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Dante Licona. (2020, December 8). What can NGOs, government and public institutions do on TikTok? Today @melisfiganmese and I shared some insights at #EuroPCom, the @EU_CoR conference for public communication. We were asked to talk about upcoming social media trends. Here’s a thread with some insights👇 https://t.co/GzOA66vstQ [Tweet]. @Dante_Licona. https://twitter.com/Dante_Licona/status/1336303773334069251

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Rhetoric - Government attack - Spin

The Quest for Truth

The quest for Truth is everywhere and not limited to the economic topics linked here. This is just a topic that started a thought process where I had access to a convenient tool (Hypothesis) to bookmark my thoughts and research.

Primary thought is: The Quest for Truth. Subcategories would provide a structured topic for the thought. In this case the subcategory would be: US Economy, Inflation

The TRUTH is a concept comprised of inconsistencies and targets that frequently move.

Targets (data, methods, people, time, semantics, agenda, demographic, motive, means, media, money, status) hold a position in time long enough to fulfill a purpose or agenda. Sometimes they don't consciously change, but history over time shines light and opens cracks in original narrative that leads to new truth's, real or imagined.

Verifying and validating certain Truth is very difficult. Why is That?

Vaccine experts defend UK decision to delay second Pfizer Covid jab. (2021, January 23). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/23/vaccine-experts-defend-uk-decision-to-delay-second-pfizer-covid-jab

Thacker, P. D. (2020). Conflicts of interest among the UK government’s covid-19 advisers. BMJ, 371, m4716. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4716

O’Dwyer, E. J., Beascoechea-Seguí, N., & Souza, L. S. (2020). Rehearsing post-Covid-19 citizenship: Social representations and social practices in UK mutual aid groups. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v84mr

Pollock, A. M., & Lancaster, J. (2020). Asymptomatic transmission of covid-19. BMJ, 371, m4851. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4851

Horton, Richard. ‘Offline: Science and Politics in the Era of COVID-19’. The Lancet 396, no. 10259 (24 October 2020): 1319. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32221-2.

Ferguson, D. (2020, October 25). UK academics: opening of universities was illegal. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/24/uk-academics-opening-of-universities-was

Structural racism led to worse Covid impact on BAME groups – report. (2020, October 27). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/27/structural-racism-led-to-worse-covid-impact-on-bame-groups-report

correspondent, J. H. E. (2020, December 3). Swedes’ support for anti-lockdown stance slips amid rising Covid deaths. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/sweden-anti-lockdown-covid-deaths

Tirrell, M. (2021, January 21). A year into the Covid crisis, scientists explain what we learned—And what we got wrong. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/21/covid-19-what-we-learned-since-the-first-us-case-was-confirmed.html

Chris Ham: The United Kingdom’s poor record on covid-19 is a failure of policy learning. (2021, January 26). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/26/chris-ham-the-united-kingdoms-poor-record-on-covid-19-is-a-failure-of-policy-learning/

Taylor, J. (2021, February 17). Treasurer says Facebook has ‘damaged its reputation’ with Australian news ban. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/18/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content

Davies, R., & Elgot, J. (2021, February 17). Air systems in some UK quarantine hotels ‘risk spreading Covid’. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/17/air-systems-in-some-uk-quarantine-hotels-risk-spreading-covid

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Covid: Make children priority after pandemic, Anne Longfield says. (2021, February 17). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-56092579

Coronavirus: Mobile networks send ‘stay at home’ text. (2020, March 24). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52017451

Excel: Why using Microsoft’s tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost. (2020, October 5). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

Fake News and Conspiracy Theories. (2021, February 16). American Purpose. https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories/

Study shows vaccine nationalism could cost rich countries US$4.5 trillion. (2021, January 25). ICC - International Chamber of Commerce. https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/study-shows-vaccine-nationalism-could-cost-rich-countries-us4-5-trillion/

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Lu, D. (n.d.). England’s quarantine hotels won’t stop spread of coronavirus variants. New Scientist. Retrieved 15 February 2021, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267688-englands-quarantine-hotels-wont-stop-spread-of-coronavirus-variants/

Horton, R. (2021). Offline: The case for No-COVID. The Lancet, 397(10272), 359. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00186-0

Wenham, C. (2021). What went wrong in the global governance of covid-19? BMJ, 372, n303. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n303

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 10). "Trying to appease both public health demands and the libertarian views of the free market has led not only to astronomical death tolls, such as in the US, UK, and Brazil, but to flailing economies. " 2/3 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1359427735022694405

Stokel-Walker, C. (2021). Covid-19: Why test and trace will fail without support for self-isolation. BMJ, 372, n327. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n327