New York Times (December 28)
“China’s hospitals were already overcrowded, underfunded and inadequately staffed in the best of times. But now with Covid spreading freely for the first time in China, the medical system is being pushed to its limits.”
Tags: China, Covid, Hospitals, Inadequate, Medical system, Overcrowded, Spreading, Staff, Underfunded
WARC (November 28)
Carbon offsets hearken back to the pre-crash CDO market. In 47% of the transactions Bloomberg recently analyzed, there was inadequate “information to link them back to a buyer. It is, effectively, an opaque market…. The trouble is that this confirms many people’s – often correct – perception that they can’t trust what most brands tell them about their carbon footprint.”
Tags: Bloomberg, Brands, Buyer, Carbon footprint, Carbon offsets, CDO market, Inadequate, Link, Opaque market, Perception, Pre-crash, Transactions, Trust
The Guardian (September 4)
“Donald Trump is the most repellent individual ever to have sought, let alone won, the presidency of the United States. The latest proof comes in a quadruple-sourced account of Trump describing US troops who died for their country as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers.’” But it’s not just what he says. The nation’s economy now “lies in tatters, racked by mass unemployment. And yet, despite that record of lethal failure, this inadequate, malignant man still has the support of 42% of the American people.”
Tags: Economy, Inadequate, Lethal failure, Losers, Malignant, Presidency, Repellent, Suckers, Support, Tatters, Troops, Trump, U.S., Unemployment, Won
