Reading
@GhoshAmitav
‘s novels is what got me interested in South Asia’s colonial history- can’t express how much this means to me.
#MisreadingTheBengalDelta
is open access as an E-book and soon available in South Asia
In this ethnographic study of climate change and its impacts on Bangladesh,
@CameliaDewan
offers a vitally important corrective to simplistic narratives of global warming. 1/n
Thread 👇🏾
As someone who managed to squeeze 5 years of Norwegian salary paid postdoc and publish like crazy during this time - highly recommend this Postdoc in Environmental Humanities for recent PhDs
It’s mind boggling how Scandinavian welfare states are pushing the narrative of “living with” a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus that risks causing chronic postviral illnesses, brain shrinkage, MIS(-C) and even death. Allowing unlimited replication in vaccinated hosts.
Alla som vill se beslutsunderlaget för att
@Anna_Ekstrom
slopar distansundervisning för gymnasiet från 1 april kan väl gilla denna post. Om ni är upprörda så kan ni kanske retweeta. Undrar ju om Ekström tar råd av GBD Kulldorff själv med sådana här vansinniga handlingar.
1. Are Bangladeshi migrants climate refugees? Are their migration movements 'climate-induced'? Are Bangladeshi women migrants suffering from gendered climate displacement? Thrilled to share my OA article in
@Peasant_Journal
Are Bangladeshi migrants climate refugees?
Sweden made a point of keeping schools open without face masks, antigen testing, ventilation and quarantine rules because “children don’t get that sick”. What about those that do and the teachers and family members infected?
Finally, I get to hold this in my hand - more than ten years in the making! So many people to thank who have helped me on the way to writing this book, from working for IWMI on embankments in 2011-12, SOAS/Birkbeck for PhD to
@Unioslo_anthro
.
#MisreadingTheBengalDelta
@UWAPress
I’m angry. For more than two years I’ve tried to protect my family from SARS2 infection. My husband is really in bad shape, and my 7 month baby has a 39.9 fever that is requiring loads of painkillers to keep it down. Why must we all get BA5
@SwedishPM
@socialdemokrat
? Protect us!
For anyone interested in climate change and critical agrarian studies, I highly recommend this book edited by the editors of
@Peasant_Journal
So many brilliant and cutting edge says in here.
As a Swedish citizen, I am so deeply embarrassed. I apologise, for what it's worth, Professor
@mushfiq_econ
this is appalling. Sweden really lost out on an excellent RCT on masks last year.
Dear NiceTwitter - I am taking the day off. Defending oneself while people attack you instead of just asking you for details, is more draining than I anticipated. Be well! Also, I thought Swedes were supposed to stop harass researchers into silence? Anyways.
Idag är det total desinformationskupp. Tegnell och Jan Albert på SVT, och Agnes Wold i DN. 'c19 är en droppsmitta' 'tvätta händerna' 'stanna hemma när du är sjuk' samtidigt som man hånar munskydd, aerosoler och asymptomatisk smitta. Inte ens coronakommissionen eller kungen biter
Jag är så förbannad, upprörd och besviken. Spelar ingen roll vad coronakommissionen, WHO eller ECDC säger, eller vad våra grannländer gör. I Sverige ska vi fortsätta lätta restriktioner på bekostnad av våra barn och riskgrupper. Fan.
Sweden's Minister in charge of covid-handling get's vaccinated without face mask (which is actually mandated in Region Stockholm inside healthcare settings). Says it all doesn't it?
It feels so weird, being globally connected to researchers throughout the world - where masks are seen as important against an airborne pandemic virus - and then live in a place where masks are ridiculed and hand washing is seen as a key protective measure.
Main newspaper in Sweden: “
#LongCovid
resembles cultural illness”. Thankful I’ve already ended my subscription. Keep on kicking and discrediting those whose lives are ruined by covid in a country that accepts high case numbers.
Herregud så frustrerad jag känner mig. Smittan ökar igen. Återigen bromsas smittskyddsåtgärder en 4e gång av FoHM. Lättar restriktioner, urdålig säkerhet på Sminet, uppdaterar inte data, kräver inte 100% sekvensering, godkänner ej smittspårningsapp och erkänner ej luftburenhet 😤
Newest in Sweden: researchers cannot discuss things outside their academic expertise in private facebook groups. Is this a queue for anthropologists like me to shut up? Thankful I'm not hired by a Swedish university.
Surprised and incredibly happy to see that my article on climate reductive translations of migration in coastal Bangladesh is the most read article in
@Peasant_Journal
this year!
Please do check out the article, it's a labour of love and hardship
A short essay on ideas of 'climate-induced' migration in Bangladesh.
Climate Refugees or Labour Migrants? Climate Reductive Translations of Migration from Coastal Bangladesh
Very excited that
#MisreadingTheBengalDelta
is out for pre-order! Many thanks to Lorri Hagman and everyone at
@UWAPress
for their ongoing work on the final stages of the publication and to series editor K. Sivaramakrishnan!
#Anthrotwitter
Fed up and pissed off - what kind of country am I living in?
#bytStrategiNu
Swedish Public Health Authorities do not read peer reviewed scientific studies and seem to make decisions after a glass of wine for dinner. 500 people indoors and only 1 meter apart, no face masks.
Anders Tegnell claiming asymptomatic transmission is not a major driver without engaging with international scientific peer reviewed studies. Why am I listening to this press conference again?
Jag säger detta en sista gång idag. Sverige har inte flest rapporterade fall för att ’Sverige är bättre på att testa’. Testpositivitet under 4% är bra, resten är dåligt och Sveriges är bland de sämre. Vi saknar prof smittspårning m testning av symptomfria närkontakter+hushåll.
Well-meaning people suggest that I should distance myself from 'mewas'. Even if I did, it won't change anything. I will not stop criticising 'herd immunity via natural infection', GBD, AIER Koch Brothers or Cambridge Analytica w or w/out MEWAS. GBD is the problem here, not MEWAS.
If you’re in Dhaka and interested in me talking about
#MisreadingTheBengalDelta
, please come to UPL this Friday. I’ll sign your book copy!
So excited that the South Asian edition of the book is finally out!
Sweden's pandemic management is run by an anti-masker who believes he knows better than
@WHO
and
@ECDC_EU
. His name is Anders Tegnell, a civil servant at a public health authority. Not an active researcher, nor is he a virologist. No PhD in Epidemiology: 1-yr online MSc
@LSHTM
.
Tegnell emphasizes in DN today that WHO is not a governing organization and that it is ok to go against their corona advice as Sweden has done regarding face masks.
#COVID19SWEDEN
Sweden’s media darling, covid “guru”/“oracle” Prof Wold who researches bacteria comes with yet another mind boggling provocation that she presents as truth
Excited to share that the OA Special issue 'Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist natures co-edited with Knut G. Nustad
@Unioslo_anthro
is formally publised as a volume in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.
Sweden has canceled 2.8 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna for Nov+Dec postponed until 2022. Risk groups under 65 and healthcare staff denied boosters. while
@Folkhalsomynd
"believes that Sweden does not need these right now." Immoral and Unethical culling.
#SparkaTegnell
@Folkhalsomynd
och
@SwedishPM
har avbokat 2.8 miljoner doser Pfizer och Moderna som skulle ha kommit till Sverige i november och december. Man skjuter nu på dessa leveranser till 2022, för FHM "anser att Sverige inte behöver dessa just nu." Det är en stor skandal.
Nej Vänsterpartiet, att stoppa smittspridningen och tidigt erkänna att man smittar utan symptom via aerosoler och behöver munskydd på jobbet hade kunnat förhindra det. Var var ni när regeringen och FHM beslöt sig för att smitta folket i lagom takt så att sjukvården hinner med?
#ZeroCovid
in Vietnam without lockdown. Pretty impressive. We have to look at how Asia-Pacific have successfully handled covid. South Africa, Brazil, UK followed herd immunity via infection, without reaching herd immunity instead creating nasty mutations.
Vietnam has beaten their third wave in under 2 months.
How? A key strategy has been third-degree contact tracing.
1️⃣ Cases isolated
2️⃣ Close contacts quarantined
3️⃣ Contacts of contacts must stay home for 14 days
Result: just 2572 cases & 35 deaths.
➡️
I'm having my humanitarian action students watch this video on Decolonizing Humanitarianism. An excellent, critical and thought-provoking conversation between
@PollyWilkins
@aidnography
@Prof_FSultana
I guess this might qualify as an oldie but a goldie?
🔷 Pharma CCX har sponsrat en sändning med Ivor Cummins som talar om lockdowns. (Vi vet ju att Ivor är en GBD-förespråkare)
🔷 Vem är ägare till Pharma CCX?
👉 Se sista bilden.
"Tegnell assumes that the Indian variant will not necessarily be more contagious in Sweden. Because we do not know if that is the case."
Sweden must have some kind of magical border that transforms SARS-cov-2 w variants?
Tegnell utgår från att den indiska varianten inte behöver vara mer smittsam i Sverige. För vi vet ju inte om det är så.
Exakt där har vi problemet.
#coronavirussverige
May 2024 be a much better year. My 2- and 5-year olds help me maintain hope and work for a better future. 3 hours in minus 10 and they were happy and content trying to learn how to ski in beautiful Stockholm ❤️
My mom is still wearing her respirator mask despite the glares, stares and comments. Her strong will, independence and ability to stand up for what she believes in remains strong. A Bengali tigress indeed. Always inspired and can only wish to live up to it.
So Sweden’s strategy is simply to wait for spring to magically reduce numbers, no more measures. No face mask mandate or swapping so schools are closed now and open in summer instead. Nada. Weather. Chance. That’s what the Swedish ppl are getting.
On the 29.Sep.2021 Anders Tegnell says on national Public Service radio that the pandemic restrictions are 'gone' + take care of each other so the restrictions aren't re-introduced. A month later, he claims that Sweden has never opened up so
@WHO_Europe
warnings do not apply.
Keith Begg is one of the most brave people I know, with a strong moral compass that will follow the truth wherever it takes him Please read this thread on
#COVID19SWEDEN
. MEWAS is simply a group of concerned citizens. The tone is unpleasant because the situation is horrifying.
Dear Friends of MEWAS,
I would be most grateful if you could bear with me on this thread. My name is Keith Begg and I am the Founder of MEWAS. I originally come from Ireland but have dual citizenship. I spoke to my very wise father in 🇮🇪 last night. This is me btw. Not a troll.
“May 11, 2021. Einhorn asks if 🇸🇪 Public Health Agency agrees w/ scientific consensus that 45-75% of all infections occur from ppl w/ no symptoms - up to 2-2.5 days before you get symptoms? Agency’s repr. Björkholm replies she has not reviewed the literature on that detail.” 🤷🏽♀️
11 maj 2021. Lena Einhorn frågar om FHM håller med om vetenskaplig konsensus att 45-75 % av all smittspridning sker från någon som inte har symptom - upp till 2-2,5 dag innan man får symptom? FHM:s Britta Björkholm har inte granskat litteraturen om den detaljen. 3/3
Sweden's covid-19 reporting system closed again due to security issues. So yet another week or two of unreliable data, just as we see delta variants increasing in several Swedish regions. Shouldn't this system be the highest priority?! Sweden is a high-tech IT nation= hire best!
Then it gets worse.
@socialstyrelsen
then seem to think that this offer to conduct a randomised control trial is an Economics Professor
@Yale
's attempt to sell masks to the Swedish state?! In Bangladesh they have civil service exams to attract the best of the the best. Try it.
[Thread] Who are the most followed scientists in Norway? Here is my ranking for 2022, using my methodology based on Twitter and LinkedIn numbers. It is my labour of love, and I hope you’ll read on and retweet!
#TwiLiIndex
6th May 2020 Martin Kulldorff writes to Tegnell and Giesecke thanking them for allowing covid-19 to spread in Sweden by not locking down, calling it a model for the rest of the world. A few months later K backs Great Barrington Declaration & now he equates masks with Talibans 🤷🏽♀️
In the middle of vaccination, Sweden removes face masks nationally, not even in healthcare settings. This is despite registering over 600 cases of delta. Did I mention Sweden is lifting restrictions this Thursday 1 July? 🤯
@mask_up_sweden
Hej! Det finns ingen nationell rekommendation att bära munskydd vid vårdbesök. Varje region kan införa regionala regler för vad som gäller vid vårdbesök. /red.
Åh vad jag blir provocerad av detta.
@Arbetsmiljo
@lararnas
@FacketKommunal
@lararen_se
Jag hoppas att all personal i skolor både är fullt vaccinerade och får 1 FFP2 andningskydd per arbetsdag efter sommarlovet! Deras liv är lika mycket värda som våra mininistrar!
Hej
@Anna_Ekstrom
! Vad bra att se att du har på dig ett FFP2 andningsskydd, som skyddar både din omgivning och dig själv.
Varför fick inte varenda
#l
ärare i
#Sverige
också ha det i 1,5 år av pandemi?
Riksdagsledamot för
@vansterpartiet
. Röstade på dem i så många val för jag trodde de var intelligenta och hade sunda medmänskliga värderingar. I två år har jag lärt mig att de blockar egna väljare som är kritiska, är ok m barn som dör om de är i riskgrupp & har noll koll på fakta
Smittskyddsläkare i Rapport berättar att Sverige har lyckats bättre med vaccineringen än Norge (och att Norge nu har högre spridning av nya omikron än Sverige). Sedär, vi lär hamna på ungefär samma resultat som våra grannländerna när den här pandemin är över.
In Sweden, just 2% of statements made by the Public Health Agency have been correct over the past 12 months. 2%
Interesting use of
#AI
to investigate level of expertise over the course of the pandemic.
Tegnell 2021.10.28 on why Sweden has highest death rates in Nordics: "Deaths do not reflect community transmission, never has. We are confident we can follow transmission while reducing testing." I can't even.
On campus teaching in Stockholm from august. Loads of international students with voluntary quarantine rules. Red metro line will be packed. Under 30s won’t be vaccinated. Mask requirements removed. What could possibly go wrong 🤷🏽♀️
Kan någon förklara vad oppositionen gör? Varför ingen misstroende förklaring vid 12k döda efter andra vågen och vi är redan inne i början av 3e vågen m brittiska mutation?
#bytStrategiNu
Snabba och kraftfulla åtgärder, få ned testpositivitet <4%, max 50nya fall&100kinv/2veckor.
16.10.2021 Swedish media darling, c19 oracle & bacteriologist Prof A Wold asked if she stands by her statement from Aug-20 that kids should Never be vaccinated against c19. She replies that she's tired of people saving screenshots.
16 oktober 2021. Agnes Wold får frågan om hon står fast vid att barn givetvis aldrig ska vaccineras mot covid-19. Hon säger att citatet nog var del i ett teoretiskt resonemang på twitter och hon måste veta vad hon svarat på. Hon är trött på folk som sparar skärmdumpar.
A plea to my international colleagues. The Swedish state is now conducting a full on smear campaign against critics against Sweden's mishandling of the pandemic . Pro-state influencers that attack critics as alarmists are now accusing us for treason
I'm just re-reading
@itihaashtag
book "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta" and I'm just in awe by how beautifully written and powerful it is. Almost every sentence strikes an accord. If you haven't read this important book, please do! "
Om rektorn säger ”vi följer smittskyddets och FHMs rekommendationer” så kan ni svara bra, men det är Arbetsmiljöverkets lagar och regler som gäller på arbetsplatser och ni måste dokumentera riskbedömning som är en offentlig handling.
Nu har vi 2 myndigh som kommer ut med att de inte är ngn filial till FHM: 😳 MSB som sedan pandemins start har argumenterat för en mera skyddande linje, o arbetsmiljöverket som har kommit på vilket uppdrag de har: bättre sent än aldrig... 😏
“ Redan i mars 2020 hade vi en nationell produktion av en miljon andningsskydd i månaden i Svenljunga som hade räckt gott och väl. Dessa tillät regeringen exporteras ut ur landet samtidigt som våra gamla dog som flugor på landets äldreboenden smittade av oskyddad personal.”
Är det möjligt ? Att det fanns andningsskydd som kunnat skydda både personal o vårdtagare inom äldreomsorgen ? Men det exporterades till utlandet när personalen använde overheadfilm, dambindor o kaffefilter!
Seriously fed up with the white saviour complex of Swedish media with dark skinned African children used to portray poor victims. It’s colonial. It’s 2021. Get over it.
Lead journalist at one of Swedish main papers
@dagensnyheter
questioning those with long-haul covid arguing they have anxiety issues (citing Rushworth whose book was rejected by Amazon for covid misinformation). "sparka på de som redan ligger" comes to mind.
7 May 2020. The Swedish Public Health Agency says that there is a risk of increased community transmission if face masks or face shields are required as part of regular basic hygiene routines in health care and care work for elderly and disabled
#NeverForget
7 maj 2020. Folkhälsomyndigheten säger att det finns risk för ökad smittspridning om man lägger till munskydd eller visir till de ordinarie basala hygienrutinerna inom vård och omsorg.
Testpositivity in Stockholm now at 9.2%, hospital admissions are increasing and so are the case numbers.
@regionstockholm
still not re-imposing the restrictions they removed early and mid-July - no face mask requirement while pubs and clubs are open until 1 am, Pride & festivals
Swedish influencer clearly does not like these
@ECDC_EU
maps and writes long threads excusing the Swedish way. Mostly through “excess mortality”Fascinating.
Jag tänkte att det var dags för en uppdatering av situationen ute i Europa då allt för många fortfarande lägger väldig vikt vid antalet rapporterade fall
I am absolutely heartbroken to wake up to these news. I met
@SaleemulHuq
just last month. He was always the kindest, most generous and supportive person. I can’t believe this either. He was so energetic and full of life. An immense loss.
Just putting this out there… Article from last summer how a manager at Sweden’s Public Health Agency handpicked former colleagues and bypassed recruitment process
13.8% test positivity in Stockholm. Around 10000 new cases per week. 60% omicron. Hospitalisation ⬆️ Still no respirator/mask mandate w fines or clear communication about asymptomatic aerosol transmission to public. Instead it’s SALES season. Unmasked. Thanks
@regionstockholm
28 december: Lägesrapport om covid-19 - Totalt vårdas 243 personer för covid-19 vid något av regionens sjukhus. Antalet konstaterat smittade är 9 649, vilket är en tydlig uppgång jämfört med veckan innan.
Swedish Social democratic minister (part of the Swedish government) visiting an elderly care home wearing a face shield, yes a Face Shield. And you wonder why the death rates DUE TO covid-19 have been soaring for the past week 🤦♀️.
#COVIDisAirborne
@shekarabi
@AP
@Reuters
I dag besökte
@shekarabi
Gutenbergs äldreboende i Bollnäs där han bland annat fick möjlighet att testa olika hjälpmedel som personalen använder för att undvika tunga lyft och ge bättre vård till brukarna. Samtal om trygghetspension hanns också med under besöket.
Sweden’s pandemic nihilism: “most of the population WILL be infected (with omicron)”. 🇸🇪 Reduces testing, increases public gatherings, no masks or info on asymptomatic airborne transmission. In person schooling kept open w/out TTI or quarantine of clusters.
#LetItRip
.🆘
@WHO
A sense of community with scholars of South Asia gives me hope and slivers of joy in a world ridden in pain and despair. From
@SAPCornell
to
@envhum
this has been week of learning and growing, or as
@r_gov11
put it: archiving. W
@NayanikaM
@Ranjana_rahul
Jag är ändå imponerad av
@regionstockholm
. 1177 rekommenderade att jag beställer covid-test. Provet kom kl 10 dagen efter och fick svar (neg) kl 19 samma dag. På en lördag ❤️.
Jacinda Ardern “For now, everyone is in agreement: elimination is the strategy. There is no discussion or debate amongst any of us about that, because that is the safest option for us while we vaccinate our people,” Support for Zero Covid remains sky high in New Zealand.