There is no question in my mind that these people did not START OUT as living vectors of infection and potential incubatores of new Covid mutations (due to multiple strains in lungs, but a combination of factors has resulted in this reality.
1st
1st
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1639886683360448514
2. "Setting the stage". Thinking back to winter 2020, I think what we are urged to "live with" now would have horrified these same people. It took a lot more to harden opinion.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1522430697201405954
In early February 2020, while I was riding the DC subway happily ignorant and maskless, the then-President was perfectly well aware Covid was a respiratory virus and a serious threat. Both he AND Bob Woodward kept this well under their hats.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1396220343203811332
By late February, I started seeing the odd person on the subway wearing a surgical mask. I noticed conferences closing down in Europer and it seemed virus was an issue in Asia and Europe.
I wonder how much Covid was already floating about the U.S.?
I wonder how much Covid was already floating about the U.S.?
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1236051410204143616
Winter 2020 Going to start summarizing this as much is known:
* Trump response is a dumpster fire. Thousands return from Europe, standing in line for hours in airports (likely infection vectors into cities)
* Outbreaks St. Paddy's weekend in NYC at "last night out" for bars
* Trump response is a dumpster fire. Thousands return from Europe, standing in line for hours in airports (likely infection vectors into cities)
* Outbreaks St. Paddy's weekend in NYC at "last night out" for bars
Word "NECROPOLITICS" is NEVER said out loud. It is the hairy mastodon in room. Red/Blue political parties in U.S., WHO, whoever pulls the levers in the world have abandoned a vulnerable cohort of world poplulation as collateral damage.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1469130156828762116
From 2020, I have paid attention to what plutocrats did to protect themselves. From P. Thiel and his 2014-planned NZ citizenship & bunker, to yachts, ranches, and now the #DavosSafe standards, I suggest seeing what THEY do and emulating cheaply as able!
https://twitter.com/business/status/1264837379652714496
This editorial was the first I read ANYWHERE that intuited the coming division between: a.) most vulnerable; b.) white collar/middle class; c) wealthy/elite/somewhat connected; d.) Plutocrat super-elite in Covid survival (death/disability).
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1386984469782016001
If Covid, AI, AND the Dolphins (self-disciplined carers of Gaia) get together, "Homo Sapiens" may be declared an annoying parasite Earth better off WITHOUT. They may keep a few "evolved" humans (Al Gore is my pick) but the rest of us are TOAST.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1521279379434840065
If one was sentient and keeping track of a WIDE range of news sources in 2020, was pretty clear Covid was not "just sniffles".
So why is this still such a common misconception amongts many the busy average American? A HUGE leadership failure.
So why is this still such a common misconception amongts many the busy average American? A HUGE leadership failure.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1296744314308104192
Pushing forward, I am writing off Trump thru Election 2020 (he basically stopped even attending meetings or THINKING about Covid by Fall 2020 and was himself saved by elite medical intervention when HE was infected (as was Christie, Giuliani). But not Herman Cain.
By far my biggest disappointment in Biden Administration.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1614782495274438658
The tragedy of people heading off (vaxxed) and then breakthrough infected by Delta at weddings, camps, family reunions was predicted and preventable. Public messages like below were NOT AMPLIFIED.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1491542585088909317
Dang it. No one from Biden Admin listened to me. How many people do I know who are now dead, and how many more have never "felt like their old selves" from Covid infection since I tweeted below?
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1421812741510213641
In December 2021, Covid became personal to me in one of the most horrible ways it CAN become personal.
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1587779256456601600
I live with the piercing regret of not sending my boyfriend $$$ to drive to Boston and DEMANDIDNG HE get a private vaccine booster instead of waiting for his (rural clinic) free employee booster. So I keep creating Covid threads and yelling in the wilderness to distract myself
OK, a mid-Covid era "thread in a thread".
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1529247093231083520
Remember that brief 2021 period (before "You Do You") when those NOT vaxxed were expected to use the "honor system" and mask when potentially exposing people? Yeesh. Dr. Fauci, you are a great scientist but as a public health communicator or strategist.. just...NO.
Back to 2021. I threw a small cushion at screen when I saw. Then ongoing outbreaks: Gridiron Club, WHCA Gala Dinner, Oscars, writers conferences, lawyers' conferences. All that Covid passing about and percolating. What lungs created KRAKEN Covid?
By Spring 2022, optics relating to enforcing "Covid Is Over" narrative caused surreal insantity like below. The event for which this FREE mitigating gear was turned down DID result in DC outbreak (not well documented, natch).
https://twitter.com/freelancerjourn/status/1521628524179861505
Late 2022. As we become more and more coarse, we grow inured even to sick CHILDREN. And what choice do people have? Workers can't afford to stay home and home school kids, they take the public schools they have.
https://twitter.com/mayodweller/status/1598031718732419073
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1588890453700923392
Factoids: Federal postal worker still positive and symptomatic after quarantine period. Supervisor: Get back to work.
In which I take my angst and write a "mini-play" on Covid, Workers, and our future AI Robot Homeless Police Dogs.
https://twitter.com/UnrollHelper/status/1516772102724018176
Recent stat that 25% of parents have "hidden" a child's positive Covid results to not interfere with daily routine (with some reporting to nurse "I am supposed to keep a secret).
But actually, USA a cruel county in general and worse post Trump:
But actually, USA a cruel county in general and worse post Trump:
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1473273549121101831
If a tree falls in the forest and we don't go there and look for fallen trees, HAS a tree fallen in the forest?"
Part One: "Yes, Your Government HAS Given Up"
Part One: "Yes, Your Government HAS Given Up"
https://twitter.com/mandatemasksus/status/1637983773466738689
Straight up. Elderly/immunocompromised being left to their own devices. For those Currently Not Yet Elderly And Immunocomprised, stay tuned for 2040, 2050 and 2060 when you are immune-depleted from Covid reinfections, unable to work, & a Useless Eater.
https://twitter.com/GormleyAlbany/status/1636922384564248582
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