Daily review 01/03/2021

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   John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has a great Senate launch ad.

   He reminds me of a young Dick Seddon.
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   Yay, DR is back
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      Wot Weka 'said' with bells on😸
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         🔔🔔🔔
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   If this development program and patent pans out into a reasonably effective vaccine, this will be a game-changer for millions of people: new patent for a maleria vaccine based on pandemic-developed tech.

   I mean, patent, so not good for poor people independently using it, but might be a hell of a bulk purchase discount for WHO.
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      Interesting, thanks.
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   Seems not travelling if you're feeling ill is optional.

   A passenger who flew from Auckland to Queenstown earlier today was taken straight from the plane into hospital in an ambulance, with "mild flu-like symptoms".

   https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/auckland-traveller-taken-to-queenstown-hospital-with-flu-like-symptoms/
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      not from south auckland i guess?
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         No, they departed from Whenuapai
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      jo90 (4) … "It seems not travelling if you're feeling ill is optional." Seems like it!

      I heard this on the news last evening and it was stated a Covid test was returned negative! Were they tested prior to flying, or tested on arrival in Queenstown?

      I thought there would be more follow up news of this case today, but it's been very quiet on that front.
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   Wot Weka 'said' with bells on😸
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      Sorry for the replication – posted it on my mobile. My bad.
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   Young authors may be self-censoring because they worry they will be "trolled" or "cancelled", according to celebrated writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro.

   Sir Kazuo, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, warned that a "climate of fear" was preventing some people from writing what they want.

   He said they may be concerned that an "anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery".

   He told the BBC: "I very much fear for the younger generation of writers."

   The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences.

   "I think that is a dangerous state of affairs,"

   https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56208347

   Not a surprise for those of us observing cancel culture instead of denying it, but still an unintended consequence.

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