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Social Media Virtue Signalling: Changing Nothing, Changes Nothing


 
While stirring his Starbucks coffee with a plastic stir stick, he scrolls through his Twitter feed. He likes a few Tweets that insult climate change deniers and retweets a Tweet with a link to an article outlining how climate change will significantly raise sea levels by 2050. I hate climate change deniers, he thinks to himself as he tosses his plastic stir stick into the trash and places a plastic lid on his coffee. He then walks to his SUV, running to keep the AC on (it’s a sweltering and humid late September day for Toronto), parked in front.
Classic digital engagement of ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ ....

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Letters: Dehumanising masks must be jettisoned once vaccination is complete


26 February 2021 • 12:01am
A teacher gives a creative writing class at Roath Park primary school in Cardiff, Wales
Credit: Matthew Horwood /Getty
SIR – Mandatory wearing of masks after the end of lockdown must be rejected. Face masks are vile, dehumanising devices. Nothing better exemplifies a continued divergence from “normality”.
When the majority of the population has been vaccinated, including all the high risk groups, masks should no longer be compulsory.
John Wainwright
 
SIR – There should be clarity about the law, which must be obeyed, and what is guidance, which we may follow at our discretion (“Schools told they cannot force pupils to wear masks,” report, February 25). Currently even policemen are confused. ....

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Letters: If the data defy the model, why not lift restrictions earlier than planned?


Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a slow withdrawal from lockdown for England
Credit: Leon Neal/PA
SIR – The Prime Minister has said consistently that decisions about unlocking will rely on data. However, the latest decisions rely on more modelling by the same group of scientists whose previous predictions have been wildly inaccurate.
I am not a scientist, but with current figures showing a significant drop in infections, deaths and hospital admissions, and with more vaccinations to come quickly, a projection of an additional 55,000 deaths if some restrictions are eased by Easter seems to me to be yet more scaremongering. ....

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Letters: NHS leaders must do more to address the needs of non-Covid patients


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SIR – I fear that my cousin, Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England (Letters, February 19), is being disingenuous when he implies that NHS cancer treatment has been satisfactory during the pandemic.
The statistics he cites do not reflect the misery that thousands of patients have suffered as a result of their treatments being postponed. I should know. My own treatment for prostate cancer was delayed by six months and wasn’t completed until nine months after diagnosis.
The specialist hospital that provided my care was largely mothballed. Staff later told me they had spent months twiddling their thumbs, as they had not been needed to look after Covid-19 patients. I’m assured that my prognosis will not be affected by the delay – but many people’s will be. ....

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