TY, baker.
The Hill
@thehill
Twenty-five states have at least half of their adult population fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1396879191099035648
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/553421-states-with-more-than-50-percent-of-adults-fully-vaccinated?rnd=1621867666
NOTABLE
>It’s just it’s, it’s never going to be a winning strategy right now. It’s ridiculous,” McCarthy said.
blink of sanity?
A nice straightforward warning by Joseph Flynn.
Joseph J Flynn
@JosephJFlynn1
So there is no evidence whatsoever about election fraud right @CNN
? @maddow
? none at all?…… ha ha ha…. we are gaining on you everyday every minute… in the shadows and out in the open…Get Ready!!!!!
https://twitter.com/JosephJFlynn1/status/1396618504753778691
Israel. Going their OWN WAY.
Mike
@Doranimated
“I appreciate our friend the US very much. But there could come a situation where our principal goal — to ensure [Iran doesn't destroy Israel] — demands that we make…independent decisions. The State of Israel won’t allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1396882873374941184
All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.
Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost cities are appearing in northeastern China. Universities in South Korea cannot find enough students, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of properties have been razed, with the land turned into parks.
Like an avalanche, the demographic forces — pushing toward more deaths than births — seem to be expanding and accelerating. Although some countries continue to see their populations grow, especially in Africa, fertility rates are falling nearly everywhere else. Demographers now predict that by the latter half of the century or possibly earlier, the global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.
A planet with fewer people could ease pressure on resources, slow the destructive impact of climate change and reduce household burdens for women. But the census announcements this month from China and the United States, which showed the slowest rates of population growth in decades for both countries, also point to hard-to-fathom adjustments.
Damien Cave, Emma Bubola and Choe Sang-Hun
Mon, May 24, 2021, 6:49 AM
Diners at a Haidilao, China's most popular hot pot chain, in Beijing, June 30, 2018. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
Diners at a Haidilao, China's most popular hot pot chain, in Beijing, June 30, 2018. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.
Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost cities are appearing in northeastern China. Universities in South Korea cannot find enough students, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of properties have been razed, with the land turned into parks.
Like an avalanche, the demographic forces — pushing toward more deaths than births — seem to be expanding and accelerating. Although some countries continue to see their populations grow, especially in Africa, fertility rates are falling nearly everywhere else. Demographers now predict that by the latter half of the century or possibly earlier, the global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.
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A planet with fewer people could ease pressure on resources, slow the destructive impact of climate change and reduce household burdens for women. But the census announcements this month from China and the United States, which showed the slowest rates of population growth in decades for both countries, also point to hard-to-fathom adjustments.
The strain of longer lives and low fertility, leading to fewer workers and more retirees, threatens to upend how societies are organized — around the notion that a surplus of young people will drive economies and help pay for the old. It may also require a reconceptualization of family and nation. Imagine entire regions where everyone is 70 or older. Imagine governments laying out huge bonuses for immigrants and mothers with lots of children. Imagine a gig economy filled with grandparents and Super Bowl ads promoting procreation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-slide-looms-world-population-114958574.html