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16 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I have no fear of Trump leaving office. I have, for awhile, been afraid that if GSA keeps dangling the keys, work that could be done on Jan. 20 will happen in Feb or March.

And this could be deadly, given complexity of cold storage supply chains & such

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Vaccine distribution overlaps with my core research with HIV, but I'm no expert. So I've been trying to crash course on logistics, and the many moving parts needed to roll out a vaccine IF and WHEN it's safe.

And PHEW, so much can go wrong with a vaccine needing cold transport.
Already, COVID has created major disruptions to care for drug addiction, malaria, TB, HIV...and the strain a COVID vaccine could put on supplies of chemicals, syringes, chickens/eggs, shark fins, flight schedules, dry ice is extraordinary. nytimes.com/2020/08/03/hea…
All of the logistics and supply chain matters should be up and running if and when the vaccine is available. So here, here it's really important the administration (which will definitely changeover) should use this chunk of time w/o a vaccine to prep the ppl who may distro it.

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As a Black gay man, HIV is always a part of every sexual encounter. Even if an intimate partner or I don't believe we have it, HIV is still like a phantom lover in a threeway with us

Similarly, COVID is a part of everyone's intimate lives, like a phantom—and must be tended to.
This is a sentence/metaphor I am trying to perfect for my book. I am trying to think with better metaphors about viruses. HIV can be like a baby, welcomed by a doula, as @TheodoreKerr1 & his fellow WWHIVDD artists put it.
I really dislike thinking in war metaphors. We are not at "war" with viruses, at least I am not. I really love how @SFdirewolf told me how she respects viruses, because we're all in "the same soup" together--and if we can't share a planet w them, how can we survive?
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18 Nov
I would like to get tenure someday, so I won't give him my New Yorker's response as bluntly as I want. But I will say: Whether with obesity or COVID, this neoliberal horseshit of 'it's your fault, fatty' w/o any systemic reflection is deeply insulting and VERY rich from Cuomo...
...a man who wrote a victory lap book about the pandemic before it was over, a man who slashed Medicaid during the pandemic, a man who stripped hospitals of thousands of beds in the decade before the pandemic, a man who kept ppl locked in cages during the pandemic, a man who
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Hearing a nurse on @democracynow describe “the pit”
where COVID+ patients were sent to die, reading on elder death in Belgium, thinking of COVID task force member Zeke Emanuel’s essay on why life isn’t worth living after 75–and my heart feels heavy about transnational ableism
Last night I got angry abt a thread saying we are at “war” with this virus. We are NOT at “war” with the virus. Indeed, comparing 9/11/2001 with COVID-19 reveals that the US didn’t care about death on 9/11...it cared about vengeance.
A comparable number of ppl in the US who died on 9/11 (abt 3,000) died of COVID every two to three days. But we learn almost nothing them. But for hospital workers and body movers, we largely don’t see how they actually die. And bc if volume we learn little about any one of them.
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Reading every word of @cliomiso's @CJR longread on Substack, but this line from Substack's founding press release stands out. It's quite an analogy considering that Substack is supposed to help struggling writers & how Lyft and Uber worked out for workers
cjr.org/special_report… Image
"To the extent that Substack fixes something in the journalism industry, it might be compared to GoFundMe—a survival mechanism whose resources are unevenly, arbitrarily distributed, laying bare systemic problems without directly tackling them." - @ntnsndr
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16 Nov
It's been good to be in communication w friends in the UK. At the start of COVID, I assumed the NHS would address the pandemic much better than US patchwork private-public bs system. But when I was in NYC, it was easy to get tested. Friends in UK tell me they can't get tested.
Of course, NHS prevents one major form of viral health catastrophe - people in the UK don't go for a procedure that drives them into financial ruin (which creates other health catastrophes). But even w NHS, racial disparities remain. cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
The US is NOT reflected at large by the NYC department of health. We have such a patchwork system, and it can create debt that create materially harmful health disparities (up to and including death) NHS does not.

But I didn't know 'til @AdamZmith told me how stripped NHS is
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16 Nov
Well I spent yrs paying off my student debt and guess what I think?

CANCEL THE DAMN DEBT NOW!

What kind of ghoul* looks at ppl inside of a burning building & says, “Well ~I~ got out—let the others burn!” rather than wanting the fire extinguished?

(* a liberal ghoul)
And these ghouls—these deprived demons who conceive of life merely as a way to maximize financial extraction from every living being—are they unaware that removing debt burden would allow their precious economy to function better in terms of capitalizing actual goods & services?
(BTW, "ghouls" is the best insult because it's a pejorative that implicates no group or and brings to mind no person except for maybe Rudy Giuliani)
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