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Ok y’all are in for some thread because @NYGovCuomo⁩ made some pretty wild statements about homelessness & #COVID19 today. Listen to his interview at the link. (1/)https://abc7ny.com/homeless-shelters-ny-closed-hotel/6626103/ For c
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Audit of bigotry: How Indian media vilified #TablighiJamaat & #Muslims over #coronavirus outbreak.Communal hatred, fake/biased news, conspiracy theories,The coverage of the #Nizamuddin congregation had it all.holding them solely responsible for
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Six months after #COVID19 declared a pandemic, with ~1,000 deaths per day in the USA, #ContactTracing capacity is still woefully inadequate. Only six states plus DC have the recommended 5+
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things i was wrong about, an incomplete and ongoing list as i think of things: i was wrong about the degree to which trump's advisors would try to push him
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Tis the season Re O Come, All Ye Ache-full: The ER Is Open (Dec. 24): I challenge columnist André Picard’s suggestion that hospitals do not gear up to accommodate the
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A short drive from Portland, thousands of people, a rural health clinic, businesses, and senior housing, are without safe tap water, and some don’t have running water at all. This
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The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au
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A REVIEW OF BAD ARGUMENTS AGAINST FACE MASKS1/ They don't fully protect you from virus in the air.Yes, but their point is to prevent as much virus as possible from
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Welp.Lovense's 2020 global orgy has begun.Tweeting #LovenseOrgy or #Lovense will cause participating toys to vibrate.Which honestly feels a little weird, and I can't say I'm super comfortable posting that, but
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1/n With Media is busy inciting hysteria in India wrt #COVID19 , I thought to compile data showing where exactly India stands.I have used https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus  as the my source &
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A few notes my leftist friends on farmers’ bills. Please be careful with definitions. Often the the definitions are left vague in our narratives and that lets grave and dangerous
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MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS!!! Here are some movies that I have watched based on different Medical Conditions depicting the progression of the conditions and how they impact people around them. Entertainment
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***TWEET THREAD***New working paper with @guygrossman @hthirumurthy and @soojongkim_1"Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States"link: https://papers.ssr
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What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. Doug promotes the part of his Fall Pandemic Plan ensuring all Ontarians get free flu shot. Elliott says flu shots are in
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1/ $FB 1Q'21 UpdateI have been told “nobody uses Facebook”. Last quarter, 1.88 Bn “nobody” used Facebook daily.Lots of interesting data points and snippets on this call. Here are my
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Trump laments that "politically correct" police officers feel like they can't rough up protesters Trump describes the coronavirus as "probably sent in by China, who the hell knows how it
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