Posted By
Najib
Apr 08, 2020 04:41
Health Minister Hamad Hassan appeared in a video yesterday re-assuring Lebanese that we're close to achieving our goal, which I assume means containing the pandemic and flattening the #COVID19 curve, but did not provide further details or timelines. So is Lebanon flattening the curve or not yet? - As per yesterday's MoPH report, we have 7 new COVID-19 cases, which indicates a drop in the number of daily cases, but these numbers are not very…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 08, 2020 02:45
Update: Disney+ will roll out to 42 other countries this summer including Lebanon. Here is the list of new countries getting Disney Plus, per The Hollywood Reporter: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 07, 2020 12:11
Netflix recently released an hour-long documentary Money Heist: The Phenomenon, showing why and how "Money Heist" sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world. Around Minute 6, they're talking on how jumpsuits and masks from the show were used in parades around the world, and how they were even used in political protest marches in Lebanon, Iraq, France and Chile. You can see here footage from the Lebanese October 17 Revolution, which was initially triggered…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 06, 2020 04:32
There's been a lot of talks in the past few days about Google's Coronavirus mobility reports, which are feeding users' location history to "chart movement trends over time by geography, across different high-level categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential". In simpler terms, Google is feeding from its users' movements to show how visits and length of stay at different places change compared to a…
Critiques
5 years ago
UNESCO director Mechtild Rössler published an open letter expressing concerns to the Lebanese authorities, over the announcement of a construction project at the Archaeological Site of Nahr El-Kalb. She continued saying: In particular, the World ...
Critiques
5 years ago
Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmi issued a circular today stating that – Vehicles with a license plate ending in an odd number may now only be driven Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. and – Vehicles with a ...
Health
5 years ago
Should healthy people wear masks to prevent Coronavirus? Should everyone wear masks? Is a Homemade Mask effective? Which material should we use? Are cloth face coverings recommended? How about cheap paper masks? Bandanas? The truth ...
Health
5 years ago
Everyone’s talking about providing health care workers with personal protective equipment, but there’s another crisis that few are tackling, which is how to mitigate or prevent more serious psychological or mental health issues that health ...
