#CoVID

Since a recent "lockdowns don't have any impact" thread seemed to get some traction (including being retweeted by a friend of mine who is reasonably quantitative), I thought it would
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If y'all are going out, please leave your tech at home, keep your face covered, and be with people you trust. They are disappearing and killing people out here. If
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COVID Update December 1: Donald Trump, here’s your chance. This message is for you. No need to tweet that he won’t do any of these things. Really, I do get
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THREAD.So, today, Alberta lost more people to Covid than the Humboldt bus crash. Remember when that crash happened? People cried. They put hockey sticks on their porch. They donated millions
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THREAD: In 2018 @PTIofficial seemed lost at sea, at least on the economic front. From selling buffaloes to delaying the IMF program, self-inflicted wounds created uncertainty and sucked the air
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A couple of points regarding Trump's comments on McConnell in this statement put out by him today: a thread. 1/https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/1361794974262648837 Trump blames McConnell for being "rapidly driven" down "
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New @resfoundation report out today assesses the impact of Covid-19 on business, focusing on whether the sector is able to support a rapid recovery in living standards, see: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/on-firm-ground/H
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Les Grandes Gueules de RMC ont fait un sondage pour demander l'avis du peuple de Twitter, pour savoir s'il compte se faire vacciner contre le Covid-19.Voici donc mon petit thread
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Interestingly, the Emergency Ordinance has exposed most of the private hospital’s ICU are really not ICU! Its very ironic when the idea was for private to help KKM with the
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1. A #Flu thread:Because Friday was a holiday, @CDCgov published FluView today. US #Flu activity remains super low, thankfully.So far this season a single child has died from flu. It's
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This was probably the key point i made to @tomkeene and @flacqua on @BloombergTV this morning. This QE is different from the QE in 2009.... In 2009, the QE, in
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1/23 Thoughts on Covid Vaccine: First of all, up until this point there has never been a successful vaccine for coronaviruses in humans, due to a problem typical of coronavirus
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8. My key aim in this thread is simply to try to stem the tendency of frustrated people to say 'who are these crazy conspiracy supporters?' They aren't crazy. They
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I was thinking about trust this morning and the faith we have in the dark early hours that the sun will rise again. As a child I sometimes imagined myself
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Which developed country would you say is facing the biggest economic slump of all? The conventional answer is the UK. Eg see this @OECD forecast. But here's a thread about
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Regarding the UK gov's new Covid campaign (“Act like you've got the virus”), I was asked on @SkyNews yesterday if “there is a problem with compliance now in terms of
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