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25 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So all the crucial data points here are at the end. Women respond more dramatically to ALL vaccines, but because researchers didn't even test women in vaccine trials until recently, we don't know why.

Women Report Worse Side Effects After a Covid Vaccine nytimes.com/2021/03/08/hea…
As for the COVID vaccines, no one bothered to differentiate women from men despite FACTS about XX chromosomes and vaccines to see if women needed less vaccine than men and if side-effects could be mitigated.
So now as always, the science/medical industry shrugs off the impact on women's bodies of not considering them as important as men in testing a critical new vaccine that will be in use for decades to come. This piece is both gobsmacking and infuriating.
The side-effects are not monumental, but do flatten some women for a day or two. They aren't reason to not get the vaccine, obviously, but cited in this piece is how this reax is true for women with a dozen vaccines. So why not look at data and figure out how the second X works?

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#BoycottCocaColaCo is trending. If you really are boycotting, Coke owns 500 brands and are the world's largest beverage company. So it's not just Coke--it's everything from Bacardi to Dasani to Fairlife, Nestea to Simply. Be sure to check a list if their products. It's a lot.
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Good point. I was referencing physical #disability, but wasn't explicit. Haines is often talked over by her co-hosts when she raises the topic of mental illness, though, which exemplifies why we need more PWDs on TV talk shows. Standing up to non-disabled people can be very hard.
FYI: PWDs = People With Disabilities.
I also should have used more appropriate terms: visible and invisible disabilities. All disabilities are body, but not all can be seen. I was dxd with MS at 30 and that #disability was largely invisible. But since non-disabled people prefer to hide visibly #disabled--show us!
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21 Mar
This is a critically important thread.📌 Mocking #disability is, alas, bipartisan--everyone loves to do it. When I challenge people about their #ableism, they take offense. Non-disabled people talk over and through #disabled people all the time. Stop using ableist language. ...
... Disabled people are victimized on so many levels by so many people. Performative #ableism is commonplace. People use ableist language constantly. And victimizing disabled people is systemic. More than half of all police shootings are of disabled people. All so disheartening.
Case in point: If anyone GAF about #disabled people, Cuomo would have been forced to resign months ago over what he did to disabled and elderly people. And Trump's abuse of a #disabled reporter was a clear indicator of his #ableism, bigotry and saying the quiet parts out loud.
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20 Mar
The importance of this, particularly in states like mine or LA, MS and OH, with repressive abortion regulation, cannot be overstated. You don't have to personally support abortion to know this is a civil rights and healthcare issue for women as well as a class and race issue.
Biden is personally anti-abortion, as are many Catholics. (John Kerry, Tim Kaine also.) But he is politically aware that abortion is a woman's choice and must be legal and safe. The way to get to fewer abortions? Make contraception available to young and poor women.
The fact we stopped talking about contraception is bc men control the reproductive rights narrative. There's a veritable embargo on easy-access affordable contraception in the US. When abortions are easier to access--and they are hard to get--than contraception, women get harmed.
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20 Mar
Anita Hill faced similar harassment from Clarence Thomas. I covered that story as a young reporter and the language folks are using now against Cuomo's accusers is exactly the same--misogynist and vile.

Cuomo Faces New Claims of Sexual Harassment nytimes.com/2021/03/19/nyr…
People claimed Anita Hill was bribed to accuse Clarence Thomas. She was accused of trying to derail the career of a prominent man. Same as now. It's shameful how some Democrats are treating the victims, even after Biden's unequivocal statement. Their lives are the ones derailed.
The worst statements, made repeatedly, are that Tish James is investigating to pave her way to governor (false) and that anything less than rape is meaningless (vile and untrue). If Cuomo were GOP these same folks would be screaming for his head. The misogyny is appalling.
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20 Mar
"I regret that you weren't bright enough to understand why I have 'Prof' in my moniker."You're an economist, not a scientist nor epidemiologist. Folks who are have called you out for your facile deconstruction of data and for misinformation. You doubled down on your bad polemic.
Equating unvaccinated children with vaccinated adults is a false equivalency and a highly dangerous one. We can argue that children have lower risk levels, but not that their risk is just like the vaccinated. Also, cautious get togethers at July 4th =/= all clear herd immunity.
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