#PANDEMIC

Today I want to share my personal experience with #MagicTheGathering . How everything began, what meant to me and now that I'm back playing, what I'm looking forward to. Everything
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Richard is effectively modelling here a capital gains tax that works on an accruals (instead of realisation) basis, which is not totally crazy, in fact what a lot of economists
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After @JujuliaGrace’s kind words, I thought I’d introduce myself properly and say a few words about why the PPE procurement challenges that @EveryDoctorUK is pursuing against @MattHancock are so important
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What happened to learning when primary schools first closed to curb the pandemic a year ago? We answer this question in a paper with @ArunFrey @MarkDVerhagen that is now out
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A few thoughts on China’s vice president Wang Qishan. His long-time protege Dong Hong has been placed under an internal probe, CCDI announced a week ago, raising speculations of implications
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So it’s been 3 years since the shooting at Route 91, and there’s some things on my mind today, especially as it relates to this year specifically with everything going
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I have empathy for essential workers like grocery store workers who were repeatedly exposed to COVID19 by dumbass customers. I have empathy for the healthcare workers who sickened and died
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CW: talk of food, restrictive eating, money.....One thing I find difficult as a disabled person who lives alone is managing food. I'm constantly trying to balance buying enough food for
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I love these. One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic. Perhaps time to start a thread?https://twitter.com/LarissaAounSky/status/1246010454130020352 Meanwhile, from south of the border:https://twitter.com/Israel/status/12448961080249262
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1/n Please stop harassing me about maths. First, I am attacked by the Christian Right for being Muslim (I am not). Then, I am attacked by the Hindu right for
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-leaders-seem-clueless-about-covid-d3gl8mxgk i have thought for a few months that failings in the Covid response are failures of public communications as much as they are of policy decisions and shown t
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This is a love story. It began 50 years ago over apple strudel in Paris, but Howard Smith says he has no time for romantic notions about the past. Right
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2020 is super hard, no question. And no end in sight. We are getting through it any way we can—this week and who knows what will get us thru next
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How can we monitor human populations in bulk for coronavirus?Track their sewage!In general, if test availability is an issue, pooled samples could ameliorate that shortage, e.g. running one test on
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I want to share a personal experience I’ve had with the @USPS, the viability of which is threatened & which was recently labeled a “joke” by someone in a position
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COVID-19 Update There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. There are 39 people isolating in the Auckland quarantine facility from the community, which includes
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