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12 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
LA needs to crash the 284636 tiered CA system; ask for more vaccine based on imminent collapse of the system; open 24/7 vaccination centers in every zip code, (2 per underserved zips), mobilize contract health workers and start jabbing. This can be done. It’s not being done.
We are numb to the deaths. We are numb to the press conferences with the same faces urging us to do more. We are masked. We are shut down as much as we can be. Stop yelling at us. Start breaking rules. The quicker we do this, the quicker we save our medical system. And lives.
I know we are also not fully complying with the byzantine health orders. We have all violated the rules in some way. Some egregiously and recklessly. But many of us try really really hard to stay home 24/7. We try. Many others are forced to work. What else can we do?
I’m bewildered and frustrated and feel for my friends who suffer from Covid (5 at the moment!) and health care workers. I’m really angry. And I’m ... a relatively temperate person.

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The sad truth here is that LA has been locked down to the point where there are no more plausible interventions and closures in the government’s toolkit. So health authorities are improvising and then getting their backs up when citizens dare question them.
And closing down OUTDOOR dining might well drive people to have more private parties and dinners inside, which does facilitate transmission. So, LA closed down outdoor dining for three weeks. They mean well. But this is the “last mile” enforcement problem.
You can’t enforce “don’t gather with friends indoors” at the point of a gun, so the idea is to maximize safe options. In LA, there’s still a rush to shut down OUTDOOR stuff ... which always has increased indoor stuff. It doesn’t make sense. We know it doesn’t.
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President’s pollster willfully amplifying completely BS claim here. Percentages are of RV, not VAP and are not out of line with history. Also, the source for the claim of turnout exceeding 100 percent has retracted its data. This adult human knows better. Receipts to follow. Image
This is the source for the claim that Powerline amplified. It has corrected its data. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings… Image
Wisconsin routinely has dealt high turnout among registered voters, often exceeding 80 percent. But the claim falsely says that this is 80 percent of eligible voters - a much larger category. In 2016, turnout was 64 percent among *eligible voters* Image
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1) Denying agency to Cuban American voters in Miami-Dade and assuming they were the victims of disinformation OR that Dem consultants didn’t spend enough money “reaching out” is a fundamental misreading of why people vote.
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3) for a party that embraces intersectionality, some folks in it (not all) sure have a habit of assuming that, for example, the politics of immigration play the same with women and men whose parents emigrated from very different countries for very different reasons.
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