What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 6/21/20
and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):
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Coronaviris Su 6/21/20 Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter
Who the hardest hit the corona crisis in happiness
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article209982523/Corona-Krise-Die-Gutverdiener-sorgen-sich-am-meisten.htmlPOLITICS
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CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC
Who the hardest hit the corona crisis in happiness
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Coronavirus - Berlin - Queuing
May 16, 2020, Berlin. Two young women stand in line in front of a clothing store with a distance to each other and with masks against the new corona virus. A security cooperation ...
Source: pa / Wolfram Stein / Wolfram Steinberg
What influence does the lockdown have on the happiness and psyche of the Germans? The sociology professor Martin Schröder has evaluated the first data. They show that the crisis has an impact especially in three groups.
Martin Schöder, sociology professor in Marburg, evaluated the "Socio-Economic Panel" on the pandemic, a survey that has been repeated annually since 1984 and in which the same people in Germany and other countries are always asked - even now, about their experiences during the Lockdown.
WELT: Mr. Schröder, are the Germans the same after the lockdown?
Martin Schröder: Compared to other nations, we have come through well so far. The British, for example, see their mental health burdened more. The values are the same as for unemployment, and that's pretty bad. Interestingly, the old are not that much worse, whereas the younger are more affected.
The Ministry of Finance on Tuesday unveiled its latest economic forecast, predicting that the national economy will contract by six per cent this year before rebounding with a growth spurt of 2.5 per cent in 2021 and one of 1.7 per cent in 2022.
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Coronavirus Sa June 20 2020 - Black Books Matter
Reproduktionszahl in Deutschland steigt wieder deutlich auf 1,79
Reproduction numbers in Germany rise again significantly to 1.79
More than 650 employees of the Tönnies slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia have been infected with the corona virus. Working conditions with subcontractors and collective accommodation with many Eastern European employees are heavily criticized.
Source: WELT / Jan-Friedrich Funk
Greens and leftists on the role of the opposition
"Do not let clasp"
Does the executive matter in the crisis? Not true, say the faction managers of the Greens and the Left Party in the Bundestag.
Grüne und Linke zur Rolle der Opposition
: „Nicht umklammern lassen“
In der Krise kommt es auf die Exekutive an? Stimmt nicht, sagen die FraktionsmanagerInnen von Grünen und Linkspartei im Bundestag.
‘Yoga brings people together’: PM Modi on International Yoga Day
St. Petersburg Railway |The train track from Finland to St. Petersburg took many people's health and lives - As a result of the sacrifices, a train connection was completed, the importance of which to neighboring countries has only grown
foreign countries
21.6. 2:00
https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006547031.html
Perspective
Lina Lund: In Germany, schools are closed - for safety's sake
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Coronavirus F June 19 2020 - Black Lives Matter
Lots of hard work has gone into this, but much more to do in this changing landscape of the pandemic. @verilylifesci @vivianleemd @ASlavitt @KBDeSalvo
Today we launched Healthy at Work for organizations across the country looking for better integrated testing and data analytics in their return to work and school.
As of today, the Corona warning app is available for download from Google and Apple .
What can the app do , where can you download it and how does it actually work?
Here you will find all the answers to the Corona warning app.
" Earlier this month, he expressed his sadness that he was unable to participate in a virtual reunion for the films, saying: “I am sorry to not see you in person, I miss you all and hope your adventures have taken you to many places, I am in lockdown in my hobbit home, or holm.” "
Dagens Nyheter
Bagpiping mention of coronavirus
SNP politician labels Scottish Government blended learning plans 'absolutely unacceptable'
By David Bol @mrdavidbol
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Antje Vollmer: "All real progress is pacifistic"
Former Vice President of the German Bundestag and Green Party politician about Germany, Europe and the dismantling of enemy images.
June 19, 2020 - 21:13 , Michael Maier
" Antje Vollmer at the federal press conference.
Photo: Imago / Metodi Popow
The Green politician Antje Vollmer, Protestant theologian and for many years Vice President of the German Bundestag, is convinced that any really progressive time is pacifistic in its basic tendency. She talks about her efforts to bring Germany closer together and explains why peace is a European task - and what she misses about today's Greens.
Berliner Zeitung: Ms. Vollmer, the words "peace" and "pacifism" seem to have disappeared from public discourse ...
Antje Vollmer: Even ... "
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Coronavirus Th 6/18/20 + BlackLivesMatter
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At Northern Spirit Radio (Mark Helpsmeet) we avoid the adrenaline-jangling “flash in the pan” type of news, preferring instead thoughtful, continually relevant, helpful resources for making a better world. We've hesitated to allow the urgency that is often manufactured by the media machine to dictate our subject matter, but it has felt important and responsible to highlight a couple major societal upheavals on
Spirit In Action, doing so without degenerating into the obsession that is the current US media norm.
Racism: There has been dramatic upheaval across the country and world following the murder of George Floyd (and others), with millions of folks finally taking a good look at racism and how to deal with it. We've been engaging the learning curve with this for years, as you'll find by browsing our archives. While others are relatively new to the concern, the past 2 weeks we rebroadcast last year's
Raising White Kids Beyond Color-Blind show, followed by a repeat of
Healing Black & Brown Girls, when we spoke with Monique W. Morris. There's much more, completely applicable to today's issues, if you simply search 'racism' on
our site.
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Coronavirus W 6/17/20 + BlackLivesMatter
Stanford Tweet
65000 downloads of corona tracing app in Germany
MIT tweet
Norway stops using it due to low # of infections
When Söder talks about the Corona app, Merkel has to laugh
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Die neue Corona-Warn-App war auch Gesprächsthema zwischen Markus Söder und Kanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die beiden lieferten sich dazu bei einer Pressekonferenz ein kleines Scharmützel.
Quelle: WELT
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Friends' Dalton Letter
Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014
CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #
RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #
RealisticVirtualEarthForGeneti
cs begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography -
https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/.
Friends' Dalton Letter itself -
http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.
Loving Bliss as Friends
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Coronavirus Tu 6/16/20 + BlackLivesMatter
CORONA VIRUS
Protest participants in Copenhagen tested positive - schools in Beijing closed
Status: 00:38 a.m. | Reading time: 2
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For almost two months, no new infections with the new corona virus were reported in Beijing. Now the number of cases has risen to over 100 since Thursday. The authorities react strictly.
Source: WORLD
"15,000 people demonstrated against racism in Copenhagen. The corona virus was found in one. Now the other participants should also be able to be tested. In Beijing, the classes are taking place online again. All developments in the live ticker...."
Home page International Asia & Pacific
BORDER CONFLICT
20 Indian soldiers dead after confrontation with Chinese soldiers
The armies of both countries have been facing each other at different locations on the controversial border for several weeks
Startseite International Asien & Pazifik
GRENZKONFLIKT
20 indische Soldaten nach Konfrontation mit chinesischen Soldaten tot
Die Armeen beider Länder stehen sich seit einigen Wochen an verschiedenen Orten der umstrittenen Grenze gegenüber
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000118099291/mindestens-drei-tote-bei-indisch-chinesischem-grenzkonflikt
CORONA APP
EU agrees to coordinate tracing apps
EU agrees to coordinate tracing apps
Some EU Member States have reached a number of technical agreements to exchange information from tracing apps. In this way, contacts can also be maintained abroad.
Yesterday at 4:39 PM Inland
With summer approaching and several inter-European borders opening up again, contact researchers are facing a challenge. Six European member states currently have an anonymized tracing app, eleven will follow later. The European Union has therefore already devised a number of technical agreements to connect different national apps. The Commission announced this today.
https://m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20200616_04992600
The reunion of Switzerland and Italy after the crisis
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Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis met his Italian counterpart, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio, on the Ticino border. On the menu: post-pandemic Italian-Swiss collaboration, agreement on cross-border workers, immigration and Campione d'Italia
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/retrouvailles-suisse-litalie-apres-crise
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Coronavirus M 6/15/20 + BlackLivesMatter
The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration
The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) is the country’s first mayor-led guaranteed income demonstration. We aim to test a simple yet innovative solution to poverty and inequality.
125 RESIDENTS
500 DOLLARS
18 MONTHS
https://seed.sworps.tennessee.edu/index.html
The Swiss national borders have been open to EU and EFTA citizens as well as travelers from Great Britain since Monday (June 15th). This means that there is once again full freedom of movement for these countries. Citizens of third countries living in these countries can also enter. However, in addition to your passport, you must provide proof of residence. When the borders open to third countries is still being clarified. Germany officially opens its borders to Switzerland 24 hours later - in the night from Monday to Tuesday. According to the State Secretariat for Migration, the reason is formal and legal.
According to its own statements, Zurich Airport is at the “beginning of a return to the new normal”. On Monday (June 15th), about 50 arrivals and departures were planned, as the airport announced. That is only a little more than at the weekend. Compared to Sunday, when the borders were still largely closed, there was no big difference in eye traffic. The stores were almost fully open on Monday, albeit with shorter opening hours. The range of shops behind the boarding pass control, however, is still greatly reduced. The airport is now expanding steadily, but the airport does not expect the shops to open fully until July 6th.
With direct flights from Sweden to Switzerland, all passengers are measured for fever. For the time being, Sweden is the only country affected by this border sanitation measure, as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) announced on Monday (June 15th). Switzerland reserves the right to take border sanitary measures if people are arriving from a country that has a ...
Corona warning app:
"Voluntary means voluntary"
Those who do not use the Corona warning app should have no disadvantages, says the federal government. The Greens are pushing for a law that protects workers' rights.
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html
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What I've been watching
Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries
The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.
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