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Recommendation for using mask come in September. I would estimate that it was October when majority started to use them in public places. There has been people using them from start, but they were mainly those who could not avoid human contacts because of their job.

In some countries that did early lockdowns and mask, things went well until they removed restrictions, like for example Restrictions help to prevent spread of the virus as long as people follow those restrictions. Which is why it is pretty impossible to say which would be best strategy to follow until the pandemic is over (given that it actually ends in some point) It really is not, but we have good PR teams and you only heard things that we have done right

Yes. As long as there is almost unlimited contractual freedom then company can but almost any stipulation in their ToS they want and those stipulations must be followed if they don't break specific laws. And there is almost no laws when it comes to service contracts between two companies. Which means that it is usually for small companies take or leave situation. EU has tried to create directives that would put some rules that big companies need to follow, but almost all of those have been blocked by member countries. And US has even less restrictions and EU and as Parler is US company it would need win their case there. And good luck with that. You can just look how well it has went for musicians who have tried to get their abusive contracts nullified even in cases where other party is actually physically abused them.

Apple and Google have let Parler not follow their moderation guidelines for couple years for some reason, usually they throw apps out much quicker, now recent events have forced Apple's and Google's hands in matter. When you do app that allows people post content Google at least demands you to write clear policy how you will prevent them breaking terms that you as developer need to agree when you publish your app. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/10286120?hl=en And if Google's moderator (or their AI algorithm) determines that you have not followed their enforced policy enough they will remove your app and some cases all your apps from the app store. And Apple has pretty similar policy in their store. And there is quite little hope to win court case against them when they remove your app for any reason, as they have pretty solid terms of services that give them right to do pretty much what they want and they have money and will to fight decades in courts just to make other companies see that it is pointless to sue them.

I would say that it would do good for InXile to create their own setting instead of using existing ones, as it would help them become more their own than ghost of Interplay

12 hours even with Twitter ban for over half of it 💸

I love how big sunk of reply's are "but but but MSM is evil"

You know that conspiracy leaning people, sites, news etc. are already claiming that there was no Trump supporters, right wing people or Qano etc. people among those who stromed in Capitol, but that all the stormers were actually disguised members of antifa, regardless of fact that storming was live streamed by well known figures including right wing politicians and well known right wing/qano/etc. people are easily identifiable from videos and pictures taken from the Capitol. Meaning there is probably nothing that you can do to de-escalate situation with those people because for them only acceptable situation is where they have total control and they will invent narrative that justifies any action they take to get that point. So you can't take munition for fearmongering that isn't based reality and which changes constantly to fit current situation, meaning there is always new fearmongering stories that will be spread regardless of actions that are taken. There is no good way to counter such, but showing significant consequences, does not necessary slow down believers but it has impact people around believers which makes believers work harder.

People who try to commit coups or otherwise cease power usually think they are doing right thing. Even people who commit genocides often think they are right side of history, which is why there is often plenty of evidence of their crimes as they don't think what they are doing is a crime, but betterment of their nation. Ignorance and intentions aren't valid defense for bad actions and I don't think that anybody should accept them as valid justifications

Kevin Sorbo gives excellent summary what actually happened

Maybe it is because you don't want to see it?

Police seems to have different approach to these things in 2021 than they had in 2020 Looks like some people didn't read their master's tweets From "kneeling during national anthem being insult towards USA's flag and military" to Guesses will this fine impartial real news journalist from the Blaze get visit from FBI any time soon, considering that he tweets having access to information that is classified. 🤔

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520 My **** post seems to be closer the truth than I thought

Sorry but I need to correct you, I am just speaking alternate patriotic truth by stating that true patriotic Capitol troops support true and only leader of America, God Emperor Trump

Last four years they have done their best that there are only Trump supporters working in all governmental organizations , so security probably is part of those who are storming in the Capitol

Democrats winning both seats seems most likely out come. They have become quite good with their strategic vote dumps 😏

At least Trump knew it already year ago.

Sometimes I wonder is it actually possible that people don't actually understand that these things are bidirectional which is why there was agreements in first place

Maybe this new 'study' will help people get over their fears 😋

I don't think there is any general feeling towards it, it is seen as swedes doing swede things. Although majority of people think we should fully close borders for swedes and swedes tourist feel like they aren't welcome in Finland and make effectively this old meme as reality

Rank Country/Territory GDP (US$million) World[19] 83,844,988 1 United States 20,807,269 2 China[n 2][n 3] 14,860,775 3 Japan 4,910,580 4 Germany 3,780,553 5 United Kingdom 2,638,296 6 India 2,592,583 7 France 2,551,451 8 Italy 1,848,222 9 Canada 1,600,264 10 South Korea 1,586,786 11 Russia[n 4] 1,464,078 12 Brazil 1,363,767 13 Australia 1,334,688 14 Spain 1,247,464 15 Indonesia 1,088,768 16 Mexico 1,040,372 International Monetary Fund (2020 estimates) Rank Country/Territory GDP (millions of current Int$) World 130,186,703 [8] 1 China 24,162,435 2 United States 20,807,269 — European Union[n 2][10] 19,397,267 3 India 8,681,303 4 Japan 5,236,138 5 Germany 4,454,498 6 Russia 4,021,733 7 Indonesia 3,328,288 8 Brazil 3,078,901 9 United Kingdom 2,978,564 10 France 2,954,196 11 Mexico 2,424,511 12 Italy 2,415,410 13 Turkey 2,381,594 14 South Korea 2,293,475 15 Canada 1,808,995 16 Spain 1,773,364 List by the IMF (2020 estimates) (PPP) They predicting that order among European countries don't change and general increase of GDP in Europe, Japan and USA will be minimal and there is massive economical growth in India, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia Although they use PPP estimate, which estimates how much local priced goods they could by with their GDP (USA prices are used as baseline), instead of nominal GDP. Above you can see how these two methods differ from each other People in rich EU states would be probably bee more interested to see predictions for this list Rank Country/Territory Int$ 1 Luxembourg 112,875 2 Singapore 95,603 3 Qatar 91,897 4 Ireland 89,383 5 Switzerland 68,340 6 Norway 64,856 7 United States 63,051 8 Brunei 61,816 — Macau 58,931 9 United Arab Emirates 58,466 — Hong Kong 58,165 10 Denmark 57,781 11 Netherlands 57,101 12 San Marino 56,690 13 Austria 55,406 14 Iceland 54,482 — Taiwan 54,020 15 Germany 53,571 16 Sweden 52,477 GDP (PPP ) per capita International Monetary Fund (2020 estimates)

They also didn't take account some important factors, like that keeping things open does not prevent big hit on economy when their main trade partners go in lock down and then close borders to them because their corona strategy don't work with strategies their trade partners chose. Also their strategy had big risk that those with least in risk would spread infection to vulnerable populations and that risk ended up to actualize, which is main reason that Sweden has so much higher death toll compared to its neighbors. Considering that first vaccine against corona was already working in lab in January, the rapid development and approval should not been surprising factor for experts creating the strategy.

Natural immunity and immunity from vaccination is not usually same. Also level of immunity isn't necessary same. Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 last at least 8 months, but for some individuals antibodies created during infection disappear in weeks and they are able to get infection again. SARS-CoV-2 is also slowly evolving virus and at least for now all new strains use same spike protein, which means that same vaccinate work against them at least with good efficiency SARS-CoV-2 also don't seem to spread fast enough in population that there would ever be natural immunity against it, as prediction scenarios estimate that it will take close to 50 years that 70 % of current world population has had infection, during which there will already be new generations of population that also needs to be infected. So without vaccinations it seems that SARS-CoV-2 would become another seasonal flu and as it deadlier than most flu trains it would most likely significantly increase yearly fatalities from the 'flu' So in order to prevent SARS-CoV-2 and its future mutations become permanent fixture in our global disease we would need to do our best now to eradicate it from the earth through vaccinations. Full eradication at this point will probably decades of vaccinating children against it in order to keep 'herd immunity' level high enough long enough to ensure that it can't cause new epidemics or at least prevent new pandemic from it.

Yeah they changed definition because they were often asked what they think about exposing people to virus in order to build herd immunity. Which lead them trying to make sure that their definition did not leave any room for idea to build 'herd immunity' against disease doesn't include exposing people to the disease, because scientific support for it is questionable and it is seen ethically wrong. But change in definition doesn't mean that WHO thinks that immunity that people (may) get by having infection doesn't build population's 'herd immunity' against disease. I think one big reason why WHO decided to change their definition is how media often uses 'herd immunity' concept as alternative for vaccination, but I think their efforts in that front will be quite vain. https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19#:~:text='Herd immunity'%2C,exposing them to it. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/media-resources/science-in-5/episode-1