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MacArthur hid in a hotel room for something like twelve hours after learning about Pearl Harbor and then finding out the Japanese were bombing the Philippines and that was his
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I just want to say a quick, deep, heartfelt FUCK YOU to the fine folks at @foreignoffice for signing the most poorly thought-out constitution in history, hitting that impossible sweet
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Ferguson et alās Imperial report set the tone for everyone else. He didnāt think China or even Korea really had their original outbreaks contained. They assumed there would always be
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This is exactly what I mean. #BendTheCurve is a discourse, a set of assumptions about this virus, the most important of which is that it becomes an epidemic everywhere it
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The best thing China could do for the world is open their books and show ārevisedā raw data that looks more plausible. At the the same time, the people saying
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I say again: the COVID19 hill Iām willing to die on is that population density is a classic ācorrelation = causationā logical fallacy. Thereās no evidence for it.https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1248481752915431424 As a
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Random thoughts / speculation about the implications of the NY sero survey. Iām sure most of this will be proven wrong, but this is where my instincts are. Feel free
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I think this was a stupid move, but Iām struggling to think of anything useful WHO has done in the past few months. Iām happy to be proven wrong on
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Something isnāt adding up with COVID19 and SE Asia. Thereās dozens of leading indicators that should make you think hospitals are overwhelmed (if not bodies piling up in the streets
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I interviewed IRRI directors, camped out at the PhilRice dorms for weeks at a time, visited farmer field schools, reading the gloomiest FAO scenarios, for my PhD fieldwork. No one
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No one who follows me would call me a China apologist or friend of the CCP. This entire thing could have been contained to a few neighborhoods in Wuhan had
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Weedsy thoughts on whether the virus came from accidental release. The most direct ancestor weāve found was in a bat, but of the two new mutations SARS-CoV-2 has, one hasnāt
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