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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
@DrEricDing
Mar 7, 2022 • 19 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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I have a few thoughts about selfishness, COVID, bullying, and life…

(Note—not an “expert” in life—just as a fellow human)🧵
2) First of all, #CovidIsNotOver — not by a long shot. #BA2 is still creeping up slowly (or quickly) in most of the world. I’ll do a #BA2 update soon, but you only have to look at HK to see how bad it can get. Their hospitals are low on oxygen too. But I’m not here about COVID.
3) I’m here to talk about empathy… or the relative lack thereof. People are often too selfish. They think just because THEY are low risk / don’t have vulnerable family, that thus others are too. And thus, ‘why should I do XYZ to reduce transmission if I’m healthy’—it’s selfish.
4) Or worse, they know others may be vulnerable but they simply don’t care… because “my freedom”. Freedom is important, yes, but your right to do exercise your freedom “ends at my nose 👃”—literally. Second hand smoking 🚬 endangers others—especially bartenders & wait staff…
5) Hence, because of cancer-causing & heart attack-causing & mortality-causing effects of secondhand smoking 🚬 on others, it is banned in most restaurants and on airplanes (fire risk too). We curbed smoking in public because IT ENDANGERED OTHERS. Smoke alone—but not in public.6)
6) For the same reason, we need to think of others, not just yourself, when it comes to a deadly pandemic virus. I know some don’t want to mask, vaccinate, or isolate—I get the “freedom”. But you don’t have the “freedom” to be drunk & DRIVE & injure others. Think of others.
7) You can claim accidents “rare” but much higher with higher levels of alcohol. (Sidenote accident risks also very high with sleep deprivation or while texting). Absolute risk on any given day is low (you hear that phrase a lot), but your cumulative risk accumulates over time.
8) And if you do any low risk enough, especially high risk things like drunk driving, more COVID exposure, smoking—your cumulative risk really adds up (think playing Russian Roulette too much). In a big room—odds are someone could have virus & someone has vulnerable family.
9) okay you’re not convinced—but “I’m boosted” & “we have amazing drugs now!” Yes, that’s great—for you. How many people have boosters? Only 95 out of 330 mil in US have boosters. Over 2/3 of 🇺🇸 doesn’t. Hospitalizations protection without boosters? Only 70-79%. Booster: 90-95%.
10) what about miracle drugs? Well, monoclonal antibodies used to be great—but that was before #Omicron. Very few MABs work well against the new #BA2 subvariant that’s rising. Pfizer’s Paxlovid with 90% lower severe disease risk is great—but truth is theres gonna be shortage.
11) In fact, the US govt now admits it doesn’t have enough pandemic funding left for more tests and treatments without Congress. Currently, we only ordered 8.3% of the paxlovid promised—no more funding for more treatments. There is a huge “budget crunch”. statnews.com/2022/03/04/whi…
12) So my point is—don’t think everyone will have easy access to Paxlovid. Don’t think unboosted people are well protected. Don’t think others don’t have vulnerable people in their family. Don’t think you don’t need to worry about public endangerment (eg smoking, drunk driving).
13) which gets to my other point about bullying — don’t bully others, especially kids, about if they want to wear a mask. Especially if you’re the governor of Florida to high school kids when you have a family with cancer at home. Bullying is mean—& on masks, public endangerment.
14) On the note of bullying—there are bad actors spreading misinformation about me & photoshopping & sending it to others to spread. Note—I removed the name below because I don’t condone bullying in any direction, but I share because screenshot of me is fake. ➡️Let’s be kind.
15) I have no vendetta against anyone, & I ask my followers please don’t retaliate or bully against anyone. An eye for an eye makes us all blind. Jesus once said, if someone hurts you, “turn the other cheek”. For peace, you sometimes need to defend, but sometimes turn the cheek.
16) Bottomline—empathy & compassion above all. The world is sometimes a nasty and hurtful place—but we should want to raise our children to be better—to raise a 🌎 where our collective humanity, justice, peace should be paramount. That is EVERYONE’S LANE to fight for. Thank you.
17) Interesting discussion 🧵 by someone I’ve never met but has quietly monitored my account for 2 years.
18) Many misunderstand what I do, why I do, and who I am. This thread 🧵 and article below explains some of my background for this interested. The urgency to warn and prevent disease is personal, very personal. 👇
19) Also some ask why I share info on nuclear ☢️ radiation risk—it’s not just global health security, but also personal. Family member in Austria died years ago of leukemia after Chernobyl radiation fallout—which had wide contamination. Empathy please. 🙏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_o…

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My god—Earthquake (a Richter ~7.7) causes a skyscraper to collapse in Bangkok. Hope all the construction workers made it out.
2) this skyscraper collapse was captured from a distant car’s dashcam while on a highway

3) another view of the collapse. For those who lived through 9/11, this collapse is a bit triggering.
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Welp—kiss public health & medical research infrastructure in America goodbye for the next 4 years. RFK Jr plans to cut 10,000 jobs from Trump HHS. Image
2) this will not make America healthy again… not by a long shot. So dangerous and irresponsible.
3) “Kennedy is set to announce Thursday the planned changes, which include axing 10,000 full-time employees spread across departments tasked with responding to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, providing insurance for the poorest Americans and more”.
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, and has committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon** (one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine!!!), she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation—but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown’s kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.Image
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PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island doctor who had traveled to Lebanon to see her parents was prevented from re-entering the United States at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday evening, her lawyer and a colleague said.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, who lives in Providence, has been working at Brown Medicine’s Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension since last July, and she [has] been part of the transplant service at Rhode Island Hospital, according to Dr. George Bayliss, the organ transplant division’s medical director. She has been studying and working in the United States for about six years, he said Friday.

The US consulate in Lebanon had issued her an H-1B visa, which is given to people in specialty occupations requiring expertise. The visa was valid through mid-2027, said Thomas S. Brown, an attorney representing her and Brown Medicine.

Alawieh was detained when she returned to Logan airport, and family members are afraid that she is about to be deported to Lebanon, he said.

“We are at a loss as to why this happened,” Brown said. “I don’t know if it’s a byproduct of the Trump crackdown on immigration. I don’t know if it’s a travel ban or some other issue.”

He said her phone has been seized and he has not been able to contact Alawieh.

Bayliss said a lawyer filed a petition with the US District Court in Massachusetts, and Judge Leo T. Sorokin issued an order saying Alawieh should not be moved outside of Massachusetts without 48 hours notice. But he said that message apparently did not reach immigration officials in time, and a plane carrying Alawieh left for Paris.

“This is outrageous,” Bayliss said in an interview. “This is a person who is legally entitled to be in the U.S., who is stopped from re-entering the country for reasons no one knows. It’s depriving her patients of a good physician.”

A US Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson, Ryan Brissette, was not able to immediately answer questions about Alawieh on Friday evening.

Bayliss said Alawieh graduated from the American University of Beirut medical school and came to the United States for a nephrology fellowship at Ohio State University. She then landed a transplant fellowship at University of Washington and had a residency in the Yale hospital system before starting at Brown Medicine last July, he said.

“She’s really a very humble and able person,” Bayliss said. “She takes care of her patients. She is talented and thoughtful and a great addition to our division.”

Bayliss said Alawieh went to Lebanon to visit parents and planned to be gone for two weeks. He said she texted a colleague at 6:30 p.m. Thursday saying she was back in Boston, but then her family heard from immigration officials.

Dr. Paul Morrissey, surgical director of the organ transplant division at Brown University Health, said Alawieh works on getting people in Rhode Island on the list for a kidney transplants, and that’s a crucial job at a time when there has been a lot of focus on the need for kidneys and their equitable distribution.

He said Alawieh should not have had any problem traveling out of the country with an H-1B visa.

“It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances,” Morrissey said. “It’s putting a strain on our office. Her work has been exceptional.”

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… once upon a time, liberals did have our own “Leftist Joe Rogan”… his name was Joe Rogan…

Here he is advocating for socialized medicine, healthcare for all, and supporting labor unions to protect workers.
2) Recall, Rogan was once pro Obama and pro Bernie Sanders, and pro Yang Gang, and anti Trump. It’s sad he has since failed to the dark side. But like Vader… maybe he can be redeemed someday and come back to the light.
3) *Fallen, not failed (above).

Joe Rogan was also pro gay rights and pro DACA and pro helping inner city communities that suffer economic and social injustices. It’s sad what he has become. I feel we should try to pull & welcome him back someday. Everyone can be redeemed.
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