This Twitter thread is on the money
"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc, more contact means more risk of illness and death.
— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
These people are willing to risk workers' lives and shoppers' lives because they believe they do not have a shared microbial destiny with the rest of us.
They think they won't get sick, and if they do, they think they'll get better.
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
They can afford premiums to gougers for PPE for shopping trips, and if they do get sick, they can afford private rooms, hoarded ventilators, and home care (with PPE for the workers who care for them).
For the investor class, "re-opening" is low risk and high reward.
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
That's why the gloves are off, like in Ohio, where bosses can use a confidential snitchline to rat out workers who won't come back for fear of their lives: these workers will lose their unemployment benefits, their homes, their grocery money.https://t.co/r3vfYjIiQ6
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
Iowa Workforce Development Director @BethTownsendIWD: "fear of catching the virus would be considered a voluntary resignation, which disqualifies workers from receiving unemployment benefits."
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
Ideologues – like the mayor of Las Vegas – tell us that we can reopen because the market will drive employers to find safe ways to operate. They are wrong.https://t.co/kXc9Bvb5rZ
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
While Amazon lied to Southern California warehouse workers, telling them that the state's paid sick-leave law didn't extend to warehouses and warned them that they'd be fired for missing shift. Sick workers are coming in and infecting others.https://t.co/y73GJMuWlI
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
Evangelicals: "we'll support domination by the finance sector if you'll give us performative cruelty to brown people, queers and women seeking abortions."https://t.co/vo8p7xq9cN
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
The antidote is a peoples' bailout, like the $2,000/month stimulus proposed by @sensanders, @KamalaHarris and @EdMarkey, retroactive to March, for every adult and every child.https://t.co/58dEZ5UFPc
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— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
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Three children are left orphaned as both their parents die from COVID-19 within weeks, eight years after they fled to the US to escape ISIS in Iraq
Nada Ayram, 46, died April 21 and her husband Nameer, 52, died on Monday
They both entered hospitals in Michigan in March when their son Nash, 20, and daughter Nadeen, 18, got infected with coronavirus too
The community stepped in to help the children and their sister Nanssy, 13
Now both parents have passed away, their children have no other relatives in the US to support them as they are refugees from Iraq
‘Nash is devastated and the girls are not taking it well. I mean, they lost both of their parents within weeks of each other,’ a family friend said
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
By LEAH SIMPSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:14 EDT, 14 May 2020 | UPDATED: 16:15 EDT, 14 May 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8320897/Three-children-Michigan-left-orphaned-parents-die-COVID-19-weeks.html?ito=push-notification&ci=15248&si=733427
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I believe that the GOPers should put their bodies where their mouths are .
THEY can open up the economy, and I will see them in, say, two months, after I see how it goes for them😒😒😒
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😢😢😢🙏🙏
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Stay in the house😒😒
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Yep. Julian Castro stood alone, ahead of his time. I won’t live to see it, but I pray that Julian Castro represents America’s future leadership.
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https://twitter.com/twice_sifted/status/12
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What the countries with the best COVID-19response have in common.😒
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/amp/
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National African American Gun Association grows amid mass shootings: “I’m not goin’ down without a fight” – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-control-national-african-american-gun-association-im-not-goin-down-without-a-fight/
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You’ve got to admit this is funny.
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This is a damn good question. The US is the world’s military superpower and the kind of people we’ve been electing to run the government will attempt to maintain that status at the expense of the welfare of the citizens. Joe Biden, if elected, will carry on. And we see how bad that is now that we have tens of millions of people out of work, broke, lining up at food banks. The question really is how long Americans will tolerate these imbalances. I think it finally changes when the younger generations become leaders and then there is the possibility that the US will eventually make it’s way into a multi-polar world. We have to pray that Donald Trump is the lowest point, God help us if it gets worse.
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
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