Challenge accepted, Mr. President. As Governor, I will pardon simple state marijuana possession offenses and legalize cannabis in Iowa. (Because we all know Kim Reynolds won’t.)
I keep thinking about this headline.
In May 2020 100,000 deaths was an incalculable loss.
Yet we have now lost nearly 400,000 people to COVID in the US over the last year (Sep 2021 to Sep 2022), & "the pandemic is over."
This is what the normalization of mass death looks like.
You're allowed to have voted for Biden & be a Democrat, yet fight the temptation to settle.
You're allowed to have voted for Biden & yet call him out for eugenicist action. Holding the people we elected accountable is how democracy is supposed to work.
The pandemic is not over.
As someone previously noted, MonkeyPox is going to spread at a ridiculously high rate once school is back in session and given that it has been irresponsibly discussed as a virus that only impacts queer men, it is important that we nip that rhetoric in the bud fast because
A lot of the obsessive Depp stans who got obsessed with this trial will forget about it in a month but the precedent of using defamation law to punish women who try and speak up about abusive relationships will remain. Bleak, bleak, bleak.
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Welcome to our latest COVID update. We are pleased to announce that we are in the post-pandemic, quasi-endemic phase. What? Yes, we already announced this a few months ago, but this time is for real, as our... ehm, many respected scientists keep telling you.
Here are 2 CDC COVID maps. The community level map on the L shows low levels (green) almost everywhere. The map on the R shows COVID transmission levels where very few places have low transmission (blue) & large swaths are high (orange & red). The green map is disinformation.
Smart people are convincing themselves that this virus is now benign. I get it. We all want the pandemic to wrap up happily ever after. But it’s just not the case.
Polio was “mild” for some, debilitating for others.
Covid isn’t a cold. It’s a vascular & neurotropic disease.
My dad is an ICU doctor treating COVID-19 patients. In the past WEEK he has set more “I’ve never seen a heart rate/RBC count/etc. like this” records than in his decades-long career. What this virus does to the body is like “sticking your finger in an electric socket.” Stay home.