Tag: Coronavirus pandemic
4 ways our streets can rescue restaurants, bars and cafes after coronavirus
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As Australia re-opens, the bars, cafes and restaurants that give life to our streets face a tough ask: stay open and stay...
The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?
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The coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in global unemployment. It has also highlighted the increasingly valuable role of automation in today’s...
Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own
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Health-care staff are trained to deal with whatever comes through the hospital doors. But COVID-19 is a completely different ballgame.
During this pandemic, health-care...
Not all doom and gloom: even in a pandemic, mixed emotions are more common than negative ones
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Much has been written on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on negative emotions, such as rising anxiety and the loneliness of self-isolation.
But while...
The COVIDSafe app was just one contact tracing option. These alternatives guarantee more privacy
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Since its release on Sunday, experts and members of the public alike have raised privacy concerns with the federal government’s COVIDSafe mobile app.
The...
There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them
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Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running...