#Crises

Can't imagine how challenging it is to be the Government right now, facing such terrible crises. Above that, how demotivating it must be when so many citizens slander/insult you for
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1/5America needs to be on suicide watch.Yes, we are watching America's suicide, and stand idly by while we do this to ourselves.At times with a suicidal person, there is some
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I've been thinking about that "Africa has been spared from Rona" nonsense from NPR.About the narrowness of it. About the lie. We have not been spared job losses.Poor people were
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What if every person was only allowed to own one house? What if fines were proportional to your income and assets? What if fossil fuel companies didn't get billions in
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I guess patriotism as a concept has never made much sense to me. The only moment of patriotism I ever had was when I saw the clips of CAA protesters
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every crisis mentioned in article (9/11, Katrina, financial collapse, pandemic) happened under GOP president it’s almost like “Republicans” fail, not “America”;https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/america-was-unprepared-for-a-major-crisis-again/20
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I keep doing this cycle where I fixate on whether or not I want to transition, ultimately decide I do then feel more at ease, and slowly, because I feel
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What does lockdown mean and its implication for fiscal policy & related govt policies https://egrowfoundation.org/research/lockdown-economics-fiscal-policy-during-pandemic-crises/ 2/lde https://egrowfoundation.org/research/growth-implic
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1/ repeat after me: debt funds assets and spending. Assets and spending don’t always pan out, yet the money is still owed. This is literally one of the dumbest things
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The #COVID19 pandemic shows us that care work— raising children, cooking, cleaning, caring for elders, promoting health, etc.— is the essential work of society. It’s not enough to simply say
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1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this
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Good evening, CM @tweetelissa! It has been a busy week. Thank you for your patience. Here is my Twitter policy proposal for which you asked.https://twitter.com/tweetelissa/status/1244976408872587265 Obviously, the city must take
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A thread on the worse that is coming- only 20 ish days from now! #COVIDIndia is a humanitarian crises Daily deaths are best predictor of pandemic course & @IHME_UW estimates
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This is the most despairing hour of my prematurely graying lifetime. But it is also the most hopeful. I want to put in thread form a @BBC radio essay I
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“Vegeta’s number one speech in the Kid Buu arc was disregarded in Super and his character regressed.”I disagree with this. (Thread) To me, Vegeta’s speech at the end of the
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Many of the talking heads were screaming about Bitcoin being a horrible safe haven during the recent economic crisis.They have been proven wrong. Time for a thread 1) The
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