#CORONAVIRUS

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

I weigh what will do the least harm + the greater good for individuals, and the community.Because I'm healthy & in area of low risk, it contributes greater harm to

David Roberts

drvolts

My new post: fossil fuels weren’t doing well even before Covid-19 hit, and their structural challenges will outlast the virus. Stimulus resources would be wasted on an industry in long-term

Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈

leahmcelrath

These autopsy findings from a study of the remains of #COVID19 victims in NYC are HUGELY important and revelatory not just about coronavirus deaths—but also about the damage #SARSCoV2 is

Alex Press

alexnpress

in keeping with the Chipotle articles, I’ll re-up a couple of the ones on what restaurant workers are going through. for example, the director of One Fair Wage said this

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

.@CDCgov made an important new recommendation yesterday regarding the use of cloth face coverings in public. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover.html 1/x Based on studies showing a significant portion of pe

Julia Belgutay

JBelgutay

Financial concerns featuring prominently today - very strong stuff here from @EmmaHardyMP on the potential impact the coronavirus pandemic could have on the apprenticeship systemhttps://www.tes.com/news/hardy-it-would-take-years-rebuild-apprenticeshi

James Wood

JamesGWood_UNSW

A short thread about relative burden of COVID we are seeing in residential aged care in Australia. So far across Australia, we have ~26700 case and 810 deaths. That's a

Pinboard

Pinboard

Joseph Heller would be proud. There are only 20 patients on the 1200 bed hospital ship Comfort in New York City because of strict Navy requirements for keeping the ship

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

POTUS weighs in on disproportionate impact the coronavirus is having on African-Americans: “We’re actively engaging on the problem of increased impacts -- this is a real problem and it’s showing

Conor Gogarty

ConorGogarty

This has been weighing on my mind a bit this week, so I thought I'd get it off my chest with a Twitter thread. As you do. Earlier this week

Elspeth Nicholson

EJWNicholson

In my first @instituteforgov explainer, we outline the ways @ScotParl, @SeneddWales and @niassembly are working throughout lockdown:https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/devolved-legislatures-coronavirus-lockdown Interesting

The New York Times

nytimes

Far more Americans are infected with the coronavirus than the U.S.'s limited testing has shown so far. Immediate steps are needed in areas with few confirmed cases to stem the

Randy Barnett

RandyEBarnett

“The Jacobins are having their moment, courtesy of a pandemic...or, better, of the panic and chaos of a crisis that must never go to waste. It is a time of

fuck hawks⁷

yukioapologist

no, but this genuinely pisses me off so much. our community isn’t equipped to handle the population we already have with this pandemic. we don’t need outsiders coming in on

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

colin

colinwilliamfar

It's Earth Day. Here's an Earth Day thread. I'll be honest, I've been struggling to process where my Environmental worries fit alongside everything else. I'm sure everyone else has too.