Let me get this straight... arguably one of the most successful anti-Trump groups of 2020, @MeidasTouch, is now being attacked in a Rolling Stone hit piece...
Who owns the @RollingStone? Well, isn’t that a coincidence.
2) the Brazil-origin 🇧🇷 variant #P1 is extremely aggressive. It is 2-2.5x faster transmission, studies show, has some potential reinfection risk, and some early evidence it’s maybe more severe. #P1 is a major problem.
“VERY ILL”—many players of the NHL Vancouver @Canucks are “very ill” with #COVID19, some confirmed to have the aggressive Brazil 🇧🇷 #P1 variant. The 14-player outbreak is “unexpected” and the team is in “tough shape”. Practices & games cancelled. BC 🇨🇦 has huge #P1 outbreak. 🧵
2) The 14 @Canucks players with #COVID19 on NHL's COVID Protocol list—Travis Boyd, Thatcher Demko, Jayce Hawryluk, Bo Horvat, Tyler Motte, Tyler Myers and Brandon Sutter joining Alex Edler, Adam Gaudette, Travis Hamonic, Braden Holtby, Quinn Hughes, Zack MacEwen, Antoine Roussel.
3) British Columbia 🇨🇦 is now a world epicenter for the #P1 variant.
BREAKING—Fertilizer factory wastewater storage ponds now collapsing—up to 800 million gallons of phosphate-production byproducts already leaking 32 mil gallons/day now full-on collapsing....
2) “The uncontrolled release is near the intersection of Buckeye Road and Bud Rhoden Road, affecting 15 to 20 residences.
3) ““We believe that there is enough imminent threat from the stack that those homes south of the stack and those businesses could be affected through flooding if that, if those conditions were to worsen,” said Manatee County Director of Public Safety Jacob Surr.
Epidemiologist Dr. @larrybrilliant, who led smallpox global eradication, expressed concerns over new #SARSCoV2 variants and stressed need for a plan in addition to vaccines. “I’m quite worried—We seem to be getting variants of concern almost every week”.🧵 uk.news.yahoo.com/larry-brillian…
2) A coronavirus strain that originated in South Africa, for example, renders the AstraZeneca vaccine 90% ineffective, Brilliant pointed out. A variant first seen in Brazil can allow reinfection, and one that emerged in the United Kingdom is more transmissible.
3) “I do think we have to have a backup plan in addition to vaccinating everybody as fast as we can—get really much better at outbreak containment, detection, finding, isolating, & vaccinating them with the vaccine that matches the variant that our genomics tells us they have.”
“ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER” of phosphate factory 🏭 polluted water—32 million gallons per day are leaking out of a 800-million-gallon holding pool at industrial site near Tampa Bay prompted evacuation of residents within about a mile of the plant—worsening.🧵 axios.com/tampa-bay-mana…
2) Florida Department of Environmental Protection said draining (the wastewater pools) was the only way to prevent "a containment failure and catastrophic release."
3) The wastewater pools at the now abandoned Piney Point fertilizer factory is long considered one of the “one of the biggest environmental threats in Florida history.”