Since a good handful of people have emailed me to join the COVID Information Sharing (and increasingly, solidarity) email list, here's another open call to join if you'd like. We've added a monthly Zoom hangout into the mix and are plotting other things, so we'd love to have you.
Imagine working on a science agency and being like: “Yeah, I think we should collect less data + present it deceptively.” The banality of evil on full display, killing people quietly by concealing numbers and manipulating data. Seriously insidious stuff. Can’t sugarcoat it.
With the end of the public health emergency, the CDC removed their COVID transmission and community levels maps, and found a way to make their main COVID map even more green:
We need to start repeating the message plain and clear: you’re only an infection away from disability and/or long-term serous health consequences from this disease. We can’t just make this a thing about “the vulnerable” because it otherizes and we are ultimately all vulnerable.
Just did the math. For the new CDC map to even get to the yellow color on the map for deaths per day, 2,982 per US capita would have to be dying per day, 1 less than died on 9/11 not including 19 hijackers. 1.08M per year equivalent. That’s how to get to “moderate” on the map.
Imagine working on a science agency and being like: “Yeah, I think we should collect less data + present it deceptively.” The banality of evil on full display, killing people quietly by concealing numbers and manipulating data. Seriously insidious stuff. Can’t sugarcoat it.
Roughly when did even talking about COVID still being widespread and making people sick with a disease with long term deadly and disabling consequences become a taboo? And why? How? Anyone have a good feel for it? My read is like early 2022?
Went to a conference this past week in Marina Del Rey. First one since the pandemic began. Masked up the whole time except for brief drinks of fluid or bites to eat. Four years into the panny, still no COVID. Fit-tested masking with an N95 works!
So, 4.7 million doses of Novavax have been purchased by the US. Only 89,000 have been put into arms. Just another depiction of what a huge failure the policy of greatly restricting who can actually access the vaccine is by the Biden Administration. AKA that's the point.
Nancy Pelosi just said she wants every day to be a “national security event” at the Capitol. As will be completely predictable, this will likely mean ratcheted up repression towards people coming in and around the Capitol of the fight for progressive causes.
In case there was any doubt: indoors at a store, fitted N95, no questions asked. Stay safe out there. Covid is spreading like wildfire throughout the US. Mask up. Your lungs, heart, and brain (to name a few organs) will thank you later.
@emrazz
@WalkerBragman
When I asked
@WalkerBragman
about it, he claimed he was commenting on their "averageness." Wondering if you've ever spent much time in Michigan or Wisconsin, Walker? There's a reason this post got ratio'd lol. Maybe just admit the post was ill-informed and back down.
Utterly hilarious that the US pandemic response is literally everything the right wing wanted and yet the moron trolls still feel the need to intervene within posts that sound the alarm on the ongoing ravages of COVID or even just start conversations about it. Absolute clowns.
Big shoutout to
@sharphealthcare
for maintaining a
#mask
mandate for its medical staff even after Newsom recklessly lifted it in healthcare settings. Wife has eye issue and nice to see people masking up. Now, fingers crossed no surgery needed. 🤞
Lol wait what??? The new Biden CDC map is percentage of deaths it causes compared to other things and it’s only considered “high” now when compared to the many other things one could die of? Am I misreading this? Talk about moving the goal posts and obfuscating data, if so.
The
@CDCgov
has rolled out its new post-emergency COVID-19 Data Tracker
Among changes, COVID now visualized as % of deaths via
@NCHStats
data from around country
Most states this past week are between "minimal" to "low" COVID-19 deaths
Big shoutout to
@NancySkinnerCA
for continuing to
#MaskUp
amid the ongoing
#COVID19Pandemic
. She was the only member of the Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee wearing one and a quality one at that: KN95. Heard her perfectly clear in speaking through
#mask
1 in 10 people who visited the hospital died after catching a disease there that they weren’t even there for. This is not normal. It’s what mass global abandonment of public health looks like.
"‘A death sentence’: More than 600 people die after catching COVID in hospital"
I don't know how many ways I can say this is not acceptable and that the way it is being uniformly ignored is beyond bizarre.
Okay, so why is this maybe worse then banally evil? Because it’s willfully misleading to assess risk. Without any explanation I’ve seen, CDC switched to completely arbitrary metric around percentage of deaths compared to everything else one could possibly die of is useless.
To get to “moderate” on the map you need nearly the official weekly per capita equivalent of deaths for the whole ongoing pandemic to take place. So, yeah, this is nothing less than science denial of the most obscene denial out of the Biden Administration. It’s an outrage.
My whole family was killed by Nazis on my dad’s side except grandpa and his brother, who escaped Poland via a coal tanker and by hiding away first with a non-Jewish person of conscience in Poland. Pretty simple: “never again,” the expression we Jewish ppl abide by, applies to all
Morally fucking repugnant for the US Secretary of State to use the suffering of Jews—suffering my ancestors endured, too—as a reason to fund and cheer on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Damn. This hits close to home. Racine is a sister city of my hometown, Kenosha. I used to be a safety patrol captain and worked alongside people like Linda. Thank you for sharing her story,
@FacesOfCOVID
#COVID19
LINDA LOVE, 79, of Racine, Wisconsin, died of COVID on April 21, 2021.
"In retirement, you could find Linda holding a red stop sign on the corner of Kinzie Avenue as a crossing guard. She loved spending time with her family..."
So, yeah, rich/affluent + white + highly educated in this poll shows less empathy wedded to more privilege tied to things (unstated in the poll but implicit socio-economically) like access to high quality healthcare. Problem being there’s no silver bullet COVID treatment. Hubris.
Pew Research Center survey, March 13-19, 2023
"Those with lower incomes express more concern about getting a serious case of COVID-19" (and more concern they might unknowingly spread COVID-19 to others)
Oh look! I'm already blocked by a new Biden Administration climate team member just for having the gall to point out that she supports geoengineering and Direct Air Capture. This is an awesome of example of respect for the press and a "return to civility," right?
It’d be like living next to a toxic wasteland like Chernobyl or something (COVID still a top killer + compounds other top things that kill) and saying “Yeah, but as a trial percentage of what you can die of, it’s really only small. There’s 1,000 ways to die.”
Can verify, as my wife's parents live in Shanghai. This is fatalism and fear-mongering by
@chrislhayes
, who I doubt hasn't once done journalism on what
#pandemic
life is like during
#COVID
in
#China
, and not first time he's done it here either. Thanks for tweets,
@RealSexyCyborg
!
There's a whole lot the US should be doing better on the pandemic, but Omicron is so transmissible that short of a China-like "zero covid" regime, basically nothing is going to stand in the way of a *massive* outbreak. (see Denmark for just one example)
Been enjoying the KN95 lately for more low-key, mostly outdoors when people age around situations recently or short inside and leave situations (ala this mall). Hadn’t even tried it until about 4 weeks ago (been N95 guy since 2020), but now a convert for the right instances!
In other words, the map is the same as “the water is safe in Dimock and Flint, the petrochemical refinery is pristine and nothing to worry about in living across the street from it, nothing to worry about for gun violence since it’s overall just a small % of US total deaths,” etc
And just to be super clear, and correct me if I’m misreading this newly minted greenwashed map, but to be in the red on the map the state equivalent of 26.7 million Americans would have to be dying of COVID? That’s clearly never been the case since 2020 + disease has been
Thanks to the 253K+ people who viewed the initial post and the thousands who liked and shared. Please keep spreading the word. We need to figure out a way to counter-message and fight back. This is a moral obscenity.
Thx for solidarity,
@jaisalnoor
. I lost my job after 2 years on the job. It’s a very tough day & lost a part-time gig today too. My 1st time ever being unemployed, in midst of COViD economy. Shame on shameless
@TheRealNews
managers. More details to come. Solidarity w/
@trnnunion
.
Talking about "building trust" amid her silence about a rising wave of COVID cases in the US and globally. Any interview that doesn't confront her about that head-on is journalistic malpractice. The whole "building trust" brand amid those dynamics is purely Orwellian.
It’s also been, very sorry to say, a completely ineffective message. It makes the “strong and able-bodied” types feel bulletproof. There’s a reason universal message like “Smoking Kills” resonated for a whole generation of people & created breakthroughs in public health policy.
It’s just a complete and shameless out of any appropriate social or scientific context manipulation of data, in other words, propaganda that will get people hurt and killed. And it’s pulled out of an age-old playbook of deceit. That’s why I used harsh words above, in sum.
I mean, am I wrong? I can’t imagine really even discussing this shit with most people because it feels very “pissing on the parade”-esque due to overwhelming denialism. So, I bite my tongue and don’t. Wondering when that paradigm became the overwhelming zeitgeist, if so.
leading cause of death and stunningly successful at disabling people and putting something in their body now documented in countless peer reviewed studies to be linked to long term very serious public health consequences that will kill people + destroy life quality.
By this new greenwash metric, and again correct me if I’ve misunderstood it, no US illness would get the map much beyond a pure green. And life expectancy continues to drop in the US due to COVID + other many other diseases/reasons.
People are going to be in for a rude awakening down the road, that’s for sure, for those not already disabled or killed by the virus. It reminds me of living next to a toxic oil refinery and acting like all is good and fine. But like, relatively few would voluntarily do that.
For those unfamiliar with how Nathan Fletcher got elected to begin with in 2018, about 1.5 years after marrying Lorena Gonzalez, a key component was her facilitation of dark $$ into his campaign coffers via steering it into
@sandiegodems
Okay, so, I got it wrong. 😬 Here’s a mathematical explainer. I calculated a baseline of 7974 US deaths/day. That’s from a data source I found online. Multiple by .04, the low end of “moderate,” and you get 318.96. Multiple by 7 and that’s 2232 deaths a week.
Just did the math. For the new CDC map to even get to the yellow color on the map for deaths per day, 2,982 per US capita would have to be dying per day, 1 less than died on 9/11 not including 19 hijackers. 1.08M per year equivalent. That’s how to get to “moderate” on the map.
That said, we should certainly be talking about how it disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations. But it’s obviously not resonating as a message on its own in a deeply and morally abhorrent ableist society. Otherwise how could we possibly be where we are at this stage?
This generation’s cigarette smoking-like health crisis. Like cigarettes, we have been sold COVID is safe by the power elite. And like tobacco, it has no basis in the reams and reams of scientific truth. One can only hope those who have sold deadly lies are held accountable.
'An Inside Look at Covid’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs'
Dr. Huang: “People think that it’s kind of a one-and-done thing, like you can get over it like a common cold..we’re left with a population of people like this that are kind of in this limbo state.”
So, wrong map shown in my tweet at top of thread. That’s for hospitalizations. I liked the thread more in the other post though, so that’s why I posted it. That said, sorry for any confusion caused and here’s the new CDC COVID-19 greenwashed deaths map in this post too.
Lol wait what??? The new Biden CDC map is percentage of deaths it causes compared to other things and it’s only considered “high” now when compared to the many other things one could die of? Am I misreading this? Talk about moving the goal posts and obfuscating data, if so.
No, we are furious because she allegedly threatened to destroy the reputation/career of a Latina worker sexually harassed by her husband & she’s so far gotten away with it with impunity. Mind you, as a very well paid statewide LABOR LEADER. Her behavior is an insult to workers.
Jeff Zients & Mandy Cohen, here to manufacture appearance of the end of the pandemic right on time for the 2024 presidential cycle. BTW, no masks or clean indoor air offered here. Just an expectation to risk life/livelihood for your job. End of the day, it's a Potemkin Village.
President Jeff Zients says federal workers must increase their carbon emissions and covid transmission this fall because of something something about culture and morale and teamwork and definitely nothing at all related to the preferences of wealth business interests
Cosplaying the pandemic as “over” doesn’t make it such in reality. Guess the CDC started to believe its own BS that it’s been spewing to the US public since declaring masks could come off in May 2021 even after the massive deadly Delta wave and multiple Omicron ones.
I say this because I care, not to be overly critical/mean: but those who care about the government literally doing anything about COVID are losing badly. And it’s killing people, more quickly in some cases than others. A course correction in many realms is sorely needed.
Dear lord! They should be screaming this off the rooftops, not burying it into obscurity online while telling normies everything is a-okay and we can just pretend it’s 2019.
CDC website, Nov 2023: "evidence strongly suggests that even asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 patients might have neuropathologic changes in their brains, which could develop into severe neurologic disorders later in life."
1/x
Hospitalizations numbers are coming next though, so stay tuned haha. Hypothesis is it’s just as egregious as deaths count, so as to downplay ongoing disability and illness from the disease to a surreal degree like the Biden Administration is now doing for deaths.
Instead, you're essentially stuck with either an mRNA vaccine that's proving less and less effective as the virus continues evolving + producing variants. Or just no booster at all. Obviously, a huge issue as every other safeguard has been tossed into the dumpster fire.
@LindaLarsonKemp
I think there was an elite consensus fear that the pandemic was a moment of pause in early days to rethink how society is structured/could be remade. Nothing scares people in power more than independent, strong-willed people. Thus the shoving of “back to normal” down our throats.
So, Nathan Fletcher rose to the upper echelon of San Diego and California Democratic politics alongside Lorena Gonzalez without even basic things about his past being verified. Like, where he got a college degree or even if he has one. Same for his time in the GOP.
Hysterical in a morbid way that every remaining regulatory safeguard vs getting COVID is being blown to smithereens by Dems (the GOP has been forlorn from the start), but one regulation remains: you can't choose to get Novavax as a second booster. Regulations remain strong there!
This Walensky tweet could've said "Terms and Conditions May Apply" because for millions, it's near impossible to get a Novavax due to lack of local availability & strict regulations making it far harder to get, as I've said, than your average street drug.
Today, I endorsed ACIP’s recommendation that Novavax’s
#COVID19
vaccine be used as another primary series option for adults 18 & older.
For those waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine built on a different technology, now is the time to get vaccinated.
More:
Just respond here or privately if you'd like to join. It's a great mix of people from all walks of life and I'd love to see the email list enlivened with even more people from diverse backgrounds. Thanks for your interest and for caring about stopping the spread of
#COVID19
.
Kali Cook, 4, pre-kindergarten student - Kenneth E. Little Elem. School, Bacliff, TX, died of
#COVID19
Sep 7, 2021. Kali is remembered as funny & sassy. She liked to play with frogs & worms, & didn’t like bows. Sweet little Kali, may you rest in peace. 🌷🐸🌷
H/t
@Cleavon_MD
Proudly organized alongside SJP as a progressive Jewish student during college at UW Madison. The ADL is an embarrassment and doesn’t speak for anyone but the far right of the Jewish community (aka a lot of my family lol). They can pound sand.
ADL and
@brandeiscenter
urge universities to investigate the activities of their Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) campus chapters, including for potentially violating the prohibition against materially supporting a foreign terrorist organization. 🧵
population rise by about 7.3% for that week for COVID patients. So, not as insane as the deaths map. That said, hospitalizations are a lagging indicator of deaths and a lagging indicator of cases. Nothing about this is preventative in the slightest. That’s ultimately the point.
Goes kinda without saying here, but science denial gets an automatic block on my page. So, also might as well not even waste your time trolling because no one will see it lol
Okay so for hospitalizations, it’s a bit less crazy. To get into orange (should be red, but this is another example of psychological games being played by the CDC to downplay), the state-level per capita equivalent of the entire US population would have to see its hospital bed
So, I pointed out to a Jimmy Dore defender that the Boogaloo Boys have been linked to multiple murders and an attempted kidnapping of a Governor. Said person calls it a "smear" and then blocks me after saying I'm waging a "Culture War." These people are deranged cultists.
came out. Which, as the chart shows, also depicts a failed vaccine campaign by the Biden Administration based on low uptake levels. Because when you lie about the health threat level + pandemic being over, people behave accordingly. Anyway, this is regulatory capture depicted.
For those curious, here's how J&J performed. And it makes sense it held test of time because it uses a different technology that's time tested, like Novavax's. Not based on the exact viral strain in question. But now you can't get that either in the US.
NOT GOOD—so it seems 🇬🇧 government researchers have discovered that the already more contagious
#B117
has further acquired the other troublesome E484K mutation seen in 🇿🇦
#B1351
& 🇧🇷
#P1
variants—in 11 patients. E484k is blamed for partial vaccine-evasion.🧵
Some personal news: I'll begin working on Feb. 8 for
@Capitol_Forum
as an Energy Correspondent. I'll be part of the broader corporate investigations unit with a wide coverage mandate. Pumped to begin and learn from a really talented team of people!
Curious to hear theories/analyses on why
#vaccines
are free, robustly as all get out, but not at-home testing kits for
#COVID19
? My theory: testing contradicts the prevailing narrative: that once you're
#vaccinated
, you can live your "best life" and worry not about
#pandemic
Also, want to thank a commenter for calling out my ableist diction here. It won’t happen and it’s a good sign of how much we all have internalized the lingo and norms of one of the biggest “isms” out there that few are willing to discuss or be confronted with. Will do better.
Two bills that would allow the United States to expand its fossil fuel infrastructure in the EU and NATO countries have advanced to the the Senate—and Democrats backing them have invoked “Russiagate” to push them through: by
@SteveAHorn
@nhanson_reports
Yeah, and I think even discussing it feels like you’re shaming people for not thinking or caring about it. So, it sucks the oxygen out of the conversation. Like, god forbid you remind people they have to be responsible stewards for their fellow humans!
Us from Kenosha know Rabbi Dena (who trained me to read Torah/Bar Mitzvahed me) is a staple of SE WI progressive scene, sister of
@russfeingold
. She also speaks out for Palestinian human rights & a just 2-state solution & recently slammed anti
#BDS
bill ?
Aren't two members of the so-called "Squad" --
@AOC
and
@JamaalBowmanNY
-- representatives of this area? Why aren't they speaking out about this as an ADA issue? Their silence speaks volumes.
Another store in NYC requiring people to remove their masks.
CC
@NYCLU
@ACLU
Infuriated at the silence of so many NYC policymakers who should be speaking out against forced unmasking but are saying nothing.
There’s nothing more revolting than the use of our collective suffering to justify the collective suffering of another people who have endured decades of death and trauma. The good news is progressive US Jewish people seem more united than I’ve ever seen in denouncing this.
“As soon as we started to undo some of these [pandemic restrictions], you started to see the viruses come back, you saw more sinus infections, and then, not surprisingly, you ended up seeing more brain abscesses”
I bet there’s a lot more of this in our future.
“A pediatric neurosurgeon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in NY…said his hospital is still seeing an above-average number of brain abscesses…’It’s not just us. It’s hospitals all over the country.’”
@ericstamps
@MuseWendi
You said it well. It shows that was always and empty talking point and once they entrenched it as a false reality, they got rid of any way to even possibly try to do it without great personal cost.
PSA: rebranding a
#pandemic
as an “endemic” doesn’t change the scientific fact that we are still in the midst of a deadly global
#COVID19
outbreak and will be for the foreseeable future given the current circumstances/spread globally.
#COVIDVariants
But after waiting that long for Novavax, looked like the US may never actually get the shot. Just months later, it did, but then I was no longer eligible because it only received primary series approval. Then, it only received 1st booster approval well after the bivalent vaccine