million
Details of the kidnapping of a Taiwanese man and extortion attempt on March 28th were given by the police on Saturday at a press conference. The plot, according to senior officers, was orchestrated in association with an Israeli private investigator to whom 52-year-old American Mr Louis Ziskin had gone for help to retrieve his money after he claimed he had been ripped off. Both Americans are reported to be ex-US marine corps members.
Two Americans were arrested by Thai police this week in connection with a kidnapping and extortion attempt on a Taiwanese national in Bangkok on March 28th last. The two were detained after arrest warrants were issued by the Criminal Court in Bangkok against 8 people involved in the plot which has been linked by a senior police officer to the loss of ฿93 million by one of the men arrested in a deal linked with rubber gloves.
The charges against the men range from illegal assembly to abduction, attempted murder and extortion. The two Americans arrested were identified by police as 41-year-old Jeremy Hughes Manchester and 52-year-old Louis William Ziskin.
The Thai man was named as Mr Ekbodin Prasitnarit.
The men are also charged with being part of a conspiracy and secret group working in concert to commit an illegal act.
They appeared at a Saturday night press conference hosted by Deputy Commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, Police Lieutenant General Jiraphop Phuridech, which was also attended by Police Major General Suwat Saengnoom.
The nexus of the abduction attempt according to the senior police officer was a business deal between two private firms that went wrong at the end of 2020.
Police Lieutenant General Jiraphop explained that a firm calling itself The Collections Agency run by a lady named Ms Emily was appointed by one of the Americans, Mr Ziskin, to negotiate and procure rubber gloves from a firm known as Paddy The Room Trading Company Limited.
The policeman explained that the US man, Mr Ziskin, was left out of pocket to the tune of ฿93 million when the proposed deal turned sour.
He then approached a private investigation firm run by an Israeli national named Mr Michael Greenberg. Mr Greenberg’s firm had been established in Thailand in 2020.
At length, this led to the kidnapping and failed extortion attempt on Sunday, March 28th last when Taiwanese businessman, Mr Wen Yu Chung, was the target of a team of men assembled on the instructions of Mr Ziskin and with the assistance of Mr Greenberg.
Mr Chung was an associate of The Collections Agency.
A meeting was set up with Mr Chung at L’Oliva, a restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 36 on that day ostensibly with another customer seeking to buy another quantity of rubber gloves from Paddy The Room Trading Company Limited.
>The plot, according to senior officers, was orchestrated in association with an Israeli private investigator to whom 52-year-old American Mr Louis Ziskin had gone for help to retrieve his money after he claimed he had been ripped off. Both Americans are reported to be ex-US marine corps members.
Israel private eye involved in the abduction and extortion attempt for the American businessman
At the meeting, Mr Chung was forcibly abducted by Mr Greenberg and a team of accomplices who placed him in handcuffs and removed him from the restaurant.
He was taken from there to another location on Soi 36 at NT Place.
A room at the building had been hired by the gang at a daily rate.
There he was confronted by members of the gang who threatened the Taiwanese man and physically assaulted him leading to injury. This led him to believe that he would be murdered.
It has also been revealed that both Americans were former members of the American marine corps who had fought in the Gulf War and were highly trained fighters.
Mr Chung’s captors used his phone to call his boss Ms Emily who was told that if $2 million was not paid over to the gang, her representative would be killed.
A similar demand for $1 million was made to the man’s family.
Taiwanese man’s family and employer contacted police and embassy to report the incident
Following the calls to both Ms Emily and the victim’s family, they made contact with the Royal Thai Police to report the kidnapping and ransom demand. It is also reported that the Taiwanese embassy on Sathorn Road was involved.
After his encounter, a shaken Mr Chung was taken by the gang to another restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 24 known as Naimos where he had a meeting with Mr Ziskin. The victim was asked to sign a document which he refused to do.
He also claimed his captors suggested that they had influence with local police which did not impress Mr Chung.
At the conclusion of Saturday’s press conference, there was some controversy when it was suggested that the plot to kidnap the Taiwanese man involved a former police officer with a former force member warning that the case was a sensitive one with international dimensions.
Victim sought medical care after his release
The hostage was finally released and went directly to a hospital seeking treatment for the injuries inflicted on him during the ordeal. He then went to Thong Lor Police Station to report what had happened.
This resulted in a thorough police investigation which led, this week, to arrest warrants being issued for the gang and the apprehension of the three suspects who appeared at Saturday’s press conference.
The two Americans and the Thai man are being detained at Thong Lor Police Station and face legal prosecution before the courts while police are also seeking others involved in the kidnapping and extortion attempt.
It is reported that all three men deny the substance of the charges against them.
https://meaww.com/louis-ziskin-ex-marine-arrested-thai-kidnapping-plot-forbes-featured-him-as-ceo-drop-in
Ziskin found himself in the limelight after Forbes profiled him as the CEO and founder of DropIn, an on-demand streaming platform that enabled users to access a network of smartphones and drones. He became a multi-millionaire just seven years after being released from prison for drug smuggling – reportedly the largest ecstasy bust in history at the time.
On his website, Ziskin described his arrest and prison stint from 2000 and 2012 as a period of "self-reflection." Ziskin had started importing ecstasy from Europe in 1998. He was arrested two years later.
According to the Daily Mail, Ziskin had established himself as a major importer of ecstasy in the Los Angeles area. He initially flew to Europe multiple times – carrying large amounts of cash, purchasing ecstasy, and flying back to the US with the contraband.
https://www.instagram.com/louisziskin/
>https://meaww.com/louis-ziskin-ex-marine-arrested-thai-kidnapping-plot-forbes-featured-him-as-ceo-drop-in
The United States Customs Service (USCS) intercepted three ecstasy-filled packages from France in late December 1999. They were bound for various commercial mailboxes in the Los Angeles area.
USCS authorities subsequently arrested the couriers, who then became informants and co-operated with an investigation. On December 22, 1999, seven hundred pounds of ecstasy and more than $1 million in cash were recovered from two storage units.
Authorities tracked Ziskin's movements for a year, a time during which he continued to conduct his own smuggling operation via Federal Express shipments, unaware that he was being watched. According to the newspaper, he sent cocaine to England and then withdrew his earnings from an English bank to purchase ecstasy. He was finally apprehended in December 2000 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Following an appeal in 2003, the sentence was reduced and he was released from custody in 2011. He successfully ended parole in 2012 and appeared to have been turning his life around. Soon, he became a Hollywood-based entrepreneur and a poster child of how prison could reform someone. He would frequently give lectures on anti-recidivism and addiction recovery, and regularly donated to organizations that contribute to addiction education.
Ziskin was eventually featured in an article on the prestigious Forbes website in 2018. The magazine wrote about his video stream service DropIn and how he had turned his life around.
The former US Marine, born and raised in Los Angeles by divorced parents, described himself to Forbes as a "problem child." "I was a mentally gifted minor who thought rules did not apply to me," he told the magazine in 2018. After moving from school to school, Ziskin eventually attended the University of Southern California but dropped out before completing his degree.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwelsheurope/2018/11/28/how-dropins-ceo-got-to-work-with-lyft-hiscox-and-beazley/
How DropIn's CEO Got To Work With Lyft, Hiscox And Beazley
It is certainly not what CEO and founder Louis Ziskin originally intended when he launched DropIn three years ago, an on-demand video streaming platform enabling customers to use a network of smartphones and drones.
“My plan was to become one of the biggest media companies,” says Ziskin.
But over the last two weeks, the business has flown drones over Malibu, California, following the recent wildfires, sending images of devastated households via satellite to Hiscox and to Beazley, two London-based insurance companies.
A couple of months earlier, the business worked with Lyft, the ride-sharing company, to direct drivers to help householders make insurance claims in the U.S states of North and South Carolina following Hurricane Florence.
The initiatives come at a time when DropIn is also in the midst of Lloyd’s Lab, an accelerator run by the 330-year-old insurance market-based in London, where its business model and technology is providing customer insight for traditional insurance companies.
>https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwelsheurope/2018/11/28/how-dropins-ceo-got-to-work-with-lyft-hiscox-and-beazley/
Origin
Ziskin was born and then raised in LA by divorced parents, describing himself as a “problem child”.
“I was a mentally gifted minor who thought rules did not apply to me,” he says.
He moved from school to school, finally going to and then dropping out of the University of Southern California.
He took on several jobs, such as selling condominiums in Florida, always able to generate money. But it was at this time that events in Ziskin’s life were to take a turn that would have a huge impact on his life.
In 1998, Ziskin started importing ecstasy from Europe using mainstream couriers to deliver packages to commercial mailboxes in the Los Angeles area. Federal authorities took Ziskin into custody in 2000, put him on trial and jailed him for 30 years. On appeal in 2003, the sentence was reduced.
The experience has inevitably marked his life.
Outside
When he came out of prison in 2011, then on parole in 2013, he kept his head down and built stacked homes for his brother.
But by 2015, he was ready to start building a business.
“There are drone pilots all over the world. The pilot can upload immediately after the flight. You get all the data and the operator has the license and insurance,” he concluded.
The idea was to develop the DropIn platform as a live stream for drones, operated by an army of amateur operators across the world, to provide video coverage of breaking news stories from war zones or natural disasters.
Ziskin’s record meant that traditional VCs would and could not touch him. But family and friends were ready to forgive the past and step in. One of the investors, for example, is John Donfield whose father, Jeff, worked with President Nixon on the war on drugs.
Ziskin ended up raising U.S. $5.5 million from these angel investors.
Pivot
By May 2015, Ziskin had set up shop in Venice, Los Angeles.
The business launched and grew rapidly with over 1100 drone pilots worldwide with 50% of them veterans.
But the problem came as Ziskin’s vision for people to be able to enjoy live-streaming through an app encountered the potential cost of such a technology.
“The aha moment was when we did not have the $20 million to get it on an app on all phones,” says Ziskin.
The insurance market in the U.S. is huge - U.S. $60 billion a year adjusting claims. A significant business can be built by disrupting only a small percentage of it.
But fewer than half of insurance companies use technology to address issues around fraud, determine the level of premiums or for underwriting, according to the most recent FRISS Digital Transformation in Insurance Survey.
The pivot, when it came, was to relaunch DropIn as a remote on-demand inspection platform for insurance companies to inspect damage in real time by insurance claimants.
Ziskin's original ideal of marshalling amateur drone operators – or droperators - would continue but these would now be directed by insurance companies to help their customers make their claims.
“I didn’t need market analysis. I just needed to know no one else is doing it,” says Ziskin.
Reel life
When a customer calls about an insurance claim, they are in the middle of the crisis. They want to make a claim but they also want help to stop the leak or to get the power back on.
Many of the claimants are also of a demographic which finds using an app on a phone beyond them.
Once the droperator arrives at the incident, he or she then starts live streaming using a drone or their mobile phone. Meanwhile, the insurance adjuster back in an office views the video in real time and can ask for specific GPS-tagged photos and measurements.
The droperator can even make suggestions for approved, third-party plumbers or electricians.
It takes only a small tweak to the customer service process, whereby the call centre recommends the use of DropIn to report the claim.
“Dropin requires a process change for the insurance companies but the easiest one possible because it is a change in the call centre,” says Ziskin.
“The [insurance company] CFOs love the cheaper pay-outs. It’s an opportunity to improve the bottom line and improve things, but not at a negative cost to others.”
It is also the ability to generate customer insight for traditional insurance companies - at what is a pretty emotive moment for their customers - that has been noticed.
The partnership with Lyft comes at a time when the ride-sharing company explores roles for its drivers in a future of driverless cars.
“Lyft was concerned for their drivers’ futures, looking at stuff they might do,” says Ziskin.
The first step was a pilot with 43 drivers in Miami, who, following a webinar, were sent out on the road and then into full operation with 100 drivers in the Carolinas.
And when Lloyd’s of London asked its underwriter members to vote on which of 20 startups should join its initial accelerator programme, DropIn won a slot.
Almost 90% of insurance companies are “convinced that insurtech offers great opportunities” and just under 20% are already investing in it, once more according to the FRISS Digital Transformation in Insurance Survey.
Two of Lloyd’s members, and also traditional insurance companies, Hiscox and Beazley, have already worked with DropIn on live streaming from the wildfires in Malibu.
Giving back
Meanwhile, Ziskin is still making amends for an earlier stage in his life.
He regularly goes into four schools in Los Angeles, in a shirt and tie, motivating them to build a thriving business through technology and to have admirable livelihoods.
“The kids say ‘we can't do that’ and I say ‘listen, I’ve managed to do it and I’ve been inside’.”
>https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1395514472698204163
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-16/compulsory-covid-19-vaccinations-may-be-unpalatable-but-necessary
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/AUdOiXtDiZw/clara-ferreira-marques
What Happens When Vaccine Incentives Aren’t Enough?
Reluctant citizens can slow down herd immunity despite abundant vaccines. Compulsory shots are unpalatable, but may be necessary.
By Clara Ferreira Marques
May 16, 2021, 6:30 p.m. EDT
When much of the world is still desperate for Covid-19 vaccinations, a handful of wealthy places are beginning to have the opposite problem. Hong Kong is one. Despite a free and easily accessible program open to all adults since April, only just over 10% of the population of 7.5 million has had both injections, with low rates even among the oldest. Hesitancy is so high that only half of residents say they intend to get vaccinated.
The combination of political upheaval, distrust in government and success in keeping caseloads low makes Hong Kong an unusual, even extreme, example of reluctance, as seen in studies of attitudes to other control measures, compared to Singapore and Malaysia. But the territory is far from alone as the rich world shifts from shortages to indifference, well before enough people have been inoculated to allow a safe reopening. The question arises of how governments push populations if — or probably when — hints, cash, free burgers and even the prospect of international travel prove insufficient to reach herd immunity, the vaccination rate of roughly 70% or more that’s necessary to protect everyone.
It’s uncomfortable to argue for obligatory jabs, even in a pandemic that has devastated families globally. Yet if we don’t get to better levels once vaccines are fully and freely available, some degree of compulsion may well be necessary. The benefit is too great, and the risk and sacrifice asked of citizens too small, to ignore. Authorities in England estimate that by the end of April, vaccines had averted at least 11,700 deaths among those aged 60 or over. Globally, of course, it’s many times that.
Public health usually operates on a sliding scale of state involvement. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics in the U.K. calls it an intervention ladder, ranging from “do nothing” (the sort of minimal intervention many people prefer) to “eliminate choice.” We remain somewhere around the lower rungs when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines, which are still rolling out. Information is being provided, citizens persuaded, access facilitated. But we’re already rapidly moving up toward the point where officials are beginning to guide choices with incentives in cash and kind.
In recent days alone, Hong Kong has talked about offering vaccinations at workplaces to make it easier for employees. In the U.S., the state of Ohio announced a lottery with $1 million cash prizes. New Jersey has offered free beer for getting a shot and West Virginia is targeting young people with $100 savings bonds. Elsewhere, Serbia promised 3,000 dinars ($31) to vaccinated citizens, one of the first countries to offer cash.
The good news is that there’s still plenty of room for such options to nudge people along. Hong Kong could certainly afford to dip into its fiscal reserves. A generous incentive of HK$5,000 ($640), the same amount offered under a plan to stimulate consumption, would cost a little more than $4 billion if all eligible over-16s are counted — a bit over 1% of gross domestic product and a worthy investment, considering the damage dealt by Covid-19 closures and restrictions. And payments do have an impact.
Unfortunately, encouragement isn’t likely to get us all the way to herd immunity, or not in enough places. So what happens then? Leaving aside employers, where arguments are different, is it acceptable for a government to consider disincentives, mandating vaccines for activities like eating out or even going to school, as already happens for childhood shots in many places? Vaccines are the greatest gift to public health after clean water. Should we consider an even tougher line?
>Compulsory shots are unpalatable, but may be necessary.
Full compulsion — which implies fines or even prison, as opposed to simply not getting a benefit or public service — isn’t easily embraced. For me, that’s less because of arguments around personal liberty than because of the deep polarization in many societies, including the U.S., that would only worsen with such an approach. More importantly, some reasons deterring people from vaccinations — distrust of health or political authorities, or more pressing medical or shelter problems — deserve to be tackled, not papered over.
But the harm principle also suggests that intervention is necessary when there is real or potential injury to others, and the harm here is great — 3.4 million lives lost to date. The vaccines that could have avoided the vast majority of deaths are now becoming available to many more people, and time is of the essence.
Take University of Richmond philosopher Jessica Flanigan’s comparison between vaccine refuseniks and a person firing a weapon into the air. We’d want to stop the shooter because bystanders could get hurt or killed. The same, she argues, applies to vaccinations. It’s less about the right to refuse than the right not to get infected — especially for those who can’t be vaccinated, like tiny babies, the immunocompromised or those with severe allergies.
That doesn’t have to mean compulsion, but it can. Over a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court supported a Massachusetts law that allowed cities to require residents be vaccinated against smallpox. The community, at least at a local if not necessarily federal level, can defend itself.
Another persuasive argument for moving up the public health ladder is made by Alberto Giubilini, at Oxford University, who says vaccines are like taxes. Protection from a disease like Covid-19 is a collective benefit that creates obligations the state can extract from us. None of us have the right to be free riders. Like taxes, vaccines entail a relatively small cost, prevent harm, and are, roughly, a fair way of distributing the burden of a communal responsibility. It’s not a perfect analogy — vaccines involve our bodies, not simply cash — but the equity aspect is compelling.
This of course means obligations for the state. For shots to be mandatory, they must be free and easily accessible. People may have to be given a choice of vaccine, and even most wealthy countries would take a while to get there. Crucially, governments would need adequate compensation programs to cover unforeseen adverse reactions, and many don’t have them.
We’re not at the point of compulsion yet, and hopefully won’t get there. Implementation would be messy and pushback likely. But if we accept that Covid-19 is something we should aim to control before more new and dangerous variants emerge, these are ethical debates that need to be had. Especially as we watch the stomach-churning spectacle of some countries desperately asking for shots while others allow them to go to waste.
Twisting the arms of citizens works; we know this globally from childhood vaccination campaigns. But there’s another compelling reason: fairness. Selective mandates for some workplaces, or to access some state services, would disproportionately affect specific groups, often at the lower end of the income scale — as with foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. It’s easier for the wealthy to avoid small hurdles. One California study published in 2016 found that school vaccine exemptions in the U.S. are more frequent in White, wealthy districts.
If there is a burden of inconvenience and risk to carry, we should at least carry it equally.
good video
https://twitter.com/ClaraDFMarques
https://twitter.com/ClaraDFMarques/status/1395879644738441216
I wrote on vaccines.
Apparently that makes me a CIA agent, a psychopath, a Nazi and a stooge for the Chinese state.
Which probably explains why I am so tired.
comments are gold
thanks to double-spacers you guys make it so easy
otherwise it would be tricky but you give it all away
Journalist Wondering If Officemate With AK-47 Might Be A Terrorist
Beliefs: People are inherently good or evil based on the color of their skin. There are some other minor details like wanting to topple Western Civilization, categorizing people into classes of oppressor and oppressed, and eliminating the individual in favor of group identities, but yeah. The hating people for the color of their skin is most of it.
How to spot a CRT adherent: Look for someone who is obsessed with race, always talking about it, tweeting about it, and screaming at other people about it. It's a clear sign of a CRT disciple.
How do we fight critical race theory? Don’t worry about it. It’s not that big of a deal. Just let your kids go to public schools, watch whatever Netflix shows they want, and follow deranged CRT zealots on TikTok. Nothing bad will come of it.
What’s the difference between CRT and good old-fashioned racism? Here's a comprehensive list of all the differences:
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make sure you pick up all my notables lil guy
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https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/eric-schmidt/
>https://www.innovationendeavors.com/team/dror-berman/
Before becoming an investor, Dror worked with Eric Schmidt on various strategic initiatives as a part of Hillspire, Schmidt’s family office. Prior to that, Dror was a team leader of R&D at NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). He was also part of the elite Special Forces unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Force.
>He was also part of the elite Special Forces unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Force.
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