The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.ProPublica
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A few questions.
1. Why does Homeland Security need chemical weapons & guided missile warheads?
2. Who are the intended targets?
3. Whose idea was this and who authorized the expenditures?
With a prez showing himself wearing a 👑 & gleefully dumping 💩 on the American people, let's ramp up the protests & hold a general strike. If we stop, he won't. #nokings #democracy #antifa #uspol #uspolitics #authoritarianism #generalstrike
The $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement operations that the Republican Party included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year led some to warn that the Trump administration was ramping up spending at anti-immigration a…Julia Conley, Common Dreams (Raw Story)
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A couple days ago, I boosted a question about PPE to avoid COVID, and someone replied that we “need to stop” with all these protective measures, and the sooner we do, the “better we will be.” I obviously disagree: I don’t “need to stop” protecting myself because some stranger says so, and I would not “be better” with a debilitating illness.
I can’t find that comment and I seem to have accidentally deleted my response. But I keep thinking about it…
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My hot take is that banning masks prohibits disabled, immunocompromised and covid-conscious people from public life.
It should be resisted as vociferously as trans bathroom bills, which are also intended to ban a category of people from public life.
We know why that's bad. We should understand mask bans the same way.
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Darwin Woodka
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •What makes a person voluntarily want to do propaganda in favor of a disease?
Am I the only one who finds that strange?
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •The rant that’s brewing here is not directed at the vast majority of people out there behaving as if COVID doesn’t exist. I do wish there were a greater sense of solidarity, and a greater willingness to tolerate inconveniences for the sake of the vulnerable among us. I spent the last two nights in the ICU with one such person (not for COVID), so this is a perspective I feel acutely.
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •But I understand that most people just what to get on with their lives, and they have no actual malice toward me. They see me in my N95 and maybe they think it’s weird, but they don’t mind and they carry on without making an issue of it.
This isn’t for them; it’s for the angry, self-righteous, self-appointed COVID salesmen out there.
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •You can get lost in lots of complications, but what I think about this is simple:
1) COVID is bad.
2) I don’t want it.
Perhaps you disagree. You may not believe (1) or you may feel differently about (2). Fine! I don’t expect to change your mind, and I’m not telling you what to do. Live your life.
What I don’t get is: why do people want to lecture me about this? My position is not crazy and it’s not hard to understand. I shouldn’t have to explain, justify and apologize for it all the time.
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •Why does it bother you that I don’t want to get sick?
How do my COVID precautions hurt you?
If you think I should just give up, get with the program, and catch it already:
Why should I?
Why do you care?
And why are you going out of your way to tell me?
What do you think you gain from this?
You are cheerleading for a disease.
Isn’t there something else you’d rather do with your life?
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David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •There is no possible benefit to you from being pro-COVID and telling me to go catch it. You can’t suck up to a virus. It doesn’t know or care that you’re on its side, and it won’t reward you for your loyalty.
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Gerda
in reply to David McMullin • • •I have wondered about this too and I think @Perspective is right: they do not want to know because then they would have to do something about it.
I would like to add that knowing and not doing something about it would make them feel bad about themselves. Denial unconsciously protects their positive self-image.
So when they are reminded of covid and masking, their self-image is threatened once again. I think that's why they feel they have to defend their non-masking behaviour.
jtonline
in reply to David McMullin • • •I would add:
3) I don't want to infect anyone else with Covid, especially if they're vulnerable
David McMullin
in reply to jtonline • • •Absolutely! I was trying to boil this down to the simplest possible way of stating things. But by far the biggest part of why I don’t want it is because I don’t want to be responsible for giving it to someone else, and for what that could do to them.
David McMullin
in reply to David McMullin • • •Just for me personally, I’m in pretty good health, so the odds are in my favor. But I have vulnerable people in my care for whom that’s not the case. And I don’t want to harm strangers either, whether they are statistically at greater risk or not.
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in reply to David McMullin • • •I don't understand it either, but I guess some people want to pretend there is no remaining risk. Right now, it's a crap shoot. One of my radio station colleagues just became seriously affected by some kind of long covid, turning their life upside down.
I still selectively mask. Everyone should take whatever measures are the best fit for them.
Michael Gemar
in reply to David McMullin • • •David McMullin
in reply to Michael Gemar • • •I don’t know what they think. I don’t want to get into some phony “debate” about it, but the questions in my thread are not entirely rhetorical. I really don’t know the answers.
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Yeah, I can only guess, but I think they interpret my choices as an implicit criticism of their choices, and they find that offensive. (Maybe in part because at some level they know I’m right. If I were just deluded and wrong like they say, there’d be no reason to take it personally.)
So they impute that I’m suggesting they’re wrong and they find that intolerably rude, but they think getting up in my face and yelling at me about it is an appropriate response.
David McMullin
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@Perspective
@TomasHradcky
Reflecting on this a bit more, I think a key aspect of it is that some people derive needed solace and reassurance from the thought that there’s nothing they could have done about this anyway. If that’s true, then it doesn’t matter what the risk is, they don’t have to learn to adapt to it.
Visible reminders that there are actually things you can do threaten to shatter that illusion, and are therefore received as insults.