#Measures

Capital Moments

CapitalMoments

.@BorisJohnson has provided some details on the ease of the lockdown.More details expected when he addresses the nation later today.https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1259440331763978240 Boris Johnson will address the nation from Downing Street

Jane McManus

janesports

In things I worry about, a lack of ventilators will affect the average age of mortality, because the ventilators save the young who fall ill. And the average age of

Edmund Blackadder QC 3.5% Brain Function

WeDoNotLearn73

My dad is 67 next month. He is a lazy slob who hasn't done a days work in 25 years. He hasn't bothered to make contact with his own grandkids

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

Right now India is a demand constrained economy. Fiscal stimulus and measures to ease credit crunch--some form of megha bailout for NBFCs needed. Someone needs to be Draghi here and

SCM Consultant

oarhtanirs

Short term / immediate measures - 1. Suspend employee n employer PF deduction till june 2020. This is 5% of individuals income immediately in employees hands.2. Suspend gst payment till

Tes

tes

Good morning Twitter - stay with us for live updates from 9.30am as schools minister Nick Gibb is questioned by the education committee on school closures and plans for reopening.

mssimsimma

ms_simsimma

On #WorldMentalHealthDay , we need to acknowledge the violence that our ableist systems inflict on people with mental illness(es). It often goes unnoticed, & we silence people with mental illness

Rep. Katie Porter

RepKatiePorter

Last year, @HHSGov found that more than half of the federal contractors responsible for transporting lifesaving organs were failing baseline performance measures, resulting in *thousands* of potential donations falling through

Justin Lessler

JustinLessler

In preprint w/ @KateGrabowski @khgrantz @andrewazman @CJEMetcalf @Lizstuartdc we look at #COVID-19 risk to household members from in-person schooling. A summary follows. Caution: this work has not yet been peer

Jason Kenney

jkenney

Today, we announced new measures to help slow spread of COVID-19 & declaring a public health emergency in Alberta.Let me be clear, we are not moving into a lockdown, but

War Resisters League

resistwar

First, it was the War on Drugs. Then, it was the War on Terror. Now, we’re at war with a virus. What’s wrong with this picture? (1/10) As the US

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

There are SEVEN vaccines in the final phase of clinical trials.The Trudeau govt bought none of those. Instead it bought the Novavax, which is in the middle phase.This means Canada

Paolo Vargiu

vargiu

[THREAD] [1/8] To point out that society is ableist is not a "j'accuse" against people of being consciously ableist: it is rather a(nother) example of how binary descriptions of reality

Joe Sanberg #BlackLivesMatter

JosephNSanberg

It's time to stop equating the stock market with "the economy." Wall Street's coming off a great month, at the same time unemployment is at a record high. They're different!I

Prof Prachi Srivastava

PrachiSrivas

Thanks @metromorning @LondonMorning @CBCOntMorning @CBCSudbury @CBCSuperiorMorn @CBCKW891 @CBCWindsor for having me on to talk COVID-19 case increases and what it can mean for sustainable school reopening. Key messages:1. Will be

Conor McCabe

CMacCaba

1/ There is a growing perception — a consensus even — that if we look after wages then businesses will be able to pick up where they left off once