#Pandemics

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick Thread. The inefficient, odd Green New Deal, GDP growth and you. Let's begin... Climate change environmentalists often come bearing a Green New Deal. The bundle presents itself most authoritatively

Runnymede Trust

RunnymedeTrust

A NEW report by the Runnymede Trust and @IPPR has shone a light on the disproportionate deaths for certain #BME communities relating to #COVID19 Following on will be a

Bloomberg Opinion

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The strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam & China are paying off. As of Nov. 1, the cumulative death rate per million is:U.S.: 696U.K.: 685France: 563vs.South Korea: 9China: 3Vietnam: 0.36[Chart

Impact:Peace

ImpactPeace

Starting now! "The Wake-Up Call: Building Trust and Rewiring Institutions in a New Social Contract" kicks off day 7 of the @SIPRIorg #SthlmForum. Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08qgFr7y_E&feature=youtu.be #SDG16Pl

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

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England’s ‘World Beating’ System to Track Coronavirus Is Anything But “Some call handlers, scattered in offices and homes far from the people they speak with, have mistakenly tried to send

Sanchit Vir Gogia

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Other than China, where opt-in isn’t a matter of choice, no other country is yet to successfully get citizens to adopt #COVID19 contact tracing apps.Many dimensions to this, but a

Michael Murphy

__michaelmurphy

1/13. Is #EmergencyeLearning a case of securitization?My #WIISTOTC presentation has 4 sections: key justifications for emergency eLearning, content analysis of 90 E-eL declarations, application of securitization theory, and concluding thoughts

xťřåbíğģğ *Watching my RTs & Ls removed L & R!

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Thread... Seeing TONS of paid ads (many not marked as such) on @Facebook like this one by the @amprog (Center for American Progress) that are pushing HARD on mask mandates

M.R. Leiser

MLeiser

For a year now, I have argued that the @EU_EDPS, the #PeppPT & #DP3T movements hijacked narrative on #contacttracing apps long before science & risks were known. In doing so,

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

To read @BretStevensNYT in the @nytimes ("there should be no big-pharma haters in pandemics"), you'd think that remdesivir, the promising covid treatment, was the result of Big Pharma's big R&D

Gayle Smith

GayleSmith

THREAD: Much attention has rightfully focused on the domestic response to the coronavirus, but we can’t forget this is a global pandemic that requires a global response. None of us

CINDYK #WallOfMoms #FreeRealityWinnerNow #VOTE2020

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1) Many have tried to explain their support of Trump by saying, “I don’t care for him BUT….” To that argument I say….I’m not Black, but Black lives matter. I’m

Amber Peterman

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Policy-friendly blog coming soon, but a few thoughts:1st, links btw pandemics [incl. #COVID19] & #violence are [unfortunately] no surprise to stakeholders who work in this area. However, research directly linking

A.M.

bhalomanush

Every media outlet is doing a best-of-list of books of 2020. It's a shame that few of them include even a SINGLE popular-science book (and NY Times has only one

Maureen Moore

HopesMom12

My elderly uncle is in Vietnam, where he has been living for several years.This is the letter he sent to family in the States: /1 Just in case any of

Joe Boyle #CitizenofEurope

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OK, so I play board games and war games. Often with others. Sometimes on my own. Especially on my own during pandemics.In lunch breaks and in the evenings, I have