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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Botswana ordered half a million doses from Moderna months ago and doesn't have them yet, you fucking ghoul.

Gets about half a sentence in this NYT piece.

nytimes.com/2021/10/09/bus…
South Africa had a massive shortage of vaccines and then a glut. They've been doing approx 100k doses/day but that could still lead to a stock build up with very uneven deliveries.
reuters.com/world/africa/e…
Yglesias cherry picking one country out of several with Omicron cases and then misrepresenting the situation, to punch left at people talking about vaccine nationalism. Really despicable.
Turns out this is also a Boris Johnson talking point not just an American pundit talking point.

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28 Nov
They also allow governments to appear tough and *doing something* in ways that are popular with the media, allowing nearly everyone to ignore much more structural issues like sick pay.

A few months ago the UK was able to genomically sequence about 10,000 PCR tests per week. There are currently about 280,000 positive PCR tests per week in the UK.

cen.acs.org/analytical-che…
I don't know how many samples South Africa can sequence per day, but they had cases in the hundreds a couple of weeks ago, now low thousands. Much easier to find variants when you're dealing with hundreds or low thousands of samples to sequence.
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27 Oct
Next time there's a tube or bus strike will you be saying this too?
There's plenty to criticise Insulate Britain, but 'stopping ordinary people going about their business' really is not it. Especially when that particular protest is in the City of London and it costs £15/day to even drive down that road.
"Labour Councillor and Cabinet Member for Community Wealth Building at Preston Council - Socialist & Trade Unionist"

'Sick of these extremists disrupting ordinary people going about their business'
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7 Oct
Doing your best to support them would be donating to the strike fund, joining solidarity pickets if nearby, blocking distribution, last but not least trying to organize your own workplace. But what else can we expect from Democrat nominees.

Every time there's a strike at a brand there's like a hundred tweets telling you 50 products to boycott and another hundred telling you the workers haven't called for a boycott. Unless this is part of a concerted effort to shut operations down it makes little difference.
What would really fuck Kellogg's up is if the haulage drivers who deliver grain and packaging to factories, and the ones that pick up for supermarket distribution refused to cross picket lines so that any scab labor literally cannot work.
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6 Oct
Ought to be a scoop but instead it comes in the form of a casual anecdote from another Tory journo who was enjoying the party.

The Scotsman posted an article about the rap battle. Deleted it. Then reposted it with the BBC's denial it ever happened.

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4 Oct
[spoiler]

Pretty sure there's reference to this in squid game.
2009.
Now wondering if this reference is why it got rejected for ten years, and also whether there was more made of it in the original script. Also what a series about the factory occupation would be like.
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26 Aug
Dore, Greenwald, and Blumenthal all at it now too, some for several weeks.

Boosting antivax articles from a website that exists solely due to patronage of a hedge fund investor to own the libs.

The ivermectin thing is weird, both that the grifters are all apparently in on it and also some aspects of the response which are overly focused on it being a horse dewormer.
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