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Just heard the final edit of the next @BHumanPodcast - an interview with @adamgopnik on liberalism in the age of Corona virus. It's a really good one. Coming Monday or you can get earlier if you sign up to patreon.com/betterhuman
I am still planning the Corona virus and human rights special - hoping to record next week and get it out quickly. Will be exploring the potential human rights issues arising from government responses to the pandemic
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Adam Wagner
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This is a thread on human rights and the Coronavirus.

It will be a mixture of discussion, ideas and links and I will try to keep adding to it as things progress (THREAD)
I have been thinking about how human rights values and laws can help us traverse the next few months of deep crisis - across the planet.

We could 'suspend' or ignore human rights as a 'peace time nicety' as has happened in the past.

But to do so would be a huge error /1
As a preliminary, it is really, really important to understand that looking at the potential response to Coronavirus through a human rights lens does not generate any easy answers. I’m not going to offer any. /2
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Adam Wagner
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This was very good and any barrister listening will enjoy the discussion of the utility or otherwise of attaching percentage chances to potential outcomes. Are you a barrister superforcaster?
I have reasonable (55%) prospects of being a barrister superforecaster
I found the bit about having 'red' and 'blue' teams in organisations - which means optimistic (or similar) and skeptical respectively I think - to balance each other out, was fascinating as legal teams maybe should be set up like this too
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Adam Wagner
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I think I remember reading somewhere that Trump is obsessed with germs and washing his hands. Is this correct?
Relatedly I remember reading somewhere that Hitler was also obsessed by germs and infections and this explains some of the metaphors he used (“extermination” etc). Am I making all this up?
I do think I read it when he was elected not during wee-gate
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Adam Rieth, Esq.
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In Florida, insurance companies pushed a law into effect that states if you do not get medical treatment in the first 14 days after a car crash your benefits are reduced to almost nothing. I have clients scared to go to medical providers due to the Corona virus.
So my clients will suffer in silence without getting the treatment they need. Then when they get the all clear, the insurance companies will come back at them with “why weren’t you testing!?” As if they were criminals, instead of premium paying insureds.
Most people pay for and have insurance; however, every year insurance companies chip away at their rights. Thankfully @floridajustice and a few others are protecting Floridians, but we need everyone to be aware that their rights are being attacked.
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duselig 🇪🇺
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The probable scenario is that the majority of the population will
contract SARS CoV 2/Corona

It is very important to slow down the virus through isolation to have enough time to find a treatment or vaccination.
There is a likely scenario in which we will contract the virus...
... once like chickenpox and then be immune. This means we would at some point reach a
state of herd immunity and only a few people ever contract the virus in future generations, therefore they are easier to treat. The other possible scenario is that the virus mutates....
...and it becomes seasonal like the flu.
Both require the same precautions: Isolation to slow down the virus.

However, it is very crucial to understand that the virus is less harmful to young and healthy people. Some are even asymptomatic (presenting no
symptoms)....
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Marc Owen Jones
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"Media sensationalism is the media's ability to take an issue and magnify it the extent that it engenders wide scale emotional responses from people" #Corona #COVID19
"people are interested in corona virus, they drive a lot of clicks for advertising revenue, advertised-based news is actually one of the reasons why there is a panic around #Corona virus" #covid19
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(THREAD #Corona) I've been sick in bed since Friday morning. Typical flu-like symptoms. Absent any other options, I self-quarantined. When the symptoms didn't subside I called 911 and found my way to the E.R. I was not alone, another patient was there out of #COVID caution.
2. You wouldn't really have noticed inside. I was given a mask but other than that it seemed pretty clear all they could do was test for the flu. Once they had cleared me for any recent foreign travel and not having the severe respiratory symptoms associated with #Corona,
3. I was told I had one of the thousand respiratory tract infections and to go home and take Advil and drink lots of liquids. I shudder to think what my abundance of caution ER visit will cost me as an uninsured Canadian but time will tell.
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Mike Dunford
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Good evening - or afternoon - #threadnought

It's time for Part 2 of the TCPA hearing transcript livetweet. Here's how I'll work this tonight:
I'm going to get through at least Rial/Toye and hopefully the whole thing.
There will be at least one interruption, and if things are going well enough to get through the whole thing I might split the thread at the start of the Funi portion.

As with yesterday's effort, I'm going to focus more on the argument than on the merits. Probably.
I'm also probably not going to see questions in time to work them into the thread, but will try to go back later on.

So, without further ado, let's return to the tale of Ty and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Hearing.
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