THREAD RT: My dad #MarkUrquiza was an actual warrior, @IvankaTrump. Your father killed my father. I know you know who I am and what I think. I saw you nod at me when you and your caravan of vectors walked past me at Tuesday night's debate. (1/9)
I practiced restraint to show respect to you, your Dad, the rules @debates, and @ClevelandClinic set before us, @JoeBiden, and democracy. I had a copy of my Dad's obituary ready to hand to you. (2/9)
But I don't have to show the same kind of restraint here, especially in light of the developments that your family and the ghoulish republican party in complete arrogant disregard of the rules the rest of the attendees agreed to put our lives in danger. (3/9)
My dad, if he was here, would be banging down the door of Walter Reed hospital right now demanding answers. You knew your close associates were positive and you put our lives on the line. You put politics, yet again, over me and my family's health. (4/9)
@IvankaTrump, why do you continue to underestimate me and the growing movement of REAL #WARRIORS who are part of the #MarkedByCOVID movement to NOT BEAR witness and EXPOSE your criminal behavior? (5/9)
Back to my Dad, the true warrior. His baseball team in the 1980s that he managed he named the Warriors. He always identified as a Warrior. Our ancestral people were indigenous people of the Americas who were warriors.
(6/9)
When your dad on May 5th came to my Dad's former employer @honeywell in #Arizona and said, " Our country wants to open...They have to open. And the people of our country should think of themselves as warriors.β My father listened. (7/9)
He believed your father's #LIES that it was safe. And for that, it cost him his life. And guess what Ivanka, I am a warrior. A warrior for justice. A warrior fueled by the truth and love. (8/9)
I wish your father a speedy recovery but you're not co-opting the word warrior. Warriors put country first -- over the party and certainly over self. Your father is a coward, a conman, a criminal, and a fascist. I will never allow him to be remembered as a warrior. (9/9)
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"With an average of 500 people a day still dying from #Covid in the U.S. and countless more struggling with #LongCovid, this continues the federal governmentβs refusal to take the pandemic seriously, protect people, and listen to the Covid bereaved."
βΌοΈFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Today, @WhiteHouse and the @HHSGov released reports laying out existing resources and plans to address long-term effects of #COVID19.
...the missing input from COVID bereaved and the lack of urgency around Long COVIDβa condition affecting 1 in 5 Americans who have tested positive.
From @kdurquiza: βThere is no federal plan to reckon with the 1 million + lives (and counting) lost to Covid-19. ππΎ
People who lost loved ones to Covid put their trust in this Administration to respond to the pandemic with the full power of the federal government, but the feds are instead sweeping Covid deaths under the rug and into the memory hole as we did with the 1918 pandemic. ππΎ
Thanks to @michelleko2d, MD-PhD -- #MarkedByCovid Advisor & Assistant Public Health Sciences Professor at @ucdavis -- for capturing some gems from today's Teach-In!
Sure, letβs keep using @CDCgov's calm green "Community Level" map that overemphasizes hospitalizations & deaths instead of the "Community Transmission" map that clearly demonstrates (high & growing!) infection rate.
That totally helps ppl make "informed decisions" about risk.π
In highly vaccinated #SanFrancisco, 7-day positivity & average daily case rates are growing significantly, despite decreased testing -- both are close to or above their highest levels throughout the entire of the pandemic, outside of the massive omicron surge.
Though @WhiteHouse@TheJusticeDept have appealed a court decision striking down federal mask mandates on public transit, they have not requested a "stay" to keep masks ON until a final verdict.
"The pandemicβs toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose* not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time...
[*Note: inaccurate language that blames victims; cultural & structural barriers to vaccination remain.]
...and the elderly and immunocompromised β who are at greatest risk of succumbing to #COVID19 even if vaccinated β having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains*."
[*Add: "and increased community spread due to decreased mitigation efforts like universal masking."]