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The fundamentalist Taliban mind set is everywhere - from the US Supreme Court to Afghanistan to Iran...
They came for Salman Rushdie, they came for complete control of women, and they came to persuade people to believe in their imaginary friends under pain of torture and death ...
But while they might ban and burn books, and kill their writers, they can't eradicate the thought ... that fundamentalism deserves a fundamentalist response ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Most of us realise quality of life is more important than longevity”
With an estimated 5-12% of people infected developing long Covid the health system is going to be severely stretched.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/14/long-covid-clinic-wait-times-blow-out-as-health-experts-call-for-national-approach-to-condition
That could be well over a million people in Australia whose “quality of life” just went down the gurgler.