As I tell my motorcycle students, “safe” means absence of risk.

There are few things in life with zero risk. Covid vaccinations aren’t one of them, Dr. Walensky @CDCgov.

Vaccines MINIMIZE risk of serious disease and death. The risk of a shot is < risk of infection.
I cannot believe a public health official is using “safe” in such a colloquial manner @CDCgov
We don’t know long-term impacts of mild disease.

The 1-in-4 adults who won’t get vaccinated are the same people who won’t wear masks. They are walking petri dishes for variants.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/mask-…
Are ALL essential workers in the US fully vaccinated? If not, they remain at high risk.

And you don’t drop MAJOR POLICY CHANGES on your partners (like the states and the WH) without collaboration on risk communication, @CDCgov. That’s comms 101.
The US continues to treat Covid-19 casually. Singapore is back in lockdown. LOOK AT THE PER CAPITA RATES. WE ARE NOT A UNITED COMMUNITY. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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16 May
It’s not that the @CDCgov announcement about the power of vaccinations was bad (except for colloquial use of “safe” which means ‘absence of risk’) … it’s their ignoring crisis comm AND their partner states/businesses:

The @CDCgov own research points out the need for mask mandates among the unvaccinated.

How are retail establishments supposed to know who should be wearing a mask?

cnbc.com/2021/03/05/cdc…
I’m with UFCW International President Marc Perrone:

npr.org/2021/05/13/996…
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16 May
When the Israeli military makes a public statement and then the spokesman confirms it, reporting is not a “rush to print.”
nytimes.com/2021/05/14/wor…
When domestic media are given a different story from international media, it’s not an innocent mistake.
When we know that the Israeli military launched a complex deception in 2019, protestations are weak.
Read 5 tweets
3 Apr
Compare and contrast: Administration erroneously blocking finances of a small Italian restaurant on its last day in office.

Administration facilitating states vaccinating 2.4 million people in 24 hours; 4.6 M in 48 hours.

59.8M Americans now fully vaccinated against Covid19.
CDC also reports “administered” data (moving doses from the state to vaccination centers so they can be scheduled):
8.1M doses since TH.
This makes April accelerated vaccinations possible

Sa: 161,688,442
Fr: 157,606,463
Th: 153,606,463
CDC data (daily, no archive) > covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Thursday and Friday data from my daily scrape of CDC data
Read 4 tweets
3 Apr
A modern “buyer beware” story. Must-include case study for ethical UX writing and designers (and courses).

Of course, it’s T****

nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/…
The Trump operation refunded $122 million — more than 10% — of what it raised online in 2020.

The illustration is accurate but exaggerates scale (because it stops far below 100%). The narrative justifies the exaggeration
THE SCALE BOGGLES. Trump, RNC and shared accounts “refunded far more money to online donors in the last election cycle than every federal Democratic candidate and committee in the country combined.”
Read 7 tweets
2 Apr
Matt Gaetz is being investigated for
*paying for sex
*statutory rape & sex trafficking
*showing coworkers nude photos of women he said he'd slept with
*dealing in fake IDs
*lying about extortion & the FBI
*campaign finance infractions
🧵
"Gaetz allegedly showed off to other lawmakers photos and videos of nude women he said he had slept with"

Yeah, allegation but it sure fits the stereotype here

cnn.com/2021/04/01/pol…
Joel Greenberg and Matt Gaetz "were recorded together entering the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office when it was closed on a weekend night".
@orlandosentinel
orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne…

Federal charges against Greenberg involve false ID
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Read 9 tweets
2 Apr
I am SO damn tired of columnists reaching for the LAZY "Fauci was wrong about masks" back on March 3, 2020.

It's intellectually dishonest - and disinformation by omission - for two reasons.
FIRST, Fauci was referencing known research.
Two samples:
2019 - Effectiveness of commercial face masks to reduce personal PM exposure (not very)
2017 - The efficacy of medical masks and respirators against respiratory infection in healthcare workers (five studies)
Second, in the early days of the pandemic, the US was short on ALL masks, not just N-95.

Early public statements were also trying to prevent a run on masks, so that hospital staff and 1st responders would have access to protective equipment.

That effort FAILED.
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