the welcome in lebanon can be vastly different for syria som a very positive thing taleb in the bekaa valley a local ngo has opened up a youth as a school for the children. but also a place where they can meet and enjoy themselves. there was it. goes also play football up the soccer camp in the back alley close to the club says here lebanon seems a place one could grow to life until they're able to go back house. seats. yes he. says he says yes if you're going to be open and invest you and into this kind of understanding you have. to search for information on the. incident. just to know was this who do you. want to do the smart. thing to shoot to move into the function is just not under the gun were designed to was. but not everybody feels immediately welcome for the reims the beginning was difficult when they arrived they had nothing no home no school no one to take them in. this. nothing. left of the hut there and it's one of them the mode of none of us are not in the bed pleasant or looks out over the. other. some of them are their mother for. nothing is free for the people here th

local elections to go ahead despite the pandemic time several elderly regional officials including taleb as contracted the virus and passed away at a council official in a suburb of paris is now accusing the government of putting people at risk. my chief of staff caught the virus 69 and was taken to hospital for 10 days because of the contagion that most likely took place on new simple election day the government is responsible putting so many people in so many cities at risk with restaurants and all leisure facilities be close shortly before election day is something i can hardly understand why did they send us to vote just days before the national lockdown. the 1st round of local elections was held on march the 15th about 7 weeks after the 1st covert 19 case was detected in france by that time schools and restaurants had already been closed this part of containment measures the 2nd round was later postponed and as yet no new date has been announced one micron has admitted that allowing the vote to go ahead back in march was the wrong decision. if the science counselor told me that keep

what they're saying is precisely what the lancet was saying 2 months ago is precisely what nassim taleb and i have been saying for weeks on end a back of an envelope calculation shows that hundreds of thousands are at risk from this virus if you let it hit most of the population do the same and data brokers are the main broadcaster in this country is wrong about the science having changed the problem with the b.b.c. coverage is that they've been and the i.t.v. coverage is that they've been far too deferential towards the state they've said things like for example well boris johnson is for only following the scientific advice because of course he goes out there flanked by the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser but that doesn't mean they're making the policy the policy was very influenced for example by the knowledge of psychology unit that is close to 10 downing street who were saying look you're not going to be able to convince people to. socially isolate the long periods of time therefore you've got to wait before you impose that those kinds of restrictions but that