#Policy

Alright alright alright folks we've got some COVID data!Testing scale jumped WAY up over the weekend, while the positive rate continued to fall, which is great news! The CFR also
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1/n Bayes + Covid This is a good thread on the topic ... and I would like to build upon this.There are MANY MANY micro-policy implications. TL;DR ICMR has done
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It is instructive to read Tocqueville and Marx discuss the 1848 revolution. It does not often happen to have two such heavyweights describe the same events as they happen (w/o
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There are two things about what has happened in Hong Kong that need emphasizing. First, this was not a snap decision since last year. Maybe the timing was shifted slightly
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BREAKING: We have a fire (mostly smoke) in Ward 47 Lincoln Wing, St James Hospital, Leeds. Massive effort to evacuate bed-ridden patients from acute critical care wing. Hospital security on
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I'll make a thread of Trump-defenders who wave their free speech flag but don't even understand how 1A only limits government speech and not private actors like Twitter. Not to
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This is a thread on the very bizarre arrangements the Tories are having with virtually unknown companies. And if you know of any more please let us know. Firstly, is
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Joe Biden told us he has our back. What does that mean? These people never laid our specific policy; they never told us in plain English what our vote would
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CA renters’ protection from evictions expires in 4 days, on Sept 1! THREAD on what’s happening & what’s at stake -- 1/@CalBudgetCenter Why is this a crisis? Evictions are always
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Slurs like “Chinazi” & “Xitler” are part of an anticommunist tendency of WWII revisionism. The West likes to portray itself as the great Nazi-slayers. In reality, the Soviets played the
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1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 OK here’s a thread on #languagebarriers. Yes you are in the right conference. This is still about shorebirds. What I mean is I will explain how language
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Let’s discuss booking etiquette 1. Read through your reader’s booking form thoroughly before asking questions. 2. DO NOT rush your reader. Give them 2 weeks to send our your reading
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NEW PERSPECTIVE PIECE: masks can be leaky but even when they don't catch all the virus, it appears that they catch enough of it to only cause mild disease. Can
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A points deduction for the actions of the six English clubs is necessary and fair. Here’s a thread from the last ten years of other clubs being deducted points for
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On Thursday the government will release its estimate of GDP growth in the third quarter. The number is expected to be something like 35%. Three bits of arithmetic context followed
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Can we talk about the price of risk? Does risk even mean anything, anymore? Perhaps the lack of risk, is the risk itself. Complacency used to be what was the
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