Shots
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Google books | books.google.com |
|---|---|
| Originally published | 2009 |
| Authors | Don Walker |
| Genres | Biography |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1744114 |
About Shots
This extraordinary memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and ends in the late '80s. In mesmerising prose, Walker evokes childhood and youth, wild times in the '70s, life on the road and in Kings Cross, music-making and much more. . . .
China Covid: Unrest continues in Guangzhou as lockdown anger grows
... While China developed its own Covid vaccines, they are not as good as the mRNA technology - such as the Pfizer and Moderna Shots - used elsewhere...
China Covid: Heavy police presence after days of protests
... China s vaccine problemWhile China developed its own Covid vaccines, they are not as good as the mRNA technology - such as the Pfizer and Moderna Shots - used elsewhere...
US midterms polls: Who will win control of Congress?
... Republicans get the power to investigateFor two years, Democrats have been calling the Shots - which includes the ability to focus the formidable powers of congressional oversight on subjects of their interest...
Copenhagen shooting: Gunman to face judge for questioning
... One of them, named Isabelle, told Danish media: " Suddenly we hear Shots - 10 Shots I think - and then we run through the mall and end up in a toilet, where we huddle together in this tiny toilet, where we are around 11 people...
US rolls back Trump-era tariffs on UK steel
... The UK is keen to demonstrate its Brexit-era agility by notching up more trade agreements - but the US will be keen to continue showing it s calling the Shots...
Microsoft's mega-deal worries small video game makers
... But with greater consolidation of large developers - and platforms, such as Xbox and Game Pass, calling more of the Shots - things could get even trickier...
Japan: From vaccine hesitancy to vaccine success
... The army was called in and by the beginning of July, a million Shots were being given each day...
Alec Baldwin: Rust script didn't call for gun to be fired, lawsuit alleges
... Ms Mitchell s lawsuit claims that the script called for three tight camera Shots - one of Mr Baldwin s eyes, another of a bloodstain on his shoulder and a third of his torso " as he reached his hand down to the holster and removed the gun"...
China Covid: Heavy police presence after days of protests
Protests against Covid restrictions which erupted over the weekend appear to have died down, as a heavy police presence is reported in Chinese cities.
Large barriers have gone up along the main protest road in Shanghai and police have made several arrests.
They have been stopping people taking photos of the protests and deleting pictures on their devices.
Nationwide protests grew after a fire in a high-rise block in Urumqi, western China, killed 10 people on Thursday.
It is widely believed residents could not escape The Blaze because of Covid restrictions, but local authorities have disputed this.
A BBC journalist was detained while covering a protest in Shanghai on Sunday. Ed Lawrence was and held for several hours before being released.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted that the arrest was " deeply disturbing".
China remains the only major economy with a strict zero-Covid policy, with local authorities clamping down on even small outbreaks with mass testing, quarantines and snap lockdowns.
Many images of anti-lockdown protests have emerged from Shanghai and the capital Beijing, as well as other major urban areas like Chengdu and Wuhan.
Censorship has gone into overdrive on Chinese Social Media platforms since the weekend's protests, to stop people seeing and discussing them.
Tens of millions of posts have been filtered from search results, while media are muting their coverage of Covid in favour of upbeat stories about The World Cup and China's space achievements.
China's vaccine problemWhile China developed its own Covid vaccines, they are not as good as the mRNA Technology - Such as the Pfizer and Moderna Shots - used elsewhere.
Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine gives 90% protection against severe disease or death vs 70% with China's Sinovac.
The Vaccines have also not been given to enough people. Far too few of the elderly - who are most likely to die from Covid - have been immunised.
There is also very little " natural immunity" from people surviving infections as a consequence of stopping The Virus in its tracks.
It means new variants spread far more quickly than The Virus that emerged three years ago and there is a constant risk of it being imported from countries that are letting The Virus spread.
The Chinese government has not acknowledged the protests or responded in any formal way.
They pose an unprecedented political challenge for Chinese President Xi Jinping , with the country watching as to how he will respond.
Large numbers of protesters have been holding up blank sheets of Paper - a tactic to protest while avoiding censorship or arrest.
But others have gone much further, and directly called on Mr Xi to Stand Down .
Despite heavy censorship, news of the demonstrations, videos and pictures have been spreading through Social Media and messaging apps.
Source of news: bbc.com