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Apr 22 5 tweets 4 min read
New #COVID19 news brief:

-Delta, United welcome banned anti-maskers
-Coachella: positive bands, local cases up 77%
-Covid celeb Leana Wen meets Streisand Effect in #BlockedbyWen
-Shortest full-vax reinfection: 20 days
-#LongCovid prevalence upped to 43%

patreon.com/posts/pandemic…
In US:

-Polls: most want airline masking
-Cases up in 30 states; hospitalizations, child cases up
-NY leads, CA 2nd
-"Test to Treat" is a joke
-Good luck getting Paxlovid
-More contagious BA.2.12.1 in 19% of US; 50% in Northeast
-BA.2 hammers DC for 3 weeks; past week up 200%
In CA, San Francisco:

-CA positivity increased to 12.9%
-Bay Area has highest new infections in CA
-Google's return to office employee gift: thermometers!
-SF cases, hospitalizations rising
-SF wastewater up to elevated CDC level "orange"
-Most SF cases are in fully-vaccinated
More:

-Breakthroughs are resulting in #LongCovid
-South Africa positivity doubled in 1 week
-How mild covid shrinks the brain
-RIP Covid Act Now
-Pre-order Long Covid Survival Guide theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/fall-…
-Ontario: BA.2 sends “high numbers of kids” to hospital
-#Necropolitics
All links w/receipts: patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

In my note: 3 incredible pieces this week from UK (@danielgoyal) Canada (@DFisman @SoniaFurstenau) and US (@oni_blackstock @luckytran) on the same thing: our governments dangerously pretending it's over.

patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

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Apr 19
They did this "to align with CDC." They also removed test positivity rates for counties, replaced by "Patients with covid." SF went from High to Low overnight. It's useless now.
They also removed daily reporting and replaced it with CDC's weekly per 100K. This was the last reliable tool for individuals trying to assess local (county) risk and protect themselves/their families. Reprehensible.
Here are the CEOs, the Board and the Advisors: covidactnow.org/about#team

Key Advisor: Emily Oster, Urgency of Normal spearhead + "don't mask your kids" op-eds; advocated against AIDS treatment in Africa because 'those people were going to die anyway' >
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Mar 28, 2019
Amazon just terminated my Associates account and said it will not pay me any outstanding fees it owes me. The reason is "because the content [on @tinynibbes] promotes unsuitable activity." This affects ALL my books and book links everywhere, over a decade of linking.
I'm really upset, that @ was me misspelling @tinynibbles. I've done business with Associates across all my websites since 2002. This is significant monthly income for me to lose as an author.
Seriously, the Associates partnership was how I could survive on my books (my old publisher screwed me out of my ebook and audio royalties going back almost 20 years) and be an indie publisher of my own work.
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Dec 12, 2017
So, as you've probably heard, here in San Francisco our Mayor died. I have a few thoughts about Ed Lee I'd like to share, especially because his obituaries are so poor.
First I'll say that there is a lot Lee did that I did not agree with. Those things are why I politely declined a seat with him at his table for the annual SF Pride (Alice B. Toklas) LGBTQ brunch two years ago. (I did sit at his table for the brunch this year.)
Lee was the son of a restaurant cook and grew up in poverty. Lee washed dishes at his father's side until his father died (young) of a heart attack. Lee witnesses his father being treated like a "coolie" and hated it.
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