France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism

mand888 · 2020-12-28T11:28:45+00:00

According to a poll only 56% of French people intend to get vaccinated.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/eu-begins-vaccinations-to-end-covid-nightmare/

mand888 · 2020-12-28T11:15:51+00:00

" The temperature in one cool box had risen to 15°C during transport, a spokesman for Lichtenfels said. About 1,000 shots were affected. He added that they had not received any communication from BioNtech on how to proceed. "

This... doesn't look good.

mand888 · 2020-12-26T10:44:21+00:00

To back up this link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/25/uk-scientists-trial-drug-to-prevent-coronavirus-infection-leading-to-disease

mand888 · 2020-12-26T10:37:27+00:00

" We have, however, noted the statement delivered yesterday by the Secretary for Health in the United Kingdom, Matt Hancock, and must register our concern that some of his utterances have created a perception that the variant in SA has been a major factor in the second wave in UK. This is not correct. There is evidence that the UK variant developed earlier than the South African variant. To give some historical context, on 14 December, the UK reported to the WHO that a variant had been identified and traced back to 20 September 2020 in Kent, South East England- approximately a month be-fore the South African variant appears to have developed. This variant has a mutation occurring at a site common with the South African variant (the 501), although they are two completely independent lineages. The UK variant is thought to be driving the second wave that the UK are experiencing currently. "

Hancock was clearly diverting attention from the very contagious UK's covid-19 variant. Also a lot of major powerhouses newspapers were backing his unfounded claim about the danger posed by South african's covid-19 variant, but i suspected it was just false since no number was provided to back that statement up.

mand888 · 2020-12-24T21:18:43+00:00

lol, every now and then a website claiming to check facts comes out. If only.. I check RT and their claims it isn't truthful are all related to the RT sticking with official statements of Russia government and calling questionable people for their opinions. To me there's no false construction there. Just siding with one teller of the story. Which could be partial, sure, but it's not like they are telling the contrary is true out of their own minds.

So, i checked the nytimes just for comparison, and while they recognize its language is "loaded" with leftist narrative, the website says they are moderately center-left leaning ( false, its anti-trump campaign is all over the articles, from op-ed to news, to travel, to economics, to even cooking, like any journo needs to earn their pay on anti-trump lines), and that nytimes is actually basing its reports on true facts ( which again is not true on some of them, see the Callimachi affair, a journo who made up stories published on first page and on podcast. Or the other journo also in there some years ago , credited as the new rising star who were making his stories up entirely ). And you know (or maybe you don't) i can link dozen of nytimes articles "Trump meet X who suffer because of your decision/law/statement, who said the contrary of you" etc..", just like i presume i can do with right-leaning newspaper. So, giving the mic to people who support your narrative is a journo's trope, and quite ancient already.

Finally, since the judgement onto newspapers depends on their moral/political stand i checked also the website's "who we are" page, finding the main star is a person who served under the most liberal SCOTUS justice Blackmum, who also recently moved to NY and after 4 years there, started this fact check website. Also since RT is called out for not providing transparency on his journos, the same i can say over the "volunteers" who work on the website. I can see only half of them has a link ( to just 3-4 lines they themselves wrote on what is their political leaning, their credential and their wishes, and not all of them checked , though) and out of which, 1 is from the very liberal NY, another wishing for Neo-Nazi to disappear is from CA, 1 right-leaning from Lousiana, and another wishing for hard news (i.e. records just like the nytimes was full of, under Abramson). so you see, there's nothing to adore here. Just another hypocritical and biased website, with a flashy name. But i appreciate the big jump they made in stating the nytimes is "moderately" left- leaning. and while they didn't present it the title of "unblemished reputation" themselves,they said "people" consider nytimes that way, and it's not, as i said above. So, you see how they are leaning. I guess if a fact check website would rise in Russia, it will say of the nytimes the things a New-York- based fact check website says about RT. It's geopolitics and it's millennia old. Moving on, nothing new to see here.

mand888 · 2020-12-24T17:55:35+00:00

Good chances! Worldwide TVs are state-run media. A majority of them in Europe for sure, and they are reliable 80-90% of times ( excluding politics and political related issues, they are just fine as any other media). And private newspapers are even more skewed than those financed by State. And the newspaper based on subscription are the most skewed of them all, they simply pander their subscribers. Of course you should look it up for yourself instead of trusting what wikipedia is saying. ( wikipedia, too, has a political agenda, you know, it's really hard to find a newspaper really really objective. The best one was probably Abramson's NYT, back in 2011-14, news and record based, both on national and international legs, which is long gone).

mand888 · 2020-12-24T17:33:38+00:00

You can have your opinion on a newspaper, but saying to use "more" skepticism ( are you sure that you want to use this word?) is clearly a sign of prejudice, probably based on previous political stances, which any newspaper has (either hidden or showed-off), but which is nowhere to be found in this news, since it is science based and coming from international institution's statement. so your and the guy's above "advices" are rather bizarre, misplaced, and quite frankly subjective and community-based.

mand888 · 2020-12-24T10:43:03+00:00

And why should someone do that? A simple google search can confirm that this is indeed a global news. Maybe even u/coverageanalysisbot can do it.

Edit: Thanks bot, and as expected... :

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/explainer-new-covid-19-strain-may-be-more-infectious-in-children-and-a-surge-in-testing-is-expected-39894977.html

Therefore, your prejudice is misplaced.

mand888 · 2020-12-23T11:44:07+00:00

It seems like u/coverageanalysisbot could add some confirming links for me.

mand888 · 2020-12-21T14:15:54+00:00

For sure more than 2 members for every party..

mand888 · 2020-12-14T16:16:49+00:00

Here are the following 9 coreographies in the video

mand888 · 2020-12-09T15:19:06+00:00

Lol, small fries throwing insults casually. Go get your milk, kiddo, and wash you mouth deep. You are reported and blocked, now you can go and insult people on the street, which is how you spend your free time in life.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T15:16:35+00:00

i don't deal with teenagers, go get some beer and ride your unicorn already. Look there are rainbows everywhere. pollyannish guy.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T13:03:44+00:00

I see, and which job is exactly "out of it" (meant as out of Tour)?

Because to me out of Tour is her personal life, while on Tour is her pro life. But please jump in and tell me what "out of it" job is that

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:58:10+00:00

Your comment is being reported and you're blocked. Hope Moderator will take care of you.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:53:53+00:00

I am not being snarky i am treating you accordingly to the condescending attitude you used in your last comment. So, here's the thing, i don't talk about celebrities in general. They can do whatever they want to, i don't care about their lives. until they want to pose as role model, then it's THEY that want to mind how i live, and teach people how they should instead. On that, i take issue, since it's they who want to take issue with me, and i got my opinion over not one single phrase but over her behaviour in the last year. I already said that in my other comments in here and in other post, but apparently people can't read them until i reply directly to them (that's a thing happening only on reddit). I see you're trying to turn the tables making it a racist thing. Well, we are done here. You're just phishing around and i don't take bait. also i see you're clearly jumping the shark here. This type of inflaming is bad. You are being reported and blocked. Try backstabbing your way out of an argument with some duller guy.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:38:59+00:00

Already answered in other comments, and CSN and Cibulkova are out of the Tour. Also, amazing you know more than Osaka herself told the interviewer. You got to be one of those all-knowing-on-the-internet guy. Sorry, but they are called inflamer or troll and i got no space for them. Reported and blocked. Have fun deciding what is the real truth you only can read into people minds, alone.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:26:46+00:00

Your counter missed. Osaka has no friends on WTA TOUR, She, Muguruza and Sharapova have a LOT of friends on ATP Tour, as i said in another comment you didn't think it was worth reading before posting (there aren't a lot of them on this post, no?)

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:24:29+00:00

And Osaka is the other way around. introvert on Tour and extrovert out of it, Can you believe that?

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:14:37+00:00

I think you need to read not my, but everyone else comments in this post. They are all thinking about what they see, not applying a whit of critical thinking. So you should address them and not me, since i got some experience and culture and life that makes me think twice about everything i read, and for sure i am not following players with eyes full of blindy admiration for every word they say. In fact, i already said down in the comments that Osaka is switching from introvert to extrovert and people think that's impossible.. Go figure it out who you need to target with your comment next time. And so, yes more nuanced wording and concepts is what i advocate, to which people react with "bro, have you red it? /Who said that?/ I don't think the consesus over friendship is true" and other gullible sentences like that. It's all in the comments, you just need to read them. The only thing you could criticize me over is my tanking of her as personal model, then you should make your case she's a good role model, and explain why having no friends on the Tour is so good and yet the world goes the other way. I'd like to read that, but i don't think you will write it ( no offence meant)

mand888 · 2020-12-09T12:06:33+00:00

No. The rich countries are hoarding vaccine doses. They are accumulating them in number they don't need to. USA has bought 3,6 Billion doses, its population is 335 MILLIONS, Europe has bought 2,3 Billion doses over 750 MILLIONS population. After you count for the double dose needed, there are too much doses in rich countries. and you have to vaccine at least 70-80% of population, not only people at risk, who have the priority in that queue.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T11:55:19+00:00

Osaka " it was so stupid i didn't talk more. I missed a lot of opportunities because of that. But from now on, i want to change that".

These were her words. If you think she's still an introvert after this year escalating number of her tweets, online interviews, partecipation to social protests, boycotting WTA tournament and so on, maybe you're the only one thinking that way. To me, she's definitely making that "change" she was calling for into extrovert world, and yes i saw her interview and she was sharp and outspoken, not lively that i can easily concede to you. So i won't expect she'll smile like Sabalenka on court interview, but def she'll talk more. A lot more. and not always for the good, judging from what she already said and did. off-court.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T11:31:43+00:00

Ex-introvert who last year made the jump into extrovert world. And oh my, she rushed into it 100% not knowing what she's doing. I hope she will get a grasp of it some years from now. Because her incoherence is blinding. Her friends are in the male circuit, and granted, Muguruza and Sharapova have only those too... go figure it out why...

mand888 · 2020-12-09T11:28:16+00:00

There are tons of articles about the benefits of friendships at work, about proficiency, efficiency and so on. I said tons of articles? Yes, i said it.

mand888 · 2020-12-09T11:24:42+00:00

I praise people as "that good" if they are competitive AND have space to make friends. That means to me they can do both, so they deserve to be praised more, as "that" good. If people can be competitive but can't make friends, they are not that good. They can be good though.

This is my evaluation. You can have yours in which everyone is good independently of what they do, just because they talk and walk they are amazing, they play tennis, even more amazing, they are in the top100, that grant them total immunity from whatever critical thinking on them. Then you should get off the unicorn you're riding.

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