#Voluntary

To save you the effort of reading the new SPI-M modelling papers released yesterday, I’ve gone through and taken some notes. Compared to last month (below), there’s now a lot
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10 weeks of furlough straight into a layoff my dms are open and I'm available for freelance. I don't have a ton of illusions about the sustainability of journalism beset
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This morning a pair of tweakers overdosed on my Yaletown doorstep. Two days ago, early in the AM, a probable schizophrenic attempted to attack my wife and dog. A year
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What should people think about the @nytimes Trump tax story? A thread. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Let’s start with the obvious: whi
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Lots of important and pertinent questions being asked regarding this and citizens' data privacy. Some info:1) Privacy has not been recognized in our constitution as a fundamental right. However, case
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WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!I can almost hear every single Ph #BL devotee shouting this in their minds when a few days ago, a raging fanatic on Twitter let out a
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@BarackObama https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21707353/ Why didn’t you stop this? No excuses. This is a picture of measles?And this is the reason I started looking a little
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Thread: A look inside Epsteins 75 acre estate. Victims or willing participants? Chauntae Davies, an alleged victim of Jeffery Epstein, recently released some photos taken on what has now
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COVID Update April 3: I spoke to a Senator (& recorded it), the CEO of 1 of the biggest vent manufacturers (didn’t record but will read out here), talked with
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Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a
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There has been a lot of discussion of the Swedish approach to coping with the #COVID19 pandemic, and of whether their strategy of more voluntary restrictions and a more rapid
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Legislators who've only worked in gov't & never in the private sector, this is for you. The whole #PROAct #ABCTest debate might be confusing if your worldview assumes that
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1/manyCOVID has been politicized. Children and families in blue states are paying the price. On average, in red states, 3x as many children have access to 100%, 5-day/week in-person learning
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São Paulo planeja reabrir a partir da semana que vem e divulgou o plano de ação. Acho importante um diagnóstico realista da situação, pesar custos, benefícios e riscos à luz
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https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/12636910505284526081/ I replied briefly before, but I think a more detailed explanation about contract tracing might clarify some things up for people as well as make clear why the idea
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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, talking about & worrying about the #PlanningWhitePaper & proposed #PlanningReforms over the last 6 weeks. I’ve seen lots of criticism that I agree
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