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Thomas Cheung and his grandma have more than 5 million followers on their TikTok account, thechainzfamily.
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Thomas Cheung describes himself as a regular guy . He s 33, works in retail and lives in Hornsby in Sydney s north with his wife and five-year-old daughter.
On the internet, Thomas is better known as Ricky Chainz, an alias he created when he joined TikTok in 2018. Since then, he s built up a following of more than 5 million, making his account one of the most popular in Australia.
But the controversies haven t stopped people flocking to the platform, and advertisers from following them.
Surely the preliminary report of the WHO investigators is good news – certainly puts the hypothesis that Covid-19 leaked from a research lab in the bin. Isn t that a relief? After all, why on earth would anyone hope that hypothesis was true?
Peter Daszak, a British-American member of the WHO team in Wuhan, previously told USA TODAY that in peoples imaginations there might be this image of one person in a lab in China who drops a petri dish and that somehow leads to a massive outbreak. It s just not like that. Every year there are millions of people going in bat caves and hunting and eating wildlife. It happens every day.
No Right Turn wrote last week:
The Auckland Council will soon be consulting on a Regional Land Transport Plan, setting their transport priorities (and funding) for the next decade. Obviously, this will have a huge impact on the city’s emissions profile. And to make sure they think hard about that, Lawyers for Climate Action is threatening to take them to court if they get it wrong:
Climate change lobbyists are warning Auckland Council it could face legal action if its decisions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions fall short of promises made.The message came from Lawyers for Climate Action during a presentation to the council’s planning committee on Thursday.