#PANDEMIC

Conor D'Arcy

conortdarcy

Quick lunchtime thread on our new report:The impact *all this* is going to have on our finances & mental health is clearly huge. To find the biggest concerns, we surveyed

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. There has been a massive failure in CORPORATE leadership during the pandemicMajor retailers are seeing record profits this yearBut frontline workers who are putting their lives on the line

Michelle

ChiliMedley

Today, I read about the DPWH planning to build a breakwater to “prevent” the further deterioration of the dolomite beach. A DENR undersecretary even confidently claimed the impossibility of the

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I wish we weren’t funneling everything through the painful twisting fuck up that is PPP, but since we are here in this Bad Place, I support this.https://twitter.com/nivassoc/status/1283911254738898944 Congress: We need

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

It occurs to me that the last few Coronavirus months have been a grand natural experiment in "planning" versus "spontaneous order."And, it seems reasonable to conclude, that, thus far, "spontaneous

Matthew Kupfer

Matthew_Kupfer

I've watched the #COVID19 responses of three democracies with particular interest: #Ukraine, #USA and #Israel. All three countries failed for their own specific reasons. What are the lessons from their

euneece

euneeceolbes

a thought i’ve been having:back when the current officers were first elected, none of them knew that they would have to face the problems that the pandemic would cause on

Kat Stafford

kat__stafford

This was hard to write:912.That's the number of Detroiters we've lost to COVID-19.So amid the pandemic, Detroit — the nation’s largest black city, the birthplace of distinctive soulful music and

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

If you're wondering how you remove the scientific evidence base from a policy discussion, and turn it into narrative, here's a nice template in just four sentences from today's Economist

Nidhi Jamwal

JamwalNidhi

Long post alert Exactly two months back, on March 1, when I boarded the flight from Mumbai to Delhi, I was super excited as I was going to meet my

Noteworthy

noteworthy_ie

THREAD: The first part of our home care investigation focused on the impact of the pandemic on carers. We show that carers experienced significant income loss due to Covid-19 in

Lovesick Girl

kat_blaque

Any man randomly contacting you for sex right now is threatening your life. They are essentially saying that they do not care if you live or die, they want to

Alex Fitzpatrick

ArchaeologyFitz

Over the past week, I've been seeing a lot of folks consider or downright decide to leave academia after all of this...and basically across the board, they were all marginalised

Elizabeth Warren

SenWarren

When Disney announced it was laying off 28,000 workers, it blamed CA for closing parks during a pandemic. But Disney didn't mention how it had deflated its financial cushion by

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

all the married people are angry, all the single people are sad, all the parents are broken some people are insisting they are FINE just FINE, WHY WHAT HAVE YOU

Scott Berkun

berkun

1. Everyone has been doing ZOOM #remote happy hours with friends, trying to emulate the regular world. We're all likely making the same mistakes.What have you noticed? What new habits