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3 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
NGL, this is pretty deranged, Max.
Me, neurotic: We need a more robust federal COVID response where people aren’t made to choose between health and income.

You, extremely nomal: Public health measures are a Trojan horse for authoritarianism, Covidian! Here’s some selective quoting and misreporting.
How many COVID deaths, Max? How many so your readers have a comparison?

How many before it’s not unreasonable to take public health measures?
The only medical expert Max spoke to for this piece is a GBD signer. To reiterate, the Great Barrington Declaration, pushed by the right, urged herd immunity for all but the most vulnerable.

We effectively tried that strategy. It's continued to fail, resulting in mass death.
More about Blumenthal's expert:

Dude has been wrong this entire pandemic. Trying to rehabilitate him is...really disappointing.
The U.S. reported more than 3k COVID deaths between Monday and Tuesday of this week. We're not even at the height of the holiday season.

Blumenthal is just a COVID denier at this point.

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3 Dec
Fucking yikes
Seriously. Fucking yikes.
The Grayzone article's premise is that lockdowns *don't work* and have human costs.

I kept reading, waiting to see if it would support the first claim, but it never did.

All it demonstrates is that lockdowns *without adequate support for people* have human costs.
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3 Dec
A real federal pandemic response:

- Remote work for non-essential business
- Hazard pay for essential/frontline workers
- Vax/testing req for airplanes
- Masks & tests delivered to every home
- Monthly survival checks
- National testing program
- Systematic ventilation upgrading
- Door-to-door or neighborhood vaccination stations
- Assistance to small and medium-sized businesses
- Rent/credit card/student loan debt pause
- Eviction moratorium
- Housing the unhoused
- Releasing the vaccine IP to the world
- Sending excess doses abroad
We need a robust approach to get through this pandemic humanely, avoiding needless death.

A study from May estimated more than 900,000 Americans had died from the virus -- that our official numbers were undercounting.

Millions have died globally. This is a test for humanity.
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1 Dec
.@GovKathyHochul is sounding the alarm over the Omicron variant — even signed an order allowing the cancelation of elective surgeries to preserve hospital capacity.

She’s not walking back her push to get remote workers back into offices by the new year.

dailyposter.com/its-time-to-ge…
Hochul is facing what promises to be a difficult primary from NYAG Letitia James. Critics charge that her push to end remote work is a play for donations from a reliable source: the real estate industry — commercial real estate in particular.
One of Andrew Cuomo’s biggest scandals involved sacrificing New Yorkers in nursing homes to reward an industry donor.

Hochul is poised to make the same mistake. Cases in NY have been surging and we are entering holiday season.

Remote work should be encouraged!
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9 Sep
The New Zealand model works and we should adopt it.
Arguments of scale aren’t impressive. They get trotted out any time another country does something better than we do—namely health care-related things.
The "but my freedom" arguments are even worse. This is a genuine public health emergency. In terms of death toll, on the low end are the official numbers (>650K).

That requires strong federal intervention. Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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8 Sep
I understand the frustration with people willfully deciding not to get vaccinated, but this misses the mark in a monstrous way.

Yes, the willfully unvaccinated put the whole country at risk, but they are only able to do so because our federal COVID strategy is so inadequate.
Stop blaming policy failures on individual behavior.

There are no OSHA standards for most workplaces.

Our fed government is pushing to reopen schools without systemic overhaul of safety and with kids unvaxxed.

We aren’t doing paid lockdowns.

We’re not doing vaccine passports
And, of course, there are systemic failures as well: Many unvaccinated haven’t gotten the jab because they’re afraid of missing work. We don’t federally guarantee paid time off. Others are concerned about the cost of getting the vaccines. Some insurers have been wrongly charging.
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7 Sep
True freedom is being a worker with no alternative than to risk your life at a shit job for your employer!

640k dead is just a cost of doing business in America…
These right-winger/libertarian types are such fucking babies.

Australia has had 1,100 COVID deaths? We’ve had minimum 640k?

Like, fuck you and your infantile fantasies about being an island.
Also this.
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