D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Sydney Australia.
9 weeks of lockdown (sorta) more military being deployed and fines of $3000 for breaking the rules.

Australia: New South Wales 'in worst ever Covid situation'

While case numbers are relatively low, the Australian state's premier has warned of a Covid surge.

www.bbc.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dominoes falling in Arkansas:

Arkansas hospital exec says health care workers are walking off the job amid spike in COVID-19 cases

Health care workers in Arkansas are starting to walk off the job as instances of short staffing and burnout continue to increase in the state.

thehill.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Re: housing incentives

Move here, get paid: Small towns offer up to $20K just to get you to live there, work remotely

A number of small towns are dangling up to $20,000 to lure remote workers and boost their economies. Incentives are up as more people work from home.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Zardnaar]

Re: housing incentives

Move here, get paid: Small towns offer up to $20K just to get you to live there, work remotely

A number of small towns are dangling up to $20,000 to lure remote workers and boost their economies. Incentives are up as more people work from home.

www.yahoo.com

Meanwhile here the cities have priced people out and $280k USD or so is a cheap house in a small town.

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

Spent time last night with potential migrant looking at living costs. He wants to migrate to small town NZ from Argentina.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’m not one for wishing ill upon others, but…I really hope this guy gets a spot in hell.

An Indiana doctor's COVID-19 comments went viral. They were also full of misinformation.

Dr. Dan Stock, a doctor from Greenfield, spread misinformation about masks at a school board meeting in Indiana. It went viral.

www.yahoo.com

 

[J.Quondam]

I’m not one for wishing ill upon others, but…I really hope this guy gets a spot in hell.

And it's spread everywhere:

Misinformation at public forums vexes local boards, big tech

Public forums before local school boards and city councils are the latest source of misinformation about COVID-19.

apnews.com

Wingnut propaganda is a hell of a drug.

 

[Rabulias]

There ought to be a way to revoke medical licensing for doctors who spout nonsense that runs counter to public health (not to mention truth). It seems there are few consequences for lying about things like this, and many incentives to feed the subculture that believes these things.

 

[Umbran]

Wingnut propaganda is a hell of a drug.

It is comforting in a way the truth isn't, unfortunately.

 

[Ryujin]

There ought to be a way to revoke medical licensing for doctors who spout nonsense that runs counter to public health (not to mention truth). It seems there are few consequences for lying about things like this, and many incentives to feed the subculture that believes these things.

That sort of thing does occasionally (though very rarely) happen. Complaints to the particular medical registrar can result in loss of license, if the situation is extreme enough. It's more common in the case of things like falsified studies, as with discredited UK physician Andrew Wakefield and his study about vaccines causing autism, which was published in The Lancet, then retracted after it was found that his data had been falsified, or at the very least misrepresented. And still, to this day, this study is raised by anti-vaxxers as "proof."

 

[Zardnaar]

You have no mechanism to strip licence's?