I have just received information about a family that has locked up their child at home in isolation because she complained of some aches in her body. They suspected the child as having C19. She was tested and after a couple of days, the test came out negative. 1/n

The girl has already been in isolation for 4 days. Now they are waiting to do another PCR test today to check again because they fear that the first test was done too early and it didn't detect covid. So this little girl will remain in isolation for at least another 24 hrs. 2/n
This is idiocy. Insanity. Ignorance. Cruelty. Simply a crime against children.
The stupid fear and the stupid policies are driving parents to abuse their children. 3/n
Children are not the main source of C19 transmission. 4/n
https://t.co/hdLI4zcwDN
"transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from children under 14 years of age was minimal in primary schools" 5/n
https://t.co/nlkWq6YIs6
Children mostly get an asymptomatic presentation of the C19. Asymptomatic transmission is a negligible route of transmission. 6/n
https://t.co/0pkCNBhLaX
"Increased household exposure to young children was associated with an attenuated risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and appeared to also be associated with an attenuated risk of COVID-19 disease severe enough to require hospitalisation." 7/n
https://t.co/ggf6PYeLus
Children offer a protective effect to adults. They mainly have asymptomatic presentations. This rarely leads to a negative outcome. The disease should be allowed to spread as fast as possible amongst children in order to build cost-free herd immunity & protect the vulnerable. 8/n
Stop turning children into granny killers or infectious monsters. You are traumatizing children and causing them irreparable harm. Anxiety. OCD. PTSD. All can be clearly observed. And please stop abusing them. Don't isolate them for God's sake! 9/n
Children should be back in face-to-face schooling. Education matters. No masks. No separators. No marks on the ground. No social distancing. No testing. No contact tracing. No isolation.
Just leave the kids out of this adult insanity. 10/10

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The corrupt Lebanese government put the country in lockdown to flatten the “revolution”. As a result of the worsening economic situation, many healthcare workers were laid off and now the Lebanese people are paying for it by being denied access to care. 1/n


Here’s what would reduce mortality in #Lebanon:
1) protecting the vulnerable
2) increasing healthcare capacity
3) supporting healthcare workers

All impossible to do in a country that is gasping for dear life. 2/n

And yet the #Lebanese people are being blamed for not following guidelines and not following the rules.
The Lebanese people are not to blame. Wearing masks, social distancing, lockdowns and stupid curfews don’t do anything. 3/n

It is those politicians who transferred their money to Swiss accounts, while #Lebanese citizens can no longer transfer university fees for their children studying abroad, who are to blame.
Stop shifting the blame to the people. 4/n

Public health practitioners like @firassabiad and @petra who have bought blindly into the narrative are reinforcing this displaced scapegoating.
Please be aware of the harm of supporting the government’s narrative. 5/n

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make products.

"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."

Make Products.

"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."

MAKE PRODUCTS.

Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics –
https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.


There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.

You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.

But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.

And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.

They find their own way.