#Conditions

It may be helpful to share this email I sent to customers today. I've found that when delivering bad news, emails like this are always received very well.Candor, clarity, and
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The #ACIP meeting is starting. It looks like they have revised their 1b recommendation (still to be voted on) to be those 75+ and frontline essential workers.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-20/0
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(1) As we approach a new US election, let’s remind ourselves of what the brilliant Hannah Arendt said about the use of lies and propaganda by authoritarians, and how followers
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To reiterate:COVID is real.COVID is primarily a serious threat to older people and people with pre-existing conditions.Over 250K Americans have died due to COVID or COVID related illness. Old peoples
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We had an opportunity early on. The virus was relatively stable,https://twitter.com/ct_bergstrom/status/1351061927020130312 The was still time to suppress the virus. But that required vigorous Government interventions learning from early mi
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A thread ranking bananas: 1) The Dwarf Cavendish Grand Nain. Big, yellow, ubiquitous. Grows well, travels well, makes up 99% of the export market. The Coors Light of bananas. (Also:
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The bathtime of the gods... It sometimes seems - from popular perception at least - that the standard process for painting a naval ship in the First World War was
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Nearly 10 years on, with enough evidence to the contrary to fill history books for decades, I have just heard "experts" still speaking of an imaginary US push for regime
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Will Easter be the new Xmas, albeit a thin one? This is the PM's new hope, I'm told. He has privately shared an aspiration to see restrictions begin to ease
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It is not our aim to disparage Metaxas but to honor Dr. King by letting him speak for himself. “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar;
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On white fragility/male fragility: In work settings and organizing spaces non white people, women’s and queer people’s opinions and thoughts tend to not be taken very seriously by authority formal
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SO....a short thread on #NHS, health and my recent adventures: I get my annual check up in India even though I live in Britain. My experience hasn't been great (neither
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Excellent thread. @LayWilliams explains how it's consistent to hold (1) that we shouldn't focus on our position relative to others; but that (2) this is consistent with a demand for
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No doubt we will be hearing a lot more about UK/EU relations in the next few months.The issue is, the difference between the sort of deal the UK is trying
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A thread (I'm sorry) about whether ethics, aesthetics, and politics are one thing or three things I believe that meaningful aesthetic conflict almost always encodes an ethical conflict, typically about
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Our last paper on quantum simulations of high-energy physics is now on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02045 In this work, we propose how certain open questions in particle physics could be adressed using cold-atom
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