1/ One of the biggest issues with #covid19 epidemic response work is that it’s easy enough to suggest tons of ideas but a whole different beast having to actually operationalize those ideas into a real plan that is carried out.
2/ The administration failed to operationalize any plan completely. No mask mandate. No coordinated national tracing initiative. No real implementation of digital tracing. No nationally supported/coordinated central isolation options for vulnerable. No adequate $$ protections
3/ So the conclusion of all that—> supporting a plan where they wouldn’t really have to do anything at all except shift the responsibility back onto us. Young go ahead & work again. “Old/vulnerable” stay at home. And then label it as “science” by calling it “herd immunity”
4/ And worst of it all frame this as being about protecting the poor & frontline workers— as if this administration has ever given a damn about these groups. They weren’t willing to provide any substantial $$ protections. They couldn’t even get us masks— told us to fold t shirts
5/ This is and always has been about politics and money over health; there is no real plan for how to “protect the vulnerable” here— & as soon as the administration realized the FDA wouldn’t let them rush a vaccine before the election, it seems like an ideal time to...
6/ Come up with a “plan” that could frame failure as success— suddenly the more infections, the better. Well— let’s call BS as @CT_Bergstrom would say.
If you are going to propose a plan or sign a declaration, you need to have an actual way to make it happen.
If you are going to propose a plan or sign a declaration, you need to have an actual way to make it happen.
7/ Just saying “herd immunity” over and over again doesn’t cut it. And you must acknowledge that every half baked idea costs us limited time and attention; distractions like these mean we continue moving away from doing the work that lies ahead of us either way.
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