NAVEL NATIONAL GAZING: The next challenge of the vaccine is nationalism, explains Luiza Savage. Vaccine progression is difficult, but so is the production of billions of pharmaceutical-grade glass vials, rubber stoppers and containers, and then keeping vaccines bloodless, a challenge in distributing them. in the coming countries.
Listen to our in-depth research on this week’s Global Translations podcast.
And see how we’ve mapped the various national (and competitive) immunization efforts here.
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GLOBAL TRANSIT SYSTEMS FACE RECKONO
Iconic transportation maps of major cities around the world are not only examples of design (see New York’s new live subway map), but also exemplify power, ambition, and identity. Today, few can believe in New York without a subway, Paris without a subway or London without a subway or its iconic red double-decker buses.
Transit systems also symbolize the progression of the vault of new and retreating powers. When Global Translations first visited Beijing in 2003, the first SARS pandemic of this century, it may only use two subway lines and a part Today, there are 26 lines. Seoul’s network has 728 stations, surpassing New York’s 472.
The wonderful replacement of urban life has been one of the greatest social structural adjustments of the last century: most people in the world now live in cities and towns. This trend is likely to be to prevent if transit systems drown in expanding monetary losses. similar to the pandemic, disadvantaged by passengers and money.
WHAT IS THE LOSS FOR BAD DRIVING?Buses do much more than trains, in component due to the ability of passengers for ventilation (windows). Stuart Green, spokesman for the Toronto Transit Commission, said his company had to board buses due to the increased number of passengers.
Among rail services, Shenzhen, China and Taipei, Taiwan, they were the first to recover to more than 80% of the same previous traffic in May. The number of passengers on the Seoul subway has never decreased by more than a third and paints continue to increase by 11 of the 23 netpainting lines.
European capitals are located in the middle, registering at most a portion of their same usual corridors before the last round of lockouts.
American systems are the worst, thanks to the highest rate of motorization in the region and the fact that many schools and offices remain closed, while most Americans told Morning Consult that they had a favorable view of public transportation (64%). and rail passenger transport (65%), an increase since pre-pandemic levels, have not yet voted with their feet. On MetroNorth networks in Washington DC, Toronto and New York, the number of passengers has dropped by 80% as users return the car or stay home.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TRAFFIC MARKETS WILL BE IN A MORTAL SPIRAL: Major cities, the engines of global GDP, cannot fully recover without fully operational transport, but state and local governments cannot subsidize public transport either if they fail. States can spend $434 billion during the 3 years between 2020 and 2022 if there are no more federal stimulus, Moody’s Analytics reports. Lack of transit revenue exacerbates these deficits.
The Brussels-based International Public Transport Association (UITP) estimates that European transit agencies will jointly face a $45 billion tariff shortfall by 2020 alone, leaving them “literally struggling to survive”, before an organisation of European traffic CEOs.
Systems like the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York face a similar problem, compounded by the inability to invest enough in fashion infrastructure in recent decades. And if there’s one thing passengers hate more than expensive public transport, it’s delayed or in frequent service.
While he believes low interest rates would now be a smart time for transit corporations to borrow money, their credit ratings face down revisions, increasing the cost of loans.
This leaves the government stuck between possible options such as raising rates, cutting or filing for bankruptcy. The Berlin OAG and the MTA in New York are contemplating expanding price ticket prices, while the Washington DC MTA warned that it would possibly have to make $200 million. in service cuts, a resolution already made across New York.
INEGALITY IN SEVEN PROBLEMS: Whether increasing costs or cutting services, deeper inequality is one of the first results. In the United States, blacks are 3 times more likely than whites to use public transportation, according to Pew Research. public transport at much higher rates. The overlap of these figures is the truth that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to use public transport. Fair and sustainable cities: it has much more, adding an interactive map and a report that models the effects of outages in other US cities. But it’s not the first time
ADAPTATION MECHANISMS: Instead of widespread service reductions, teams like Transit Center proposed to focus on maintaining as many routes used as possible, a technique San Francisco has adopted.
Living the Dream – Luxembourg has absolutely abolished fares: the country of only 600,000 inhabitants, the richest in the EU, abolished all rates of elegance in all modes of public transport in 2019, saving the typical user $485 a year.
European governments have sometimes been more willing to subsidize transportation losses than in the United States, exercise enthusiast Joe Biden can simply replace this dynamic if elected president: defend zero-emission public transportation for each and every American city of 100,000 or more.
“The number of passengers in transit is an economic and fitness indicator,” Janette Sadik-Khan, a former Commissioner of the New York Department of Transportation, told my colleague Danielle Muoio. A fit economy gives motorcyclists and motorcyclists the economic buzz, he said.
WHAT IS THE SAFETY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT? The general rule for the coronavirus pandemic is that the modes of transport with the most productive ventilation and the least in the world are the safest; however, the CDC provoked a backlash in June for advising American travelers to drive alone to the paintings instead of using public transportation. The recommendation followed an un baseless article through an MIT economist who claimed that the New York subway was a Covid-19 super-spreading net painting. The document was reviewed by experts and the CDC finally subtly subtly revised its guidelines.
The International Public Transport Union (UITP) declares public transportation “Covid safe” and rejects the CDC’s view. They cite studies from the University of Colorado that seem to indicate that well-ventilated subway systems are safe for Covid for up to 70 minutes and Transport for London, which manages the city’s underground exercises and other services, tested air and surfaces in September and found no signs of coronavirus on its network, while RSSB, a UK rail protection agency , concluded that the threat of contracting coronavirus while traveling through exercise was “1 in 20,000” with a mask.
Japanese researchers have not identified outbreaks by shipping groups, while French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said on 25 October that less than 1% of groups can be assigned to public transport.
SAFETY INNOVATIONS:
More basic: Transit personnel are at greater risk than informal users A New York University pilot exam published on October 20, for example, found that nearly a quarter of the approximately 3,000 New York City transit employees surveyed had a history of Covid-19 Although it is not unusual for transit personnel to gain advantages from screens that isolate passengers , even small towns like Santa Cruz, California, enlarge those and other protection features for passengers, adding “hand sanitist dispensers” at the front of the bus and barriers to sneeze between each row of seats and a curtain separating the bus operator and passengers from all buses. »
Digital: The German shipping agreement RMV, which operates in and around Frankfurt, has occupancy forecasts. When they are too high, the address planner suggests directions of choice. Other European systems in Zurich and Copenhagen now offer multimodal directions: bicycles, scooters, car sharing and public shipping : for drivers to keep their distance.
SELL THEM FOR THE WINNER: While public transportation can be safe, “the winner of the pandemic is cycling,” according to Michael Frankenberg, CEO of Hacon, a mobility software company. “Many cities have been very agile in redirecting the streets to pop-ups motorcycle roads. “The UK plans to invest $2. 57 billion to make many of these adjustments permanent, while the city of Bogota, Colombia, aims to increase the percentage of bicycles from 7% to part of all trips, adding the elements of the first and last. kilometer more displacements. Berlin has used drones to conduct aerial reconnaissance to deploy “emerging” motorcycle lanes on the streets.
9 to 5 are gone: According to Alex Williams, director of planning at Transport for London: “I think more people will need to paint flexibly when they come to the workplace a few days a week,” he told me. Said. Large employers can also shape models and protect travel on public transportation through amazing workplace changes. Staff turnover between other days or hours in the workplace can help reduce traffic congestion at peak times, Transit Center says.
REALITY VERIFICATION CORNER
WORLD RESURGENCE OF PREVISIBLE VIRUS: The coronavirus hits Europe’s most sensitive offices, with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov giving positive, and French President Emmanuel Macron presiding over his country’s worst epidemic to date, which triggered a new national shutdown. are already full, while those in Russia have a capacity of 90%. India’s instances are on the rise and Iran is recording record deaths. All of this is what scientists have told us would happen in the absence of strict surveillance and a respect for the former, China continues to lead among the major countries: Beijing has re-blocked parts of the city after a few dozen cases have been identified.
VACCINES DO NOT MAKE POLICY CALENDARS: Pfizer’s admission on Monday that you still don’t know if your coronavirus vaccine is working is a real dose for the historic global vaccine race. While U. S. government officials are in the middle of the world, they are not going to be able to do so. But it’s not the first time They continue to insist that a vaccine will be available to all Americans until spring 2021, the EU now warns that there will not be enough COVID vaccines for everyone in Europe by 2022.
The Chinese millennia outperdue all Americans: they also prefer iPhones to democracy and don’t see their country become a superpower, but they return to their old prestige as a superpower.
GDP: A REBONDE WITHOUT PERFORMANCE: Knowledge of US GDPBut it’s not the first time For the third quarter it shows an increase of 33. 1%, at an annualized rate, until the collapse of the quarter of the moment. Third quarter figures. ” It would take a 46% expansion in the third quarter to get back to where we were,” Ian Shepherdson, a leading economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, told my colleague Ben White. Or, as MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle put it memorably: “You lost $100. You get 60 in return.
Solutions
ETIOPIA: THE NEW BILLETES FOR THE MILLIONS OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM: The issuance of new banknotes to eliminate counterfeiting has had a significant effect this year in Ethiopia: at least 1. 3 million others are now part of the monetary system, having traded in the old currency by price on bank cards. The new banknotes also reduce corruption and illegal trade, Bloomberg reported.
Emerging countries are taking the lead with virtual currencies: to expand access to the currency and build confidence, the Cambodian National Bank has introduced the Bakong system, which allows anyone with a phone number to make invoices and transfers.
Read our full article on global technology. This week we discussed with Will Morris of PwC and Daniel Bunn of the Tax Foundation the confrontation between the United Nations and the OECD about who established the global criteria in virtual taxation.
LOOKING FOR A NEW BUSINESS MODEL ON THE INTERNET: It is only taxes that public servants must collect. Regulators, legislators and activists must fundamentally reform the virtual economy.
VIVA LOS PROJECTORS: Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde is redefining Twitter’s lax speech policies. Five things from the newest congressional grid of the CEO generation.
VERBAL TRIAL-UBER ON ALGORITMICO DESPACHO: A union of application controllers
CHINA – LITERAL POWER GAME: Take a look at this interactive global energy database from China from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, which maps China-funded power plants around the world, adding their estimated carbon emissions. Between 2000 and 2018, Chinese corporations and political banks invested Indonesia, Brazil and Pakistan are the top 3 beneficiaries of Chinese forced investment abroad. The map is particularly appealing as China moves towards carbon neutrality in its country until 2060: like many Western lenders, Chinese banks allow large pollutants to come out of their domestic market. h/t Maureen Heydt
Energy is an outlier for Chinese investment: According to the 2019 Statistical Report on Foreign Direct Investment in China, more than 27,500 Chinese investors have created 44,000 direct investment companies in 188 countries.
THIS WEEK’S ELECTIONS: In the countries of Georgia, Moldova and Palau, a small island state, Georgia’s parliamentary elections face 66 parties, and former country leader Mikheil Saakashvili runs for prime minister while in exile in Ukraine.
THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE NATION: 50 countries have ratified a United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons, which triggered their access to validity on 22 January, Honduras 50th signatory. No nuclear weapons government has signed the treaty, which makes it purely symbolic at this time.
CHILI – THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ERA OF THE DICTADURA SET IN THE LANDSLIDE: Four out of five electorates agreed to abolish the country’s 1980 charter in a referendum held after mass protests last year against inequality. “In the eyes of critics, the letter is not only “neoliberal” but “hyper-presidential,” The Economist reported. “It gives the president the strength to dictate what expenses take precedence in Congress. Parliamentarians propose tax or expense expenses. Regions generate their own income, which concentrates strength in Santiago. “. »
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United States 2020
In this week’s Campaign Confidential podcast, we take a look at the turning point in this week’s 2020 general election campaign.
IN OUR RADAR: How the world would continue to think again about its long-term appointments with the United States if President Donald Trump wins a momentary term.
IN NUMBERS. . .
Political donations from CEOs: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and allied outdoor teams earned $79. 5 million from their hundred most sensible CEOs for Trump’s 75 million, but if you eliminate Michael Bloomberg and Sheldon Adelson, the top CEOs, respectively, for each campaign, then the credit goes to Trump and the affiliates , $33 million to $23 million, theo Francis reported. The United States limits the amount that individual donors can give to applicants, but does not restrict what they give To Super PACS than applicants. through television ads and other activities.
Why Trump will have to suppress the vote to win: because he won the presidency with 46% of the popular vote, his average approval rate never reached 50%, and the effects of his 2020 bipartisan ballot remain well below 50%, writes David Siders and Zach Montellaro.
IDBEN AND WORLD POWER: Biden is proud to recommend that it has met with virtually all world leaders. While he has met many of them, it is a fact that heads of state or government have replaced about twice since 2017, when Biden resigned as vice president (some countries have undergone leadership changes). At the very least, there are dozens of leaders Biden has never met.
Threats and competitors: Biden said this week that Russia is the biggest risk of the United States and China, the main competitor.
Latin America: Christian Paz which would mean a Biden presidency for Latin America.
Canada: In POLITICO’s new Canadian policy bulletin, Corridors, Maura Forrest spoke to Canadian diplomats and lobbyists about what they lose if Trump loses: from a frustrated political practice to the Keystone XL pipeline. Learn more here about how Canada checks to sell Biden on Keystone 2. 0.
LEADERS WHOSE DC STOCKS WILL INCREASE OR FUCK WITH A WINNING OFFER:
Biden takes office: the European Union, Justin Trudeau (Canada), Angela Merkel (Germany), Emmanuel Macron (France), Michael Martin (Ireland), Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand).
Who distances or isolation: Vladimir Putin (Russia), Kim Jong Un (North Korea), Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines), Viktor Orban (Hungary), Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel), Mohammed bin Salman (Saudi Arabia), Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (Egypt).
WHERE AMERICA WILL GO:
Voters: Generation Z looks a lot like Generation Y on key social and political issues in a new Pew Research Center report. “Generation Z and Millennium responses are almost the same, for one topic: gender identity. Generation Z is much more likely to meet someone who uses unbiased pronouns,” republican pollster Kristin Soltis Anderson said.
Courts: You can replace the balance of Supreme Court forces by filling it with more judges, as many Democrats would like, but also stripping it of its jurisdiction or codating certain rights, argues Kia Rahnama.
WTO – US NIGERIAN VETO CANDIDATE U. S. set for November 9.
IN THE DIPLOMATIC RIDEAU – MACRON ACCUSED OF HOSTILE WORK: It’s all smiles and statements of force in public, but in POLITICO, Rym Momtaz reports that there are burn-outs and a “siege mentality”.
WARNING: STOP THE MEDIATION OF AMERICAN POLICY LEADERS: “Washington partners abroad, especially in the Middle East, are too comfortable to take partisan positions outside American politics,” Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna write. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected President Obama through a stopover in Congress at the invitation of Republicans, Saudi investments targeting converting states and several Middle Eastern governments seeking to divide Republicans and Democrats into Iranian politics. “If Biden wins, he. They will come by force to locate a series of opposing numbers already accustomed to this partisan and non-public style, and will have to push them back, temporarily and decisively,” the duo wrote in POLITICO Magazine.
LEADERSHIP DIVERSITY TABLE: The Center for International Cooperation and the Center for Global Affairs at New York University have created a directory of indicators with the diversity of more than 1300 UN appointments since 1996. Four of the peacekeeping posts have been filled by men in the more than 25 years. , according to researchers Foteini Papagioti and Paul von Chamier.
WHICH WORLD LEADERS COULD HAVE THEIR OFFICIAL RESIDENCE?Some baits vital to advise you on Election Day, examine the net worth of leaders and compare it to their sumptuous properties, from Angela Merkel’s apartment ($1 million) to Buckingham Palace ($6. 5 billion).
BRAIN FEEDING
PANEL SCI FI: Are we in a simulation? This Friday, a panel on science fiction and politics, moderated by Nahal Toosi of Global Translations, features “Dune” screenwriter Jon Spaihts; visionary Walidah Imarisha; and foreign policy professor Dan Nexon. Transmitted here, more details.
TOLECTION COURT: No one fights QAnon as the K-Pop’s global superfan army, through Olivia Carville.
LIVE: Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall by Adam Neumann and WeWork, via Reeves Wiedeman.
THANK YOU to editor Emily Cadei, Luiza Ch. Savage, Cristina Gonzalez, Heidi Vogt, Danielle Muoio, Hanne Cokelaere, Joshua Posaner, Vincent Manancourt and Halley Toosi.