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Jun 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
[Thread] The #BlackLivesMatter movement is multifaceted in its genesis, protest and the policy changes it could foster

There is a very rich community identified by @cronycle around it such as @ACLU @ava @deray @Blklivesmatter @BreeNewsome @IlhanMN

app.cronycle.com/discovery/topi…

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This community shares diverse content around their narrative, their hope and the issues they care about.

See below a general and free open access feed of articles and conversations on #BlackLivesMatter

cron.link/GRAdn_4 (2/5)
One of the policy debate it has fostered is around #DefundPolice whose hashtag oversimplifies what advocates for it mean.

See below a feed from the #BlackLivesMatter community around the policy of 'defunding' the police (3/5)

cron.link/W_PBxCY
One of the other debates is about confederate statues in the US.

See below a feed from the #BlackLivesMatter community around removing statues (4/5)

cron.link/y1mu0Hg
The African American community has been hit particularly hard by the #COVID19 pandemic. IT might have been a powerful catalyst together with the video of Floyd's death of the resurgence of #BlackLivesMatter

See below a feed on #COVID19 by #BLM community
cron.link/Qv10DHw
[Addendum] There is a very good podcast by @FiveThirtyEight on the shifting of the conversation on the numerous #BlackLivesMatter facets covered in the feeds in the above thread

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So imagine the future:France Portugal Italy Greece & Spain reopen as tourism season starts to ‘save their economy’, and then cases start to surge in September just as flu seasons starts (and people start coughing from the flu as well). How high will confidence be in public places
Let's look at the state of the epidemic now around the world (from @MaxCRoser below).

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When Peter Piot (Director @LSHTM) on #andrewmarr says (at 7min10sec)

There are other measures which are completely useless like quarantine for returning travellers, that would have only made sense at the very beginning"

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.@izakaminska dissects SAGE minutes to make sense of the non-sensical UK govt #COVID19 strategy.

The potential influence of SAGE + Anders Tegnell finally conceding mistakes in the Swedish Model, should urge a rethink of centralised scientific advice.

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It is important not to confuse science and scientific advice, and to think about the interfaces of science, scientific advice and policy makers.

It would be wrong to equate SAGE advice with Science or to absolve UK gov from accountability of its policy under a convenient slogan.
As the President of the @royalsociety powerfully argued there is a difference between science and scientific advice, and "no such thing as following *the* science".

The trust in science stems from "honesty, openness and transparency"

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@azeem @Peston @tomstandage And there are many more questions to ask!
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