Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Having a hard time identifying how European governments are generating these day-to-day R0 estimates. Is it just new cases divided by old cases? Are they using a static variable for generation time? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bradplumer: Milan is hoping to fend off a huge surge in car use as the city comes out of lockdown and people avoid public transit. So… — PolitiTweet.org

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My editors asked me to look into how this will change us. How will we feel, and cope? How will our behavior change, maybe permanently? I talked to psychologists, siege and epidemic survivors, and folks who study societies in turmoil. Here’s what I found: https://t.co/vqoHEbzQa3 — PolitiTweet.org

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A halt specifically on immigration, rather than on incoming travel generally, makes the underlying intent of this order pretty damn clear — PolitiTweet.org

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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

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@KaiserKuo At least the conspiracies about Bill Gates controlling the WHO line up with the actual funding numbers! — PolitiTweet.org

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There is a big divide on my timeline between people who are familiar with how IGOs operate and people who think the video of Bruce Aylward dodging questions about Taiwan is proof of a vast China-WHO conspiracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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The other big piece of evidence that “China controls the WHO” is that the WHO follows the rules set by its member states, and observed by nearly every IGO, in not recognizing an independent Taiwan. Which is also the US position! — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s become conventional wisdom that China secretly controls the WHO, the evidence for which is that (1) the WHO hasn’t criticized China, which is not really something the WHO does, (2) “funding.” In reality, China is a minor funder, ranked 16th behind Kuwait & Rotary Intl https://t.co/xdYikSKPfw — PolitiTweet.org

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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

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@zackbeauchamp Don't love this habit of flattening political science concepts into binary value judgments. "Failed states" are bad, so anything I consider bad is a failed state, and if you say it's not a failed state that means you think it's good. See also – coup, revolution, populism... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @connorthemiller: this is one of the best tik toks i’ve seen https://t.co/sZuKGXtHQc — PolitiTweet.org

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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

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For those asking: https://t.co/RgDxDjHxmE — PolitiTweet.org

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If not reading the news works best for you, that’s great too. But I thought this might be reassuring news to those of us who pour hours into reading the news and then feel guilty about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I assumed stress-reading the news is emotionally unhealthy. But research from the SARS epidemic found that it made people feel better. At a time when we feel terribly helpless, it gives us a sense of autonomy. And command of the facts helps us overcome feelings of lost control. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kevinroose: Aaaaaand we're live. https://t.co/3rSu6Fud9I — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: How would you feel if you were a retail worker told it’s safe to come back to work, but also all the company’s white coll… — PolitiTweet.org

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

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Not accounting for training costs, the study estimates this would cost $3.6B per year. The Trump admin’s bailout package for airlines, valued at $25B, could fund this for 7 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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A Johns Hopkins / ASTHO study estimates that the US will need to hire & train “at least” 100,000 people as contact tracers, “as a start," to manage the epidemic going forward. Not to stop it, to manage it. https://t.co/yaYVDlVuiA — PolitiTweet.org

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To endure and understand our new normal, what can we learn from societies that have endured prolonged periods of isolation and death? Something about @DipaliM80’s insights from, of all places, wartime Afghanistan, really resonated for me: https://t.co/zIcbkh6rWx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EllenBarryNYT: I wrote about Massachusetts' ambitious plan for contact tracing, which is built around the most old-school of public hea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mikiebarb: On today’s Daily: in the middle of the pandemic, China is expelling reporters from the WSJ, WaPo and NYT. I talked to @paulm… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m in the middle of a project reporting on how societies get through prolonged periods of isolation and trauma. I was so struck by @DipaliM80’s insights from wartime Afghanistan – and found them so helpful myself – that I wanted to share them right away: https://t.co/zIcbkh6rWx — PolitiTweet.org

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Prompted to share a feelgood moment from amid the chaos, Donald McNeil Jr, the NYT’s infection diseases reporter, answered that, now that the nightmare scenarios have all come to pass, "There’s nothing left to warn against.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JessicaMontell: Israel shuts Palestinian Coronavirus testing clinic in Silwan, East Jerusalem because it was set up with PA assistance… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rcallimachi: 1. Last month, I was about to get on a flight to Africa for an ISIS story when our world fell apart. Now I've been asked t… — PolitiTweet.org

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Life would be easier if we could imitate a country whose politics we like, and whose data is flawless. But no such country has confronted a USA-scale outbreak, contained it within one region, and possibly turned it back. https://t.co/etgAAmr0qk — PolitiTweet.org

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This is true. So it's unfortunate, given how consistently right he has been, that people are still refusing to even acknowledge McNeil's equally consistent warning: "if we’re going to get a grip on our epidemic, we have to imitate China, because we’ve got China-like spread." — PolitiTweet.org