Let's make this simple: Zoom is malware. https://t.co/xkJDaP4OoK
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) March 31, 2020
via Twitter https://twitter.com/random_walker
March 31, 2020 at 07:29PM
Geologist by education & Curious by nature ... attempting to make this blog my social media hub .... Posts would be mainly about #Space #Science #Sports #Travel #Geology #Geophysics #Beauty ;-)
Let's make this simple: Zoom is malware. https://t.co/xkJDaP4OoK
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) March 31, 2020
This is the BEST BEST BEST thread on whether the #SARSCoV2 is “airborne” or not. Lots of nuances but toward the end, it seems moot — virus can most DEFINITELY TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE / LINGER A LONG TIME in the air. Enough semantics. ➡️ Transmits easily in the air. (Thx @rkhamsi) https://t.co/3yzyZJUquy
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 31, 2020
What will happen to global emissions of methane in 2020 is even more uncertain than for CO2 emissions.
— IEA (@IEA) March 31, 2020
But satellites are now playing a key role in revealing major methane leaks from oil & gas facilities, helping improve transparency.
Our new analysis → https://t.co/AxBoTbRgpO pic.twitter.com/GMzJen3LiB
Amazing. Why should @JM_Scindia and the rest of the organisers not get arrested?https://t.co/eZ5TZwYzAX
— ππ»π²ππͺπΌπ±πΆπ²π½πͺ ππΎπ±πͺ (@priyashmita) March 31, 2020
This is crazy. On 16/3, experts asked to forecast US COVID-19 cases come 29/3.
— Robert Wiblin (@robertwiblin) March 31, 2020
Only 3 of 18 had the right answer anywhere near their 80% confidence interval.
OK, was the outcome (123k) a surprising one? No!
A simple-as-hell exponential growth extrapolation forecast ~130k!
1/2 pic.twitter.com/UAQD2Mt95P
Headlines:
— Samar (@Samar_Anarya) March 31, 2020
40,000 quarantined after (Sikh) priest spreads #coronavirus.
450 Vaishno Devi pilgrims stuck in Jammu.
Family of 24 Stranded in Tirupati.
Delhi govt acts against #NizamuddinMarkaz that put over 500 in danger. #COVID19 is just a symptom, country is far more sicker. pic.twitter.com/e161C87KQY
The 2nd cargo Boeing 747 with 90t of medical protective equipment landed from India to Belgrade today. The transportation of valuable supplies purchased by @SerbianGov has been fully funded by the #EU while @UNDPSerbia organized the flight & ensured the fastest possible delivery. pic.twitter.com/pMZqV7dwTg
— UNDP in Serbia (@UNDPSerbia) March 29, 2020
Interest Rates on Small Savings like PPF, Kisan Vikas Patra, NSC, Senior Citizens Scheme, Monthly Income Scheme cut
— Nagpal Manoj (@NagpalManoj) March 31, 2020
PPF now 7.1% (Cut by 0.8%)
Senior Citizens Scheme: 7.4% (Cut by 1.2%)
Monthly Income Scheme now 6.6% (Cut by 1%)
NSC now 6.8% (Cut by 1.1%) pic.twitter.com/WYqu08TFbW
Buying Vegetables Online.... pic.twitter.com/LgbYLgpeD0
— JosΓ© Covaco (@HoeZaay) March 30, 2020
Awesome resolution from esri dataset... https://t.co/LcUFodN0T7
— Tristan Salles (@salles_tristan) March 31, 2020
In the town near me (Llandudno) the mountain goats have moved further down out of hills and have started wandering around the town more to graze !! pic.twitter.com/m4dlp9Tydn
— π°ππ―ππ₯ (@VampireGhuleh) March 30, 2020
This is RATAN KAHAR, a folk artist from Bengal.
— Rohan Dasgupta (@RohanDasgupta) March 29, 2020
GENDA PHOOL is RATAN KAHAR's song from the 70s & is extremely popular amongst Bengalis.
Sadly he doesn't have the money to sue Badshah who claims that the lyrics/music is by him.
But you have the power to spread the truth. Use it. pic.twitter.com/x4kfFHBSd4
This is how a neuron dies pic.twitter.com/SYVD5SI2S8
— How Things Work (@ThingsWork) March 30, 2020
Here's a seismic section, show me some interpretations #geotwitter! There's a big basin-bounding fault along the left-hand side of the section... pic.twitter.com/RAvRCcvxYM
— Conor O'Sullivan (@cmnosullivan) March 30, 2020
1.1M pounds of propellants burned in about 5 minutes (ignoring the SRMS) is 220,000 lbm/min which corresponds to around 36 adult African Forest Elephants per minute. https://t.co/nlaQZh52hX
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) March 30, 2020
Funny how that workshttps://t.co/aPCMgzzqWI pic.twitter.com/gvOHsYq6vE
— Hipster (@Hipster_Trader) March 30, 2020
Everyone screaming at Physicists to stop analyzing the virus data...
— Shannon Cofield π°πΊ (@MarsRoverMapper) March 30, 2020
> sparked an idea <
Tell me how this formed:
*Non-geologists ONLY reply ⬇️
*Fun answers encouraged
(Not my photo) pic.twitter.com/axrV4cAXwd
Men in arranged marriages cook so much food? Wow, I had no idea. https://t.co/VxBXaKaRjV
— Dr Sulbha KG Arora (@SulbhaArora) March 30, 2020
Articles like these coming out of India scare me.
— Pavitra Roychoudhury (@pavitrarc) March 29, 2020
First, there are only *two* full SARS-CoV-2 genomes from India, both from Kerala. Unless there's additional data that hasn't been published, I'm not sure how one can say anything about the strains circulating locally. 1/ https://t.co/UGNLi9AmBT
Last week was crazy.
— Yano (@JasonYanowitz) March 29, 2020
1. Coronavirus numbers skyrocketed.
2. The U.S. government announced a $6 trillion stimulus package.
3. U.S. jobless claims hit 3.3M (previous record was 695,000).
Here are the best tweets and articles from last week π
WWI trench a century later. pic.twitter.com/P1C64wJCK8
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 29, 2020
fuck it
— Trentin Quarentino (@Devon_OnEarth) March 27, 2020
TOP TEN CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION ANIMALS
Now that the virus is in India, a thread ππΌ on the potential geography of the virus spread based on known migration patterns. No need to panic but some areas need to be even more prepared than others in terms of medical capacity. First map below shows known hotspots. pic.twitter.com/CsVXlIrVln
— Chinmay Tumbe (@ChinmayTumbe) March 29, 2020
PM-CARES is a Public Charitable Trust. The Prime Minister is the Chairman & members include DM, HM & FM.
— Adv. Manoj (@RURALINDIA) March 29, 2020
Stated Objective: dealing with any kind of emergency or distress situation, like posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to provide relief to the affected.
So far so good
NEW: Saturday 28 March update of coronavirus mortality trajectories
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 28, 2020
• UK passes Italy, 2nd only to Spain for deaths at this stage of outbreak π
• US deaths doubling every 3 days, curve keeps steepening
• India tracking US
Live version FREE TO READ: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF pic.twitter.com/At3hz4XmfP
NEW: Friday 27 March update of coronavirus mortality trajectories
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 27, 2020
• UK has more dead at this stage than any country except Spain & Italy ⚠️
• US now clearly more deaths than China or Iran, could soon pass France
• India added
Live version FREE TO READ https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF pic.twitter.com/aT5lZ0601R
JKM prices have dropped by 20% since Monday, highlighting the central role India has been playing in spot buying. With India temporarily sidelined, JKM will test some new lows & begin to push down on the head of TTF once again, as European demand erodes due to virus and weather. https://t.co/YFtib2Vij9
— Ira Joseph (@ira_joseph) March 27, 2020
Petro-fact of the day:
— Dr. Sarah Lambart (@Sarah_Lambart) March 27, 2020
(1) The small black "stains" in the crystal of biotite are called pleochroic haloes. #petrology (1/4) pic.twitter.com/NNRv0Yq88f
Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and me) is one of the models she is talking about.
— Marc Lipsitch (@mlipsitch) March 27, 2020
1/4 - I think it would be helpful if I cleared up some confusion that has emerged in recent days. Some have interpreted my evidence to a UK parliamentary committee as indicating we have substantially revised our assessments of the potential mortality impact of COVID-19.
— neil_ferguson (@neil_ferguson) March 26, 2020
Stunning payload separation footage of the UP Aerospace SL-10 rocket. Credit: UP Aerospace pic.twitter.com/7PZqWzOvqu
— Rocket Rundown (@RocketRundown) March 26, 2020
The Sunflower!
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) March 25, 2020
One of the best photomicrographs I took so far. (the best?)
Looking forward to a #COVID2019-free #Summer2020!
Good Night #StayHome #rocks #geology #minerals #sciart #scicomm #colors pic.twitter.com/xN4nuOe94V
We were curious how HEB managed to be so prepared for the coronavirus so @paulaforbes and I found out: it turns out they started talking with Chinese retailers in January to learn from them, and began wargaming pandemic simulations on Feb 2 https://t.co/VVsiY0asjB
— dan solomon (@dansolomon) March 26, 2020
My corona contribution to #thinsectionthursday. Not a thinnie but I'm sure it'll be fine. From HolsnΓΈy, Bergen Arcs, Norway pic.twitter.com/5EfgYsQjNJ
— Chris Clark (@chrisfpclark) March 26, 2020
There is a bit of a corona theme for #ThinSectionThursday this week it seems. Here are some suitably disheveled olivines. pic.twitter.com/rsTOOdgEfL
— Adam Jeffery (@Agpaitic_Adam) March 26, 2020
Coronavirus knocks less off of anticipated 2024 value than you might otherwise expect.
— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) March 25, 2020
Roughly $6,800 expected value vs $7,200 otherwise.
In many cases the company is management-bandwidth-constrained on scaling so 2024 outcomes are not hyper-sensitive to 2020 softness.
The new Ark model on $TSLA is out. You can't make it up. pic.twitter.com/YZHqm4gcxC
— TeslaCharts (@TESLAcharts) March 25, 2020
“Henry Schein, Inc. announced today the availability of an antibody rapid blood test, .. intended to be administered at the point of care. The test delivers results within 15 minutes from a pinprick with no instrumentation required.”$HSIC https://t.co/9PCZJjKkoI
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 26, 2020
“ .. ‘it just sat as a document that people worked on that was thrown onto a shelf,” said one former U.S. official, who served in both the Obama and Trump administrations. ‘It’s hard to tell how much senior leaders at agencies were even aware that this existed.’’ https://t.co/HPcuFgHVvi
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 26, 2020
The Obama administration prepared a "pandemic playbook" that drew from its experience in dealing with Ebola, including the need for the federal govt to coordinate essential protective equipment.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 26, 2020
The Trump administration ignored it. https://t.co/KsbC9jLiMb pic.twitter.com/rtahZzVADc
omg our favourite family have returned to bbc world news pic.twitter.com/lP7vIqD37V
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) March 26, 2020
ACKMAN CLOSED OUT SHORTS ON 3/23 NETTING $2.6 BILLION FROM $27 MILLION. HIS CNBC INTERVIEW WAS ON 3/18 WHERE HE STATED HE WAS LONG AMERICA AND BULLISH. FULL INTERVIEW https://t.co/HITE13xwKk pic.twitter.com/1U5rQpNOCt
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) March 26, 2020
Model-driven meanders on a tributary of the Kolyma River, Siberia (source: Apple Maps) pic.twitter.com/nk6PtlggeM
— ZoltΓ‘n Sylvester (@zzsylvester) March 25, 2020
Debris flow off the Illgraben; 3-mile long river in Swiss Alps. This happens 3-5 times a year! They occur so often the @WSL_research center was created to study the mudflows!https://t.co/j9WQMARBDy#EarthScience #geology #physics #weather #physics pic.twitter.com/jY6I2cPEPm
— NESTA-USπ (@NESTA_US) March 25, 2020
Really, that Draghi op-ed is pretty amazing.
— Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) March 25, 2020
(shame he's not actually a policymaker anymore)https://t.co/8FpZ0MpnNa pic.twitter.com/cq1g7RNN0X
Thanks everybody for their entries and nominations.....but there’s one clear winner of the internet today.....round of applause please people...#WINternet pic.twitter.com/ToNA7bitpQ
— David Wiseman (@wiseshow) March 24, 2020
π¨BREAKINGπ¨
— Stephen Stapczynski (@SStapczynski) March 25, 2020
Three Indian #LNG buyers have declared force majeure on prompt deliveries due to the coronavirus outbreak. A nationwide lockdown is restricting consumption and cutting manpower at ports
This comes after a similar move by Chinese importers
Got this message from a lawyer friend:
— Sreenivasan Jain (@SreenivasanJain) March 25, 2020
K.K.Venugopal the Attorney General has built up a robust antiquarian books collection, dating from the 17th century. He has digitally scanned the whole lot and it's available for public access.https://t.co/BuDQj2BuKQ
NY Post, 3/19: !!! THIS FISH TANK CLEANER COULD TREAT CORONAVIRUS!
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 25, 2020
NY Post, 3/24: Who could have ever guessed that someone would ingest fish tank cleaner?? pic.twitter.com/1YcbCAHUFw
Test. Test. Test. Scale is not possible with RT PCR in India unless Govt pays. Keep it for cities and for rich. Rural India needs millions to be tested. #CSRfunds can help. #ItIsNotTooLate. #JustThinkingLoud.
— Velumani A (@velumania) March 25, 2020
RT if it makes sense. pic.twitter.com/UN1XNK0lnd
THOUSANDS have collected at shelter homes where Delhi govt has directed cooked food be provided. Overcrowded, overwhelmed- shelters don’t have adequate ration & infrastructure. Govt needs to ensure cooked food distribution at all anganwadis & govt schools also #21daylockdown pic.twitter.com/R0jUM6TreX
— Anjali Bhardwaj (@AnjaliB_) March 25, 2020
Thousands of students & employees gather at police stations in #Hyderabad to get permission to leave Telangana & travel to #AndhraPradesh. This after their hostels asked them to vacate or refused to serve food because of the lockdown. No social distancing followed. #COVID2019 pic.twitter.com/WncoEQLEg0
— Paul Oommen (@Paul_Oommen) March 25, 2020
I am getting a lot of Qs on this - Extension of date for completing your tax savings for this year FY-1920 from 31st March 2020 to 30th June 2020
— Nagpal Manoj (@NagpalManoj) March 25, 2020
I will try to answer all the questions in this thread. Pls feel free to ask me anything on this and I will try to answer
(1/n) https://t.co/SvKZgIKwUj
On an elliptical pool table (with a pocket at one of the foci), you literally can't miss when shooting from the other focus pic.twitter.com/xbfP2EtStK
— 〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) March 24, 2020
The New York Times just released stunning photos of the quarantined world.
— Yano (@JasonYanowitz) March 23, 2020
They're too beautiful to remain behind a paywall.
Enjoy :)
This famous chart from 1973 was a favourite of Steven Jobs. A person on a #bicycle moves more efficient than animals, fighter jets or locomotives. Source: https://t.co/ip72SbMvLB pic.twitter.com/lJwOVnRkSH
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) March 24, 2020
I can’t overstate this:
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 23, 2020
Lombardia, Madrid & New York all on worse trajectories than Wuhan. London may be but we don’t have the data.
Wuhan remained locked down for two months.
Huge Western cities could stay locked down for months because they acted too slowly. https://t.co/KG5r7SJz77
Naaa. No IPL this!
— RandomCricketPhotos&Videos (@RandomCricketP1) March 24, 2020
Just some random domestic cricket Gold as @robelinda2 would call it. Enjoy MSD going after Virender Sehwag. Even employing a reverse sweep against the gentle off-spin apart from hammering two powerful shots down the ground! pic.twitter.com/D9y8fvgRky
Reliance Industries Ltd has set up India's first dedicated COVID-19 hospital with 100-bed capacity in a short span of just two weeks. Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with BMC has set up the COVID-19 facility at Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai pic.twitter.com/sYLceD83Ly
— Tushar Pania (@TusharPania) March 23, 2020
Gangs in the Rio de Janeiro favelas have enforced a lockdown from 8pm tonight. The statement reads: "If the government won't do the right thing, organised crime will" pic.twitter.com/dK0wtAR3KA
— Andrew Cesare (@AndrewCesare) March 23, 2020
Opening this Jurassic stone. pic.twitter.com/EP67aJUGZq
— Naturism.Comππ (@NaturismC) March 23, 2020
Angular & incising #meanders from the Tarim Basin, China (source: Apple Maps) pic.twitter.com/qjgTOiZjcz
— ZoltΓ‘n Sylvester (@zzsylvester) March 24, 2020
Almost exactly seven years ago, comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) passed through the field of view of our @USNRL HI-1 camera on @NASASun STEREO, giving us this stunning view of its striated dust tail. In May this year, comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) will pass through this camera too! pic.twitter.com/dbPoIKty6K
— Karl Battams (@SungrazerComets) March 23, 2020
Chinese diplomats going full Russian - spread multiple, conflicting conspiracy theories, not to convince people of an explanation but to create the idea that it’s impossible to know the truth. First time I’ve seen CCP pursue that approach, and a ominous sign of where it might go. https://t.co/9AelzXxcl9
— Laura Rosenberger (@rosenbergerlm) March 22, 2020
Reliance announces further steps up its support to India’s fight against #Coronavirus #CoronaHaaregaIndiaJeetega @flameoftruth pic.twitter.com/npQTSx5Rtn
— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18Live) March 23, 2020
#Soyuz Spacecraft arriving & docking to the @Space_Station .When the Soyuz is taking a crew to the ISS, the spacecraft can take 6 hours to catch up with the ISS as it orbits Earth. Docking to the ISS is automated. This means the crew doesn't have to steer Soyuz to the station. pic.twitter.com/cG3emw8cqj
— Jenna-Halley (@jhbspacex) March 22, 2020
We have won the World Corona Cup. (Indore) pic.twitter.com/iITdZIVzhY
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) March 22, 2020
I mean seriously????????? pic.twitter.com/vyyromfi0h
— Ronit Bose Roy (@RonitBoseRoy) March 22, 2020
Streaming platforms during quarantine pic.twitter.com/F2TtAIjOWE
— Keats𧬠(@keatsdidit) March 21, 2020
Explain to me why we should spent taxpayer money to bailout companies (airlines) who spent their cash buying their own stock so the CEO gets optionality, instead of having a crisis buffer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 22, 2020
We should bail out individuals based on needs, not corporations.#Moralhazard
NEW: Saturday 21 March update of our coronavirus mortality trajectories tracker
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 21, 2020
• Today we add annotations showing when each country locked down
• UK & US already have more deaths than when China, Spain, France & others locked down
Live version here: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF pic.twitter.com/Nie5jBSX24
Left Bangalore last night and just landed in Shanghai today afternoon. I am surprised by how Pudong Airport and this metro city has been running, under the #COVIDγΌ19 challenge. Here are some of my observations:
— Hanson Hu (θ‘ζ΅·ε·) (@hanson_hhc) March 21, 2020
Key words: Color card, QR code, Self-protection.
(Thread) pic.twitter.com/Iz96tuqAkC
1/n The Chinese experience with COVID has handed the world a DOUBLE whammy. A thread:
— Haresh Chawla (@hchawlah) March 21, 2020
Wheels of Potential pic.twitter.com/ee9C25Jjch
— Pak (@muratpak) March 21, 2020
The world gets Japanized. Fed has ramped up balance sheet to 21.5% of US GDP. Will probably soon pass the 50% mark. pic.twitter.com/pguNKYI3zA
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 21, 2020
Exactly one month ago Italy found its first case of #coronavirus. I’ll tell you what happened in only one month. I hope you can learn from our mistakes.
— Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) March 20, 2020
Can I offer you a nice Arctic delta in this trying time pic.twitter.com/U9Fua84PV0
— Allison Cully (@AllisonCully) March 20, 2020
On a related note, I nearly accidentally sent this @swear_trek gif on the work slack pic.twitter.com/Pwrl4TV9I5
— Andrew Coleman Francis (@AndrewCFrancis) March 20, 2020
You can spot the exact moment he died inside pic.twitter.com/griTrntI5s
— marv (@mrvndn) March 20, 2020
Germany and UK COVID-19 response compared:
— Michael Walker πΉ (@michaeljswalker) March 20, 2020
Ventilators
π©πͺ: 25k, with 10k on order
π¬π§: 5k, plus a Twitter shout-out
Tests per week
π©πͺ: 160k
π¬π§: 35k
Social distancing
π©πͺ: Social venues closed
π¬π§: ‘Advice’ to socially distance
Deaths
π©πͺ: 48
π¬π§: 144
Goldman Sachs growth forecast last week:
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) March 20, 2020
Q1: 0%
Q2: -5%
Goldman Sachs growth forecast this week:
Q1: -6%
Q2: -24%
Yikes.
Corporate America:
— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 20, 2020
2009-2019: Cheapest money cycle in history
2017: Biggest corporate tax cut in history
2018: Record corporate profits
2019: Flat earnings growth
March 2020: Government bailouts please.
I’m a virologist & investor... & I’m hearing people say it’s impossible to make covid vaccine b/c we haven’t been able to make one to any coronaviruses. Not true. We have veterinary vaccines for dog & cow strains. Human one’s not been investment worthy, until now. here’s why...
— Peter Kolchinsky (@PeterKolchinsky) March 19, 2020
And why are people so excited about a one day curfew that lasts less than 24 hours? How does a one day curfew that too on a Sunday make a difference in curbing #Covid19 spread in India. But it's good PR. Doesn't take much to get Indians excited about their government.
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) March 20, 2020
Let’s talk about what happens if you get COVID19 and recover. Are you immune to the disease? How long does the immunity last? And what does that mean for your life and for the public health and economy of our society? 1/
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) March 19, 2020
The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring. Amazing that a bunch of these things, working collaboratively, can figure out how to scan themselves like this. https://t.co/UVGeVmB2E2 pic.twitter.com/24t55x1UTR
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) March 19, 2020
Correct technique to wash your hands for proper disinfection. #CoronavirusOutbreakindia #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVID #CoronaVirusUpdate pic.twitter.com/1WeDwlCaF6
— Harjinder Singh Kukreja (@SinghLions) March 19, 2020
MUST READ OP-ED: “Texas could cut production by 10%, and if Saudi Arabia is willing to cut production by 10% from its pre-pandemic levels and Russia is willing to do the same,” says @txrrc commissioner @RyanSitton | #OOTT https://t.co/NmEJvtGstp
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) March 20, 2020
This is a confluence of the 1918 Flu Epidemic, Stock Crash of 1929, flooded oil markets of the mid-1980s that kicked off the S&L crisis & the travel ban after 9/11 combined w/ the incompetence & corruption of the Harding Administration & the paranoia of the Nixon Administration. https://t.co/Dmw90BGayS
— Michael E. Webber (@MichaelEWebber) March 20, 2020
WOW.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 19, 2020
Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle coronavirus, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold off between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.https://t.co/EljL6kpJCS
Why does oblique convergence produce two faults instead of one? Open access paper with @hey_blond and Hatch on the onset of slip partitioning in oblique convergence has embedded animations of the experiments (like this one). https://t.co/yFGIfH3SDX pic.twitter.com/7t5VQ52Fef
— Michele Cooke (@geomechCooke) March 19, 2020
I strongly suggest no government bailouts whatsoever. Stop back stopping greed and mismanagement.
— Jeffrey Gundlach (@TruthGundlach) March 20, 2020
Movie theater operators are asking for a government bailout?! Seriously!?!? Next equity ETF owners will ask the government to buy them out at February 19th prices.
— Jeffrey Gundlach (@TruthGundlach) March 19, 2020
Chin up, everybody. This will work. However irksome it is for us, it's much worse for the virus. Picture the little bugger with its nose against the window, whining.
— Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) March 19, 2020
Wow... Earth is recovering
— Tom (@ThomasSchuIz) March 17, 2020
- Air pollution is slowing down
- Water pollution is clearing up
- Natural wildlife returning home
Coronavirus is Earth’s vaccine
We’re the virus
While humans carry out social distancing, a group of 14 elephants broke into a village in Yunan province, looking for corn and other food. They ended up drinking 30kg of corn wine and got so drunk that they fell asleep in a nearby tea garden. π pic.twitter.com/ykTCCLLCJu
— Corono she better don’t (@Spilling_The_T) March 18, 2020
Even faced with the apocalypse nobody wants to eat brussel sprouts pic.twitter.com/b72zFIfH1I
— Γine O'Brien (@aineclareob) March 18, 2020
A VFX producer friend of a friend was hired in November to finish some of the 400 effects shots in @catsmovie. His entire job was to remove CGI buttholes that had been inserted a few months before. Which means that, somewhere out there, there exists a butthole cut of Cats
— Jack Waz (@jackwaz) March 18, 2020
1/n I hope this thread DOES NOT age well.
— Haresh Chawla (@hchawlah) March 19, 2020
I hope we discover most Indians are immune to Covid19. Our healthcare/testing infrastructure does not collapse and this crisis blows over in weeks.
Life goes back to normal - kids go to school and spouses to work.
However..
While humans carry out social distancing, a group of 14 elephants broke into a village in Yunan province, looking for corn and other food. They ended up drinking 30kg of corn wine and got so drunk that they fell asleep in a nearby tea garden. π❤️https://t.co/Xm1Mou497o pic.twitter.com/lmByfcD1sg
— Liquid Faerie π΅πΉπͺπΊπ¦π·π¦πͺπΊπ΅πΉ (@LiquidFaerie) March 18, 2020
I've lost my mind.
— Dana Jay Bein (#DJB) (@danajaybein) March 18, 2020
I wrote Coronavirus Rhapsody:
Is this a sore throat?
Is this just allergies?
Caught in a lockdown
No escape from reality.
https://t.co/uAsrB2DF9k pic.twitter.com/O2tmh9CwQ4
— Barry Rubin (@barubin) March 18, 2020
Meanwhile few #elephants decided to use alcohol to sanitize trunks in Wunnan, China. They were raiding crops somehow found wine. And the look after drinking too much. As a fact elephants are fond of alcohol, they are good at finding that also, especially Handiya in tribal belts. pic.twitter.com/K77fYuiFqr
— Parveen Kaswan (@ParveenKaswan) March 18, 2020
Cambridge University Press has just made all 700 textbooks currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core free to access until the end of May to assist readers during the Covid-19 outbreak. This also includes 58 textbooks in Language and Linguistics. https://t.co/TFhUaANkXE
— Michelle Sheehan (@MiShee54) March 17, 2020
What a damning indictment of Fox News from the Post video team here. pic.twitter.com/r8Fz8vo5KV
— andrew kaczynskiπ€ (@KFILE) March 18, 2020
We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong.https://t.co/AwE2cHIbeJ
— Jeremy C. Young (@jeremycyoung) March 17, 2020
John Snow knew somethingπ His mapping of clusters of cholera cases in the Soho, London epidemic narrowed the source to the Broad Street water pump and helped to save lives. https://t.co/eMYqFFbQj6
— Vicky Veritas (@morganssong) March 17, 2020
Asked about why India is not testing more, top ICMR official comes up with odd response: more tests may throw up more positive cases, which we may not be able to.. manage?
— Sreenivasan Jain (@SreenivasanJain) March 17, 2020
π€ @OnReality_Check https://t.co/2HbVuaBzaO
So I’m hearing many myths about #COVID-19 and would like to quickly clear the record.
— Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) March 17, 2020
Coronavirus will go away in Sumer months.
Wrong. Previous pandemics didn’t follow weather patterns plus as we enter summer, there will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Virus is global.
Post retirement appointments a scar on independence of judiciary: CJI Ranjan Gogoi in March 2019.
— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) March 16, 2020
Nominated Rajya Sabha member Ranjan Gogoi in March 2020 !
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Two video thread
— RandomCricketPhotos&Videos (@RandomCricketP1) March 17, 2020
Context - In 2005, the teenage leggie had burst onto the scene by dismissing Sachin with a googly. Next year this happened when he was introduced into the attack in this Challenger Trophy fixture. pic.twitter.com/AP2qFUGXIM
BREAKING: A week before Inauguration Day 2017, Trump team participated in a tabletop exercise with outgoing Obama team about preparing for a "major domestic incident"
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 16, 2020
One incident discussed was a pandemic. I participated in that exercise.
THREAD 1/6 https://t.co/dsiauylaoe
25 semi-circular slices whose rotation frequencies are equal to their radii pic.twitter.com/e8DJ67xMaT
— 〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) March 16, 2020
Last night Corona led me down a YouTube rabbit hole and I ended up watching a video of an Australian cheese maker making parmesan. He starts his videos by saying "g'day curd nerds" and all the comments are Italians telling him to go fuck himself
— Joe (@josephcorcoran) March 16, 2020
And how amazing is this?! π€© Basaltic lava bomb in pyroclastic ash layers at Tower Hill, a large Pleistocene complex #maar in the Western District Volcanic Province #Victoria #geology @SciMelb pic.twitter.com/rUGj5LFIJm
— Sandra McLaren (@sandramcgeo) March 16, 2020
Check out this INCREDIBLE composite image of the #Moon, put together by @AJamesMcCarthy and Connor Matherne:
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) March 16, 2020
The darker plains are the lunar maria—vast, now-solidified basaltic lava flows—and the lighter, cratered terrain is the plagioclase flotation crust.
This is gorgeous π pic.twitter.com/WHqjGbwJE5
One key learning from 2008 crisis is that good companies came out stronger at the end of it.
— Abhishek Murarka ππΉ (@abhymurarka) March 16, 2020
With this objective, have compiled financial and market data of 62 market leaders (>30% market share in resp. industries) for analysis. Sharing in thread.
Part 1 - Auto+anc. & alcohol pic.twitter.com/kHKOd1vTEb
Via @reuters: "Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the U.S., prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine."https://t.co/h1rgaNGn9b
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) March 15, 2020
India always evacuates its citizens
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) March 15, 2020
πΈGulf War
Kuwait 1991 : 110,000+
πΈOperation Sukoon
Lebanon 2006 : 2,300
πΈOperation Home Coming
Libya 2011 : 15,000
πΈOperation Raahat
Yemen 2015 : 4,650
πΈCorona
Worldwide 2020 : 1,400
This is every PM's duty. PR for it is disgusting.
NYC, like many cities, compiles flu data from all ERs to help track flu season. Below are patients presenting for Influenza Like Illness (ILI) over the past 6 months. Notice flu season peaks and then recedes.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 15, 2020
Then right at March 1, it begins to shoot back up dramatically. pic.twitter.com/jTfVdjsF09
South Korea was doing a fantastic job of controlling #COVIDγΌ19 for the first 30 patients. Then #Patient31 came along, did not adhere to social distancing and caused 2 clusters that were responsible for 80% of South Korea's infections. Don't be #Patient31. https://t.co/7e3a1h28eJ
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 15, 2020
What would you do with no sporting action for such a long time?
— RandomCricketPhotos&Videos (@RandomCricketP1) March 15, 2020
Well.. pic.twitter.com/nSdccBvmZi
If you have a few minutes, may I please ask you to read this (link below)?
— Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) March 15, 2020
This is only the second time since I've been tweeting that I make such an ask...and do so because,by being informed about what's ahead, we stand a better chance of responding betterhttps://t.co/2ahDZ9NVK7 pic.twitter.com/PHRlmyB9Q0
Ride the waves on a dirtbikeπ₯π️π₯#saturdaymotivation #saturdayvibes pic.twitter.com/uPYCjGxEmR
— Paula Piccard π΅π· πΊπΈ (@Paula_Piccard) March 14, 2020
Yes Bank total capital down from 16.3% of RWA in Sep19, to 4.1% in Dec19. Tier I down from 8.7% to 0.6%. Yes Bank may be an extreme case, but this is exactly what trust deficit is about. This goes beyond Yes - we need a way to address trust deficit across banks/ NBFCs/ HFCs. https://t.co/JHIeT1bquM
— Ananth Narayan (@ananthng) March 15, 2020
Another example of meanders with permafrost polygons, in the delta of the Indigirka River. Image ~6 km across (source: Apple Maps) pic.twitter.com/9dPeLf0XbC
— ZoltΓ‘n Sylvester (@zzsylvester) March 14, 2020
Small things that make one believe things will normalize https://t.co/iSAJYU5HTw
— Safir (@safiranand) March 14, 2020
New Shareholding Structure of YES Bank
— Nagpal Manoj (@NagpalManoj) March 14, 2020
After the reconstruction scheme is implemented
Existing Shareholders reduced to 20.3% of new Shareholding pic.twitter.com/ubss64R4wT
My Q: You said you don’t take responsibility for slow response to coronavirus but your administration disbanded the White House office on pandemics?
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 13, 2020
President Trump: “That’s a nasty question...When you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people [in the administration].”
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— π©π»⚕️Hi, I’m Dr Chen and older than I look (@Chenbariatrics1) March 13, 2020
March 10,2020
“This is from a front-line ICU physician in a Seattle hospital
This is his personal account:
* we have 21 pts and 11 deaths since 2/28.
* we are seeing pts who are young (20s), fit, no comorbidities, critically ill. It does happen.
π£Fake news:
— Hannah Nam MD (@HannahNamMD) March 13, 2020
This was sent to me by a friend asking if it was accurate, in the midst of a day that felt like we were scurrying around, nailing our windows, bracing for a hurricane.
Almost all of the information in it is false. But the top two offenders. [1] pic.twitter.com/O2Rk9AUjmd
2009 video of Nifty, Sensex hitting the upper circuit. pic.twitter.com/oomzLrUEp6
— Rajiv Mehta (@rajivmehta19) March 13, 2020
In global disaster movies, there’s always a scientist who’s like, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW OR PEOPLE WILL DIE and some government guy who’s like, YOU’RE BLOWING THIS OUT OF PROPORTION and I’m like, NO ONE WOULD REACT TO INFO LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE.
— DL (@davelozo) March 12, 2020
My apologies to those movies.
Omg this @anitakumar01 story. Jared Kushner asked model Karlie Kloss’ dad (his brother’s father in law) for suggestions to fight coronavirus, so he turned to a Facebook group for ER doctors—telling them he had a “direct channel” to the WH. https://t.co/Vy4mWE1C3h
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 13, 2020
Schools close, Tom Hanks, trouble in the big banks, no vaccine, quarantine, no more toilet paper seen.
— The Caffeinated Therapist (@bellabee13) March 12, 2020
Travel ban, Weinstein, panic COVID-19, NBA, gone away, what else do I have to sayyyyyy https://t.co/N86qx9wZxq
Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020
The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw
These notes from a UCSF panel are the single best document I’ve seen about what experts believe is likely to happen this year.
— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) March 13, 2020
I don’t want to tweet snippets because you should read it in full. https://t.co/yjlOXML2WQ
If six months from now people say "we overreacted it wasn't as bad as people on twitter said it was going to be" then we will know we were successful.
— Alex Tabarrok (@ATabarrok) March 12, 2020
BREAKING: The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.
— Gillian Turner (@GillianHTurner) March 12, 2020
Before TrumpWorld tries to memory-hole this... a Thread -->
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 12, 2020
January 22:
Trump: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2:
Trump: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
Preparedness is essential. Perhaps coincidentally and fortuitously SK had run a Table Top Exercise for the potential large-scale novel coronavirus outbreak in December 2019 and had established an organized system to expand testing capability. /5 pic.twitter.com/Y3pbqZyZHw
— Hannah Nam MD (@HannahNamMD) March 11, 2020