#Mitigation

Paul Scharre

paul_scharre

I’ve seen a lot of these “the pandemic was not a black swan” takes lately. Here’s why I don’t think they’re very helpful. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/EvansRyan202/status/1248247272699117571(which, judging by the amount of people

Sam Bliss

ii_sambliss

Mike Shellenberger's new book Apocalypse Never is an Amazon bestseller. @g_kallis and I have spent 5 years reviewing the science around the ecomodernist ideas presented and found that they are

Martin

BlondeOrigi

[The Athletic] Inside FSG's Time at Liverpool; A Thread. [The Athletic] FSG's Ownership 1. When Henry bought the Red Sox in 2002, he faced the challenge of maintaining a competitive

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

I wrote about the pending epidemic in rural America back in May. I think it's safe to say it's now here; a thread.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/pandemic-will-soon-test-rural-america An enormous chu

Kristen K. Coleman

drkristenkc

In early 2020, we detected airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patient rooms (in the absence of superficial aerosol generating procedures) in a Singapore hospital. We alerted WHO and others immediately and

Katie 👾 Moussouris (she/her)

k8em0

A look back & forward for bug bounties over the past decade, a thread.History is important for newcomers & established folks alike.Outcomes have been both positive & negative.Some fears of

Chris Elmendorf

CSElmendorf

Want (another) lesson in how CA cities abuse the state's Housing Element Law? Hard to do better than the place I teach, Davis, which just released its draft housing element

Subhasree Ray

DrSubhasree

Do we know that there is 13 scientific evidence already that confer a direct association between #VitaminD deficiency & #COVID19 disease severity-mortality? Yet, no standard guidelines available at the national

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Dangerous rise in COVID cases around US. We need to strengthen containment efforts and change directions. But it’s not inevitable that COVID cases will inexorably grow thru winter, sweep all

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tfoale

There's a saying used in business which is very appropriate now as the deadline for finally leaving the EU behind, December 2020, approaches fast. It is "Confront the brutal facts".

Sébastien Jodoin

sjodoin

@UNHumanRights has released a study setting out key principles & recommendations for protecting & promoting #disabilityrights in the context of #ClimateChange. In this thread, I’ll summarize its key conclusions &

el gato malo

boriquagato

global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closuresthese have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.this

Timothée Parrique

timparrique

Here is a new thread on #Degrowth and #Marxism, responding to this lecture by Olivia Rickson. Again, degrowth is gravely misrepresented, if understood at all. This is not a critique,

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Since this video has been blowing up, I thought it might be useful to annotate some of the analysis. Here are the receipts.https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1245720391168995329 On the policy lessons we took from

Benji Backer

BenjiBacker

#EarthDay2020 is not a liberal holiday. Conservatives have a strong environmental record too.As a result, I’m going to highlight a few of the incredible conservative environmental leaders and one

Brandon J. McKoy

Brandon_McKoy

The @NJPolicy office is officially closed today, but I’ve got a brain worm on #climatechange that’s been bugging me. Thinking out loud here to invite thoughts by others bc these