#PANDEMIC

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

Reminder: The 3 rules of pandemic economics1. Get families cash, or people will die.2. Get companies cash, or firms will die.3. Stop the pandemic, or there will be a lot

Ronx (they/them)

Dr_Ronx

I’m trying not to be insensitive but there is something quite distasteful about people feeling that they have this “right” to a foreign holiday and then getting cross due to

Summer Brennan 🌈

summerbrennan

This photo, oh my god. Both of these adults are in the midst of working from home. Guess which one is in the middle of a work call? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/covid-pandemic-mothers-primal-scream.html Not

TRT World

trtworld

Families of some 20M girls are expected not to send their girls back to school after the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving them more vulnerable to child marriage.A thread on 2020's impact

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

As a general rule, any conservative politics that does not propose and enact policies to conserve its working & middle classes - especially in a time of crisis or pandemic

Scott Reid 🔍

scottreid1980

Excuse me if I don’t take my scientific advice on everything now being safe from Matt Hancock, who managed to get the virus almost from the word go. Sorry everyone,

AutisticSciencePerson

AutSciPerson

So this podcast (transcript available) is really, really interesting.She talks about stress, the pandemic, and the fact that brains get tired.Autistic burnout makes a lot of sense when you think

M.P.

OmanReagan

There are a few challenges in talking about pandemic strategy in the US. First, the media hasn't given us the debate we deserve about which strategy we should use in

(((Harry Enten)))

ForecasterEnten

We'll see if this stuff works, but I'm quite skeptical. Trump tried a version of this to close out the 2018 campaign, and it didn't work. https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1284599642047512576 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/polit

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈

cmclymer

This month, 19 years ago, a terrorist tried to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight to Miami. It happened 3 months after 9/11, and it's why we still remove

Alex Fitzpatrick, PhD Pending

ArchaeologyFitz

someone smarter than me definitely already wrote a think piece about this but there’s definitely something about how the major symptoms of covid are similar to a cold and how

Natasha Rothwell

natasharothwell

PSA: If you've been performing a pre-pandemic version of yourself, STOP. You're doing yourself and others a disservice by perpetuating the myth that everything's okay and feeling otherwise is some

Gregory Davis

GregoryDavisHNH

On Newsnight last night, Toby Young claimed that "No one is denying that we're in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic - or at least no one who contributes to

Mind

MindCharity

Many of us are experiencing lots of difficult emotions about the coronavirus pandemic. This may include feelings about getting sick, the government restrictions, or struggling to see when the pandemic

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. Unless there's a vaccine very soon, I fear that Joe Biden will not handle the pandemic much better than Trump did. I really hope I'm wrong. It just seems

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

So a bit more background on this story. Its origin was a tweet.https://elemental.medium.com/the-risks-of-pandemic-boredom-and-what-to-do-about-it-386a64d6ede1?source=social.tw I had read one too many articles about very privileged families

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