Maiah Akkerman

life long learner

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

Really excited that my research presentation was able to be published on the ERC SKILLNET website! Check out my project here!

[Dirk van Miert @Dirk_van_Miert]

Impressive 10min presentation by @HumanitiesUU's student Maiah Letsch. Using @nodegoat she mapped the layered network of a premodern medical community. Wait for the finale! (more music in our presentations pls) https://t.co/VNp53W1g5T
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[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

Me to myself every morning when I get dressed during quarantine

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

I am physically incapable of cooking with an avocado without first saying “An avocado...thanks”

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 Yeah no. I’m just not going to argue a brick wall on Twitter. If this wasn’t public forum I could share personal stories of medical professionals I know, but I’m not going to do that on Twitter

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

The #FilmYourHospital hashtag gets me so heated. People are being told to not go to the hospital directly. There’s often special entrances for corona, and everyone who is mild is encouraged to stay home. As the daughter of an urgent care MA, it’s real.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@JakeSadoway I’m so sorry! I’ve had one professor tell me I couldn’t reschedule an assignment the night we got kicked out of our hotel (bc corona) and one give me until June to finish a paper. Luck of the draw I guess.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 Obviously neither of us is going to change our perspective. I really hope corona does not get to a place where you can not deny it.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 At home orders? Unheard of. Closing international travel? Nope didn’t happen. The is a new age where lots of commerce is intellectual and can be done online, so we have ability to not have that many die.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 I’m not saying it’s not scary. I don’t want my rights taken away either. But I don’t think that makes this a hoax. It’s scary all around, but at some point the potential to save human life has to take precedent

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 21-50 million died there. That’s a large discrepancy there because it turns out it’s hard to do autopsies in a pandemic.the thing about public health measures is the more they work the more you’ll say they weren’t necessary

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 No. I’m thinking of how devastating the Spanish flu was, and how this viral pneumonia (because corona is not the flu) has very similar numbers.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 I’m texting my Mom now trying to see if I can get permission to share some of her stories. The reason you don’t see it everywhere is because when your loved one is dying your not concentrated in investigative journalism

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 But, that doesn’t mean you should belittle the pain of people who have had family and friends die all over the world.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 Spanish princess is dead btw. And you should count yourself lucky to not know anyone personally affected, not everyone can say that. I’m not saying people don’t do messed up things in a crisis, for money, power, or followers.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 I’m guessing Boris Johnson who just got moved to the ICU is in on the conspiracy as well? The Spanish princess who died is pulling an Anastasia? The Prince of Wales is faking? It’s too many high profile individuals to be untrue.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

@LarrySanders08 My mom has people constantly coming into her urgent care with corona symptoms. So all the people who have died they’re just...not real? Just because the WHO is over politicized doesn’t mean people aren’t dying.

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

Hey all you super sports people: are you okay? How you holding up?

[Maiah Akkerman @MaiahAkkerman]

Social distancing is much better when it’s in a hotel in England with my hubby