Children stitch “Made in America” tags into shirts for J. Crew. They bake dinner rolls sold at Walmart and Target, process milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and help debone chicken sold at Whole Foods.
In the U.S., migrant child labor is everywhere. https://t.co/ZQzCpdcVX0
The general public doesn’t seem to know that Covid is airborne, that reinfection is common, that the vaccinated can get it, that Covid is a vascular disease with serious neurological complications possible, that #LongCovid is common and can disable anyone including the vaxed.
Much of my past few shifts have been about trying to navigate care for those with extended sequelae from COVID. I’m seeing how whole families are struggling with this and there are few easy solutions. Hospitals and LTC facilities are overloaded and agencies are short staffed.
It's politically inconvenient to acknowledge the massive amount of Long Covid patients in need of treatment and financial assistance in the US because once you acknowledge its magnitude, public policies, institutions and workplaces have to do something about it.
A thread.
“It’s the parents I remember … I have paused at the door to give mothers another minute, knowing that their lives will be forever split into all the time before I opened that door and all the time after” https://t.co/TOQsDrEezX via @msnbc
Maybe we could keep/reinstate mask mandates for a bit while we figure out this liver failure issue that’s mostly affecting infants and toddlers, our littlest littles, a group that has literally no way of personal responsibility-ing their way through this? Just a thought.
Stop the gaslighting with Covid. The only reason that 98% of the country is now in a low or medium risk Covid zone is because the @CDC changed the definition of ‘low’. With the previous definition 64% of the US would still be in the high/red zone. #MovingTheGoalPost#Gaslighting
There's a big reality gap right now between people who are actively staying on top of COVID research & those who just trust the current guidelines. There's no judgment here, but I'd like to try to communicate the worldview of the former based on what we know about COVID now:
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