🧵 1/ How long will it take for the public to ask each country’s net contribution to Ukraine war effort as opposed to the gross contribution?

Norway “is likely to have earned almost 1,200bn Norwegian kroner (€113bn) from petroleum sales by the end of 2022 […]

https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind/status/1609481796424536065

2/ […] “meaning Russia’s war of aggression has made every Norwegian citizen at least €20,000 better off on paper.”

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).

Would be good to see where the FPIGS countries are likely to get their tourists from.

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1274627262864863233?s=20

[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

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1/5 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

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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.

ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/06/01/159… 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.

@azeem @Peston @tomstandage And there are many more questions to ask! @azeem @Peston @tomstandage You can't lament citizens electing presidents or PMs who do not believe in science & when you have the opportunity to explain the science and modelling which would go behind considering #herdimmunity as a "strategy" you don't disclose your assumptions & model #sciencematters 1/n

The tragedy in France with the #GiletJaunes protests is that there is still an expectation from the protesters and their supporters (a majority of The French) which still look up to the government for a solution to job insecurity and seem to hold them accountable for it (1/7) #giletsjaunes on one hand completely fail to realise that Globalisation and Capitalism operate on a global scale and cannot be tackled at a national level let alone by the government. However, the French Government has a dual responsibility in the emergence of the movement (2/7)

Thanks @Buttarelli_G for this Op-Ed: "Big tech is still violating your #privacy" The "take-it-or-leave it" 'consent' approach shows how strongly network effects lock-in people washingtonpost.com/news/theworldp… to the incumbent platforms. It's a paradox that the Founding Fathers in the US were fearful of accumulation of power in government but that recent successive governments have let the accumulation of power in Big Tech unchecked supposedly on the belief that competition would keep