For those still travelling to work, 2020 was the year wearing face masks became compulsory for many
And then this virus was circulated effortlessly by one of mankind's supposedly greatest achievements: cheap and frequent global air travel. Scientists point out that the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is thought to have begun with birds, HIV with apes and Ebola with bats. Governments should be "looking at our animal practices, deforestation, how we raise animals in factories, if we are using antibiotics and what conditions they are kept in," she argues.
By contrast, she says, African leaders knew their health systems couldn't "treat their way through this" - so for instance Mali stopped all international travel before it even had its first case. The airline industry received $170bn in government help which prevented widespread bankruptcies. Passenger numbers fell 60% on the year - back to the flight volumes of 17 years ago.
Paul Ward of McQueen Dairies in Cheshire in northwest England says: "We've never seen it this busy. It's going crazy. It makes you feel proud to be a milkman." Mr Daswani says customers use Facetime and Zoom calls to buy suits. "We have to find other ways of doing business. It is a good experience because we are modernising our company with new technology.
"We discovered it was actually possible for much of the office-based economy to carry on pretty successfully with hardly anybody ever going into the office." This will be "a massive challenge", he says, but he concludes that "the end result is going to end up with a saving of space and a saving of human effort and I think happier people".Covid was among the reasons why Mr Trump lost the presidential election to his rival Joe Biden
amazing how US/UK journalism refers to the late 2010s US/UK economies as a period of shock disappointment broken promises, w/out getting into how it represents the culmination of american and british economic policy since the 1970s. why is that? i wonder if ppl are reading bks🤔
If you think Trump was bad..... Come back in four years.
Prof Reich argues that Trump succeeded in boosting share prices, but that didn't help most people, given that the richest 10% of Americans own 92% of the stock market'
George done well.
In hindsight George W Bush wasn't that bad, relatively speaking