#LockDown

.@VictorianCHO said today of workers moving between hotel quarantine, aged care & public housing between July 27 and late August: "It was never one where you could just step in
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Thread on UK excess deaths throughout lockdown, and mortality displacement, with data from @ONS:Non-COVID excess deaths were above 5 year average through the height of lockdown... /1https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/births
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-1So this has me thinking... On March 30, a bill was passed in Hungary that will allow the Prime Minister there to stay in power indefinitely AND suspend elections. Doesn't
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One can simultaneously take the view:i) media missed the public mood around #Covid19, whileii) conceding there are more important issues, andiii) #DominicCummings broke his own rulesThere is no need to
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Yes... and this has been going on for 6 weeks now. And Timmy from Kew has a media profile, regularly appearing on 3AW and Sunrise. Read on below for some
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We're all set up and ready to go. Again. You can follow the press conference on the NOS. https://nos.nl/artikel/2330583-bekijk-hier-de-persconferentie-over-de-stand-van-zaken-van-de-coronacrisis.html https://twitter.com/DutchNewsNL/status/1250334
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The awful genius of the presser is that it's turned it into a conversation about technicalities. There are no technicalities. People stayed at home when they had cancer, they stayed
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The thing about some of them is that they believe, they want, they wish, they hope & then they exult in anything negative. Every step to reform or bring change
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sweden eschewed lockdownsome have claimed it is a disaster and the horror of scandanaviaothers that this was wise and that it's mostly the more aggressive swedish counting for COV that
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Sharing some of what I am feeling. I think we all need more connection and more love. Here is mine for you. 1ofX Most of us have had long, fairly
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Absorbing weekend project - working on a new song that needs noisy drums, but of course with lockdown, I can't get to a rehearsal space to practise/record - I've got
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1\ Last night I chatted with the manager of a popular new taco place in the neighborhood. COVID-19 was never an issue here, but the hysteria has been intense, and
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If you’re feeling like this, remember: writers aren’t war journalists, we write narratives. We don’t break news. Hemingway didn’t write A Farewell To Arms til 1929. We have to observe
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Thread: I turned 50 this month - unfortunately in self-isolation & my party got cancelled. I thought what could I do to mark this milestone that could get everyone involved?So
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There are some justifiable reasons why ~1000 daily deaths in the UK is reported differently from the same situation in Italy a few weeks ago. First: we have absorbed a
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This school is making it so difficult for my 9yo to fast. Please pray for her you guys. First they went MUST DO PE coz 'curriculum' - never mind that
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