#Panic

tw // self harm, suicide, rape, and sexual assault are mentionedi’ve seen a lot of discourse these last few weeks on people telling survivors how we can & can’t deal
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1/. Exactly one year ago - on 3 February 2020 - @BorisJohnson made THIS speech:“There’s a risk new diseases such as #coronavirus could trigger a panic that goes beyond what
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1/ A small thread on the exchange rate 2/ Again with the basics: rate will be set by supply and demand. Any attempt to force the market will fail
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I’m at the Queering the Equality Act seminar. There are going to be 3 presentations.Very interesting so far. Alice Irving, a queer barrister for disabled rights, is currently talking about
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It’s Hong Kong, 1989. My dad, mum, sister, and I are making a pit stop, because my restless parents have decided to move to Australia. My 19-year-old brother was like,
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Here are some of key papers, docs, and threads on the emergent variant of SARS-CoV-2 that I've come across. Please do comment with more (1/n) (Not directly about the new
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Update from Australia: the acting Prime Minister says the domestic terror attack on the Capitol building, in which six people died, is equivalent to last June's anti-racism protests. Neither he
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Tonight's thread is not part of my ongoing European Bios sequence, it's a little detour to re-read a book called The Day The World Ended, which is about a volcanic
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On January 29, Farhad Manjoo wrote a column called "Beware the Pandemic Panic" telling us that the fear of COVID might be worse than the virus By March, Manjoo had
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Thread on Scottish consultation on the Nordic model: if you're in doubt about how to fill in the consultation and want to "listen to sex workers", here's my view as
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1) They got it wrong and now they’re largely tracking it wrong. I say they, because I predicted this early on, and it only gets worse. Did you know the
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How good are you feeling if you're Xi Jinping right now? Your virus has the Western world teetering on the edge of more economy-killing lockdowns. Your man Joe Biden is
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The pandemic highlighted how decades of pushing for socialism have utterly destroyed our ability to measure costs against benefits and evaluate risk. We're down to people refusing to take vaccines
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What’s one BIG lesson 2020 taught us? Anything can happen.Are you or your business ready for the rainy days?Be ready or be gone.How do you prepare? What to do in
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A long thread on my fam's experience with COVID over the last few weeks. Dad was infected 1st likely through work (weren't careful on masking & he's in and out
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the mcu and its ableism, racism, and general erasing of identities: a thread im going to break this down character by character. there are likely going to be examples i
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