We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus. We were wrong.

By artappraiser on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 11:15pm |

This is one of the best, most informative, most comprehensive, and most authoritative articles I've read on #coronavirus. Good work @UCSFHospitals! Please spread widely. https://t.co/UwVpjmlOyB
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 26, 2020

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https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body?fbclid=IwAR3TzLPQIICW-B-BU0kyqmCBjhQf9u2qtVb1S-65SzxFRpv_dYL9gArZ7E8

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Well this is depressing. "It is awful to contemplate the suffering still ahead. It is easier to think about the promise of a vaccine." https://t.co/7hE185zvhN
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) July 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 11:32pm

Don't forget this story from March: The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the US, according to hundreds of pages of docs ProPublica obtained. https://t.co/NVWZ1wjVxb
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 1:17am

Always important to pause and take this number in—half a year after our first case, the richest country in the world again has 1000 deaths each day. I cannot imagine a tragedy, a failure of this magnitude under any previous President, or any other administration. https://t.co/hhuxUEZ1Jz
— Larry Brilliant MD, MPH (@larrybrilliant) July 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 6:30am

INCREDIBLY SAD—Dr. Joseph Costa, chief of critical care who treated coronavirus ICU patients at Baltimore Mercy Medical Center, died this weekend from #Covid19. He was just 56.

➡️ Whoever still thinks the coronavirus is no big deal, please unfollow now.https://t.co/yJrTCRqU6V
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 28, 2020

Tonight, Jill and I are thinking about the 150,000 families left emptier by this virus.

To anyone who’s struggling, sick, or wondering how they’ll get through the day: know that I will not abandon you.

We’ll fight through this crisis together, and emerge stronger than ever.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:23pm

meanwhile the president with a narcissist drive so evil that he does not care how much harm he does continues with his delusions tonight:

10 pro-hydroxychloroquine retweets in a row from President Trump tonight...
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 28, 2020

Hmmm we must have gotten under Trump’s ski. Let’s keep going with the HCQ debunking thread! https://t.co/POCQWszxs7 https://t.co/qiytYX4yJN
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:28pm

more on the hydroxychoroquinine tweets from people with more cynical political experience:

Yes and state GOP governments and MAGAs stocked up on it. They are his donors. His campaign donors fund his legal fees. They bet a lot on the drug and he needs to save face with them.
— John Olberding (@jolberding01) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:41pm

Trying to stop Trump disinfo. machine!

Still waiting for answers from @Facebook and @Youtube about this viral coronavirus misinformation video. Some versions have been removed, but I've found a dozen others that are still live, (with millions of views each).

Oh, and Trump just shared it.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:48pm

Can't somebody threaten to sue him for tweeting this dangerous garbage? So at least a grownup in the White House has him delete it all?

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:50pm

Samantha Power:

The unraveling continues. Trump’s desperation creates and compounds so many dangers. https://t.co/DDseGoYzNU
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 12:03am

Rudy's got something to do with it! He's turned into a straight-out criminal like his father:

#Hydroxychloroquineworks is now proven conclusively.

It should be used consistently to reduce the already declining mortality rate of Covid-19.

Those who suppressed its use are directly responsible for deaths that could have been avoided.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) July 28, 2020

The domain was created 12 days ago and is a subsidiary of @FreedomWorks The credentials of the Nigerian doctor have yet to be substantiated. Most likely an effort to unload the 60 million doses that were ordered by 45s administration. pic.twitter.com/rfb9HJFZ4A
— YayDuh (@Yay_Duh) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 12:35am

This Biden tweet this morning with video also probably had something to do with it:

The hard truth is this pandemic didn’t have to be this bad. Ron Klain, former White House Ebola Response Coordinator, breaks down what a Biden administration would have done differently and what we would do now to get this virus under control: pic.twitter.com/cw8mBOfujj
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 12:55am

Rick Wilson on the hydroxychloroquinine tweets:

This is correct, and of course, entirely depraved https://t.co/1oCGMUZ0ow
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 28, 2020

edit to add:

It is https://t.co/qPpMwZnkxZ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 7:13am

So...I don’t know anything about her, I don’t know what country she’s from, but she said she’s a doctor, and hydroxychloroqine works. Seems legit! #TrumpPressConference
— Cathy Errington (@cathy_errington) July 28, 2020

(unsaid: but the bonus is that she has black skin!)

Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online

Social media companies took down the video within hours. But by then, it had already been viewed tens of millions of times.

By Sheera Frenkel & Davey Alba @ NYTimes.com, July 28

*A woman who identified herself as Dr. Stella Immanuel speaking during a video shared by “America’s Frontline Doctors.”*

In a video posted Monday online, a group of people calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors” and wearing white medical coats spoke against the backdrop of the Supreme Court in Washington, sharing misleading claims about the virus, including that hydroxychloroquine was an effective coronavirus treatment and that masks did not slow the spread of the virus.

The video did not appear to be anything special. But within six hours, President Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. had tweeted versions of it, and the right-wing news site Breitbart had shared it. It went viral, shared largely through Facebook groups dedicated to anti-vaccination movements and conspiracy theories such as QAnon, racking up tens of millions of views. Multiple versions of the video were uploaded to YouTube, and links were shared through Twitter.

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter worked feverishly to remove it, but by the time they had, the video had already become the latest example of misinformation about the virus that has spread widely.

That was because the video had been designed specifically to appeal to internet conspiracists and conservatives eager to see the economy reopen, with a setting and characters to lend authenticity. It showed that even as social media companies have sped up response time to remove dangerous virus misinformation within hours of its posting, people have continued to find new ways around the platforms’ safeguards [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 6:18pm

For more information about the doctor Trump was praising... the one who thinks that sex with demons and alien DNA experimentation are problems that really should be getting more attention...https://t.co/dDlTlO1J4G pic.twitter.com/oQPIjv2ZMN
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 6:34pm

The woman whose “important voice” he was amplifying the other day was demanding that Dr. Fauci, Chris Cuomo and the rest of us at CNN turn over our urine to her so she could test it for hydroxychloroquine which she insists we are all secretly taking. Totally normal. https://t.co/k1ajOkK9hC
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 6:58pm

California Nightmarin':

In the early months of the pandemic, California seemed to have been spared the worst of the coronavirus.

But after its quick move to reopen, the state is now facing a massive surge of new cases and deaths https://t.co/rLkFti39Ab
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:36pm

"...historic decimation of Hispanic communities in Texas..."

Many thanks @ASlavitt for all his support, we've been working (together with @BetoORourke) to address the awful and historic #COVID19 decimation of Hispanic communities in Texas and across the Southern US. Beyond heartbreaking... https://t.co/Dzta2tquNz
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:45pm

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus. We were wrong.

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