Why is the @JoeBiden administration doing such a lousy job with convincing the hesitant to get #COVID19#vaccines?
Here's some messages I'd like to see.
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Message 1: Worried you might give your kids or grandkids #COVID19 ?
Great news: The virus spreads via breathing, shared air. You can wear masks to cut that. AND, turns out the vaccines fill your nose & throat w/virus-killing antibodies, so you don't spread or harbor virus.
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Message 2: All of those scary mutant forms -- variants -- of #COVID19 ? Looks like all of the vaccines used in the USA knock them out. Sometimes the immune response against a particular variant is weaker, but it still works.
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Message 4: mRNA doesn't go inside your genes. Nope, never inserts into DNA. So it is actually impossible for mRNA vaccines to change human genetics or cause mutations. Relax.
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Message 5: You really don't want to be a COVID "long-hauler"
In a study of Swedish health workers, "26% of those who had mild #COVID19 (had) at least 1 moderate to severe symptom that lasted >2 months...11% had at least 1 symp that lasted 8+ mos." directorsblog.nih.gov/tag/long-haule… MORE
Message 6: Love your kids. They aren't as likely to get #COVID19 as you are, but you could pass it onto them. And even mild cases in kids can have long term effects, some quite serious. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205450/
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Message 7: Aren't you sick of working at home yet? Think your boss will be thrilled about having you back at the office/store/eatery/school/theater if you might be an unvaccinated disease carrier? In most States, the bosses get to say yes/no. Why risk your job?
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Message 8: What a relief! Just listen to all these people who feel like a great weight is off their shoulders, now that they are fully vaccinated. Fear really sucks. Until you lose that fear, you can't imagine how heavily it is weighing upon you.
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Message 9: You recall Michelle Bachman? She ran for President in 2011. During a GOP debate she said she knew a woman whose "daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine. There are very dangerous consequences," of the HPV #vaccine. In Nigeria...
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Mess 9 cont: religious leaders told women their children would be sterilized by the #polio#vaccine . Today in Afghanistan the Taliban claims the same & attacks polio vaccinators. Don't listen to the lies: #COVID19#vaccines have zero impact on sperm, eggs or reproduction.
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Message 10: Imagine never again having a guilt-trip laid on you for not wearing your mask in a store or at a bar. Get fully #COVID19 vaccinated and you can smile at the waiter or cashier, knowing that you pose no danger.
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On Friday, when most of America wasn't paying attention, heading out for the holidays, Trump signed an Exec Order transferring ALL control over foreign aid from State to OMB.
This will destroy American overseas programs. Here's why (MORE)whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
2/US programs for everything from #famine relief & #HIV care to safe pregnancy efforts & building electricity grids have won America friends in the world & saved 100s of millions of lives. They were nested in the State Dept so our diplomats on the ground can oversee them.
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3/ By moving foreign aid out of State & into OMB, programs for saving starving children, rescuing families from catastrophes, teaching kids to read, stopping epidemics -- ALL of that now falls under the control of Russell Vought.
Who is Vought?
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As #JoeBiden hunkered down in Delaware & Party leaders scrambled to figure out how #Democrats can win the election, I kept thinking of March 31, 1968. On that day the White House put out word of a mysterious speech LBJ would give from the Oval Office.
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@BeschlossDC
2/ In a world without Internet or 24-hour news cycles the buzz in Washington about the event failed to reach the American people until that night. America assumed LBJ’s address would be about the widening war in Vietnam. On live television, a very haggard-looking LBJ began:
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3/ "Good evening, my fellow Americans:
Tonight, I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world."
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While #Trump claims no direct connection to #Project2025 it's clear han no #Republican in national power has denounced the Heritage Foundation 887-page manifesto. I put a few hours into scrutinizing the Project's plans for @HHSGov & health agencies. (pages 449-502)
🧵unfolds:
2/Health & Human Services @HHSGov must “respect for the sacred rights of conscience” for Federal workers & healthcare workers broadly who object to #Abortions contraception, gender reassignment & other issues.
“Radical actors inside & outside govt are promoting..."
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3/ “...harmful identity politics that replaces biological sex w/subjective notions of 'gender identity' & bases a person’s worth on his or her race, sex, or other identities. This destructive dogma, under the guise of 'equity,' threatens American’s fundamental liberties..."
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When a society attacks its toiling scientists, ranking the opinions of quacks, religions & charlatans above those of scientific insight and discovery, it is a sorrowful time.
Scientists who have been persecuted for their work...
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2/ -Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī or Rhazes of Baghdad (860 - 932 AD) beaten into blindness for introducing medical advances from non-Arab countries
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-Michael Servetus (1511-1553) made discoveries in blood circulation. Burned at the stake by Calvin in Geneva
-Henry Oldenburg (1619-1677) promoted sharing scientific insights, labelled a spy, held in the Tower of London
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In 4 earth-shattering decisions this term, #SCOTUS gutted authority from all federal regulatory agencies. These are very radical decisions – essentially overturning all the sentiments of our nation’s founders debated in The Federalist Papers.
In this 🧵I'll lay it out.
2/Today, w/Corner Post v Federal Reserve #SCOTUS decided that anybody can sue a fedl agcy, over anything, w/no statute of limitations.
Dissenting, Justice Jackson: “The majority throws caution to the wind & engages in...misguided reasoning about statutory limitations periods..."
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3/Jackson: "The far-reaching results of the Court’s ruling in this case are staggering.”
“In one fell swoop, the Court has effectively eliminated any limitations period for APA lawsuits....This means that, from this day forward, administrative agencies can be sued in perpetuity over every final decision they make."
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This utterly reprehensible Pentagon disinfo campaign executed by the #Trump admin to create Asian suspicion of the Chinese #COVID #vaccine is reminiscent of the CIA's use of a fake #polio vax effort in Pakistan to obtain...
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...DNA samples from children living in the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. In both cases, geopolitics trumped public health, leading to countless deaths, assaults on health workers and vaccinators and undermining the credibility of #vaccines . This is appalling.
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In resp to angry public health leaders who later learned of the 2011 #CIA/#polio/binLaden effort, the #Obama admin on May16, 2014 stated that since Aug2013 a policy was in place forbidding the CIA from using #vaccination progs, workers, or genetic materials obtained...for intell.
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