#PANDEMIC

Paging NYC ER Docs. Please read the thread top to bottom. Interesting theory that’s relatively easy to test.https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717848506675200 More evidence pointing to this:https://twitter.com/emedtox/status/1244103550570987521?s=
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1/ Good review of @NAChristakis's new book on the pandemic, "Apollo's Arrow", from someone I'd normally not bother with: Niall Ferguson. I have some comments.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/apollos-arrow-nicholas-
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Here is my take on this article. It makes some good points, familiar to people who work on comm, social norms and behavior/social change. New behaviors should be easy and
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What I’ve learnt from my first half-term as an #NQT Long story short, training to be a teacher and being a teacher is tough during a pandemic (no matter how
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Focus on the world map. Imagine an imaginary vertical line running from the Arctic ocean onto west Russia through Kazakistan cutting Turkmenistan into two halves and then running through the
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How to know when a supposed "environmental" movie has missed the mark completely: when it's used as actual fodder for far right and fossil fuel interests (yes, it's currently being
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1/6 Coming into pandemic, analysts forecasted 20-30M bpd builds in inventories as demand collapsed. Real-time data shows builds significantly less (7-8M bpd). Falling prices (negative prices!) reinforced perception of tank
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A lady who owns a small business told me yesterday, “I’d rather risk my life than risk losing my livelihood”.Many many disagree with her but there seems to be a
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[THREAD] Dealing with Covid19 anxiety in schools: Tips for school leaders by Dr. Al Witten (@pilo_education, UCT) So what role should our leaders play in dealing with anxiety in our
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Our @SurvivalFund_ng payments to qualified beneficiaries are continuing. A new batch of 146,065 successful beneficiaries from 28 States have started receiving payment of N30,000 each (per month),under the Payroll Support
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For the love of God I really wish @88rising enhance NIKI's Moonchild promo in US. All I'm seeing is that the promo mainly targeted in Asia and almost nonexistent in
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I’ve been thinking about all the posts highlighting moms being the most affected by the pandemic, but the little action around the issue. Here are some ideas on how you
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Nigella Lawson as bowls.A thread. If you like this thread (or any
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Pandemic Confession:I think some people think because I frequently write and talk very openly and candidly and positively about sex -- and because I'm heavily tattooed -- that when it
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I have a lot of feelings about my experience with COVID that are impossible to properly articulate, but I'm going to try nevertheless. I've spent over a year living in
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In 2018 California passed #AB5 which reclassified "gig-workers" as actual employee's (workers) rather than "independent contractors". Lyft/Uber/Door Dash have pledged 100 million to fight this measure and are current
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