i always liked the "Great Ideas of Philosophy" series by Daniel Robinson, for the Teaching Company (now the Great Courses). it's available to purchase from the great courses website or from Wondrium's very good subscription lectures streaming service. Lecture sets from these two companies are generally of the highest standard.
If you would like to sample it before patronising either of those two businesses, it seems to have been uploaded on youtube.
FTA: "In a press release on Tuesday, the South Pasadena Police Department outlined a different set of facts, declaring at first that “detectives do not believe Mr. Musk or any member of his family were present during the confrontation,” which Deputy City Manager Domenica Megerdichian confirmed in a phone call with The Daily Beast. Soon after, the department released an updated press release, which simply stated that Musk wasn’t present during the incident."
sounds like the "detectives" working on this don't even know who was there. It would be nice to see the actual press releases.
devalued in the sense that it's easy to trip over some low bar for the new definition and be assigned that label. not devalued all that much in the sense of the negative effect that label has on the labelled person's argument or reputation. which is, of course, very convenient for people who want to throw those words around online.
I guess you want something more than online news and commentary to assess the economic state of [country], so as an attempt at a useful answer i'll provide this.
then click last week or last month, scroll through the various economic indicators and see the ones with the british flag, and go from there. if you're new to econometrics you will probably need to dig in a little but it is worthwhile if you are interested in the state of the economy.
if you are seriously wondering if the UK is collapsing, you are probably spending too much time in comment sections and crowd-curated news sites and should do less of that
"Inclusion criteria were an age of 18 years or older; presentation to an outpatient care setting with an acute clinical condition consistent with Covid-19 within 7 days after symptom onset;"
I don't know if "up to 7 days after symptom onset" qualifies as early antiviral treatment.
I do acknowledge the benefits of public health mandates in certain dire situations, i was simply trying to say comparing data between different places with different degrees of restriction can be helpful determining how beneficial those restrictions are.
You can do this with vaccines as well if you wish, comparing countries performance and vaccination rates against each other.
you could do it for any covid-related public health measure or mandate, depending on the places you compared.
denmark and sweden and norway and the UK are all ending, or have ended, all restrictions this quarter.
i recall other countries (and states in the US) have done similar at different times in the past 2 years, but i'm not feeling like googling them right now.
i recall looking over the occupancy numbers for the temporary hospitals and hospital ships deployed as a response to the 2020 outbreaks in the UK and US, and they were mostly empty. sadly i cannot find that info now so i guess i'll just have to shrug about it. and i assume "took all the place in many hospitals and healthcare systems" is an exaggeration. i would still have to assert the health care costs to society of obesity and smoking are comparable to the costs of acute covid surges though.
obesity- and smoking-related illnesses take up a huge share of available health care resources. to say they are "clogging up" hospital beds is a little insensitive though.
while you wait for more research, i suggest looking at the countries that have ended their mandates this year, and how they are doing, as a cheap and expedient form of research into the question of how useful mandates are.
i'm not vaccinated and will not be getting the jab, and i think vaccine mandates are a laughably bad idea, but you could easily just say less severe disease = less pressure on public health systems and "justify" it that way.
first solution word i got was "DONNA" which was kind of rough to guess. second game it told me "DRAPE" wasn't a word. the game worked fine though, thanks.
there's an everyday variant also at fiveletters.xyz
If you would like to sample it before patronising either of those two businesses, it seems to have been uploaded on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNINJcoBa_A&list=PLOxODW9vlV...