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Whether one thinks that Rupert Murdoch is a supervillain who manipulates politics in the UK and Australia as easily as a dog's owner gives orders to his pet, or merely an influential billionaire …

>The EU exported over 200 million doses. If the EU wanted, they could've issued an export ban like the US did. Please stop repeating this lie. There is and has never been a US vaccine export b…

... and there went any interest in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Madrid, Lisbon, Warsaw, and Vienna in subsidizing that fab's construction.

This is also why there won't ever be a European Silicon Valley. Paris isn't going to support any Europe-wide effort to create one that isn't located in the Hexagon, nor will Berlin supp…

>Please don't signal boost easily falsifiable claims like this. The function of it is to sow division and prevent proper nuanced discussion. The phone numbers on that page is a hotline for gen…

Does this mean that a one-shot vaccine like Johnson & Johnson's is inherently less effective?

From the article: >In its entire history, only 43 individuals — all men, all white — have risen to the rank of Pictet managing partner, creating a bond more enduring than your typical marriage. Fro…

As mc32 said, "It's their country and their rules." That said, requiring YouTube to recommend Canadian content doesn't make sense to me. The rationale for Canadian content requirem…

When the term was coined Microsoft was still seen as old and stodgy, a half step above Oracle and IBM. Its image didn't change until after Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014 and Azure became the Av…

>A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. —Ronald Reagan, 1980 http://www.slate.com/id/…

Don't confuse "I don't see Argentina constantly being lambasted on /r/politics and /r/worldnews" with "Argentinean politics are better than that of the US&…

>It would be much quicker to board and harder to defend if an assault team could land basically anywhere on the ship simultaneously. All of a sudden you have people assaulting from front, rear, sid…

Thus the massive rent seeking in San Francisco, for example, where the city spends $852 million a year for 8,000 homeless ( https://www.hoover.org/research/only-san-francisco-61000…

>Also, there is a pretty major cult in the US that has been forming around one Dr. Fauci as well that has plenty of weird dancing and TikTok singing. Said cult began very early: https://…

>A well balanced stamina mechanic would be a great way to implement flying. I like the suggestion. I suspect, however, that making flying harder could only have happened before flying first appeare…

>I also think that dealing with vaccine hesitancy effectively is the mark of a good healthcare system, but of course there can be many causes of vaccine hesitancy and there is no good way to measur…

>Meanwhile, NY goes up in flames and suddenly Cuomo is on TV every day and his approval rating was skyrocketing. Because he was for several months the most prominent exponent of Orange Man Bad. * H…

>Despite the vaccine not being available to many people in the UK (people aged 16-40) that a greater percentage of adults in the UK have received at least one dose. Most countries have prioritizing…

>Yes, this is just an ongoing disaster. My sense from their communications over the years is that, when players fly through zones, that hurts the feelings of the artists, which Blizzard doesn'…

>Following that, we had a coordinated national effort to combat it rather than a laissez-faire approach of letting every state do as they please (which often meant nothing at all in many states). A…

>(I've been an early adopter on that line of thought, he basically got famous early in the pandemic for how much of a failure his state was but people didn't realize it) It's hilario…

>People in general made good faith efforts to obey mandates but the "finish line" or goalpost keeps moving. For example, see Fauci explicitly admitting to doing this. https://w…

>Americans have a huge "denier politics" problem that other Western nations just don't have. Anti-vaccine sentiment is higher in Europe than in the US. https://www.forbes.…

>On the other hand, here in the UK - the socialized healthcare system is making it much easier to ensure doses get to people who need them. Something like 95% of over 50s have gotten their first do…

>2. United States stopped all vaccine exports. There has never been a US vaccine ban (see my comment elsewhere). The US did, in fact, pay every pharmaceutical company with a vaccine in development …

What reggieband mentions began very early in the lockdown process: See the Atlantic bubble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble ). Individual Australian states did the s…

>So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of th…

Correct. There is a mandatory quarantine on arrival, but Australia is very unusual in nonetheless not allowing Australians to leave the country under normal circumstances. You have to (for example) be…

>Obviously, as so often, the US and UK didn't get that memo. There is and has never been a US vaccine export ban, and the US has not seized vaccines meant for other countries. The Trump admini…