#1918

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

#Covid19 thread: So the global death toll — which is certainly an underestimate — has topped 1M deaths.10 months ago we had no inkling a new coronavirus was soon about

Big Red Unit • mads 😌

hockeyhimbos

So I really like art and basically my tumblr is just full of it so I'm gonna post pieces from time to time bc y'all need to see such beautiful

Tim Mak

timkmak

THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919.I'm not kidding I went HAM researching thisSo, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco

Olesya Gilmore

OlesyaGilmore

After seeing pitches yesterday comping ANASTASIA, I wish more than ever that we stop using the name of the last Russian Tsar’s daughter, Anastasia Romanov, as a way to grab

Dana Vachon🥭

danavachon

Re the "debate" on socialism -- it’s here one way or another. Trump is a national socialist of the 1930s Italian/German model, brow-beating Google to make him a website, yelling

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Trump begins the April 22 #TrumpPressConference by hyping that "more states will soon be in a position to safely reopen." What he doesn't mention is that April 21 was the

Dᴀɴ Gᴏʟᴅᴇɴ

_DanGolden

More infections every day. Schools closed. Hundreds quarantined. Masks advised.With all of the #coronavirus worry, I was curious how Omaha responded to one of the worst pandemics in recent history:

Duncan Socrates Lemp🌺🌺🌺

NotAnarchyball

In the early part of the 20th century, progressives used national identity to push forward their ideas of an all powerful central government, in the 20’s they used Christian socialism

M Wilki

Markwil50187274

Ok after being asked about the Coronavirus a 1000 times a day. i hope this well help.It has to do with RNA sequencing...I.e. genetics.Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”.

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

In 1918, a Philadelphia pol, Wilmer Krusen, ignored warnings from viral experts that a then-limited outbreak in the city could kill untold numbers.Pish, Krusen said. It's just the flu. It's

Saturnalia "Lower in October" Sundown

SaturnaliaSund1

Okay friends, time for a thread! Recently I've been reading rather deep into this image. You've probably seen it before, but I think there's more going on here than people

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The second wave of the 1918 flu was far worse than the first. People, buoyed up by the apparent success of their quarantines, flooded into public spaces, triggering a wave

Robert McNees

mcnees

The astronomer Heber Curtis was born #OTD in 1872. In his “Great Debate” with Harlow Shapley, he famously argued that each of the countless spiral nebulae observed by his colleagues

Un Arc et des Flèches

UnArcDesFleches

Les covidiots qui expliquent qu'il faut laisser mourir les vieux car il faut faire vivre l'économie, vous devriez vous inscrire dans l'essai non-randomisé sur l'efficacité du saut en parachute. On

Losers & Losers

bad_dramaturg

fuck it, tiktok theatre festival Henry IV by William Shakespeare All The Little Animals I Have Eaten by Karen Hines Strike! The Musical by Danny Schur King Lear by William

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

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