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Propane Jane: We were doing the right things in TX when we were shut down, but Greg Abbott put his foot down & opened things back up. You'll continue to see these numbers go up as long as Republican "leadership" refuses to shut things back down
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Propane Jane: There's such gaslighting happening; 15,000 COVID cases are just numbers on paper but you need to think about what % of the people have mild cases, what % have severe symptoms & need ICU, what % will have long-term impairment.
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Propane Jane:The estimates are that 90% of the US population has not received a coronavirus test. There may be many of us who are asymptomatic carriers who spread the virus to others while not knowing we have it. We can't get tested w/o symptoms
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Propane Jane: The hope for some innovation or expedited efforts to ramp up testing & tracing, to get a handle on how the virus is spreading across America, requires a motivated federal gov't not interested in suppressing numbers.
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Propane Jane: Ultimately Trump's goal is to undermine the best people on the jobs; he wants to create the facade that all systems are go, that the stock market is great, the economy is great.
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Propane Jane: The virus is going to spread because it's tied to human behavior. Keeping it from spreading is relying on people to make better decisions than they'd normally make. We'll see outbreaks b/c people aren't doing what they need to do.
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Propane Jane: Our cities are grinding to a halt because our hospitals are grinding to a halt because our 1st responders are grinding to a halt...
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Propane Jane: The Trump admin has done everything they could to dismantle Obamacare. Our healthcare structure isn't enough for just the baseline; then you add the pandemic to that & it's like trying to bail out a sinking boat w/ just your hands
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Propane Jane: Even I loved working in acute care, in a hospital setting, across the world there was a burnout. Thank goodness I left that environment before the pandemic happened.
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Propane Jane: A crisis like this happens and you don't even have PPE--you have to protest for PPE!--& you come to work every day to try to save people's lives; a lot of healthcare workers are going to burn out.
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Propane Jane: I think Trump's commuting Stone's sentence is like Trump saying, "You can't catch me." It's a way to overcompensate for people saying he's incompetent. "People say I can't do it but I'm going to do it anyway."
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Propane Jane: Stone knows where the bodies are buried, & Trump's own personal fate is tied up in Roger Stone. Stone has been there for decades to see Republican shenanigans.
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Propane Jane Trump is trying to get an attaboy for protecting himself & as a means to tell Repub party that sticking with Trump is a good thing, that they can crime while white. It shows Trump doesn't give a damn. No level of shame or conscience.
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Propane Jane: Trump knows he looks weak & fragile & he was mocked for that. You can tell what's been a blow to his ego because that's what he obsesses over. It allows him to go down a trail of deflection where nothing is his fault.
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Propane Jane: In the Mafia world, there really are people out to get you but you don't pull your gun unless you're going to possibly pull the trigger. Trump has reactions to things that are solely about his ego.
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Propane Jane: Trump bullied people, made threats, stalked them, threatened to out them in tabloids. This is how he operates in his personal life so it's not surprising that's how he operates in the White House.
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Propane Jane: I like "Kickbacks" for the new name for the Washington football team. It'll be curious how this gets crowdsourced & figured out.
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Propane Jane: How do moments like this affect people from a mental health standpoint? How does the subjective topic of discrimination affect things like blood pressure, predisposition to diabetes?
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