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11 Jan, 15 tweets, 4 min read
In general, I agree. Just give everyone money and vaccines. At the same time, keep in mind that the result of folks 'cutting in line' is that those with the most will get vaccinated while the marginalized (especially Black, Latino, and Indigenous essential workers) get screwed.
The ultimate solution to that problem is for the federal government to be competent in vaccine distribution as well as stemming the pandemic (and community spread) overall. The latter would make it easier for most folks to wait their turn for vaccination.
If we're are all being honest, the deliberate failure of the Trump regime to stem the pandemic (as well as provide money for folks to stay home and avoid infection) is the single-biggest factor in folks trying to jump ahead of folks in most need of vaccination right now.
There's also the greed among the very wealthy that is also the reason why the pandemic hasn't been stemmed. But there are a lot of folks jumping ahead of the line because they don't want to get sick or die. Which would be less of an issue if the federal government did its job.
Folks continually underestimate how the failure to pass UBI, increase pandemic relief, require companies to allow employees to work remotely, and shut down bars, restaurants and other non-essential activities has led to exactly what is happening now.
The outrage is a result of the outcomes of the federal government (along with states and municipalities) failing to take the steps necessary to keep people safe and keep infections low. Which is understandable since some folks jumping the line are also opposed to wearing masks.
The outcomes dictate the outrage. The outcomes also lead to folks jumping ahead of folks in greater need of vaccination. Because of those very outcomes.
The federal government, which finances vaccine development, regulates their development and application, and ultimately, is in charge of fighting the pandemic (the public welfare clause states that) is ultimately in charge.
The problem with the federal government abdicating its responsibilities throughout the pandemic, especially in regards to vaccine distribution, is that most states lack the capacity to handle it. Some can because they have resources - and even many of them are struggling.
The nation is vaccinating just 200,000 people a day - and there are 40 million doses available right now. Letting states do this work means that we have low numbers of vaccinations. Which leads to line-cutting and doses going into the trash.
The fact that CDC has provided 'guidance' to states does not negate the fact that the federal government is responsible for vaccine distribution. In fact, the very existence of federal guidance makes that responsibility clear.
If the federal government didn't have responsibility for vaccine, it wouldn't have crafted guidance or even financed vaccine creation. There are many things states and municipalities for which the federal government has no guidance or even regulates.
The inability to realize the federal role in vaccination as well as in stemming the pandemic is also a result of the larger problem of the nation having a slip-shod material security framework that leaves the marginalized without any resources or help.
Again, a nation with a strong material security framework borne out of mutual respect for each other and viewing everyone as members of community does things like handling a pandemic differently.

America is a selfish nation mired in White Supremacy.
The result of systemic bigotry and selfishness is that even the White folks who supposedly benefit from White Supremacy are dying. For wealthier and more-powerful White people.

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RiShawn Biddle Profile picture
11 Jan
The mistake most folks make is that they think facts are debatable when it's really contexts and conclusions that are.

A fact may be relevant to one subject or issue, but not to another. You can also look at data and reach different conclusions.
The facts themselves may or may not stand scrutiny based on what underpins them. A study can offer one conclusion, but if its dataset is limited or is based on a highly flawed element (such as self-reports), it is still a 'fact', but not necessarily useful.
If the 'fact' is made up, it isn't a fact at all. It's just fiction.

But in general, when based on actual information, facts are facts. Whether or not they are relevant in a context is another story. As is whether the conclusions gleaned from them are or aren't disputable.
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11 Jan
1) Many private schools have high COVID infection rates, yet don't always report. So parents are paying good money to endanger the lives of their kids and themselves.
2) If the federal government did its job and stemmed the pandemic, public school buildings would be open.
As folks such as Kenya and I have pointed out, growing evidence shows that 1) youth get COVID, 2) the infection rates for youth under 18 is now often higher (double) the rates for the population overall, and @DrStevePerry
In countries where school buildings have remained open, notably the United Kingdom, teachers are getting infected with COVID at rates higher than the overall population. @DrStevePerry
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10 Jan
Thomas Jefferson was no different than Reinhard Heydrich is what's being said.
The plantation was the pre-modern concentration camp. Death and depravity happened there. But a lot of what was done within them was working enslaved Black people to death. The same way the Nazis did with Jews and others at Auschwitz a century later.
The mistake most folks make is thinking that all concentration camps were only for committing immediate genocide. Not true. Most of Auschwitz's 31 subcamps were factories where Jews and others were worked to death for profit. Just like the average American plantation.
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10 Jan
How about we also expel the rest of you Congressional Republicans because you have spent four years abetting and aiding the very insurrection Trump has fomented?
Let's remove this fascist, too.
Expel them all. thewayofimprovement.com/2021/01/09/abo…
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10 Jan
Pence, McConnell, McCarthy and the rest of the Republicans are also fascists. And White Supremacists.

No one calling Trump a fascist and White Supremacist is exempting the rest, Jacobin dude.
Bessner's statement isn't surprising when you consider his blinkered populist views on other matters.
Ross' response to Bessner is spot-on.
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9 Jan
It's as if White Supremacists only like cops when they aid and abet their evil efforts.
Fascism can't exist without the underpinnings of supremacist ideologies. So Newsome Bass is correct.
"Take the 1898 Wilmington insurrection, an all-American white nationalist riot also aimed at seizing state power, only it succeeded... what happened this week was not a case of chickens coming home to roost. The chickens had simply never left." nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
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