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29 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
A study of a clustered outbreak of the South African variant in Maryland highlights a few important takeaways:

-at least three fully vaccinated people were infected, but the only hospitalizations and deaths occurred among the unvaccinated

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(2) Contact tracing indicates this exposure occurred at an indoor small gathering where masks were worn but removed for eating. At least one person at the gathering was symptomatic at that time and is presumed to be the origin of the infection.
(3) The symptomatic person appears to have contracted the variant at a workplace that had already been reported to the CDC for coronavirus safety violations including people reporting for work sick and lack of social distancing and masking.
(4) The BIG takeaway? Vaccinations work in preventing hospitalization and death even when they don't prevent spread.

And there remain far too many unvaccinated and too many variants to return to indoor maskless gatherings, even small ones.
(5) What could have prevented this outbreak and these deaths? Employers taking accountability for safe workplace environments with proper social distancing and mask-wearing indoors.

You can help by taking your small gatherings outdoors and staying masked up. This isn't over yet
I’m not a doctor or infectious disease expert. Just reading the details the CDC linked up here and offering a few observations about the outbreak.

As always your best source of advice to stay safe during the pandemic are actual scientists & health experts.

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27 Apr
In our Tuesday thread, we're tackling something that has perplexed the public for years. Why is Tucker Carlson still on the air?

From championing replacement theory to advocating harassing children wearing masks, Carlson feeds dangerous rhetoric to the public.
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(2) If you feel like this is a question we've been asking for YEARS, you're not wrong. Tucker has had so many scandals and calls for boycotts that most of us have lost track.

So why is he still on the air and how does Fox justify keeping him around?

washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
(3) Probably the most important thing to recognize is that boycotts of Tucker's advertisers haven't been effective in shutting down his rhetoric for a reason. Even as the show bleeds ad revenue, Fox still benefits from the outrage clicks Tucker generates.

forbes.com/sites/jonathan…
Read 10 tweets
22 Apr
In our #ThursdayThread we're discussing how Majorie Taylor Greene wants to debate @AOC on the Green New Deal. Should Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez consent to debate Greene in a public forum?

Fuck no.
Here's the top five reasons why.

(THREAD)
(2) Reason #1:
Greene hasn't even bothered to read the bill, which is only 14 pages and pretty easily digestible.

There's no surer sign that this is a publicity stunt than Greene's lack of awareness about the topic she's proposing debating.

businessinsider.com/mtg-debate-aoc…
(3) Reason #2:
Greene is a professional provocateur. She's not there to debate policy. She's a clout chaser.

The easiest way to get her to stop poisoning political discourse is to ignore her bad faith antics.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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20 Apr
In our #TuesdayThread , we're discussing deplorables Majorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert. The cartoon villianesque evil duo seem to have become the center of every controversy in Washington.
Why?

The answer is simple.
Cold hard cash.
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(2) Majorie Taylor Greene is a textbook provocateur who perversely enjoys taunting and terrorizing people on camera. This is her entire persona in a nutshell.

If it gleans even a trickle of media attention, she's there to slurp it up. So very thirsty.

chicagotribune.com/nation-world/c…
(3) Boebert fits the same provocateur profile except she has a niche to exploit. Gun rights. And she'll go wherever the profits from 2A advocates take her.

She even runs a restaurant based on pissing off people in a state traumatized by gun violence.

kunc.org/2021-01-27/boe…
Read 11 tweets
8 Apr
For our #ThursdayThread , we're asking a question that has no easy answers.

How do you solve a problem like Joe Manchin?
I mean honestly. What the hell does this dude want?
(THREAD)
(2) Manchin's come forward again today with more bluster about how he will never ever eliminate the filibuster, which certainly means any hope for significant voting rights legislation is withering on the vine.

So what are we gonna do about Joe Manchin?

washingtonpost.com/opinions/joe-m…
(3) There isn't much Dems can do. Historically, West Virginia was a Democratic stronghold but those days are long gone. Today the GOP dominates the state.

Manchin isn't up for re-election until 2024. And it's not clear he'll run again.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-j…
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6 Apr
This morning in our #TuesdayThread , we're asking how the failure of a toxic wastewater reservoir happened and what it means for Florida.

Could this catastrophe have been avoided?
The short answer is absolutely.
This is a tragedy of our own making.
(THREAD)
(2) In case you missed it, crews are frantically pumping water out of a leaking reservoir near Tampa Bay in an effort to avert total collapse.

The water is contaminated with high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus from a phosphogypsum stack.

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
(3) What's so bad about this wastewater? Well, the level of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water that has already leaked is like dumping 60,000 bags of fertilizer into the bay.

It causes algae blooms, which depletes oxygen in the water and kills the fish

wtsp.com/article/tech/s…
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23 Mar
I dunno who still needs to hear this but voting rights are vital to democracy.

Republicans have rigged the system so they choose their voters rather than voters choosing them. This has eroded democracy & held progress hostage through the oppression of minority rule.
(THREAD)
(2) So how are we going to fight back against a wave of gerrymandering and voter suppression laws that threaten a new era of Jim Crow?

This is a fight that'll be fought on 3 fronts.
In our legislatures. In the courts. And in our communities.

brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
(3) First, we need national action on voting rights in order to curb voter suppression efforts in GOP-held state legislatures.

Right now, there are 43 states that have introduced over 253 bills to curtail voting rights.

brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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