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Yep. It’s not about mortality rates for children. It’s about infection spread.

Close the schools.
Think you're immune? Take a look at this case. Someone in their 30s with no history of travel or underlying medical conditions. Now in critical condition with the coronavirus.

It can happen to you.

bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news…
As someone with an underlying medical condition, I need to limit my exposure. But I can’t as long as schools stay open and my husband is required to go to work.

We need to start taking this seriously, people.
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Kaz Weida
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This #SundayMorning we're asking why the President, who swore an oath to defend & protect Americans, is using government resources to wage war & intimidate his own people.

Shouldn't these resources be deployed to assist with COVID-19 instead?
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nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/…
(2) COVID-19 is a public health emergency & it requires all hands on deck in every government agency. Instead, Trump is funneling precious resources into a racist immigration agenda.

Just 3 days ago 500 more ICE agents were deployed to sanctuary cities.

yahoo.com/news/m/e545e75…
(3) It's not just boots on the ground that are being squandered. It's funding. The Trump administration continues to raid the coffers of the Pentagon.

These funds are allocated to support the very folks we'll need during an emergency- the National Guard.

npr.org/2020/02/13/805…
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Kaz Weida
@kazweida
Coronavirus testing by the numbers...

South Korea: 68,000
Italy: 9,462
UK: 7,132
Japan: 5,450
US: 445

Most states are reporting they do not have the coronavirus test kits on hand.

@HHSGov needs to explain this discrepancy to the American people. Why are we so far behind?
This sums up the scope of the problem.
When we look to hold folks accountable, we should start here. With @realDonaldTrump @SecAzar and @HHSGov horrific missteps throughout this process.

This administration’s failure to act will cost lives.

propublica.org/article/cdc-co…
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Kaz Weida
@kazweida
The drama in the democratic primary has me thinking & I want to share the story of my political evolution with you.

I don’t know if it’ll be helpful as we try to avoid divisions incited by a foreign entity but it’s worth a shot.

In 2000, I cast my vote for GW Bush.
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(2) Those of you who know me probably gasped at that but it’s true. It was the first time I ever voted and what I knew about politics at that time could fit into a thimble.

GW had a folksy appeal. I had read a profile that painted him as a maverick of sorts.
(3) I was quite young (late 20s) & came from a religious, conservative background. I’d struggled with extreme poverty as a teacher and all I knew was not matter what I did, I couldn’t get ahead

The system was broken & GW seemed like a political outsider who could shake things up
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Norlaine Thomas
@Norlaine
Something a lot of people may not know about me is I am really, really into genealogy. So, last week I was tracing one branch of the family and I noticed something that seemed odd. 1/15 #cdnhealth #epidemics #medicine #History
Adult siblings and cousins were losing family members over a certain time period. One fellow lost his wife and their three children over the winter of 1848/49. Then another in this family lost two children, same time frame. 2/15
Now, when you see the deaths of a mother and infant, you are liable to assume it was complications of childbirth. Infant and maternal mortality rates were much higher back then. But then you see the 3 y/o, 5 y/o, and 7 y/o also died.... It had to be something else. 3/15
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Lukas Engelmann
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We really need to talk about #history, dear Data-will-safe-the-future-folks.

This is a ridiculous take and stunningly disconnected from all the brilliant debates on history of data-science / history of #bigdata in the last years. #histstm

theguardian.com/technology/201…
There was this in 2017, a great Osiris issue on #Datahistories, asking about the histories of data and data-sets and reminding everyone to have a second look at the question, if big data is the answer. journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/201…
Or one could look at this issue in HSNS, where de Chadarevian & Porter ( and all other authors) where doing an excellent job of 'scrutinizing the data world' hsns.ucpress.edu/content/48/5
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Ayman Hossam Fadel
@aymanfadel
I sometimes feel @georgialibs don't get enough high quality, academic press #history & #sociology books. Using the GA Pines automated system, people who are members of participating libraries can get a number of very good books which have recently come to my attention.
"The oldest living things in the world" by Rachel Sussman gapines.org/eg/opac/record…. This photo essay book is a beautiful, mind-expanding paean to our biosphere. (I realize this is a #science #ecology book)
"Talking to my daughter about the economy, or, how capitalism works-- and how it fails" by Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis gapines.org/eg/opac/record…
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John Bull
@garius
Okay. History time!

You've probably seen photos of Commonwealth war cemeteries, with rows of white graves. They're heartbreaking images.

What you DON'T see are the thousands of small, tragic stories on each gravestone.

So I'm going to share some with you here. /1 #history #WW1
These stories exist because although every stone is similar, family members were able to pay to have a small, custom inscription made on each stone.

Which is why on Pvt J Low's grave you'll find this desperately sad inscription:

"Until we meet again. Mother." /2
Of course, the ABSENCE of anything is even sadder. Too often you'll see the nine saddest words in the English language:

"A soldier of the Great War. Known only unto God"

Those words appear when we know a body is there but not who. It was Rudyard Kipling who came up with them /3
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Craig Wallace
@CraigWtweets
Just for a bit of balance when I was trying to get out of special ‘schooling’ in the 1980s none of the local public schools in Campbelltown NSW would take me. Only a local Marist school was accessible & made the effort #schools #education
The principal of one public school looked at me, snorted and said ‘well what are we going to do with this little problem hey?’
The second public school said I’d have to skip maths & science classes and do them in a corridor or the library
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Vikas, Artash, & Arushi/ @RealScientists
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Let's talk a little about #history, #language, and #languagechange. Many of the world's languages evolved from historical #protolanguages and have sister and cousin languages in their family, similar to how animals are classified.
For example, #English is a #WestGermanic language within the #IndoEuropean family.

Meanwhile, languages like #Basque are #isolates, meaning they have no known language relatives. There are some fringe theories about Basque, but none that are widely-accepted.
Take a look at your #language or languages you like on ethnologue.com. Comment below on any surprising facts you find or any questions that come up!
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