#Countries

One of the most important threads I have read. Scary as hell. trump is stealing medical equipment from cities, states and other countries.It's a win-win for him. He can auction
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THREAD ON CORONAVIRUS AND WORK (and what you’re not being told): 1/ The main reason the U.K. has had so many more deaths than other European countries, and unlike the
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If you followed me during the election because we share values, but you don’t “believe” my people have a right to self determination in their homeland, you can go ahead
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People who say "we were ok before we joined the EU" are forgetting that there wasn't an EU for us to join then.But now we have the biggest trading bloc
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Seeing the blitz of TikTok advertising and stories the past few days as TikTok fights to buy time (incl some fairly puffy pieces on the company from serious journalistic outfits
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Privilege that doesnt exist a thread - and why I think so. Cisgender "Privilege"This isn't the 1900s, or the early 2000s, if you're trans,nonbinary, or whatever, people really dont care,
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We cataloged how 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus.http://read.medium.com/Kkz13LE  One of the most alarming measures being implemented is in Argentina, where those who are caught breaking
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As well as limits on gathering size in recent months (https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1298970718105993217?s=20 ), another feature of Sweden that stands out is household size - it's smallest average in Europe, with majority
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1. I never thought I’d have to worry about bias during a pandemic, but here we are. Take this lead story, an exclusive no less, from the Daily Mail. The
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When I read about Slave Orchestras I have that scene in "A Beautiful Mind" where Nash/Crowe, during his insight moment about Governing Dynamics, says to Hansen/Lucas "Incomplete. Incomplete."If we can't
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Updated graphs for 5/9. First up is comparison of descent trajectories between different countries that have passed their peaks. The start point for each is the top of the curve.
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1/15 COMPARATIVE "GENOMIC EFFICIENCY" OF COUNTRIESHere are some quick and dirty graphs based on counts of genomes from GISAID, and population and GDP from Wikipedia. Here are the tables (sorry
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listen honestly it's great if you're getting deeper into left politics through social media and we're all happy to see you here but if you aren't persistently involved in some
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Though the countries and people I saw last year are Spanish speakers for the most part, I want to do this thread in English. I am sad about all the
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Today DHS unveiled a regulatory plan to severely restrict international students & exchange visitors, by making it difficult for them to stay in the US for their full duration of
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Yes, between CA and NY we contribute to over 25% of gdp. Most red states would be third world countries without being subsidized by the more productive states. His sorry
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