McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

I got go go on @TheAtlantic's great Social Distance podcast to talk about Mormon food storage, the politicization of public health, and parenting during a pandemic. Give it a listen on your commute from your bedroom to your kitchen! https://t.co/MPTZ0WgDGK — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Man... https://t.co/bztgmAheWA — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@cwarzel I'm assuming this was the logic behind Virginia making its stay-at-home order go until mid-June (though it was not fun news to process yesterday!) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DBelardoMD: This is chilling. A nurse on the front lines in Chicago tried to wear her own N95 to work while caring for COVID pts (when… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "The Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth referred to social distancers as 'sissies' and 'pansies' who have been 'n… — PolitiTweet.org

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(Voluntary homeschooling is a great choice for some families! That’s not what the article that set him off is about.) — PolitiTweet.org

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“public/leftist indoctrination school kid” https://t.co/IR75Wiibm9 — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

See, for example, this very good story by @rosiegray and @carolineha_ https://t.co/OQkUbekTwR — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm really fascinated by the civil liberties issues being raised by the coronavirus response, and think we'll be debating them for a long time. — PolitiTweet.org

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“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our sailors.” https://t.co/AQOWou4tZo — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @yayitsrob: NEW: Oscar Health—a health-insurance firm closely connected to Jared Kushner—developed a website for the government’s corona… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamHSays: https://t.co/xIZoaBeHR4 https://t.co/lR6vyBP05J — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @elainejgodfrey: With Sanders all but defeated and Biden a near lock for the Democratic presidential nomination, the American left shoul… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbillinson this is deeply bizarre — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnGHendy: Love this @davidlsims yarn as westerns-as-medicine right now. I coincidentally just started Deadwood: https://t.co/stmWxUbw… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tunkuv Nope, not that either. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"When the pandemic subsides, I suspect that we will have to discard simple dichotomies. The major dividing line in effective crisis response will not place autocracies on one side and democracies on the other," @FukuyamaFrancis writes: https://t.co/TVM9cWxxKX — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn't meant to cause anxiety. It's just to say that things are already much worse than many/most of us assumed possible a few weeks ago. Worth keeping that in mind as we move forward. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hundreds of people dying in a day, makeshift hospital tents popping up in Central Park, bodies being loaded into refrigerated trucks, a Navy hospital ship pulling into the harbor—four weeks ago, this would have been dismissed as a wildly alarmist view of the coronavirus in NY. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EmilyYoffe: Our broken world: In 2007 a young man was given a near 30 year sentence for possession of crack. At 49, he became the first… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillGates: One of the questions I am most often asked about the #COVID19 pandemic is how, and when, it will end. This article by @edyon… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jimgeraghty: The coronavirus is spreading far from the international travel hubs and urban centers. North Dakota’s latest numbers are 1… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: With movie theaters around the world closed or empty due to the ongoing pandemic, drive-in theaters appear to be having a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@drvox I say that in the piece! — PolitiTweet.org

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@aedwardslevy But the way they're thinking/talking about it shapes day-to-day interactions (as I tried to illustrate). Anyway, I do agree there's a risk of overstating/exacerbating the divide. I think this is a niche thing now that could get more common, but it will depend on lots of variables — PolitiTweet.org

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@aedwardslevy Probably. The people I talked to for the story were more rank-and-file folks, but I think there's also a lot of texture polling can't quite capture. Most would probably say their lives *have* changed somewhat—in part b/c they have no choice. Everything is closed! — PolitiTweet.org

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@aedwardslevy You should have tagged me in this! I tried to make sure the story didn't suggest this is cleanly polarized along party lines, and I hope the trend is moving in the direction you seem to think it will. But I also think it's worth identifying this dynamic now as it's forming. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmackau @EricMGarcia @nytimes hmmm ok will give it a try — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmackau @EricMGarcia @nytimes I am trying to imagine this being good. I really *want* it to be good. But it does not sound good. — PolitiTweet.org

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@toddlilly The links are in the story, which it seems like you didn't read. I'll let you do a quick google search for the other data you're interested in. Have a good one, and stay safe! — PolitiTweet.org