I m not sure it just applies to covid response, too.
Adrian Thornton 1.1.1.2.1
That was the point I was making, Covid will be controlled to a more or lesser degree as time passes, and life goes on, and the same pressing issues remain….still undealt and even exacerbated by both Labour and National.,,because they both have fundamentally the same political/economic ideology
You know I took the dogs for a walk yesterday, on the short walk though some trees to the dog park.three cars were parked under various trees with our fellow citizens living in them..one car a small hatch had what appeared to be a woman with a child set up with a tiny tent, forced to live like dogs all for the sake of this fucking obscene housing market …it is a sight like this was unimaginable only fifteen years ago. How anyone can witness sights like these and not Critique the government (whom ever is in power) is what I don t understand. I just assumed it was our civic duty to at any
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Bucking national trends that have closed down many European language programs, UCLA is doubling down on its commitment to European studies by redefining it with a 2021 twist. Germanic, French, Italian and Scandinavian languages are being merged into a single department with a transcultural bent. Perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America areas touched by Europe’s colonial legacies will be injected into a new way of studying foreign language. (UCLA’s Dominic Thomas, David Schaberg and Todd Presner were quoted; UCLA’s Kalani Mitchell was cited.)
1. Focus on community, rather than individual, risk
Risk for Covid-19 has primarily been framed as individual risk, such as being over 60, having a pre-existing illness or performing frontline work. Research suggests that to close the racial gaps in health, we need to shift our thinking away from personal risk to a community orientation.
Community risk is the set of factors that collectively put a group of people at risk. One such factor is deep poverty. Deep poverty, describing those with household incomes at less than 50% of the poverty level, is linked with poor physical health and mental health and lack of resources.