Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

There were 48 deaths. Although this takes the 7-day average up a little, at this stage that's probably just noise. When dealing with lower figures (compared to, e.g. cases) noise is more apparent. The wider trend is down, since the peak on 7/1.
7-day average: 44.29 - UP 0.43
4/4

The Brexit deal locks the UK into continued Strasbourg Human Rights court membership https://ift.tt/3oSbJ47

A good way to fight against #Facebook's anti-privacy ways is to ditch #WhatsApp today.

This is already happening in droves since there is a "share data with Facebook or else" in play.

There are better solutions. They don't need to be perfect, but they should be encrypted as a start and weigh your options for other needs.

One thing to avoid is texting over SMS as an alternative, as this is not secure.

Is Mastodon really decentralized and censorship resistant? what if amazon or any cloud provider decide to go after some or all the instances like it did with parler? i think a master piece is still missing like IPFS or STORJ on blockchain as decentralized storage filesystem, i think also that we should look at some early decentralized application like emails and learn from the mistake's that allowed Google as gmail and MS as hotmail and yahoo to takeover by implementing restriction on who is allowed and not to send emails, now day's even if you implement all the good practice ( domainkey, spf...) you'll still not be allowed to direct message to inbox unless the IP is warmed up for few month's or years or whitelisted explicitly. fighting spam should also be thought in a decentralized way.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

– Abraham Lincoln

#Quote

Here are today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Cases still trending down. R falls again. Deaths still high.
There were 1808 cases reported today. Friday tends to be the highest of the week, so the fact that it is up on yesterday is not a concern. It's significantly down on a week ago.
7-day average: 1735 - DOWN 97
1/3

R (estimate): 0.85 - DOWN 0.04
That's again excellent, as it suggests the fall in cases is accelerating. The number of tests coming back positive is also amongst the lowest of the last month, at 16.9%

There were 54 deaths (same as yesterday). We've seen nothing more than a slight fall over the past few days, but hopefully that fall will accelerate as the lower case numbers eventually translate to fewer deaths.
7-day average: 44.86 - DOWN 0.29
2/3

#Ceredigion has 26 new cases. This is up. The (very estimated) R for the county hovers just above 1.
7-day average: 17.71 - UP 0.86
Watch https://portalcovidcymru.co.uk/map.html for where in the county these cases are (at present, still showing yesterday's data).
3/3

This isn't really 2021, is it? Feels like we've just discovered the 13th month of 2020.

Access to credit doesn't necessarily lead to the adoption of climate change adaptation.

New #metaanalysis by #DEval and #IEU-#GreenClimateFund: "Access to #credit as a determinant of autonomous #adaptation to #climatechange: A meta-analysis of the evidence in low- and middle-income countries“. DEval #DiscussionPaper 1/2021

Press release
https://www.deval.org/en/pressemeldung-detail/does-access-to-credit-lead-to-the-adoption-of-climate-change-adaptation-not-necessarily-says-ieu-and-deval-report.html

Full report
https://www.deval.org/files/content/Dateien/Evaluierung/Discussion%20Paper/2021/DEval_Discussion_Paper_1_2021_Access_to_credit_climate_change.pdf

#ClimateChangeAdaptation #GCF #InternationalDevelopment
#DevelopingCountries #GlobalDevelopment

Nowhere near enough attention has been paid to how many people Googled "flag of Georgia" to show their republican support for the state of Georgian senate race, but turned up with the nation of Georgia flag instead. I saw at least three.

"As many scientists and doctors have pointed out, vaccination can be only part of the answer."

What's as scary as Covid? The fact our leaders still have no plan to control it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/scary-covid-leaders-no-plan-to-control-pandemic-cycle?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@anniemo71 "Documents seen by the Guardian also revealed that the NHS is asking care homes to start accepting Covid patients directly from hospitals and without a recent negative test, as long as they have been in isolation for 14 days and have shown no new symptoms."

This is a reeeeely bad idea, although I appreciate that it's a desperate situation.

Call to end racial discrimination following death of man after being in police custody. https://nation.cymru/news/call-to-end-racial-discrimination-following-death-of-man-after-being-in-police-custody/