Thread by @GIMaPreceptor

1/ Debating whether to dignify this ... but here goes

I think most of us endangered docs/nurses/respiratory therapists/social workers/hospital chaplains are also frustrated re clarity of the campaign &publicly voiced narrative re this administration’s &our nation’s response ->

https://twitter.com/doctorsforbiden/status/1320190941878210560

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The ‘it didn’t have to be this way’ - must remind the public, the on the fence voter, of the following:

Pandemic preparedness structures were pared down &not present 2help initial strategy

‘Leadership’ must b holistic/humble - it sits back &listens deeply to expertise ->

3/ if ‘leadership’ respected lifelong career pandemic preparedness experts, we would have:

accepted WHO tests for #COVID19 to apply at the outset

commissioned efforts 2create a new test 2multiple entities 4redundancy as an insurance policy, ie .... ->

4/ .. commercial labs, academic virology labs, the CDC and NIH, and NOT JUST to one entity (CDC). The delay in testing bc of contamination of first CDC test was crippling on both coasts. We had to ration tests to only symptomatic/diagnostic use. We could not map/trace

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‘Leadership’ would be deeply humble/citizen centered. If it were, it would have heard EARLY we must (step 1 in pandemic) mass test/use positives 2map/trace/quarantine 2take gasoline out of exponential rise; step 2 is mitigation and smart shutdowns - we half heartedly did ->

6/ .. step 2 first, and never did step 1

Therefore, our unknown asymptomatic/presymptomatic spread and exposure was wildly more intense than it needed to be

So many lives lost, #healthcareworkers in harms way, with #hero thrust upon them (implies agency ..)

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Then when we have testing, automated machines to do multiple w 1-2d turnaround, reagents, swabs, to some extent #PPE, what is ‘leadership’ supposed to do?

With each small tic upward in reported infections (ah, transparency) across country, supposed to send huge numbers ->

8/ .. of those automated machines, testing supplies, teams, PPE, facility building teams, and BLANKET those cities, surrounding areas w #ContactTracing .. an eighth of industry was needed 2mass produce said supplies, automated testing infrastructure, .. but no

The continued ->

9/ epicenters internally from the coasts were an even deeper insult to the health and welfare of the nation. The very value of life rejected ..

A dereliction of duty - only a national/federal coordination could have had the scope/financial heft/messaging power to effectuate ->

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#medtwitter #meded

These were our patients, colleagues, team members, friends, mentees, mentors

I wish, in the plea for change that is being made in debates, interviews, campaign, that we’d get the events right. This was a narcissistic anti expertise crime

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11/ .. and it continues w the ridicule of masks/governors/school districts that make decisions they see necessary/widened testing programs/discussion of economic malleability of response necessary

At the very least our ‘leaders’ & ‘institutions’ were supposed 2have our back

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