Home-made face shield to protect from SARS-COV-2 infection

Disclaimer: I am not a professional manufacturer of face shields to protect from virus infections. No warranties! Use at your own risk! In the following blog, I describe how to make a face shield (visor) to protect from droplet infections from COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 using house-hold materials. Although building a face shield comes pretty close to making…

Climate Activism in the age of social distancing (due to Covid-19 disease) – A letter from 350.org

I am sharing a letter from 350.org which describes how to continue climate activism while applying social distancing to contain the spread of the Covid-19 disease. I have applied minor changes to the letter for readability and privacy. Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. März 2020 um 13:35 Uhr Von: “Matilda Borgstrom – 350.org” <350@350.org> An: “Wilmar Igl” <xxx.xxxl[AT]xxx.xx> Betreff: This…

How to use a diesel car in a climate-friendly way

I still own a internal combustion engine (ICE) car (Skoda Octavia TDI 1.6 Diesel Greenline), which I hardly use anymore, but I want to keep. In addition, buying a new (electric) car is expensive and production creates new emissions, ie 13 tons CO2e [10, see also 9 for ICE cars]. Therefore, I have investigated how…

Vertritt Der Spiegel die Interessen der Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?

Im folgenden vergleiche ich die Positionen von Multi-Milliardär Bill Gates und die Kernaussagen von Artikeln, die vor kurzem in DER SPIEGEL und im SPIEGEL MAGAZIN erschienen sind, um auffällige Übereinstimmungen herauszuarbeiten. Ness (2020) argumentiert, dass durch Spenden der Bill und Melinda Gates Foundation an Der Spiegel zum Aufbau einer Redaktion “Globale Gesellschaft” die redaktionelle Unabhängigkeit…

Does the “Mobile BankID” app (android-based) compromise the privacy of Swedish citizens? – My letter to “datainspektionen”

Update with new reference: Katarina Stensson (2021-02-19). ”Vad händer om Apple och Google plötsligt stoppar bank-id-appen?”. https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.747279/debatt-apple-google-oligarki My letter to datainspektionen on how the “Mobile BankID” app is compromising privacy of Swedish citizen and the (anonymized) negative reply by datainspektionen leaves the question open, who is taking responsibility in such cases. 1. Question Gesendet: Freitag, 07.…

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