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May 27 7 tweets 2 min read
American exceptionalism
The United States comprises 4% of the world's population
✓ 16% of the world's Covid confirmed deaths
✓ 40% of world's guns
✓ Only industrialized nation in the world with states making abortion illegal
Confirmed Covid deaths, as of today
US 1,004,121
World 6,284,446
coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
"The United States has 46 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns "
pbs.org/newshour/natio…
That was as of 2018, and has increased since then
This
And this
Or this
+ This
Federal assault gun ban expired in 2004
#ThisIsOurLane @ThisIsOurLane

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The Tabula Sapiens, like a Periodic Table of Human Cells, ~500,000 cells analyzed, 24 tissues / organs @ScienceMagazine
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