#Economy

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

so you crush the global south through debt, stealing resources, exploiting labor, dictating austerity and privatization, keeping them from developing their economy. then the huge pharmaceutical monsters refuse to make

Ashley Archibald

AshleyA_RC

CM Lewis is saying that since the Mayor will not spend the money appropriated for COVID relief, the City Council should try for a week and a half to come

Kyle Russell

kylebrussell

Starting a thread of books I finish in 2020!2019 thread: Book 1Lesson:If you wish to find the unclouded truth, do not concern yourself with right and wrong. https://twitter.com/kylebrussell/status/1081215731767754753 Book 2Lessons:-The

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

States coming together for form "alliances" to address public health is fantastic and great science (C19 does not know about state/county boundaries).Such action in the world of "organizational behavior" is

Blake Reichmann

lbreichmann

Building wealth has little to do with how smart you are & a lot to do with how you behave.Thankfully, The Psychology of Money by @morganhousel explores why smart people

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Eugenics is at the centre of why a some significant people are arguing against public health interventions, and for the so-called "Sweden model" of uncontrolled spread of the virus leading

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I've spent weeks, now months, warning about the #COVID19 pandemic. We're in exactly the situation I was desperate for us to avoid. The virus is freely spreading in the

John Paul Tasker

JPTasker

The prime minister will be up shortly. We're expecting some sort of announcement on the domestic manufacturing of ventilators — the medical devices that those gravely ill with COVID-19 depend on to

The Pudding

puddingviz

We’ve been asked by a few followers if we’re going to do any coronavirus viz. We are not currently working on anything. 1/X We want to amplify the vitally important

Paul Scharre

paul_scharre

I’ve seen a lot of these “the pandemic was not a black swan” takes lately. Here’s why I don’t think they’re very helpful. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/EvansRyan202/status/1248247272699117571(which, judging by the amount of people

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Back in February I repeatedly raised concerns about immunity to #COVID19 In March, when the UK government started discussing herd immunity I wondered what the government’s scientific advisers were

Sarah Milliron

sgmilliron

Inspired by @andreawil05:It’s senior year.Here’s a thread I’ll update weekly on what I’ve learned (or am grateful for) during my time in undergrad. (1) I’ve learned that there’s an unbelievable

David Petts is at home to visitors

DavidPetts1

This[long] thread looks at the radical role of folk dance and music as elements of social protest in the 19th century 1/23 #heritageofprotest There's tradition of radical history engaging with

Karol Cummins

karolcummins

The Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic TIMELINE UPDATE ’The Trump Adm was made aware via *unclassified* DOS sources since JAN 2018 that China's biotech labs may have cultivated

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

This is an incredibly common argument from right-libertarians: asserting a positive right to basic needs, like housing, as an intolerable intrusion on someone else’s liberty. Let’s unpack.1/https://twitter.com/dapf/status/13675472488470

Erin Mordecai

morde

Lots of media coverage of the striking numbers on @nytimes front page today, based on a preprint from @ColumbiaMSPH (@Senpei_CU et al), and for good reason. We could have averted