Yearly Archives: 2020


31.12.2020 - 09:00 [ Rubikon ]

Der letzte Damm

Wer sich jetzt präventiv vor der im Aufbau befindlichen Diktatur duckt, beschleunigt jedoch eben dadurch den Prozess ihrer Etablierung. Umgekehrt hätte entschlossenes, mutiges Handeln aller, denen schon in der Frühphase die ganze Hysterie spanisch vorkam, vielleicht das Schlimmste verhindern können. Die abwartende Zaghaftigkeit und Entscheidungsschwäche eines Großteils auch der politisch wachen Menschen hatte wesentlichen Anteil an der Misere.

„Aufklärung“ steht als Bezeichnung für eine historische Epoche wie einen Bewusstseinsprozessen der „Aufhellung“ noch immer in hohem Ansehen. Derzeit erleben wir allerdings das Gegenteil: eine kollektive Verdunklung des Zeitgeists, „Disenlightenment“. Schon Erlerntes und vorschnell als selbstverständlich Betrachtetes geht in einem rapiden Prozess verloren: so etwa Meinungspluralität, differenziertes und kritisches Denken, der Respekt vor Freiheit und Individualität. Stattdessen triumphieren Zwangsherrschaft, Schwarze Pädagogik, Gleichschaltung und die dramatische Reduktion von Komplexität auf das der Staatsmacht und dem politisch-pharmazeutischen Komplex Genehme. All dies geschieht interessanterweise unter Berufung auf die Wissenschaft. Und es geschieht unter dem unablässigen Kopfnicken von Intellektuellen ─ auch solchen, die sich vormals als Liberale, Sozialisten oder gar Anarchisten verstanden haben.

31.12.2020 - 07:44 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Corona-Maßnahmen, Kinder und die Linke: „Denkfaulheit, Opportunismus und ein Totalausfall“

Woran liegt es, dass gerade in dieser Situation kritische Stimmen von linker Seite fehlen, die die Maßnahmen hinterfragen?

Das frage ich mich auch den ganzen Tag. Denkfaulheit, Opportunismus und ein Totalausfall fallen mir da bei einigen wirklich wichtigen Akteuren in Politik, Medien und Wissenschaft auf.

31.12.2020 - 07:30 [ Rubikon ]

Corona-Käfighaltung

Diese Ärztinnen und Ärzte, die sich an den Hippokratischen Eid gebunden fühlen und die frei ärztliche Heilkunst ausüben möchten, werden von Regierungen und Medien als Querdenker, Corona-Gegner, Corona-Leugner und teilweise als Rechtsextremisten gebrandmarkt und sollen dem Verfassungsschutz unterstellt werden.

Das ist eine Diskriminierung derjenigen Ärztinnen und Ärzte, die ihren Arztberuf ethisch zum Wohle der Gesunden und Kranken ausüben!

31.12.2020 - 07:14 [ ORF.at ]

Kein Zusammenhang von Tod und CoV-Impfung in Schweiz

Laut Swissmedic ist im Kanton Luzern eine 91-jährige Person, die an mehreren schweren Vorerkrankungen litt, einige Tage nach einer Covid-19-Impfung in einem Alters- und Pflegeheim verstorben.

„Weder die Krankengeschichte noch der akute Krankheitsverlauf legen einen direkten kausalen Zusammenhang zwischen der Covid-19-Impfung und dem Tod nahe“, informierte Swissmedic.

31.12.2020 - 07:03 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Großbritannien: Die Queen setzt Brexit-Gesetz in Kraft

Der Weg für den Brexit-Handelspakt zwischen Großbritannien und der Europäischen Union ist frei. Königin Elizabeth II. als britisches Staatsoberhaupt setzte das Ratifizierungsgesetz in der Nacht in Kraft, wie der Sprecher des Unterhauses, Lindsay Hoyle, sagte. Zuvor hatten beide Kammern des Parlaments in London dem Dokument zugestimmt.

31.12.2020 - 06:57 [ Mirror.co.uk ]

Brexit deal with EU becomes law as the Queen gives official Royal Assent

Her Majesty‘s approval paves the way for the deal to take effect at 11pm on Thursday when the current Brexit transition period, during which the UK has continued to follow EU rules, ends.

31.12.2020 - 06:48 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

PROFESSOR ANGUS DALGLEISH: The Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is as close to a miracle as medicine ever gets

Everyone can see what a serious emergency this is. We have to act. Bin the bureaucracy, and get this miracle vaccine to work right now.

31.12.2020 - 05:26 [ theGuardian.com ]

How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far

And while there are some early signs the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine might not only prevent people becoming seriously ill with Covid but also prevent asymptomatic infections, more data is needed to confirm such protection.

31.12.2020 - 05:21 [ DiscoverMagazine.com ]

Will the Vaccine End the Pandemic? This Question Must Be Answered First

One key to these successes is that these vaccines provide sterilizing immunity — recipients are not infected by the viruses that cause the diseases and don’t pass it on. When a sufficiently large percentage of the population is immunized, it reaches herd immunity: the pathogen can’t find enough new hosts to keep propagating, and outbreaks peter out.

31.12.2020 - 04:55 [ Movement for a People’s Party / Twitter ]

#ForceTheVote Town Hall

30.12.2020 - 19:10 [ ForceTheVote.org ]

#ForceTheVote Town Hall

Dear progressive members of Congress,

We invite you to join us at a live town hall meeting on Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET to discuss forcing a vote on Medicare for all.

Tens of millions of Americans are struggling without health care in the middle of a pandemic and we have a fleeting opportunity to bring Medicare for all to the floor of the House for a vote. Medicare for all is overwhelmingly popular and forcing the vote has enormous support in the progressive movement. Please join thousands of your biggest supporters to discuss #ForceTheVote.

30.12.2020 - 19:00 [ @JohnKramarz / Twitter ]

Here‘s #MyStory , or at least one of them, to #ForceTheVote on #M4A Thanks @jimmy_dore for forcing this issue!

30.12.2020 - 18:53 [ Sherrie Scott / Twitter ]

Hey @jimmy_dore This is #MyStory let’s #ForceTheVote

30.12.2020 - 18:42 [ BJG / Twitter ]

Ms. Wood‘s daughter Charlie was born premature. The cost of keeping her alive has been devastating. It turned Ms. Wood from an ACA advocate into a Medicare for All advocate. Please listen to her testimony from last year‘s committee hearings on #MedicareForAll. #ForceTheVote

30.12.2020 - 18:32 [ Jonathan Gartin / Twitter ]

#ForceTheVote #MyStory #MedicareForAll #NewGenMindSet #publicpressure #townhall

30.12.2020 - 18:24 [ @healthcarety / Twitter ]

#ForceTheVote #MyM4AStory #MyStory #MedicareForAll #MultipleSclerosis @0rf @ForceTheVoteM4A

30.12.2020 - 18:19 [ William, The Sim / Twitter ]

Let‘s make something happen for once. #MyStory #ForceTheVote

30.12.2020 - 18:07 [ Lady Long Limbs / Twitter ]

It‘s tough to condense #MyStory on why I believe in #ForceTheVote , but I gave it my best shot

The short version is that I‘m tired of seeing people suffer in one of the most powerful countries in the world, and it‘s time to hold our representatives accountable for change.

30.12.2020 - 17:56 [ BusinessInsider.com ]

2 new members of the progressive ‚Squad‘ won‘t say whether they‘ll support Nancy Pelosi‘s fourth bid for house speaker

(27.12.2020)

Reps.-elect Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman on Sunday declined to state in a CNN interview whether they would support California Rep. Nancy Pelosi‘s bid to be reelected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

30.12.2020 - 17:51 [ Newsweek ]

Ohio Senator Brown Joins Sanders in Delaying Senate Holiday Over $2K Stimulus Checks

Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown said Tuesday that he would push for a Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks by joining Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders‘s filibuster on the Senate floor.

30.12.2020 - 17:39 [ New York Times ]

U.K. Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford and AstraZeneca

A decision is further off in the United States, where the Food and Drug Administration is waiting for data from a separate clinical trial. The study was halted in September and delayed for nearly seven weeks — much longer than in other countries — as regulators investigated whether an illness in a participant in Britain was related to the vaccine. American regulators ultimately allowed the trial to proceed.

30.12.2020 - 16:21 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Brexit is finally DONE: After four years of wrangling MPs vote 521 to 73 and seal Britain‘s historic divorce from the EU – as frontbench Labour rebels RESIGN and Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn defy Keir Starmer‘s order to back the accord

Boris Johnson has hailed new chapter in Britain‘s history as deal is rushed through the Houses of Parliament

30.12.2020 - 16:16 [ Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom / Twitter ]

It is truly fantastic news – and a triumph for British science – that the @UniofOxford /@AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use. We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible.

30.12.2020 - 16:07 [ ORF.at ]

Todesfall in der Schweiz nach Impfung bestätigt

Bisher ist in dem Land einzig die Schutzimpfung von Pfizer und BioNTech zugelassen. Anlässlich der Zulassung hatte Swissmedic am 19. Dezember geschrieben, dass die häufigsten in den Zulassungsstudien dokumentierten Nebenwirkungen vergleichbar mit jenen nach einer Grippeimpfung seien.

30.12.2020 - 12:24 [ AstraZeneca.com ]

AstraZeneca and Oxford University announce landmark agreement for COVID-19 vaccine

(30.04.2020)

The collaboration aims to bring to patients the potential vaccine known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, being developed by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group, at the University of Oxford. Under the agreement, AstraZeneca would be responsible for development and worldwide manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine.

30.12.2020 - 12:14 [ thehindubusinessline.com ]

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may have to wait for EU’s approval

The EMA’s deputy executive director Noel Wathion told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that the pharmaceutical company “has not even filed an application” with the European drug regulators yet.

He further said that EMA “did not even have enough to warrant a conditional marketing license.”

30.12.2020 - 11:55 [ ntv Nachrichten / Twitter ]

Wohl keine Zulassung im Januar: EMA: Astrazeneca hat noch nichts beantragt

30.12.2020 - 11:06 [ ABC.net.au ]

Australia locks in coronavirus vaccine deal to produce Oxford University-AstraZeneca candidate if approved

(18 August 2020)

Amid rising pressure to lock in supply of a coronavirus vaccine, the Government has signed an agreement with UK-based drug company AstraZeneca to secure the potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University, if its trials prove successful.

30.12.2020 - 11:00 [ Sydney Morning Herald ]

AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine approved in Britain

Australia has secured 53.8 million doses of the Oxford vaccine, most of which could be manufactured locally by CSL. The federal government has also ordered 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which will all have to be imported.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Monday he expects Australia to be „fully vaccinated“ against coronavirus by October next year.

30.12.2020 - 10:53 [ zeenews.india.com ]

COVID-19: UK approves use of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, all eyes on India now

The approval by UK government is a good news for India because as per sources, the government was waiting for this approval and it is expected that Indian regulators would call SEC meet soon and reconsider the data and approve AstraZeneca vaccine for its use in India.

30.12.2020 - 10:09 [ UK Department of Health and Social Care / UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ]

Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine authorised by UK medicines regulator

The Government has today accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for use.

30.12.2020 - 10:05 [ BBC ]

Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK, with the first doses due to be given on Monday amid rising coronavirus cases.

30.12.2020 - 03:58 [ mark cording / Twitter ]

What‘s the update on the Oxford vaccine Mr Hancock

30.12.2020 - 03:50 [ Matt Hancock, secretary of State for Health & Social Care / Twitter ]

Fantastic to see Margaret Keenan receive her second dose of the @Pfizer /@BioNTech_Group #coronavirus vaccine