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6 Aug, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Can you please get your act together, @SummitHealthHQ? You won't give me a COVID test unless I have symptoms, sending me to your acquisition of urgent-care storefronts, @CityMD. (I ran out of one, filled to the rafters as it was with opportunities for contagion.) 1/
I get my COVID test at @CityMD. It's delayed. Finally I get an email from @SummitHealthHQ saying my results are in. I click the link provided, which takes me to Summit's home page. I guess to go to the patient portal. There are no COVID results there. Nada. 2/
So I go to the trouble of establishing a separate account at @SummitHealthHQ's @CityMD. There, I finally find the results -- even though I never received email notification of them from CityMD. (Negative; thank you.) 3/
We've been coming to @SummitHealthHQ for 30 years and expected better care in a pandemic. 4/
BTW, @SummitHealthHQ, why do you establish the office for COVID testing at the front door of your headquarters through which all us patients must pass, now exposed to lines of people I now know are there because they all have symptoms? What sense does that make? 5/

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Whitelaw Reid 1912 on newspapers "loaded down w/such feculence that it should only be handled in your homes w/a pair of tongs, not because its proprietor really prefers to minister to men's baser instead of their better wants, but because he has found the one way of making money"
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Good reporting here. I worry the Atlantic got too big; overwhelming. Having too much money can do that. This is a cautionary tale, then, about white knights' money + about the cost of acquiring & maintaining subscriptions (costs rarely discussed in sub-supported businesses).
Of course, the Atlantic has done stellar work, leading with @edyong209's phenomenal COVID reporting. I finally couldn't keep up with the magazine as a whole. Focus from financial realism might help there.
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Joe says FB refuses regulation. In fact, FB is advertising, begging for regulation: a classic case of regulatory capture: They can afford compliance competitors can't; regulation also shifts blame to regulators. I worry its impact on freedoms for all.
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