![]() Meanwhile, misinformation about intervention methods – like contact tracing and mask-wearing – creates confusion and sometimes results in “mistrust against institutions, governments, expertise and science”, she said. Sylvie Briand, director of the Department of Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness at the WHO, told Al Jazeera the myths around treatments, drugs and vaccines are “sometimes fuelled by commercial interests”. Since the start of the pandemic, a barrage of misinformation, conspiracy theories, rumours and myths have circulated around the novel coronavirus. “We already don’t allow ads with vaccine hoaxes that have been publicly identified by leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” it added.įacebook, which has been under pressure from politicians and public health groups to crack down on anti-vaccine content and misinformation on its platform, said that although a COVID-19 vaccine would not be available for some time, the pandemic had highlighted the importance of preventive health behaviours.įacebook’s rules prohibit ads with vaccine misinformation, but ads expressing opposition to vaccines had been allowed if they did not contain false claims.Įarlier this year, Facebook Public Policy Manager Jason Hirsch told Reuters news agency the company believed users should be able to express such personal views and that more aggressive censorship could push people hesitant about vaccines towards the anti-vaccine camp. “Our goal is to help messages about the safety and efficacy of vaccines reach a broad group of people, while prohibiting ads with misinformation that could harm public health efforts,” the company said. ![]() The United States-based company said in a blog post on Tuesday that ads advocating for or against legislation or government policies around vaccines, including a COVID-19 vaccine, would still be allowed.įacebook said it would begin to enforce the new policy in the next few days. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Facebook will start banning advertisements that discourage people from getting vaccinated, the social media company said, as it also announced a new flu vaccine information campaign. Article content Contemporary etching of the British Titanic inquiry. ![]() It was an almost physiologically impossible feat of survival. And, according to the British Titanic inquiry, it was because the 33-year-old Englishman had the presence of mind to greet history’s greatest maritime disaster by getting smashed. To be sure, a good rule of thumb is that a drunk man will usually freeze to death faster than a sober man. The warming sensation of a glass of brandy (and the telltale red cheeks that sometimes results) is caused by vasodilation, the phenomenon of warm blood rushing to the surface of the skin. In a survival situation, having all that warm blood away from the vital organs means that the drinker is at greater risk of hypothermia. However, Canadian hypothermia expert Gordon Giesbrecht figures that in the -2 C temperature of the North Atlantic, the water was cold enough to quickly tighten Joughin’s blood vessels and cancel out any effect of the alcohol. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content A deck chair from the Titanic, recovered floating at the disaster site. This could very well have been one of the chairs thrown overboard by Joughin. “He sat down on his bunk and nursed it along - aware but not particularly caring that the water now rippled through the cabin doorway,” wrote historian Walter Lord in A Night to Remember. ![]() Lord was in touch with Joughin just before the baker’s 1956 death. Joughin then splashed topside again, where he took it upon himself to begin throwing deck chairs overboard, with an eye to filling the water with impromptu floatation devices. Parched, he then worked his way back to his pantry to get a drink of water. And yet, he remembered the violent, catastrophic breakup only as a “great list over to port.” The baker was standing on the stern when the ship broke in half. “There was no great shock or anything,” he told the inquiry. A sketch made just after the disaster by a survivor. The Titanic was a violent shipwreck in its final minutes, although Charles Joughin was apparently too inebriated to notice. ![]()
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