@SarahTheHaider
They’ve always accepted and supported me. They gave me a good mix of freedom, independence and boundaries as a kid and teenager. They never seemed overly attached to my turning out any particular way. I’ve always felt they fundamentally like me.
@fighteer1
@lexfridman
A brief history of medical consensus:
-smoking is harmless
-lobotomies are helpful
-low-fat diets are good for weight loss
-opioids for everyone!
Experts don't have be lying or have an agenda. They can just be wrong. And they often are. Consensus is a sand castle at low tide.
I can't believe anyone who's thought about it for more than 5 minutes actually supports CA's heinous bill muzzling health care providers who deviate in any way from "official guidance." This op-ed nicely lays out all the reasons it's a terrible horrible no good very bad idea.
Absolutely brilliant piece by
@DrLeanaWen
in
@washingtonpost
Completely agree with all of her many, thoughtful arguments, including the most chilling: it can be misused by partisans
Do Check it out👇
I think embracing the identity of "victim" often leads to feeling justified in victimizing others, with cruelty, punishment, aggression... Something to guard against in oneself, I think, and one reason among many to resist thinking of yourself in terms of victimhood.
@LauraOsnes
@cliftonaduncan
I'm sorry for what our industry did to you, Laura. I admire your fortitude and clarity throughout what must have been a very painful experience. It's not easy to withstand a mob of your peers demonizing and shunning you. Hope there are many brighter days ahead.
@NahasNewman
Particularly weird because the idea that there are immunological consequences to not encountering a virus for a while is the entire argument for repeated boosters.
@Leftylockdowns1
For many, it's genuine fear. They've internalized a belief that people visually obstructing their faces, even with baggy cloth masks, translates to reduced risk of transmission. Removing that visible symbol is terrifying. Such a harmful disservice by leaders who oversold masks.
@ZacBissonnette
The only thing to do now is show up, all hands on deck. I'm volunteering as a tutor at a high school in North Mpls this fall with Big Brothers Big Sisters. I feel like if we took a fraction of the energy around this on Twitter and applied it IRL we could at least make a dent.
@annbauerwriter
@skepticalmark
It’s happening in the theater too. We used to literally do trust falls off tables into each other’s arms. Now our union won’t let us share a coffee pot. Because germs. A “COVID safety officer” has to supervise all rehearsals. Something’s gone terribly wrong.
Or maybe it's his 8-year-old's withering rage at their father for catching a respiratory virus, which they've been indoctrinated to believe that only bad, dirty, evil people get. So many delightful morsels to choose from!
I'm not a fearful person. I habitually leave doors unlocked. I leave my purse lying around when I hit the dance floor. I stride blithely into situations that would make many blanch. But lately I feel afraid. Not all the time, but more than I ever have.
Trying to decide on my favorite detail. The single cough after a vigorous ride on his Peloton? The immediate, frictionless ability to self-isolate in a rental house down the street? The terrifying layover in decidedly plebeian Las Vegas?
I wrote a whole essay a while back about how the truth is in the energy. The truth of a person, a movement, a group. It doesn't matter what they say--pay attention to their energy. That shit doesn't lie. The energy on that street today was not fomenting peace.
@MMFlint
That's because they're one of the only cities with the resources to detect them, and do research correlating them with clinical outcomes. This example is not proving the point you think it is.
My dear mom took a fall today, and broke her shoulder. The road ahead is unclear, but it's going to involve pain and hardship. If you're the good-thought-sending type, we'd welcome some. 🙏
@venkmurthy
@VPrasadMDMPH
I asked a Mayo vaccine expert about this very thing today; he responded with a lecture on the risks of myocarditis following vax being smaller than the risks of contracting Covid. I...do not know what's going on anymore. Trying very hard to continue assuming good intentions.
I was in this blocked traffic for 20+ minutes today trying to get to my show. Ppl were getting out of their cars, screaming, begging these protesters to move while others jeered from the pedestrian bridge above. This 👇 happened shortly after I was able to get through.
Minneapolis - Around 1:45 pm as pro-Palestine demonstrators held a 'die-in' at Lyndale/Hennepin, an alleged counter-protester drove into the crowd, possibly firing a a gun or firecracker while driving away.
Our drone footage paired w/ audio from on the ground shows the incident:
Gentle reminder to dudes, even (and maybe particularly) "woke" dudes who are sure this isn't them:
Give women credit for their ideas. They didn't say something that led to you having an idea. THEY HAD THE IDEA. A lot more often than you think. I promise.
I mean, the guns are out there. The society-fraying pandemic response was what it was. So what do we do now to make a dent in the nihilism, atomization, and alienation all around? Is anyone else wondering this?
I'm sure many of the people there went with peaceful intentions. Perhaps the organizers have peaceful intentions. But the Hamas flag is not a peaceful symbol. Keeping that case worker from her desperate client is not a peaceful action. My nervous system still hasn't relaxed.
Fellow progressives or progressive-until-recently folks, how are you thinking about what has happened to San Francisco? It's hard for me not to see it as the real-world endpoint of many progressive policies and approaches that I've historically supported.
Thoughts from a Starbucks in New Brighton: Diverse spaces make me feel viscerally safer, happier, more hopeful, and less anxious. Minnesota is getting more diverse by the day, and I'm so damn glad and grateful.
This is not my normal way of being. I don't see threat everywhere. But I'm sensitive to energy, and the energy is off, all around. I fear it's only going to get worse as summer heats up.
I became an aunt at 12:33 this morning at Cedars Riverside Children’s Hospital. Hands down the most rock n’ roll thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life. Here’s to the mamas. And here’s to the beautiful brand new soul I can’t wait to get to know.
@MMFlint
"Dr. Wesley Long, director of clinical microbiology at Houston Methodist says his hospital is one of a few in the US that actively does viral sequencing."
I overrode my nervous system and performed a 2.5 hour comedy. But I kept thinking: That was terrifying for me. How much more terrifying would it have been if I were Jewish? Would I have gotten out of my car? Next to the effing Hamas flag?
This can't be allowed to happen.
I've wanted to be a freelancer since the first time I heard the word. The hustle, grit, creativity, self-reliance, variety and flexibility it requires are part of the appeal. Not everyone can make it work. Some of us can. Please leave us alone.
I have friends who were live-streaming their presence at that protest. I know they're good people with good intentions. But we have to look at the company we're keeping; we have to look at the effects of our actions. If peace is the goal, peace has to be the method.
I've been silently pervin on my conservative cousin's FB page for years, since she's one of the only windows I have into the Republican Bubble. But tonight I went and left a dissertation in the comments on one of her posts. Let it be known & written: I held on as long as I could.
Not usually one to ask for good thoughts here, but our dog sitter let us know that Wabi fell down the stairs this morning and seems to have really injured his one back leg. Waiting for vet to open to know more. We're in Florida with nothing to do but fret. Good thoughts welcome.
@ChelseaClinton
Respectfully, the risk/benefit calculus on vaccinating kids against Covid is still unclear, and different responsible parties (the WHO, countries like Germany) have come to diff conclusions. Mandates, in order to have access to education, in this scenario seem inappropriate.
@bergerbell
If I see one more self-righteous person insist that those advocating for normalcy for children “don’t care about keeping them safe,” I’m going to lose my mind.
Happy and proud to share my essay on growing out my natural gray hair.
I Stopped Dyeing My Gray Hair as an Act of Resistance by Mo Perry via
@CatapultStory
#grombre
The young man in front of her was trying to get to work, where he was already late. He was furious, practically in tears, screaming, "This isn't peaceful!!"
People were pouring out of their cars. Heated arguments were breaking out. I was trapped. It was scary.
A good 7% of my life is just running toward the sound of my cat getting ready to barf, hoping I make it in time to put him somewhere barf-friendly.
(Does anyone want a cat?)
It was sickening to watch this happen in real time. I saw discriminatory behavior and attitudes from my fellow artists that I'll never be able to unsee.
"My 15-year reputation...meant nothing."
2x Tony Award nominee
@lauraosnses
' career was destroyed by anti-scientific, vaccine-based discrimination.
Listen as she opens up about banishment from Broadway, suing the
@nypost
, learning forgiveness, & more:
@sdbaral
I know healthy, young people (<50) who are double vaxxed, had a breakthrough infection, AND then got a booster. The waste and decadence boggle the mind.
I took No Mow May too far and now my yard is un-mowable, a thicket of weeds and crabgrass, with a month’s worth of dog poo lurking in the underbrush. I’ve no choice but to lie down and surrender to the resurgent prairie. Farewell!
@bergerbell
The next, post-EUA phase will entail widespread primal howls about the demonic parents who opt to not get their 6 year olds vaccinated, thereby putting all the *good* vaccinated children at risk of breakthrough colds.
This is an interesting tactic for a political fundraising email. Assign me 9-digit ID number (??) then speak to me like a very disappointed parent speaking to a misbehaving child. Compelling!
@jameshamblin
This analogy completely ignores natural immunity, the dynamics of herd immunity, and the fact that vaccinated people are not at risk from unvaccinated people. Please, people are confused enough on these points, we need you to do better.
On hold with MNSure, trying to prove that I do indeed "qualify" to buy health insurance and am not just trying to pay Health Partners hundreds of dollars per month for fun. Why is this country like this?
While we were blocked, I got out of my car and talked to some other drivers. Woman in front of me was a case worker trying to get to the home of a client who was an acute suicide risk. The case worker was helpless, desperate to get there.
Great thread. We have a problem with people conflating acknowledgment of a fact with advocacy for it. But there is wisdom and serenity in acceptance. It also helps us avoid compounding harm. We're living in the wreckage of our social cytokine storm.
One hidden crux of disagreements in COVID:
Acceptance.
Acceptance does not mean approval - I don't want a pandemic, but I accepted COVID would be pandemic in January 2020.
My every policy choice afterwards was to reduce harm conditioned on a solemn acceptance of reality.
Most of the time it's fine. But sometimes, out of the blue, it hits me like a searing poker to the heart how much I miss theater. Doing it. Seeing it. Inhabiting that shared, liminal story space. Damn.
Here's what I want to know: What can we do as everyday people? How do we cultivate and carry around energy that can offset whatever is brewing? What's a tangible, non-policy-based, immediate, human effort that will make a difference?
@EmilyYoffe
@MonicaGandhi9
@VPrasadMDMPH
@sdbaral
I've been following all 3 of these experts for more than a year, and sharing a lot of their tweets, articles, podcasts, etc. But this is the single best, most clear and concise summary of their collective best points, in a highly shareable, digestible format. Thank you, Emily.
@HistoryBoomer
I went to the OKC bombing memorial/museum on a road trip in Feb. It's really well done and viscerally affecting. They have you stand in a simulation of a courtroom across the street and reenact the moment the bombs went off with lights/sound/vibration. Won't forget that soon.
@VPrasadMDMPH
Struck by the hubris and lack of curiosity in this op-ed. Is there a mind/body connection? No doubt. Is it unidirectional? Probably not. Hope these folks find more rigorous, compassionate, and systems-biology-based care than much of the establishment is prepared to offer.
I made it to my show with just enough time to throw my costume on and go on for our sold-out crowd, my heart still pounding. My show's not that important. But other people in that traffic blockade were dealing with life-or-death stuff.
My neighbor just offered me a bottle of Round-Up to kill the dandelions in my lawn and I don’t think he was prepared for how quickly I turned into a pillar of fire.
Talk about a situation where the cure is 10,000x worse than the “problem.”
@sdbaral
Wrote about it here: "There’s a bit of scope creep in how the word is being used. Suggesting it’s ableist for ppl to stop exercising hypervigilance against infection. Or labeling a strong work ethic 'internalized ableism,' springing from white supremacy."
@katrosenfield
@reason
My gym in the suburbs has been mask-free since May. It's glorious. Mpls has a city mask mandate & the yoga studio I go to in the city has to abide by it. Owner/teacher hates it. I hate it. One of the class members gleefully enforces it. Some ppl *love* being hall monitors.
@DeRushaJ
No. But I also eat medium rare meat and often have more than one alcoholic beverage in a day, so I'm already a scofflaw by the CDC's standards.
It’s shocking to me the number of people who engage with service employees without ever saying please or thank you. If I don’t say both at least two times each per interaction I feel I will be smote where I stand.
@coldxman
Been thinking about this a lot. All the major spiritual traditions emphasize transcending a focus on the self/ego/identity. Meanwhile, our culture has an escalating obsession with figuring out & labeling one's "identity." Mental health is predictably suffering in tandem.
@Hold2LLC
Those higher case rates among the boosted support this hypothesis from Mayo Clinic's Dr. Gregory Poland re: antigenic imprinting lowering the immune system's infection blocking potential.
Tonight there was a man in our audience who was drinking vodka from a bottle stashed in his backpack, murmuring sexual things and exuding erratic energy. He was escorted out at intermission but I was shaken. Our shows are intimate. There's no separation btwn audience & performer.
Happiness is making it through your 2-month health insurance gap without incident, and finally getting to make an appointment to deal with a chronically painful foot. Alternatively, happiness might be living somewhere with a reasonable healthcare system. But I wouldn't know.
I don't know. But what if we tried turning the temperature down? Relaxing the urge to blame, hate, demonize, and make caricatures of everyone and everything around us? What if we tried breathing. Making sincere attempts to understand each other. Acknowledging our own fallibility.
Really appreciate this incisive write-up of the Munk debate on whether the news media is trustworthy, by
@TaraRHenley
.
Taibbi's book, Hate, Inc. was a real eye-opener for me. I have a lot of admiration for him. He makes some great points, quoted here.