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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/long-covid-doesn-t-exist-as-we-know-it-according-to-new-research-20240314-p5fcjz.html
Interesting article if it holds up 'long covid' isnt really a thing rather a post viral syndrome that occurs at similar rates to other nasties like flu…
Whatever you call it – it's devastating to those who experience it.
I know someone who is virtually bedridden – can only get up for about 10 minutes at a time without collapsing. And she's been like this for over 9 months.
Yes, she had a prior health history (low immunity due to kidney transplant) – but prior to Covid was hugely healthy and active (competitive long-distance cycling in age-group).
Our son in Australia and their neighbour both have been diagnosed with long covid.
Bouts of being ok, doing a few tasks and being exhausted, coupled with breathlessness and headaches. Currently ulcers and just 'run down' with no immunity.
Macron on French TV last night.
@chrisschmitz
Full english version of the @EmmanuelMacron Interview. “We have one goal : Russia cannot and must not win.” He goes into great detail on why Ukraine must defeat Russia and how Victory of Ukraine is a core interest of France, Europe and the free world. AI dubbed.
https://twitter.com/chrisschmitz/status/1768380703077462465
Macron is only politicking. It makes no difference to France whichever side wins.
Macron isn't eligible to run in France’s 2027 Presidential election. Why would he be politicking?
long covid' isnt really a thing
Because it affects mostly women, right?
@GeorgeMonbiot
It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st Century. Intransigent doctors and gullible journalists have made the lives of ME/CFS patients a living hell. A massive and shocking story in this week’s column.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1767464451945443771
This was a story that found me. In 2021, after writing about long Covid, I was accused by the psychiatrist Prof Michael Sharpe of spreading it. Apparently, you could induce such illnesses by discussing them. Investigating further, I was astonished by the failure in his presentation to support his claim with evidence, and perturbed by his lack of satisfactory answers to my questions. Sharpe takes a similarly “biopsychosocial” approach to ME/CFS, one which at the time of his long Covid presentation still dominated medical practice in the UK.
You can trace the origins of this model to a paper published in 1970. Without assessing a single patient or interviewing a single doctor, it blamed an earlier outbreak of post-viral ME/CFS on “mass hysteria” based on case notes alone. The reasoning included the fact that the outbreak affected more women than men. For centuries, doctors have been readier to classify women’s illnesses as hysterical or psychosomatic than they have men’s. ME/CFS, like long Covid, hits women harder, so, the thinking goes, it must be all in the mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services
The Hon Christoper Bishop both dismantled and eviscerated the arguments sent to him in a letter by the Chief Executive of the Free Speech Union Jonathan Ayling – correctly pointing out the difference between free speech and parliamentary process.
He should have however noted more closely what the critique of their parliamentary process was – beginning to stray into "pretty legal" territory, not just poor form.
Thus they were setting a bad example to the likes of Costello, Jones, Seymour and Hoggard in their Cabinet.
This will lead to yet more questions about their competence – beyond economic and parliamentary process to other areas where the media they do not want to fund has a responsibility to expose them.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/associate-environment-minister-andrew-hoggard-backtracks-on-significant-natural-areas-announcement.html
Incompetence leads to public comments by those who are responsible and for this they are at risk of losing their jobs because our governments cannot handle free
speech.
There is a hole in the bucket Right Hon Christopher Bishop.
How long will people like
Rob Campbell andSimon Upton remain?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Campbell_(economist)
The Crusaders lost their 4th game in a row in a close one. But the acts of violence committed after the winning try was conceded and after the final whistle show a lack of team character – which should concern them more.
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@EHunterChristie
1-x A few points from President Macron's television interview with TF1 and France2 (link at end). Rough summary, not chronological. Journalist asks if he rules out sending troops to Ukraine Macron: "Are you sitting down now? Do you rule out standing up after this interview?"
https://twitter.com/EHunterChristie/status/1768380237597856069
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1768380237597856069.html