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11 Oct

@NewYorker

In an interview Sunday on @NewYorker radio on @NPR, Dr. Fauci spoke about violent threats to himself and family. He said in the 80s & 90s he got threats from "right wingers" who "didn't like me spending so much time on AIDS and 'queers' or whatever they called gays then."
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Fauci said those people were a small faction, but now it's very extreme. He says no one should be threatening a "public health official." Fauci says, "I am not the enemy. The enemy is the virus." Fauci also spoke about vaccines and communities of color.
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Folks may forget it was Fauci who raised the issue of disparity in infection and death rates in BIPOC communities and that had to be addressed and Trump et al ignored his concerns. He spoke about that again & said Black and brown communities have reason to distrust the govt.
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11 Oct

THREAD 📌 So no joke I was too depressed to write about #WorldMentalHealthDay. I meant to put up a series I did on #LGBTQ mental health and didn't. I meant to put up some interviews I did with MH experts on the "collective trauma" we are experiencing, but I just couldn't.
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For months I've been being treated for an exacerbation of #PTSD with concomitant depression & anxiety. I was going to write something profound about that, but instead took a Xanax, cried for a bit, read some poetry (which I used to write), tried not to crawl out of my skin.
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I mostly wanted to say that we all need to be able to talk about how mental illness is often crushing, the pain as exhausting as physical pain. I wanted to say to folks who are suffering that you are not alone--there are millions of us. But I was unable to do any of it. Sigh.
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8 Oct

@KamalaHarris

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I will say this in my column, but @KamalaHarris had to navigate so much: She was up against the sitting VP. She is one of only 4 women in US history to be on that stage, as a nominee and is the only Black woman & only 2nd Black person to do so.
#VPDebate
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The expectations of women are so much more than they ever are on men. For WOC, it is exponential. A Black woman on stage as a challenger to a white man is itself an optic that unsettles the fundamental narrative of white supremacy.

#VPDebate
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Many of us were shattered by the abusive performance by Trump a week ago. So comparatively, Pence's calm, message-driven gaslighting performance seemed different. Contentious but not threatening--not like Trump's scary shouty abuse. Or was it?
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6 Oct

@CNN

"Monoclonal antibodies have been very successful," Dr. Fauci says. He says it could be very helpful for COVID & "it very well could be the thing that turned the corner" for Trump. Fauci says "We had success in Africa with it on Ebola." He says we have more studies to do.
@CNN

Fauci says that there are several vaccines in trials & that preliminary studies suggest that there may be a safe vaccine by the end of the year, but there'd be only limited amount of vaccine available for priority workers, 1st. Then incremental distribution over months to others.

Fauci says that vaccine is being produced now, so that it is ready when it is determined to be safe and efficacious. But he stresses that this is going to be a slow layered process of distribution with frontline workers and then at-risk people next. He suggests mid-2021.

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3 Oct

@colbertlateshow

Stephen Colbert just skewered the way the administration tried to hide the president's condition and keep it not just from America, but "unethically" from all the people Trump exposed to the virus.
#COVID19
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@StephenAtHome

.@StephenAtHome reiterates what I wrote when the news broke: That Trump put the nation's security at risk.

@colbertlateshow

CBS News medical expert Dr. John La Pook says when he was treating #COVID19 patients at NYU he saw many people who were doing okay the first few days and then took a bad turn suddenly. He says we need more transparency about Trump's status and his co-morbidities.
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30 Sep

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This may be too personal, but I think anyone who has ever been in an abusive relationship--with a parent, relative, partner, friend--has experienced what happened tonight many times. It is impossible to fight back against such violence. Trump's behavior was abuse.
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I think America has been in the thrall of an abusive leader for the past four years. The non-stop bullying and goading. The name-calling: Even in the #PresidentialDebate Trump referenced "Pochahontas," "Crying Chuck Schumer" and "Crooked Hillary." We hear this all the time.
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In 2016 Hillary had an ad with small children watching Trump on TV. It was just clip after clip of him name-calling and cursing. It's abuse. And then he denies it. Gaslighting. When you have experienced this, you recognize it for what it is. But it is toxic. And dangerous.
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