@WarriorHockey Love my new G6 set that just came in a bit earlier than anticipated, but feeling a bit cheated that Warrior silently decided to stop including knee pads.
COVID-19: Test yourself before leaving isolation
Multiple studies have shown people on average are still infectious for more than 5 days and is even worse with Omicron ( https://t.co/O9lwKJl68n ). 🧵1/
We grew up in the country. So we had a septic tank. For those of you who don't know, a septic tank is a giant tank in the ground that fills with everything you flush down the toilet. Sometimes it needs to be pumped out, otherwise: trouble. It's just simple, awful physics.
wrote something about the @timnitGebru ordeal having lived through something similar, and why the obvious answer to the question "why is google doing this??" just "because they are dumb" https://t.co/ynbrmiksTf
Back in March, a study on how long the coronavirus lasts on surfaces fueled what one author called “the great fomite freakout.” People scrubbed everything from mail to groceries.
It's time to reassess. Here’s what we now know about surface spread 1/ https://t.co/vHtXMREFxb
Ok we suck at contact tracing. But can someone develop a #COVID risk score that ranks how much your phone has been within 6 ft of others in the last 2 weeks so you can (socially distantly, outside) hang out with friends of similar risk ratings? I’d use that.
Today I learned...
The white man in this photo was Peter Norman from Australia who finished 2nd the 1968 200m final. Norman stood in solidarity with the American Black athletes. It was Norman who suggested, when discovered they only had 1 pair of gloves, to each wear one. (cont)
Andy’s simple theorem.
If you know people who have died from COVID, you are more likely to be concerned about the crisis.
If you know people who have lost their jobs but not their lives, you’re more likely to think it’s overblown.
This is how I, a 45-year-old white woman and mother of 6, currently at her peak Karen power, went from assuming police work was a necessary part of functional communities, to becoming a passionate advocate for #abolishthepolice#defundthepolice, over the course of one week.
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This week has revealed what S. Razack calls Canada's racial "amnesia," the persistent denial of our long history of racism. As an historian, this forgetting is frustrating but not surprising. Here's a thread, using Heritage Minutes, to show how this amnesia is actually learned.
For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)