#RURAL

For those who live way out here and wholeheartedly endorse the "herd immunity" concept and think it's awesome ... consider how much undiagnosed ill health, like heart problems, lung/breathing problems,
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Lots of water posts on here all of the time about panelists, summits and such featuring guests from huge utilities but rarely anyone from smaller and rural systems. Can't say
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The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data on unemployment is out. And it's not good. The rate of unemployment is now higher than 23%. Look at the jump. The urban
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1. Through this USPS scandal lots of Qs about the views of rural voters. That's why when a donor volunteered to fund a survey of JUST rural voters I volunteered
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28 September is World Tourism Day. The theme for the year is on 'Tourism and Rural Development'. Watch this space for how we plan to commemorate this year's celebration. #wtd2020
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Yesterday I saw a thread doing the rounds that asserted that ~the media~ were ignoring and going to ignore the effects of the pandemic on rural communities. So I’m going
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Americans sold out their rural towns to boom the Chinese economy. None of it was purposeful on the average Americans part. But, our desire to consume cheap products decimated our
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1. The whole Texas GOP platform is insane but the piece that jumped out to me was the endorsement of a state-level electoral college, eliminating one person-one vote in favor
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Black guy: Sells some pot. Steals some candy from the store."Being poor is no excuse for being a criminal!?!?"White guy: Joins a far-right terrorist group and tries to kidnap a
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Vadivelu is underrated. Discuss #Vadivelu #VadiveluForLife Sometimes his comedy is predictable but that does not matter because our lives and the tyrannies are predictable as well! His body language thrives
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It's #InternationalDayForOlderPersons and time to change the way we treat older people. That starts with the way we talk about them - https://homeshareuk.org/channel-4s-lodgers-for-codgers-our-statement/ It's time we celebrated olde
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COVID-19 exposes deeply rooted health inequities. Let’s ensure our response corrects them by centering on the voices & experiences of people from communities most impacted. THREAD 1/nhttps://twitter.com/JRuralHealth/status/1260261963361214465 Ser
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#BeyondRavilious: James Ravilious was Eric and Tirzah’s son, born in Eastbourne in August 1939 just before his father went to war. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art &
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THREAD: Gov* Kemp announced that some businesses will reopen Friday. Meanwhile, Georgia ranks 43rd in testing and has the 14th highest infection rate in the US, overwhelming rural hospitals already
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BLOODY HELL—Trump’s CMS is now changing #COVID19 positivity ratings & muzzling bad numbers. How? If a rural county has
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Brinda Karat, @brindacpim, officially releases our book 'Women and Work in Rural India' after Indu Chandrashekhar from @Tulikabooksdel and Vinod Koshti from @RLS_South_Asia hand it over to her. "When India
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