'This virus will spread more. I have to say it with regret that there will be more deaths. If people do take care they can live with the virus.’
Prime Minister Imran Khan telling Pakistan that it cannot afford to lockdown any longer.
Kyle Harper's Fate of Rome is SO interesting about how the Plague of Cyprian hugely increased the power of Christianity, and then the Justinian plague radically reshaped Christianity (and led to the rise of Islam). we're seeing something similar https://t.co/9zbOD1dTWB— Ed West (@edwest) June 3, 2020
'We Europeans were sold a dream. We were told that our existence could transcend the geographical boundaries of our native region and nation state. That dream actually came true for many of us. It found expression in a new existential space in the interstices of European states. Yet that fluid and geographically promiscuous experience of life and work shared by millions of citizens – be they seasonal fruit-pickers, students, professionals or jobseekers – is all of a sudden threatened by the inability of the European project to safeguard its own achievements.'Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris and Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
'Some of the most civilized and highly organized cultures, like Carthage at its wealthiest, had human sacrifice at its worst. Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.' G. K. Chesterton
Or, for those of a religious turn of mind, it's also St Boniface's Day. https://t.co/3LTRVq3ewu— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) June 3, 2020
"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest," Egbert of Liège, verse 148 of his Fecunda Ratis (nidos commaculans immundus habebitur ales).
Dear @Channel4News,— Mercy Muroki (@MercyMuroki) June 2, 2020
Thanks for inviting me on to get a more 'balanced' analysis of current racial tensions, then cancelling me in favour of a left-wing comedian, a left-wing MP, and a left-wing 'Professor of White People Studies'.
Cowardly.
Does it tell you where to steal the best shoes? https://t.co/tZlgiUDfcV— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) June 3, 2020
“The idea that we were ancestrally dark skinned before diversifying as we crept around the globe is now known to be incorrect. Not only were we diverse in our skin colour long before the dispersal from Africa, we were diverse in our skin colour before we were our own species.”— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) June 1, 2020
7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains found in the Balkans
ReplyDeleteNew hypothesis about the origin of humankind suggests oldest hominin lived in Europe
Date:
May 23, 2017
Source:
University of Toronto
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523083548.htm
Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company
ReplyDeleteSurgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies
'Data it claims to have legitimately obtained from more than a thousand hospitals worldwide formed the basis of scientific articles that have led to changes in Covid-19 treatment policies in Latin American countries. It was also behind a decision by the WHO and research institutes around the world to halt trials of the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine