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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Trump’s deal to Big Oil [give my campaign $1B & all #Biden climate & green policies will be void] echoes the Teapot Dome Scandal in another #Republican #POTUS race 100 yrs ago. Until now, it was the biggest presidential corruption case in US history.
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In 1920, the US Navy was converting its fleet from coal to oil and wanted oil on federal lands reserved for military needs. Republican Warren Harding was running for POTUS: he told oil execs to back him & he would let them drill those reserves. When he became President...
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Harding appointed mining bigwig & Big Oil ally Alfred Fall as Sec. of Interior. Fall handed over prime oil drilling rights to Sinclair's Mammoth Oil & 1 other company, without competitive bidding. By 1923 Sinclair was sucking so much oil out of Teapot Dome WY that...
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Big Oil execs met at #MarAlago and...
"Trump’s response stunned several of the execs: You all are wealthy enough, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. He vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President #Biden #environmental rules & policies & stop new ones from being enacted."
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2/ "Giving $1 billion would be a 'deal,' #Trump said, because of the taxation & regulation they would avoid thanks to him.
Trump’s remarkably blunt & transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid." mediaite.com/trump/trump-st…
3/ "Oil industry lawyers have taken it upon themselves to fill the gap, drafting executive orders undoing Biden’s policies if Trump’s put back in the White House...
“'You’ll see a lot of #Biden regulations that have come out in the past 6 months checked one way or another'."
"The campaign’s policy website, Agenda 47, states #Trump wants to 'drill, baby, drill' to increase oil & natural gas production domestically in order to lower consumer energy costs, regardless of the environmental impact." rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…
Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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In this Century, Congress has proven most capable of legislating -- doing its job -- when #Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Conversely, its performance and productivity plummeted when under #Republican control. Just the facts, Ma'am.
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With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.
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Ocean heating now in all of the 7 Seas is so severe that coral reefs are sickening (bleaching) & dying. And this has so accelerated in recent months that @NOAA added 3 new alert levels for reefs.
"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as: 1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.) 2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.) 3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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If you've been watching #CliveOwen in "Monsieur Spade" you may have realized it's about a whole lot more than your average murder whodunit. And you may be confused. Except for flashbacks, the story is set in 1961, in a French village. But a lot of it is about #Algeria .
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To understand what's going on, and learn about the French/Algerian war, and France's Nazi collaboration legacy, here you go -- can't really follow the Sam Spade saga without:
There are characters in "Monsieur Spade" who are in the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-right French 1960s dissident group inside the Army, battling Algeria's FLN -- Front for National Liberation.
Refs to "the Mehdi" are probably Mehdi Ben Barka. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben…