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Nate Silver
NateSilver538
Something that I think gets lost is: the plan was not supposed to be to have lockdowns—or related things like school closures—until a vaccine. Lockdowns suck. It was to use
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Charlie Robertson
RencapMan
How long will #lockdowns last ? This #thread suggests lockdowns end no earlier than the end of May in Italy and California, followed by most of Europe, but early June
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Dr Giridhara R Babu
epigiri
Thread is about #lockdowns.The ubiquitous purpose of #lockdown is that it gives time to prepare the health system to meet any potential surge in cases. It is the only greatest
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JayCostTWS
It strikes me as increasingly relevant to know what is going on with covid19 in Mexico and Central America. To what extent are our southern states mimicking their curve? I
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CTG
realsnacktime
I have a media pet peeve as an experienced cross examiner. Media invariably asks people, “what do you think of person A saying X?” Recent example asking gop what they
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John Hayward
Doc_0
"Social distancing" is often conflated with total lockdowns, but they're not the same. We could begin restoring jobs while practicing social distancing. That makes it very important to determine if
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Strike Poster
StrikePoster
… so these pro-plague events, their cheerleaders & even low-key supporters must be ridiculed. Such anti-collective views must come with such a social cost that they are pushed back into
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👀 Daniel Barnett
daniel_barnett
Just come across this blogpost by @employmentwrite on ss44/100 claims. It's an excellent exposition on the problems faced by workers who are scared of going into work -https://employmentwrites.com/2020/11/07/how-the-employment-rights-ac
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Olamide
Iam_lammy
Why curfew not total lockdown?We have a largely informal economy; total lockdown means people who live on daily earnings won’t be able to earn. Government can’t provide for everyone.https://qz.com/africa/1836458/curfews-not-lockdowns-will-slow-covid-
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Alex Berenson
AlexBerenson
1/ I'm going to try to explain this once more for all the blue-checks insisting that they KNOW lockdowns work.The models failed. In real time. Even in NY state, the
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Bethany Biron
bethanybiron
Yesterday I got a tip that Hobby Lobby was secretly reopening stores and violating state-mandated closures. So I called all 39 stores in Wisconsin and Ohio and found that 36
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Crew Libertas
CrewLibertas
So, let’s just see what we know so far. Please add to the list of I’ve missed something. -COVID is less deadly to those under 65 than the flu-The country
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James Ball
jamesrbuk
A question to which I’ve yet to hear a good answer:What’s stopping countries that lock down very early and then re-open relatively quickly from getting a second outbreak, either weeks
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Yaneer Bar-Yam
yaneerbaryam
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is analyzing damage due to COVID and projecting further severe consequences if current policies persist. They state “despite involving short term economic costs, lockdowns may
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Hasan Zaidi
hyzaidi
I’ve been intrigued by the Covid-19 modeling the federal govt has been talking about, which both Imran Khan and Dr @zfrmrza say Pak is well below. No details have been
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Greg Ip
greg_ip
1/ Lockdowns were a blunt & indiscriminate tool that slowed infections, but with no clear strategy for what came afterwards. We know enough now about how to bring down infections
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