#PANDEMIC

John Sides

johnmsides

For a long time, I've been struck by pessimistic takes that say Americans inherently can't or won't do what it takes to beat coronavirus.I don't think that's right, and I

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shOoObz

Like a week into office and he already created international panic. Fuck that guy. Tainted our food supply, congratulated racist murders, almost started world wars multiple times. That was just

balajis.com

balajis

Why didn't the Spanish Flu lockdowns cause unprecedented unemployment?This strikes me as a critically important question.We know why the economy of 1918 was more robust to, say, an electromagnetic pulse.Why

Lynn Guerriero

LynnGuerriero

1/3 We highly encourage @NiagaraRegion Council to extend the mask by-law. The wearing of masks is critical to keep the transmission of COVID-19 down in the community, which will help

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using

Chris Franklin

Campster

Because my brain is broken I've been thinking about how our current cultural pantheon of superheroes is fundamentally ill-equipped to deal with the current disaster A pandemic is an enemy

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40_head

1. John Solomon cites that Hydroxychloroquine is rated by doctors treating Coronavirus patients as the top drug to fight COVID-19. Those doctors also fear a 2nd wave of the virus

Nat

nota_bennett

Yo my ex-Pivots (and at this point this includes everyone still working at VMware) what cool post-Pivotal future-of-XP stuff are you up to?I'll start:My team ran an experiment where none

Dr. Jonathan Foley

GlobalEcoGuy

Many of the challenges we face — the pandemic, climate change, civil unrest, the erosion of democracy — are being made much worse by a common, underlying factor.Big Media organizations

W. David O. Taylor

wdavidotaylor

When the negative economic effects of this pandemic begin to manifest themselves in exponential, long-term ways, we will witness, I believe, a powerful clash between two gospels: The gospel of

Liz Franczak

liz_franczak

no, I’m sorry this is unpleasant but we had the money and not the numbers. we lost badly. we have to confront these issues, not paper over them with platitudes

Kat Butler

heykatbutler

Reading various opinions of non-applicants reacting to the below @MacMDAdmissions decision, I find it ~fascinating~ how many people clearly view a med school offer as validation of their hard work

Callie Cox

callieabost

This crisis has me thinking a lot about the impact of timing.Sure, people are smart, work hard and earn their merit, but so much of success boils down to timing.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams 🤖✊🔮

hralperta

Are you concerned about what's happening to caregivers on college campuses?We've got updated data on caregiver feelings, campus accommodations, and testimonies from caregivers at universities.tldr: it's really bad.https://vision

Ryan Watkins

RyanWatkins_

Value transfer on Ethereum just reached parity with Bitcoin.This is a story of the explosion of stablecoins in Q1 2020.1/ Q1 2020 was stablecoins’ best quarter ever. Driven by a

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.5 million people applied for unemployment insurance last week. That includes 860,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 659,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf