Starting a pinned thread of "cats in war", a terribly interesting element of humans trying to be human while killing other humans. To start, a famous one from Korea which presents this paradox in full specter. Obliging
@Erikhistorian
and
@pptsapper
and anyone else to submit.
@DrEricBall
@AnthemBCBS
I tried to refill my insulin a week ago. Checked in today as I’m starting to run low (60U left).
@AnthemBCBS
refused to fill it without PA. Never had that happen before. I’ve had T1 43 years and I need PA?
Student just now questioning me on my Aura after I told him 3-4K ppl dying each week: "Wait...people are still dying from covid??"
@CDCDirector
you are utter failure and disgrace as are
@POTUS
@WHCOS
@AshishKJha46
@AnthemBCBS
If I had waited until tomorrow (Friday) I would’ve had no insulin for three days. I’ve never needed a PA. Are you hearing me,
@AnthemBCBS
?
@ElieNYC
Nooo, buddy: we non-parents most certainly know the pain and suffering of our peers who are parents. *Thats precisely why we do not have kids*. Oh—we also look younger and are wealthier. This wasn’t a difficult decision.
built my Corsi-Rosenthal box for my classroom. feel certain students will appreciate it. four MERV 13 filters, box fan, nice amount of duck tape. suck it, corona
@jtrebach
nothing is lost in translation here, doc, assuming you see that empty treat bowl
I just say "i love you too baby" when he screams at me, but i'd die for him
@xrayleak
@kprather88
@CDCDirector
If
@POTUS
wanted a different COVID policy, he would have a different COVID policy. CDC is not a regulatory agency as you know. Rochelle gives Joe what Joe wants. Sorry for bringing politics into this.
@j_g_allen
Joseph, do you remember in January when she was gleeful that many who died had disabilities? She called it "encouraging".
Do you defend that behavior while condemning others'?
@IMAbusymom04
@AnthemBCBS
It finally got filled after about three hours and multiple phone calls later. After trying for a week, just about out, and tomorrow’s Fri. It just should not have to be this stupidly difficult to get a life sustaining medicine.
@gregggonsalves
But it’s okay to knowingly misinform and mislead millions into infection while it’s their job to do the opposite? We just gonna ignore that level of terribleness?
@Sandyboots2020
What if teachers ignored the fire alarm (monitor) and didn’t get the class outside during a fire
These cliches get so old bc they’re so damn obvious
WHY is prevention so niche or fringe
WHY the reluctance to easy methods (go outside), HEPA
@StephTaitWrites
This is 100% an accurate description of my day teaching 11th graders what a damn noun is. I can’t eat or drink at work if I wish to mask. Oh. I’m a type 1 diabetic. Who kinda has to need to eat.
@drseanmullen
about a month since my first resolved.
brain is not the same. at all. and fog describes a small part of what i'm experiencing
i spent all last week running down plans to get out of teaching, slim down lifestyle to near nothing, and live with greatly reduced future risk
now that the value has increased, gonna save for my grandkids all my
@CoreyRForrester
Cameos I booked drunk as hell. these Cameos "saved my [fuckin] sanity" yes indeedy
be careful, bubba, i'm comin back fer ya
@msymeonides
i am confident that both
@1goodtern
and
@fitterhappierAJ
would support me unfollowing them, you paying me "actual money", and me using that "actual money" to buy ppl N95s (the horror, the horror)
write up the terms and conditions and let's do this, Mel
@page88
Barr/RR worked nine hours yesterday.
They were back this morning to continue.
If this report were clean, that wouldn't be at all necessary.
Ie, the longer they "work" on the report, the more you can be sure it's messy and potentially "really damaging".
@1goodtern
Make it shorter. This is purposeless. Mask every day, run my CR boxes, just to get up do it again, while watching everyone around me not giving a flip, making it harder to avoid leading to a realization of “what’s the point of this?” I go nowhere. See no one. What’s the point?
@drseanmullen
@tsalibian
Finished my first infection last week. I’m a teacher. First day back today, and I start sentences and can’t finish them. I had a photographic memory. Couldn’t recall student names
Kid told me he didn’t think I should be driving and I’m not sure I disagree. This is awful.
Over 43 years, I've had several endocrinologists tell me they would refuse me as a patient if I did not manage my disease *exactly* as they directed.
Over 1mn have died (US) from poor direction. None of it based on science.
Class action is warranted.
@WalkerBragman
@elendraug
Taught 22 years. I can verify that learning loss occurs *every single year* and nobody EVER gave a GD about it until it was useful defense against protecting kids.
I am interested in building a FOIA coalition against CDC/DHHS for the data they are using for their continued updating guidelines/guidance/recommendations.
I am not an attorney, nor do I fully understand the mechanisms of FOIA.
@edyong209
"being done with the pandemic" is a state of mind
~100K more cases yesterday than 2021
~2000 more deaths yesterday than 2021
the immunocompromised being placed further at risk with this "it's over" attitude flowing from media/pols
those of us with underlying conditions, also
@ItsReallyWendy
@bennessb
@swordsjew
other day I got "well I'm just gonna stop inviting you places"
me: "that's fantastic news. glad you and i have accepted our respective realities"
@AshishKJha46
It's a stunning increase due to the stunning IDGAF attitude of you and your criminally negligent cohort
Why are we still paying your salary?
@ejustin46
@JennaLuche
I’m lying in bed right now with my first infection. Wearing a KN95 to protect my cat while oncologists won’t do that for patients. This isn’t as much a virtue brag as a non-virtue condemnation. He doesn’t deserve to be infected any more than I did (while wearing respy)
@Susan_Hennessey
This is offensive to the point of disgusting. I’ve worked since June to “meaningfully educate” the students I got in September. I spend hours *every day* of the week making sure of it six months later.
@sassyashieOG
got word this morning one of my cousins (on their third infection) has permanent lung damage. she just got back from a cruise. she eats out, gathers frequently.
in answer to your question, no, i do not panic. she's a nurse. she knows better. the cruise was worth it, she says
@SkinnerPm
quiet down, young Skinner. this deal is closed.
you will have 20 kittens by Sunday if we in Savannah CATIFA have our way...but we can't throw cans of soup, so it's we're going with Fancy Feast cans, which aren't bad. take cover, bro; report me to Twitter at your convenience
@SwiftOnSecurity
I’ve replied this before, but my teaching adult GED classes has been the most rewarding of my career. Students were driven and *wanted* it more than the teens in my day job. It’s a solid education regardless of the abbreviation
@makeupartist524
I will forever contend that, yes, we were all traumatized, but the anti-science folks were much worse than the cautious ones. They still exhibit this in what you convey here along with the mask hate that many of us have received.
@gwensnyderPHL
Agree on standard part but rural (good chunk of population) who are on septic systems leaving large swaths out. I check it every day but closest county is 100 miles away.
@PaigePang1
@McGahee220
@1goodtern
100% feel Twitter has kept me from knowingly getting it (and possibly dying w comorbidity). CR boxes, N95s, sourcing masks, etc., all came from Twitter not my pathetic ass govt.
@Colbstron
@JeffreyToobin
@CNN
no kiddin. "what he did was not a crime"--what he *did* was not a singular noun, Jeffrey. the list goes on and on and on and you can't reduce it to "what he did". jfc
and speaking of stuff that's a crime,...
@Barlos_Bateman
@BruceClaggett
I didn't know we worked together as that's my story also. Maybe 10/140 teachers masking; no students at all anymore (Virginia). Had about 50% student absenteeism today. Keep hearing about "a stomach bug going around". Mmm hmmm. It's not norovirus, y'all
@shvintage
They just sat. Custodians came and got it up. BIG props to them
Had similar last week; students surrounding that incident just sat, didn't even flinch. Both said parents wouldn't let them come home.
Would imagine vomiting is Top Tier Aerosol AND Droplet Festival
@Talranddrake
@RespectfulMemes
good god.
you folks who think we are indoctrinating kids with communism/all the bad -isms...have you met a teenager EVER? we can't get them to open their damn books, much less fully comprehend an economic system.
just stop with that mess.
@CDCDirector
Hi Rochelle. I know you've been sick and all, and may have some cognitiv...IT'S MASKS, LADY. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? IT'S MASKS. Lol at vent/filt cause that's not Pf/Mod stock $ IT'S MASKS LADY
@KiyaTheAmbivert
@baroque_bitch
Yep
Me to them: “Do you trust Biden?”
Them: “helllllll no!!”
M: “is he a liar?”
T: “hellllll yeah!!”
M: “so, uh, why’d you take your mask off when he told you to?”
T: …………
@oni_blackstock
i don't mean to be "that guy", but this was published six months ago. we were tolerating the deaths then, and we are tolerating them now. well, "we" aren't--
@CDCDirector
@POTUS
@WHCOS
@WHCOVIDResponse
are very much tolerating them if not also encouraging them.
@gershbrain
there is a BSL3 floating around. it has long-term effects. that is why. here's a picture of how one would prepare to handle a BSL3 in a lab--are your students dressed even remotely like this, as in, a mask? is anybody? THAT'S WHY.
@TheRickWilson
Marrying your bro’s widow was very customary and expected for a good deal of American history. It’s where “-in-law” comes from. And it’s nowhere as bad as “doin it” with a daughter just for fun
@RedCross
@scott_squires
Then, RC simply will not collect as much blood as possible. Choices have consequences. Make wise choices.
Do you think folks will NOT give blood if they are required to mask?
I received a FOIA produced by CDC by an account on Friday night. 1,874 pages--the prime majority of which was redacted. CDC very obviously does not want the public aware of how they are making decisions--and that simply cannot continue. CDC should be as transparent as clean air.
@prchovanec
@Popehat
his greatest talent is WORDS, lots and lots of meaningless words. the base hears their trigger words, no need for all the words, bc they heard what they needed.
like my cats: I say, "You can't have any tuna", but all they heard was "tuna" and get worked the hell up.
Need more duct tape, but two
#corsirosenthalbox
es for the classroom this year. One is named Rochelle and the other is named Ashish. Memorializing them is the least I can do
@LazarusLong13
@MalcolmNance
Gee, where's the tear gas? Ohhhhhhh, riiiiiiiight. They're white
Evacuating Congressional buildings is what happens when we get attacked...
@LauraMiers
@CDCDirector
@POTUS
@WHCOS
@AshishKJha46
And *none* of this was due to incompetence. It's intentional. Well planned and executed. Sunset Social Sec/Medicare. Reduce payees into it so it dries up otherwise. Prepare for limited resources w climate. It's all intentional. There is simply no other explanation.
@mvankerkhove
I would kindly encourage you to maybe start trying to defeat this virus. Please.
I assume you instead spend your time hoping divine retribution is not a thing.
@d_haggar
@robdelaney
“I was talking to my girlfriend last night and she called me a pervert. I said ‘that’s a big word for a six year old”. Emo Phillips
@LauraMiers
@justthefacts85
my mom taught 30 yrs. we were just talking about how, in the past with any outbreak, schools would auto shut down for a few days, recognizing the threat
now? nope. keep truckin. it's beyond my comprehension
@edtechmathteach
@BelleAMama1
That’s me. In 2025, I can make more w a reduced pension and working as a bank teller than I do as a teacher. 9-5, no papers to spend all weekend grading, no angry parents, no surprise two-hour dept mtgs.
@MeetJess
I teach; N95 entire day (one of about 10ppl/1800). I'm just getting over something big and bad. Tested neg for cov (PCR and RAT) five times (and RSV, flu, and strep) in last week. Could tests be no good?
As it goes, if we were to be attacked with bioweapon, how would we know?
@CoreyRForrester
i'd like to get RID of my job tbh, even though way back 20 years ago in Oct 2020 the Buttercream Dream tried to pump me up. it helped for a few months, but gah damn...do i need this school year to end
@perdidostschool
Pretty cool that
@AshishKJha46
gets to explain all this from home. I've read his kids' school just dropped $5mn on vent improvements.
Ie, this dude isn't living on the same planet as the rest of us poors
@CKellyWho
@RexChapman
Depends. Never run. Try to never get that close. I sing bluegrass when I hike and shake my keys. Black bears aren’t usually aggressive but DAYUM that’s nerves of steel on her. Interesting how it kinda slapped her and just moved on
@ndrew_lawrence
that's fair, but it's also relevant that not everybody in that crowd is a student. students probably a small percentage of the entire group
@CovidintheChart
I mask 8hrs/day at my teaching job. I keep CR boxes running while masking. None of that is free.
Why? So my lazy ass peers in healthcare do not have to mark if I’m infected.
None of that is without a cost for me