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Derek Johnson

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7 Jan

Today in the US, more than 4000 children are hospitalized with #COVID19, which is double what we saw 2 weeks ago. At one Indiana hospital, half the kids went to the ICU and ~25% were put on a ventilator.

Tell me more about how Omicron is "like a cold" and "no big deal for kids."

Some folks on here chiming in with disbelief and demanding sources, as if it's not the easiest thing in the fucking world to pull up loads of credible reporting on this in less time than it takes to express your ignorance.

Here's one to get you started: theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…

And another: forbes.com/sites/annakapl…

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Derek Johnson

@derekjGZ

8 Jan 21

With news breaking that Trump advisors say he's "unstable" and "out of his mind," now seems like a good time to remind everyone we really did hand this desperate psychopath the absolute power to use nuclear weapons and kill millions of people.

Here's how it would go down:

People always try to tell me this can't be how it works. They need to believe that someone — the Defense Secretary, the Joint Chiefs, or a general, somewhere, surely — has to sign off on it. Because the facts sound too obviously crazy to be real.

I get it, and I'm sorry, BUT.

Everywhere Trump goes, a locked briefcase follows. Inside it is everything he needs to launch weapons that can end all life on Earth. At any moment he can open it up, flip through a book of targets, pick up the phone, and order up whichever armageddon on the menu he likes best.

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Derek Johnson

@derekjGZ

16 Mar 20

An old friend of mine is a doctor in the Midwest. She also heads up her county’s board of health.

Tonight, she met for 2 hours with colleagues at the local hospital to discuss contingencies as the #COVIDー19 pandemic escalates.

What she described knocked the wind out of me:

“Imagine 6 women, most of them moms, sitting around a table. One nursing a baby. All healthcare providers, making plans. Setting fear aside."

"We discussed things like what do we do when we we run out of hospital beds? Where can we put patients?"

"How do we have enough morphine so that when people are dying and we can't do anything for them, we can at least make them comfortable? How do we make an objective decision on who gets a ventilator and who doesn't, knowing we have only two?"

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Derek Johnson

@derekjGZ

12 Mar 20

@globalzero

At @globalzero, we're taking the #CoronavirusPandemic seriously. For the next several weeks, that means:

✅ Mandatory telecommuting
✅ Work travel suspended
✅ No in-person participation at events
✅ Self-quarantine for 14 days after personal/household member trips to hotspots

Our team is used to working remotely, but it can be pretty isolating on a good day, let alone when you're practicing social distancing. So we've carved out 15 minutes every day to say hi and check in on each other via video. Also a weekly virtual happy hour ("beer thirty").

We've reassured our people that while we don't know what's coming, we're ready to roll with the punches and nobody needs to worry about their job security. Felt important to say explicitly b/c that's not the case everywhere and is a source of real anxiety, esp. for young staff.

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Derek Johnson

@derekjGZ

6 Jan 20

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With the President of the United States threatening actual war crimes and "disproportionate" attacks on Iran, now feels like a good time to remind everyone that, yes, we really did hand a volatile reality TV star the absolute power to use thousands of nuclear weapons.

Folks always insist this can't be how it works. They need to believe that someone — the Defense Secretary, the Joint Chiefs, or a general, somewhere, surely — has to sign off on it. Because the facts sound too obviously crazy to be real.

Allow me to burst that precious bubble.

Everywhere Trump goes, a locked briefcase follows. Inside it are the means to launch weapons that can destroy entire nations. At any moment he can open it up, flip through a black book of targets, pick up the phone, and tell the Pentagon which genocide on the menu he likes best.

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Derek Johnson

@derekjGZ

21 Dec 18

1/ With Mattis and Kelly heading for the door and the myth of “adults in the room” evaporating, now feels like a good time to remind everyone that, yes, We The People really did hand a flailing, impulsive ignoramus the unadulterated power to end life on Earth as we know it.

2/ On a daily basis folks insist to me this isn’t how it works. They need to believe that someone — Sec Def, the Joint Chiefs, or a general, somewhere, surely — has to agree. Because the alternative sounds too insane to be real life.

Allow me to burst your precious bubble.

3/ Everywhere Trump goes, the nuclear briefcase follows. Inside it are levers to weapons made to wipe cities off the map. At any moment he can open it up, flip through its black book of targets, pick up the phone, and tell the Pentagon which armageddon on the menu he likes best.

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