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Jan 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s really shocking that @nytimes not only ran this, but is showcasing it on multiple platforms, including flagship podcast The Daily. @DLeonhardt commissioned a public opinion poll about Covid and is using it to bothsides response to the pandemic. The results are egregious. 1/
Leonhardt says Democrats want expensive continuing protections against Covid, even though its risk may be diminishing. Meanwhile, Republicans broadly refuse to get vaccinated and want everything to reopen with no restrictions. His framing: both sides are equally misguided. 2/
But he ignores the fact that the reason why Democrats want protections like distancing and masking is quite literally BECAUSE Republicans refuse to get vaxxed and boosted. Dem response and Republican response aren’t independent variables. 3/
A poll conducted by the same company Leonhardt used, Morning Consult, showed 40% of Republicans refuse to get the booster—which is now medically indicated to reduce transmission and protect against serious illness. Another 19% are “unsure” if they will. 4/
morningconsult.com/2021/10/13/boo…
With vax mandates out of reach, what else can Democrats do but push for lesser protections against increasingly violent Republican defiance of basic science and consensus public health?

The bottom line is we aren’t just afraid of Covid anymore. We’re afraid of REPUBLICANS. 5/
Equating Dem reaction to Republican science denialism with Republican vaccine refusal—when the former is cautious but in line with CDC policy and the latter has sent deaths spiking to their highest levels since 2020—is hugely unethical. I’m shocked, but sadly not surprised. /E

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Jan 26
This literally never happened. What “certain activist types” were doing was calling out racist language, rhetoric and slurs aimed at Chinese (and impacting other Asians) that was getting us harassed in public, spat and coughed on and quite quickly thereafter physically attacked.
The same Asian Americans who were telling people to stop with the racist Kung Flu and bat eating jokes were ALSO telling you to fucking wear masks and take this disease really seriously because with SARS and bird flu, we had seen this movie already and it sucked
The “defiance of coronavirus scare” language used here was about pushing back against redlining/targeting Chinese American communities because of what was happening in China. This was when there were 14 cases in the US, all linked to recent travel to Wuhan, none in Chinatown.
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Jan 24
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Are you even Asian if you don’t make little hobbit tubes out of your 3/4 empty toothpastes and lotions
Lifehack: Cut tubes in half to access Secret Hidden Lotion, use bottom half as cap for top half
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Jan 9
In April, Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was beaten into a coma, allegedly because he’d been mistaken for one of two men, “Korean and Japanese,” who the attacker said had robbed him.

The assault is now a murder. Mr. Ma died last week on New Year’s Eve.
nytimes.com/2022/01/08/nyr…
Another reminder, if Vincent Chin wasn’t enough, that “All Look Same” is a major part of anti-Asian violence.
No. The inability to distinguish between Asians is often just an excuse pointing to a broader climate of anti-Asian bias. It’s not that attackers *can’t* tell; it’s that they don’t bother, because any Asian serves the purpose of being a target for their resentment equally well.
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Jan 7
Kagan is right. The chart you posted shows death rate, not total deaths. And Covid has now killed more Americans than any pandemic in history.

Also: There was no vaccine for Spanish flu. If we didn’t have one for Covid, the numbers would be much higher.
statnews.com/2021/09/20/cov…
You realize that in 1918, more Americans also died from…literally everything, right?

Infant mortality in the year prior to the Spanish flu was 100/100,000. In 2018 it was 5.7/100,1000.

That’s a 17.5x rate of mortality for just “being born.”
Yes, the population is 3x greater. But background rate of death in this era is lower by many multiples of that. So it’s shocking to at deaths from Covid are greater than 1918 Spanish flu in our medically advanced world, where science and public health have massively progressed.
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Jan 3
@bchesky Not being snarky here: Please launch an initiative to help the immense number of people who’ve been unhoused due to market conditions that AirBnB helped create, and that Covid turned into a crisis.

I don’t know what it looks like. Funding shelter operations? Building tiny homes?
@bchesky A 2017 Zillow study showed that homelessness rises in cities where rents exceed a third of the average income, and each median rent increase of $100 increases homelessness by anywhere from 6% to 32%.
zillow.com/research/homel…
@bchesky Other studies have shown a 1% increase in AirBnB listings drives up rent by about 0.02% per month, or an average of $9. In LA, listings have soared over the past few years—LA is the fourth most profitable AirBnB territory in the nation, per your own data.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Dec 31, 2021
Bandy Lee said Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz showed signs of mental aberration. Dershowitz called her remarks unethical “distance diagnosis”—and Yale fired her. Lee’s peers see this as a dire attack on speech. So where are the anti-cancel culturistas?
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Prominent anti-“cancel culture” advocate @Yascha_Mounk did chime in early on: He wrote a lengthy piece for Slate *criticizing* @BandyXLee1. Since Dershowitz’s email that led to her firing, I’ve seen nothing in his feed or public writings defending her academic right to speech. Image
I haven’t seen other Harper’s signers taking up @BandyXLee1’s case either. Not even when prominent voices like @WajahatAli pointed out that Lee is a real case of “cancellation”—a powerful, connected white male getting an immigrant woman of color fired for political speech.
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