Thread by @mgoldfarb999

Our vaccines are top of the line. The Chinese with an inferior vaccine only have had 4,636 deaths and they have four times more people than we do. But they have made Covid the enemy.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

They[Chinese] don’t have to deal with a GOP that has been pushing a pro-covid-19 agenda.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

Kaiser Health News that Republican lawmakers in at least twenty-six states,…have passed laws to weaken the authority, of state and local officials to protect public health.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

At least sixteen states have limited public health officials’ power to order mask mandates, quarantines, isolation, the report says. [Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

And at least seventeen states have banned Covid-19 vaccine mandates or passports, or “made it easier to get around vaccine requirements.”[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

In an editorial of the Nation’s Magazine 1/10-17/22 issue, Abdullah Shihipar [@AShihipar], asks the rhetorical question of how did the richest country in the world get here[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

Mr. Shihipar [@AShihipar] says there are a number of reasons, but the primary one is that the United States does not have a free, universal health care system. [Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

The lack of a national health insurance program affects everything from vaccine hesitancy to the ability to get a test to how we manage the virus.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

Not everybody who has refused to vaccinate has done so because they are right-wing trolls. [Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

Many people have refused to vaccinate because they distrust a health care system that is more interested in making money than taking care of patients.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

Uninsured people are among those with the lowest rate of vaccination with 56 percent reporting having received one dose in the latest survey conducted by Kaiser Health News, a lower percentage than Republicans and white evangelicals.[bit.ly/34IaPfE by @canilor]

Mr. Shihipar [@AShihipar] mentions a study that states pre-pandemic 22 percent of Americans delay health care needs because of costs and that they might be avoiding tests and vaccines for the same reason.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

I have no doubt we can control this virus while avoiding many more deaths if we decide as a nation to put our minds into doing the things, we know need to be done to control Covid-19 infections.[Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

But if we succumb to the GOP mindset of placing profits over people, we will just prolong the agony. [Read more at bit.ly/34IaPfE by Lorenzo Canizares @canilor]

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