Re: The Covid Pandemic: Seven Lessons to be Learned for a

2020-05-08 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
My thoughts: I believe the Wuhan case supports the point I make. There, local government lives in fear of an autocratic centre that is intolerant of dissent to and deviance from predetermined norms. That is what motivated a cover up which may not have happened if there was more political

Re: The Covid Pandemic: Seven Lessons to be Learned for a

2020-05-08 Thread Michael Goldhaber
Thanks for these clarifications, Prem. But I don’t think even your revisions take account of what the pandemic actually teaches. Start with Wuhan. While the lack of any sort of free press in China certainly contributed to the delayed response, local officials' first instinct was apparently

Hiding behind the Virus

2020-05-08 Thread David Garcia
In a twitter discussion with a Brexiter I suggested that we would soon know whether the Brexit decision had been a wrong or right as the consequences unfold, his response was highly instructive "Don’t think there’s a right or wrong, the country will just be run in a different way, given

Re: The Covid Pandemic: Seven Lessons to be Learned for a

2020-05-08 Thread Michael Goldhaber
Thanks for these clarifications, Prem. But I don’t think even your revisions take account of what the pandemic actually teaches. Start with Wuhan. While the lack of any sort of free press in China certainly contributed to the delayed response, local officials' first instinct was apparently

Harm Reduction and Queer Care - Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8

2020-05-08 Thread Tatiana Bazzichelli
Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8, 2020 Harm Reduction and Queer Care Starting Friday 5pm Berlin time. The sixth edition of Disruptive Fridays features a conversation with Pedro Marum (XenoEntities Network, Mina, Suspension, PT/DE), Mariana Nobre V. (Performer, choreographer, queer rave instigator,