Mid-week tweets
Arguing on Twitter.. ? pic.twitter.com/NKh9Gt517r
— The Feel Good Page ? (@FeeIGoodPosts) May 26, 2021
This undercuts our solution phobia thread, but credit where credit is due. Kristof has long been one of the few bright spots in the NYT opinion section,
Here's the best investment in the world right now, and the West is not taking it: Spend $50 billion to vaccinate people in developing countries worldwide, and, the IMF says, this will generate $9 trillion in economic returns. I hope Biden reads my column https://t.co/iGYeVEmvF8
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 26, 2021
The Ohio lottery is another example of solution-focused thinking. Moynihan is right. Turley is... Turley.
The beauty of lotteries is that they are a cheap way to motivate people. It would be more costly to pay people to take the vaccine. And you would have to build an expensive implementation infrastructure to set up payments.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) May 28, 2021
(As a prof in Maryland I endorse Ohio's lottery) pic.twitter.com/oVIA1WW57d
Silver is making an important point here. It's difficult to claim we're living in unprecedented times then to base your next argument on precedent.
I still think there's a little bit of tension between the notion —which I largely agree with—that the current GOP represents an unprecedented (at least in modern American history) threat to democracy and the CW that Democrats will surely suffer the usual midterm penalty in '22.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 28, 2021
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