#PANDEMIC

YOUR GUIDE TO VOTING IN A PANDEMIC WHEN TRUMP IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTIONHere's a comprehensive list of the pertinent voting details for EVERY state.Registration deadlines, early voting, mail-in.It's
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1) Has the emergency room of Santa Cabrini Hospital become the canary in the #COVID19 mine in Montreal? On Friday, the east-end hospital urged people to avoid going to its
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1) Quebec now appears to be at a worrying turning point in the #pandemic, with #COVID19 outbreaks fast occurring in multiple settings, with clusters of cases causing other flare-ups in
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ThreadCarona and Indian media and journalism in action.Everyday I read news, analysis and opinion on Carona in Indian media. I compare it with coverage of Carona in Western countries in
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You can't make this stuff up. Democrats in the Illinois legislature once again refuse to block their automatic pay raises, even in the midst of this pandemic. This at the
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ThreadDear @jaketapper:You're a funny guy. This interview with Dr. Fauci is from a different planet.If you know how many cases there were in the US on February 21, I'll eat
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How many lives the 4 lockdowns saved in India? According to data released by Niti Aayog on Friday, the first two phases (March 25-April 14 & April 15-May 3) of
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What Burnham is doing goes way beyond Greater ManchesterHe's standing up for local government that has been battered and criminally underfunded for the past 10 years I wrote this (pre-pandemic)
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"The captain should not have written a letter. He didn't need to be Ernest Hemingway" -- Trump on Captain Crozier, who wrote a letter expressing concern that his ship was
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During initial pandemic i lost count of number of journalists i spoke to who were frustrated that they had no or limited access to NHS institutions or staff (which was
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1. The eviction crisis that landlords & the state will try to impose on #Toronto will not be because landlords can't afford to absorb the rental arrears due to #COVID19.
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This worker took a video from inside the Excel centre in London, where 4000 beds for Coronavirus patients are being organised.Says he didn't take the pandemic seriously until he saw
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THREAD: WHY DO BRAZILIANS ASK FOR ASSISTANCE TO THE ARMED FORCES?1. As the media will distort everything that happened today, I need to say what happened here for the world:
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thanks to @evgenymorozov I am now a Cyberflaneur! Did mine on #WallStreetConsensus - the global political project to ‘escort capital’ to Sustainable Developmental Goals in the Global South. Think World
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#onthisday, in 1918, two sailors housed at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier reported to the sickbay with the flu. These two men were the first Americans stricken with the Spanish Influenza. @universalhub
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An interesting thing about this pandemic, in Germany at least, is how the far-right are struggling for relevance. For now, few want to hear from ranting racists. Instead, they want
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