Links tagged “coronavirus”
- UN touts ‘a green recovery’ from COVID lockdowns – Un urges: ‘Avoid returning to a pre-pandemic pathway, where progress towards important objectives was not rapid enough’
"UN DESA will organize a series of policy dialogues among board members, contributing authors and prominent thinkers that will further inform COVID-19 responses so that countries can build back better and avoid returning to a pre-pandemic pathway, where progress towards important objectives was not rapid enough, or was happening at the cost of significant reversals on others."
- Environmentalists Accept Millions in COVID Stimulus Loans After Lobbying Congressional Allies For Relief
Groups receiving substantial PPP loans include the Center for Biological Diversity ($2-5 million), 350.org ($1-2 million), Food & Water Watch ($2-5 million), Friends of the Earth ($1-2 million), and the National Wildlife Federation, with a loan of between $5-10 million. Other groups with a record of resisting energy development and infrastructure construction, including Earthworks, the Rainforest Action Network, WildEarth Guardians, and Oil Change International, received smaller loans of between $150,000 and $1 million.
Many of these green groups actively lobbied Congress to pass the CARES Act while they also tried to stop relief being directed toward the energy industry.
- Settled science? In 2006 The ‘Science’ Of Pandemic Mitigation Was Nearly The Opposite Of What It Is In 2020
- Flashback 2006 study: ‘Surgical mask does little to prevent inhalation of small droplets bearing influenza virus…air stream simply diverts around the mask’
2006 study on viruses lockdowns, social distancing & masks:
On masks: "But studies have shown the ordinary surgical mask does little to prevent inhalation of small droplets bearing influenza virus. The pores in the mask become blocked by moisture from breathing, and the air stream simply diverts around the mask."
The final paragraph begins: "Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted."
On "Prohibition of Social Gatherings": "During [flu] epidemics, public events with an expected large attendance have sometimes been cancelled... There are, however, no certain indications these actions have had any definitive effect on the severity or duration of an epidemic."
"But a policy calling for communitywide cancellation of public events seems inadvisable."
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Also see: The Case Against Mandatory Mask Regulations
A 2015 study on masks of 1600 health-care workers showed those wearing masks were 6 times as likely to have flu-like illnesses as those in the control group after 4 weeks..." - The conclusion: "This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks... moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks, and poor filtration may result in an increased risk of infection."
More here:
- Al Gore, UN Head, Other Elites Call For ‘Great Reset’ Of World Economy
- 2020’s Been A Rough Year For Greta Thunberg
- The ‘Teenage God of Global Warming’ Greta Thunberg Now Feeling Sudden Lack Of Relevance
- Coronavirus Derails EU’s Climate Focus: Germany’s EU presidency faces staunch opposition to ‘climate protection’ measures
- Climate falls off ballots as virus disrupts campaigns – ‘Climate-related ballot initiatives are having a quiet election year’
- UK Government: ‘We must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis’
