https://twitter.com/FreshAirFarmer/status/1247876222312427521?s=20
We, the generalized “we”, are figuring this out. Dumping milk is not a sign of the evils of capitalism.
Andrew Campbell (@FreshAirFarmer) Tweeted: It’s a great question. But again we run into the challenge of it being raw and unpasteurized. A food bank can do nothing with a 40,000L tanker at its back door. They aren’t processors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html
“Bring out your dead!” Except without the funny part.
«Paramedics are not testing those they pronounce dead for the virus so it is almost impossible to say how many of the people were infected with it. Some may have been tested before they died and either were not admitted to hospitals or were sent home.
But the discrepancy between the number of people dying at home this year at the height of the epidemic compared with the number of those who died under such circumstances last year suggests the virus was involved in many of the recent deaths.
https://twitter.com/ClimateDesk/status/1248209039231569926?s=20
More of the same, I guess. Supply chain networks.
Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) Tweeted: The sudden shift in the way Americans shop is stunning. https://t.co/iFG7SZQF3O
https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1248044428062752769?s=20
Huh.
Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) Tweeted: 25% of the US Army in the Civil War was composed of Southerners There was no mythical southern hegemony that made rebels turn traitor It was a choice. To support a government based on white supremacy and chattel slavery. https://t.co/AYu5lSLrHo
https://twitter.com/Scottcrates/status/1247921908848283648?s=20
Right. This again. And always.
Scottacular (@Scottcrates) Tweeted: ** WARNING ** The Russian trolls pretending to be Bernie Bros will be out en masse declaring they won’t vote for Biden. Their goal is get you to react with an anti Bernie message and thus cause real division and lower voter turnout. Don’t fall for this. PLEASE RETWEET
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-rural-america-cases.html
«Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has suggested that the stricter measures violated personal liberties, and she said her state’s rural character made it better positioned to handle the outbreak.
“South Dakota is not New York City,” Ms. Noem said at a news conference last week.»
Uh huh.
«The loss of 120 rural hospitals over the past decade has left many towns defenseless, and more hospitals are closing even as the pandemic spreads.»
«“You say, wait a minute, I know them!” she said. “It’s, like, oh my God, I knew them. I used to talk to them. I knew their family. Their kids. It’s a blow to the community each time.”»
Coming home, now. After all that cost-cutting and streamlining.
«“You’d think in rural Oklahoma, that we all live so far apart, but there’s one place where people congregate, and that’s at the nursing home,” she said. “I thought I was safe here in Southwest Oklahoma, I didn’t think there would be a big issue with it, and all of a sudden, bam.”»
Probably true of churches and bars, too. We’re social animals.
«Darvin Bentlage, a Missouri rancher, says he is having trouble selling his cattle because auctions have been canceled. In areas without reliable internet access, adults are struggling to work remotely and children are having to get assignments and school updates delivered to their door.»
«“It’s just absolutely crazy,” said Michael Caputo, a state delegate in Fairmont, W.Va., where the Fairmont Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in the county, closed in mid-March. “Across the country, they’re turning hotels and sports complexes into temporary hospitals. And here we’ve got a hospital where the doors are shut.”
For now, there is an ambulance posted outside the emergency room, in case sick people show up looking for help.»
Can you imagine showing up at a hospital, in pain and scared, and being told, “Sorry, we’re closed, we’ll have to take you to the next county over.”?
With receipts, as they say. This seems like a page straight out of a Racial Equity Institute (@racialequityllc) workshop.
Thread by @nhannahjones: When Covid-19 first hit America hard last month, the narrative was that it was the great equalizer, that in such a dion, our shared humanity meant we would be equal in our suffering. But those of us who understand racial caste in…
https://twitter.com/thewritertype/status/1247111646998298628?s=20
This.
paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) Tweeted: Your password is strong. It’s also brave, loyal and kind. But there’s a risk it’s naive and slow-witted, and could be easy prey for weaker but more cunning passwords. Choose a different one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52157824
«”…he wasn’t the type of person to just live in fear and let it rob him of the joy of the life that he had”»
But it did, didn’t it?
«She does think that mixed signals and, as she sees it, an inability to trust the media contributed to confusion about the virus.
“I was frustrated with the way that the media was very agenda driven – and it’s on both sides.
….
Jesse said that the longstanding polarisation of the American media made it hard to know what to believe and what is political hype.»
When television was first available to the public, it was referred to as “the boob tube” and “the idiot box”. I don’t think that’s really changed.
It’s not that hard to know what’s really happening with something like this. Step one is: TURN OFF YOUR TV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/coronavirus-deaths-undercount.html
Ok, then. As more tests indicate more cases, deaths go unreported, so the mortality rate appears lower than it really is.
