Jonathan

Wealth and inequality thread 🧵

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/wealth-five-richest-men-doubles-2020-five-billion-people-made-poorer-decade-division

Good lord

1. Respirators work on a personal level. We know physics works

2. Respirators would work on a population level. These studies are hard to conduct and don't always show clear statistical results because of failures of compliance, but you see reduction of transmission, etc

(Or the studies are improperly conducted. I also suspect some studies are designed to fail)

Reminder of large scale study showing community masking reduced transmission, as one would expect
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069

Disinformation (not focussed on COVID) 🧵

(The COVID disinformation thread is: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110764220770787230)

Wilks brothers
Koch brothers
Atlas Network
Federalist Society
Leonard Leo
Etc

People need to stop idolizing absolute idiots. #elonmusk

(This does not exclude him from also being malicious,)

Ref https://web.archive.org/web/20230710000044/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678098028849143809?s=20

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