There’𝘀 been a ton of innovation in onlin𝗲 escape rooms over the last year.
Now, we’re joining in the fun, too! Your mission — should you choose to ac𝗰ept it — is t𝗼 escape this Twitter thread
🔑🔑 To do that, you’ll need to fi𝗻d and interpret two hid𝗱en “keys.”
Each 𝗸ey is a pair of words, and putting thos𝗲 words together will reveal the wa𝘆 out. Once you find the escape path, it will lead you to a secret location, the name of which is the final answer
Everything 𝗶n the thread i𝘀 fair game as a 𝗵iding spot — the clues to the keys could be anywhere 𝗶n the text, or even in other parts of the threa𝗱 like that picture in the secon𝗱 tweet.
As a starting point, take a look at this picture for a clue to the first key:
What to make of that? It’s pretty cryptic, and looks bizarre. But maybe there’s a comp𝗹ementary clue s𝗼mewhere that could help bring a bit of order t𝗼 the chaos? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
As for the other 𝗸ey, you’re entirely on your own for now.
If you can’t find both keys, you shouldn’t panic — you can probably make your way out with just one of them if you’re really c𝗹ever about interpreting what it means bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Got the game? Then put on some thematic background music and dive 𝗶n.
📍Does anything look unusual or out of place? The clues and 𝗸eys — and even the escape route — are right in front of you. Where, exactly? You’ll have to figure that out
💡✉️ If you manage to make this great escape — or if you even make partial progr𝗲ss — please let us know at skpuzzles@bloomberg.net before midnight New York time on Thursday, April 15
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With more and more people getting vaccinated each day, America is rapidly ramping up its protection against Covid-19.
What might that mean for U.S. cities and metropolitan economies? trib.al/DpUVxiO
During the 1918 flu, cities with aggressive lockdowns recovered fastest. M.I.T. researchers found that shutting down public places led to a higher rebound in manufacturing employment:
🚫Taverns
🚫Restaurants
🚫Other public spaces for extended periods trib.al/DpUVxiO
📈Researchers recently projected that demand for healthcare professionals in U.S. cities will increase post-pandemic.
📉But demand for service-industry workers — office support, customer service, food service, food processing and so forth — will decline trib.al/DpUVxiO
Sixty years ago today, the first man orbited space.
Yuri Gagarin became an icon, taking the front pages by storm in an unparalleled PR win for the Soviet Union. Today, space lore remains powerful in Russia trib.al/5ySQzhO
Moscow naturally named its first approved coronavirus vaccine after Sputnik, the satellite whose launch in 1957 terrified the Western world.
At least six major inquiries in the past two decades have examined various aspects of race in Britain.
All of them found evidence of institutional racism, including four since 2017. Boris Johnson’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities begs to differ trib.al/EdTkKyq
The commission was launched after the Black Lives Matter protests last year.
In a new report, controversial conclusions say that while it’s too early to declare Britain a “post-racial society,” arguments of institutional racism are overblown trib.al/EdTkKyq
According to the report, the U.K. is pretty much best in class when it comes to White-majority countries around the world.
The message of “cheer up, things are better than you think” won't be the comfort the government hopes, says @ThereseRaphael1trib.al/EdTkKyq
According to the WHO’s recent investigation into the
pandemic's origins, Covid-19 likely started this way too.
Some governments have expressed concerns about this inquiry — but there’s no denying that the threat of zoonotic diseases is real and urgent bloom.bg/2QVvGuw
China, whose legal wildlife trade was estimated to be worth $80 billion in 2016, should be at the center of efforts to prevent this.
The government already banned the breeding and sale for consumption of most terrestrial wildlife, but it’s not enough bloom.bg/2QVvGuw
Following pandemic news too closely can be an emotional roller coaster, with dire public health warnings immediately followed by hopeful new studies.
Here’s a hopeful new study: Vaccines sharply cut all Covid-19 infections — not just symptoms trib.al/O7A3VUE
The new data were collected from 4,000 people who were vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines between December 2020 and March 2021. The group was made up of:
👩🏽⚕️Health care workers
🚑First responders
🥡Delivery workers
👨🏼🏫Teachers trib.al/O7A3VUE
The participants were asked not only to monitor symptoms but also to test themselves weekly.
The study authors concluded the vaccines caused a 90% reduction in all infections. If people aren’t getting infected, they can’t transmit the virus to others trib.al/O7A3VUE
This week, Volkswagen taught us how not to do an April Fool’s Day joke.
It also provided us a lesson in just how difficult it is to emulate Elon Musk trib.al/VRBiCHj
Here’s the lowdown if you haven’t heard:
⚡️VW’s U.S. arm claimed it was changing its corporate name to “Voltswagen”
⚡️Denied it was an April Fools’ Day joke
⚡️Then admitted that it actually was an April Fools gone wrong
VW has been riding a wave of investor excitement about its electric cars.
Thanks in part to some clever marketing, it seemed to have cracked Elon Musk’s knack for share-price boosting publicity. VW preference shares are close to a six-year high trib.al/VRBiCHj