#Crisis

Peter Sloman

pjsloman

This is the fourth time in just over a century that the Treasury faces the challenge of 'unfreezing' the economy by rolling back emergency controls and subsidies. I hope it's

Betting and Gaming Council

BetGameCouncil

Thousands of casino sector jobs are at risk if they are forced to close their doors under any new #COVID19 restrictions brought in by @BorisJohnson. To avoid this nightmare scenario,

Andrew Neil

afneil

Some thoughts on weekly deaths, England & Wales. We now have the ONS stats up til March 20th. Weekly deaths in 2020 have actually been trending bit below previous 5-year

Musa Okwonga

Okwonga

An interesting thing about this pandemic, in Germany at least, is how the far-right are struggling for relevance. For now, few want to hear from ranting racists. Instead, they want

octavia bright

octaviabright_

Thinking and talking constantly about how lockdown enforces conservative values at the moment - the primacy of the couple, the biological family, the homestead. A big freezer, even. I’m living

Akshaya Kumar

AkshayaSays

So the spot price of oil just dropped to $0 a barrel. You'll get the economic analysis from a lot of people, but follow along here for some thoughts on

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. For the last few years we've been hearing a lot about *evidence-based teaching* practices. In principle, I'm a big fan of using evidence to improve my teaching. In practice,

aj 🇻🇦

smokeystuck

A MINI THREADso for my latin class i’ve been translating virgil’s aeneid. throughout the whole translation, there have been a couple beautiful lines that have really stuck out to me;

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BamaStephen

THREADThere is a growing hunger in #America for healing; not only from ghastly #Coronavirus pandemic, but from toxicity, strife, tribalism, and dysfunction that are corroding our national community. People want

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Quick tweetstorm on the economic case for Recovery Loans for the most affected small businesses. People really struggle to get why this can be more valuable than cash, so let's

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rudolf_rokkr

reading nordic prechristian history in light of Sylvia Wynter, you can see how, as the descriptive statement changes over time, more identities are subsumed into descriptions of trolls. it's most

Blair Nathan

Blair_A_Nathan

You know what’s a bit of a whitepill?It often seems like the people work for the economy and not the other way around—that liberal capitalism is just a freight train

Sandro Galea

sandrogalea

Some thoughts on recent protests against state lockdown measures, and how they reflect an issue we in public health have long grappled with - the tension between “freedom to” and

Meredith Greene, MD

geri4life

To all my colleagues working in LTC settings: these are tough times. If you want to share your experiences so more attention is paid to our most vulnerable older adults

David B. Larter

DavidLarter

Happy birthday to this genius album about the creeping depression and anxiety caused by overexposure in a tech-bubble, media-saturated world.https://twitter.com/stereogum/status/1312015378097278978 Thom Yorke is easily the most insightful r

Jeffrey Moro

jeffreymoro

hypothesis: part of the issue w/ young ppl not taking the covid response "seriously" isn't a failure of messaging ("only old ppl get sick!") or a lack of compassion ("yolo