#CORONAVIRUS

This may be an empty threat but my view is that banning all outdoor exercise may not be lawful. Difficult to see how it would be a proportionate response to
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This is a hilarious must-read. Chinese diplomat sends angry (and hypocritical) letter to @dailytelegraph. Daily Telegraph responds with a brilliantly sardonic point-by-point takedown. A model for how the world should
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It has been determined there are 3 types of #COVIDー19, of those, China had both types A and B strains. Of those 2 strains type B seems the more deadly.
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Once upon a time (a couple of weeks ago) there was a newspaper columnist who suggested ‘Let Newspaper Chains Die.’ Let’s take a quick look at the consequences just in
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Agreement Coronavirus came/originated in ChinaYes Trump’s “shut it down” (see next tweet to set that straight) was a “good” decision.Trump also left the back door & windows open He wasted
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Streaming service @Quibi (short for “quick bites”) launches Monday with 50 shows and movies, including @chrissyteigen’s “Judge Judy"-esque “Chrissy’s Courthttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-04-01/quibi-coronavirus-str
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Oh my god. A new bar has been set for “it could be worse.”New York Nightmare: Man Falls Through Sidewalk Into Rat-Filled Chasm - The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/nyregion/rats-sinkhole-sidewalk-bronx.html So many
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Bad news: I’ve got coronavirus.Good news: so far, the symptoms are very mild and it doesn’t seem to have effected my ability to churn out hottakes on Twitter. Don't want
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US, in discussions last night with Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Russia, trying to get Mexico "over the barrel" to do "100,000 fewer barrels," says @POTUS on #oil production. US will
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"I do not see the names of prominent consultants in communicable disease control at the top table...I have a feeling this is a systematic thing [resulting from] top down control."
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Marc Lamont Hill told us in 2016 "can afford to lose an election but we can't afford to lose our values" and now he wants help to keep his business
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And/but... unfavorable views of Dr. Anthony Fauci among conservatives have more than doubled since last month, new @CBSNewsPoll finds. MORE FROM THE POLL: A large majority still prioritizes staying home
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I've always believed that science should be as dry as possible and free from political biasKarol Sikora has never believed this, and now it appears that Sunetra Gupta and Carl
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Coronavirus is spreading because the government is failing to mass test or provide adequate PPE to key workers.Not because people are social distancing in parks.Scrutinise the right people. Of course
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.@Ilhan's bill would eventually provide millions of people using SNAP benefits the ability to buy groceries online.https://www.minnpost.com/national/2020/04/omar-bill-would-allow-snap-benefits-to-be-used-to-buy-groceries-online/ "Senior popu
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As former Rector @UofGlasgow a thread on Universities shambles far too desperate for income from ‘cash cow’ students, exploitative rents, international fees, fill the halls but what were the contingency
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