Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine
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Violet Affleck holding it down at the LA County Board of Supervisors demanding mask availability, mask mandates in hospitals, and clean air in all government buildings including jails and detention centers. Go Violet! 😷🍉
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Brought a family member to the ER and this is the line tonight to check in. Public officials falsely claim victory over the pandemic but we have truly capitulated leaving the burden on our families and healthcare workers. From a HCW tonight, “people don’t know what’s going on.”
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If everyone wore a high-qualify mask for the next two weeks, imagine how quickly we could lower transmission levels. It would be like a hammer of viral suppression that would save so many lives. Where is the call to action from our federal and local officials to get this done?.
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Seems no one in our government is asking why America's greatest competitor, China, is taking COVID absolutely serious to prevent infection. even after nearly 3 full years of data on lowered life expectancy, long covid, and increased risks of diabetes, heart attack, and stroke.
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We really are providing SARS-CoV-2 a global Petri dish as we allow the virus to keep transmitting and mutating. The only thing that should be going viral right now are indoor mask mandates, indoor clean air infrastructure updates, and PSAs on the virus and how it transmits.
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If you are wearing a mask in indoor public settings, I cannot thank you enough. The reason we aren't in even worse shape is because of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Stay strong, be a role model. Let's keep wearing high-quality masks indoors to protect each other. 😷.
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The herd immunity people were wrong, the urgency of normal people were wrong, the vaccine-only people were wrong. let's cut the nonsense, we need updated vaccines, ventilation, filtration, high-quality masks, and ubiquitous testing. #vaccineplus.
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If 100 people get bird flu, it’s estimated that more than half won’t survive. To say it is significantly deadlier than COVID is an understatement.
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Met a fellow masker while shopping. Me: Thanks for masking. Her: I work with kids. They have COVID all the time. Me: Oh no, that's not good. Have you heard of Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes?. Her: I haven't. Me: Less than $100 to build, more effective than HEPA filters. Her: 💡😎.
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I think wearing a mask during a pandemic is pretty cool. Thanks for leading by example, @RepKimSchrier.
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CEO of Pfizer tests positive *TWICE* within 40 days. This is the new normal our public officials are creating by only focusing on pharmaceuticals and giving up on source control with masks and not urgently implementing clean indoor air with filtration and ventilation.
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So true, we voted for Biden-Harris in 2020 and they committed genocide.
I think now it’s very appropriate to reiterate that elections have consequences.
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People who wear your masks indoors… you’re my heroes.
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When you let the virus roam free and it kills everyone that it can and disables the rest, this is called failure. The year is 2022 and we are in the third year of the pandemic — we do not lack the science, we do not lack the data — we lack the political will to take action.
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Sister-in-law took a SARS-2 rapid test with symptoms and the test came back negative. She thought to herself, “this can’t be.” She Swabbed her throat and did the test again, positive.
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Who is continuing to mask in indoor public settings? 🙋🏻♂️😷.
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The thing is. the pandemic could be over if we stopped pretending and did the important work to actually end it.
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Novavax reduces viral load by over 600x. If you have a choice, Novavax is the superior vaccine for everything that matters: effectiveness and safety.
Novavax reduces viral load by 2.78 log10, while the Moderna vaccine was 2.12. The log10 scale is 10x for each step, indicating Moderna reduces viral load by just over 100x, and Novavax reduces viral load by over 600x. No significant reductions seen for others.
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Took grandma to a vascular doctor today who didn’t wear a mask and sneezed in the room with us, we both wore N95s. Me: Are you planning to wear a mask since cases are increasing?. Doc: I don’t like wearing masks. Me: COVID causes vascular issues. Doc: Yes, it does. Me: 🤦🏻♂️.
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If you have the summer flu please get a covid test because the summer flu isn't a thing.
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The flight attendant had a surgical mask and I offered her a KN94 as an upgrade which she was really happy to accept and loved the black color, her favorite. The guy across the aisle then asked, “can I get one too?” . “Yeah, man you got it.” . Community care is the future.
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Sweet child with his sweet baby cat just trying to survive. We are ruled by absolute monsters.
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After 3.5 years of helping to keep my mom from a SARS-2 infection, she finally tested positive. I immediately checked her labs with her doc to get her Paxlovid and introduced the doctor to metformin studies that showed risk reduction for long covid, she prescribed both.
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The Novavax vaccine is so good it’s worked against every dominant variant to date without updating its antigen. Think about that level of effectiveness, the delays in approval, and the continuous suppression of this vaccine to be approved far behind Pfizer/Moderna. Unreal.
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We did it! Mask requirements are back in healthcare settings in LA County as of today Dec 29th! Thank you to everyone who has been tirelessly working on protecting our community for months, you made this happen!
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Please share far and wide that there are no monoclonal antibody treatments available. SARS-2 has mutated to the point that our monoclonals no longer work. Our goal should be to not get COVID and avoid reinfections. Wear an N95 as SARS-2, FLU, and RSV are surging.
Today, FDA is announcing that bebtelovimab is not currently authorized for emergency use in any U.S. region because it is not expected to neutralize Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1:
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The normalization of COVID transmission is the normalization of debilitating long COVID. We are creating the long hauler generation with an ever-increasing number of people affected by COVID. We need to stop playing with this virus and act on a vision toward containment.
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I’m so confused on how we’ve normalized roughly 3,000 weekly COVID deaths in the U.S. and the untold suffering of long covid patients which are increasing in numbers with continued transmission. How is this okay?.
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Don’t be gaslit into thinking COVID infections and reinfections are the new normal.
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This has aged horribly and it’s only 5 hours old.
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While shopping at the grocery store, I say to the woman next to me wearing a KN95:. "Great mask. you're one of the smart ones. Thank you for wearing one." . She says, "I have cancer. Thank you for wearing a mask.".
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I thanked a coffee shop staff member for wearing their mask a few months back and she told me something I'll never forget, "I can't afford to get COVID." . Whether it's one's life, health, or livelihood, no one can afford to get COVID — this should guide our pandemic policy.
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COVID can cause brain damage and I don’t think it’s been realized the paradigm shift this creates for our society.
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Normalizing mass transmission of preventable infectious diseases is wrong.
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When I hear someone say, "During COVID," in the past tense. I don't know what that means.
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What is so hard about implementing a mask mandate, sending out N95s, and providing ubiquitious testing? This is basic stuff.
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We need a CDC independent from the administration and corporate influence so they can focus on the science and its mission of preventing and controlling disease.
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2.5 years after the introduction of SARS-CoV-2, we are fooling ourselves if we think infections are okay as we only are beginning to learn of the long-term health impacts.
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Transmission is high, my friends. Our government has normalized high transmission and it's up to us to keep each other safe at this moment. Wear a high-quality mask (N95/KN95/KF94), take activities outdoors and open windows, add indoor filtration, and get vaccinated. Stay safe.
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More than 80% of children have had COVID since June of this year, largely due to reopening schools without the proper health mitigations as only 20% had COVID in Feb 2021. The long-term health impacts will be staggering for this generation. Let’s not normalize repeat infections.
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Which airline is going to lead on masking? You’ll get lots of business from people who protect themselves against COVID and have a healthy crew so you can keep flying!.
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I wish I could automatically follow everyone who is wearing a mask to protect themselves and others. You are making a huge difference. I’m so grateful to you and so are the people in your lives who see how much you care. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Hey you! Yeah, you, wearing a mask to protect yourself and others. Thank you.
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Reporter: “are you concerned about your job?”. Arrested professor: “what job do I have if the students don’t have a future?!”.
A tenured UC Irvine professor (of global studies) is being arrested for protesting alongside students: “We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy.”
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How many infections will the average person have to get until quality of life is at a breaking point for our federal COVID response to stop normalizing mass infection?.
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Maybe people should have been, oh I don’t know: wearing high-quality masks like N95s at the Golden Globes. 🤷🏻♂️.
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It’s been 10 days since @CDCDirector tested positive for COVID. I hope she is doing okay and I hope we get an update soon. I also hope that it is quite evident that 5 days is not enough of an isolation period and a dangerous expectation of when people should return to work.
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Guess what, if we had been working to contain COVID we would have the infrastructure to contain monkeypox. It’s time to take public health serious in this country. Enough with the games.
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It’s never been a good idea to go to school sick, it is an inhumane policy to normalize mass reinfection of a multi-systemic, vascular and organ damaging, immune-dysregulating disease.
In a turnaround from 2020’s strict stay-at-home COVID protocols, students can now go to class even if they test positive, Oakland school district officials said.
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Wow record-setting SARS-2 daily deaths in Sweden. The poster child for the Great Barrington Declaration that propagandized herd immunity via infection. The pandemic is NOT over.
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Bringing my grandma to emergency room. Me: what’s your masking policy?. Them: you don’t have to wear one. Me: how about for healthcare workers?. Them: same, they don’t have to wear one. Us: 😷😷
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If the monkeypox response is going to be a vaccine-only approach when available doses are low and as we continue to have exponential growth, then we will not get ahead of the outbreaks in schools and we will get further away from containment. We need a comprehensive strategy.
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The greatest lie in this pandemic was that working to contain this virus and the economic health of our communities were competing ideas. In fact, they are intrinsically linked together. People being healthy creates a stronger economy.
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I’ve been helping to elect Democratic presidents all of my life, as a volunteer, as staff, donations, whatever I can. This is the first election I will not be. Genocide is a redline for me, I cannot support voting for genocide.
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I’m sorry everyone. This is not the pandemic response we were promised. If you feel betrayed, you are not alone. We are in year four now and this is all so tragic to experience the negligence and apathy from officials who need to be leading but choosing to fail. We need better.
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We had to shorten the COVID isolation period to 5 days so that we can get back on track to accelerating the climate crisis.
Yesterday was the busiest day for commercial aviation that we’ve ever tracked. We tracked 134,386 commercial flights on 6 July and today is shaping up to be another busy day. More than 20,000 flights are in the air right now.
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Germany is currently experiencing its fastest rate of COVID ICU admissions in the last year. faster than last winter's surge. There are a lot of "pro-spread" evangelists/trolls. don't listen to them, look at the data — it speaks for itself. Get ready for this fall/winter.
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I won’t be voting for Kamala Harris, a lot of y’all should state so as well. Make them so desperate that they know they’ll lose and their only option is to actually act on an arms embargo to try to get our votes back. Don’t be a pawn in their game, leverage our collective power.
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Apparently my parents are watching the SOTU in Spanish and called me to share their shock at Biden saying “the economy has never been as good as it is now.” They decided to shut off the tv after that, “he’s just lying to us while we’re struggling here.”.
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Guy in car: What are you protesting?. Me: We are protesting to keep masks in healthcare because people should not be getting sick in hospitals, they should be getting better. Guy in car: I disagree. Me: You disagree, so you think people should be getting sick in hospitals? Ok.
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I feel so bad for the over 80% of children that have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and will be reinfected because our decision-makers prefer the optics of saying we kept schools open than acting on the urgency of making schools safer with indoor clean air as a pre-requisite.
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The ironic thing is that we could live fuller lives if we took containment of SARS-2 seriously instead of accepting a policy of denial.
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Masking: at this time, it is the lowest action / highest yield on controlling transmission regardless of variant.
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Since when did *prevention* become taboo in public health. Absolutely wild.
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Novavax rep has shared with me that Novavax has been automatically shipped to CVS pharmacies and that the issue of scheduling Novavax on the CVS website is expected to be fixed.
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Hospitals should not be where lives are harmed, hospitals should be where lives are saved. #MasksSaveLives
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Current COVID treatments are helpful but have their limitations… there is no substitute for preventing infection in the first place.
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More than half of all COVID tests in Portugal are positive. Mind-blowing.
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@CDCDirector Things you did but failed to mention:.❌ Paxlovid .❌ Rebound .❌ Didn’t use N95.❌ Isolated for 18 days. What should happen: .✅ Free N95s.✅ Ubiquitous Free Testing.✅ Paid Sick leave / Longer Isolation .✅ Indoor Clean Air Infrastructure.✅ Investments in Next Gen Vaccines.
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I don’t know how long the SARS-2 pandemic will last, but the long covid pandemic is setting itself up to stay for decades.
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After 2.5 years we still need a mass public service educational campaign on COVID transmitting through aerosols, the impact viral load can have on severity, and the reason for protection measures like high-quality masking, ventilation, and air filtration.
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COVID has been the largest mass casualty event in the history of the United States. We should be dealing with it with the full force of the U.S. government because it is a war that we are losing and it is a war our families and communities need us to win.
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RNC: Cloth, N95/KN95, surgical mask allowed to be used as PPE to avoid transmission of viral infection. DNC: Mask allowed if necessary due to disability, may be asked to take off for security. We are truly in the upside down.
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My friend lost two family members to COVID in the last month but the hospitals coded their deaths as non-COVID related.
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When on the cusp of the second pandemic becoming blatantly obvious, why not bring back mitigation efforts that would help to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox?.
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We are in the 4th year of the pandemic, you’d think we’d be implementing a serious plan by now.
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As of Oct 2022, 96% of Children have been infected by SARS-2. When Biden took office, this number was roughly 20%. In less than two years, this administration and CDC will have managed to implement a pandemic policy that resulted in nearly 80% of children infected with SARS-2.
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When I ask someone at work why they’re wearing a mask: “I can’t afford to get sick.”
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AIPAC signed off on Kamala’s VP, in case you’re wondering how it’s going to go.
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Who has HEPA filters or Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes in your homes, classrooms, or work? 🙋🏻♂️.
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Biden: no one wears a mask around me, the pandemic is over. Narrator: *sigh* indeed, everyone was required to test before seeing the President.
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Let it be forever known that Bernie Sanders was part of the 1% masking at the State of the Union.
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I’m at the hospital after the @LAPublicHealth Commission as I was followed and harassed for about half a mile by two individuals who attended public comment and waited for me to go downstairs. As they harassed me, I got hit by a car, driver fled. Getting checked out now.
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When I’m in a moving car, I wear a seatbelt. When I’m indoors in a public setting during a pandemic, I wear a mask. Masks and seatbelts are context-driven protections that are just common sense.
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At what point does actively implementing policies that promote the normalization of transmission and repeat infections become criminal?
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Wearing a mask to protect ourselves and others during an airborne pandemic is 🔥 thanks for being a leader, @jes_chastain.
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People are dying and becoming disabled from an airborne virus during this ongoing airborne pandemic and our government has dismantled public health to the point that now more airborne pathogens are causing more harm. White House: “No comment.”
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Walgreens tracker now unavailable as the last available data showed the U.S. having the highest positivity rate of the pandemic. “The pandemic is over” is a straight-up manufactured lie that is resulting in ever-increasing disability and death that should have been preventable.
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President Biden and his advisors have no clue of the political earthquake “the pandemic is over” will have on Dems and Inds. You just don’t mess with people’s health and you don’t gaslight them about it, you just don’t that and especially after promising to end the pandemic.
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It is mind-blowing that we have the means to contain COVID transmission in this county but we don’t because we lack the political will to do it. Completely unacceptable in the year 2022.
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Dad tested positive for covid last night and tells me he believes he got it at his Kaiser appointment where he says they dropped all mitigations and no else was in a mask. President Biden ended the public health emergency to falsely claim success, this pandemic continues.
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To the global leaders that lie to your people that the pandemic is over. Japan just broke its record for most COVID deaths in a day. The pandemic is not over, it is getting worse.
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I don’t understand the canned response of saying one has “mild symptoms” a day or two into having COVID… like, duh, it just started.
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Neither Red Cross nor the police have respirators at the Pasadena Convention Center and there are elderly individuals wheezing, the air quality is horrible. Please let me know if you have some respirators to donate or where I can buy some at this time. Thank you.
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.@POTUS, today is a good day to bring back public indoor mask mandates to help contain the SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox pandemics.
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