Modern Monetary Theory
#MMT
needs to be taught not just in econ but also in in law school, political science departments, etc. Today I'm teaching my international relations class MMT & this fall my human rights law students learn MMT.
@williamandmary
@thepublicmoney
@DeficitOwls
@aftab_usa
FFP3: "When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff."
@MeetJess
Fox News: "'All My Children' actor Alec Musser dead at 50, fiancée suspects COVID contributed"
"Musser had been suffering from 'a severe case of Covid'"
@LauraMiers
Particulate matter: "If breathed in, PM2.5 can penetrate the deepest recesses of our lungs, cross into the bloodstream and transport toxins to every organ of the body."
@1goodtern
She's 23 years old and one of the top athletes in the world.
""I was not sleeping well two days. I had fever, headache," she said."
""It's difficult to perform, to run and even breathe."
@lisa_iannattone
"Ten richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall
New billionaire minted every 26 hours"
@fitterhappierAJ
To what degree should immune injury have been known based on research on SARS-CoV from over a decade ago?
From 2008:
"Progressive immune-associated injury is a hallmark of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."
.
@StephanieKelton
's Deficit Myth is suggested reading at the State Department as "the U.S. Foreign Service must be well-informed & knowledgeable across many disciplines." It's mandatory reading in my courses.
@NateB_Panic
"'I think that COVID is setting us up for a hundred years of problems,' predicted Crimmins, who holds the AARP Chair in Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School."
@HarrySpoelstra
It's important to know that you can get "Long Covid" without ever having Covid.
You can have an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection without acute Coronavirus Disease (COVID) and still develop "Long Covid."
The reason unemployment exists is because officials choose it as a policy. They choose to inflict mass misery and violence on families and children. As
@Alston_UNSR
says, "Poverty is a political choice." Unemployment is a political choice. Stop choosing it.
#JG
#GND
The reason unemployment exists is not primarily about "skills mismatches" or "low productivity workers." It is lack of jobs. The economy doesn't have enough jobs, because the gov isn't spending enough to cover the need to pay taxes + the desire to save.
@danaparish
Since Covid hit: "The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020"
"Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase"
@TRyanGregory
.
@SethMacFarlane
: "This is why..I’ve never succumbed to hubris regarding the dangers of Covid. We REALLY want it to be 'just a cold,' but it’s not.. It’s neurological, and it’s stealthier than us. Those who have friends with “long Covid” know it’s no joke"
This is why, even now, I’ve never succumbed to hubris regarding the dangers of Covid. We REALLY want it to be “just a cold,” but it’s not a cold. It’s neurological, and it’s stealthier than us. Those who have friends with “long Covid” know it’s no joke:
@EricTopol
"pandemic is defined as 'an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing int'l boundaries & usually affecting a large number of people'. The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity"
@CovidintheChart
When someone clears their throat or coughs in a mask, then it seems people suddenly want that person to keep the mask on. Making sniffing noises also works.
Chairman Powell at the
@federalreserve
puts his finger on one of the root causes of inflation at present- labor shortages resulting from covid infections in the ongoing pandemic. Our research suggests a very high ongoing burden of covid infections under the current strategy. (1/)
@fitterhappierAJ
"More than half the SARS survivors still had symptomatic sequelae at 18 years post-discharge."
"The findings of this study may have implications in predicting the prognosis of coronavirus-induced pathologies, including post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
@BarryHunt008
Low CO2 doesn't mean you can't get Covid. You can get Covid outdoors with CO2 at 420 ppm. That's why the Tour de France is requiring masks.
@EricTopol
"pandemic is defined as 'an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing int'l boundaries & usually affecting a large number of people'. The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity"
We need a
#GreenNewDeal
and
#JG
. Most people aren't socialpathic. In their jobs, they don't want to work on making the planet unlivable for their children, they don't want to engage in fraud or corruption, they don't want to stand by while their coworkers are harassed and abused.
Can't fight
#MMT
using facts so use scare tactics: "dangerous." Praet sounds like British viceroy warning that decolonization is dangerous. Or French finance officials saying giving
#CFA
African states their own currency is dangerous - there needs to be "independent" control. LOL
Praet: The general idea that government debt can be financed by central banks is a dangerous proposition. In the past, this has resulted in hyperinflation and economic turmoil. That’s why central banks are independent
@ramontremosa
@pedroantoniak
@Paolo_Guida
@patrikakis
#AskECB
@FitTestMyPlanet
@3M
Imagine high-quality N95s in black, rainbow, pink, design your own, sports teams, branded ones, dogs, cats ...
They did it with poor-fitting, low quality ear-strap cloth ones. It could easily be done for 3M Auras
@3M
@espinsegall
"Some of the best-known corporations in the US, including AT&T, Boeing, Delta Air Lines and the Home Depot, collectively poured more than $8m into supporting election deniers running for US House and Senate seats in this month’s midterm elections."
@JasonM98282978
@EntropyChase
@Team2Jb
This is a false statement: "The Covid 19 pandemic has been declared over by the World Health Organization"
See:
WHO: "This does not mean the pandemic itself is over"
Watch John Malkovich explain how money works. It's your money! We don't need the 1% to fund a
#GreenNewDeal
,
#JG
,
#CancelStudentDebt
.
"Money is a creature of the state, a public good, and a redistributive mechanism employed by that state for good or ill." —
@ptcherneva
#MMT
#GND
Until we’re prepared to show them that we can move forward *without* their money, they’ll continue to paint themselves as indispensable heroes in our lives.
@MaskedTeacherNL
I think Dräger is more comfortable than 3M Aura.
I don't notice much difference between valved or unvalved in how easy it is to breathe, even though I guess valved ought to be easier.
@HarrySpoelstra
Does anyone wear respirators or masks in Belgium? I've heard basically no one wears them in the Netherlands. I see a couple respirators and masks every day in Washington, DC.
Important thread! The attack on
#MMT
is really about who can know about it. It's a description of reality. The attack is due to fear of people demanding a shift from bank misuse of public money/war spending/bank bailouts to a monetary system used to benefit society as a whole.
MMT is not being attacked by the establishment for its theoretical foundations, but for the range of economic and political possibilities that it opens up.
@DrEricDing
@georgetownsfs
Covid mainly spreads by people who feel perfectly healthy.
"59% of all SARS-CoV-2 infections result from asymptomatic transmission"
@MeetJess
Study: More than half of SARS-CoV survivors still had damage 18 years after infection.
"More than half the SARS survivors still had symptomatic sequelae at 18 years post-discharge."
World Health Organization current guidelines are masks are recommended for anyone in an:
-- enclosed space
-- crowded space
-- or poorly ventilated space
WHO: "Masks are recommended...for anyone in a crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated space."
Chairman Powell at the
@federalreserve
puts his finger on one of the root causes of inflation at present- labor shortages resulting from covid infections in the ongoing pandemic. Our research suggests a very high ongoing burden of covid infections under the current strategy. (1/)
@germanfrancie
Key phrases:
DUTY OF CARE-"owed a duty of reasonable care to everyone working"
KNOWN-"despite the known, ongoing & grave dangers then existing with respect to the transmission and infection of humans"
PRIVILEGE: "purposefully availed themselves of the privilege of doing business"
@KashPrime
What is the average number of cases of SARS2 exposure that happen but for the average person not mitigating onward transmission?
Can someone model this?
I don't think people realize how large that number is.
@joaquinlife
This is from 13 years ago:
2010: "SARS-CoV..is characterized by severe systemic symptoms in multiple organs..lung, immune system & small vessels..[A]utopsies reported..lung injury, injured immune organs, inflammatory response in systemic small vessels"
Funny how ads are blatantly honest: "Why did she borrow $67,928 for tuition? She did it to work for you." Then capital offers to solve the debt problem it created...if you serve its interests. This is abuse. Free higher education is a
#humanright
.
#CancelStudentDebt
#GND
#JG
#MMT
@stf18
@TheStalwart
One of the many reasons MMT also needs to be taught outside of econ, in law, government, political economy, sociology, human rights, etc. courses -- starting in K-12. I teach
#MMT
in my Public Law course at
@GeorgeMasonU
.
@jburnmurdoch
@jburnmurdoch
What did you report regarding the impact of long Covid (brain damage, organ damage, long-term symptoms, etc) in comparison to long-term impacts of the flu?
@MeetJess
The world
#1
in tennis keeps not having an opponent to play because top athletes in peak physical condition are too sick, dropping out of chances to win hundreds of thousands of dollars of prize money:
Here's what white legal scholars used to say about immigration. Grotius (1609): "Every nation is free to travel to every other nation." This is an "unimpeachable rule of the law of nations ... which is self-evident and immutable." (Chetail, Int'l Migration Law, 24)
@angrybolivian
@inkblue01
"The findings of this study may have implications in predicting the prognosis of coronavirus-induced pathologies, including post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
@MeetJess
Study: More than half of SARS-CoV survivors still had damage 18 years after infection.
"More than half the SARS survivors still had symptomatic sequelae at 18 years post-discharge."
@Sandyboots2020
Are we in 2003?
Published online 2003 Aug 15:
"Airborne droplets from the patient are the main route of transmission."
"SARS-associated coronavirus, SARS-CoV...can be prevented and controlled"
@Yash25571056
And this: "retirement- and long-term-care residents infected during the first Omicron wave were 20 times more likely to get reinfected by the virus than those who avoided a prior infection"
When I went on television with Dawn Bowdish I claimed that infection with SARS Cov 2 was leaving the immune system in a dysregulated state with increased susceptibility to infections, she countered, 'we musn't overstate the claims.'
I offered increased T cell differentiation, t
Job Guarantee is a human right. Lack of
#JobGuarantee
is a human rights violation. The US "accepted the obligations of the ILO Constitution" which requires "programs which will achieve full employment." US signed a treaty (ICESCR) recognizing "the right to work" & full employment
@Orla_Hegarty
"When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff."
@fitterhappierAJ
"More than half the SARS survivors still had symptomatic sequelae at 18 years post-discharge."
"The findings of this study may have implications in predicting the prognosis of coronavirus-induced pathologies, including post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
I’m about to lose my mind. I came into work today to find out I’m the ONLY RN this week who has not called off.
I’m the ONLY RN on my unit.
Shocking, our director just informed us we’re having a “national” shortage crisis.
We’re in a pandemic, it’s covid! FUCK
We need
#JobGuarantee
to secure
#humanrights
to food thru local food production jobs, right to life-sustaining environment thru green jobs, right to housing & construction jobs, right to health & medical jobs, paid child care, right to free education pre-K to adults, infrastrctre
Local food production should be a job guarantee job. If we don't win the right to do that in the first job guarantee bill, it should be in a JG expansion bill the left is constantly fighting for.
"Masks are recommended following a recent exposure to COVID-19, when someone has or suspects they have COVID-19, when someone is at high-risk of severe COVID-19, and for anyone in a crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated space."
This is what the WHO still recommends.
@AzureXiong
@NjbBari3
Are you testing with combined nose, cheek, and throat swabs?
Is the rapid test a rapid antigen or rapid molecular (e.g., Lucira) test?
If rapid antigen, do you take a photo of the test and adjust the contrast and detail to look for faint lines?
@GosiaGasperoPhD
I wonder if the points on the graph are static or will rise over time. If you only had Covid once, the graph shows Long Covid risk at ~14% now. Will it also be 14% 10-20 years from now for everyone who was only infected once or will it rise over time due to viral persistence?