it's one thing to discover and thenen to find a particular vaccine. another thing to ramp up the production. because once the v vaccine is discovered it would be needed across the globe. so that would definitely be a huge difficult challenge not only to produce the vaccine but available to ramp it up and reach all the remote place. knows are criritical challenges lying aheffffed us. but i think we can all come challenges intry to this difficult s suation. annette: with pandemic it does appear africa so far has seemed to escape the same fate as various s european countries an the u.s., why is that so? because of the younger population and warmer weather? we need to remember that africa was hit by the pandemic the in the last continent compared to others. which give countries enough time to prepare themselves.s. since the first case was reported in late february, ming gink of mararch, most of the countries took rigorous measure. lockdown or instituted many countries where only -- and i think all of that contributed to reducing the transmission. it's tru

. >> a lot of times people are ok for a whihile, thenen they show signs of it afterwards great i wouldrage anyone who thinks that is happening not to deal with it on their own. they should seek help. >> a bit of support and comfort comes nonetheless at the end of every shift. gerhard: coronavirus lockdowns have reduced traffic and pollution in most countries. that is helping nature to make a comeback. in thailand rare dolphins and other sea creatures are reappearing. >> dolphins galore, not far from these islands in thailand. they have surrounded the range. they don't know anything about social distancing or the pandemic, but they are benefiting frorom it. >> there i is many people and dl of the a activities associated with the people, boat traffic, parties by the beach. when all of this is lifted, the animals carry on. >> the fisherman recorded the rare pink dolphins. they are around 150 of them living in the gulf of thailand. they very rarely come this close to humans. nature is making a comeback starting with some of the smallest. these leatherback sea turtles can grow up to 700 kil

and thenen att a p particular group- already we have seen that isis that is addressed throuough ther own national company or they will have a record. deal actually they will take they will be with. okay. from having. we will have a war so we don't a trade but not great war okay so efforts continue on that front well as well on all of the others like. as i general of the oecd you very much for joinining us on. the phone 05/18/20 05/18/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, the epicenter of the pandemic, this is democracy now! bethere will likely resurgence of covid-19 this fall. it will be greatly compounded by the seasonal inflfluenza. without better training, 20/20 could be the darkest winter in modern history. amy: 48 u.s. states are partially reopening for business, even as about a dozen states are seein

torture jews intnto submission, to confessing c crimes that of coue they had n never committed, andd thenenhey were judged and burd -- the holy roman empire did this -- and local authorities and leaders of city statates. so this was the systematic purging and killing of jews w wo are thought t to have or the cae against them was they were trying to put an to chchristian him and wereend poisoning the wells of chrhristians. ews killed. blame, scapegoating, we see ththat today with the coronanav. it is something that can happen, has repeatedly happen with t the idea that this is a chinese disease, a foreign disease we are told, and therefore shutting bordrders againsnst china men. we see chinese-americans, chchildren beingng attacked in schools, chinese-americans are afraid to ride alone on the new york subway, arranging to travel in groups. this is part of a long-term legacy of these diseases. and we see it in europe as well. china towns were deserted long before the coronavirus actually arrived. and the e right wing nationalist politicians of europe have been using that saying it has been im

and thenen on top of that, there was a great argrgument from the washington s solicitor general hahaveasicically was along the lines of f once americans have e right to votote, you cannot take that away by allowowing electors to take away all of our voices. so overall, i was very happy with the supreme court justices lines of questioning, and i think it bodes well for the states. amamy: i want t to thank you vey much, jena griswold, for being with us, secretary of state of colorado. i want to ask you to stay with us for this next segment. colorado place an interesting rorole in the elections, especially when it comes t to mail-inn ballots. the democracy s survive pandemic?" we will also be e joined by emiy bazelon. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "greenwaves" by secret garden. flippo.is mike de like most of the democracy now! staff, whihile they are in isolation, they are still h here with us in spirit. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we t turn now from the electoral college to the issue of voting from home and the question, "can dem

and thenen another, number t tw thing that you cou do is say, you are owed an accounting of how your data has been monetized. which is also something that would be very hard to do here, but it's absolutely posossible n other g governments this day. >> i just was thinking about regional attitudes towards design changes. you mentioned that the european regulators are taking the lead on regulations. does that mean europeans want to tend to move more slowly. i just came backk from japan, nobody was in-- [inaudible] invented a lot o of monumental design shifts over the last 50 or 100 years. i guess the question to what extent does the culture of the society which is doing the design have an impact on how the lolongevity [indible] constructive contribution. >> so the question was how much does the local culture inform, i guess, the end productct o user friendly design. how much does it change the assumptions,s, which is a hard question that i could probably spend an entire book answering again. but it is interesting that if you ask that question -- i'll flip that question around, why wasn'