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Terrifying warning from Mississippi's top health official of "an absolute disaster" this fall:

"Prepare for not being able to get into the hospital if you have a car wreck, (to) have a heart attack and there not be a ventilator to put you on." #COVID19 jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
Read @nickjudin's entire terrifying interview with Dr. Thomas Dobbs. It's frightening, yes, but it is so, so important that we get the word out.
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
Dr. Dobbs: "We're seeing this sort of widespread abandonment of following (social distancing) orders. It's been extremely frustrating to be quite honest. You can only do so much, but people refuse to do what can be done to prevent transmission." #COVID19 jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
"(The guidelines) would be a lot more strict if (they) were likely to be successful. We're trying to find a medium where it can be beneficial, but also livable, but folks are not even following that." #COVID19
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
Dr. Dobbs: "If you go by restaurants or bars and they're packed, and people aren't separated and aren't wearing masks, it's really a frank abandonment of the rules." #COVID19
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
Dr. Dobbs on social distancing guidelines: "If everybody chooses to break the law, it's almost unenforceable. It's really a population issue. ... And we are gonna pay for it. We're paying for it now. And it's just going to continue to get worse." #COVID19 jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jun/…
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THREAD: There is a persistent historical myth that needs to be corrected. It's important.

Contrary to popular myth online, Ronald Reagan did not launch his 1980 campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, MS (site of the Mississippi Burning murders).

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This myth appears everywhere. If you Google "Ronald Reagan campaign launch," this is the top link that comes up (other Neshoba links follow). 👇🏻 2/
If you search, "Where did Ronald Reagan launch his presidential campaign?," this inaccurate Q&A comes up.

Reagan did not give his "I Believe un State's Rights" Neshoba speech on August 8, 1979.

In fact, he did not even launch his campaign until November 1979. 3/ 👇🏻
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Gov. Reeves celebrations $71 million from the federal government under Trump.

But when an Obama era program (Medicaid expansion) would've expanded health care to 200-300,000 Mississippians, Reeves called it socialism & said, "I am opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi."
Note: Polls show that 60%+ of Mississippians support Medicare expansion, which state health care experts say would have saved several rural hospitals that have closed since 2013.
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Lowndes Superviser Harry Sanders said he wasn't on the record when he said black slaves were well-cared for & "didn't have to go out & earn any money" or "do anything" & that black people are "dependent."

Audio shows two people told him he WAS on record: cdispatch.com/news/article.a…
I love how the Lowndes Board's attorney felt the need to join the reporter, @StellaYu_Mizzou, in warning Harry Sanders he was on the record BEFORE he made the racist comment.

Tells me this kind of remark wasn't necessarily unexpected.
Also, how does, "I didn't know I was on the record" make what he said any better?

"I only say racist things when I think I'm saying them privately" is a pretty bad (and false) defense.
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