Let’s talk about what happens if you get COVID19 and recover. Are you immune to the disease? How long does the immunity last? And what does that mean for your life and for the public health and economy of our society? 1/
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Nicholas A. Christakis
@NAChristakis
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; and Connected. ::: More active at azure skies.
- Such idiocy. If Bill Gates walks into a bar with 89 people, the average bar customer becomes a billionaire.The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President’s tax cut plan. So how could any member of Congress be against it?
- If we want to understand how powerful an opponent SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is, let’s take a look what has been required to stop it in China. The Chinese government has essentially used a social nuclear weapon in its efforts. Let’s talk about this, to understand what US is facing. 1/
- A nurse carrying a terrific sign at the protest against police brutality in Seattle today. "Nurses deal with drugged and combative patients on a daily basis, but I never had to kill a single one to get them under control." via @DAChristakis who is on the scene.
- These are not the remarks, let alone the arguments, of a serious person. This is the way someone who has never been challenged to defend her views with facts and reason speaks. This is someone who thinks she is winning the battle of ideas simply by articulating her desires.Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
00:00Readers added contextHer claims are misleading: (1) Per Columbia, campus dining is open (John Jay Dining Hall, Fac Shack, JJ's Place) dining.columbia.edu/news/service-c… (2) Humanitarian aid is for saving lives in the most dire situations (violent conflict, natural disasters). The students can leave if they want. worldvision.ca/stories/disast… humanitariancoalition.ca/from-humanitar… - Converting gyms to wards: preparing for a pandemic. 1918 Influenza pandemic at @IowaStateU 2020 Coronavirus pandemic at @Yale -- today.
- Yes, this was my experience when I spoke to @joerogan too (twice). And I have the same photo from the same place.Yes, I will die on this hill. You cannot buy authenticity and love. The reason people *love* Joe Rogan is because the conversations he has on his podcast reflect the conversations that people have in real life. For starters, the format. It's long and searching and not set up
- Teachers who don't want others to know what they are teaching students..... shouldn't be teaching students. There is no good reason for secrecy in education that I can think of.
- Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to 1957 pandemic, but not as bad as the 1918 pandemic. Let’s talk about the 1957 pandemic. 1/
- I want to go on record with obvious point: large gatherings of people facilitate spread of contagious disease. The *reason* for the gathering (whether street protests for a cause I support, or GOP convention, or a sporting event) is not material to the spread of the virus. 1/
- I stand with @JonHaidt against this sort of mandate. He is resigning from Society for Personality & Social Psychology given new requirement that everybody presenting research explain how their work advances "equity, inclusion, and anti-racism."
- Let’s talk about the fact that both the attack rate and the death rate among the young is indeed very low with COVID19, unlike most prior pandemics. And let’s speculate about some of the biological reasons. 1/
- I’ve been teaching, talking, and tweeting about this for years, but it’s worth repeating: the ongoing existence of real slavery in the world, today, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Slavery (in various forms) is not just in the past. It should concern us all.
