#LockDowns

Isabel Schnabel

Isabel_Schnabel

Large-scale government & central bank interventions in the COVID-19 crisis have revived the debate on the alleged "zombification" of the economy if unviable firms are kept alive. In our recent

Erin Kissane

kissane

Home care advice continues to be bizarrely difficult to find, which is…honestly inexcusable, given the current case and hosp numbers we're seeing and the state of our healthcare systems. Threads

eugyppius

eugyppius1

THREAD. Western elites revised their estimation of Corona in March. They had, for months, downplayed Corona as a minor, flu-like illness. By mid-month, they had decided it was one of

Michael Harris

MichaelH_PhD

So I'm not the first, & won't be the last, to be irked by this. But anyway, here goes.What Murph's reporting (& opining) on is a survey that showed, in

Nilmini W 😷

Minimalneg

1/ It's gloomy news today. There are many plusses to our COVID response, and we must not lose sight of those. It's been a tough time on many - those

TheAccountant

JTheAccountant

Common sense- if an individual thinks they'll need money in the next 12 months, due to economic uncertainty(COVID,lockdowns,SEC) they should convert to USD or their national currency to pay their

Rants Ouloud

RantsOutloud

Just watching America be played for over 6 months straight has been stunning.“George Floyd's brother to deliver testimony at UN urgent debate on racism”https://breaking.iavian.net/article/245435 The W.H.O. (a UN body) is

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Right then. A little thread about 'focused protection'.Focused protection appears to be the new 'herd immunity', rebranded to sound nice and comforting.Problem is, it's anything but.Here's some background to where

Robby Starbuck

robbystarbuck

I had the pleasure of speaking to local business owners in TN about how to fight tyrannical shutdowns & mandates. They reinvigorated me to fight to make TN the pinnacle

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the fascinating aspects of the response to covid is the manner in which all past knowledge and standing guidance regarding lockdowns and quarantines got tossed out the window

Marcial Longworth

Marciallon

@SteveDeaceShow Using NPR's calc 250,000 in the U.S. died from swine flu.https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/26/247379604/2009-flu-pandemic-was-10-times-more-deadly-than-previously-thought @SteveDeaceShow "By the Worl

Güneş Aşık

gunesasik

Working Paper Alert. Thread: several studies show that domestic violence help calls has increased during the lockdowns. In fact @emilycleslie has a fantastic paper using data US data. But what

Jen Roesch

JenRoesch

1/ A thread for all those talking about how Europe kept schools open during lockdowns & surging rates. Looks like several have changed their minds as spread continued with schools

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

On @BBCOS today discussing the tragedy of exceeding 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in the UK, and what led to this.19:03 for a bit and then 19:23 onwards:https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnewsAlso, a few thoughts in

Dark Winter Warlord

MightyDanD

NM Covid update. Positive tests keep going up along with testing. In October over 250,000 tests were taken. Over 10% of the population. Since March over 1.17 million tests, half

Alison Blunt

AlisonBlunt

1) "One of the many super-spreaders of disinformation, Karl Lauterbach, SPD, is an enthusiastic lockdown supporter. He escalates his announcements on a daily basis. He is not alone in this."

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