That was always a red herring. The most likely cause of death and injury for police prior to COVID was motor vehicle accident.
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And “police officer” was never one of the most dangerous jobs in America. Not even in the top 20. If you want to meet someone who puts their life in serious jeopardy for a paycheck talk to a logger or a commercial fisherman.
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Or a crossing guard, #12 on the list.
And at least some of them are volunteers in that position.
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Clearly they shot so many people last year to keep their virus particles away from them. 
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US to support coronavirus vaccine intellectual property waiver
Holy shit, hell freezes over?
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I know it isn’t an country, but still:
Learned today that they basically vaccinated 107 %, since they include people from the rest of Spain working in Gibraltar.
And they continue their testing efforts. Yay.
That said, the Seychelles are a different pair of shoes.
But still, it is possible, it seems a great goal, and it is about time to give #NoCovid a good international shout-out. AGAIN.
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99.7%? That’s around as many as voted against Brexit.
Worked out well for them!
Anyway, great news about IP waiver. Vaccine apartheid is for me the biggest issue on the world right now.
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As of May 5th, 14,151 people have been confirmed as having died after testing positive for the coronavirus in Sweden (up from 14,091 on May 4th). Sweden updates its data Tuesday-Friday at 2pm.
There have been 995,595 confirmed cases of the coronavirus according to data reported on May 5th (up from 988,554 reported on May 4th).
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Whish it did as well for Brexit.
But, as in this case, the majorities around them as well as the connection to the former empire them are of concern. It’s going to be an interesting test case for some things. But usually, the people who could learn from those start arguing that those test cases aren’t transferable. Which often is a fair point, but for the want of trying, we’ll never find out if we could have prevented literally thousands not deaths and severe cases with long-term aftereffects. #NoCovid was dead in it’s tracks the day it got discussed first. They should probably have gone for a different hashtag/title.
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I think police are in the top few jobs most likely to die by violence, but aren’t at significantly more risk of violence than many other jobs (particularly taxi drivers).
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This is why US leadership can still be relevant and important in the modern world. The EU should have done it anyway (though as the US is daddy in the WIPO they probably would have expected a really aggressive US response) but once the US does there is no downside.
This kind of thing is why, out of pure self interest, so many around the world were desparate for regime change in the US.
Obviously this needs to be built into the system from the start from now on to prepare ourselves for the next one, maybe the big one. We will not survive if we keep vaccine and medicine apartheid. As an aside the potential of mRNA to scale cheaply sounds amazing. Cory has a thing about it. It’s a bit breathless but we are where we are now so we know it can be done. And we can do better next time.
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Interesting. Australia, in a Central European
context, is usually cited as an example on how to do proper Corona politics.
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Massachusetts are allowing these to be reopened in August
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Well, it is still largely Symbolpolitik, which I consider to be a downside.
A waiver will not change anything in short term or even medium term availability of vaccines. That would need serious commitment in redistributing the current production, real practical & financial & capacities help to set up productions in other parts of the world.
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They’ve had almost no covid deaths since October and very little community spread, so at least they’re doing well in that regard. Given the choice between being there right now or some of the hard-hit European countries, I doubt many Australians would want to trade places, even if they do need to wait a bit longer to receive the vaccine.
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