#Disasters

Josh Ng-Kamstra MDCM, MPH

JoshNgKamstra

As #COVID19AB threatens to become a catastrophe, it’s important to remember it wasn’t always like this, nor does it have to be. It’s the government’s choice. Remember, early on in

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadFor @Patriot_Jess The Chinese armed forces have been crippled by COVID-19.Over 21 million Chinese cellphone accounts went offline.We'll never know how badly the disease hit China. The last war the

Peter Sheridan Dodds

peterdodds

And building out from this work with @djwatts, here’s a set of slides and a couple of hours of recorded lectures from my course @pocsvox.Slides (megabyteful, acknowledged):“Contagion-at-large and biological contagion—The

John Bull

garius

Been seeing a lot of tweets about the Union Jack on Johnson's plane being the wrong way up.It is. But no one is really explaining why.So let's talk planes, flag

Michelle Dennard

MDennardCEO

COVID-19 has had and will continue to have major impacts on Florida’s workforce. But the CareerSource Florida network remains strong and continues to help businesses find talent and talented Floridians

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. So. Richard Hofstadter. Where to start? 2. People have asked me why I'm obsessed with the late historian Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). The short answer is that he's emblematic of

Vaughn✨

uhVang

Relief Drives for St. Vincent and the Grenadines disasters that you can support by donating or sharing (a thread)I'll update this if more are created ODPM Relief Collection Drivehttps://twitter.com/ODPM_TT/status/1380744198559821825?s=

Duncan Shrubsole

duncanshrubsole

This is a thread about death, love & loss. If it resonates in some way please share. 20yrs ago today at 10.25am I was with my Mum when she breathed

Alexandra Evans

AlexandraTEvans

After reading this thought provoking piece in @ForeignAffairs, I keep returning to one paragraph early in essay...https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy Alas, it's more than my allotted characters: I wonder if

Trent Morris (he/him)

TrentMorrisCopy

Beware the forex scam. I worked in finance and then marketing for years, and this is one of those open secrets in the industry. BACKGROUND: forex stands for “foreign exchange”.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

We are in an extraordinary moment, but not an entirely unprecedented one. Since the earliest days, societies have had to cope with disasters that wiped out the ability of everyday

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

For those interested in the Great War & After: very interesting lecture on the Kaiser, the Imperial German Army in 1918, and the Kaiser's abdicationhttps://youtu.be/06Rx2YBZ1u0?t=173#WW1 #GreatWar #MilHist For those interested

Tom Vickers

TomBVickers

I’m stuck in bed with post-viral fatigue but had to rouse myself long enough to say this. The disastrous consequences of private sector #outsourcing for Britain’s #trackandtrace are widely recognised.

Isimbi Eduige

isimbi_eduige

THREADTo celebrate #AfricaDay and the progress Africa has made over years, I'm sharing some pictures portraying the beauty of Africa, infrastructures, that i rarely see in intl. media since

Jamwanda

Jamwanda2

OUR CRISIS-NARRATIVE PRONE PRIVATE MEDIA ARE BEGINNING TO BE A REAL IRRITANT, more so when you realize it is the same headline, same voices done only on different days by

Ingrid M

iMusing

here it is.Morrison has instructed AGs to draft amendments to the Defence Act 1903 (Cth). He wants to give the federal executive overriding (“emergency”) authority to deploy the ADF domestically