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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“Stay home or work sick? The shambolic state of public health policy, labor law, and common sense in the U.S. poses a conundrum.”
(Not aiming this barb at Zeke. Just making note that finding ourselves stuck on this _two years_ into this pandemic is truly bleak.)
(Anyhow:)
The newest COVID plan is just vibes, seemingly: “Keep calm and COVID on.”

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Greg Greene Profile picture
9 Jan
“If nobody else in society gives a d*mn any more about controlling the spread of the virus, why should we give a d*mn about kids and teachers?”

There, that’s more honest.
I feel pretty certain that promoting the full closure of schools is a minority position. National unions don’t support it; most systems haven’t chosen it.

But in systems where teachers are out sick with active infections, and students are out for either the same reason or …
… parents and caretakers _choose_ to keep a child out rather than risk their exposure, why are we play-acting at having a normal educational environment? What point is served in that circumstance?
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8 Jan
We had better hope, for the sakes of the reputations of pundits who swear that COVID hardly affects children, that America doesn’t see a steep increase in post-COVID chronic illnesses in 20 years.
“New research shows that COVID-recovered youth face higher risk of developing diabetes, but in better news, Congress has moved to make insulin affordable at low cost.”

(*producer whispers into earpiece*)

“I’m being told that Congress has not, in fact, made insulin affordable.”
(To be clear: I was being drily sarcastic with the bit about pundits, who’ve been known to skate for being grievously wrong about … everything, really.)
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8 Dec 21
The extent to which know-it-all scolds erase the Latinx people *who identify as Latinx* from the discourse — treating the word as the coinage of ivory-tower intellectuals and lefty nonprofits instead — is f’ing wild. Image
I get and respect the data on the politics of using the word. What I can’t abide is the complete whitewash of how the term originated with queer, genderqueer and non-binary people of Latin descent. See @jpbrammer here: them.us/story/latinx-i…
It’s not my place to police the word or recommend it’s usage, but I can damned well tell people to cut it out with the fiction that ‘Latinx’ sprang into being as some alien construct wholly unknown by people of Latin or Hispanic descent. Just f’ing stop it.
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7 Dec 21
When GOP-appointed federal judges use—or allude to—the non-delegation doctrine to justify blocking Biden admin actions, they deprive a Democratic White House of executive powers as blatantly as GOP lawmakers who stripped powers from governors in WI & NC. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The judge who issued the order to block the vaccination standard for federal contractors (excerpted below, at left): a Trump appointee. The judge who authored the order to block the vaccination standard for health-care workers (below, at right): a Trump appointee. ImageImage
The non-delegation doctrine has lain dead and buried in the stacks of American case law for more than eight decades — and as @nicholas_bagley has written, it lacks any foundation in our knowledge of the Founders’ intent. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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1 Dec 21
Appalling to see confirmation of Trump’s reckless endangerment of others with his shouty first-debate performance — but also, to say it with a GIF in AAVE …
Old enough to remember when Republicans sought laws to punish people for knowingly spreading a pandemic viral disease.

What we already knew then was also true: those laws were written to stigmatize certain communities, not out of care for public health. vox.com/the-highlight/…
The philosophy, as I wrote this week in the context of today’s scheduled oral argument at SCOTUS over the fate of Roe: their bodies, their choice. Everybody else’s bodies: also their choice. nytimes.com/2021/11/29/opi…
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1 Dec 21
Not to get all high and mighty, but “the job of [a] brother, sister, mother, father, daughter, [or] son” is to hold immediate kin accountable when they do harm — preferably before that harm has public, never mind legal, consequences.
There’s a difference between love and blind loyalty. When it works right, familial love requires an effort to save our relatives from screwing up — and to guard others from the consequences of said screw-ups.
Pulling out all the stops to shield family from consequences for ongoing wrongs isn’t “love,” it’s tribalism. It’s a pure state-of-nature vision of “love,” in which the banishment of moral concern for the welfare of becomes a familial virtue — “the job,” so to speak.
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