While the special health council for the French Government is closing down, the number of cases here remains quite high, seemingly in a complete indifference or worse… When 25 000 persons died from COVID since January. But political parties are all (!) against any constraining measure, with some even calling in a most demagogic manner for reintegrating [the few hundred] unvaccinated public health personnel in the public health system… (As a single datapoint, take the counter-example of our thrice-vaccinated daughter who caught COVID last week, most likely when working at the hospital.)
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the wgaf-value
Posted in Statistics with tags anti-vaccine, balek, conseil scientifique, COVID-19, demagogues, French politics, Le Monde, lockdown, populism, public health system, threshold determination, vaccination on August 8, 2022 by xi'andes racines et des haines [cover]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags far-right, French elections, Front National, frontpage, Libé, Marine Le Pen, populism, vote against fascism on April 18, 2022 by xi'an
why do economists have so little impact?
Posted in Books, University life with tags economy, French elections, Jeune economiste, Le Monde, populism on December 29, 2021 by xi'an
Hungarian Academy of Sciences under threat
Posted in Statistics with tags Academia Europaea, academic freedom, Academy of Sciences, democracy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, populism, Viktor Orbán on February 21, 2019 by xi'an
a free press needs you [reposted]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags Donald Trump, enemy of the people, freedom of press, journalism, media, populism, The New York Times, US elections 2016 on August 16, 2018 by xi'an“Criticizing the news media — for underplaying or overplaying stories, for getting something wrong — is entirely right. News reporters and editors are human, and make mistakes. Correcting them is core to our job. But insisting that truths you don’t like are “fake news” is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists the “enemy of the people” is dangerous, period.”
