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Bryan O'Nolan
BryanONolan
Alright. Let's talk about Pandemics and Science. But not in 2020. In 1854. I'd argue that this particular outbreak is one of the most important in history.Between 1846 and 1860
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
jmcrookston
A damning indictment of droplet theory from as long as ago.1936, Wells & Wells, a husband and wife team.Thread. History. Before 1861 we didn't know there were organisms in the
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Isabel Ott
IsabelOtt
Cool that the CDC's exhausted, incredibly diligent employees can spend weeks researching and crafting an effective and thorough guidance document, and then get fully undermined by Redfield's cowardice when he
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August 🍎 💣
aquamonstra
Y'all ever stop and think about how the actual first plague doctor masks weren't actually DESIGNED to look like a bird face, they just were engineered for "efficacy" in such
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Rufus Hound 💙
RufusHound
I'm gonna throw two things your way.1) Unbelievably cute kitten video2) A tiradeUnfortunately, we start with 2.I know the world doesn't need another middle-class cisgendered privileged white male to say
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Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.
kprather88
Some thoughts from active scientists on Twitter about COVID-19 by aerosol scientists and indoor air experts @linseymarr @CathNoakes @j_g_allen @jljcolorado @amgcarlton (1/) There is a historical bias against aerosols for
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PennedintheMargins
PennedintheM
For a long period of London’s history, just to be outdoors at night was considered criminal and many writers have crossed over to become Noctavigants, bringing their experiences of the
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Cathy Cichon, MD, MPH
DocScribbles
THREAD PART II of II: To mask or not to mask?Now to explore modern day implications regarding airborne spread...1/15 First let’s officially define contact vs airborne.Contact spread includes large droplets
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el gato malo
boriquagato
this is exactly what many of us were predicting back in march.the knock on effects of lockdown are not just economic.it's going to kill more people than covid.this is an
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Dr Anton Howes
antonhowes
In the mid-18thC, one of the major worrying diseases was typhus. Nowadays, we know it's spread by lice or fleas. But at the time, like so many other diseases, it
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💀John F.D. Taff, King of Pain👻
johnfdtaff
The Hanged Man, Thread 4“McBrewder? What the fuck? Why do we have three cars here already?”Jim fought back a stupid grin. He towered over the sergeant by at least a
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Cross Street Arts
CrossStreetArts
During lockdown we’re doing a series of online themed exhibitions to keep our artists together. Third is ‘Space’. Enjoy art While your here @WiganCouncil & @theoldcourts are looking for volunteers
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Elle M. (they/them)
ellle_em
If we white people want to make a constructive stand against white supremacy and the continued violence enacted against Black people there's one thing we absolutely MUST do:talk to our
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Félix Saparelli
passcod
Okay fine I'll try for my second DF game of the lockdown The first was a disaster ~1 week ago when I spent the entire first year excavating a majestic
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Marshall Steinbaum 🔥
Econ_Marshall
A thread about this fantastic @DeathPanel_ episode on the “Great Barrington Declaration,” because this stuff is really f___ing important. https://www.patreon.com/posts/42895151 cc @PhilipRocco @jfeldman_epi /1 They write about Jay
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Elaine van Dalen
elainevdalen
It is great that awesome scholars such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) get public attention. But it is a shame that it often happens in such a nonfactual and nonsensical fashion.
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