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20 Jul, 11 tweets, 6 min read
NEW: Hattiesburg was struggling to convince more residents to vaccinate.

On July 9, local health leaders announced $15,000 in cash prizes exclusively for people who get vaccinated by Aug. 8.

Vaccinations there just had their best 10-day period in months. mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“For so long last year we waited. We sacrificed collectively, individually, through social-distancing measures & mask requirements. ... While early vaccination numbers were encouraging, we have ... come to a standstill," Mayor Barker said on July 9.
mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
The week after Hattiesburg announced $15,000 in vaccine giveaways, the number of people receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine was up week-over-week by:

-49% in Lamar County
-35% in Forrest County

Statewide, vaccinations were up only 18% as Delta surged.mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“If you are unvaccinated, it's not a matter of if you get COVID, but when you get COVID, how bad will it be and how many vulnerable people will you spread it to,” says Dr. Jawauna Stewart. mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
"About 10-20% of children who recover from COVID are having what we call long COVID…I’m seeing in my practice teenagers who are coming in having had COVID 6 months or 9 months ago who are still having issues with shortness of breath," says @babydocAnita.
mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
"We know that when school starts we will see more and more children contracting coronavirus,” says Dr. Anita Henderson.

But Gov. @TateReeves is not mandating masks in schools this fall. He says people have the option to get vaccinated.mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“We potentially might have a vaccine available down to the age of 2 in September. … However, we have it down to 12 right now, and not everybody is utilizing that. Only about 6% of Mississippi children ages 12-15 are fully vaccinated," said @babydocAnita. mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“It is completely unnecessary for residents in our community to continue dying from coronavirus when there is a safe and effective vaccine available. So our message continues to be: trust your doctor, trust the science & get your shot.” —Mayor @toby_barker mississippifreepress.org/13872/hattiesb…
“If you have been vaccinated, and you have a good story, share it with someone. Talk to people one-on-one about your experience. And I think that is how we combat misinformation." —@babydocAnita
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You can support the non-profit journalism we do at the Mississippi Free Press by following @MSFreePress, sharing our stories and, if you can, with a one-time or recurring donation to mfp.ms/donate
Important note: Dr. Henderson @babydocAnita tells me it's looking more like vaccines for younger children may not be an option until mid-winter, so September is probably too optimistic.

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20 Jul
NEW: The Mississippi Lottery raised $59 million for public school education during its first fiscal year.

While that money will help fund pre-K and school supplies programs, it won't reduce the state's $272 million education funding gap. Here's why.
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The education dollars from lottery revenues are “outside MAEP,” the state's school funding program, @ParentsCampaign's Nancy Loome said.

Still, "you can’t minimize” what pre-K funds and money to help teachers afford classroom supplies will mean, she said. mississippifreepress.org/13923/lottery-…
“It’s very helpful for teachers to not have to pay for school supplies out of their pocket, which is happening now in many cases because schools are so underfunded that they are limited in the school supplies that the schools can afford to supply."
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20 Jul
It's about damn time.

Sean Hannity is an awful person. But whether he did this because he's worried about losing money in stocks or because he realizes it's not good for business if his audience dies... this is good.

Some people who would've died will probably live bc of this.
And that should tell you how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if Fox News handn't pushed disinformation on COVID and masks and vaccines since March 2020 to promote a political agenda and keep viewers riled up and outraged for ratings and $$$.
Yes, I know Sean Hannity said stupid stuff before and after this clip. He's Sean Hannity. That's a given.

But he has millions of loyal viewers/listeners. It's almost 100% some will change their minds after hearing this one part where he urged them to get vaccinated.m
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19 Jul
"The belief that the South's past is only worthy of national scorn...shows how Black Southern activists have been erased from its regional memory," @ProfTDParry says.

This is ongoing! Look at news coverage of Mississippi changing the state flag. 1/
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Black activists & lawmakers fought alone for decades to change Mississippi's state flag.

Most white lawmakers came in at the last hour last year (or no more recent than 2015) to support changing the flag. Guess who media heaped most of the credit on? 2/ mississippifreepress.org/3710/you-white…
That's why we wanted to make sure at @MSFreePress to tell the stories of Black activists & lawmakers, young and old, who led the fight to change the state flag.

That doesn't mean white lawmakers deserve no credit. But don't erase the ones who led! 3/ mississippifreepress.org/13375/black-mi…
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18 Jul
This conveniently ignores that Nina Turner's opponent, Shontel Brown, is also Black.
This is an example of media framing a narrative. It could've instead been written as:

"The Congressional Black Caucus is going all out to support a Black candidate in Shontel Brown over frontrunner Nina Turner."

But either would've ignored the fact that both women are Black.
It's also pretty clear why the CBC is backing Shontel Brown.

Nina Turner publicly refused to support Clinton over Trump in 2016, said Black voters only backed her due to "brand loyalty."

She compared voting for Biden to eating "half a bowl" of "shit."
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17 Jul
Anyone know which hospital this Mississippi nurse works at?

She tweets she's refusing to wear masks despite an administrative order because "they DO NOT WORK!!!" (False; many studies show they are effective).

She has since deleted this tweet. Susanne B, RN, with usernam...@BrewerBSN's twitter bio in...
This is her bio pic. It's important to know if this is widespread at her hospital or isolated bc she and other nurses/doctors at that hospital are constantly in contact with vulnerable patients. This is a life or death issue in hospitals. Image
She tweeted that she's a traveling nurse and she's currently working at a hospital in Sioux City, Iowa.

But that doesn't explain her original tweet which implies she's "here in Deep South Mississippi."
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17 Jul
I was so bad at math in middle school, I triggered screaming fits from two math teachers.

One threw an open textbook on her head, pulling down on both sides, screaming.

On another day, she threw the textbook to the ground & jumped up & down on it, fists clenched, screaming. 😐
I don't know why I just thought about that now, but it suddenly occurs to me that this probably wasn't normal?

Like, it wasn't my behavior that caused those two teachers to get so frustrated at me they literally screamed (one on two occasions). I just didn't get math.
What I realized in college, when I was able to take online math classes where I could teach myself step-by-step from a textbook, was that I actually wasn't as terrible at math as I thought.

I just didn't understand it the way my math teachers taught it. & I had undiagnosed ADHD.
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