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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-094
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
CM – Zero Covidista @xuchuanmei – 9:46 UTC · Nov 20, 2021
I'm sure the since deleted Weibo post by #PengShuai has been translated into En by ppl, but I haven't seen a properly translated version, & sounds like many others havn't read her post yet. Here's an attempt by myself, content in square brackets were added by myself… #WTA
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Many int'l media & commentators claimed #PengShuai accused Zhang Gaoli of "sexual assault", some even say "rape". While Zhang's behavior was dispicable & inexcusable, I don't think his sexual misconduct breached CN's criminal law bc in the end he persuaded Peng into agreeing…
Sadegh Ghorbani @GhorbaniSadegh – 10:36 UTC · Dec 5, 2021
Notice! it's going to be a sort of long THREAD 🧵.
A Senior Iranian MFA official has held a briefing about Vienna talks. Here comes the highlights.
To start, the official says it was predictable that other parties planned to start blame game and accuse Iran of being not serious.
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Other issues:
Covid-19 Omicron:
Doesn't look good at all.
– Infectiousness: Norway, 120 people visit a Christmas party, all vaccinated, 1 superspreader, more than 50 (unconfirmed 80) infected including people who were not at the party but visited the venue.
– Severity: Too early to really tell but probably worse than Delta. South Africa data says currently less people in ICU than with Delta
BUT a. mostly young people infected so far, b. often 14 days time lag from infection to ICU.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch – 23:11 UTC · Dec 4, 2021
Okay folks, time for a South Africa update, focused this time on severity of disease.
First up, the report from hospitals in Tshwane (the district furthest along in Omicron wave) is essential reading, as is thread from @miamalan tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features
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Covid-19:
- How well masks protect – MPG
A detailed study shows the maximum risks of being infected by the coronavirus for different scenarios with and without masks
Mark Sumner @Devilstower – 19:18 UTC · Dec 2, 2021
Everyone needs to see this. Mask mandates are enormously effective. Shockingly effective. Effective before vaccines were available. Effective in conjunction with vaccines. Effective through the delta wave. Wear a mask, and support mask mandates.
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Boeing:
There is a new book out about the 737 Max crisis: ‘Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing’ by Peter Robinson. Links below are to a talk with the author, two pre-published excerpts and three reviews:
Use as open thread …
Barflies,
uncle tungsten posted his usual valuable contribution back on the open thread.
It seems to be the answer to a number of important issues raised today. I needs to be reposted:
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
Posted by: Paul | Dec 5 2021 20:14 utc | 25
The other day, I linked a video about a round table for debate of the pandemic which took place in Russia, reuniting quite a good group of eminences of Russian sciences, and through video conference some foreign ones, including one israeli virologist.
A commenter, tucenz, if I am not wrong, asked me whether there was an English translation, and I answered that not that I am aware.
I can not find my post linking to this excellent debate anymore, but, of it, really, without entering the already known medical details and facts, I wanted to highlight some interventions and thoughts expressed there which I fins so useful for any of us who are into this fight, and which reminds us of the especial nature of the Homo Sovieticus, that unavailability to discouragement, it´s ability to think and reflect and meet others to dialogate, to analize, withe respect of each other´s point of view and turn of speech, but especially their humanity, their warmness and humility, and why I consider this heritage a treasure to be conserved through generations to come.
I will not understand that these words could unportunate any decent human being
Mixing the topics treated during this week, war and pandemics, I have made a transcription os those interventions which for me sounded more ilumating and encouraging for all, especially those who still have not reached such stance of courage to fight and have not found yet their peers with which to cooperate and unite, s that you all can go out looking for them. I hope the post survives, and you can enjoy it.
“Today in our meeting three theses have been heard, which define the nature of today’s world:
The first is anarchy, a total disregard for the most basic legal norms.
The second is the creation of an atmosphere of fear.
It is true and has been empirically proven, and I personally experienced it, that fear destroys immunity.
For some reason almost no one talks about it.
They prefer to talk about allopathic drugs and so on, but what about strengthening the person?
A man is not only 80 kg of flesh and bones, he is body, soul and spirit.
And what are we talking about, the soul?
And when even more, we talk about the spirit?
As a teacher with almost half a century of experience, I can clearly see the three building blocks of the human soul being destroyed.
And then he has no problem destroying the body.
The mind, of which we have already spoken today, is destroyed, the will is destroyed, the feelings are destroyed.
They are terrible things. And for each component of the soul, these degrading processes in society must be explained.
Here is the third element, of the 3 that I have told you, anarchy, fear and the third, lies.
I am always following the statistics and they are the fundamental proof, and they show that this is all a lie, an absolute lie.
And at the geopolitical level, it is clear that a war is being waged against us, this war will not be like the first and the second, it is already being waged.
It is the most despicable war, because people do not even understand that they are killing it. And this is what we must talk about.
We are not used to this type of defense, we are used to defending ourselves with a rifle or a machine gun
Today is very different, and if we understand this, we can act in a coordinated way, as a regiment, division, army.”
Valentin Katasonov. Doctor in Economics. Member of the Russian Academy of Economic and Business Sciences.
“If the reality is like this, as we have heard today, it means that mass vaccination, at the very least, does not work, and at the most it worsens the epidemiological situation.
It seems reasonable in this case, to stop mass vaccination against the coronavirus, and try to make sense of this situation, rather than essentially forcing a medical experiment.
It is important not to start vaccinating children.
In the first place, we ask, and we no longer even ask, we demand, that the social restrictions imposed be canceled and that they consider imposing them, depending on whether a person is vaccinated or not.
And I want to say to you, our dear viewers, our readers, our compatriots, our comrades in struggle:
Think, analyze!
“Thought does not die. Beautiful is the man who leads it through life. Society gains strength by knowing itself. Only in this way can it advance” Vasili Makarovich Shukshin.
I wish you all the best!”
Maria Vasilievna Shukshina. Honorary Artist of the Russian Federation, closing the debate.
This same heroic woman, when she was recently awarded the Order of Merit of the Fatherland in the First Degree, by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mushustin, in her speech of appreciation, took courageously the opportunity to say these words :
“I am grateful for the award, but to proudly wear this Nation’s Merit Medal on my chest, I have to speak about the Nation and tell the truth. And the truth is that we are experiencing a catastrophe.
The absence of morality leads to irreversible processes, to the degradation of the nation.
The culture of the word, the culture of communication, are being killed before our eyes.
People are turning against each other. you can see with the naked eye that there is a social experiment going on, people hate each other.
First for the masks, now for the vaccines, soon it will be for the QR codes, apparently.
And this has to end. In the end everyone will kill each other and no one will know the enemy.
Modern wars are not fought with guns and missiles, but are in the media, in science, in education, in culture, in medicine, in healthcare.
And no one even tries to understand that this is a deliberate spiritual distraction to dehumanize and divide people.
And not seeing it is simply a crime before the people.
I apologize for being perhaps too direct, but this is a cry from the heart, an SOS!
I serve the country!”
Posted by: Black bread | Dec 6 2021 0:14 utc | 49
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