I will try today to write a thread encompassing everything I think about opening SCHOOLS in the middle of the most of DELTA variant overrunning our country. I will add to it throughout a day as I am taking a break from a hard physical job in the "real world."
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What is not known well enough among parents (or there is no way they would take the risk) is that DELTA is another animal than the original virus from Wuhan. DELTA is extremely dangerous to children!!! 4-6% have Long Covid, that's 1 in every 20!
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There are multiple studies now confirming the 4-6% number of Long Covid cases among children, one that mentions 10-15% and another one that says some permanent damage affects as many as 50% children.
The info here is based on self-reporting. medscape.com/viewarticle/95…
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The argument that you will probably hear is" but we already have vaccine for children 12-18 and will have vaccines for younger children soon." Except it's also came out recently that vaccines don't make a dent in Long Covid numbers. 🙁
That's REALLY BAD NEWS
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Can we be 100% sure Long Covid is going to be such a problem among children? Even with vaccinations? No, it's being studied in detail as we speak, but the possibility we end up with a disabled generation should by itself be reason not to open schools.
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There is NO public discussion around the vaccines. We are just supposed to trust the FDA and "smart people" , no questions asked. But the FDA is a government agency and the government has lied to us plenty over the years and the lies only intensified during the pandemic. (1/?)
I got my mom (80) and myself vaccinated as soon as was possible. After seeing Covid devastate New York last spring, and considering mom's state of health (requiring ER visits) it was a no brainer for us. My child can not be an orphan or settled with disabled mom at 10. 2/?
But do not expect me to have the same attitude towards vaccinating my 10 y old. Do I want to protect him from Covid? Yes! I am keeping him at home for an extra year and tightening our routine back to where it was before we were vaccinated. (Sorry mom, no more boyfriend)
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Dear Berner friends, I can't participate in calling New Hampshire because I am too stressed and too focused on my own family's tragedy right now. But I will write this pro-Bernie thread for you to RT.
We need Bernie for many reasons but #MedicareForAll is my number one again.
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Our story begins last July when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. My husband HAD a VA doctor and was already sick for a long time but his doctor just didn't diagnose what was going on with him as cancer. I encouraged him to go elsewhere but he was afraid of the cost.
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I was lucky, thanks to my dad's job, to grow up mostly in countries with universal healthcare. I know for a fact that if we had universal healthcare my husband would have gone to seek a second opinion much sooner (before a violent infection brought him into an ER in July).
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Thread.
I am trying to recap what just happened with #MedicareForAll.
So media say you can't tax the rich because the plans taxing the rich will not go through Congress, right?
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Our current healthcare system is very inefficient because the cost should be doctors +treatments +hospitals , but we also have to pay the enormous profits of the private insurance companies. It is projected that current system will cost 50 trillion over the next 10 years.
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Sanders campaign& independent analysts eg. @MattBruenig have been shouting it from the rooftops that #MedicareForAll will save trillions for the American people. MSM pretend not to hear& keep asking "how will you pay for it".
How do you pay for something that costs less?
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So my husband got a visit this morning, a registered Democrat. We talked politics. He said he liked Bernie, but (he is in his 60s, watches MSM): "Bernie can't win against Trump" "Why am I not voting for a woman." Suffice to say after 30 min we have another BERNIE primary voter!!!
Conclusion: engage EVERYBODY. People over 50 are relying too much on MSM. The MOMENT I pivoted to the issues, he agreed with everything I said. I told him Bernie polls great against Trump and has more dedicated supporters (donors and volunteers).
I recommended Joe Rogan and Killer Mike interviews with Bernie on You Tube, to check his registration as a Democrat to make sure he can vote in NY primary. Surprisingly for a guy his age he was worried most about Climate Change(has kids, grandkids and is SMART).
THREAD:
Forgive me, I am no expert on #MedicareForAll, but it hurts me to see Biden, Klobuchar, ABC, etc. DISINFORM the American people to this extent! Until I was 26 years old I lived in countries with UHC and it looks like this makes me kind of an expert. 1/?
First thing that many Americans don't know is that UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, that is a system in which society treats healthcare as a right and therefore EVERYONE in the country is covered, exists in every other developed CAPITALIST country in the world. 2/?
Yet many Americans associate UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE with socialism. Why is that? US once was a PIONEER of worker's rights. FDR's New Deal was COPIED by other developed capitalist countries, mostly as a way as a reaction to Russian Revolution, to PREVENT the rise of communism. 3/?
So I finally watched that famous video of Trump saying USA will never be a socialist country. The only one not clapping is Bernie Sanders.
It's important to know that Trump is LYING about Venezuela in variety of ways, which I will explain below.
Trump basically states that Venezuela was the richest country in the world which was destroyed by socialist policies.
If we look at Venezuela from the POV of its oil reserves, Venezuela indeed was ( and still is) one of the richest countries in the world.
But that wealth from the ground has to be translated into the well being of citizens, or the metric is useless.
Venezeula has been founded as a Spanish colony in the 16th century. In 1811 it gained independence from Spain.