Alternate POTUS:
Tens of thousands of Americans die from the flu every year. Please get your shot: flu.gov
One day, we will have a vaccine for #COVID19, but not yet: please wear a mask & follow @cdcgov guidance to protect the vulnerable. Every life is precious.
#COVID19 is the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA, behind heart disease & cancer usafacts.org/articles/top-c…
The @CDCDirector says if we all wear a mask, it will save lives.
If we don’t, COVID19 could be the leading cause of death in America by Christmas.
Be a patriot: mask up!
Most young people may live, but some won’t. Others have long-term effects: theatlantic.com/health/archive… The older & sicker Americans are, the more likely COVID19 will take them. We must protect vulnerable.
Masks are the key way to prevent this deadly airborne disease from spreading.
But, my fellow Americans, masks won’t be enough. We need to change how we work, live, & play until our amazing scientists have a safe, viable vaccine. I know this will be harder this winter, but please avoid crowding indoors in poorly ventilated buildings: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
As the @potus, I have the best healthcare in our union, including an experimental drug that may have saved my life.
Far too many of you face huge hospital bills & prescription costs.
If you lost insurance through a job, please visit HealthCare.Gov & get insured today.
Everyone who needs healthcare must be able get it during this pandemic — without going bankrupt.
Today, I’m announcing @TheJusticeDept is abandoning its lawsuit to overturn the ACA & states are extending Medicaid.
We will prevent insurers denying coverage if you’ve had COVID19.
My administration is partnering with amazing companies to make the best masks in the world, & will be sending one to every American. Look for yours in the mail, along with a SNAP card to use or donate, & @cdcgov guidance on ventilation & safe schools: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
We made a mistake holding an indoor event at the White House.
Many members of Congress & my administration are now sick.
We tested everyone & told them to isolate for 2 weeks, & are tracing contacts.
Please learn from our error: anyone can get this deadly virus, & some will die.
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1) @Twitter & @Facebook don’t have to host speech that misinforms Americans about the risk of a deadly virus: washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… They could mask it with facts first. 2) Americans need & deserve so much better from a @POTUS:
Twitter has now masked Trump’s tweet & explained why (it violated rules about spreading misleading & potentially harmful information related to #COVID19”) but also *removed* a tweet.
So far this morning, ministers and civil society representatives to this virtual #opengov summit aren't talking much about what's happened in the USA, the state of its participation, or what it means to @opengovpart. Probably easier & safer not to do so.
@opengovpart Would be good to see ministers, @HelenClarkNZ, & #opengov leaders grapple more with deliberate undermining of trust in government, election integrity, & the press by autocrats, from Hungary to Turkey to Russia to the USA, & share what works to mitigate or reverse it #OpenResponse
“Well-supported arguments…have made the case that Trump fits the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy & narcissism. Either disorder, by its medical definition, would render him all but incapable of accepting defeat. Conventional commentary has trouble facing this issue squarely.”
Trump “is discrediting” mail-in voting, “starving it of resources, signaling his supporters to vote in person, & preparing the ground for post–Election Night plans to contest the results. It is the strategy of a man who expects to be outvoted & means to hobble the count.” 🚨🚨🚨
“Close students of election law and procedure are warning that conditions are ripe for a constitutional crisis that would leave the nation without an authoritative result. We have no fail-safe against that calamity. Thus the🚨”-@bartongellmantheatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Mourning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg: washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…
Before her distinguished career as a jurist, the legal pioneer led a team of @ACLU lawyers that established our constitutional guarantee of equal protection applied to women.
RIP, RBG.
Your legacy & light lives on.
I stopped by the Supreme Court to pay my respects to Justice Ginsberg & see how she was being honored & remembered, but kept my distance. There are hundreds of Washingtonians quietly moving around the plaza, mostly masked, reading messages on a cool, crisp fall day.
“Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for, & helped to constitutionalize the most hard-fought and least-appreciated revolution in modern American history: the emancipation of women.”-Jill Lepore newyorker.com/news/postscrip…
If every American starting wearing a mask tomorrow, we would be able get back to work, school, sports, & civic life long before a viable vaccine reached 70% of our people.
Thousands will keep dying until we all mask up.
Start there, then test, trace, & isolate.
But this President is dooming his fellow Americans to die, rebuking the @CDCDirector for telling Congress & the public what the world knows: masks are “the most important, powerful public health tool we have” in fighting this pandemic. nytimes.com/2020/09/16/wor… Impeachable idiocy
“The European experience, like the American example, looks quite different from East Asia’s. There, widespread mask usage, regular temperature checks, & strict contact tracing…coincide with…close to 0 deaths each day” politico.com/newsletters/po…