“It’s hard to take GOP protests against Biden’s announcement at face value given how widespread vaccine requirements already are. In Texas, for example, the state requires that any student attending any public or private school must show evidence of having received at least seven vaccines covering diseases such as polio, hepatitis, measles, mumps and rubella. Those seven vaccination requirements — which have helped banish once prevalent diseases such as polio — cause little controversy. So why is pushing for adults to get vaccinated for covid-19 such a flash point? The problem is that covid-19 has been a politicized pandemic from the start. It broke out while Donald Trump was president, and he was terrified that it would tank the economy and his reelection chances. So he consistently played it down, claiming it would miraculously disappear and that it “affects virtually nobody.” His cult followers therefore felt compelled to echo his Panglossian outlook by falsely claiming that covid was no worse than the flu or promoting quack remedies such as hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as miracle cures. The results of all this covid denialism can be seen in vastly differing vaccination rates. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 86 percent of Democrats have gotten vaccinated but only 54 percent of Republicans. That, in turn, translates into rising numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the red states. Over the past 14 days, the United States has been losing an average of 1,579 people a day to covid-19. More than a third of those deaths (570 a day) are in just two red states: Florida and Texas. The daily number of deaths in Florida — which has one of the worst outbreaks in the world — is more than three times higher than in California and more than 10 times higher than in New York. Republican governors don’t seem to mind killing their constituents in the name of a twisted theory of “medical freedom,” but that doesn’t mean the president of the United States is helpless to protect the life and well-being of its citizens. In fact, as Post contributing columnist Leana S. Wen argues, Biden still has not gone far enough — for example, he still needs to mandate proof of vaccination for airline and train passengers. But at least Biden has given up the hope that he could reason with covid-deniers and anti-vaxxers. The Republican reaction to his sensible mandate shows that much of the right is beyond the reach of reason. It is now time to use federal power to protect the most basic of civil rights — the right to life.”
@wizardingworldonline event 02 | houses
…Or perhaps in Slytherin, You’ll make your real friends, These cunning folks use any means To achieve their ends.
Your Avengers team based on your big three ✨✨
I had to share with y’all cuz this is fuuuuuun!!
My team!
I fucks with it.
Tagging: @afriendlyblackhottie @sunshinexsin @liquorlaughslove @ramp-it-up and whomever else wants to play
Thiiiiiis bloooooooows
Hmmm we'll two outta three ain't bad
Can I do this 🥺
This is just arguments all around kwmsnsns
Thank you for the tag Val! Love this! 😍
Ooooh I love this
I got my boy Tony 😊😊😊
@tiku-tiku @fenvincible (why did I forget every other mutual I have)
Well that was something i haven't ever checked lol. So i hope i did this right cause this is awesome.
Anyone that would like to do this!! Thank you @cevans-is-classic you are a babe abd ilysm
Had to do it... 🤷🏻♀️🙊😂
Open for anyone who wants to do this... 😘
Why am I not mad a all with this team 😍😍😍
I am... VERY okay with this team.
I am down for this team
I mean, I always knew this, but actually seeing it... 🤯
Sebastian Stan, the transformer :-)
Bucky Barnes + Knife
We need to dismantle the systems in place that allow white people to get away with offering black people sub-par services based on the excuse that our bodies are more difficult to work with. Black hair is not more difficult than white hair, it simply requires a different skill set. Tattooing vibrant tattoos on black skin isn’t more difficult than tattooing white skin, it simply requires a different skill set. Photographing black people isn’t more difficult than photographing white people, it simply requires an understanding of photography. Doing makeup on black skin isn’t more difficult than doing makeup on white skin, it simply requires different products. Working with black people is not more difficult than working with white people you’ve all just been taught that it’s not valuable and therefore not worth learning how.
This is extremely similar to the dilemma faced by disabled people. It is no more expensive to design a building with ramps instead of stairs, it’s only when you create the building first and have to tear down the stairs and replace them that you incur costs. If we teach the skills of inclusion from the beginning, there should be no additional costs for services and accessiblity for anybody.
Initially I wasn’t sure I wanted to diverge from the axis of race over to disability, but I actually think that the analogy of that building and how it’s only after we’ve institutionalized inequality that costs are incurred trying to fix it, is a valuable one so thanks for the contribution.
PLEASE hype Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as much as you hyped The Falcon and The Winter Soldier or Wandavision, it deserves all the love and REPRESENTATION MATTERS.
With all the Asian hate going around, THIS is our moment as a fandom to show love and support, and hype this the fuck up because it's gonna be BRILLIANT!
and in this moment John knew he fucked up
Sebastian Stan has body issues and if I see anyone body shaming him because of his new movie then I will be throwing hands.
if I ever don’t reblog Obi-Wan’s complete lack of fucks, assume I have perished and have been et by my cat.
Black Panther || The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The Whole World is Watching (Ep 01.04)