India crowdsources COVID-19 response – startups told to make YouTube vids to win India has turned to its national crowdsourcing platform to find ideas that might crimp COVID-19. The nation’s MyGov Innovate platform regularly hosts challenges designed to enlist startups keen on winning some cash, helping to tackle national issues and perhaps also stimulate local industry. Past challenges have targeted …
Let's hope India can come with a more proactive solution than the UK's own Uncle Boris.
While every other venue is closed, schools with 1,000's of pupils remain the major hubs for the transmission of the virus.
Close the Schools, or at least allow parents to keep their children at home without facing the prospect of a £2,500 penalty or 3 months in prison.
Every other country in Europe with the exception of Latvia and Sweden have now closed their schools.
See: European School Closures.
Compare the John Hopkins University map with European countries' measures in a table half-way down this article.
The UK is indeed dawdling, other countries have taken harsher measures with fewer infections, but it's nice to see Johnson's finally done an about turn on the cod-science 'herd immunity' bullshit where herd immunity is gained by real-life infection instead of vaccination. Such nonsense is unsustainable even for Johnson.
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