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Feb 1 14 tweets 6 min read
@ashishkjha is incorrect in this take.

Prima facie:

BA.2
BA.3
Breakthrough infections.
Waning immunity.

But I have some other thoughts you may not have heard before. Got your umbrella? Raincoat?

Let's go stomp in some puddles!
First and foremost, he is urging us to unmask.

Only 9 states have mask mandates.

And I would argue that Rhode Island is demasked if only large venues require masks.

But he is talking about demasking FOR ALL.

Please explain to me why a Dean of PUBLIC Health is advising the
PUBLIC health officials of another public what to do?

He does NOT have access to the public health details of Washington state.

Yet, his advocacy is all about demasking my state. From 3,000 miles away.

His words get repeated by OUR antimaskers and are CoVid Misinformation.
So, kindly, @ashishkjha, please specify you are only talking about your state.

Am I being hypocritical?

Not at all. Advocating for more protections only helps others.

Advocating for less protections? Can hurt others.

Which he is doing.
Let's think about what he is urging.

Putting the mask back on when it surges again.

Why do we have so few states with mandates?

Because the CDC demasked us on May 13th. He was against it FOR THE WRONG REASONS.

Notice he says nothing about the PUBLIC HEALTH effects.
He did not say this is bad because all of the states will then demask...and refuse to remask in future surges.

But us masking advocates knew that was what was going to happen.

And we were right.

When I criticize, I do so with a purpose.

Public health leaders like
@ashishkjha and @RWalensky do not have a feel for the public.

Period.

It's a fact as a result of getting paid 100,000's a year, speaking fees, etc.

Good for them.

But anyone eating cake forgets what borscht tastes like.

We need a Public Health Public Opinion Department.
A department that specializes in knowing what the public is actually thinking.

That has a "politician" subsection that can predict what left and right wing politicians will do.

Part "Mad Men", part Pew Poll.

Because without it, we will demask thanks to @ashishkjha, and good
luck getting the mask back on.

Let me also remind everyone, we DO have a CDC recommendation for continued masking in areas of high trans- *taps ear piece*, it appears that we are still in areas of high transmission.

Seeing as how we are finally starting to see N95's
rolled out to our country?

Why not let's let them work their electrostatic attraction magic for a bit?

BTW...tying mask wearing to hospital capacity? That ship has sailed.

The data on hospitals is incorrect due to #CoVidBurnThrough of the nurses.

The beds are there.
The staffing is not.

If you search for that handle I flag hospital articles with staffing issues.

Invariably, the public health data shows beds available.

@ashishkjha - do you realize how infuriated you make your fellow HCP's with that line of logic? It is tone deaf.
Finally, on a personal note, please wear an N95 continuously.

See my pinned tweet re Loeb and Radonovich
If that's not good enough, please review

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

An excellent systemic review that is replete with lots of SARS -COV-2 found throughout hospitals.

To be expected, as #CoVidisAirborne.

And as OSHA has pointed out-N95's are airborne PPE.
Not surgical masks.

Thank you for splashing along with me!

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Feb 3
"We don't talk about CoVid, non, no, no."

If you follow me, you will like this video - oh - oh!

(Make sure to click the volume button on the screen.)
By the way, are you a fan of The Amazing Race?

Recognize the singer and his wife?

Yep...Kim and Penn! Image
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Please imagine that you are principal or a superintendent.

You have been asked to decide if you should allow a portable air cleaner in to classroom.

Would you be more inclined to say YES, if you knew that:
The third richest county in America, Marin County, CA, has deployed them to every classroom?

mvschools.org/Page/8529
The second richest county in America, New York County, New York, has deployed them to every classroom?

ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/23/2254…
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Feb 2
If the MaskNerd will ask camera crews to put on N95's, then you can ask contractors to put on N95's!

I do! Got these from @projectn95, but @armbrust_usa has them as well.

If they get fussy? Tell them someone in the house is immunocompromised. Image
Which is actually true with Omicron (don't get into that detail).

As someone who is immunocompromised, let me tell you that the gnarliest contractor will turn into a big softie. I guarantee it.

If not? I equally guarantee that is someone that you don't want working for you.
Let's plug them in over at the Armbrust database.

armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-tes…

What AM I handing out willy-nilly? Image
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Feeling a little frustrated by those who you suspect of just wanting to get back to their Starbucks Latte Life?

By those who clearly are done being inconvenienced by us lowly humans?

Want to read something by someone who GETS IT?

Please retweet them or this! Image
Are you tired @LauraMiers @dianaberrent @ahandvanish @jwdaddy80 @Ellemarie_318 @stuart_ross8 of pundits in essence of gaslighting your lived experiences by not calling out the dangers of #LongCoVid?

Look no further! This article is for you! Image
Tired of the immunocompromised being thrown under the bus?

@organichyck @tarahaelle ?

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