#Pandemic

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/20/trum-j20.html "The rally has two deeply reactionary and interrelated purposes. Trump’s first campaign event in three months, since the outbreak of the pandemic, is meant to underscore the f
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This has been such a tough year for so many reasons, that I decided to give in and "own" my achievements. . So, here goes (reverse order, time-wise):In November,
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I had the day off today and decided to do a study on funeral homes. I rang 26 in total, randomly and took in the 26 counties, I pretended I
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Left, Fox's America's Newsroom, 9:04 a.m.Right, Trump, 9:20 a.m. The Trump criticism of ads from "Big Pharma" about his drug plan appears to actually be a response to an Americans
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If childcare goes - because of the pandemic and because of our indifference - no one who comes after me will be able to do it. We will not have
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He all but said he did this and then explained in detail why he did it in a series of nationally televised press conferences, I don't get how this has
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So various media are reporting a new pandemic flu virus discovered in China.What does this actually mean? Let's look at the original paper. Actually, that's not so easy to do
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OK, I'll bite.https://twitter.com/randyhillier/status/1322347781252653057 Dolores Cahill: A University College Dublin (UCD) professor, who chairs the Eurosceptic Irish Freedom Party, has been asked to resign from a leading European Unio
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As annus horribilis 2020 ends I would like to reflect on what lessons I hope the world has come to understand about the need for greater resources for research, diversity
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The Pandemic has got me thinking. On TV, people of the future are always very comfortable with data. They collect it. They analyze it. They adjust their strategies in real
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OK, get ready for a looooong thread of some of my favorite @CityLab stories this year. Let's start with ... MAPS! @mslaurabliss and @jessicalee27 collected these stunning pieces from readers
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I'm going to keep talking about this moment again, because I think it's important to understand what it reveals: to Trump and the Republicans who support him, the number of
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As home schooling returns, I spoke to multiple friends - all women - who have pre-emptively dropped out of the workforce or taken leave without pay. They were traumatized from
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Seeing this headline a lot in the last 24 hours. It’s not exactly true, although people want it to be true. What is true is that the last ten years
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Gig economy delivery apps claim that they're operating "two-sided markets," connecting delivery people with restaurants. Actually, they're useless, overcapitalized, predatory, money-haemorrhaging parasites.1/ They raise ti
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3. Later in March, Priti Patel tried to rally Cabinet to support her plans for border closure, but the Prime Minister intervened to keep borders open. 4. Unfortunately for the
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