BREAKING: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will run out of Covid-19 vaccines by next week due to supply shortages https://t.co/ceeA584zA0 pic.twitter.com/FiNDxYT2qi
— Bloomberg (@business) January 15, 2021
For all of those folks blaming states for the failures in vaccine distribution...
Last night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses.
— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) January 15, 2021
So, they announced fake news then? "When HHS Sec. Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed..." https://t.co/wLZlSsBCPJ
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) January 15, 2021
But when the federal government chooses to be AWOL in a national crisis, efforts among states and municipalities will inevitably fail.
Governors were told repeatedly by @HHSgov there was a strategic reserve of vaccines, and this week, the American people were told it\u2019d be released to increase supply of vaccine.
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) January 15, 2021
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It appears now that no reserve exists. The Trump admin. must answer immediately for this deception. https://t.co/JJky0NcbPi
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What is happening with the vaccine rollout will soon be seen, correctly, as one of the greatest failures of public administration in American history. This is what happens when the president is a lazy, incompetent, addled grifter who quits the job 10 months before his term is up. https://t.co/qu4t4g7ToC
— David Faris (@davidmfaris) January 15, 2021
This is a disgrace. A scandal. Theft from the poorest and most at-risk Americans to fill the pockets of the richest.
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) January 15, 2021
Don't pretend that our troops need the most expensive fighter plane ever built. It doesn't work. As the outgoing Acting SecDef said, "It is a piece of ****." https://t.co/T3VTukrPbK
It turns out that even within "blue" states, the locations of the HHS-funded sites themselves favor Republican-rep'ed districts. pic.twitter.com/VnywIBTeLq
— Jorge A. Caballero, MD (@DataDrivenMD) October 15, 2020
Ron Desantis and Publix only offering vaccine in FL counties won by Republicans. Worth noting that Publix also gave Desantis $100,000 despite him calling on GOP legislatures in states Trump lost to appoint separate electors to overturn election results.https://t.co/ZxLzZQmQWE
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) January 15, 2021
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But what if that wasn't true?
Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor.
The problem is in the very language we use. If I left my job as a New York Times columnist to care for my 2-year-old son, I’d be described as leaving the labor force. But as much as I adore him, there is no doubt I’d be working harder. I wouldn't have stopped working!
I tried to render conservative objections here fairly. I appreciate that @swinshi talked with me, and I'm sorry I couldn't include everything he said. I'll say I believe I used his strongest arguments, not more speculative ones, in the piece.
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He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...
... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:
Ivor Cummins BE (Chem) is a former R&D Manager at HP (sourcre: https://t.co/Wbf5scf7gn), turned Content Creator/Podcast Host/YouTube personality. (Call it what you will.)
— Steve (@braidedmanga) November 17, 2020
Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.
Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9
Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."
I wonder why...
Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x
Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.
Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq