Lisa Gemmel, utredare: "Gör folkbiblioteken till samhällsviktig verksamhet. Skapa nationell samsyn kring när biblioteken kan behöva stänga. Ta vara på deras självklara plats i samhället. Det är några av våra rekommendationer i den rapport vi idag publicerar om biblioteken och pandemin.
"Svensk biblioteksförening vill att folkbiblioteken blir samhällsviktig verksamhet i samtliga kommuner och inlemmas i kommunernas krisorganisation, inte i rollen som värmestugor utan som informationsförmedlare och uppbärare av demokratiska principer. Föreningen ser också att det behövs en nationell samsyn kring under vilka omständigheter folkbiblioteken ska stänga sina lokaler och eventuell verksamhet. Den ojämlika tillgången till folkbiblioteken i Sverige under pandemin är oacceptabel."
by Luo Weiteng, China Daily 9 Oct 2020.
Yang Lu, a former librarian in Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital, regarded Wu's story as the epitome of well-developed public services and the wisdom of urban governance in the Pearl River Delta region, where the public library makes a living embodiment.
"However, it should be noted that such library services are not necessarily accessible in many less-developed areas. The hard fact is that many people have never been to or even heard of a library in their lives."
(Wikipedia China Daily (Chinese: 中国日报; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.)
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Mishi Chowdhary: It's perfectly possible for a contact tracing app to help us fight COVID-19 while taking our right to privacy seriously. That is what we should demand.
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The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly on a global scale. Although it is clear that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is transmitted through human respiratory droplets and direct contact, the potential for aerosol transmission is poorly understood1–3. Here we investigated the aerodynamic nature of SARS-CoV-2 by measuring viral RNA in aerosols in different areas of two Wuhan hospitals during the outbreak of COVID-19 in February and March 2020. The concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in aerosols that was detected in isolation wards and ventilated patient rooms was very low, but it was higher in the toilet areas used by the patients. Levels of airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the most public areas was undetectable, except in two areas that were prone to crowding; this increase was possibly due to individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the crowd. We found that some medical staff areas initially had high concentrations of viral RNA with aerosol size distributions that showed peaks in the submicrometre and/or supermicrometre regions; however, these levels were reduced to undetectable levels after implementation of rigorous sanitization procedures. Although we have not established the infectivity of the virus detected in these hospital areas, we propose that SARS-CoV-2 may have the potential to be transmitted through aerosols. Our results indicate that room ventilation, open space, sanitization of protective apparel, and proper use and disinfection of toilet areas can effectively limit the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in aerosols. Future work should explore the infectivity of aerosolized virus. Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in two hospitals in Wuhan indicates that SARS-CoV-2 may have the potential to be transmitted through aerosols, although the infectivity of the virus RNA was not established in this study.
Billet de blog , Nathan François, Etudiant, Bibliothécaire Mediapart avril 2020. Depuis le mois de mars, le philosophe italien Giorgio Agamben multiplie les tribunes et les analyses sur la crise actuelle. Ce texte interroge un discours trop sûr de lui-même, entre falsifications...
This Viewpoint discusses physical and epidemiological evidence supporting droplet vs aerosol transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SA
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This book offers readers critical insights into a region in crisis and explores different facets of the crisis from governance to gender to the politics of identity, the challenge of the environment and the enduring impact of demographic variables and technological change.
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Reiner Braun IPB: We want to open a discussion on what ‘build back better’ means for peace and to develop support from the international peace movement for a very important discussion of worldwide transition.
Thoughts for a better world.
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This sentence from the Nobel Peace Laureate Willy Brandt remains extremely relevant, above all in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis.
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