TFW you are sitting with a very deeply layered work of art and have no one to discuss it with, let alone anyone to discuss it with who would be prepared to peel back those layers.
"I think the missing item here, the thing that they really want us to forget…true object of all this forgetting, is the George Floyd Uprising.
"They want us to forget that, a mere four years ago, the president of the United States cowered in a bunker underneath the White House as rioters shook the gates and destroyed the guardhouse….They want us to forget what it felt like to take the streets with one another, they want us to forget that we fought the police and won…"
There had been plans to transfer control of HHS hospital capacity data to CDC few years back—which many of us were quite worried about, as we anticipated how CDC would disappear that data.
Nonetheless, through April, data was still being reported to HHS; HHS was still providing data through HealthData.gov.
Now CDC publishes via CDC.data.gov.
Note Orwellian name of CDC division controlling it. 🧵
In parts of the world where folk still can be seen regularly wearing masks, because pandemic, hospitals are canceling elective procedures, because FLiRT.
Meanwhile, in United States, where public access to hospital capacity data has just ended, media tells us that experts expect a "small" summer wave.
Six months from that election so many of you posit as the sole & exclusive arbiter of moral virtue.
Your blue savior would have lost even without playing arms expediter for an ongoing genocide.
Just had occasion to walk through the single block Chelsea campus of FIT.
In addition to the usual heavy presence of campus security, there were easily a dozen NYPD standing around. Plus a police wagon parked on the corner, lights idly flashing.
Those in authority really are fucking terrified of students.
"I'm one of the good maskers," says a Democrat seeking to amend a mask ban, "I'm only wearing a mask because my family has access to cancer treatment."
"Don't lump me and mine in with those seditious, insubordinate protesters!" they plaintively continue, "My family loves police! We want to help police! We'd never be seen dead at a die-in! We know better than to stand in opposition to government power! We deserve a carve-out! Let us wear masks. Just drag those other people to jail for doing so!"
"[Democrats] Batch and Grafstein each proposed amending the bill in ways they said would still give police the power that Republicans have said they want, to crack down on masked protesters, but to add back in legal protections for people who wear masks for public health reasons."