That kind of number was just unimaginable.
But, here we are.
And, now…we are here.
The thing that haunts me…is my steadfast belief that 90% of the last 500,000
DID NOT HAVE TO DIE.
They DID NOT HAVE TO DIE.
All those loved ones who didn’t have to go through the pain and loss.
Those deaths were unnecessary. 😪😪😪
In Alabama, emptiness claims a chair at a nurses station. It fills a teenager’s bedroom in Arizona, and floats over a wooded path in North Carolina. These are some of the spaces left behind in the U.S., where almost 1 million people have died of COVID-19. https://t.co/0Aee3enqYm
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 16, 2022
Long term COVID IS REAL
Dr Peter Hotez interview: Long covid will haunt us https://t.co/OIISB0GF7R
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) April 16, 2022
Last month, I wrote about why much of the U.S. has normalized to mass COVID death. That piece was about big structural forces. But I wanted to do something more personal and human, to put faces and feelings to the losses. Hence the new piece. 2/ https://t.co/qLyrmK6ift
— Ed Yong is not here (@edyong209) April 13, 2022
Brain scans now show that even a mild case of COVID-19 can shrink part of the brain, causing physical changes equivalent to a decade of aging
(Subscriber Exclusive) https://t.co/OQIBmEGALu
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) April 15, 2022
😪😪😪😪
This is why Peanut was on lockdown, with no In-person school for over a year. How many children caught COVID during. OPEN THE SCHOOLS frenzy
and took it home to family members?😪
“I killed my mommy.” Said by a 9 yo girl during her 1st assessment. Mom died of COVID two wks after daughter tested (+). Intense guilt plus the invisibility of COVID deaths make children’s grief even more excruciating. This is an untold aspect of nearly 1 million pandemic deaths.
— Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP (@JulieKaplow) April 16, 2022
Thread
https://twitter.com/4ramorley/status/1512870795722334219?s=19
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First, regarding cases:
A look at @nycHealthy data makes it clear there’s been a rise in recent weeks.
Compared to the January Omicron tsunami, the number of new cases might look small… pic.twitter.com/NdTOr1VbHQ
— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) April 10, 2022
I had to speak to my family who convinced the doc to prescribe it. His O2 sat was 65-75% at the time and getting worse daily
2 days after starting Paxlovid, he turned around
~12 days after first pos, he turned neg on rapid test
These drugs save lives remarkably well
— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) April 10, 2022
This is from one of the disability advocates that I follow on TikTok:
https://twitter.com/OldElnora/status/1515769980549320715?t=qQobTDhEacA41aolYBYOsg&s=19
“…In her time as First Lady, photographs of her were not carefully guarded, controlled or properly curated as is done for other First Ladies .. whose were/are carefully edited and photoshopped – some often to the point of ridiculousness.. With only the seemingly ‘perfect’ images, approved and released to the public by the White House press office…
So with nobody guarding her image, everything was put out there …and it was easy for malicious folk to take the very worst images taken from unflattering angles – and run with those – saturate the internet with the same unflattering images – even sometimes further negatively edited… while the really beautiful captures of her were barely ever used…
Even some black news sites chose to use some of these same unflattering photographs in rotation, for some odd reason.. when there were a ton of really beautiful options..”
https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/02/12/president-barack-hussein-obama-first-lady-michelle-obama-portriats-unveiled-at-smithsonian-national-gallery/#comment-626993
#AngryBlackWoman
@Yungtaepuna Replying to @GreenLightIdeas
I just realized how dirty the press were for only releasing these type of pics. Really made you think that lady never changed her expression
https://twitter.com/Yungtaepuna/status/1515872819988647940?s=20&t=tI5uUlvsF1Lt4gO9u-ZP9g
Funny and ironic that the same for-hire astroturf ‘hype machine’ aka ‘influencers’ running around twitter wielding unflattering captures of Mrs Obama to defend/justify Viola’s appalling caricature of the historic FLOTUS, are furious.. aggrieved, I tell ya.. that TMZ has now used an unflattering image of Ms Davis in their bit on her deservedly panned parody..
https://twitter.com/BrokenGamezHDR_/status/1515792941016567817?s=20&t=_9Fqs-ymu1JKD6F3whhLWA
https://twitter.com/carhoppers/status/1516038431176073222?s=20&t=_9Fqs-ymu1JKD6F3whhLWA
Beanstalk cryptocurrency loses $182m of reserves in flash ‘attack’
Raider gains voting rights over digital currency and uses them to transfer contents of treasury
The Beanstalk cryptocurrency has been stripped of reserves valued at more than $180m (£138m) in seconds, after an attacker used borrowed money to snap up enough voting rights to transfer the money away.
https://twitter.com/TheDuchessZone/status/1515984220706988035?s=20&t=edW5UASDJGL4Qg0YkA-K-w
https://twitter.com/dylanbehavior/status/1515778283664822276?s=20&t=FvX6F3TzFp-X0WkP9RbWkg
https://twitter.com/JuneCleaver20/status/1515985626272866307?s=20&t=edW5UASDJGL4Qg0YkA-K-w
https://twitter.com/afashola_/status/1515846204982190081?s=20&t=edW5UASDJGL4Qg0YkA-K-w
https://twitter.com/tearsansorries/status/1516017518942593035?s=20&t=RVQnS2pPOMB6rGp-p6fl5A
https://twitter.com/jazzibemoody/status/1515932951954948096?s=20&t=B-2R4AtDtRXD0OKfwEg7VQ
https://twitter.com/992Porter/status/1516045229824122887?s=20&t=iiWlemtOxyBsQ24UtTFU9A
https://twitter.com/danielstweetn/status/1515880622304096259?s=20&t=FvX6F3TzFp-X0WkP9RbWkg