In my country shitting on sidewalks, had higher priority than health or liberties. Dog walking was allowed, while exercise and outdoor activities were prohibited.
Society already excludes many people due to expensive housing, education etc... Living as hermit in a van is not that bad. But society should not expect taxes from excluded people :)
I was robbed at gunpoint in Colombia. I argued with robber I want to keep my passport and will take my cards from wallet. In US they would shoot me just for good measure.
Pandemic has shown that mRNA vaccination manufacturing is a question of national security. I do not think those patents will be enforceable, if another pandemic starts, and countries decide to make their own vaccines. And countries like India, China, Thailand or Russia have pretty advanced biotech manufacturing and research.
India is manufacturing AstraZeneca and other vaccines for export. Prior pandemic India manufactured 2.3 billion vaccines annually. Patent fees are big part of expenses.
RNA based experiments are doable in most university labs. It is 2021.
It is trivial to secure windows with plastic foil, glass will literally become bullet proof.
Real problem is if attackers would activate ALL alarms in entire city, night after night. Or your "smart doors" would tip attackers that owner is away from home/
I find this attitude VERY disturbing. Cars are target comparable to industrial infrastructure, but with weak security. USA has many enemies, there is constantly some sort of hacking scandal.
Next time there is a mass scale hack: a few dozen people die, grid lock for couple of days, hardware worth of billions bricked.
And US government can bomb any country it marks as an attacker....
Many people made loss last year and still have to pay. Argument is essentially "I should not pay any taxes, because I spend all my income on house renovation".
Unfinished buildings have no taxes. And if building company has free capacity, it makes sense to use it. There is no freeze in winter so concrete skeleton lasts for decades.
In 2019 EU imported 11.3 billion eur worth of food from Africa, mostly tobacco, cocoa beans etc.. Citrus was only 0.5 billion eur. In overall EU food imports it is only 10%. We also exported 9 billion worth of food to Africa.
Hardly enourmous, given Africa agricultural potential and production.
EU has very protective market when it comes to food. Israel has probably resources for compliance with all the regulations. But there is big motivation to stop cheap imports from Africa.
Chronic pain is just a symptom. There could be million causes that needs to be treated first. And cannabis is just another form of "addictive pill", no better than opioids.
Well, it will treat everything. Soon it will be generic technology, accessible to any low-tier lab with "RNA printer". Any country will be able to download medication from internet. And in most places it is impossible to copyright naturally occurring RNA sequence.