Germany should prioritize people for coronavirus vaccines by the number of their social contacts rather than their age, immunology expert Michael Meyer-Hermann told local media on Sunday.
Meyer-Hermann, from the Helmholtz center for Infection Research in the central German city of Braunschweig, told the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel newspaper that first giving vaccines to those with the most contacts "would have a much greater effect."
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Coronavirus: German immunologist suggests COVID vaccine priority reversal | News | DW | 07.03.2021
Showing posts with label Priorities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priorities. Show all posts
1/10/21
EU: Dutch government criticized for late start to vaccinations
The Dutch government came under heavy criticism from lawmakers Tuesday over a COVID-19 vaccination plan that has the first shots set to be administered on Wednesday, making the Netherlands the last European Union nation to begin vaccinations.
Read more at: https://apnews.com/article/europe-netherlands-geert-wilders-coronavirus-pandemic-ursula-von-der-leyen-cafb2adf3f30f1aa6f760b30e60d8efc
Read more at: https://apnews.com/article/europe-netherlands-geert-wilders-coronavirus-pandemic-ursula-von-der-leyen-cafb2adf3f30f1aa6f760b30e60d8efc
12/25/19
China-EU relations: What kind of Europe does China want to deal with: friend, business partner or strategic rival?
China is slowly losing Europe. This is happening even though transatlantic relations are at a low point and right when the European Union is finally aiming to become a global geopolitical player.
Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission, has made it clear over the past months that she wants to lead a “geopolitical commission” and one of its priorities will be to “define our relations with a more self-assertive China”.
This means that the next few years will be decisive for China. Over the past three years, even in the context of EU-US disagreements and tensions,
China’s ties to Europe have frayed, with the EU branding it ” and “a systemic rival”, while numerous voices on the European continent are calling for a more confrontational attitude against what they perceive as a rising illiberal adversary.
Read more at: What kind of Europe does China want to deal with: friend, business partner or strategic rival? | South China Morning Post
Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission, has made it clear over the past months that she wants to lead a “geopolitical commission” and one of its priorities will be to “define our relations with a more self-assertive China”.
This means that the next few years will be decisive for China. Over the past three years, even in the context of EU-US disagreements and tensions,
China’s ties to Europe have frayed, with the EU branding it ” and “a systemic rival”, while numerous voices on the European continent are calling for a more confrontational attitude against what they perceive as a rising illiberal adversary.
Read more at: What kind of Europe does China want to deal with: friend, business partner or strategic rival? | South China Morning Post
2/13/18
Sex Abuse: hyped by the Media is among, but not the most important issue the world is facing today
Life's experiences can make you bitter, hateful, resentful or cynical
if you let them. It's even worse if you trying to build a relationship
with the opposite gender and you already had some share of
disappointments in your life.
Sometimes it's good to go through all those things for some individuals, because sometimes you decide there and then that "I wouldn't never put anyone through what he or she put me through. " .
And sometimes it's not good at all for others because they can decide that "I will never let anyone put me through this again, therefore I will hurt them before they hurt me" and they just do that. Hurt or hurting people hurts people,
But honestly isn't that what life is all about? Maybe the best way to to label that is experience.
Unfortunately, the Media, and Government, which influence the majority of the population around the world, are now all riding on the bandwagon of combating "sexual abuse"which now mainly focuses on celebrities, the Catholic Church, and most recently NGO's like Oxfam.
Obviously, it is important to combat sexual abuse, but it certainly should not be on top of the list of all the other horrors the world is facing today, like war, poverty, the causes of mass migration, or weapons industry.
The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in the United Nations’ history, a tally greater than the combined populations of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, says a new report released on World Refugee Day today.
The Global Trends 2015 compiled by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) notes that 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of more than 5 million from 59.5 million a year earlier.
The tally comprises 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers, and 40.8 million people internally displaced within their own countries.
Measured against the world’s population of 7.4 billion people, one in every 113 people globally is now either a refugee, an asylum-seeker or internally displaced – putting them at a level of risk for which UNHCR knows no precedent.
In the past years Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia produce half the world’s refugees, at 4.9 million, 2.7 million and 1.1 million, respectively.
Colombia in Latin America had the largest numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs), at 6.9 million, followed by Syria’s 6.6 million and Iraq’s 4.4 million.
While the spotlight last year was on Europe’s challenge to manage more than one million refugees and migrants who arrived via the Mediterranean, the report shows that the vast majority of the world’s refugees were in developing countries in the global south.
In all, 86 per cent of the refugees under UNHCR’s mandate records were in low- and middle-income countries close to situations of conflict.
Nearly 1/2 of the world's population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Like it or not, dear feminists, you might find sexual harassment a terrible crime, so do most most of us, but there are also other crimes against humanity, which are far more dangerous and deadly.
Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most revered moguls and influential kingpins, who has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years, is a terribly sad case, but in reality his case is only a drop of water on a hot plate, compared to the results of wars, proxy wars, hunger, or poverty around the world.
Unfortunately those horrific events hardly ever get the attention they deserve because those problems are usually the the result of our own governments deeds and actions and are shoved under the table.
Not one Western Government, which has taken part in the Middle East wars has ever been asked by their Legislative Representation to justify the destruction and enormous number of casualties suffered by the local population, and the total failures of these wars.
"We the people" are really the only ones who can do something about it. This destructive policy of wars has to stop and we should not get side-tracked by the smoke-screens our Governments and media are applying to divert our attention.
It is high time our governments get their priorities right.
EU-Digest
The above report can be used
only if the source is mentioned
Sometimes it's good to go through all those things for some individuals, because sometimes you decide there and then that "I wouldn't never put anyone through what he or she put me through. " .
And sometimes it's not good at all for others because they can decide that "I will never let anyone put me through this again, therefore I will hurt them before they hurt me" and they just do that. Hurt or hurting people hurts people,
But honestly isn't that what life is all about? Maybe the best way to to label that is experience.
Unfortunately, the Media, and Government, which influence the majority of the population around the world, are now all riding on the bandwagon of combating "sexual abuse"which now mainly focuses on celebrities, the Catholic Church, and most recently NGO's like Oxfam.
Obviously, it is important to combat sexual abuse, but it certainly should not be on top of the list of all the other horrors the world is facing today, like war, poverty, the causes of mass migration, or weapons industry.
The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in the United Nations’ history, a tally greater than the combined populations of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, says a new report released on World Refugee Day today.
The Global Trends 2015 compiled by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) notes that 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of more than 5 million from 59.5 million a year earlier.
The tally comprises 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers, and 40.8 million people internally displaced within their own countries.
Measured against the world’s population of 7.4 billion people, one in every 113 people globally is now either a refugee, an asylum-seeker or internally displaced – putting them at a level of risk for which UNHCR knows no precedent.
In the past years Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia produce half the world’s refugees, at 4.9 million, 2.7 million and 1.1 million, respectively.
Colombia in Latin America had the largest numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs), at 6.9 million, followed by Syria’s 6.6 million and Iraq’s 4.4 million.
While the spotlight last year was on Europe’s challenge to manage more than one million refugees and migrants who arrived via the Mediterranean, the report shows that the vast majority of the world’s refugees were in developing countries in the global south.
In all, 86 per cent of the refugees under UNHCR’s mandate records were in low- and middle-income countries close to situations of conflict.
Nearly 1/2 of the world's population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Like it or not, dear feminists, you might find sexual harassment a terrible crime, so do most most of us, but there are also other crimes against humanity, which are far more dangerous and deadly.
Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most revered moguls and influential kingpins, who has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years, is a terribly sad case, but in reality his case is only a drop of water on a hot plate, compared to the results of wars, proxy wars, hunger, or poverty around the world.
Unfortunately those horrific events hardly ever get the attention they deserve because those problems are usually the the result of our own governments deeds and actions and are shoved under the table.
Not one Western Government, which has taken part in the Middle East wars has ever been asked by their Legislative Representation to justify the destruction and enormous number of casualties suffered by the local population, and the total failures of these wars.
"We the people" are really the only ones who can do something about it. This destructive policy of wars has to stop and we should not get side-tracked by the smoke-screens our Governments and media are applying to divert our attention.
It is high time our governments get their priorities right.
EU-Digest
The above report can be used
only if the source is mentioned
2/1/14
Latin America and Caribbean: US Foreign Policy Priorities for 2014 - by Ana Quintana and James M. Roberts
In 2013, the Obama Administration seemed to take for granted U.S.
relationships with our many friendly neighbors in Latin America and the
Caribbean—nations that share our democratic and economic values—while
ignoring growing threats to our national security from some countries in
the region that are openly hostile to America’s core principles.
In 2014, the US Congress should insist that the US Administration reshape its Western Hemisphere policy to advance U.S. national interests, improve already robust trade and investment ties, and actively combat criminal and terrorist organizations. Here are some specific areas where current policies should be changed.
Many international observers were bamboozled by the Castro regime’s timid steps toward liberalization last year, hoping they signaled a transition to democracy, but a closer look reveals that the Castro brothers and their cronies continue to adhere strictly to the same communist principles that put the country on the road to ruin more than 50 years ago.
What mainstream pundits fail to note is that Raul paired some small free-market reforms with a harsh new crackdown via the dictatorship’s organs of repression. For example, Cuba continues to hold hostage former U.S. Agency for International Development contractor and American citizen Alan Gross.
Read more: Latin America and the Caribbean: Foreign Policy Priorities for 2014
In 2014, the US Congress should insist that the US Administration reshape its Western Hemisphere policy to advance U.S. national interests, improve already robust trade and investment ties, and actively combat criminal and terrorist organizations. Here are some specific areas where current policies should be changed.
Many international observers were bamboozled by the Castro regime’s timid steps toward liberalization last year, hoping they signaled a transition to democracy, but a closer look reveals that the Castro brothers and their cronies continue to adhere strictly to the same communist principles that put the country on the road to ruin more than 50 years ago.
What mainstream pundits fail to note is that Raul paired some small free-market reforms with a harsh new crackdown via the dictatorship’s organs of repression. For example, Cuba continues to hold hostage former U.S. Agency for International Development contractor and American citizen Alan Gross.
Read more: Latin America and the Caribbean: Foreign Policy Priorities for 2014
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