Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

An unfortunate habit I’m seeing more of: using “public trust” to describe voluntary social distancing practices in Western countries, and using “obedience” or “conformity” to describe the same behaviors in Asian countries. Please don’t do this! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

"What all three scenarios agree on is this: There is virtually no chance Covid-19 will end when the world bids good riddance to a calamitous 2020.” https://t.co/jksthJsUgL — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@suzywanalyst A more-flattened curve leaves a larger segment of the population susceptible to infection, implying a second spike of deaths that is larger than the lives saved by the earlier lockdown https://t.co/NEQoL6SGzn — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Neil_Irwin: I'm amazed at how quickly the political conversation has turned toward litigating which entities are morally righteous enou… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @NewYorker: Setting reasonable goals during a crisis. https://t.co/QIirBpnuJ7 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mchorowitz @AnnenbergPenn @APPCPenn Ah my mistake. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I’ve been saying this for years but it’s really time to seriously consider the possibility that social media’s harms are inherent to how these platforms were designed and can't be fixed by just hiring more moderators or whatever. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Social media corps really have taken unusually bold steps to promote good info over bad on Covid19. It hasn’t worked, a new Harvard study finds. Time on Facebook/Twitter/YouTube correlates with a worse understanding and believing dangerous conspiracies. https://t.co/BMC7U6y8K3 https://t.co/yZPyOxBb3T — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Max_Fisher: https://t.co/BBrt972vrJ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mcfuhrmann Glad to see this important contribution to the field getting the recognition it deserves — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I would be careful about extrapolating Sweden’s nationwide attitude to social distancing from a couple anecdotes or photos of crowded parks. You could find the same in New York or London on any warm day. A few hundred people does not necessarily reflect everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @zackbeauchamp: New paper from one of America's most eminent economists has a pretty disturbing finding https://t.co/cvTzX4l9DE https://… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @martyn_williams: NK Pro has a bunch of photos showing yacht and boat movements around the Wonsan elite area. This after we found railwa… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Do people have a favorite app/site/plugin for managing bookmarks? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DKThomp: I wrote a very long piece about how the pandemic will reshape retail, restaurants, and the American streetscape. This is an… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @evanchill: Minnesota is quietly having the worst Covid-19 outbreak of the upper Midwest at the moment, reaching a rate of one death per… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Differentiating days of the week is getting harder, but I can always tell it's Sunday because my twitter feed fills with videos of Newsmakers calling for responding to a mindless & borderless pathogen by doing some racisms — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@evanchill https://t.co/JEsjm2ZlK0 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@MADarbyshire Flattered you remember that one. Been nagging at me too. But, in my case at least, the timeline makes it unlikely. I developed symptoms on Dec. 4, suggesting infection around Dec 1. Was rare even in Wuhan at that point. Iirc the first-known infection in China was Nov 17. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@MazMHussain On-the-spot epidemiological guidance — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ScottGottliebMD: New: Study of 318 outbreaks in China found transmission occurred out-of-doors in only one, involving just 2 cases. Mos… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Seen-it-all editor @EricNagourney informs me I've made the first NYT usage of "zeroth" since 2013, when it appeared in a reader essay for the now-defunct crossword blog (!) describing the imaginary "Evenland" (!!) where all crosswords are math-themed (!!!) https://t.co/Vjl19w2TKy — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If the UK's social and cultural rifts with the collapse of empire is any guide, this is an identity crisis that will probably be with us for the rest of our lives. But the underlying concept was always just an ideological veneer for one-off structural forces. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The origin of American exceptionalism is often traced to a 1900 speech by Sen Albert Beveridge, arguing for annexing the Philippines because God “has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the redemption of the world.” https://t.co/nIyr11wk3o — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

American exceptionalism is an exceptionally slippery phrase. People use it to demand that the US do whatever they want from it at that particular moment. James Ceaser called it "one small step for abstraction, one giant leap for abstractionism." But it does have a fixed meaning. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Some thoughts on what we mean when we talk about "American exceptionalism," and where the concept even comes from, kicked off by @kbennhold's great story on the topic https://t.co/XHHOX3YlQZ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @MarkLevineNYC: Some very good news: Tomorrow NYC will begin offering hotel rooms to those with mild/moderate covid who need to be able… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A DC publication, doesn’t matter which, just posted a long piece on China’s supposed control of the WHO. Its one piece of evidence is a hand-waving line about funding bringing influence. It’s innuendo, and also the premise is false – China is a minor donor. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Just wild to watch futures markets, which are supposed to be the shock absorbers of the global economy, absolutely implode over a warehousing bottleneck in Oklahoma. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Randomly wiki’d this British music producer and I can’t tell you how much joy it brings me that his wiki treats “sociology lecturer” as an ethnicity https://t.co/tCfyArB7hl — PolitiTweet.org