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Hi everyone!, Hi Kerin!

my suggestions were:
– Chimamanda Ngozi Amiche, Purple Hibiscus
-Elizabeth Stout, Olive Kitteridge

But honestly, I’m really curious about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin…

<div>I’m looking forward to our next bookclub! my Italian bookclub is slightly more boring ;-)</div><div>

thanks and see you soon

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Q1. In my opinion ‘the rich countries hoarding vaccines and slowing to license their vaccine technology to poor countries’ is only one of examples of huge discrepancies between poor and rich countries.
Obviously there are also a lot of economic interests behind vaccines matter, we need to take into account Governments’ directives have been dictated by profit as well, not only for common health.
How can we think about ending this pandemic when only rich countries get the vaccine, and poor countries don’t have the same possibility?

Q2. To what extent do you agree? Who do you think the author is referring to when she says ‘people’? How do you think these people can/should be held to account?

I cannot agree more about the amount of misinformation about Covid. The author is referring to all kooks that have touted questionable ‘cure’ to Covid during the last two years, extolling health benefits without any scientific support. The New Media’s development doesn’t help to fight spreading falsehoods out and, unfortunately, it is highly improbable that we hold to account ‘these people’, or we are far from sorting out spreading misinformation.

Q3. News Media have been incredibly shifted over the years. We’ve moved from professional reporters who gave us information through news reports or newscasts based on journalistic sources to journalists who are worried about increase their audience, following titillating news, gossips, whose only concern is to appear in public. We urge to have a highly discriminating approach to what we read, what we watch and what we listen to.

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Thanks!

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Thanks Kerin! I’ve a good teacher 😉