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.
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@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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— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@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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— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@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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— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@doctorow) May 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1260967459164770306
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1261109325470318594
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1261101240127303680
https://twitter.com/chrislongview/status/1260967997260398592
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
https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1260832275140349964
https://twitter.com/davidplouffe/status/1260952283518349313
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1260942349233946626
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😒😒😒
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1260900567045586945
😢😢😢🙏🙏
https://twitter.com/metheridge/status/1260734679306534912
Stay in the house😒😒
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1260717131844501505
https://twitter.com/SSWorks/status/1260931887683403776
https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1260920623406231553
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1260758622335795200
https://twitter.com/MattMurph24/status/1260734978473824256
https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1260751937651294217
https://twitter.com/Isabelwilkerson/status/1260637629374226437
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1260663352843329536
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1260676977339650048
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1260677862685802511
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.
https://twitter.com/TeamJulian/status/1260690779821027331
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1260674079151083520
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1260691791952728064
https://twitter.com/twice_sifted/status/12
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/
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/
https://twitter.com/theappeal/status/1260636426716119041
You’ve got to admit this is funny.
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1260633824389521408
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1260610076873838592
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1260571767623598085
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1260570498867408897
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.
https://twitter.com/jelani9/status/1260364155028209666
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄