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Anti-masking and community mobility alone can’t explain the second wave of Covid-19 in India
I thought it would be a passing fad but it still has legs. European Towns Remove Traffic Signs to Make Streets Safer
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Twenty French generals implore the government to take a firm hand against chaos.
Ten states account for over 78 per cent of new Covid-19 deaths in India ..
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“The consolations neither of Christ nor of Seneca,”
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This is the best attempt I have seen at legitimately engaging with the anti-mask argument and it is incredibly weak sauce. For one things, the starting point of the author is that N95s obviously work and uses as evidence medical professionals. The problem with that argument is that in my area at least almost every single medical professional who had direct interaction with patients came down with COVID….. There are a lot of other issues as well but I throw this out there for the sake of balance. The Science Behind Masks
Sort of like the New York City lock downs. The upper class thought they could protect themselves by the pain they inflected on the lower classes. India’s urban affluent hit by new virus wave after dodging first
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Twitter censors tweets critical of India’s COVID response
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We paid researchers to find a crisis and we got what we paid for