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Once a parody, now a person. Unmasking Nashville.
Nashville, TN
Joined July 2020
Math Proficiency Rates from a major Public School System show impact of Prolonged School Closures: The results are alarming. To the parents and students who were abandoned by public school leaders like those in Montgomery County MD, this was expected. https://t.co/678bwa51Gz
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1/ Unlike adults, the majority of kids hospitalised with #SARSCoV2 do *not* have severe #Covid In London we found only 10% of kids hospitalised with a +ve #sarscov2 PCR-test had severe #COVID19, mainly during the alpha wave Here’s our preprint…🧵 👉 https://t.co/0fOiiKPKF3
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40 Individual Middle Schools in this School System: Geometry Proficiency (as %) by Year
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Never forget that playgrounds, dog parks, basketball and tennis courts, picnic shelters, and skate parks were closed in Nashville "on the advice of the Metro Public Health Department."
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"An AP investigation found that for every 2 residents in long-term care who died from COVID-19, another resident died prematurely of other causes." The 2020 report "attributed some of those deaths to neglect. Other deaths...were tied to despair."
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To contain the spread of COVID, hospitals and nursing homes barred visits, but the separation and isolation took a toll on patients and families. Now, some states are trying to ensure access.
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"Being hermetically sealed off from bad dates, bad breakups, awkward conversations, tough teachers and mean bosses has left young people even less capable of navigating the hiccups of daily life."
Ask yourself: What would it have been like if you had spent your thirteenth year in solitude? A devastating and compassionate story by @SnoozyWeiss about the scars from lockdown that aren’t going away.
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Growing increasingly frustrated with the media who try to portray Shanghai/China’s endless, draconian lockdowns as “strict COVID measures” as opposed to what they really are, which are violations of basic human rights
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We had a hotline, a website, AND AN APP for residents to complain about too many cars in a neighbor's driveway or a husband and wife standing not six feet apart at the grocery store.
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Two years ago today: Never forget that Nashville's "public health" response to a respiratory virus was not a "public health" response.
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I told my daughter at the start of kindergarten that she has three jobs this year: learn to write letters, learn to tie her shoes, and keep hospital ICUs under capacity.
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LOL. Down but not out billionaires "liquidating everything they have" to pitch in roughly 1/3 the cost of a new stadium. No worries, the average family who can maybe afford to go to one game a year has your back!
Speaker Sexton says Adams family will spend $700 million on stadium: Titans owners "liquidating everything they have" to come up with the funds. https://t.co/dHHtwx7Shf
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This is the perfect encapsulation of Covid hysteria: Everyone should be terrified of feeling perfectly fine.
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In their declaration of a public health emergency, Nashville's Board of Health directed "the Chief Medical Director to act as necessary...to prevent the spread of the disease..." Two years ago today, he blinded us with science.
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Surprise! Kids in Masked Districts experienced 4x more disrupted learning days on avg, than those in Mask Optional districts. The mask myth keeps kids OUT of school--not in. My latest, with @ifihadastick and @kerpen, using @BurbioCalendar data. https://t.co/Txh0idZ6Pr
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Closing beaches is not a "focused approach" to protecting the most vulnerable. But Dr. Hildreth said refusing to close beaches was "totally irresponsible."
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Dr. Hildreth attempting to rewrite history: "I've always thought we should have taken a more focused approach to those who are most vulnerable." No. That is not what happened.
On 11/29/21, Dr. James Hildreth used a podcast appearance to state that he had been in favor of a "focused approach" to COVID-19 "from the very beginning." Which is rich, coming from the person arguably most responsible for ensuring that Nashville schools would remain virtual:
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Closing playgrounds has not saved a single grandma's life. Never forget.
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Closed beaches. No surfing. Closed playgrounds. No youth sports. Closed parks. Boarded up basketball hoops. Closed skate parks. Closed public schools. Masking toddlers. Plexi dividers which increased, not decreased spread. Public Health leaders were wrong on so many counts.
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