Dear @AshishKJha46 and @CDCDirector if we're supposed to expect covid waves to hit like 3 or 4 flu waves a year indefinitely and you're only advice to folks who are #highriskcovid19 is to stay away - how do you recommend I stay away from society for the rest of my life?
I'm in my early 30s- so @AshishKJha46 & @CDCDirector I'm looking for your tips on how to "just stay in & avoid everyone" for the next 50ish years? So yeah, how do you recommend I'm supposed deal with this half a century with zero access to the outside world you've prescribed?
Right now, @AshishKJha46 & @CDCDirector, it seems like you're saying that if people are #highriskcovid19 they should expect to have no safe access to basic services like education or healthcare and no quality of life for the foreseeable future.
You're advice to "stay inside indefinitely" feels like almost a dare for people like me to kill themselves. You've made it abundantly clear that society would rather leave us behind with no quality of life - so why bother?
At least make us #HighRiskCovid19 folks tax exempt or something @AshishKJha46@CDCDirector@POTUS@VP - why are we paying for services like transit, education & more if the government is saying we should stray home indefinitely - meaning we no longer qualify for those services
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I’m need answers @AshishKJha46 & @CDCDirector – if you expect many covid waves a year, indefinitely & your only advice to people who're #HighRiskCovid19 is “stay home” - How do I finish my life (50ish more years) “just staying away,” & still be a functioning member of society?
Can you give people who are #highriskcovid a tax break @AshishKJha46@CDCDirector@POTUS@VP? Your only advice makes it so we can’t get basic services guaranteed to us by our government like safe access to public transportation & education - so why are you making us pay?
It's wild @CDCDirector & @AshishKJha46 – you say this many deaths & covid waves are are good news and what we should expect moving forward, BUT your advice to high risk people is still just to “stay home.” How do you suggest I do this while keeping a job, having a family, etc.?
Since Twitter is about to implode, I'll be blunt
CW: self-harm and suicide
Being considered an acceptable loss in the prime of my life and watching the CDC encourage everyone to leave us at-risk people for dead in order to move on - this has made me consider suicide almost daily
If we keep acting like Covid-19 is over, or it's OK to get & spread, we'll lose a lot of at-risk people. We’ll lose them to a pandemic we're spreading freely or to the consequences of isolation and neglect with no end in sight. Being left for dead eventually makes you want to die
I don’t say this for attention, I have a skilled therapist and wonderfully supportive family & friends. But I’m privileged.
Happy feb 7 to everyone in news and podcasting who’s been thinking a lot about how being socialized as a woman (aka overly accommodating peace keeper) makes it much easier for one to process feelings of inadequacy at work.
If we gave classes in how to process self esteem issues for men at work, I guarantee most harassment world stop.
If Andy Mills understood that growing up near corn is a fact no matter how disrespected he feels at work and that others can be special for growing up nowhere near corn - he’d be so much less angry, a better coworker, and still have a job! It’s sorta that simple.
Please do a show dissecting Andy Mills’s appalling and offensive resignation letter. It would go a long way to redeeming your integrity if you were brave enough to look at the repercussions of unchecked/unseen biases that tend to give perpetrators the benefit of the doubt.
If @mikiebarb could
act like he cared about listers and a comfortable environment for all his producers instead of someone hell bent on protecting the reputation of himself and his fiancé (who also is his boss), he would be a far better journalist.
It’s a shame that rising to the literal top of his field has led to him deciding he can ignore basic journalistic practices, get away with it, and still very much deserve the “right” to be the world’s most notable daily news podcast host.
Reminder, according to the @nytimes website, Andy Mills didn’t even have to apply for his job. He was recruited years into being known for sexual harassment by the current director of @nytimes audio, same director is @mikiebarb boss/fiancé.
@mikiebarb, @samdolnick, Lisa Tobin - WHY DID YOU CALL SOMEONE KNOWN FOR POOR PRACTICES AT WORK WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY OTHERS TO PICK FROM. Shady shady practices and priorities
What a literal and figurative cluster fuck of a power structure. No wonder these guys seem so appalled by really basic consequences and expectations of accountability.
This is the part that scares me the most about our industry. As Andy Mills was publicly giving back a Peabody for journalistic fraud, the @nytimes promoted him to the Director of Development for audio. He’d been handed a PRIME GATEKEEPING role.
Handed a prime gatekeeping role after being known for aggression towards women the moment he was on the scene in his 20s. Plenty of us started in our 20s and were skilled & KIND, but not handed amazing jobs like this. Does journalism only value aggressive heteronormative bros?
Handed a prime gatekeeping role when women in his industry know he doesn’t respect them. I mean try pitching to a guy known for discrediting the work of or inappropriately sexualizing coworkers...Sounds like a losing battle. Weirdly the @nytimes was okay with that message...