April 30, 2020
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Exercise Cygnus: UK Gov’t Response Was Modified Before COVID-19 Event
When one thinks of the NHS, intensive care is at the heart of most people’s perceptions of it. Yet the decline in the number of ICU beds over the last 30 years is so counterintuitive that it’s as if some monster deus ex machina has intervened and decided not only that the general numbers of… Continue reading
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Farewell to the God of Plague: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2020)
30 April 2020 — Tricontinental Li Zhong, Medical workers putting on their gowns to fight the ‘evil’ virus, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 30 June 1958, Mao Tse-tung read in Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) that schistosomiasis – or bilharzia – had been eradicated in Yukiang (Jiangxi Province). He Continue reading
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COVID-19 exposes the weakness of Brexit
By TruePublica: There’s an irony being played out – a cruel one really. The COVID-19 crisis has unearthed some stark truths about how our country should be governed. One of those truths was just how important our key workers really are. Right now, the most dangerous job and most dangerous place in the country to… Continue reading
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More journalists barred from Gov’t daily press briefings – for asking wrong questions
By TruePublica: On 3 February, (remember how long ago that was) political journalists walked out of a Downing Street press briefing en masse after a Dominic Cummings associate attempted to ban selected reporters from attending. The Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Lee Cain, tried to prevent journalists from the Independent, the i, the Mirror, HuffPost,… Continue reading
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WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #5 In this highly-charged follow-up interview
Following up his original interview, Prof Knut Wittkowski discusses the mainstream coverage of his opinions, recent studies on the numbers of infected in New York, and the Swedish government’s approach and much, much more. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 