A Life Wasted 🧵

First, a promise broken, my career shattered, my credit destroyed,

No help came forth, when I needed it most, fall, I did into the void.

1/ Then, struggling to pay for life's essentials, rent, food, gas, and more,

My plea for aid was met with a resounding "For helping other, I am too poor ."

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Today is day 17 in the challenge to become a more active citizen.

In honor of #MLKDay, it seems fitting that we examine the role of racism in our activism.

When we talk about how bad things are now, I have a different perspective.

I was 7 when I saw churches burned to
1/ …the ground, crosses burned in yards, and a man hanging from a tree limb having been lynched. I also knew that the KKK did all of above!

So I know things can be worse. But I am driven by my desire to prevent us from returning to that time!

That said, I think America…
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As COVID arrived the CDC listed asthma as one of the conditions for high risk.

A few weeks later National Jewish (the leading authorities on asthma) put out a notice explaining that as long as the asthma was controlled, the asthmatic was not at higher risk!

But a puzzle... 1/ ...emerged over time: Asthmatics were not showing up as frequently as expected with COVID.

Why??

It turns out that those of us with allergic rhinitis and/or eosinophilic (allergic) asthma actually do not make as many ACE2 receptors (how SARs2 gets in) as normal people!

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55 days until the election!

55 days to end this nightmare!

55 days to give it everything we can!

55 days to convince everyone to vote!

@inspiredjen and the team of volunteers from @AoCChecklist have issued a #GetOutTheVote Challenge: 🗳Action 1: Ask a senior citizen if they want help checking registration.

Chances are good that you know someone who’s not very computer savvy. Make their day with a surprise phone call and ask if they want you to check that their voter registration...

We have 65 days until what could easily be the most important vote of our lifetime!

So I am going to talk about the proverbial elephant in the living room.

Yup I am going to talk about abuse and addiction so this could be triggering for some. Please stop here if so!! Many of us have spent the last 4 years trying to understand how and why MAGAs stay loyal to Trump in the face of so many lies, the obvious cognitive struggles, and the demonstrated incompetence again and again!

I suspect the answer lies in the reality that we live in a society..

In Washington state there was a flu study conducted late last year before the outbreak in Wuhan or testing in the US.

After weeks of trying to get permission to test those samples for COVID-19 they decided to just do so anyway. They found positive samples from the flu study. “I think it’s unequivocal that there is widespread community transmission in Seattle and they have to take decisive action now,” said Scarpino, who uses mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases transmission. (statnews.com/2020/03/03/was…)

What is disinformation and why does it matter?

The #CoronavirusOutbreak (aka #COVID19) certainly has everyone’s attention at this moment!

Sadly it is the perfect to slip some disinfo onto the narrative and manipulate public opinion one way or another..

https://twitter.com/TheLoyalO/status/1235944437525753856?s=19

Let’s look at this meme: It links the COVID-19 to an immigration issue!

But they are NOT related.

This virus came into the US via travelers (mostly caucasians) who had been exposed.

🌈Viruses are blind to a persons skin color.

🌈Viruses are not stopped by a border wall.

What is a virus?

So viruses are pieces of RNA (COVID-19) or DNA and typically a protein housing that helps it invade your cells.

Because they do not have cells they are not alive. So when folks say ot will “kill” a virus they are usually talking about damaging that protein.
1/ ..So anyone who has tried to get blood or food out of clothing knows that soap or shampoo work best.This is because the soap denatures (causes the protein to unfold) and thus loose its functionality.

For a virus to “infect” you it first has to land on you and attach to you.
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