@lonelyplanet author; Kyiv Post Editor '99-'03; Partner, Bearcat Travel & A'Toda Madre Mezcaleria; Consultant writer/editor for MDBs. Views my own.
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Greg Bloom retweeted
Which of the following are considered drivers of fragility?
21%Poor governance
7%Climate change
7%Debt distress
65%All of the above
57 votes • Final results Greg Bloom retweeted
Два слова - и ты в автозаке: сколько нужно секунд, чтобы тебя задержали на Манежной площади. Спойлер: полторы #StopPutin #StopWar
Greg Bloom retweeted
I hope Malacanang sincerely apologizes. We all make mistakes. May they have the humility and decency to do that.
In 2019, Malacañang released the so-called oust-Duterte matrix, which included then Olympic silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz.
Two years later, the same Malacañang lauded Diaz for clinching the country’s first Olympic gold medal. newsinfo.inquirer.net/146497…
Greg Bloom retweeted
It's not just the mañanita.
rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/sin…
Greg Bloom retweeted
I'm off Twitter until after the election.
#VoteBlueToEndTheNightmare
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.@condeHRW's latest dispatch: Government figures show that drug war killings went up by 50 percent in April to July (155 from 103 in December 2019-March 2020), at a time when the Philippines was facing one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Asia. hrw.org/news/2020/09/08/kill…
Greg Bloom retweeted
My call:
People are realizing that they cannot afford lock-downs & lock-downs reflect governments failure to contain the virus or too scared of the political consequences to even try containment.
The great lock-down is over. We can't afford it & will need to live w/ the virus.
Greg Bloom retweeted
If we learn anything about Covid-19, then it is this: we know more now than we did before & that fatality is low for the young & high for the vulnerable. We have better treatment. We also know that it's hard to eradicate.
A marathon not a sprint. Lock-down is a sprint strategy.
Greg Bloom retweeted
If Trump really wants to destroy TikTok he should run it as one of his businesses.
Greg Bloom retweeted
"It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump’s Hands" - my latest for @theintercept, following tonight's 100k confirmation, on how so many of these lost lives were preventable & why we need to stay angry & outraged:
theintercept.com/2020/05/27/…
Greg Bloom retweeted
Hundreds of Russian soldiers and cadets who took part in Victory Day parade rehearsals have been infected with Covid-19, Proyekt reports. proekt.media/report/koronavi…
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Manila Bay this morning. The gorgeous sight masks the hardships of Pinoy seafarers in quarantine aboard the cruise ships dotting the bay.
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One of the creepiest and most dystopian things I've seen since the pandemic began: a terrifying camera-equipped remote-controlled robot patrols Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore to -- for now -- warn about social distancing. Look at the fear. Story: straitstimes.com/singapore/r…
Greg Bloom retweeted
LOOK: Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by city (NCR cities + Cebu City)
Chart 1: Total cases
Chart 2: Cases per 1 million (to control for population)
Cebu City (w/ mass testing) ranks 2nd in both. Some cities are doing well in both charts.
Note: I used DOH data, not LGU data
Greg Bloom retweeted
1)R.I.P. Todd Christensen 😥
My husband died on May 1st and his Dr called me less than 2 hours ago & said it was the coronavirus. He was an avid MAGA that believed in the conspiracies promoted by Fox News & others, refused to go to the hospital because he said"the flu is worse".
Greg Bloom retweeted
MOVING LEFT = Universal health care, climate action, equal justice, affordable college, living wage, gun sense...
MOVING RIGHT = Stealing babies, arming teachers, oppressing women, enriching billionaires, coddling white supremacists...
I KNOW WHICH ONE I CHOOSE.
"This whole notion that we have to worry about whether are moving to the left - let's ask ourselves why Republicans are moving so far to the right"
@peterdaou
Greg Bloom retweeted
The most likely scenario has always been and remains today that the effort to beat COVID proves too much for modern societies to bear and we simply learn to accept that we now have to live with an extra disease in the world forever.
Greg Bloom retweeted
"Chernobyl is..seen as..signal event on..road to..dissolution of..Soviet Union. Coronavirus may someday be seen as..similar inflection point in..American decline. A country that could be brought to its knees this quickly was sick..before..virus arrived."
nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opini…