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Can you still tell the weekend from the rest of the week? But it's Saturday, and in case you missed it, some readings you shouldn't miss, a thread.
1. The New York Times animated report on how #COVID19 traveled around the world from Wuhan. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html
1. The New York Times animated report on how #COVID19 traveled around the world from Wuhan. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html
2. The Johns Hopkins University dashboard of official data on #COVID19 that practically all the broadcast media has relied on from the start: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
3. Always behind, but still, official, . @DOHgovph;s own dashboard of official #COVID19PH data (usually a day behind): https://ncovtracker.doh.gov.ph/
4. . @inquirerdotnet's timeline of the first two weeks of #COVID19PH: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1249464/timeline-what-has-happened-since-the-luzon-wide-quarantine-was-enforced
5. Henry Grabar's op-ed on #COVID19 and how all our societies are like that of a virus-infested cruise ship: spread by the wealthy, but in absolute numbers, affecting the poor the most: https://slate.com/business/2020/03/coronavirus-cruise-we-are-on-it.html
6. Alders Ledge's powerful essay on #COVID19PH, #LuzonLockdown, and the growing hunger of the poor: https://covid19.osinthk.org/2020/04/02/the-food-security-crisis-in-the-philippines/
7. On a related note, . @PCIJdotOrg's report on #COVID19PH and the poor in Metro Manila: https://pcij.org/article/3890/saving-metro-manila
8. #LuzonLockdown, until people pushed back, was one restriction on individual freedom one after the other, all in the name of the common welfare. Yuval Noah Harari however dared to ask for all the world's citizens, are #COVID19 restrictions worth it? https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75#pq=qnv7ji
9. The . @FT has been maintaining a series of comprehensive tracking charts of #COVID19 around the world: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
10. A reason for governments clamping down is that besides health, they fear (and big chunks of the public fears) cvil unrest. An interesting thread argues that in times of crisis, solidarity and not selfishness or desperation, can become prevalent: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243144205167362048.html?fbclid=IwAR2x9Jwx03cBnttapP-heKRY4wGEPq0nc93otuIdToS2Y20eLiVrFpKKWmY
