Immediately I took some money from my mother and went and bought some.’(Ghana, 14 y boy) ‘If I see a number on a TV screen, I can take the number and call it. One day, I woke and felt sick and running to the
Lively data thus offers a critical, political stance on engaging with data, helping to challenge the privileged epistemological status ascribed to particular forms of data in the pandemic, enabling more truthful understanding of COVID-19’s impacts and how people made sense of it. Such a stance ...
For employees, American Express has committed to no coronavirus-related layoffs for the remainder of 2020. It is also continuing to pay the salaries of those who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, placed into quarantine, or whose family care arrangements have been affected by the virus, w...
The older I grow, the more I appreciate children. Now, at my 80th birthday, I salute them again. Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are freshest from the hand of God. Whimsical, ingenious, mischievous, they fill the world with joy and good humor....
Finally, SAH restrictions had the largest effect on mobility measures that are the most difficult for individuals to change. There is some possibility that the large foot traffic declines in high-risk establishments are explained not by private behavior, but by other non-SAH restrictions. In the ...
In any case, the marvellous diversity of life rests on viruses which, as much as they are a source of death, are also a source of richness and of change. Marvellous, too, is the prospect of a world where viruses become a source of new understanding for humans—and kill fewer of them...
To control and contain the coronavirus as much as possible, safety measures were predominantly preventive. The public, in some countries more than others, showed that massive behavioural change was possible when forced by a widespread pandemic. Meet- ings and work went online; hygiene, social ...
it is interesting to see that these people have not the slightest doubt that the currencies will rise forever, another sure mania sign. Rationale is scarcity and buzzwords like the ‘disruptive nature of the blockchain which will change how society works’. The latter statement is particularly ...
To change the architectural metaphor, they are a foot in the door. It becomes easier to argue on behalf of tougher restrictions. And it becomes easier to justify demands for compensation for the behaviors that are now prohibited. In countries with strong traditions of tort litigation, for ...
Registration with a phone number is required, however, information on encounters is deleted after 21 days [32], which led to TraceTogether being broadly classified as well privacy preserving. A second example that was developed with a strong data privacy mindset was the German ‘Corona-Warn-App...