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This cadre of doctors and co. believe anyone who signed #GreatBarringtonDeclaration are worthy of scorn, even if a strong left-liberal Professor/sometimes Administrator, program coordinator, rationalist, and global do-gooder, invested in human and civil rights & the Humanities.
It's sad to see such stereotyping from people who also support going outside of normal legal or other usual institutional University protocols and procedures to punch down at graduate students in medicine with whom they disagree.

That's shameful.
And accused of "wanting a safe space" (nothing could be further for the truth), this coward @19joho (Dr. Jonathan Howard) blocked me for the below statement.

Methinks thou doth protest too much. Image
The "offensive" Tweet: Image
That's disturbed. Especially from a Psychiatrist who should not take pot shots at people, call them "scared," and block when they say, "no, I am not scared at all and am engaging with you."

Was it because I was Jewish, a liberal, in Humanities? What shattered that "type"?

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More from @MmeBlackBalloon

Apr 29
Four days ago in California.

COVID sniffing dogs will be detecting the virus in K-12?

Where exactly are these calm new positions and reflections that are supposedly being taken?

mercurynews.com/2023/04/25/cov…
And if you aren't sniffing around for COVID in classrooms, public health is looking for it in California's massive deer population:

latimes.com/california/sto…
And if it's not in the deer, it's in 12 people in the hospital system, causing the resumption of masking after under 3 weeks without:

forbes.com/sites/brucelee…
Read 7 tweets
Apr 29
My cynical read on this is that they are entering an election cycle and this has been totally damaging to Democrats in particular (although plenty of condemnation to go around, especially to Trump too), and that while they are saying better things, it's rings mainly hollow...
..so I don't find it moving or reassuring; I see low self-reflection, the US border is still closed, & until @CDCgov recommends against their most damaging policies (masks, remote school/work, hypervigilence, over-testing before routine events, vax mandates), these will continue.
In short, I see electoral harm reduction, not public health-based harm reduction, let alone contrition, and most saliently no policies in place to protect vulnerable areas from future pandemic overreactions.

Look at any California newspaper today: we are still told to be wary.
Read 6 tweets
Apr 27
Fauci now says the US needs to "move on" from the COVID virus, yet countless restrictions and changes to our normal lives remain in regions like California.

Many people on Team Reality are not in those impacted areas and indeed are moving on... 🧵

news.google.com/articles/CBMid…
...but by not maintaining a coalition of resistance and information sharing, when there is ZERO assurance that restrictions & absurdities will not reoccur - in other people's areas or mine, plus all of the fallout still in place - we are sitting ducks.

So I will keep speaking. Image
It's the same old story that those who can afford to live in the land of the lotus eaters leave those still in the trenches to do all of the work.

Do people need breaks? Yes of course!

But to create effective resistance movements, you do need to maintain your presence & voice.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 23
You recall the countless times I have blamed University administration, not faculty, for the pandemic restrictions.

Administrative bloat and backhanded deals with funders, often in Govt, not the opinions of some Geology Prof, have caused the most harm.

Profs are outnumbered.
@NCM4Ever this whole thread is great, especially if you read up to the top.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 23
The last thing I heard from my spouse today as he walked out the door was, "I don't care what you think, but a lot of younger people did in fact die from COVID, including recently."

I hadn't said a word. I was just sitting there grading. We hadn't talked about COVID in weeks. 🤷
Am I indicting him? No. I just am impressed by his deeply ideological commitment to talking to whatever newspaper article had just set him off and to that level of shadowboxing. He isn't even a coronaphobe.

He was probably pissed off that Trump wasn't arrested.
Sorry to share but there is something important about this all, in my view. I imagine it must be playing out in many ways amongst people across the US and that this is just one manifestation, like a fractal, of a larger phenomenon.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 22
Just thought this was worth a pull quote (and how much did Pfizer make? I know, I know! $37+ billion in 2022 alone):

"Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., noted that Moderna has made more than $20 billion in profits over the past two years"

wtop.com/national/2023/…
Source for Pfizer revenues:
statista.com/statistics/253…
And Pfizer vax made made $36.8 billion in 2021.

Math...

fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-…
Read 8 tweets

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