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16 Aug, 15 tweets, 6 min read
This could become Fall of Saigon 2.0 or worse — the Fall of Kabul and the massive throngs of people trying to flee at Kabul Airport. Can’t blame them. Where are the international support to send passenger jets to airlift them all out?! #Kabul

2) You know if it was you in Afghanistan right now, you would be doing this too to save your life.
3) the airport’s tarmac is just overrun right now.
4) Some feel it’s closer to the fall of Da Nang.
But equally vivid.
5) 46 years ago, @DanRather covered the fall of Da Nang in this @CBSNews report of one jet’s evacuation. The flight was meant for refugee women and children, but filled with mostly men instead.
6) Some of you are telling me to stay out of this, to stay “in my lane”. Ummmm, were you born outside a privileged Western country? Did your parents survive 🇨🇳’s Cultural Revolution? Did your grandparents barely escape the Rape of Nanjing?! The evacuation of refugees is personal.
7) Hopeful news - The US will take in up to 30,000 Afghan refugees to be housed in US military bases while awaiting visa processing.
8) The US will control the Kabul Airport. Hopefully.
9) when did the US & Taliban withdrawal treaty start? March 2020. Let’s not even go into Pompeo’s treaty details.
10) very very little coverage of the US Taliban withdrawal treaty in 2020… a pandemic was brewing and election heating up.
11) Traffic at a standstill in Kabul. This is not going to end well I fear.
12) Shocking footage from Kabul Airport shows several Afghans chasing down a US Air Force plane as it takes off, with some reportedly falling to their death while clinging to the plane after takeoff 🛫… 😢

13) “there is no elegant way to lose a war” @FareedZakaria. Good 5 min monologue
14) this is how we must evacuate Afghanistan and save as many lives as possible.
15) but stampeding to get on the US AF plane came at a cost… this is The Fall of Da Nang / Fall of Saigon 2.0 for sure.

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Facts @GovRonDeSantis, brutal hard facts.
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$5.7 billion could solve a lot of problems in this world… if only unvaccinated people didn’t burn all that money up in smoke, orphan countless kids, harm their future, and devastate the economy further by prolonging #COVID19. Please #vaccinate. 🧵 Image
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📌Florida is #1 in nursing home resident & staff #COVID19 deaths in August.

📌Florida is 2nd worst for nursing home staff vaccinations—only 48%.

📌Florida is #1 in new staff cases—94% of nursing homes had staff infected in August.

So @GovRonDeSantis?
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2) BUT—“It’s hard to assess the current toll of the virus on people living and working inside long-term care facilities, as Florida stopped sharing this data with the public in May.” ⚠️
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2) moreover. The enhanced booster effects begin being apparent after day 12, increasing higher effects starting even day 10 after the shot perhaps.
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