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Spry Guy
SpryGuy
Copied from a friend... To all my young social warriors and idealists who are disappointed with the two party system, please read:1. You're not just voting for President. 2. You're
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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
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Panos Roussos
panos_strather
By now, we all have read/seen dozens of analyses, videos (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9yqWNIG8A) linking coronaviruses with: 1)Industrialization of farming (not 'domesticated' but *abused* animals), incl. excessive (mis)use of #an
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John Edwin Mason
johnedwinmason
Funny how photos of disease -- even global pandemics -- in wealthy countries look so different from those made in poor countries. An old problem, newly intensified. Important conversation here
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Anu Mittal
stylistanu
This catastrophe #COVIDSecondWaveInIndia didn't happen in a month.Bjp bhakts allowed this to happen, slowly & steadily 1. #demonitisation You knew DeMo broke back of our economy, brought unimaginable unemployment, but
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P S Narayanan
NarayananPalakd
#COVID19 Mumbai : One encouraging news coming in from Mumbai, which shows us some glimmer of hope.As per ATE Chandra Foundation's model, the Seroprevalence in Mumbai has reached 40%, and
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Richard Florida
Richard_Florida
1.A couple of things I have come to learn from being old enough to have lived through several crises and having studies many others ... 2. The first is that
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bo
chelicerage
bitches will be like "why cant i get anything done why do i feel like dogshit" and then willfully forget that we are living through a literal pandemic, the fascist
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Arash Kolahi
ArashKolahi
There are really two pandemics working against us simultaneously:COVID-19OLIGARCHY-1%One can be dealt with sensibly.The other is actively exploiting the current systemic shock, consolidating power, preventing humane solutions & must be
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Henry Mance
henrymance
Ah, Matt Ridley is blaming the WHO for downplaying the threat from infectious disease.Is this the same @mattwridley who wrote this in 2016? The whole 2016 column is a complete
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Seanan McGuire
seananmcguire
So a lot of people want to know why COVID-19 is such a big deal, even as death rates are climbing and ICUs are overwhelmed. After all, diseases have always
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Patrick Henningsen
21WIRE
The basis of #Lockdown logic rests on the following core motives, beliefs:1. Society must remain locked-down/socially distanced until 'cure' (vaccine) is ready.2. Now we must rearrange society, culture, life so
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Sarah Mojarad
Sarah_Mojarad
Ok, there’s a lot of layers to this story. I‘m to break down some of the issues in it.H/T @RyanMarino @Yahoo @YahooNews @yahooaustralia @marissamayer https://au.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/doctor-shares-surreal-experience-with-coronavirus-pa
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Anthony Bourdain was murdered #bluelivesdontexist
bourdainmurderd
IM not a doctor, I just have some common sense...I would like to talk about a very important thing here....and that is PNEUMONIA...what it is...why there is ‘viral pneumonia vs
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Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.
NikolovScience
Did you know that, in 2019, WHO published a report on the effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing & travel restrictions in fighting pandemics (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789
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Jennifer Cabrera
jhaskinscabrera
We started out with Sweden's plan; Sweden's plan was accepted as THE WAY to deal with pandemics before March.We were told that we needed to "pause" to make sure we
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