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Virginia Heffernan

27 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read

Wasp exterminator comes today. Not vaxxed.

I proselytize like Flanders, the usual.

Separated he told me he HATES all bugs & that’s why he’s an exterminator. I told him you don’t want 4 trillion bugs in your lungs then! “Oh I didn’t know much about Covid” ON HIS WAY TO CVS.

*separately

Like a neat Mormon his mission, I save one soul at a time

We think this is a pitched battle but encouraging vaccination is a simple & almost always hugely appreciated gesture

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Virginia Heffernan

@page88

27 Jul

about "bias":
I was listening to forensics investigator describe analyzing a crime scene, and doing so "without bias."

She wants to sifts through evidence w/o knowing, for example, that the spouse of a murdered person had a history of violence or had threatened to kill her.

But when she finds the husband's police record, his smoking gun, and a bloody note saying "I'll kill you" among the evidence, SHE DOESN'T REPORT THAT THE SUSPECT COULD BE ANYONE AND SHE HAS NO "BIAS" TOWARD THE HUSBAND.

This is what reporters should do.

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Virginia Heffernan

@page88

26 Jul

Sounds like the nasal spike

All for making things sound pro forma that are in fact punitive

That’s good governance

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Virginia Heffernan

@page88

25 Jul

We need to talk about osteopathy. nytimes.com/2021/07/24/tec…

With the preface that I understand lots of people get help from osteopaths.

And more than that: osteopaths are very VERY insistent that they be taken for MDs.

Larry Nassar is an unlicensed, incarcerated DO. His victims say they were encouraged to see him as The Almighty Doctor. He gave them “intravaginal manipulations” that he told police were a technique of traditional osteopathy.

And they believed him. And he wasn’t totally wrong.

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