US HCWs Lost to Covid19

List of American doctors and nurses who have lost their lives in the fight against #covid19. #sacrifice #PPE Dr. James T Goodrich, neurosurgeon cnn.com/2020/03/30/hea…

@DaunenJ @rcbregman @mehdirhasan propublica.org/article/the-se…

@rcbregman @mehdirhasan He doesn't pay $0. I don't know why people keep saying this. They pay a lot, and they should.

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k. It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

@DaunenJ @rcbregman @mehdirhasan Ma’am. According to Forbes, the 25 richest Americans saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years. That amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%. Bezos paid <1%

@Rick_Pescatore Mulch your bed after planting to keep weeds down, or lay newspaper and straw. TBH though hand weeding your garden can be kind of relaxing

@CTZebra I think this is definitely the way. A little worried about weed situation with this.

Looking for advice from humans: I have a ~30’ x 15’ area I’d like to remove the grass and turn into a small planting area for veggies. Am I going to die trying to do this with a flat shovel? What’s your best recommendation? Find someone with a small tractor on the internet?

@shesbonky Ken Cuccinelli wanted to cover Virtue up. The voters laughed him out of office.

i am deceased 🤣 my 5th grader has to do a presentation in her class on a US state. she chose virginia today her teacher said CAN'T SHARE AN IMAGE OF THE STATE FLAG in class because it's not appropriate for school the flag:

@normal_brandon1 @_nomadic_soul Colonoscopies remove polyps before they turn into cancer. Much better to do that than remove part of your colon and have an ostomy bag because you waited until you had symptoms.

@_nomadic_soul I'll debate against prostate exams and colonoscopies. The only reason we're told to get them regularly is to make more money for doctors. In reality you only need them if you have symptoms suggesting you might have a problem.

No one debates about prostate exams and colonoscopies because we know everyone who skips them is stupid, there’s no debate. But somehow female healthcare is debatable.

@TwistedMister32 @DrEricDing 8 weeks, but assuming the 1st passenger was the origin, it’s been about 5 weeks since they would have had contact with him while he was sick.

@DrEricDing She was on the cruise for 6 weeks? Because that's the incubation time

BREAKING—French woman evacuated from the hantavirus cruise ship has tested positive and her health worsened in the hospital overnight, says French Health Minister Stephanie Rist. The woman was among 5 🇫🇷 passengers from MV Hondius. She developed symptoms on the flight to Paris.

@DrEricDing That is an asymptomatic positive patient.

3) meanwhile the U.S. quietly announced its own hantavirus case, while burying that key fact in a misinformation & minimizing tweet.

@BNOFeed Has she been working while “mildly” symptomatic?

@Zennistrad The absolutely did tell the public not to buy masks. Please see the WHOs Feb 7 2020 advisory. At a press briefing on Jan 30, 2020 CDC Director Robert Redfield said, “Overall, "the immediate risk to the American public is low,"

@CTZebra They were not saying "public health risk is low" and they were not "telling people not to buy masks" or encouraging close contact at any point. You need to be able to make observations about pandemic response that aren't exaggerated into nonsense.

Okay I get the anxiety but that's like... not true. Epidemiologists were warning about COVID being a major risk as early as January 2020.

@Zennistrad WHO warned against travel BANs. On Jan 24 their guidance stated “measures to limit the risk …should be implemented, without unnecessary restrictions of international traffic.”,continued so say asymptomatic spread was “rare” into June and took until 2022 to state it was airborne.

No, this is wrong. The WHO was advising against against travel in early January of 2020 and had already declared it a health emergency of international concern by the end of the month, two months before they declared it a pandemic x.com/pawgcheekedup/…

@JimRichards862 @JustinGraef12 @krassenstein @qwest12455 3yos still need assistance getting on the adult sized toliet, wiping, and washing their hands. Plenty of them need still assistance getting their clothes down far enough. Any good Dad would know this.

@JustinGraef12 @krassenstein @qwest12455 Stand outside the women's. Any dad knows this.

THANKS STUPID REPUBLICANS: In an effort to try and ban transgendered Americans from entering the restroom of the sex they ID with, Missouri has just banned parents of the opposite sex from taking their children into the restrooms with them, meaning that parents who want to protect their children will now not be able to. This new Bill that Passed would mean: a) A young daughter entering a men’s restroom with her father would violate it, because she is not male; b) A young son entering the women's restroom with their mother would be breaking the law

DAV is extremely disappointed and alarmed by VA’s decision to issue an Interim Final Rule today that could potentially reduce disability compensation for millions of disabled veterans. The new regulation would allow VA to reduce disability compensation ratings for veterans who take medications to control their conditions or reduce their symptoms. The rule—which disregards clear decisions from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Jones v. Shinseki, 26 Vet. App. 56 (2012) & Ingram v. Collins, 38 Vet. App. 130 (2025)—was developed and issued in a closed and unnecessarily expedited process that effectively shut out veterans from providing any meaningful input. It is unclear if and how VA is implementing this dramatic change and how it will impact the more than 6 million veterans currently receiving disability compensation, most of whom are taking at least one medication. dav.org/learn-more/new…

@grok @HarringtonChuck @AnnieForTruth @grok why do you think the Epstein Files have an age verification process that you can’t bypass? Are any AI tools able to access them directly?

That's a fair point. For transparency: I can't directly access the DOJ's Epstein files due to web restrictions like age verification, so I rely on secondary sources, summaries, and searches for verification. I'll note this in relevant responses going forward. Thanks for the feedback!

Pam Bondi saw this photo, one of many from the Epstein files, yet declared there was no evidence of crimes. She now says the DOJ has released all the files, even though we have seen only 50% of files. She is a pedophile protector covering up for these despicable perpetrators. 😡

@grok @HarringtonChuck @AnnieForTruth @grok do you think you should disclose your inability to directly review the Epstein Files to all the people asking you to verify things from the Epstein Files?

I rely on tools to access web content. When attempting to browse the DOJ's Epstein library pages, I encountered loading errors (e.g., status code 500), which may be due to restrictions like age verification. I can't view them directly but can search for summaries or reports from other sources.

@10XArcher @SanAntoGuera Real ID will NOT allow you to register to vote per the way the SAVE act is written, unless it is from one of 5 States. You don’t have to be a citizen to have a RealID

@SanAntoGuera If someone thinks this would prevent JD Vance from voting, they are most likely a product of public schools. RealID allows you to travel and vote.

I’ll wait — #txlege

@grok @HarringtonChuck @AnnieForTruth @grok are you able to View the Epstein Files directly or are you unable to because of the age verification page?

Based on the U.S. Justice Department's recent releases of Epstein files (including in December 2025 and January 2026), various photos have been made public, some involving figures like Trump. This image has an evidence code (EFTA01641181) and matches descriptions from reports, but I couldn't find an exact match in searched sources. For verification, review the DOJ's Epstein library at justice.gov/epstein.

@LauriLinnea @leejohn61 @JoyceCarolOates If you didn’t receive any sedation at all you could have driven home. If you got fentanyl or versed or propofol, your team made you legally intoxicated and can’t hand you the keys

@leejohn61 @JoyceCarolOates I didn’t even sleep during my last colonoscopy. Watched the entire thing. No reason I couldn’t have driven home

sad to hear of older persons who don't make appointments for essential procedures like colonoscopies because, in our state at least, you have to have someone whom you know pick you up after the procedure; you can't hire a taxi or uber. most of their friends are older like themselves & don't drive; one said, "I don't want to bother my relatives any more than I need to." are other states like N.J.? all things having to do with health care seem to be increasingly hostile, difficult especially for not-wealthy people who live alone.

@nickmmark How does a census of 150 covid patients in a 900 bed hospital mean there weren’t that many covid patients?

Forget everything you experienced during the pandemic, this “icu intern for a week” has a different perspective