#Economy

Aaron Dodd - Masked Like Ned Kelly

Aaron_Dodd2

[A thread] Since Dan Andrews' announcement of the lockdown extension and roadmap out, there has been an outpouring of abuse towards him from some elements of the Victorian business community.

Kat Kearey O'Connor

kat_oc_kearey

Rank order of how well the characters of #ParksAndRec would be coping with #lockdown, from best to worst.1) Ron2) Jerry3) April4) Donna5) Tom6) Andy7) Anne8) Ben9) Chris10) Leslie Ron would

Udit Bhatia

drbhatia_ud

Thread on Avani Bansal’s piece in the Wire calling for epistocracy in India in the context of covid response & its failures. Some basic issues (more extended critique to follow

Tom Dolphin 💦🧼🙏💦 WASH YOUR HANDS

thomasdolphin

We face a social threat as well as a medical one. In times of economic hardship, people turn to political extremes (and we're not exactly in a place of national

Julia Belluz

juliaoftoronto

Travel restrictions helped Vietnam control #covid19 — as part of a robust public health response.This doesn't mean they'll work for every country, or that they're needed for every health threat.https://www.vox.com/22346085/cov

A sip from Mimir's well

SipFromTheWell

One of the few men that I admire is the emperor Marcus Aurelius. His thoughts have inspired me throughout most of my adult life. ¿Did you know that he ruled

Anthony Brady MS, CSCS

BaseballFreak_9

Some post-Slugfest things that got further reinforced to me this weekend:1. Look at everything through a microscope, but within the context of the movement as a whole.2. Elite Athletes are

✡️ Never Again Action ✡️

NeverAgainActn

Trump just paraphrased the 1920 Nazi Platform:"We demand that the state be charged 1st w/ providing the opportunity for a livelihood & way of life for citizens. If it is

☇RiotWomenn☇

riotwomennn

Trump & @GovRonDeSantis It didn't have to be like this. No plan = deathDisney workers lose jobs, free college education vanishes28,000 US workers losing their jobs, 15,500 of those employees

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

Trump’s ride will be talked about 30 years from now like it happened yesterday. It will be viewed as the worst photo op in Presidential History. It speaks perfectly to

Kioneki

pesa_africa

Currency CrisisThe Central Bank of Kenya is losing grip on the Kenya shilling "for several years the CBK governor was able to keep the currency steady, but the bubble appears

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

Serious conversation time.We only have 9 days to request a Brexit transition period extension.If we don't by 30 June, the option goes away and we will leave transition on 31

Robert Peston

Peston

I've been trying to reconcile the confident expectation of those in government and banks that Chancellor @RishiSunak WILL offer 100% guarantees on emergency loans to small businesses with the Chancellor's

Thomas Juneau

thomasjuneau

Québec Premier Legault today:-"we are winning the battle"; starts talking of loosening restrictions in coming weeks, maybe days-"months" with 2 metre physical distancing-175 deaths (+25; +17%)-10,031 cases (+691; +7,4%)-632 in

Ghislain Irakoze

iraghislain

#COVIDー19 and #ClimateChange Trends...A thread. (1) A significant fall in nitrous oxide, a pollutant emitted from fossil fuels after China put the breaks on its economy to contain coronavirus.Source: NASA

Sweet Wreck

astridoverthere

Okay I'm getting real tired of this so here's a fucking thing that everyone with health insurance knows already: 99% of all adults have an "underlying medical condition." It's called