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Wow. Just wow.

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There is a rage to tweeting ratio that I am breaking so I’m putting my phone down. This country man, smh. We could have had so much better. But white supremacy, xenophobia and good ol misogyny won instead. A damn shame.

My same list of worries.

I end on a note of optimism- your doctors, nurses, healthcare techs, admins - we will fight like hell to keep you safe. None of us is giving us. I’m just sad that our job is made harder. But no patient of mine, no community member will suffer if I can help it. We are truly all we’ve got.

Yall do me a favor and brush off the maga that come into my comments for me please. I don’t have time for that pestilence today and I don’t want to see the asinine pretzel twisting they’ll put themselves into to justify making all of our health less safe.

I’m gonna need some kind of therapy to allow me to forgive what MAGA has done to us. Because it just gets harder to get over this. USAID- which literally keeps millions alive globally, just gutted. NIH funding- postponed and likely gone. HHS led by a quack so we all suffer. Absolute shame.

As an HIV doc, this confirmation especially hurts. Folks don’t appreciate how much HIV care and advocacy changed medicine for the better. For everyone. And we just put in charge some bro who doesn’t have the range or respect to acknowledge that. The insult is layered on this one.

When these health systems collapse and you’re begging healthcare workers to again sacrifice themselves to save lives, please reflect on how we’ve all shown thanks for the incredible sacrifice so many made in COVID. Fauci needs secuirty detail. And a hack is now HHS lead. That’s our thanks.

I watched a child almost die of tetanus in Ghana when I was a medical student. Never seen it before in real life. Only ever read about it in textbooks. Child had stepped on a nail in her village. No access to the tdap vaccine. Almost died from stepping on a nail. At age 8. That has never left me

And listen these messages are not for you if you’re coming to fight about wearing masks and vaccine harms. I don’t have the lung capacity or patience to try to talk sense into that subset right now. I’m talking to people with common sense who don’t want to die because their gov hates science.

The greatest country with the most scientific advancements the world has ever seen just voted to put a literal charlatan in charge. With rates of cancer, chronic disease, dementia, infectious diseases going up. Don’t let these people kill you please. Make a plan. Do it now.

As I write this, I am sick and I need to get off these inter webs to heal. But I can’t rest knowing the harm that is coming. Especially for our babies and children. Who don’t deserve to have repeat polio and measles and pertussis and God know what else infections bc the adults in the country suck.

I will never participate in ‘you do you’ public health. That’s not how it works. I will always always look out for the collective. But I want to be very real with people- if you think that ‘someone out there’ will magically make you healthy, you are wrong. The people in charge of health in the US

Are health professionals enraged about RFK? Absolutely. Why? Because the oath is first do no harm. You put blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice into getting these degrees to keep people safe and healthy. And then to have your country turn around and elect someone who will kill people. Just shameful

What can you do? Once you get over the shock, make sure you’re up to date w primary care, preventative care visits. Get all the vaccines you’re due for. Find trusted health sources you can use to get up to date health info. And prepare for hard times ahead.

R fucking F K Jr leading the HHS. I need the sun to run into the earth today. Let this mess end now please. I am sick at this news. Just disgusted.

1) do you have access to appropriate safety precautions (masks, air filters, cleaning agents)? 2) do you have some cash on hand? 3) do you have a plan for food if the supply chain is impacted? 4) in a worst case scenario setting, do you have a place to go that is safe?

Every smart person I know is making quiet plans for a bird flu pandemic to spread human to human. Business folks, medical doctors, public health folks- my network is preparing in big and small ways. That is a privilege I want all of us to have.

From a wise one, @oniblackstock.bsky.social - silence will absolutely not protect institutions. But guess they’ll need to find out the hard way 🤷🏾‍♀️

Me, a US based physician, going to Canada’s avian flu website to see what the latest data are. Because our own scientific communication platforms have been severely compromised or shuttered. In the year 2025. Never thought I’d see this day. Anyhoo, link here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Sometimes I feel like the world just wants to be done with us humans smh

Don’t know how many times we near to keep saying this but bears repeating. Replace DEI with Black (or trans or woman etc) and the racism/bigotry is as clear as day.

Heroes 🙌🏾

Scientific meetings are being canceled left and right. However you voted, you do not want science to be stalled. It benefits no one and harms us all. I am mentally exhausted, just like everyone else- but make noise. Call Congress and ask them to block these efforts to stall science and p-health.

What is scientific discovery without data?? The scrubbing of data from the CDC website is deeply worrisome. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Happening today with our social medicine rounds! Join us: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Imagine if we had a party that stood up to the bs we are seeing from this regime? A party that fought for us as hard as Rs fight to take away rights? I get that Dems do a lot and mean well but I just need us to be LOUD about it. Aggressive even. This silence and acquiescence isn’t the way.

I will say this and then go back to minding my business- as a medical doctor, the purposeful defunding and obfuscation of scientific advancement with what’s being done to the NIH should scare us all. Medical and scientific research literally saves lives- that’s cancer research, cardiovascular care…

Imagine undermining your own constitution from day 1. Nasty work.

Rest well Cecile Richards.

I know I’m not alone when I say how much these last 10 years have radicalized me. I can never unsee or unlearn the raw hatred and bigotry so many ‘Americans’ harbor for their fellow person. But it’s also clarifying. We grew up in the 80s and 90s and thought the worst times were behind us. 1/

Snowed in NY yesterday. Beautiful isn’t it - we hold on to the small things that make us smile, today and every day going forward.

It’s MLK day. Lots to celebrate about MLK’s legacy and the civil rights movement. But I’d be lying if I didn’t admit just how sad and demoralized I feel today. Feels like a true day of mourning. For those who are struggling, I feel you, deeply. Better days will come. We will create them.

Anthony Fauci is an American hero. That he has to be pardoned for doing his job shows how sick we are as a population. Bc wtf. Wait and see what happens this next pandemic - when public health and science have been degraded and persecuted, ALL of us suffer.

How powerful would it be if, after they pulled that stunt w TikTok, people just stopped using the app voluntarily. What if we sent a message to these billionaires to stop playing in our faces. But alas, we never get the group assignments right. Which is why we find ourselves heading into tomorrow.

What we could have had: Normalcy. Functioning gov. Sane people who you could reason with. What we chose instead: a neofascist administration run by small brained white men and their oversized egos. Shame.

May this ceasefire hold 🙏🏾

And that is the point.

Michelle Obama woke up and chose common sense in not attending the criminal in chief’s inauguration. Thank you to my forever FLOTUS.

Boycotting companies that hate us work. Keep doing it- for: Tesla Meta Twitter Walmart McDonald’s And so so many others. In the process you’ll save some coins so it’s a win win

This is major and will impact all of us.

I think about this often. Often.

Y’all know I love a good starter pack, esp one that highlights Black folks. Enjoy 👇🏾

This 👀👀

From the DOJ that gave us Merrick Garland. Not surprising 🤷🏾‍♀️

Someone said they were looking into new hobbies before the world ends and I’ve been thinking about that. Now seems like a good time to get all the fun stuff you had in mind lined up. Me myself I’ve always wanted to learn to crochet.

Wonder how our educational systems will adjust to teaching our kids about a world order in which the climate crisis constantly impacts their actual lives. Like will there be survival courses? Can I sign up for one.

I appreciate how fast and furious 2025 is coming at us. Like if we thought this year would slowly punish us, we were wrong. The punishment is *swift*.