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Yearly US deaths:
Uninsurance:
– under Trump: 60,000
– under BidenCare: 10,000
– with #MedicareForAll: 0
COVID19:
– no social distancing: 1,500,000
– voluntary social distancing: 500,000
– lockdown: 150,000
We need a #COVID19LockdownNow, and we're #SaferWithSanders later.
Uninsurance:
– under Trump: 60,000
– under BidenCare: 10,000
– with #MedicareForAll: 0
COVID19:
– no social distancing: 1,500,000
– voluntary social distancing: 500,000
– lockdown: 150,000
We need a #COVID19LockdownNow, and we're #SaferWithSanders later.
These are all estimates from modeling, which is limited and combining models is admittedly less than ideal, I'm basing this off of modeling from @IDMOD_ORG and from...
... @CDCgov modeling on worst case scenarios to have a sense of what the ceiling is. And...
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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It's shameful and deadly that there are so few public health, medical, and political leaders pointing out the inadequacy of voluntary social distancing as our public health approach to #COVID19.
Especially as "voluntary" is in a setting of family obligations, employment pressures, financial need, misinformation, and inadequate testing.
Public health/medical colleagues I've talked to are near unanimous in supporting a lockdown with financial/logistical supports.
The top posts in this private Fb group for health workers say the same: facebook.com/groups/8159989…
Yet media, politicians, and health leaders are quiet.
The top posts in this private Fb group for health workers say the same: facebook.com/groups/8159989…
Yet media, politicians, and health leaders are quiet.
The US needs a #COVID19LockdownNow to protect public health. We must must follow the lead of China, Italy, and Spain and halt this pandemic in its tracks.
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To do this morally, we must implement:
– logistical support to ensure those in isolation have basic needs met, especially for those most vulnerable AKA #HumaneIsolation
– a moratorium on rent and mortgage
– a people's bailout AKA #EmergencyUBI
– logistical support to ensure those in isolation have basic needs met, especially for those most vulnerable AKA #HumaneIsolation
– a moratorium on rent and mortgage
– a people's bailout AKA #EmergencyUBI
And in the era of rising ethnoreligious fascism globally, we must tread carefully to protect public health, democracy, and freedom. This might mean having it be time-limited and brief (e.g. 10 days).
