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Joseph Fink, healthcare is a human right
PlanetofFinks
Stop trying and failing to figure out how to reopen businesses that can't be open during a plague. Start paying those businesses and everyone else to not work until the
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Dogs don't have thumbs
MorlockP
1/Interesting thread, and I'm glad to have read it.My take is exactly the opposite: I have ALWAYS expected a pandemic. I have ALWAYS expected a nuclear war.Maybe bc I'm pretty
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Justin Stearns
kaohu11
Quick thread on plague treatises (natch!) in the Muslim world. The genre takes off following the black death, and while it overlaps to varying degrees with fatwas on the plague,
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Steve Fennessy
stevefennessy
After 15 years at @atlantamagazine, I was laid off yesterday. So were 5 other staffers. For-profit journalism is in no condition to withstand a pandemic. But if losing a job
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Beth
BethinSac
Reality check: if restaurants reopen for sit-down, there is no way we're going to keep going there to pick up our takeout. B/c I assume all these people rushing to
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Comfortably Smug
ComfortablySmug
Lol this is fucking insaneIt's so easy to accept this as the new normal but step back for a second and think about itA hell plague is outside that kills
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Dr Owen Rees
reeshistory
I do, I get it. The need to find historical lessons during this time - but this link between the plague of Athens in 430-427/6 B.C., the defeat in the
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Jay Hulme
JayHulmePoet
I've been trying to not buy things online during the plague to keep the burden off the postal system, but it's gonna go on for a LOT longer and I've
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Rakesh
just1hashtag
Well, The history of the word "quarantine" is fascinating! (A mini Thread)The word comes from Latin 'quadraginta' and the Italian 'quaranta', both meaning “40.”Why 40?We will have to go back to the mid
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Fʀ. A. J. D. Sᴄʜʀᴇɴᴋ
frajds
A protective cross against the plague, given the approbation of the Council of Trent + O Cross of Christ, save me.Z. May zeal for your house free me.+ The Cross
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Paul Matzko
PMatzko
You might have seen this meme on social media. It's a bad meme making a deceptive point. Why?1/ Because the annual number of TB cases in the US is actually
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politi_geek
politi_geek
This isn't the first time an anti-science leader rallied his supporter to attack and discredit a doctor in the face of an epidemic in order to preserve the economy.In 1900,
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Christmas in Julie 🎄
JuliaFtacek
"Trans epidemic" is a *particularly* cruel framing device in 2020 The concept of "eradication" is so close to the surface of this discussion it honestly leaves a cold, hard lump
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rosemary donahue
rosadona
help full piece by @katienotopoulos here:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/coronavirus-sex-advice
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Daniel Cooke
Fudge_Bags
I've been seeing quite a lot about the idea of a cashless society being introduced under the auspices of pandemic control recently. This has some benefits, but causes many more
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c0nc0rdance
c0nc0rdance
100 years ago in June, Galveston, TX had an outbreak of bubonic plague.The "third pandemic" of plague started in Yunnan China in mid to late 1800's, and spread around the
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