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28 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Crackdown—Police in Uttar Pradesh filed a criminal case on a man who used Twitter to appeal for oxygen cylinder for his grandfather, for allegedly circulating a rumor with the intent to cause fear or alarm. UP chief minister launched crackdown this week.🧵
scroll.in/latest/993484/…
2) The police claimed that the man was “spreading misleading information”. Sub-inspector Virendra Singh of the Ramganj police station claimed that Yadav provided false information on oxygen supply and the coronavirus to target the Uttar Pradesh government.
3) “It was found during the inquiry that because of the accused’s false tweet, several persons made allegations against the government,” Singh told the newspaper.

indianexpress.com/article/cities…
4) This was how the crackdown began.

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➡️“We have production capacity & it’s not being used”. #Vaccines4All
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Ummmm… #P1 🇧🇷 variant’s case fraction % in New York City just rose over 30% in just one week. Any others growing? Not really—#B117 (while more common) only rose tiny bit, and the NY variant #B1526 is mostly flat.

I’ve seen this movie before—in BC🇨🇦—it didn’t end well. #COVID19
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3) BC’s #P1 started slow, but then it became a huge problematic of an outbreak.
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📍~35% of US population has likely been infected #COVID19 as of March says CDC—115 mil infections, 97 mil symptomatic & 5.6 mil hospitalizations. This means total infections are ~4x higher than official reports. Also means 🇮🇳 undercount likely much worse.
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2) It is unclear how these numbers might factor into herd immunity — including how long natural immunity might last and how much overlap there is with people who are now vaccinated.
3) The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimates that 30% of the US has been infected as of April 19. This is a large jump from its previous update, just one week prior, when it estimated only 22% of the US had been infected.
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It’s not just death from #COVID19, it’s also the long term suffering of #LongCovid.

Don’t let COVID deniers / minimizers try to tell you otherwise. The human suffering toll is real.

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29 Apr
Dear Dr @drharshvardhan — you are unfit to be the Health Minister of India 🇮🇳.

Please RESIGN.

#COVID19India #COVID19
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3) You’ve had many chances to tell the truth about what is happening. But you @drharshvardhan continue to dismiss and downplay.
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Dear @DonWagnerCA, there is no tracking device in the #COVID19 vaccine.

Stop peddling conspiracies. You know you asked it in a conspiracy-deranged manner.

I can’t believe the 3 million people of Orange County, CA somehow elected you.
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Dr. Clayton Chau said, “Nope”

But then you doubled down: “Is there any — in the vaccine — we heard about the injection of a tracking device. Is that being done anywhere in Orange County?”
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3) That’s when Chau openly chuckled at the lawmaker and said, “I’m sorry. I just have to compose myself. There is not a vaccine with a tracking device embedded in it that I know of that exists in the world. Period.”
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