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A 🧵of clips from our recent video, “What must be done to end the pandemic.”
1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/
1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/
On excess deaths: “A more accurate picture of the reality of the pandemic can be seen by looking at excess mortality, which is an estimate of how many people would still be alive today if it weren’t for the pandemic.” #COVID19 #EndCovid @UpupaEp55949188 @CyFi10 @MeetJess 2/
On #LongCOVID: “The full magnitude of this tragedy finds expression not only in the level of death, but in the far greater number of people who have been infected and now suffer from long-lasting symptoms known as Long COVID.” @LauraMiers @loscharlos @ahandvanish @patientled 3/
1. Ok, time to talk about Pandemic Profiteers. This will seem like an arcane fight but it is about who is in control during an emergency - Wall Street or the public. Certain pro-monopoly GOP corporate lawyers are trying to sneak a merger provision into the next Coronavirus bill.
2. Backstory. Before a big merger, merging parties have to tell the FTC that they are merging. If the government doesn't object within a certain number of days, the merger goes through. But during an emergency, the government *can't respond.*
3. What should happen is during an emergency or lapse in agency capacity all mergers are automatically paused. However some antitrust insiders are trying to slip language into the next bill to force the FTC to de facto let all mergers go through during an emergency!
