I'm not sure if everyone on the left is aware that the controversy about Walensky's comments as they relate to people with disabilities has been followed by a separate controversy on the right about the same comments as they relate to Americans' risk of dying of Covid.
There are a bunch of "the unedited comment changes nothing, she was still devaluing disabled lives!" tweets. That's subjective; people can debate it all they want. But the unedited comment clearly shows that the other controversy is based on a misinterpretation of what she said.
Like, I'm getting a ton of messages like this...even though I'm dealing with an entirely different controversy, about right-wing commentators wrongly depicting Walensky's comments, and not touching the argument that she demeaned disabled people, which is not fact-checkable. 
It's always my job to provide context. But anyway: we have two different controversies about the same comments, swirling separately in two separate Twitter bubbles, and I'm addressing one but getting blasted by people assuming I'm addressing the other. Checking replies is fun!
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