#Crisis

Paul Johnson

PJTheEconomist

What follows are the six new choices it immediately seems to me government will need to make once this is over. We'll be in a completely new economic world. (Me

John Bleasdale

drjonty

2/ There’s a tendency in moments of crisis to believe: this changes everything, and I’ve heard and read some sweeping claims from the fall of capitalism to a rewilding of

John MacLeod

mrjohnmacleod

I fully support NHS frontline workers, but there is something crucial being missed when we applaud them. We are forgetting A: the system as a WHOLE which is dealing with

Mike Chitwood

SheriffChitwood

Sorry to inform you tonight that our covid-19 data updates for Volusia County are over.The Department of Health just told us that effective immediately, they're no longer providing us the

Vish Gain

VishGain

Just got a WhatsApp text with a link to a petition asking for Irish universities to partially refund domestic, EU and international students because of the covid-19 crisis and subsequent

André Marques-Smith

TheFrontalLobe_

I was born in a country used to seeing itself at the tail of every statistic. In my teens I heard nothing but bad news about every possible index on

Dan Corry

DanRCorry

Reports in the media today that Chancellor will announce a package for #charities later today - not before time. Some thoughts on what support government might want to prioritise in

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

"Make them uncomfortable"When you can't work, can't buy what you need, go to church, go to the park or beach, do what you earned (graduation, internship), milestones that will never

Paul Doroshenko, Q.C.

PaulDoroshenko

From 79 to 82 interest rates went crazy. It flattened the Alberta economy.In 86 oil went from $37 to $10 a barrel.Alberta didn’t recover for a decade.There is no recovery

Liam Young

liamyoung

The Tories can't privatise the NHS in one swoop. Their plan has always been to execute a series of well planned attacks on our public health service. The Covid-19 crisis

Mark D. Levine

MarkLevineNYC

It’s not just deaths in hospitals which are up. On an average day before this crisis there were 20-25 deaths at home in NYC. Now in the midst of this

syrus marcus ware

syrusmarcusware

1/ One of the first things they ask about during so called wellness checks is if you’ve been taking your medication. The assumptions- that Mad people are always on meds,

💯Fergus Ryan

fryan

This is a key question. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/coronavirus-crisis-is-turning-americans-both-parties-against-china/Who are Biden's China advisors? And if you want a preview of how the US-China debate is going to play ou

Adam Bandt

AdamBandt

The Treasurer says there’s no money tree & we all have snap back soon, throw people back into poverty, remove free childcare & stop supporting people’s wages.What rubbish.There is a

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

I think this provides a really good analogue for our current public safety conversation in Minneapolis. White people are not policed based on their most menacing, potentially dangerous, most anti-social

Flood The Mainstream

FloodTheMnstrm

There is no reason NOT to print money and give it to people right now. The economy is in crisis for a non-economic reason. People aren't working or going out.