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Okay, working with some more reliable sources now: Biden had 49,000 votes posted on the City of Milwaukee website as of 4 AM Wednesday (https://web.archive.org/web/20201104040300/https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Clerk/Off-Nav/Election

The language of wokeness makes several simultaneous demands:a) minor cognitive hurdles in mastering the vocabularyb) emotional hurdles in overcoming embarrassment & humiliationc) still greater social obstacles in sacrificing the practic

power in late 20th century USA accrued to places embodying mass fantasy- NYC of Here is New York, Warhol,Woody Allen, "Friends" Harvard of Love Story or the Paper Chase. But

People in power hear complaints from millennial ethnonarcissist crybullies day in, day out, that they know have credible threats of lawsuits attached. Similar voices from right are not just absent-merely

Holy f- "In the final days before the shutdown, DOE headquarters instructed staff not to contact the city Health Department, which was serving as the command center for de Blasio’s

Looking forward to the coming news cycle where journalists organize en masse against that pernicious enemy, the Sun. Fact Check!https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1253659987840303106

The simple, accurate, anti-WHO name for the disease is SARS2, full stop. This is not just a political decision. There's a ton of data on SARS1 that's useful to keep

A lot of WHO's response has just been hapless and comical. But on December 31 Taiwanese officials reported to WHO medical staff in China were getting ill with the new

Study of 4,103 patients with positive test for coronavirus, looking at which are hospitalized. Being overweight is a huge risk factor, smoking again appears somewhat protective (odds ratio significantly

If it were broadly accepted out that smoking is genuinely protective from CV, it would break the American public health establishment, which is basically an anti-smoking lobby. Of course, they're

Those endless threads from biologists explaining how self-reported race is an illusion because it's an imperfect match for ancestry and we're all one human family and therefore gaps in disease

A biochemical mechanism for greater susceptibility of African americans to severe COVID: higher mean levels of IL-6 than Caucasians or Japanese controlling for BMI.( 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039107/#!po=14.6259 )IL-6 is cytokin