The OBBBA would also reduce tax credits for households earning less than $500,000 annually - propping up the 1% while taxing the working class. It's not too late to stop it. You made your voice heard at rallies, now make sure your Senators hear your voice by calling today!

Lander has been released and says he’s fine, minus a missing button

He says he’ll get due process, but the man he was trying to protect will not

“He’s not gonna sleep in his bed tonight,” he said. “So far as I know, he has no lawyer. He has been stripped of his due process rights”

People rarely think before they say that. Because if they did, they'd realize that extra time on exams doesn't make up for thousands in medical debt, incurable chronic pain, countless hospital admissions and surgeries, life-threatening complications, and the loss of mobility and independence.

In summary - there are some things on the new page that have roots in truths and half-truths, but it's framed in a very dangerous way that is clearly designed to appeal to COVID deniers, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists rather than addressing any actual public health issues.

4) They claim "alternative treatments" were "demonized" without mentioning that these alternative treatments were pushed by quack doctors with little to no scientific evidence. See @itsbabs.bsky.social incredible work on hydroxychloroquine and misinformation.

One of the biggest errors in COVID response, imo, was telling people early on not to mask. This was apparently motivated by a desire to save PPE for healthcare workers, but was the wrong strategy. People locked onto that statement and struggled to change their minds later.

3) The claim that masks didn't effectively protect from COVID is false. We know that proper masking reduces the spread of contagions, including COVID. But it IS true that the flip-flopping on policy did lead to a lot of distrust and misunderstandings when it came to public health!

2) The page decries social distancing as arbitrary and not based on science, implying they were unnecessary. The 6 ft rule came from science about droplet-based contagions, but when we learned COVID was airborne we actually should have expanded those guidelines. 6 ft was insufficient, not overreach.

Accidents happen, and sometimes those accidents are catastrophic. (See Charles B. Hare, a medical student who caught Bubonic Plague in Michigan in 1901 after smoking a cigarette he'd accidentally contaminated with lab samples.)

1) The "Lab Leak" theory is framed as some sort of political move by China with an organized coverup. To be fair, a lab leak is plausible as the source of COVID, but not as some intentional biowarfare - just an unfortunate failure of lab personnel and safety precautions.