#Lockdowns

Mom Folding Laundry

folding_laundry

It’s funny when people say, “Losing your job isnt the same as being thrown in a concentration camp.”You think the holocaust *started* with concentration camps??No. It started with people losing

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

To really understand what is going on we have to start with this tweet of 6 months ago:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1264146918927667200 What this means, is that ~ 50% of the population, with regional

Gilad Isaacs

GiladIsaacs

Why should we be careful when talking about a “jobs bounce-back” in South Africa? - A THREAD. You don’t get better labour market economists in South Africa than the @NIDS_CRAM

Irfan Dhalla

IrfanDhalla

Thread: I know and admire many authors (e.g., @drbobbell, @OnyeActiveMD, @vg_to, @UofTMedDean, @trclosson, etc.) of the "balanced response" letter re: Covid-19.But I worry about the overall tone of the letter,

Katherine Michelmore

michelmorek

@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of

Jacob F Kirkegaard

jfkirkegaard

@joebiden wants 100mn Americans vaccinated in 100days - that means ~115mn or just over 1/3 of all Americans will have received at least first jab by late April. That frankly

Bruce Arthur

bruce_arthur

Doug Ford is concerned again, after modelling again showed his restrictions were insufficient, as they showed in November, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient, and as they showed

Shales From The Crypt

ViscosityRedux

Checking in on the energy investing framework as we approach year end 2020 First we revisit the rules. 1) Equities follow crude 2) Crude timespreads momentum dictates crude price momentum.

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

What's suppressing Ontario's "second wave"? Cases (positive test results) are still at record highs despite weeks of new restrictions, yet ICU occupancy and daily new deaths are low.Signs point to

Gylfi Ólafsson

GylfiOlafsson

Vaccination rollout has been going too slow in much of the world. If enough vaccines were available, Iceland could vaccinate its entire population cheaply in a matter of days. This

Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions

mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. Canada declares Proud Boys a terrorist group. In unrelated news Conservative politicians across Canada hastily scratch hundreds of names off their annual

Eb🍩ny Wears A Mask

WriterEbony

I'm either about to be amazingly proactive and start a campaign, or I'm about to be hugely embarrassed. It could go either way.Here's my rant-thread about author royalties in Australia,

david oliver

mancunianmedic

hospitals inundated with patients who demonstrably, through clinical features we all recognise have Covid-19, beds occupied by them escalating fast, more on oxygen, ICU expanding capacity again and *still* people

eugyppius

eugyppius1

THREAD END: This will end my long thread about how Corona went from being a "mild cold" (Christian Drosten at the start of March) to a deadly plague, all in

Emma

fkyesss

Happy (belated) new year! Sorry guys, I wasn't intending to be away this long. I'll be back in a limited capacity next week I will catchup with DMs as

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Definitions matter.@WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”Is "COMPLETE" health a realistic expectation?Does it lead

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