Mrs. Mallard’s second clutch of eggs has hatched, and all eleven ducklings and their mother successfully made it into the water. With a little help. Here’s the video, thanks to ceci n’est pas mon nym! And here’s Operation Mallard 1, in case you missed it.
Biden Administration Supports The Waiver Of IP Protection On Covid Vaccines
Just tweeted — It’s not clear to me how much of a problem this is, which is why I haven’t said much about it, but now it’s no longer an issue to be fought over in the media. The Biden administration is focusing on the reality – getting the vaccines to people. Open Thread!
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Fact-Free Discourse – Vaccines
How many doses of the several available vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the cause of covid, are available? You would think that when people call for sending vaccines to India or to make them more available generally around the world, they would check that number. You would be wrong. Searching brings up a number of references to …
The Fall Of The White Male Novelist
Publishers have a lot of power. Written material shapes thinking and conversations. When they choose a book or article, they are using physical and mental space that might have gone elsewhere. For many, many years in the English-speaking countries, that space has gone to white cis men, excluding other voices. Compounding the exclusion has been …
President Joe Biden Speaks To A Joint Session of Congress
It’s not officially a State of the Union because he’s only been in office three months, but that’s more or less what this is. Note that two women – the Vice President and the Speaker of the House – will be sitting behind him for the first time. Open Thread! Update: Looks like the White …
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Russia’s Vaccine Missteps
Russia and China have been exporting their SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to build goodwill. At the same time, however, they have been taking steps that undermine that goodwill. Russia has built up its military forces as if to attack Ukraine and is now building them down; additionally, information has come out about earlier attacks on Czech and …
American Aid To India
The covid situation in India is horrendous: 350,000 infections a day, 2500 deaths. After an apparent delay, the United States is sending help. The statement in the first two tweets can be found here. This list of what is being sent represents the most urgent needs, the things that are most likely to make a …