#Public

1. A lot of discussion about the need to balance the economy and also public health in decision making.Public health consultants understand this very well. A poor economy is bad
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My understanding is the commercial antibody test has specificity issues. California dept public health is working with several partners to get an appropriate test. 1 Remember, sensitivity and specificity matter
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One of the great fallacies of socialism is that capitalists are to blame for society’s ills. In fact almost all the worst man-made villainy comes from the state. The lockdowns
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Queen of Malaysia, the biggest female hypocrite in Asia, is cooking for frontline workers during the #Coronavirus outbreak.She will hold a spoon for the cameras but won’t say a single
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No. @DouthatNYT. As much has you'd like to cast experts as ivory tower and out of touch, most people in public health use common sense, are well-acquainted with uncertainty and
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The replies to this are quite amazing. If this had been introduced a few weeks ago there would have been tremendous suport but they have squandered so much public goodwill
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In 2010 I quit working in politics, totally shifted careers and moved across the country because I couldn’t stand working or voting for politicians I didn’t 100% believe in.Ten years
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Attending a public university in Nigeria is borderline hellfire. Even those of us who attended some of the best public Universities like Unilag still saw hell. From constant ASUU strikes
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I wrote a report on Chinese-Australians in the Australian Public Service. Thanks to @AlexKOliver and @LowyInstitute for tremendous help.Please read the full report here: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/chinese-australians-austral
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[THREAD] Today @Europarl_EN debated #ContactTracingApp. Many people look to their governments for protection. To make it look like they’re doing something, authorities are carelessly over-prescribing irresponsible technology./1 But in a
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If you’re not covering your nose and mouth when out it public, you’re telegraphing your disregard for everyone’s safety. Think that through.https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1246825555607064577 Out IN public, dang it.
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Thoughts... wwx squeezing lwj’s cute butt in public when no one’s looking. lwj gives him a mild look and proceeds to grab wwx’s butt with Both hands in retaliation wwx
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Govt briefing just included a graph of global deaths, showing UK line below France.But @HSJnews says the graph is misleading, as Patrick Vallance had said graph included only hospital deaths.
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BREAKING: Michigan Attorney General says Donald Trump is no longer welcome in the state of Michigan after the President did not wear a mask in public. "He is a petulant
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The PM just blamed people breaking guidelines for the rise in COVID. There isn't much evidence for this - things that have not only been allowed under guidelines but have
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A thread on @TaxJusticeUK's big 3,000 person poll on attitudes to public spending, tax and wealth. It was carried out as we went into lockdown. Full details here: https://www.taxjustice.uk/blog/new-poll-reveals-concern-about-the-state-of-public-s
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