#Economy

1/x Testing = CasesThis ALSO:(1) #False_Positive PCR results (compared to True Positives)especially if #asymptomatics tested&(2) #NON_infectious cases IF excess Ct cutoffLeads to #erroneous reporting of #NON_infectious
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This Day in Labor History: July 31, 1905. The Maji-Maji Rebellion begins, when colonized people in modern Tanzania revolt against the Germans violently imposing a Jim Crow-style cotton regime upon
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Thread: US-EU data dispute should be recast as part of larger national security debate w/challengers like China. New piece in @lawfareblog w/@henryfarrell https://www.lawfareblog.com/schrems-ii-offers-opportunity-if-us-wants-take-it 2/For t
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Why the Tories, especially Sunak, struggle to get it right on Covid (with graphs!)Even before the news about the mutant strain, polls showed that people tended to think the original
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H/t @ChelseaHerps: If you visit Google's front page today, you may see a Black guy with glasses. If you're an economist #EconTwitter, you probably know who this is. If not,
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The call here isn't to say NOTHING about false voter fraud claims. When we must, the goal is to respond as strategically as possible, with particular care not to frame
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A recipe for slavery, regardless who is President:1. Gates owns the WHO.2. Gates controls info—YouTube censors videos that contradict WHO.3. Gates & Bezos will change our diet & control food
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Has anyone started organizing the DIY reality-TV-style competition where various makers have to build a guillotine with only 600$? It's one of those things I don't want to actually do
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COVID Update November 1: When we lose someone to COVID there are things to remember. 1/ We have lost 230,000 people in the US to COVID, likely more, and it’s
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Trump: Day 1,247 (THREAD)-2,330,578 Cases of COVID-19 in US-US CV19 Death Toll Rises to 121,980-Six Campaign Staffers Test Positive-Attempt 2 Block Bolton Book Denied-Issues Death Threat Against Bolton-Forces SDNY Prosecutor
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I'm sharing a thread that an American wrote that brings awareness of the long-term goal of the extremists that are in the Republican Party, including the GOP.https://twitter.com/SoMersVick/status/1327682269717422080?s=20 @sunnshiiny pro
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After posting a tweet on the kidnap of the 12 policemen yesterday, the thought of the damning implication that sad incident has for our country continues to disturb me.https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/1328746519013548032 Moreover,
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Thread: How academia manufactures consent and shapes students’ and scholars’ thinking 1/xI have spent most of my professional life in academia (apart from a five yr stint running a non-profit,
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When are we going to start talking about the fact that this pandemic was caused by eating animals? If it’s not this zoonotic disease, it will be the next one.
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The Sydney Beaches cluster is growing. This is a great example of why it is overly simplistic for anti-lockdown proponents to rail against mandatory Covid-19 suppression strategies. If people aren't
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This deserves a thread. And I’ll hit it tonight when I’ve finished the yard work to @barbcarra’s satisfaction.https://twitter.com/gregginyyc/status/1322977986413408256 Okay, thread time: way back B4 2010 we subsidized growth from the
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