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It’s a Disaster, Yet They’d Rather Track than Quarantine…

Romania has by far the highest COVID-19 death rate per million in Europe and the third highest in the world. The health system has been overwhelmed for quite some time, hospitals running out of space to even keep patients on chairs or stretchers, any intensive care bed that can be made available filling immediately, the […]

Bucharest Back in the Red

Though it passed the threshold of three cases per one thousand people on Wednesday, it was only yesterday, meaning Friday, that a meeting was held to decide that Bucharest will enter the “red” scenario from midnight. And even that took many hours, since the desire was to postpone such a decision until Monday, obviously because […]

The Only Way to Win This Game Is to Not Play It… But Your Entry Is Decided by Others

I’ve been repeating this so many times I find it quite surprising that I haven’t made it into a post yet. Realized it some time ago, when I meant to send it as a message to someone, but since I didn’t send the message I didn’t write the post either, so I’m finally getting around […]

The Guardian Submission About Moving to a Cashless Society

Since I tend to post the submissions I send to The Guardian, even more so when I need non-personal posts, I’m going to add this one I actually sent over two weeks ago as well. It’s a reaction to an article about moving to a cashless society, or to that one and a second one […]

Can We Dismiss the Mirage That the Mainstream Can Ever Solve the Environmental Crisis?

John Kerry’s statement that half of the necessary emissions cuts will come from unspecified technological fixes that are yet to be invented and people won’t need to change their way of life to cut emissions should put to rest any hopes so many had that the solution for the environmental crisis, or for any other […]