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Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So, since Twitter is *the best* place to get accurate Covid information, let's see what everyone thinks about this. Brother: PCR test positive. Father, nephew, me: As of yesterday, PCR test negative. But father woke up sick all the same.
Nephew is staying with me. Should we be behaving as if we're both infectious? Masking, distancing, isolating? I suppose the question answers itself: Yes, we should.

So I guess the real question is,
"How long after a confirmed (and extensive) exposure and a *negative* PCR test should we wait before we assume we can safely breath around each other?"

My guess would be about five days. Rapid-testing again tomorrow and on day 5?
I hate this fucking pandemic. I hate it.

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Feb 17
For comparison, the figure in France for 2021 was 113. France pop.=67.39 million; TR pop.=84.34 million. The rate is too high in France. It's way too high in Turkey. (The right number, of course, is zero.)
2018 World Bank Data, though, shows France and Turkey with similar rates of femicide: data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.I…
France=.07 per 100,000; TR=.09.
Countries with zero murders of women per annum, according the World Bank's most recent data: Bermuda,
Monaco, St. Kitts and Nevis,Sao Tome and Principe,
San Marino, Cayman Islands, Dominica,
British Virgin Islands, Liechtenstein, Turks and Caicos,
Andorra, and Aruba.
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Feb 16
For anyone who missed it: Our website designer, @AmanDha36782516, is the nicest guy imaginable, and he's available to build your website, too. We recommend him highly! claireberlinski.substack.com/p/would-you-li…
Do you need a website? A website upgrade? Better SEO? A free consultation? Do you have any problem whatsoever related to your website? Amanpreet is *so* helpful, positive, and competent--and no one could deserve your business more than he does.
We want to get him hooked up with good clients because he's helped us so much that we really think of him as family, now. He just got engaged to be married, and we want him to be on a sound financial footing for the big event.
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Feb 16
I thought this was a good speech, and the right one to give, and the right points to stress. But listening to Biden speak is an exercise in anxiety, because you never know if he'll make it through the sentence. nbcnews.com/now/video/full…
Speech therapists: Would it be possible to work with someone of Biden's age to help him speak more fluently? It's not just the stutter, it's the muddied consonants, the slurring, the half-eaten words, the crummy intonation. Would a good speech therapist be able to help him?
Or is there an age limit beyond which you just can't improve?
I don't know what it says about America that we elect president after president who can't speak fluently. Does it mean we're big-hearted people who can overlook things like speech impediments?
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Feb 15
Quiz below for readers of @cosmo_globalist. My brother has a lot of complaints about us. I wonder if you share them. If you subscribe, could you tell me whether I send out too many newsletters, and whether they're too long, with too many links, leading to information overload?
Note that this is a multi-part quiz:

Do we send you too many newsletters?
The newsletters are too long:
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Feb 13
The positive response to this podcast vindicates everything @VivekYKelkar and I have been saying about why we started the @cosmo_globalist. Yes, Ukrainians-- in Ukraine--know more about Ukraine than the talking heads sitting in the studios in NY and DC! claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-view-fro…
It's not a surprise! The surprise is that we collectively decided, over a period of 30 years, to stop reporting foreign news by asking people who live there, "Hey, what's going on?"
Since the Cold War, the percentage of the news hole devoted to foreign news has dropped from 40 percent on broadcast to 4 percent. And by 80 percent in print media. A lot of reasons for this, mostly due to massive changes in the news industry--
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Feb 11
We (@cosmo_globalist, that is, @VivekYKelkar and me, to be precise) just recorded a podcast with @VladDavidzon and @olgatokariuk, both in Kyiv. We'll have that up for you presently. We talked about the mood in Kyiv; whether Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself;
what it still needs, and whether there's time to provide it. We also talked about the past 48 hours, diplomatically; Minsk 2; Liz Truss and Macron's visits to Moscow; pipelines and politics; and Tucker Carlson.
I asked them to rank, from 1-10, the support Ukraine has received from the US, NATO, the EU, and its member states. Olga gave the US an 8 and the UK a 10 ("except for failing to crack down on Russian money, which is a big 'except.'")
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