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🇺🇸🦠 A sea of 650,000 white flags - one for every person who died from coronavirus in the US - is taking shape in front of the Washington Monument at the National Mall.
“In America: Remember” by
@sbfirstenberg
will be on display from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3.
#COVID19
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 The vaccine is the product of a German-American partnership. Germany’s BioNTech, founded by two children of Turkish immigrants, partnered with America’s Pfizer, led by a Greek-born CEO, to produce the coronavirus vaccine. Glad to help.
That’s great.
Just out of curiosity, which country was it that developed the vaccine?
Wonder why.
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🇩🇪 It is hard to overestimate how much Putin’s attack on Ukraine changed Germany.
Less than a week ago Nord Stream 2 was still alive, delivering lethal weapons to Ukraine taboo & cutting Russia out of Swift out of the question.
Putin’s invasion changed Germany.
Zeitenwende.
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In Hamburg, Germany, tens of thousands protest against the far-right today.
The rally had to be cut short due to safety concerns because of crowd size.
The wave of protests against the far-right will continue on the weekend with dozens of rallies.
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🇩🇪🗳 Leader of far right AfD: youth should “learn more German folk songs, more German poems” in school.
Kid reporter: “I think we already have to memorize plenty of poems in school. What’s your favorite German poem?”
AfD leader: “I can’t think of one.”
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The goal of
@ProjectLincoln
is simple says co-founder
@reedgalen
:
“We're a bunch of former & some current Republicans who decided last December that it was time to defeat Donald Trump & Trumpism & his aiders & abetters at the ballot box this November.”
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🇺🇸 That President Trump spends three consecutive tweets to discredit Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic about how he disrespects the military is a pretty solid indicator that Trump knows it is damaging and accurate.
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Let me get that straight: It is fine to close all county schools to protect children from the dangers of a few inches of snow, but unacceptable to switch all county schools to distance learning to protect children from a surging virus that has killed more than 800,000 people.
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Europeans are fortunate to have Joe Biden, a friend of Europe, as partner amid the Ukraine crisis. His steady & prudent leadership so far has been crucial.
Still, Europeans, especially Germans, need to take on more responsibility in the transatlantic partnership. Time is short.
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🧵 Austrian physicans:
"We CAN’T take responsibility for the constant, unmitigated infection of the population w/ a vascular-damaging, neurotropic virus like SARS-CoV-2, in which a previous infection provides no long-term protection vs future infection.”
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🇺🇸 Reminder courtesy of
@ProjectLincoln
co-founder
@reedgalen
: The Republican Party “is now largely a white nationalist political organization,” he told me in a recent interview for
@zeitonline
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In Munich, Germany, 100,000 rallied against the far-right on Sunday according to police as the nationwide protests agains the AfD continue.
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 “Trump’s army: Fired. Hurt. Dangerous. How a President became the leader of a putsch.”
New cover of Germany’s Der Spiegel.
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🧵 New cover of Germany’s Der Spiegel:
“Abandoned?”
“The empty promise of the German Zeitenwende”
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🧵Germany’s health minister warns of a massive Covid wave and urges people to wear masks in public transport, work from home and avoid large indoor Christmas parties.
“Covid remains dangerous. It's not a cold that you can safely catch every season.”
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🇩🇪 Cologne, Germany’s Karneval capital, today:
More than 250.000 turned the city’s traditional Rosenmontag parade into a huge protest vs the Ukraine war.
This is both big as Cologne takes its Karneval very seriously, but also not surprising because Cologne is an awesome place.
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At a rally to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to protest against the war hundreds tonight at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate people sing “Ode to Joy”.
A much larger rally is planned for Sunday in Berlin.
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The very real fear & the emotional burden of children who know that they might bring a deadly virus home from school that could infect & harm their parents, siblings, grandparents & other loved ones is rarely acknowledged & seriously discussed. This says nothing good about us.
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 What’s behind President Trump’s strong dislike for German Chancellor Merkel?
“She is so clearly more intelligent by leaps and bounds, by miles than he is and he knows that,” said
@ProjectLincoln
co-founder
@reedgalen
.
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Barack Obama’s farewell to Angela Merkel:
On behalf of the American people…I want to thank you for your friendship, your leadership & most of all for your fidelity to the universal values that you embraced as a young girl in East Germany. Dankeschön!
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Germany’s health minister, a Harvard-educated epidemiologist:
“It is important not to underestimate Omicron. Studies suggest that one can get infected again relatively soon after infection. Long protection like with Delta is less likely. Repeated infections are not w/out risk.”
Es ist wichtig, Omicron nicht zu unterschätzen. Studien legen nahe, dass man sich relativ kurz nach der Infektion wieder anstecken kann. Ein langer Schutz wie bei Delta ist weniger wahrscheinlich. Wiederholte Infektionen sind nicht ungefährlich.
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Germany’s health minister:
The danger of Long Covid is extremly underestimated. We do not nearly have the therapy places for it. People should not lightly expose themselves to an infection that can change their life. Vaccinations significantly reduce the risk of infection.
Die Gefahr von
#LongCovid
wird mega unterschätzt. Wir haben nicht im Ansatz die Therapieplätze dafür. Menschen sollten sich nicht leichtfertig einer Infektion aussetzen, die ihr Leben verändern kann. Impfungen senken das Risiko bei Infektion deutlich.
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New coronavirus cases yesterday
🇮🇹 Italy: 208
🇺🇸U.S.: 46,727
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“COVID-19 is not a cold. It is not influenza. It is a systemic, vascular-damaging disease that only spreads via the respiratory route, via aerosols.
COVID-19 is neither over, nor is it a harmless infection without consequences.”
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In Leipzig, in eastern Germany, yesterday, thousands joined a rally against the far-right AfD chanting “All together against facism”.
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Not sure John Bolton needs to be one of the first people to be interviewed on the fall of Kabul by NPR’s Morning Edition.
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 In no other country did America’s image in the first 100 days since Biden took office improve nearly as much as in Germany — that is by a whopping 47 points, per Morning Consult.
That speaks both to Biden’s popularity, but also to how *deeply* disliked Trump was in Germany.
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🇩🇪🦠 🧵 BIG. Germany’s new coronavirus expert council, per ARD:
All models show that boosters alone don’t lead to a sufficient reduction of the omicron wave, “therefore additional contact restrictions are needed.”
Goal: Nationally effective contact restrictions in coming days.
Exklusiv: Corona-Expertenrat der Bundesregierung für zeitnahe Kontaktbeschränkungen
#Eilmeldung
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”Germany’s Federal Office of Justice has launched proceedings against Twitter, claiming the company has failed to deal adequately with illegal content.”
“Illegal content includes hate speech, personal threats, defamation and antisemitism.”
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They call the handling and management of the pandemic “absolutely appaling”. They state that in Europe alone 36 million people have become chronically ill as a result of Covid infections.
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“We the medical community need to play an exemplary role and take measures to protect everyone and NOT continue to bow to social, media and political pressure."
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🧵 In Düsseldorf, Germany *100,000* people join huge rally against the far-right today, according to police.
At least as important, were the dozens of rallies in *smaller towns*, many of them in *eastern Germany* where the far-right AfD polls highest. ⬇️
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🦠 New cases today:
🇩🇪 Germany: 30,291
🇺🇸 Maryland: 14,494
Measures vs surge:
🇩🇪 Germany: Indoor mask mandate, non-essential shops only for vaxxed/recovered, bars closed
🇺🇸 Maryland: none, largely symbolic state of emergency
Germany has 14 times the population of Maryland.
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🧵Germany’s new fall/winter Covid measures take effect & include:
National:
🔹FFP2 masks in hospitals/nursing homes/medical offices
🔹FFP2 masks on long-distance rail/bus
State options:
🔹Mask mandates: regional public transport, public indoor spaces, schools (grade 5 up)
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They suggest preventive measures:
-Use of CO2 measuring devices indoors
-Good ventilation using ventilation systems or open windows
-Air purification w/ HEPA filters (in winter or where ventilation is only possible to a limited extent)
-Testing & isolation in case of symptoms
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Polio, like Monkeypox and Covid, is generally mild and we have the tools, right?
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-Keep Covid as reportable disease & provide insight into the vigilance system (e.g. wastewater data, hospitalizations, deaths)
-FFP2 masks
-Reserve blocked time slots on defined days for vulnerable people
-etc.
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🇩🇪 The founders of BioNTech, children of Turkish immigrants, were awarded the country’s highest honors today by Germany’s president.
Germany’s BioNTech, in partnership with America’s Pfizer, created the first Western coronavirus vaccine.
Özlem Türeci und Uğur Şahin, die
#BioNTech
-Gründer, haben mit herausragender Wissenschaft und mutigem Unternehmergeist einen Schlüssel zur globalen Eindämmung der Pandemie geschaffen. Heute hat sie Bundespräsident Steinmeier mit dem Großen Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik geehrt
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🇩🇪🦠🧵 Let me get that straight: On the same day Germany for the first time recorded a 7-day incidence rate above 1600, w/ hospitalizations rising & more than 200 daily deaths, the govt took the 1st step to end most national Covid measures, like indoor mask mandates on March 20.
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The Covid hospitalization rate in Germany on Friday increased to the highest level (9.59) since the start of the pandemic, per RKI data. It surpassed the previous peak by ca. 15%.
Also: In several states the number of available ICU beds fell below the ten percent mark.
Die
#Corona
-Zahl des Freitags lautet: 9,59. So hoch ist laut
#RKI
am Freitag die
#Hospitalisierungsrate
gestiegen. Das ist nicht nur ein neuer Höchststand in der Pandemie, er übertrifft den alten Höchstwert glatt um 15%. (1/x)
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Germany’s planned Covid measures for fall/winter:
National:
🔹Masks & negative test for hospitals/nursing homes
🔹Masks on planes & long-distance rail/bus
Addtl. options for states:
🔹Mask mandates: regional public transport, public indoor spaces, schools (grade 5 up)
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Berlin state government illuminates the Brandenburg Gate in Ukrainian colors.
“Berlin stands on the side of Ukraine”
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Germany’s largest university hospital, Berlin’s Charité, warns:
The number of Covid infections that require intensive care is increasing.
10% of the cases treated in intensive care in the clinic are artificially ventilated with so-called ECMO therapy.
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If Trump, weeks before an election, amid 3000 weekly Covid deaths, millions suffering from Long Covid, and a potential fall surge, would have declared that the pandemic is over, Democrats would have been outraged — rightly so.
Now Biden did just that. The silence is deafening.
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🇩🇪 Germany’s governing CDU party today after a close three way race elected its new leader and potential successor to Chancellor Merkel.
The losing candidates congratulated the winner, did not hire lawyers and did not demand a recount.
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New cover of Germany’s Der Spiegel:
“The Lawless”
“The feudalistic world of the super rich”
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Germany’s health minister:
Soon we will see Long Covid more clearly for what it is: a very serious disease, so far without therapy and cure for many. Hopefully adjusted vaccines can avoid infection in the fall. The studies are ongoing.
Bald werden wir
#LongCOVID
klarer als das sehen, was es ist: eine sehr schwere Krankheit, bisher ohne Therapie und Heilung für viele. Hoffentlich können angepasste Impfstoffe im Herbst Infektion vermeiden. Die Studien dazu laufen.
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🇩🇪🗳 After a German election in which the lead switched among *3* parties & that ended w/ a narrow, upset victory for party widely deemed unlikely to win at the outset, no top candidate has questioned the legitimacy of the democratic process.
Sounds trivial, but isn’t.
#btw21
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🇩🇪 New Germany poll:
Should Germany stop the gas and oil exports from Russia because of the war?
Yes: 55%
No: 39%
Yes, supporters of
Greens: 73%
SPD: 62%
CDU/CSU: 56%
FDP: 40%
Left party: 33%
AfD: 22%
Politbarometer poll for ZDF
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 U.S. President Joe Biden to nominate Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, as ambassador to Germany, per Der Spiegel
Gutmann, whose father fled Nazi Germany, would be the first female U.S. envoy to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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“Spain announced on Monday that wearing face masks inside health facilities was now compulsory, as COVID-19 and flu cases grow across the country.”
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In Munich, Germany, tens of thousands joined a huge rally against the far-right today.
In one the largest rallies there in decades police spoke of least 80,000 people, organizers of more than 200,000.
The rally was called off early due to overcrowding.
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The 500 Stinger missiles & 1000 antitank weapons promised by Germany to Ukraine have been handed over, per dpa citing govt. sources.
Berlin had promised the delivery only on Saturday in what was a major reversal of its previous policy not to supply Ukraine w/ lethal weapons.
🔴 LIVEBLOG Die von Deutschland bereitgestellten Waffen für die Ukraine sind übergeben worden. +++ Die weitere Entwicklung im
#UkraineKrieg
👉
@dpa
via
@pnp
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🇺🇸🌎 Not surprising, still stunning & important to remember just how much more positive President Biden is viewed around the world than his predecessor. Key now to make something out of it.
Difference:
🇸🇪 Sweden: +70
🇩🇪 Germany: +68
🇫🇷 France: +63
🇮🇹 Italy: +59
🇬🇷 Greece: +42
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Germany will buy two new Covid vaccines for €830 million ($870 million) in preparation for fall, announced health minister Karl Lauterbach today.
An Omicron specific vaccine was ordered from BioNTech and a bivalent vaccine will be ordered from Moderna.
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🇩🇪 HUGE. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said today in a tough speech in the Bundestag that Germany will now quickly invest more than 2% of its GDP in defense.
He also called Feb 24 a “Zeitenwende” (historical turning point) & Putin a warmonger bent on creating a Russian empire.
We must put a stop to warmongers like Putin. That requires strength of our own. We want a strong, modern Bundeswehr and we will spend over 2% of our economic output on ensuring it is suitably equipped.
Yes, we fully intend to secure our freedom and our prosperity!
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The full text of the open letter to Austria’s medical chamber (in German)
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Deadliest July since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Germany, per Robert Koch-Institute data:
Covid deaths in July
2020: 136
2021: 274
2022: 2839
Germany ended most Covid measures earlier this year.
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🇩🇪 Important feature of Germany’s just extended and tightened coronavirus lockdown: Parents can receive an additional 10 days each of paid leave to take care of children, single parents additional 20 days.
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 Wow. The leader of the Young Republicans, Rick Loughery, a Trump backer, spoke at the yearly meeting of the Junge Union, the CDU’s youth wing:
“Your brothers & sisters in the US stand with you. We must come together in the fight against socialism.”
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SCOOP:⚡️The Trump administration downgraded the EU delegation to the US without prior notification, an EU official familiar with the matter confirmed to me.
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🦠 The Delta variant is an ugraded, highly transmissable version of the original coronavirus.
🇩🇪 Germany mandates medical masks indoors.
🇫🇷 France recommends medical masks indoors.
🇺🇸The US has not done either. Per the CDC, homemade & cloth masks are still sufficient.
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🇺🇸🧵 The CDC won’t recommend high quality masks. Other countries mandate them.
🇩🇪 Germany: surgical or FFP2/3 (N95) masks in stores & public transport (pt)
🇦🇹 Austria: FFP2 outdoors when social distancing not possible & indoors & pt
🇮🇹 Italy: FFP2 in pt &
cinemas etc.
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🇩🇪Wow. New Germany poll:
NATO is important to secure peace in Europe
83% tend to agree
11% tend to disagree
Over the last years Germany was too lenient w/Putin
68% t. to agree
23% t. to disagree
Long term Ukraine should be accepted into EU
63% t. to agree
26% t. to disagree
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 The only reason imaginable why Aldi could be trending in the U.S. on
#Christmas
Eve is that Americans want to get some last minute German Christmas cookies.
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Amid a rapid rise of Covid hospitalizations, the head of Germany’s hospital association warned of “extremely difficult weeks ahead.”
With ICU bed availability already limited in several regions, the head of Germany’s IC registry expects this trend to spread to more regions.
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A law professor and former colleague of Josh Hawley at the University of Missouri.
My god, Josh. I've known pretty much what you are since you took office across hall at MU Law. But I had no idea how low you would be prepared to go in pursuit of power. You call yourself a "constitutional lawyer." But you disgrace the profession & dishonor constitution daily.
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🇺🇸🌎 Best of America! My 🇺🇸 wife & 🇩🇪 I got our first 💉shot of a 🇩🇪🇺🇸German-American Covid vaccine on Good Friday from Esther, a 🇳🇬Nigerian-born pharmacist at a grocery store where we get 😉 10% off on our next purchase.
Thank you to all the scientists & medical professionals!
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🇩🇪 health min. has been criticized for his “annoying alarmism” for saying he expects an extensive mask mandate as of Oct:
“I’m being paid to annoy. It’s my duty to already lead this discussion now…Only when we act now can we be better prepared in fall.”
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Now in English, the excellent and detailed article on Long Covid and what companies need to do to become mostly Covid-proof.
“Companies have been ignoring the enormous long Covid risk for too long. Now they're paying for it – literally.”
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Germany’s health minister:
“Children who get COVID early have a significantly increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes. COVID is not a cold.”
Kinder, die früh an COVID erkranken, haben ein deutlich erhöhtes Risiko, Typ 1 Diabetes zu entwickeln. COVID ist keine Erkältung.
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In Hamburg, Germany, some 60,000 people, according to police, rallied against the far-right on Sunday in what is the *third* such mass protest in the city within weeks under the slogan “We are the firewall.”
Picture: Axel Heimken/dpa
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Wow. Twitter’s algorithms amplify tweets from the political right more than from the political left in six (US, UK, Canada, France, Spain, Japan) out of seven countries studied according to Twitter’s own research published today.
The outlier: 🇩🇪Germany
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Germany: Current Covid wave dwarfs flu and RSV, per Robert Koch-Institute data.
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🇺🇸 President Biden’s promise to Afghan translators and their families: “There is a home for you in the United States if you so choose.”
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🦠💉 New coronavirus cases on Wednesday:
Florida: 16,935 (140 deaths)
Germany: 3539 (26 deaths)
Fully vaccinated:
Germany: 53.6%
Florida: 49.3%
🇩🇪 Germany’s population is four times that of Florida.
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🇺🇸🇩🇪🍳 German-American friendship in tough times:
The dining facility at Ramstein Air Base is closed for renovation, so local restaurant “Die Bühne” stepped in & cooks for Afghan evacuees.
Usually it serves 80 meals - now 2000.
On the menu: Spätzle.
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Germany’s health minister:
Very high infection numbers severely stress our clinics. Covid remains a hard to quantify risk, incl. for long-term effects. All who have called for personal responsibility instead of gov. bans should now practice it. Vaccination & mask where neeeded.
Sehr hohe Zahlen Infizierter belasten unsere Kliniken stark. Coronainfektionen bleiben schwer kalkulierbares Risiko, auch für Spätfolgen. All diejenigen, die statt staatlicher Verbote nach Eigenverantwortung gerufen haben, sollten diese jetzt auch zeigen. Impfung, Maske wo nötig
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🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany today.
120,000 people, many of them students and most of them masked, protest against the war in Ukraine.
The rally was organized by the Fridays for Future youth movement
Yesterday, school authorities of Hamburg, Germany announced that school children are allowed to skip classes to join our strike for peace. Today, 120.000 people showed up to
#StandWithUkraine
️.
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Assessment:
Omicron could lead to “explosive spread” that poses “high risk” to critical infrastructure in Germany (hospitals, police, EMS, telecoms, water, electricity) requiring immediate action now.
Also: No indication that Omicron is milder than Delta.
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🇩🇪🇺🇸German Chancellor Merkel congratulates Biden & Harris.
The American citizens have decided. Joe Biden will be the 46th US President. From the bottom of my heart, I wish him joy & success & also congratulate Kamala Harris, the elected 1st female Vice President of her country.
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🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Steve Bannon was arrested by US Postal Service Agents on a boat at sea for alleged fraud regarding Trump’s border wall.
This is officially that rare case when there is no German word yet to describe such an event. You are welcome.
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🇺🇸🌎✉️ Wow. The US Postal Service has suspended mail deliveries to 22 countries incl. Australia, New Zealand, Afghanistan & Cuba from Oct 1 due to “unavailibility of transportation”, per USPS website.
It coincides w/ the launch of a contentious USPS reform by a Trump appointee.
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🇺🇸 Clear message for the Kremlin from President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor: Release Navalny immediately.
Mr. Navalny should be immediately released, and the perpetrators of the outrageous attack on his life must be held accountable. The Kremlin’s attacks on Mr. Navalny are not just a violation of human rights, but an affront to the Russian people who want their voices heard.
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🇩🇪Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) has now put the entire far-right AfD party under surveillance, German media report.
Several party orgs were already under surveillance.
The AfD is the 3d largest group in the German Bundestag, which is reelected later this year.
That designation gives state agents more powers for surveillance in certain circumstances, including potentially tapping the party's communications.
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The leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion overturning the Roe v Wade abortion decision is a key topic for media outlets around the world.
Der Spiegel analysis headline: “Back to the middle ages”
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Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate illuminated tonight with the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” in several languages to show solidarity with the protests in Iran.
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🇩🇪🦠 “A federation of imbeciles has ensured that Germany is being hit extremely hard by the 4th wave – much worse than many other European countries.”
To understand how 🇩🇪 got into the Covid crisis, this tough story is a good place to start - & a warning.
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Germany to face a full fledged Covid summer wave, the country’s health minister tells RTL.
He urged indoor masking & a 4th shot for high risk people, but said vaccines are not enough to prevent the wave.
“The vaccines are not strong enough for that.”
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Re-upping this friendly reminder by German Chancellor Merkel to wear a face mask and to wear it properly.
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🛫🛬 Snapshot of the massive international air evacuation from Afghanistan.
Military aircraft flying into and out of Kabul airport:
🇺🇸 U.S.: 86
🇬🇧 UK: 10
🇨🇦 Canada: 4
🇪🇸 Spain: 1
🇩🇰 Denmark: 1
🇮🇳 India: 1
#Kabul
Airlift - Aircraft Tracking Sheet - Version 1.1 (22:00BST 15/08/2021)
Data collected via
@flightradar24
@ADSBexchange
and
@planefinder
Created with help from the amazing
@vcdgf555
(go give them a follow if you don't already!)
#Afghanistan
#Taliban
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🇩🇪🇮🇳🦠 Germany’s Air Force today delivered the first part of a massive oxygen production plant to help India’s fight against Covid, per Ambassador Lindner who welcomed the plane. Once fully operational the plant is able to produce up to 400,000 liters of medical oxygen per day.
Amidst Delhi thunderstorm touchdown of GER Air Force transport plane A400M. On board 1. batch of huge oxygen production plant. Right now loaded on trucks for Sadat Vallabhbhai Patel COVID Hospital. 2 A400M arriving tomorrow. Round-the-clock installation-work starts immediately...
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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merkel used her final German unity day speech to talk about democracy:
“Democracy has to be lived, filled with meaning, protected. Democracy needs us just as much as we need democracy. Democracy isn’t just there, but we must work for it together every day.”
„Demokratie muss man leben, ausfüllen, schützen. Sie braucht uns so, wie wir sie brauchen. Demokratie ist nicht einfach da, sondern wir müssen immer wieder für sie miteinander arbeiten, jeden Tag“ – Kanzlerin Merkel in ihrer Festrede zum
#TagderDeutschenEinheit
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🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇬🇹🇷 International cooperation at its best! My 🇺🇸 wife & 🇩🇪 I got our 2nd💉shot of a 🇩🇪🇺🇸German-American Covid vaccine (created by children of 🇹🇷Turkish immigrants) from Esther, a 🇳🇬Nigerian-born pharmacist at a U.S. grocery story.
🌎 Now let’s cooperate to help the world!
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🧵 Long Covid expert
@kahryn_hoffmann
urges infection prevention in light of the long-term damage from Covid as it is now clear that risk increases cumulatively with each infection.
“What everyone needs is good protection from a renewed Covid infection.”
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