CNN: “It took nine months to reach 1 million deaths, four months to reach 2 million and three months to reach 3 million deaths,” said Tedros. “Big numbers can make us numb, but each one of these deaths is a tragedy for families, communities and nations.”

Het zit er jaren aan te komen, omdat het economisch (voor die groep clubs) zo logisch is als ‘t groot is. The New York Times: The so-called super league they have agreed upon — an alliance of top clubs closer in concept to closed leagues like the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. than soccer’s current model […]

Een artikel uit The Atlantic van februari dat tot nu redelijk on point is: Beyond next winter, experts’ predictions are blessedly simple: Life in the warmer months of 2022 should be normal, or at least whatever qualifies as normal post-pandemic. Dat we nog niet aan de nieuwe patatjes zijn.

Alex Danco: The more you have committed to being seen as interesting within your particular area, the more you detach from reality and move into a construct of your own creation. As this evolution takes place, more of your and your peers’ language will become Posturetalk, and more of the language that gets spoken to […]

Amanda Gorman, ja die, in 2018:

Stephen Bush, political editor: That’s why the biggest longterm barrier to a return to ‘normality’ are not whogets a vaccine passport first, but the pace of vaccinations in the global south. (The African Union’s current timetable is to have vaccinated 60 per cent of the continent in three years’ time.)  Een element in het debat dat vaak […]