#Lockdowns

ThreadAs we settle into the rhythm of thus new normal where uncertainty, anxiety, and premature farewells can knock us sideways, I’m taking a moment to pause, grieve, process and search
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This is a thread on the suggestions made by the Opposition Leader of Kerala, @chennithala to the state Govt. Equally applicable to most state Govts, in these testing times! 1/n
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Sometimes this pandemic - and the way it's handled here - puts me deep in my thoughts about past crises I've witnessed and covered in Mexico. Not so much a
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1) Montreal now appears to be at the beginning of a new resurgence in #COVID19 cases, with younger Montrealers likely driving the latest community transmission, as they did in July.
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Today I've posted a new pre-print to @socarxiv analysing initial data on how crime in 16 large US cities has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.Pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ep87sThread with some results …
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COVIDIOTS (2020) - KHhttps://twitter.com/nypost/status/1243274343687258113?s=20 Disney Prime will offer free lifetime subscriptions to all confirmed attendees. #ReopenAmerica https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1245019150545760256?s=2
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1) They got it wrong and now they’re largely tracking it wrong. I say they, because I predicted this early on, and it only gets worse. Did you know the
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We can't understand the present if we don't understand the past.In this thread, you'll see what the past 120 years looked like for the USA. The source data is all
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I have been listening to Kerala Chief Minister #PinarayiVijayan's daily media briefings throughout the #pandemic and have felt each time as if I'm watching a distant planet far removed from
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Thread – The “Experts” Led Us into a Cul-de-sac1. It is incredible that the US economy was shut down largely on the basis of the predictions of a faulty model
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The first Tuesday on this chart is April 28th. Next Tuesday is May 5th. The weather in NYC is more important than the daily Cuomo charts. Better weather means the
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1/ A Thread - basic facts: PLEASE SHARE.Using Govt. ONS figures for England & Wales (link at end).Av. age of death from Covid is in the 80s, the same as
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Herd Immunity. I'm devoting this thread to it because it's a possible way out. There are a lot of Herd Immunity Threshold (HIT) deniers out there over theories that the
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In our update this week, we've lowered our COVID-19 projections by ~10%. We're now forecasting 42,000 (25-68k) additional deaths & 220,000 total deaths (202-244k) by November 1.See our latest projections
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Something to ponder re the photos of ppl in line at airports:The airlines + the fueled jets + the govt + 300 yrs of mythology & socialization say this is
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Here is an updated version of my infographic providing data that shows masking young children in school is impractical and not backed up by research. All 52 citations are in
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