Daily Shaarli
August 1, 2020
Its four reactors have the capacity to generate 5,600 megawatts of electricity, around 25 per cent of the nation's needs.
People who resist COVID-19 restrictions are often accused of being selfish and caring only about their own freedom, but their concerns are deeper than that.
The very same people who were saying we’d have over 2 million fatalities if nothing was done are now claiming Trump failed miserably because the virus’s official death tally is around 15o,000.
But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that number represents a flagrant lie which vastly overstates the real one.
And we need to learn by exactly how much.
What we care about is how many people would still be alive if not for contracting the virus.
What we’re getting is something else entirely. //
The question isn’t whether COVID-19’s fatality numbers are inflated. It’s by how much.
The first insurance-backed membership organization in America to offer immediate, comprehensive, nationwide, 24-hour support for gun owners who are forced to defend themselves or their family with a firearm.
The bloody and terrible French Revolution featured attacks on religion, rewriting history, toppling statues, and abandoning tradition. Sound familiar?
Sweden update 31 July. Zero deaths in past 3 days; 5 in the past week. No lockdowns, no masks, no panic.
After using a firearm in justified self-defense, even if you don’t shoot it, you may be facing significant legal troubles (and large financial costs).
On Thursday, the first protest held since the federal agencies agreed to pull back their officers was a markedly more peaceful affair than in recent weeks.
We should follow Sweden's lead and stop hiding from something we can easily defeat. //
The number of new cases per 100,000 people in Sweden reported over the last 14 days since July 29 dropped by 54 percent from the figure reported over 14 days prior to then, according to the latest report Wednesday from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Meanwhile, other parts of Europe have reported large spikes in new cases over the same period, including Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, which have seen increases between 40 and 200 percent over the last month, according to the latest WHO report Wednesday.
The seven-day rolling average of Sweden’s daily new cases has been dropping consistently since June 29. Its daily case count has been mostly decreasing since June 24, when it reported 1,803 new infections, its largest single-day spike since the outbreak began, according to data compiled by Worldometer.