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Rick's avatar

Maybe this is "filler" and "ramblings" - but it's important and needs to be said, all of it. It's interesting how often those who support mitigations for pandemics also oppose genocidal slaughter.

On "just the flu", yes SARS-2 (should probably be -4 by now given the spike strain jumps for BA.2 and JN.1) is much worse for the reasons you give. But influenza is also bad and regularly causes tens of thousands of premature deaths. It, too, is unnecessary as shown by the 2020-2021 season which had very few cases and caused the extinction of the B/Yamagata strain. The same mitigations that could tame SARS also could tame influenza.

Wish we as a species could learn something.

Thanks for writing.

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Theresa's avatar

Nate, thank you for writing about what my friends and I learned in 2020. We worked for the state of Minnesota public health department. We learned that our jobs were jobs in name only. We were not allowed to do our jobs. We sat and watched people die. People who believe all of the covid lies. Or, people who still are washing their hands for an airborne illness. No one has told them how to protect themselves and their families. Many of the children who died from covid in 2020, were the children of “essential workers”, first responders, health care workers, meat packers.

I tried so hard to get the attention of leaders in the agency to put together a plan to protect these children. Black children were hospitalized with MIS-C at 5 times the rate of white children. The leaders told me that Black children were getting sicker cause of genetics and they weren’t going to do anything. This broke me. I have always been able to influence leaders to do the right thing, or gone around them to make the right thing happen. I couldn’t do anything to save the children. They were simply numbers in a report.

So my friends and I quit. We couldn’t do our jobs. There is only an illusion of public health.

Oh, in 2020 when the Navajo Nation asked the Feds for Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), the Feds sent them body bags.

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