I'm very medically vulnerable. The only person I see other than my partner is my mom. She masks constantly, has to get work done in her apartment, crew agrees to mask - her super barges in unmasked to make noise complaints, she doesn't have time to grab a mask & now she has covid The idea that high risk people can take only "personal precautions" and actually not risk covid is a false one.

How can medically vulnerable people protect themselves when the vibe is so lax that men w covid barge into homes that they know prefer masking?

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?

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?

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

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/1357711142575960069

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.

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

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.

https://twitter.com/JolentaG/status/1357833463232094208

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?

He’s a victim. Andy Mills is a victim of us noticing he failed up. Andy Mills is a victim of the consequences of his actions, no matter how late they came. Victim of his own hubris, not a political climate for sure.

https://twitter.com/marcatracy/status/1357796329267806209

Correction @AndyMillsNYT the word is predator, not flirt.

Hope this is true because when I was at wnyc the only @Radiolab people who would even talk to me or were just kind in passing were 2 female associate producers. Leadership was elusive and incredibly stand-offish unless sending office wide accolades for men like Andy Mills.

https://twitter.com/Radiolab/status/1347236039497277445

I rode the train to work with @JadAbumrad for years- when I’d occasionally acknowledge him in the office or tried twice to make up elevator small talk. He acted like I didn’t exist or was rude. Now I’m not an administrator and I think of his team as a place I wouldn’t be welcome.

This is how men in podcasting and every industry get ahead. Because this is totally appropriate. I'm looking at you @nytimes #TheDaily. It's a visual representation of what happens when you question a leaders choices in standing behind someone who failed up cuz he seemed cool to bosses despite a history of sexual harassment and now such bad journalism a Peabody has to be returned. npr.org/2020/12/18/944…

As a podcast listener this is insulting. Andy Mills had to give back the Peabody he helped win for y'all last week and force a huge retraction and you think we won't notice him hosting the @nytimes flagship pod the next Monday?!? You think we won't notice???

https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/1340996465506852864

As a woman in the industry it's more insulting that someone so big, @mikiebarb, is so willing promote the career & work of someone so sexist and harassing to women in the industry. He takes our jobs and forces us out and you laude him.