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Last Checked July 9, 2020

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Sat Jun 27 12:03:08 +0000 2020

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

“Does putting a piece of cloth in front of your face make it harder for you to spit all over everything?” the greatest mystery in medical science today. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 27, 2020 Hibernated

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The thing about masks is that unlike a lot of other policy interventions it’s really quite easy to experimentally demonstrate that they impede the spread of respiratory droplets (try sneezing with a mask on, I promise you) and you don’t need to resort to weak cofrelational args. — PolitiTweet.org

Derek Johnson @derekjGZ

Science: it’s like magic, but real! 😷 https://t.co/NGymdXSbZ5

Posted June 27, 2020 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think people forget how insane the climate of Bush’s first term was, we just didn’t have social media so we weren’t constantly *marinating* in the madness in the same way. But the actual US House of Representatives, not a weird fringe group, renamed french fries. — PolitiTweet.org

Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior

I don’t know how you add it up or measure it, but collective insanity is as high as it’s been in my lifetime.

Posted June 27, 2020 Hibernated

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