8.28. There was sufficient information available by October 2020 for decision-makers to understand that Long Covid was a significant policy and health issue to be tackled.72 However, the UK governmen… (View Post)

20 Sep 2020: 6.93. Dr Anders Tegnell, Swedish state epidemiologist, was also in favour of further action by the UK government. He told the meeting that “the myth that Sweden did nothing during the pa… (View Post)

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The whole US political system goes out of its way to make it easy for rich people to influence many areas of US policy and society: see Charles Koch, Sheldon Adelson, Elon Musk, Harlan Crow etc. on t… (View Post)

A friend is something of a polyglot. She gets annoyed with people online who are always looking for One Simple Trick to learn a language quickly. There's no such thing, she says. You just have to put… (View Post)