If a significant number of seniors refuse the vaccine they are not only putting themselves at risk, but also the health-care and hospital staff who will be required to treat them if they become ill from the many illnesses common to the elderly. Because those who receive the vaccine will receive a COVID-19 card, I believe there are other concerns for those who refuse the vaccine. They need to know if the card will be used for purposes other than tracking. Will it be required before one can travel, before one can be admitted to hospital or even before one can have contact with friends and family?
The Socialism of Freeman Dyson 17/12/2020
Freeman Dyson, August 2007. Photo: Monroem/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
On February 28, just a few weeks before the United States plunged into lockdown, the world lost the visionary physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. Although widely celebrated for his expansive scientific achievements, eulogisers have given scant attention to his progressive political imagination and longtime identification as a pacifist and socialist.
Five years ago, when the
New York Times asked him which writers he’d invite to a literary dinner party, Dyson chose three women he already knew so he “would not need to waste time on formal introductions”: the classical archeologist Joan Breton Connelly, the science fiction writer Mary Doria Russell, and me. He said he selected his guests because all of our books explored “the mystery of self-sacrifice,” of what inspired ordinary men and women to ignore their own self-interest for the
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Joplin has joined a growing list of American cities in which some public officials find themselves at odds with some of those who insist masks and other pandemic restrictions are unconstitutional.
Tensions have prompted police to station extra officers to provide security at City Council meetings recently, as council members considered whether to tighten restrictions to try to curb the spread of COVID-19.
After a Nov. 19 council vote to reinstate a mask mandate, the opponents restarted an effort to recall the six council members who voted for the ordinance requested by representatives of the cityâs health care institutions. The measure will remain in effect until Feb. 28, if no revisions are enacted.