This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital.
"We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs in which the air sacs fill with fluid or pus. Normally, patients develop chest discomfort, pain with breathing and other breathing problems. But when Covid pneumonia first strikes, patients don’t feel short of breath, even as their oxygen levels fall. And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia (as seen on chest X-rays). Normal oxygen saturation for most persons at sea level is 94 percent to 100 percent; Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent."
"A vast majority of Covid pneumonia patients I met had remarkably low oxygen saturations at triage — seemingly incompatible with life — but they were using their cellphones as we put them on monitors. Although breathing fast, they had relatively minimal apparent distress, despite dangerously low oxygen levels and terrible pneumonia on chest X-rays."
"But we can do better. Right now, many emergency rooms are either being crushed by this one disease or waiting for it to hit. We must direct resources to identifying and treating the initial phase of Covid pneumonia earlier by screening for silent hypoxia."
Shao-Hua Liu (劉紹華) has studied the prevention of infectious diseases in post-1949 China. She believed that so long as China refuses to disclose information and face the full judgment of history, China, the world, and neighboring Taiwan will just have to get used to an unending stream of new epidemics and crises coming from China.
Trump vangloriou-se do trabalho feito, repetindo que terminaram os anos de decadência económica. Para a presidente democrata da Câmara dos representantes, Nanci Pelosi, foi um discurso ″sujo″.
“If Facebook were a religion, it would be the world’s largest faith, with just under a third of the planet, 2.4 billion people, tied into a network controlled largely by one man. It’s a business, of course, with a business model that makes much of its money by channeling tidings of sludge around, often to great harm.After helping give us Donald Trump as president and mass killings in places where a lie can dash around the world before truth puts on its pants, Facebook has lately been playacting as a good citizen. Which is to say, it’s courting lawmakers and regulators in a bid to remain the world’s most powerful gatekeeper of information.The highlight of the latest charm tour was the speech last week at Georgetown by Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. He cited the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, and painted himself as a defender of free expression in the marketplace of ideas.“I think we’re in the right place on this,” Zuckerberg said, explaining why the company would not stop politicians from using Facebook to spread lies. “I think people should be able to hear for themselves what politicians are saying.”
Yes, of course — let the people hear for themselves, no matter if it’s true or not. They can decide. Except, they can’t, especially older users. A study in Science recently found that it’s possible “an entire cohort of Americans” lacks the digital smarts to distinguish made-up garbage from the truth on Facebook.
And what if these politicians push their exemption from fact-checking to devious extremes — a bundle of lies that results in voter suppression, or confusion on polling places and time, or violence?
Facebook is one of the main reasons democracy is in such peril. The company’s algorithms favor the echo chamber, backing a user’s bias. That black hole is so full of fantasies and half-truths that it’s impossible for millions of people to have a basic grasp of the facts needed to make informed decisions.
As my colleagues Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose wrote, Facebook favors the angry, and increasingly the elderly — those most likely to share falsehoods on Facebook. According to Gallup, people between the ages of 50 and 64 make up the company’s fastest-growing group of users in the United States, with those over 64 a close second.
What are they sharing? The sources for top 10 news stories across Facebook from a given day this week included an assortment of far-right and truth-challenged sites. The latest virus planted in the bloodstream of public opinion by the Trump campaign was a Facebook ad, with false and debunked information about Joe Biden, viewed by more than five million people.
The Georgetown speech showed just how much Zuckerberg fears offending the politicians who depend on Facebook’s liars’ market. It was a profile in cowardice.
Granted, Facebook has done much to prevent the viral spread of hate, hoaxes and health scares; they’ve hired an army of 35,000 to “remove content when it could cause real danger,” Zuckerberg said. And this week the company announced that it had taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, and rolled out a news aggregation service, coordinated by real-life fact-checking journalists.
Here’s the sound of one hand clapping. My concern is that Facebook’s tailoring of that News to Fit You will keep the echoes in the chamber.
And lies spoken by political actors willing to pay for it are still welcome, keeping Facebook as the world’s leading incubator of falsehoods hatched by those who want to govern.
That Facebook is now helping Trump’s bid for another term is no surprise, given that this president will be remembered for sitting atop the Mount Everest of lies. And since the impeachment inquiry started, the Trump campaign has been flooding Facebook with falsities that nice older citizens can share with other nice older citizens.
Why is Zuckerberg so quick to defend false speech as free speech, to open his mighty global creation to all manners of political mendacity? Senator Elizabeth Warren calls Facebook a “disinformation for profit” machine. That’s only true to a point: Political ads make up just a small part of the business, as Zuckerberg said in Georgetown.
But Zuckerberg is clearly afraid of politicians dismantling his company. It seems as if nearly every state attorney general is looking at Facebook’s oversized power to control users’ personal information. Zuckerberg’s biggest fear has to be the Justice Department, which Trump uses as a private political tool to punish his enemies.
Allowing Trump and other politicians free rein to free-associate reality on Facebook is Zuckerberg’s best leverage to keep the Justice Department dogs away.
After Facebook was shown to be a tool for Russians in the last election, Zuckerberg initially said it was no big deal. He later claimed some responsibility. But he still doesn’t get the big picture.
Every newspaper, online news site, radio or television station that feels any responsibility to its community of consumers will generally do the right thing and refuse a political ad that is defiantly and provably false. It’s not that difficult.
At Georgetown, Zuckerberg said Facebook’s focus was to “bring people together.” He can start by disarming the missiles of misinformation, under his control, that tear people apart.”
"As massas não se unem pela consciência de um interesse comum e falta-lhes aquela específica articulação de classes que se expressa em objetivos determinados, limitados e atingíveis. O termo massa só se aplica quando lidamos com pessoas que, simplesmente devido ao seu número, ou à sua indiferença, ou a uma mistura de ambos, não se podem integrar numa organização baseada no interesse comum, seja partido político, organização profissional ou
sindicato de trabalhadores. Potencialmente, as massas existem em qualquer país e constituem a maioria das pessoas neutras e politicamente indiferentes, que nunca se filiam a um partido e raramente exercem o poder de voto.
Em sua ascensão, tanto o movimento nazista da Alemanha quanto os movimentos comunistas da Europa depois de 1930 recrutaram os seus membros dentre essa massa de pessoas aparentemente indiferentes, que todos os outros partidos haviam abandonado por lhes parecerem demasiado apáticas ou estúpidas para lhes merecerem a atenção. A maioria dos seus membros, portanto, consistia em elementos que nunca antes haviam participado da política. Isto permitiu a introdução de métodos inteiramente novos de propaganda política e a indiferença aos argumentos da oposição: os movimentos, até então colocados fora do sistema de partidos e rejeitados por ele, puderam moldar um grupo que nunca havia sido atingido por nenhum dos partidos tradicionais."
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Actor’s speech addressing issues of diversity and reputation meets with ‘uncomfortable silence’ – and much praise
Catherine Shoard | 02 fev 2020
Joaquin Phoenix's attack on Baftas for 'systemic racism' applauded
Actor’s speech addressing issues of diversity and reputation meets with ‘uncomfortable silence’ – and much praise
Joaquin Phoenix’s powerful broadside against the body that awarded him the best actor prize on Sunday night has met with a chorus of praise across the film industry.
In his speech, Phoenix said he felt conflicted by his victory “because so many of my fellow actors who are deserving don’t have that same privilege”.
He added: “We send a very clear message to people of colour that ‘you’re not welcome here.’”
The all-white acting nominees announced by Bafta last month provoked uproar, with the hashtag #BaftasSoWhite once more trending and some fearing this year’s ceremony might face a boycott.
“I don’t think anybody wants a handout or preferential treatment,” continued Phoenix. “People just want to be acknowledged and appreciated and respected for their work.
“I’m ashamed to say that I’m part of the problem, because I’ve not ensured that the sets I’ve worked on are inclusive.
He added: “We have to do the hard work to truly understand systemic racism. It is the obligation of the people who have created and benefit from the system of oppression to be the ones to dismantle it. So that’s on us.”
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Phoenix’s words were met by what Lulu Wang – the director of Chinese-American drama The Farewell, which was nominated for best original screenplay – called “an uncomfortable silence … for a long noticeable moment”.
The Great Hack’s Carole Cadwalladr, the Observer reporter, also expressed admiration for Phoenix’s use of the podium to put forward uncomfortable views. Across Twitter, the actor’s speech was hailed variously as pertinent, essential and the most important moment of the evening.
Phoenix, 45, who is the frontrunner to take the best actor Oscar next Sunday, spent the morning of the Baftas campaigning for a meat-free world with protesters on Tower Bridge.
Earlier in the evening, both host Graham Norton and awards presenter Rebel Wilson took aim at the lack of diversity being celebrated.
Norton called 2019 “the year when white men finally broke through”, and referred to Phoenix’s film Joker – which led the pack with 11 nominations – as “the story of a white man who makes himself even whiter”.
In his closing remarks, Prince William, Bafta’s president, alluded to the controversy, saying that, not for the first time, “we find ourselves talking again about the need to do more to ensure diversity in the sector and the awards process. That simply cannot be right in this day and age.”
One of the evening’s most popular winners was Micheal Ward, the Top Boy and Blue Story actor who won the rising star award.
Meanwhile, Korea’s Bong Joon-ho took two gongs, including best original screenplay, while adapted screenplay went to Jojo Rabbit’s Taika Waititi, who is of Maori descent.
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