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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
WHY IS RHODE ISLAND NOT TRYING TO VACCINE AS MANY PEOPLE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE !?!?!?!?!?

This is ridiculous.
"As of Wednesday, Rhode Island had administered nearly 60% of the doses it had received from the federal government, the lowest rate across all states."

Great job Rhode Island! Way to be the worst state in only the worst pandemic in 100 years!
I very much have no problem focusing on equity in vaccinations. The Central Falls plan is a good one. But the most important thing is putting vaccines in people's arms. And we are doing a horrible job of this basic task we face.
Even better:

"At the same time, only about 25% of all vaccine doses administered in Rhode Island have gone into the arms of adults ages 60 and up, spurring frustration among older residents whose cohort accounts for the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths in Rhode Island."

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14 Feb
This Day in Labor History: February 14, 1940. A group of Navajos write a letter of protest against the livestock reduction program the government forced upon them. Let's talk about how the New Deal transformed Navajo work culture in a shockingly negative way. Image
The four Navajos were named Scott Preston, Julius Begay, Frank Goldtooth, and Judge Many Children. They wrote, in part, "The Navajo Indians are not opposed to grazing permits as such, in fact we believe they heartily approve them if the manner of issuance is fair...
....and the limits are sufficiently high to permit the family to exist.

For instance, in our own district (No.3) the sheep unit is set at 282. If a person has 5 horses, that would be the equivalent to 25 sheep; 1 head of cattle is the equivalent of 4 sheep....
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13 Feb
This Day in Labor History: February 13, 1837. The Equal Rights Party, better known as the Loco Focos although a pejorative from the city’s Whigs, held a rally in City Hall Park in New York City to protest the high cost of living. Let's talk about this early labor action! Image
This led to the Flour Riot, where workers raided flour mills to gain what they thought what rightfully belonged to them at a much lower price than they paid.
This brief moment of labor agitation is a good window into both the problems early 19th century urban workers faced, as well as their nascent labor organizations.
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7 Feb
This Day in Labor History: February 7, 1894. Gold miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado walk off the job, leading to one of the biggest wins for workers in the Gilded Age. Why? Because they had elected a pro-labor governor. Let's talk about this!
By the 1890s, the area around Cripple Creek was the center of the Colorado gold fields. Cripple Creek itself was the second largest city in the state.
The Panic of 1893 theoretically could have helped these workers; it was silver prices that collapsed and the government needed all the gold it could get.
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6 Feb
I wrote a short essay on how the much needed phenomenon of popular epidemiology that came out of the 70s has had cascading effects that has seriously hurt our COVID response.

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/how-po…
In short, when we lose faith in science and medicine and technology and think we can choose for our bodies better than they, what are the consequences? Especially when we should be questioning how science, medicine, and technology are created.
When you have Black Americans not wanting the vaccine because they know that racist scientists and doctors have created racist scientific and medicinal practices and you have scientists putting chemicals on the market without even investigating human health effects, well?
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6 Feb
This Day in Labor History: February 6, 1919. The Seattle General Strike begins. Let's talk about it!
The Seattle General Strike began with a longshoremen’s strike, as shipyard workers protested two years without a pay raise. 35,000 workers walked off their jobs. They believed they would receive a raise after government wage controls during the war were ended.
Instead, the government-appointed leader of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, designed to promote the rapid construction of America’s Navy, conspired with business leaders to keep down wages.
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4 Feb
A shakshuka kind of evening.
To be precise it's a "My wife teaches online until 5 and then has meetings with students until 6:30 and then wants a damn good dinner for her troubles" kind of evening.
It's also a "What can do I other than edit this paper I'm writing" evening
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