#Measures

#COVID19 contact tracing apps: we need to go beyond shallow reassurances that privacy is protected. Here are 8 questions we think you should ask. A thread.https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/blog/evaluating-contact-tracing-apps-here-are-8-privacy-questions-we-t
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A Thread: As a journalist, imagine you want to assess external sector outlook of your economy, try to concentrate these important ratios (compute these with actual data and compare them
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This is fairly pathetic, promising zero prevention and enforcement, but it highlights the underlying crisis. Police measures to deal with XR have been struck down recently by increasingly irresponsible courts
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I understand where you're coming at this on the mental health issues, but comparisons to Sweden need a little bit more context. More generally, the premise that "prevention isn't better
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There is a false narrative that is pervading our social media and news. This narrative has the Covid-19 situation regarding opening up the economy has been intentionally and incorrectly polarized
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hi ac twt!my country (the philippines) is in a lot of danger right now, because our gov't 1.) isn't mass testing citizens, 2.) is relaxing lockdown measures in spite of
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As well as being breathtakingly stupid, this appears to amount to a clear breach of the regulations. Unless anybody has any suggestions as to how “Performing the conga” might be
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An update: Thanks to the help from #econtwitter, I have put together a set of slides for my public econ undergrad class today. Not planning to post publicly but happy
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Let's put #COVID19 into some historical context and try to give it some perspectiveThanks to @BallouxFrancois, who pointed out that COVID is most similar to the 1957 Asian Flu Pandemic,
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Tonight, I am going to give a short twitter discussion on why the Neolithic dresses may not really be correctly depicted.Also, an alternative interpretation of a Neolithic dress...Join me me
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In the past week I've seen celebrities, middle-class acquaintances and successful journalists all angrily rant about people they deem to be 'selfishly flouting lockdown rules', all from the comfort of
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This is going to be controversial. Black folks in STEM who want to do a PhD, I think we have to be real. There's not a lot of us in
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Today on lukewarm takes I didn’t think I would need to share:Sapiosexuality! Is! Not! Real!If you’re more likely to sleep with someone who reads a lot, that’s a fucking PREFERENCE
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In addition to the tragedy of losing 100k people to #COVID19 in ~2mo, what's deeply frustrating is the intellectual fraud currently being perpetuated that suggests slowing epidemic is a natural
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Not a damn person cares what your nails look like rn stay tf inside https://twitter.com/jdlongoria1/status/1252444812441055232 This thread is VERY disconcerting. All these 15-30 year old people on here on a
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1. This is an interesting time for the Evidence Based Medicine movement.New virus and lots of new treatments and public health measures being touted.We're all desperate for solutions and are
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