New paper! 📢 How has the #affectedness of economic sectors impacted preferences on #pandemicpolicy?

Our team at the European University Institute explores the structural factors that influence sectors to be in favor of protecting either the economy or public health. ↔️

📚 Read the research paper here: https://regroup-horizon.eu/publications/affectedness/

#pandemicpolitics #covidpolicy #covidpandemic #covidresearch #cleavages #regroup #horizoneu #horizoneurope

@politicalscience
@politicaltheory
@sociology

📢 INVITATION PUBLIC EVENT!
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted democracy in Poland?

Join REGROUP's free event in Krakow or follow the panel discussions from the livestream. 📽️

🗓️ Thursday, September 14
⏰ 5-6.30pm

Find more information: https://fb.me/e/5iBoxuU0p

We're looking forward to welcoming you!

#krakow #democraticbacksliding #law #covidpandemic #humanrights #horizonEU #horizoneurope

@politicalscience @politicaltheory @sociology

Yet more proof the COVID-19 #vaccines are experimental and dangerous… Not that anybody with an ounce on intelligence is surprised. | https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSL4os53W/ | #COVID19 #vaccine #pandemic #COVIDpandemic

Yet more proof the COVID-19 #vaccines are experimental and dangerous… Not that anybody with an ounce on intelligence is surprised. | https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSL4os53W/ | #COVID19 #vaccine #pandemic #COVIDpandemic

The @IAIonline authors of the first #regroup paper compared the #covidpandemic with 3 other global crises in relation to geopolitical reordering. 🌍

What has the analysis revealed? 👇

Read the blog post here and get your hands on the full paper:
https://regroup-horizon.eu/blog-global-crises/

@politicalscience
@sociology

#pandemicpolitics #globalcrises #polycrisis #geopolitics

Has the #covidpandemic strengthened or weakened #populism?

Professor Lars Rensmann from the University of Passau argues that many populist parties used the pandemic for their electoral gain. But, the succes of that varied across Europe.👇🇪🇺

Watch the full video here:
https://regroup-horizon.eu/video-lars-rensmann/

@politicalscience @socialscience

#pandemicpolitics #horizoneurope #horizoneu #disinformation #polarisation

INVITATION:
Our consortium partner, the University of Cyprus, hosts a #regroup public event in #Nicosia on June 15!

Our excellent panelists, moderated by Michalis Moutselos, explore how EU democracies dealt with crisis politics during the #covidpandemic and what legacies remain.

See you in Cyprus?

Find more information: https://regroup-horizon.eu/nicosia/

#regroup #pandemicpolitics #pandemic #horizoneurope #horizonEU

@sociology @politicalscience @politicaltheory @BenLeruth @pierotortola

Yesterday, our partners at
the University of Innbruck hosted a workshop to share insights on legal-constitutional dilemmas of the #covidpandemic, with contributors of the book "Pandemocracy in Europe".

Thanks to Matthias Kettemann and Caroline Böck for organising!

Find more information on the book "Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pandemocracy-in-europe-9781509946365/

@politicalscience #regroup #pandemicpolitics #pandemocracy #horizoneurope #horizonEU

Profound article by the NRC for our Dutch followers: 👇

The Dutch Ministry of Health initiated a think tank during the #covidpandemic, including civil servants, Meta, Google & YouTube, who tried to fight #disinformation on social media. But who can make these claims and what influence should they have on public debates?

Important questions #regroup aims to answer!

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/04/25/desinformatie-over-vaccins-werd-gewist-maar-wie-besloot-wat-a4163066

#pandemicpolitics #pandemicresponses @politicalscience @socialscience

VIDEO 1# | REGROUP is meeting with… Ilaria Capua!

We are happy to share our first video, where Professor Ilaria Capua tells us about the role of scientific uncertainty, polarisation, and disinformation on Covid-19 governance, which summarises her talk held at our public event in Groningen.

Did you miss it?
Watch the video here: https://regroup-horizon.eu/blog-video-ilaria/

@ilariacapua @pierotortola
@socialscience @politicalscience

#regroup #covidpandemic #pandemicpolitics #pandemicrecovery #disinformation

#DeclareEmergency #ClimateEmergency #NecessityDefense

I am preparing for a #MontgomeryCounty #Maryland circuit court trial on April 3 in #Rockville in which I will attempt to invoke a #NecessityDefense to appeal my 120 day $1,000 sentence (only 6 days served, the rest suspended) for demanding @joebiden declare a #ClimateEmergency on the #DC beltway last October 10 and being arrested for trespass and failure to obey.

Actually today I am rereading https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VqguqwsW7VPW7r8qAF7Fj8Rfn0-guLqp/view?usp=drivesdk to try to defend my right to speak to a jury.

I have asked for a continuance because the State of Maryland has moved to bar my expert witnesses and my evidence and I don’t trust the circuit court to do the right thing so I have asked my witnesses to not come to court Monday. The circuit court previously barred me from having expert witnesses testify remotely (during our #CovidPandemic and #ClimateEmergency). The district court trial I am appealing was presided over by a judge holding #KinderMorgan stock.

Please check out my press release https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ii_0IJLWHB1SzTR1iQxl_DfjeBao2b2qydVeUHCKs/edit and media kit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iakQB-TIllkTPP9LkbxmdSJKJymRrC6BP-loP_bCej8/edit which I will be updating as this proceeds.

Please follow along with my travails and consider litigating pro se your next #ClimateEmergency arrest and #Incarceration, especially if you are retired and privileged.

tysm and peace and love and understanding for caring for our #Biosphere.

Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says
Energy Department’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence /sp/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a

Paywall Free Version:
https://archive.is/knkjg

#Pandemic #Covid #Covid19 #China #CovidPandemic #FBI #CIA #BiologicalWeapon #Wuhan

China death toll with #covid19 continues, particularly with elderly in rural areas https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64347085 #China #COVIDPandemic

What crazy #fantasies did you have when you were young?
Me? That the patents on the #covid19 #vaccine could be waived. I tell this story in my latest paper (in French).

A tiny context: in 2021, we wrote this: https://seminairep4.wordpress.com/open-letter-on-vaccines-against-sars-cov2/

#peoplesvaccine #VaccineApartheid #NoProfitOnPandemic #TRIPSWaiver #pandemic #covidpandemic #intellectualproperty #patents

Global News BC: Transition to in-office work starts next week for federal public servants in B.C. https://globalnews.ca/news/9397437/b-c-back-to-work-federal-public-service/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #return-to-office #hybridworkmodel #covidpandemic #RemoteWorking #BackToOffice #WorkFromHome #BackToWork #hybridwork #remotework #COVID-19 #Pandemic #Economy #COVID

The #WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the #COVIDpandemic
Scientits estimate 14.83 million excess deaths globally, 2.74 times more deaths than the 5.42 million reported as due to #COVID19 for the period.
https://go.nature.com/3V9QNVn #OpenAccess

people talk about #reOpening and the #covidPandemic being over like something out of hunger games.

Read some facts.

https://eldritch.cafe/@transponderings/109413237340053348

Enough choosing to let the most vulnerable of us die so you can be free of reasonable constraints.

Today is #disability visibility day or something. Fuck that. Every day from now on is disability visibility day.

A #CovidPandemic #play in 36 short acts (#actually I don’t know if it’s 36 as I didn’t count..) #gist #accurate #highlyAccurate

would be #funny if it weren’t #verbatim #truth
@jmcrookston
https://nitter.it/jmcrookston/status/1595915989782102016?s=46&t=u_v4-OZwlay5omeFGCrUwQ

⁦@RealEddieHobbs⁩ I asked #EU to conduct detailed analysis of vaccines and their effectiveness, efficacy dealing with #CovidPandemic.

I will always base my decisions on science when it comes to peoples health.

I certainly won’t base it on some right wing ideological views

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/BillyKelleherEU/status/1580633549170151424

🆕study report📘 shows that lending in support of 🇪🇺 #CohesionPolicy by the @EIB helped contain the economic fallout from the #covidpandemic and could now help counter some of the short-term fallout from the war in #Ukraine🇺🇦.

Read EIB report⤵️
https://europa.eu/!TRXtft

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUinmyRegion/status/1570007332192493569