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Martha Lincoln

5 months

Call us—the simple lovers of intact human bodies, un-bombed cities, food on tables, families, flourishing ecologies, nonviolent polities, functioning hospitals, free poets and journalists, demilitarized societies, life in its sanctity—whatever you like

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

8 days

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

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@heavyredaction

2 years

NYT is really breathing down readers’ necks about remote work lately

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@heavyredaction

6 months

It is staggering to kill 11,000 people in <40 days. The Troubles in Northern Ireland, which are seen as a time of great violence, killed ~3,700 people—combatants and civilians—in 29 years

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3 months

Fast Car” was always a sad song, but in 1988 when it released, you arguably *could* run away with your partner and make a life on the salary of a grocery-store checker. 35 years on it reads as much sadder

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5 years

A student has just astonished me by writing "Influencers such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels..."

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@heavyredaction

10 months

It’s amazing to see editors work this hard to get a baseless moral panic off the ground, get no traction, and keep trying

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Can’t think of another usage of “mild” to mean “fatal in some cases”

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1 year

It's unfortunate to see some of the most respected venues in journalism taking this turn—exceptionalizing individuals and groups who advocate for greater public health protections and portraying them as deviant, immature, countercultural, Marxists, etc. 1/

The Case for Wearing Masks Forever

A ragtag coalition of public-health activists believe that America’s pandemic restrictions are too lax—and they say they have the science to prove it.

www.newyorker.com

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@heavyredaction

6 months

I think this is the strongest language I’ve ever heard organizations like MSF using in public communications. It should be a wake-up call to AMA and APHA and others

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières

@MSF_canada

6 months

We denounce the death warrant of civilians trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military. #Gaza

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@heavyredaction

2 years

@apmassaro3 As many are saying, there is EXTENSIVE precedent for this. The North Vietnamese Army/Viet Cong against the USA and the Northern Irish against the British are just two recent ones

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@heavyredaction

9 months

It has been eleven (11) days since this article ran

CNN

@CNN

9 months

It’s time to stock up on tissues, bingeable TV options and Covid-19 tests. Yes, many signs are pointing to a Covid-19 summer surge – although one that’s far less intense than what emerged the past few summers.

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Follow-up promo tweet: read Herman and Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” (1988) on the “system-supportive propaganda function” of US mass media. Analysis remains fundamentally timely and some of the case studies are frankly shocking

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

6 months

Cannot believe my eyes. This is the top-read essay in The Atlantic today

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@heavyredaction

2 years

10-year anniversary of J28 at Occupy Oakland. Many losses, but history won’t forget guy on the skirmish line with his upholstered chair

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@heavyredaction

2 years

In @thenation today, my piece unpacking the idea of “COVID fatigue” and challenging the (seemingly straightforward) claim that the general public is tired of responding to the pandemic. 1/

Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid”

Shifting responsibility for the pandemic onto individuals is bad policy—and risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom.

www.thenation.com

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

1 year

“Quiet quitting” on public health Jha: “There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well” 12/23/22 Walensky: “We can’t stop the spread of COVID” 12/30/22 Biden: “I stopped thinking about it” 1/20/23 Emanuel: “Living too long is also a loss” 1/24/23

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@heavyredaction

4 years

Oakland Animal Service let me know they will euthanize this guy if no one takes him by Sunday. He is a sweet pup but we can't take him. Dog lovers in Oakland? Anybody know someone?

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@heavyredaction

2 years

I’ll enthusiastically die on this hill. “Pandemic fatigue” is an ideological construct that has been given +/- infinite oxygen in US media since a very early point in 2020. It is neither a priori nor ex nihilo. Public opinion on this issue may remain fungible, too

Anton Vikström

@Anton_Vikstrom

2 years

People have lived thru plagues and wars that have lasted way longer than 2-3 years. "Pandemic fatigue" set in when pundits start saying on the TV that people have it. In Sweden, they talked about it from day 1 and people bought into it. In parts of Asia, they still haven't.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

There is absolutely no end to pissing on the public’s leg and telling them it is raining

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Something I keep expecting to see is legal challenges to rollback of pandemic protections on ADA grounds. Broadly, the point of the ADA is “to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.” How am I wrong about this?

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@heavyredaction

4 months

@irosarioc Throwback to this queen

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@heavyredaction

6 months

As an anthropologist I am humanly challenged by the cognitive dissonance of seeing atrocities—dead and severely injured children, flattened homes, genocidal priming by heads of state—alongside well-intended editorials and posts saying it’s ok to voice no opinion on this situation

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@heavyredaction

7 months

Today in @thenation with @arijitchakrav : The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare. 1/

The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings

The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare.

www.thenation.com

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@heavyredaction

1 year

@nytimes

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Five days since Rochelle Walensky’s COVID infection was announced—no updates since?

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@heavyredaction

1 year

This essay describes critiques as “grievances”; positions as “beliefs,” and accuses the People’s CDC of “activist-speak” and “eye-popping claims.” In this, it gives a ton of cover to agencies & officials who have gone out of their way to distort, misdirect, and miscommunicate 2/

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@heavyredaction

7 days

Where’s U of Chicago’s Agnes Callard? She’s a public intellectual, a defender of free speech, an opponent of “cancel culture,” and critiques how “bullying” reduces the exploration of ideas. Surely she will have something to say about Emory’s chair of philosophy getting arrested

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@heavyredaction

7 months

Facile point perhaps but the “lessons” of COVID-19 in the United States really taught that life is cheap, elite violence is sanctioned, unreason is a comforting recourse in a chaotic world, and institutions cannot be held accountable

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

2 years

Missed this one

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@heavyredaction

8 months

The light gray line in this layout is doing a lot of work

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Musing out loud about “what if” we withdraw medical care from elderly people—positioned as innocent spitballing—immediately primes people to endorse these views in the 1st degree. The plausible deniability is paper thin

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@heavyredaction

1 year

What a long year of Bob Wachter’s COVID risk-calculation posts—and what diminishing returns this approach offers. Framing the pandemic in terms of “finding our own method” is a dead end, the opposite of public health policy and aspirations to equitable outcomes

Bob Wachter

@Bob_Wachter

1 year

Covid ( @UCSF ) Chronicles, Day 1013 As we enter Covid Year 3, it’s clear we’ll be in our current predicament for the foreseeable future. This means we all need to find our own method to weigh & mitigate risks. Today I’ll describe my “50% Rule” & how it governs my choices. (1/25)

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@heavyredaction

1 year

It’s so frustrating to see another journalist leveraging the conventions of longform journalism—framing, perspective, sequencing, diction—to build a weakly evidenced case against 1 of the few groups that is pushing back against the Biden admin’s deeply flawed COVID response. Fin/

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@heavyredaction

6 months

@pdnell @KvetchinQueen Please don’t condescend to me pointlessly 🙏

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Larry Summers claiming that declining US life expectancy “transcends politics” = a fundamental—and, itself, quite ideological—misprision of the word “politics.” This *is* politics, accomplished via policy, including policy that Summers has personally supported

Lawrence H. Summers

@LHSummers

1 year

The most disturbing set of data on America that I have encountered in a long time. This transcends politics. This is especially scary remembering that demographics were the best early warning on the collapse of the USSR. …

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Amid so many low points in COVID messaging, this is one for the record books. So chill, laid back, and laissez-faire about human life and health

Governor Kathy Hochul

@GovKathyHochul

2 years

Starting today, masks will be optional in some places where they had previously been required, including on mass transit.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

I have yet to see a prominent person—and perhaps I’ve just missed this?—say they have anything more serious than symptoms that are “mild”

SFGATE

@SFGate

1 year

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after experiencing mild symptoms, according to his office.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The author’s framing here, for example, suggests that the critiquing the CDC’s highly tendentious Community Levels metric is a “grievance”—and so is drawing attention to the lack of a public conversation about long COVID 3/

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@heavyredaction

3 months

More info for those of you who are mad about this tweet: 1988 min wage $3.35/hr, avg mo. rent ~$600 (179 hrs of work to pay rent) 2023 min wage $7.25/hr, avg mo. rent ~$1840 (254 hrs of work to pay rent) Cost of living increased 2.24x from 1990-2022 per Bureau of Labor Statistics

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@heavyredaction

2 years

@AuthorWinifred Per bio, that is the Chair, Dept of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Psychiatrist-in-Chief NYPH-CUIMC!...

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@heavyredaction

2 months

Have never seen the “passive exonerative” taken to these extremes

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@SanaSaeed

2 months

Jesus Christ, you absolute sick ghouls @nytimes

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@heavyredaction

2 years

I guess Ashish Jha is cleaning out his desk this morning

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@heavyredaction

2 years

@YAppelbaum A lot of Americans have had serious health concerns, or know someone else who has. Not rocket science

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@heavyredaction

14 days

Memory is imperfect, but I do not remember seeing anything equally punitive towards student demonstrators since this notorious 2011 incident at UC Davis

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@heavyredaction

6 months

@docobgynmom @LibyaLiberty Doctor, my point with this comparison is that even a much smaller number of civilian casualties over a longer period of time can be socially devastating, with surviving populations haunted by the experience of armed conflict for years to come. Hope that is clear.

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Would still like to understand what prompted shift from “We can have a safe and healthy fall and winter ahead” on 10/13 to “It’s a huge challenge...[the] medicine cabinet has actually shrunk” on 10/25

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

1 year

While the disparaging, insinuating, passive-aggressive tone of this essay makes it read as poorly motivated clickbait, the author is also simply wrong on the facts. The People’s CDC is not advocating for “masking forever” or for “zero COVID.” 12/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

How it started, how it’s going

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@heavyredaction

2 years

But even if it were true that the public really was tired, it would be both dangerous and irresponsible to abandon them to their fatigue, or to “meet them where they are” in order to leave them there. As many have repeatedly said, this is the opposite of public health. 6/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

POV, you’re experiencing “cognitive dissonance” on a flight where “~20% are masked” and seemingly unaware of the risks of long COVID. After personally calling for the removal of the federal order requiring masks on public transportation in April

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@heavyredaction

1 year

With all due respect, the logic here: “Bro, just one more infection. Just one more infection, bro”

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Just my personal experience, but so many friends and colleagues have gotten COVID this past week, after years of being careful, at the same time that media seem to have converged around peak banalization of the pandemic

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@heavyredaction

1 year

“Economists are scratching their heads” is doing an absolutely immense amount of work in this lede

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

1 year

Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is and where all these people went.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

At the “bridge” of the essay, the author’s big move is to paint the aspirations of the People’s CDC as unrealistic via a false framing (“zero COVID deaths”) and a false analogy (“if the US were an island in the South Pacific”) 4/

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@heavyredaction

1 year

At the end of that graf, the author presents a quote that makes the speaker sound like a hippie (“lean into love and equity”). This is a real Joan Didion move, cribbed from The White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem—a rhetorical/stylistic means of discrediting the left 5/

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@heavyredaction

10 months

Seems like wildfire smoke blanketing the US has been normalized more or less overnight. We went from being blindsided to taking it in stride w/ nothing in between

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@heavyredaction

2 years

As I argue, the “tired-public” claim is manufactured. Polling data, including very recent data, show a remarkable consistent level of support for COVID protections. For example: 4/

wsbgnl

@wsbgnl

2 years

Aug 6-9 Fox News poll

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@heavyredaction

7 days

Guys like this have staked their entire careers and reputations as experts on the concepts of free speech, academic freedom, and liberal democracy. They do not recognize those concepts in the wild, and they also actually hate them

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@heavyredaction

4 months

It actually *does* take impressive stamina to retain convictions about public health—especially in light of mainstream indifference—and not treat it like a bit

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Didn’t realize this brand of person is still at it on here. Impressive stamina.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The transition and following paras present the next set of speakers—all critics of the People's CDC—as authorities and voices of reason (“...the public-health leaders who do actually dictate policy”). Those quoted include widely critiqued figures like Tom Frieden & Leana Wen 6/

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@heavyredaction

10 days

The phrase “don’t panic” should be permanently retired in PH. It is mystifying & encourages deference to authority instead of validating reasonable fears. It encourages conspiratorial critiques. And it lost all credibility from repetition by Dems as well as by 45 during COVID

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

6 months

Mocking Arab American voters who won’t vote for Biden and making facile comments about their prospects under Trump expresses the essential spirit of the Democratic Party. Do very little—or nothing—to be better than Republicans and then expect to command the moral high ground

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@heavyredaction

2 years

As I argue, the Biden administration and the CDC have been unraveling the federal pandemic response with this claim as justification. Despite many continued concerning COVID trends, the admin has continued investing a disproportionate resources in managing impressions. 2/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Can’t help but feel that we are losing immense amounts of political ground—and that shameless think pieces are just our adversaries’ symbolic capital

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@heavyredaction

1 year

This paragraph is maybe the most problematic in a deeply flawed piece. The author is muddying the water here (“it’s tough to adjudicate...”)—and regrettably drags the eminent historian Amy Fairchild into a left-baiting argument about “moralistic scientism” 7/

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@heavyredaction

7 months

Folks who followed me for medical anthropology and public health commentary—thank you. Those values are consistent w/ support for Palestinian rights, health, and flourishing. Speaking personally, my great-grandparents were left-wing, secular, anti-Zionist Jews; also my tradition.

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Next comes a hell of a journalistic segue, leading with the alleged deficits of “scientific moralism” and cuing up notorious COVID minimizer Leana Wen as an expert equipped to speak authoritatively to the incidence of long COVID and the medical definition of the diagnosis 8/

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

2 years

Administration allies like Leana Wen have been consistent cheerleaders for the narrative about a “weary” public. They have used it both to project a pretense of concern *and* to prop up a degraded definition of public health. 7/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

In (short) retrospect, it’s remarkable that this narrative has been so persuasive, downplaying the pandemic successfully while over-hyping the concern that people are sick of *hearing* about it. Since April, POTUS, FLOTUS, Kamala Harris, and Tony Fauci have all had COVID 3/

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The Surgeon General’s newly issued advisory on loneliness contains a feature on COVID-19 that’s identified as a “call-out” in the table of contents. It’s just one page on the impacts of the pandemic on loneliness 1/

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@heavyredaction

9 months

Purely on a gut level, Leonhardt writing “The pandemic really is over” (7/17) & Wachter splitting hairs re: “uptick” vs. “surge” (8/4), etc., takes me back to fall 2021—when the public was so misdirected by discourse about “off-ramps,” the “end” of COVID, & Omicron being “mild”

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The Journalists Who Can’t Quit Twisting the Discourse on COVID By Reporting it in Trend Pieces—And the Editors Who Love Them

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The author concludes the piece on this rather fatalistic and complacent note—“In much of America, the pandemic has seemed over for a long time”—and essentially treating that as a kind of “gotcha,” as if it proved that the People's CDC is fanatical or somehow misled 11/

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@heavyredaction

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@ASFried @victorerikray No Amy

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@heavyredaction

9 days

The level of passive aggression and feigned indifference here, from the always insufferable John McWhorter, is nonpareil. To coin a phrase, unconcern trolling

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Today, two new pieces deconstructing Emma Green’s deeply flawed New Yorker essay on the People’s CDC. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Virus” by @gregggonsalves in @thenation . A free education is to be had here, in public health and in not mincing words 1/

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@heavyredaction

10 months

I have to hand it to Rochelle Walensky here—this is a masterful redirection, almost pure spin. It coins the idea of “pandemic despair” as if RW had not been a thought leader of despair—personally promoting institutional fatalism about public health

Opinion | What I Need to Tell America Before I Leave the C.D.C.

The departing C.D.C. director shares a message for Americans.

www.nytimes.com

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@heavyredaction

2 years

“Meeting people where they are” is Wen’s entire COVID proposal; the middlegame and the endgame. By “people,” she means groups who actively or passively oppose public health measures, and by “meet where they are,” she means “stay where they are, possibly permanently”

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@luckytran

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"Far from “meeting people where they are”, this stance represents a fundamental disrespect: a doctor’s patronizing insistence that we must accept political failure and the extremely high levels of preventable death it entails" 🔥🔥🔥

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Next pivot is to (a) disingenuously present critiques of Wen in the most unfortunately unserious terms, and (b) point to Wen’s recognition by APHA—ginning up sympathy for an M.D. who has incessantly called for the end of pandemic mitigations 9/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Imagine living through this dreadful, grievous, dehumanizing pandemic and orienting your sense of urgency to what is “normal” rather than that which is exigent. Almost reminiscent of a form of historical reenactment

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@heavyredaction

10 months

This is historical revision in real time. Nonsensical use of data, buttressed by Ashish Jha’s most-critiqued? claim about preventable death—which dates to last October and was misleading then—and by this familiar fallacy about the pathogen itself

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@DLeonhardt

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The U.S. has reached a major milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically abnormal.

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@heavyredaction

2 years

It’s *also* disingenuous, in my opinion, for a politician to claim that the public is out of juice on a given issue and then—anti-motivationally—to reinforce that message. 8/

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@heavyredaction

1 year

In fact, this text somehow doesn’t really even dwell on the reality that this was an epidemiological event. Only a brief mention of health care workers. No word about how failed federal and state pandemic responses could have exacerbated loneliness and feelings of abandonment 4/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

And: 5/

Neil Sehgal, PhD, MPH

@NeilSehgal

2 years

78% of Democrats and 51% of Independents report wearing a mask in public at least some of the time in the past week. So when the Administration or it’s surrogates tell you that the CDC has aligned COVID guidance to meet where most Americans are, they don’t mean *literally* most.

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@heavyredaction

2 years

And as a candidate, Biden told Americans he would “Provide clear, consistent, evidence-based national guidance for how communities should navigate the pandemic.” Yet the administration’s messaging on COVID—and the CDC’s—is defaulting to vibes and leading from behind 10/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

This year’s North American Victorian Studies Association conference is planning some ++ proactive COVID mitigation strategies—like sending N95 masks and rapid tests to attendees before the conf! 1/

NAVSA 2022

@NAVSA_2022

2 years

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@heavyredaction

2 months

Quite a surprise to see Ashish Jha delete an unpopular tweet

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@heavyredaction

4 years

I love science journalism and I would like to see *social science* journalism become a thing with dedicated staff covering what's current and debated in anthropology, sociology, etc.

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@heavyredaction

11 months

Bay Area!! 🚨🐈 Victor Hugo (Siamese), Charlotte Brontë (tabby), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (mini bear) need to be fostered or adopted. Friendly & clever (Victor Hugo is more shy). Charlotte is expecting kittens, don’t judge her Check-ups and shots will be comped Please RT!/DM me ❤️

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@heavyredaction

11 months

Time to stop holding back so many unpopular opinions—I just got tenure. Many thanks to friends, family, loved ones, mentors, colleagues, collaborators, accomplices 🙏

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@heavyredaction

1 year

And to cue up the reader’s sympathies for the CDC, “the punching bag of our country” per Anne Zink’s quote. Zink goes on to psychologize critiques of CDC policies as eugenicist, characterizing them as motivated by “just more sadness” 10/

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@heavyredaction

1 year

Everything about the NYT Opinion page that is terrible and corrosive to intelligence—pandering, bothsidesing, treating issues like trans rights and masking like a horse race—can now be found in one interactive feature

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@heavyredaction

1 year

I do not understand why Ashish Jha—the standing White House COVID Response Coordinator—is merely RTing the AP’s story here as if it were a minor news item, instead of offering official comment

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

9 months

Future gens will never be unable to explain Ashish Jha’s unyielding dedication to minimizing the epidemiological dynamics and effects of the virus he was hired, by the federal government, to help control. So wild that pointing this out has been made to seem fringe and extreme

wsbgnl

@wsbgnl

9 months

Reaching the full out in the open "its okay to spread it, it's not your problem" stage of pandemic messaging through basically doubling down on the idea that every covid death is really just a failure of personal responsibility

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@heavyredaction

2 years

It’s appropriate that the CDC is owning responsibility for “pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications.” Imo, projecting fatigue on the public as a way to undercut protections is one of those mistakes. 11/

Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization (Published 2022)

Among other flaws, public guidance during the coronavirus pandemic was “confusing and overwhelming,” the agency said.

www.nytimes.com

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction

1 year

Maybe others will disagree—but I barely recognize the pandemic that’s described here, with its myriad silver linings, blandly described emotions, and lack of official malfeasance and misdirection. There's something disrespectfully glib about the way this report pivots 8/

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@heavyredaction

1 year

The text is voiced in the past perfect, as if the pandemic truly were over—and its coda is “While profoundly disruptive in many ways…” Those many ways apparently exclude the deepest actual impacts—lost life, health, loved ones. Not even life expectancy gets a mention here 5/

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Here’s how I decide when and whether to put cooked chicken back on the plate that had raw chicken on it. (1/25)

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@heavyredaction

2 years

Our third pandemic winter is at hand. In @TIME today with @n_hold 1/

Our Third COVID Winter Is Coming. America Isn't Ready

With the experience of last year’s record-breaking Omicron wave, American leaders should now be ready. They're not.

time.com

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@heavyredaction

1 year

This is the “call-out,” titled “Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” It’s a remarkable account of the way “connection” was impeded by “lockdowns and stay-at-home orders,” cancellation of important events, and online education—but not sickness, death, or disability 3/

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