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Mar 2 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Why are we just begging to chase 1,000,000 deaths with our cavalier #COVID19 attitudes? Our @CDCDirector has failed us by gaslighting with misleading metrics to drop mitigations. So sad frankly.

Look how the data ends: same day “new green maps” released.
I am not kidding. The new metrics the @CDCgov is using is not only horribly irresponsible but it’s actually epidemiology malfeasance too.
It’s malfeasance (and I don’t use that lightly) because it is not only using hospitalizations but it’s using it wrong. How is it wrong? Next slide please…
Because the CDC’s new metric is now based on hospitalizations PER COUNTY. but what if you don’t have hospitals in your county? Or what if people from other counties come to your county? Tough shit says CDC.

Next slide please.
Here is what we mean… the hospitalization rate is based on admissions of the COUNTY HOSPITAL, but the denominator is the population where people LIVE!! This totally warps everything!!
So in Florida, a place like Gilchrist county can’t have hospitalizations attributed to it because county of residence isn’t reported there. See just HOW FUBAR that is??
Some hospitals in some counties only report by region. Thus, you can have two nearby counties with same hospitalization stats but end up with diff risk levels. Good insight by @JasonSalemi here.
And yes, people travel to hospitals far away sometimes for COVID treatment. So then how are hospitalizations a good metric for your local COVID risk level?!?! Seriously— think how ridiculous that is @CDCDirector ???

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Nota Bene—Iodine protects against thyroid cancer if nuclear ☢️ radiation fallout. Ukraine 🇺🇦 news now causing a rush for iodine again in Central & Eastern Europe, which were heavily affected by Chernobyl’s fallout decades ago with radiation and ⬆️ higher cancer rates afterwards.
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Mar 4
BREAKING— the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (largest nuclear reactor in Europe) has now finally fallen to Russian military control. God help us. Hope cooler heads will prevail. Image
Earlier thoughts—

1) how dumb are we as a species to shell a nuclear plant?

2) Are other countries only going to intervene if a ☢️ accident happens?

3) Might Putin going for scorched Earth 🌍 nihilist strategy?

4) Don’t Russian leader know radiation would blow EAST?
3) My worry is not with the reactor. My worry is what shelling could do to the stored nuclear ☢️ waste nearby. These radioactive storage containers are tough but not impervious to bombings. Hope these are not breached in this war.
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Mar 4
A few things that crossed my mind about bombing a nuclear ☢️ power plant:

1) how dumb are we as a species to bomb a nuclear plant?

2) Are other countries only going to intervene if there nuclear accident?

3) Is Putin going for scorched Earth 🌍 nihilist strategy now?
2) My colleagues and I have debated the nuclear ☢️ plant threat for a while. It’s one of those “if I push this button, we both get burned” threats. It does indiscriminate damage and something not easily contained if fallout. And that’s what makes it more dangerous.
3) the battle is still actively raging. I hope to god there is not direct damage to the reactor or to its cooling system or it’s water supply. These light water nuclear reactors are sensitive suckers.
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Mar 4
Damn— Fire 🔥 reported at the nuclear ☢️ power plant in Zaporozhye Ukraine 🇺🇦— one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world (a top 10!). I was just talking to a colleague about this today🤦🏻‍♂️. Hope 🇷🇺 leaders realize shelling a nuclear plant is NOT in their own interest!
SERIOUSLY—how dumb are we as a species to bomb a nuclear ☢️ power plant — especially after we knew what can happen in Chernobyl. 🤦🏻‍♂️ FFS!
CONFIRMED— the mayor of the town next to the nuclear ☢️ power plant confirms there is a fire.
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INSANITY… dash cam captures Russian cluster bombs dropping dozens of projectiles onto a HOSPITAL 🏥 & civilian areas in 🇺🇦. Cluster bombs are NOT precision weapons - they are meant laying waste to entire areas. @nytimes verified video. This is WAR CRIME!
These Putin cluster bombs dropped onto RESIDENTIAL AREAS and HOSPITAL and PHARMACY!! nytimes.com/live/2022/03/0…
3) Dash camera video verified by The New York Times captures the bombardment on Thursday of a residential area in the center of Chernihiv, the key northern city along the path of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine toward Kyiv, the capital.
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Can’t believe @GovRonDeSantis would belittle & bully kids to take off their masks by calling them “ridiculous”. They are also high school students, says @EvanDonovan. So cold-hearted. More kids have died of #COVID in last 2 months than first 22 months.
Dear @GovRonDeSantis — I welcome to to drink this beer 🍺 of the man being spit on. No? Well, you’re spitting on the graves 🪦 of almost 1 million Americans who have died of #COVID19. Please show empathy @RonDeSantisFL.

@GlennYoungkin should learn not to be anti-mask as well.
These are MINORS! @GovRonDeSantis bullying kids about protecting themselves during a deadly pandemic is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever witnessed. Shameful. Your own wife has cancer—don’t you care about endangering others?!?! wfla.com/news/politics/…
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