#PANDEMIC

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

RSSB

RSSB_rail

Rail is still safer than road during Covid-19. Passengers can be a lot more confident about travelling with the risk of infection being less than 0.01% on an average journey.https://www.rssb.co.uk/Insights-and-News/News/Rail-still-safer-tha

good faith

faithdurand

Fantastic nuanced conversation on meat and Covid-19 from @gastrognome. As @leahjdouglas, Dr. Lindsey Lunford and others say here: the crisis is real, but it didn't start with the pandemic.https://www.thekitchn.com/how-experts-eat-meat-c

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

I have a few reflections as the last month of the year starts. Mute as you see fit. 1) This is the correct time for absolute empathy. I understand everything

Michael

PaterfamiliasV

December 20' 2020When you remove the first four months of testing deaths and cases and then divide total deaths into cases you get a corrected mortality rate of 1.2% This

The Counter

TheCounter

#THREAD - Native Hawaiians have been fish farming for 2,000 years, but many of their traditional fish ponds have fallen into disrepair.https://thecounter.org/native-hawaiians-ancient-fishponds-revival-food-sovereignty-pandemic/ These fishpo

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

Arendt on totalitarian followers: They show "cynical or bored indifference in the face of death or other personal catastrophes" & turn to a "passionate inclination toward the most abstract notions

#FieldsToJAX

TeamThirstTrap

One of the oddest things I have seen during the pandemic is people getting upset at others trying to adapt/adjust to pandemic life. Isn’t the whole point of life about

Sarah Nickson

sarahjnickson

It would be helpful if the govt was clear - with the public and internally - what precisely it is hoping to achieve with lockdown 2.0.These are difficult conversations -

🙂Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason& Liberty

sabhlok

#LockdownCrimesAgainstHumanity#WeAreComing The breach of science, laws and ethics in Australia - in a single slide. 2/When someone says they can do quarantines for covid better than Dan Andrews can, they

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ Quoted in this @BostonGlobe piece alongside colleagues @RanuDhillon @cmyeaton @svscarpino @BillHanage on new public health guidance changes in Massachusetts, particularly around curfewsMany important points here...https://www.bostonglobe

Oliver Bullough

OliverBullough

It's fascinating (if deeply disturbing) to see how corruption works in a UK concept. I'm accustomed to seeing it in developing countries, and essentially the mechanisms here are the same:

Karen Mulreid

beatingblog

Even if schools reopen fully in Sept (which I think they will personally) there will still be some form of online/at home learning for when kids are sick and quarantined

Khadijah Costley White

khadastrophic

Just learned my 63 year-old kind, gentle, much beloved uncle was still working at his Pepsi job through the pandemic bc his wife lost her job. He’s been there for

Dr. Jonathan Kolby

MyFrogCroaked

Five years ago today, USFWS banned 201 species of #salamanders from entering the US to prevent a #chytrid extinction crisis (see here: https://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/salamanders.html?fbclid=IwAR0VIh1ZXGYgx05ilZnN1x03dsK35TPzAVApe6eoj

Hồn Du Mục

HonDuMuc

I've been seeing some questionably framed comments on this particular portion of the thread. For those making a good faith effort to understand the #Vietnam Covid response and its consequences,

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