A million Americans have died from #COVID19
wsj.com/articles/one-m…
@POTUS45 knew #SARSCoV2 was airborne & deadly, & lied to us:
washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w…
@WHNSC45 said it threatened national security.
He disarmed
& politicized masks
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“The sheer scale of the tragedy strains the moral imagination”—@edyong209
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More Americans died last week than on 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
~9 million of us lost a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or grandparent.
~149,000 children lost a parent or caregiver
Why did the CDC issue new guidelines allowing the end of indoor masking after 1000+ people died of COVID daily for 6 months?
If the US faced daily hurricanes that each killed 1,000 Americans for half a year, would we stop building levees, pumping water, & providing aid & shelter?
“As tragedy becomes routine, excess deaths feel less excessive. Levels of suffering that once felt like thunderclaps now resemble a metronome’s clicks—the background noise against which everyday life plays.”-@edyong209 theatlantic.com/health/archive… Beware normalizing preventable death.
"As with similar epidemics and disasters that disproportionately strike vulnerable populations, the #Covid19 pandemic has witnessed a multilayered process of erasure that cloaks its victims in invisibility."–@RichardCKeller somatosphere.net/2022/memoriali…
“Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner,…people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is…what America is built on”-@DrDebFurrHolden
2 administrations framed the pandemic as a matter of personal choice, focusing on vaccines, failing to make rapid tests, better masks, antibody cocktails, & vaccines accessible to the poorest Americans until 2022 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Better plans ahead:
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