The largest shutdown since World War II

For your information one of our celebrity doctors posted, a few months ago, that because all the weirdness even established international media has written about Sweden and covid, one has to wonder if the difference between alternative media and mainstream media really is that big. I guess she was referring to both negative and positive articles about Sweden.

Links, about covid:

The season for shame and judgment, The Atlantic.
"But many long months into this pandemic, people are at their wits’ end: economically depleted, socially isolated, and disgruntled about—and in some cases genuinely baffled by—the arbitrariness of some of the restrictions on their daily lives. And if the HIV epidemic has revealed anything, it’s that shaming does little to deter risky behavior. Instead, it perpetuates stigma, which drives behavior underground and hinders prevention efforts."

COVID-19: UNICEF warns of continued damage to learning and well-being as number of children affected by school closures soars again

“In spite of everything we have learned about COVID-19, the role of schools in community transmission, and the steps we can take to keep children safe at school, we are moving in the wrong direction—and doing so very quickly,” said Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Global Chief of Education. “Evidence shows that schools are not the main drivers of this pandemic. Yet, we are seeing an alarming trend whereby governments are once again closing down schools as a first recourse rather than a last resort. In some cases, this is being done nationwide, rather than community by community, and children are continuing to suffer the devastating impacts on their learning, mental and physical well-being and safety.”

More about the lockdowns, (it's not just about death-rate, it's also about years of life lost, spoilers, the very old die from covid, the younger suffer from lockdowns):

In a class society how we deal with covid has class effects & What are the harms of lockdown?


At last, a for me supricing headline: Coronavirus: Germany is no longer a role model. Like Gemany follow the patten by the states in East and Central Europe? First it looks great, then it doesn't.?

Biotech and art

What happened to Maya yogurt ? This is an issue that in the name of honesty not many people wonder about. But the artist Maya Smrekar had a project where she would make yoghurt with lactic acid bacteria she had modified with a gene from one of her own cells. In the link Marxism is menioned. Perhaps something about capitalism when the prolitariat no longer can get by by selling their work, but have to sell parts of their bodies: "Soylet green is people" "Maya yogurt is one gene from one people." I have always liked the combination of biotechnology and art. But can I hope that others will find it interesting?

I learned about the above through Ars electronica in Linz, Austria. I perceived Linz as a boring and run-down city. If I am going to lecture, in a philosophy lesson in high school, we learned in passing that Wittgenstein went to the same high school as Hitler. But it was only long after I visited Linz that I read that their joint high school was in Linz. Well, that need not explain that I thought the city was boring and Linz at least had the museum Ars electronica where I came across Maya yourghut. And very different about technology.

Below are my photos from Ars electronica, on the banks of the Danube (that it is an amateur photo can be seen that a branch is in the way):

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