Thiago Carvalho

"Americans remain shaken by the covid experience, including the government’s feeble and at times counterproductive responses. The coronavirus cost more than 1 million Americans their lives and left millions more disabled by extreme fatigue, neurological issues and other symptoms of long covid. At the same time, people are angry that government efforts to keep covid from causing even more harm cost many their jobs, set children back in academic development, and led to an uptick in depression and poverty.

Better public health policies could have prevented this devastation."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/21/congress-pandemic-preparedness-budget-deal/

This week Congress can help prevent another pandemic catastrophe

Legislation included in the $1.7 trillion budget deal would keep public health officials from repeating 2020's mistakes.

The Washington Post
Dec 22, 2022 at 9:55amWeb
Show threadMike HollowayDec 27, 2022
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Male bovine digestive product. Lives were saved by lockdowns and masking prior to vaccines. MAGA, Fox, et al., have convinced half the country that those lives are inconsequential. Shame.
Show threadBud GibsonJan 1, 2023
@cyrilpedia @taylorlorenz Are you using the Mona iOS app to achieve your quote boosts?
Show threadC L SmithJan 1, 2023
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen was the problem really the policies themselves or was it a citizenry more interested in their personal FREEDUMB than they were in saving themselves, their friends, their neighbors, their community?
Show threadJoseph DennisJan 1, 2023
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen Only 15% of Americans have taken the new bivalent vaccine. Americans refuse to mask up in the face of multiple viruses besides covid. People want to get angry-try looking in the mirror.
Show threadLeaveNothingForTheFutureJan 1, 2023
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen Washington Post Opinion is a big red flag
Show threadDean Booth 🦆🐇Jan 1, 2023
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The government didn’t do enough and the government did too much?
Show threadNimbusJan 2, 2023

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We need to get back to the idea of "good governance." We need people and representatives and voters who understand and value what good government can achieve. Sentiments like Reagan's quip about "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'" and Norquist's  "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" have done an immense amount of harm.

Show threadmokozoJan 2, 2023
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We also need to keep mega corporations and big pharma from buying off our representatives with big campaign donations, so they can get back to their jobs - representing their constituents!
Show threadJoshua Crawford has movedJan 2, 2023
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In reality, when you get outside of leftwing thought bubbles, you will find that most Americans don't care about Covid all that much. It was at the beginning and remains a mild flu. It is entirely the government's response to covid and the media's lack of pushback against that response that American's are shaken by.
Show threadmokozoJan 2, 2023
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You are exactly right. It was a big deal because it seemed to have come out of nowhere. It will now be just like the flu, with yearly vaccinations and seasonal cycles of return. Although, I don't think it was leftwings that created the panic - it was the media in general, looking for a big story and causing mania instead. Media is the driver of a lot of what happens in our world! Thus - mastodon for people who actually think instead of reacting.
Show threadSmoothJan 3, 2023
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen stfu hore