10 Years Old, Tearful and Confused After a Sudden Deportation - The New York Times
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#US#expulsion
►https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-migrant-children-unaccompanied-minors.html
Since the coronavirus broke out, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrant children alone — in some cases, without notifying their families.
A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go
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A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries. If any place was prepared for quarantine, it was Milton Keynes. Two years before the pandemic, a start-up called Starship Technologies deployed a fleet of rolling delivery robots in the small city about 50 miles northwest of London. The squat six-wheeled robots shuttled groceries (...)
##santé
Trump’s Vaccine Chief Has Vast Ties to Drug Industry, Posing Possible Conflicts - The New York Times
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Moncef Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive, is now overseeing the U.S. initiative to develop #coronavirus treatments and vaccines. His financial interests and corporate roles have come under scrutiny.
#conflit_d’intérêt #vaccins #vaccin #vaccination #pharma #porte_tournante
Mom-Shaming Ourselves - The New York Times
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I am usually fairly immune to the social media performance of parenthood. I know that behind the curtain there is someone else watching the children as the crackers are being made, or that the compliant toddler ripped her mask off moments after the photo was taken.
But now, two months into staying at home, I find myself engaging in painful comparisons with other moms. I’m particularly disgusted with myself for the pettiness, considering how much death, fear and disruption I read about and report on every day.
And yet, I can’t help myself from getting sucked into the scroll and compare. I asked Amanda Hess, the host of The Times’s video series “Internetting with Amanda Hess” and an incisive cultural critic, about why it is so irresistible. “I have also been thinking about the insane explosion of low-level gossip,” Hess said. “We don’t have these in-person bonds, where if I saw you at a bar, we might gossip a little bit about a friend, and that might release something in us.” Because we’re deprived of those bonds right now, when you see some cracker-making jerk on your timeline, “it looms in your mind.”
Kathryn Jezer-Morton, a sociology Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University who researches the internet and motherhood and has written for NYT Parenting, said that part of the reason that comparing ourselves to others may feel irresistible right now is that we’re all under lockdown orders, and so our lives are superficially similar. “It flattens the playing field in a disturbing way,” she said.
There’s a body of research about what psychologists call “social comparison,” or the comparison of one’s self to others. Researchers have described social comparison as “a fundamental psychological mechanism influencing people’s judgments, experiences and behavior.” During health scares, the need for social comparison increases, because the future isn’t clear and there are “no objective standards of how to cope,” researchers have found. In other words, we look to our peers even more intensely to figure out how we’re supposed to behave and what we’re supposed to feel.
#psychologie_sociale #confinement #réseaux_sociaux #maternité #femmes #chez_soi
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/parenting/mommy-influencers.html
▻https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/100000007120740/celebrity-bookshelves-coronavirus.html
A Sudden Coronavirus Surge Brought Out Singapore’s Dark Side - The New York Times
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The Infectious Diseases Act, instituted in 1976 and repeatedly updated with the emergence of new diseases such as H.I.V. and SARS, grants the state far-ranging powers to enter private premises, force people to immunize their children and, most crucial, criminalize acts detrimental to community health. From the earliest cases of the novel coronavirus, the government made it clear that lack of cooperation with health officials would be treated as a crime. Ordinary, errant Singaporeans have been showily prosecuted, photographed outside the court, their misdeeds blasted on the news as a warning. A man who had been quarantined upon returning from a trip to Myanmar, then ventured to a food court for pork-rib stew, got six weeks in jail. A shopper who cursed in a supermarket argument over face masks could get a prison sentence. A Singapore citizen who traveled to Indonesia in violation of his stay-at-home notice had his passport suspended.
But despite all the threats, through collective complacency or failure of imagination, the government was blindsided by a vulnerability it might have easily anticipated. In April, a dramatic surge of infections among poorly paid foreign workers crushed Singapore’s sense of invulnerability. The city is built and maintained by an army of laborers who come from other Asian countries — Bangladesh, India, China. They can be lodged as many as 20 men to a single room; one toilet is legally considered enough for 15 people. Last year, some of the dormitories suffered a measles outbreak. Migrant-worker housing has been connected with illness ever since the British colonial rulers called tuberculosis “a disease of the town-dwelling Chinese” because it raged among the “lowly paid migrants living en masse in congested and insanitary dwellings in the municipal area,” Loh and Hsu write. In other words, the notion that packed worker lodgings could weaken public health was neither new nor surprising.
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#travailleurs-migrants#étrangers#santé#santé-publique#Bangladesh#Inde#chine
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy - The New York Times
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