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How is it going for those people trying to make us believe #Corona is hardly worse than ordinary flu? Mortality in New York is double what it normally is.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html Mort
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~July'1638.3% rise in human trafficking cases, great demand for tribal & Muslim girlsNCRB76% of human trafficking cases nationwide over the last decade have involved girls and womenThe trafficking of minor
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See it’s not rocket science though is it - find a group of people to marginalise and hate, create conspiracy theories and lies, inflate issues surrounding those people and turn
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NEW from ⁦@praddenkeefe⁩: While opioid deaths have surged during the pandemic, the Sackler family has been quietly staging an end game in which it will keep most of its fortune—and
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I think this was a stupid move, but I’m struggling to think of anything useful WHO has done in the past few months. I’m happy to be proven wrong on
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More than a thousand people here in Trafalgar Square at the latest #StandUpX #Lockdown demo Police are apparently picking off people from the #NoNewNormal demo, telling them they’re breaking the
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WARNING TO ASTHMATIC PATIENTS—a rise in PM2.5 concentrations of just 10 microg/m3 from wildfire smoke 8% increase in asthma-related hospital admissions. PM2.5 surged by >200 mcg/m3 in Portland over
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It’s finally happening and I started reading Scum Villain and I just have to say how much I wish the OOC feature could be broken for beginners irl. “All those
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I saw an account that ships Ji Li and Bowen and I guess I had enough weibo for today. GUAAARD I SHOULDVE JUST SLEPT INSTEAD COZ NOW IM LOWKEY INVESTED
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If you can tear your eyes off oil prices and covid for a sec, I have some China energy charts for you! Here's a word cloud about what key experts
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THREAD In Damascus, the covid epidemic has been a silent, often lonely affair. Both the government and international aid agencies, despite ample time to respond, have left Syrians to depend
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Gyms have closed all over the world, with restrictions placed on all sorts of other activities. But, for many, lockdowns are also inspiring a fitness revolutionhttps://www.ft.com/content/2d7dc42d-4c88-4e17-89d3-9bf604fe88b1 Sales of Peloton
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Reading the @ManhattanInst report on U.S. race relations, from @epkaufm (https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/social-construction-racism-united-states-EK.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2lKH0IlO1xMYcGT_LiK50IUjLW1gxaIn3ykbPsArGCHcVf5CL
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“Seeing justice truly done” is an interesting soundbite.Is it, as this incoherent, sub-sixth-form essay rant suggests, only about locking more people up for longer?Or does “justice truly done” mean a
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If you think the Coronavirus death numbers are exaggerated, please look at this @jshkatz chart. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html This chart looks at something called “all-cause mortality,” wh
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For big, difficult problems, we need big, creative solutions.A few highlights from this great read on South Korea’s #coronavirus strategy. A useful template for other countries.1/8https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/coronavirus-cases-
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