Kate Mataro

@Doophenshmirtz Hey numbnuts…

@LindseyGrahamSC "Trump has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader." James Mattis, Trump's first Secretary of Defense

On hot mic audio he didn't realize was being recorded, Brian Kemp signaled his willingness to bring up a contraception ban in Georgia ift.tt/uEYJmW9

Republicans are laser-focused on: ° Culture wars ° Banning abortion nationwide ° Ending Medicare & Social Security ° Raising American’s taxes ° Supporting Donald Trump Republicans are ALWAYS the problem. Time to #VoteThemAllOut‼️ #VoteBlue2022 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

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@ButchDoss @LiamMcBaen @RonFilipkowski Please educate yourself. George Soros was a Jew from Budapest who escaped the Nazi death camps. You should delete your tweet. It is so hateful. Shame on you

@LiamMcBaen @RonFilipkowski

Outside Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA event in Tampa today, featuring speakers Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Ron Desantis.

@Here2seejustice @wallen48 @icebergz99 He’s just a gangster.

@wallen48 @icebergz99 He's Not a politician. He's an AMERICAN who got FED UP and did something about it.. that's why he doesn't sound like them.. it just is what it is...

Here it is!! Keep this moving, spread it Fast!! They keep taking it down, but we keep putting it back up.

Amanda thought she’d never see her family again after she spent 11 days intubated in a hospital with COVID-19. Her biggest regret is not getting a COVID vaccine sooner.

Dear @Sen_JoeManchin This isn't an out of stater calling out your bullshit. This is a West Virginia newspaper. You have spent 40 years robbing the people of West Virginia while you, your wife and your children made sleazy deals to become multi-millionaires. It's disgusting.

@Vicki_Tori_Uh @NJDeptofHealth I’m in ocean county and none of us are getting any either! We are seniors with health conditions and have been signed up since Jan.

@Priest_of_Ramen Hi! here is your unroll: Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan? No? How about one from South Korea? No? Surely variants from New Zealand &… threadreaderapp.com/thread/1354995… Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

Want to end the pandemic? Lets marshal global manufacturing effort to make lots of vaccine quickly And vaccinate everyone Because large outbreaks anywhere can give rise to variants that can escape vaccines everywhere At the end of the day, we really are in this together Fin

This is what makes herd immunity advocates (remember Great Barrington Declaration?) so naive They literally advocated for virus to have more chances to mutate And what makes U.S. isolationist policies so naive Because we live on one planet And variants travel 8/9

There is only one solution to put this nightmare pandemic behind us Get outbreaks under control everywhere How? Put in place virus control policies, get people to wear high quality masks, have more testing AND Vaccinate the world Now As quickly as possible 7/9

In a future where US is vaccinated but others are not We could see rise of variants that can infect, cause outbreaks here and other vaccinated places Requiring us to update our vaccines and vaccinate everyone again It’s the nightmare scenario of a never-ending pandemic 6/7

Letting virus run wild, like US, Brazil did, endangers everyone Imagine this Some nations are largely vaccinated But outbreaks are surging elsewhere What might happen? We might see rise of variants that eventually escape the vaccines And make everyone vulnerable again 5/7

UK, South Africa, Brazil –and possibly US (LA variant still being sorted out) Each of these countries had large outbreaks even before their variants took off So what are implications if we ever want to end this pandemic? We have to bring pandemic under control everywhere 4/7

Most mutations are meaningless They will have no real clinical implications But every once in a while, a set of mutations will lead the virus to become more contagious, more lethal, or improve its ability to escape our vaccines So where are the variants coming from? 3/6

So let’s talk about where variants ARE coming from and under what circumstances Variants arise when infections run wild And selection pressures lead to dangerous mutations that can then thrive Remember, every infection creates opportunities for “errors” – or mutations 2/6