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This is exactly why I find this administration disgusting besides the fact that it is completely tone deaf. However, there is plenty of evidence that this is nothing new for Americans, even though we are all immigrants.
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1880s. Caption reads "The Anti-Chinese Wall — The American Wall Goes Up as the Chinese Original Goes Down."

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1900s. Caption reads "Immigration statistics for the past year show that the influx of foreigners was the greatest in our history, and also that the hard-working peasants are now being supplanted by the criminals and outlaws of all Europe."

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That should be sufficient evidence that we are not the welcoming country we claim to be toward what sociologists would call "the other."

historicipswich.net/2024/11/02/kno…
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I would argue that this demonization of "the other" through our history really makes the US a nation of hate. I've paid attention to this as a problem in many other countries as I've traveled abroad.
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American hate of "the other" is what inspired the Nazis.

history.com/articles/how-t…
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Now we have come full circle and our government is using the techniques of Joseph Goebbels...

totalmilitaryinsight.com/axis-powers-pr…Image
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...and telling lies about "the other."

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We know how that ends...

docsteach.org/documents/docu…Image
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Let's get off this path before we have another Kristallnacht.

npr.org/2013/11/09/241…Image
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

americanart.si.edu/artwork/those-…Image
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I read In the Garden of the Beasts in the spring of 2016, before the melon felon even had the Republican nomination. I found the parallels very disturbing.

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1-10 LP.8.1

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Now the earliest warning I can give is based on my observations of surges occurring when a variant becomes about 50% of submitted samples.

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I was asked to talk about the risks of dust in healthcare at a regulatory and accreditation meeting tomorrow, so I put a few slides together this morning for it you might enjoy. Most are my images over the years with a few exceptions.
2- I might be the only person you come across that ties dust bunnies, Godzilla, the ISS, historic architecture preservation, and Monty Python together. There is a strategy to that in making neural connections to reinforce memory. I'll add a description to any slides that need it.
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Since hantavirus is trending because of the death of Gene Hackman's wife, I thought I would share some of the bigger picture I wrote on ProMED about 15-20 years ago, tying in West Nile virus (WNV) and climate change.
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Mix in one very top-heavy population pyramid due to the baby boomers hitting the age that they will need much more medical care. Image
2- Add equal parts of a major healthcare worker shortage.

oracle.com/human-capital-…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
3- Stir in a pandemic of chronic diseases due to COVID to taste.

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