Ben D.

Interested in emergencies, disasters, fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mudslides, pandemics, catastrophes, & more...

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

@mdotanton Liverpool won, so now I’m stumped

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

@CMSoverATLAS I will do twice the presidenting for 1/2 the pay

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

@moconnor815 Picked a hell of a week to stop drinking

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

I’m A Remote Worker Who’s Been Hearing About My Return to the Workplace for 2000 Years by Steve Macone in @SlackjawHumor https://t.co/H4wakw2uoJ @Steve_Macone #brilliantcomedy

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

@mdotanton Nothing TM. MY IDEA.

[NWS New Orleans @NWSNewOrleans]

7PM CDT Hurricane Ida Update - Ida is still a major hurricane with max sustained winds of 120mph, making it a Cat 3 currently. It continues to move at around 10mph bringing SIGNIFICANT storm surge, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes, and flooding. #LAwx #MSwx

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

“The whole, ‘health care heroes’ thing, that was nice and everything. But that’s never what any of us needed. We needed people to wear their masks… now we need people to get shots.”
https://t.co/ZOegCDocX2

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

JHU’s Daily COVID-19 Data in Motion: July 31, 2021 https://t.co/vSCehDOkEd via @YouTube

Focus on 0:39 - 0:49, its amazing visualization showing the recent increase in cases in the US. #WearAMask #GetVaccinatedNow

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I know people talk about freedom, but with freedom comes responsibility.

Your decision to be unvaccinated impacts someone else.

Please get vaccinated. For yourself. For the people you love. And for your country.

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

DR. BIDEN 👏👏👏👏👏

Glad you could make it, @FLOTUS! 👋 #TokyoOlympics

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

@moconnor815 Same boat. Can I interest you in 7,000 hours of Tokyo Olympics programming instead?

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

Tonight is the night! Don’t miss the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony at 7:30P ET on NBC! #TokyoOlympics #TeamNBC

[Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) @jeremyfaust]

Good morning, but especially to those who understand that Covid is simultaneously 100x less deadly for kids than seniors *and* that it was the leading cause of infectious disease death among kids last year, which, unlike most other top causes of death, is now preventable.

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

Drought-plagued California and western U.S. may see another devastating fire season https://t.co/TMHM8vRvoi

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"Plastic bubbles are so 2020," @Steve_Macone writes. "Here, in the spirit of me doing my part to help end this pandemic, are some new ideas for outdoor dining structures we could all feel great about using." https://t.co/54B34ql3DL

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

Here's some footage (with sound!) from the surface of another planet, and you're just gonna scroll past it without even noticing to continue looking at memes, aren't you

[All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris]

.@chrislhayes: Trump must be lawfully removed from office as fast as possible.

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

“None of these measures represents an excess of caution. They represent the barest minimum of caution, if any at all.” The Hottest Phrase In COVID-Era Sports Is An Abundance Of Nonsense | #Defector https://t.co/bSvjYdqAOx

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

What I Learned From Reading Over A Thousand Letters To Santa #defector “This year’s high unemployment did not need to lead to millions of suffering kids” https://t.co/Fs5j7eKgey

[Ben D. @DisasterBen]

Just updated today "Pandemics can be stressful" #taglineoftheyear https://t.co/o9XM9nYoxU via @CDCgov
#Pandemicscanbestressful