#Complacency

Taha Ahmad

19thgreekletter

a huge collection of semi-angery tweets:[P.S. read them if you want to, otherwise might as well just skip them, but if you do read them, remember that my intentions are

Dr. Niamh Cummins

CumminsNM

A thread on Public Health. Prior to #COVID19 there wasn't a great awareness among most people about #PublicHealth as a Medical Speciality. I don't mean any disrespect in saying that,

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

It sure feels like we're living through an unprecedented boom in newsletters, but while email-based newsletters are experiencing a major surge, newsletters themselves have a long and honorable history.https://www.wired.com/story/peak-ne

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

My god India ... and it’s not just more testing, because positivity had quintupled (5x) in recent month. India could be the next Brazil in terms of #COVID19 crisis

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: where we are with covid in UK, particularly England, right now ... inc schools and circuit breaks... based on my @IndependentSage briefing today (which you can watch here if

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Seeing a lot of explanations that attribute the horrific surge in India to one thing or another (variants, aerosols, vaccines, etc), all of which betray a facile understanding of how

Mundia Njeri

nicholasmundia

#QatarAirways’ Data Demonstrates the Safety of Air Travel as More Than 99.988% of its Passengers Travel COVID-19-freehttp://the254hub.com/2020/10/23/qatar-airways-data-demonstrates-the-safety-of-air-travel-as-more-than-99-988-of-its-passe

The254Hub

254hub

#QatarAirways’ Data Demonstrates the Safety of Air Travel as More Than 99.988% of its Passengers Travel COVID-19-freehttp://the254hub.com/2020/10/23/qatar-airways-data-demonstrates-the-safety-of-air-travel-as-more-than-99-988-of-its-passe

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We wasted February and the failure wasn't just from the administration. Many in media, too, fueled the complacency. Why? Because we don't know how to think about complex systems—something we

Ingrid M

iMusing

what is Morrison talking about today? Why has the comms strategy ramped up this week? Schools again? the 4sq metre rule and 1.5 metre rule is not a requirement in

Eddy St. Coeur

EddySt

Non cis-gender male comics have to work harder. I worked in a comedy club 6/7 days a week for a year. At least once a week I heard "female comics

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying almost 2,5 million cases have now been reported to WHO and more than 160,000 deaths. "We see different trends in different regions and

nordic.cat //*\

cat_nordic

El 2on indyref d’Scotland no és lluny. Si aquest cop guanya el SÍ, Escòcia s’integrarà a la UE sense cap mena de dubte. Pq en el marc del nou model

Phillip Lipscy

PhillipLipscy

The Japan COVID conundrum: Japan’s response to COVID-19 has been widely criticized, and Abe’s approval rating has suffered, but the outcome measures in Japan paradoxically look very good. /1 A

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Patricia Salem

SeasideScribe

1/ When Trump ran for office and then won, many of us who knew how dangerous he would be were told to stop worrying over nothing. We were told about