#Catastrophic

Ed Yong

edyong209

I wrote about UNMC--the hospital that, perhaps more than any other in the US, had prepared for a pandemic. It has amazing facilities. Its staff anticipated, planned, drilled. And now?“I

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

HC_Richardson

Writer's Block.A thread for @alixabeth and others. This is not about writing problems in general: procrastination, frustration, stress eating, pain, and so on. It's for when you cannot remember how

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Donald Trump, through malfeasance and by putting his re-election ahead of the fate of the people, damned hundreds of thousands of Americans to agonizing deaths and cratered our economy, ensuring

teka

tekabob2005

In going to make eggy bread I will keep you updated A catastrophic start:I had the eggs ready opened my cupboard to get the bread and some tortillas feel out

Julia Pollak

juliaonjobs

1/ Thread on U.S. responses to pandemics over the decadesTL/DR: On every occasion, the U.S. was slow to recognize problem and respond; either overestimated or underestimated the risk; experienced massive

kaitlyn

mmfkait

Everyone outside of Louisiana this question is for you. Have you been hearing about the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Laura in Southwest Louisiana? In most media or news outlets? Let’s

Ceej has shot 1 of 2.

ceejbot

Such a good thread.https://twitter.com/HeyChelseaTroy/status/1381330307929014273?s=20 "Context loss" is a thing you know well if you've seen it. All the people who knew why a thing is the way it is are

Perri Nicole

perrigame

I’m going to be really open about my struggles at the moment in the hope it helps others speak out. I overdosed on my sleeping tablets last night & had

Gavin Barwell

GavinBarwell

This poll shows government has a huge job to do communicating that while lockdown was vital it's also very damaging economically and we need - slowly + carefully - to

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AptlyAnnie

I think one of the most disturbing parts of our current situation is this new mindset of treating people as disease vectors and nothing more. An inner monologue of "Am

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bratsumu

if you are writing university sakusa and are wondering what major to give him—since we don’t know what he studied yet, and maybe we never will—please allow me to present

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

When more people voting is bad for you, the autocratic solution is to make voting more difficult. When that is not enough, the real message becomes that democracy is bad,

Philip Sim

BBCPhilipSim

Nicola Sturgeon sending a message here, in making clear that she effectively sacked Catherine Calderwood, that breaking the rules is a big deal and has real consequences. Goes some way

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RedRadicals

The Govt has released a new report, relating to surveillance of Coronavirus. The excerpt below, showing the devastating number of cases in care homes, is truly damning of their response.

sarah murphy

13sarahmurphy

‘Deepest sympathies’ don’t come close to being enough to make up for your own catastrophic failure Johnson. And we don’t think your ‘buoyancy’ and ‘élan’ are qualities at all. They’re

Billy Hill

skygig

I Doug @fordnation was wrong. I chose to be solely advised by a protected class with a myopic & obsessive focus who would never suffer the consequences of any of