In response to ManKillah Fruitface.
This thought certainly has a long life. Yeah, white people problem, those in power love having us blame each other, blablabla. What are we going to do about it beyond circulating simplistic memes like this for years on end?
10:09 AM - Oct 09, 2023
In response to John Shaft.
What is this "bottle" if which you speak? Made of actual glass?
06:20 PM - May 25, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
into good guys and bad guys in the minds of good liberal Whites, something that persists today.
09:12 PM - May 19, 2023
In response to Nicole.
Malcolm, and Bayard Rustin. Media at the time loved to portray MLKjr as the peace-abiding, thoughtful civil rights leader, and Malcolm as the scary black man. And nobody heard of Bayard. It was an attempt to divide the Black community, largely unsuccessful, but successful in splitting the movement i
09:11 PM - May 19, 2023
In response to Tristan Langford.
1968, Humphrey. *sigh*. The democratic party even then didn't have the balls to nominate someone who wasn't a centrist. Nixon won, only to lose - to Ford.....so to speak.
09:05 PM - May 19, 2023
In response to CamdenBlue.
And they are tanking the economy because they can blame it on Biden, followed by MAGA winning in 2024. It's a problem.
12:14 PM - May 16, 2023
In response to Fad BeALover-NotAHater.
I'm not seeing any surge happening with the sewage - if anything, it's a slow drop.
09:58 PM - Apr 28, 2023
In response to Lisa K. "Guardian of Radical Visions".
Don't remember very well, but surely supporters of other candidates did the same. And in any case, did they, Bernie & Bros, say that economics is everything, rights are secondary? Seems odd.
11:42 AM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Nancy M.
And in 1624, John Donne writes https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditation_XVII
11:40 AM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Lisa K. "Guardian of Radical Visions".
Who are Bernie & Bros, and is that what they're saying?
11:36 AM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Fad BeALover-NotAHater.
Immunocompromised people need to get vaccinated. I have several friends - one with a liver transplant, two undergoing cancer treatment, and two with HIV - and they all are fully vaccinated.
11:15 AM - Apr 13, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
The rest of the state simply isn't reporting, as there is no state epidemiologist and a bunch of overworked bureaucrats running the health dept.
Yes, there's a HIPAA problem low population, but still....
Yes, there's a HIPAA problem low population, but still....
11:35 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
If you look at the 2021 current county-wide maps of the outbreak and notice how good Nebraska looks – Nebraska has 93 counties, of which 5 have health departments, of which 2 function.
11:34 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
The CDC collects its data from the state health departments, who collect it from the local governmments. If the local public health department is a mess (see Detroit, above), bad data.
11:33 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
The US' covid outbreak is not the fault of the anti-vaxxers; it's the fault of those who destroyed our not-very-good public health system (https://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/06/1024933341/detroit-public-health-privatize-covid-ba...
). Thank you, Uncles Miltie and Friedrich!
). Thank you, Uncles Miltie and Friedrich!
npr.org
How Privatizing The Health Department Undermined Public Trust In Detroit : Shots - Health News : NPR
With bankruptcy looming in 2012, Detroit largely dismantled its public health department. Years later, that decision offers a cautionary tale to other U.S. cities as the painful rebuilding continues.
11:33 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
What the US thinks of as public health is clinical medicine applied to a whole bunch of people. A public health program that is based on individual behavior change is doomed!
11:30 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
8. Stop thinking in terms of a single magic bullet – "if everyone would just mask like they do in Asia" --> "If everyone would just get vaccinated….."
Neither of those worked because we don't have a public health program.
Neither of those worked because we don't have a public health program.
11:29 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
This is an anonymous, individual intervention that won't work as well in the US as it does in Korea – plus in Korea 98% of people own smart phones, whereas in the US it's in the low 80s. But this helps, along with the rest
11:29 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
7. Some sort of national tracking system like Korea uses, so people can know when they've been exposed to get out of circulation.
11:28 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
6. Stipends for everyone, no means testing, to reduce the conflict between the "save the economy" and "save the people" .
11:28 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
4. Paid sick leave. If people are afraid the vaccine side-effects will knock them down so they can't go to work, they'll avoid it.
5. Stipends for small businesses so they can keep afloat.
5. Stipends for small businesses so they can keep afloat.
11:27 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
2. Medicare for all or something comparable. If people are worried about the ridiculous cost of medical care, they'll avoid it.
3. Reinstate airwave regulation. If people are scared that the vaccine will eat their brains, they'll avoid it.
3. Reinstate airwave regulation. If people are scared that the vaccine will eat their brains, they'll avoid it.
11:27 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
A lot of the CDC's problems are due to budget cuts and political appointments, with the exodus of competent people the natural outcome.
11:26 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Dan Strickland.
1. Repair the CDC so it can do proper surveillance again. Early on in the epidemic in 2020, the CDC couldn't get the covid-19 case definition right – mixing symptomatics with test positives, then unmixing them. We need competent people who won't do that to return to the CDC.
11:24 AM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to CPfromCA.
Well, yes, remember Arab Spring and twitter's role in that?
02:27 PM - Apr 07, 2023
In response to Ruth Zantvoort.
Are you enjoying that long drink of cold well water that the lady says is clean? My family and friends will make your acquaintance soon - we're typhoid bacilli.
01:21 PM - Apr 06, 2023
