No idea why people on the street look at me funny as I shout “I AM TOUGHER THAN SIMONE BILES” repeatedly
Even when I point out that I mean both MENTALLY and PHYSICALLY people seem confused
I have my keyboard visibly displayed so that they can see that I am, in fact, a warrior and yet no one is giving me affirmation EVEN AS I RAISE MY VOICE
“Simone Biles, unlike me, is obviously not mentally or physically tough…”
Anyway, certain people held in the public trust - like politicians - deserve lots of scrutiny and criticism and, broadly speaking, we should have a lot more grace and charity toward all the rest, Olympians included.
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We’ve all seen the various flip-flops of the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the last 18 months.
To help keep track, I present “Fauci vs. Fauci,” chronicling the twists, turns, contradictions and backtracks from the man and his agency.⤵️
To start, we need to focus on Dr. Fauci’s perspective on the virus itself and it’s risk to the United States.
In late January 2020, Fauci said that COVID was a “very, very low risk to the United States.”
I think it goes without saying that his perspective has evolved since.
One big, obvious area of flipping is around the benefits of wearing a mask. Dr. Fauci originally said that masks weren’t effective & publicly encouraged Americans not to buy them (guidance he doesn’t regret).
One of the overlooked reasons why the response to Covid has been so ridiculous is because lots of outspoken members of the medical community - whose advice has been our northern star - are unhinged.
There have been over 100 homicides already this year in DC. Obviously this shooting is a tragedy, but it’ll make news more because the sun was out and white people were running than anything else.
The Post did good reporting on this issue along with an analysis on where bullet casings were found. Here’s a map. Hard to overstate how serious gun violence is within many less affluent parts of the district.
You should be terrified at the prospect of regulating “misinformation.”
The last year or so has been a crash course in how bad the powers-that-be can determine what is or isn’t misinformation.
Below, I’ve got a🧵 of 🧵’s compiling some of the most egregious examples⤵️
The best place to start is with the origin of the most consequential event in our lifetimes: the Covid pandemic.
You’ll remember that the very thought that it could’ve come from a local biolab run by a secretive autocratic regime was dismissed as a bigoted conspiracy theory.