Plague Management: plus ça change
Orhan Pamuk is a masterful writer. His books all open in such a way that you know they are going to be hard to put down.
Orhan Pamuk is a masterful writer. His books all open in such a way that you know they are going to be hard to put down.
“I have seen all those reports on the internet about fit and healthy people just dropping down with health issues,” said Today host Karl Stefanovic, as Canberra recommends a fifth COVID shot.
If one picked up this book expecting a genuine defence of COVID restrictions, one would soon be disabused of that notion. It is both hilarious and deadly serious, obliging the reader to remember all the traumas that befell us.
Individual EU member states determining their own course of action concerning public health serves to lay bare confusion, or perhaps a mild rift, within the EU bloc.
The surplus is in large part explained by the high excess mortality, which officials chalk up to COVID. But statisticians say the numbers don’t add up.
While many politicians celebrated the pronouncement, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has refrained from commenting.
Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.
The violent protests we saw last weekend could mark a significant shift in the mood of what had previously been considered a largely compliant citizenry.
Defeating the pandemic became a matter of national pride, and the wishes, freedoms, and even the lives of individuals become secondary to that aim. Almost anything was permitted—including brutality in pursuit of the aim of winning the fight.
The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.