My understanding is that about 20 years ago it got privatised, with some government oversight. I think that is still the case, it's just now the owner is a foreigner so the tabloids can get worked up.

Privatisation is still bullshit though.

It was sold off by the government in 2013.

This is just a transfer of ownership between private organisations.

Pretty sure they are saying that vaccines are proven to help everyone, and that morons (RFK Jr, etc.) want to destroy them because vaccines helps black people.

I hope that is what they are saying.

I mean, it is an awesome drug! I use it a lot. Even in covid suffers - when COVID activates an autoimmune disease.

Let’s do ivermectin next! I’ll go first: fantastic for endo and ectoparasites, and even a subset of folks with rosacea. Does jack all for Covid infections.

You want a conspiracy theory?

It was designed to make any criticism of big pharma look crazy.

They wanted you to go back to work, not in X months if and when a vaccine was available, but tomorrow, taking some bullshit drug if you needed reassurance. While they were happy working from home, triple vaxxed and double masked.

I don't know what the intent was, only what it achieved. It is now political suicide to enforce public health mandates, so when the next pandemic hits, your boss will be able to force you to go to work in unsafe sanitary conditions and a lot of people will be cheering for it.

I've never seen people sneer at doctors of physics talking about physics or doctors of medieval literature discussing the influences on chaucer (though they do get routinely mocked for thinking themselves employable).

What people do sneer at is doctors of electrical engineering claiming that they've disproven speciation by evolution and doctors of law declaring medical establishment wrong about medicine.

A doctorate just means you're an expert at something not everything

The article says that renewable capacity in China grew faster than demand though:

In the race to net zero, there is one country with more influence than the rest.

Through the 2000s and 2010s, China’s fossil fuel emissions were rising at a rapid rate, largely due to increasing demand for coal as the country industrialised.

But this trend has been quietly reversing, starting about a decade ago as China invested heavily in renewable energy.

By 2017, solar farms were sprouting up all around the country, but it would only ramp up from there.

That same year, its renewable capacity grew faster than its overall demand for electricity — meaning its fossil fuel usage actually went backwards.

Since then, two major international climate agencies are predicting that global emissions could have reached their peak in 2023 and began declining in 2024.