#Distancing

ICW: California & The West

HUSC_ICW

1/10 We recently came across these rare and largely unpublished images of Southern Californians during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in the archives at @TheHuntington. Although they are poignant they

Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions

mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt from my brief glimpses of the Twitter this week:1. Canada's adopted a new official credo. "Errare humanum est, quod loquuntur moistly frowned super" [To err is human,

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

Social distancing works.The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimate that before the lockdown one positive person would infect 2.6 other people.Now it's just 0.62.This means the virus is

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

1/ Listen to the science and reopen schoolsAdding months more to this toll will be an educational disaster that some children may never recover fromA thread... 2/ listen to the

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

The vast majority of Americans have voluntarily isolated themselves, at great financial and emotional cost, in order to protect their communities. It's the most impressive civic-minded act I've ever seen

Steve Lambert

stevelambertwpg

1/? i’m seeing a lot of tweets on the topic, so I’ll attempt to explain the province’s thinking re: no to backyard gatherings but yes to patios #mbpoli #covid19mb 2/?

‏Ewen Bell

ewster

"It’s almost certainly because they’re conservative and they watch a lot of Fox News."... Is exactly what we've been saying.https://twitter.com/kbeccaandrews/status/1245837715657986048 ... but that's only part of the picture. What h

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

The percentage of tests that are coming up positive in NY state remains very high but now falling a bit each day:4/7 (most recent): 41.7%4/6: 42.5%4/5: 46.7%4/4: 44.6%4/3: 46.9%4/2: 48.6%4/1:

Papillon Hanna

HannaPapillon

According to the country's top epidemiologist, Sweden's unusual approach to the pandemic is beginning to produce results.They left schools, restaurants, bars & gyms opened whilst maintaining social distancing.(A country of

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I'm seeing people mean (at least) two different things when they use the phrase "flatten the curve" and they have different (somewhat opposite) implications for when the peak will be

Rob Davies

ByRobDavies

Here it is, the Moon Under Water in Colindale, the pub I *believe* will serve the first pint in London for three and a half months, at 8am. Fairly sure

Sam Bowman

s8mb

It's depressing to watch this country repeat the mistakes it made in March, which will make mortality AND the economic impact worse.https://twitter.com/IronEconomist/status/1314539120505630722 Saving the economy vs lives is a false

Trina T.

trinattrill

Cut CPD’s budget and let the neighborhood decide what they want to do w the money saved. Use the money to: provide families with educational packetspay rent support childcare centers

Mark R. Levin

marklevinshow

1. You knew Obama, ever the opportunist, would appear for the political purpose of attacking the president. 2. Let me suggest that Obama, who was way over his head as

Dae Knight G

Darviticus

My social options these days are mostly discord calls with 9+ people in them.5+ people starts to get to much in person, and group calls are awful cause headphones means

Michael Walker

michaeljswalker

Two options now:1. Lengthen lockdown, get transmission close to zero, don't loosen until capacity for mass test-and-trace. Contain virus. 2. Loosen lockdown soon, but keep social distancing in place to