Notices by "You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (beadsland@disabled.social), page 3

Imagine if Usians had a political system wherein there was nothing presumptive, no one nominated, no post to be first past, and no all for any winner to take…

Imagine if Usians had a democracy, rather than be haunted every so many years by spectral signification of a Rube Goldberg fever-dream zoöpraxiscopic contraption that is more about protracted, obstreperous, doctrinal spectacle than government, whether by the people or anyone else.

#KayfabePanto

#H5N1-infected farm workers were culling in 104℉:

"may have made wearing protective clothing and equipment nearly intolerable… necessitated the use of large fans, which may have promoted the virus’s spread via…"

Wait for it.

"…feathers, dust and other poultry detritus". Three things that carry pathogens necessitating protective equipment at best of times.

Worse: culling was done by one-on-one CO₂ gassing‽

i.e., gas wut helps virus!

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-16/heat-wave-may-have-increased-spread-of-h5n1-at-poultry-farm

#BirdFluBegins #climate #heatwave

Those of us who remember whom they came for before those for whom first they came, know what is happening here.

"Perhaps the most problematic part of the bill is the language that states that any member of the public can request you remove your mask. The best case scenario is this could allow private owners to ask you to remove your mask for identification purposes. "

https://disabledginger.substack.com/p/north-carolina-passes-hb-237-and

#fascism #eugenics #disability #disaccommodation #classposture

We who remember whom they came for, before those for whom first they came, know how this story goes.

Just as we know how it will be told in retrospect.

If you're waiting for the foretold fascist vanguard to arrive, look to those you're marching shoulder to shoulder with.

The rest of us saw you coming from miles off.

Make no mistake, Niemöller—for all his elision of those they came for before those for whom first they came—was talking about defenestrative fascism in face of enacted fascism.

Ain't those that came for this-that-or-other to which his critique—as shallow as said critique remains—was directed; rather those for whom those at the margins were dispensable to business as usual.

Those of us already at the margins ain't got that luxury—fuck off with sacrificing us while claiming to do so in our name.

No longer a matter of anti-Black vagrancy laws and moral panic about hobos, no amount of then existing #FifthEstate power cloud sweep away 15 million unemployed and their families.

1934 saw only 10% more strikes than the year before, with 1.4 million strikers—or 1% of national population. Labor activity only really took off with the Wagner Act of, notably, 1935. Non-agriculture union membership, alone, would then quadruple in the next decade, climbing from 3% to ~9% of national population.

4/8

Needless to say, there was no millions-strong general strike. In 1934, the San Francisco general strike mobilized 150,000; the Minneapolis general strike, including funeral procession for striker Henry Ness, perhaps as many.

But with 2½ million Dust Bowl migrants, evictee Hoovervilles in hundreds of cities, Hunger Marches and Unemployed Councils seizing food supplies & blocking evictions, the "crisis in the elite" was sustained visible expansion of ranks of #disaccommodation #classposture.

3/8

Having shrunk by 40% in the prior decade, union membership represented only 2⅓% of national population.

As a reminder, rule of thumb threshold for political change is 3.5% of population visible in sustained action:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112726427399684432

For further comparison, union membership dropped from 5⅔% to 4⅓% of Usian population since 2000.

1933's NIRA §7(a) did lead to twice as many strikes—tripling number of strikers. Yet even a national general strike wouldn't have moved needle for change.

2/8

Struck by Jane McAlevey quote from 2021:

"Winning a new New Deal will require the same level of power to create a real crisis for the elite in 2021 and 2022—just as workers did from 1933 to 1935."

Profoundly disingenuous reading of history.

In the prior five years, unemployment had gone from 3% to 25%. The Harlan County War had been 1931; the Anti-Injunction Law passed in 1932*; yet union membership was at a nadir.

* The result of what McAlevey calls "advocacy"—rather than "organizing".

1/8

When McAlvey, as a labor organizer, has to "figure out how to build to 90 percent or greater unity with unbreakable solidarity and a tight, effective structure", this is within very sort of bubble she discounts as the domain of activist mobilizers.

Note the confounding here of unity and solidarity. That 90% unity threshold speaks to the extent of shared values within the bubble of a shared workplace. Solidarity is usually about common objectives even especially despite disunity of values.

7/8

These are not "people who have no shared political values whatsoever". Any setting where folk come together has politics. Such politics are, for those within that bubble, shared, even for those on opposite sides of any given issue within those politics.

A shared workplace entails shared values about the work done therein, the energy one puts into that work, the affective benefits derived from doing such work skillfully, the obstacles and that impede that work and frustrate its realization.

6/8

Wagner Act opened the Second New Deal. The New Deal era won us a strong labor movement, not, as McAlevey suggests, the other way round.

This goes to McAlevey's critique of the Progressive movement (what Ezra Klein misconstrues as "the left")—hers is perspective of making "things better in the workplace".

While not entirely "self-selected", when she's given "a list of…a thousand employees", she's nonetheless "engaging a…crowd of people who exist in some bubble"—namely, a shared workplace.

5/8

Challenge ain't that mobilizer's bubbles are "self-selected". Rather, while "people can make radical changes in how they think about and see the world", such changes start with shared political values.

Absent that, solidarity is best we can work for. Hoovervilles—like homeless camps today—are solidarity as infrastructure. Unemployed Councils were communists & socialists organizing marches and direct action in solidarity with the starving and housing insecure.

More work than a union vote.

8/8

May 1, mandatory reporting of hospital capacity data ended. May 3, HHS released their final raw datasets through April 27:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112362054534487955

May 10, CDC released expurgated version of hospitals data. Despite some 95% of hospitals from prior week still voluntarily reporting, much data no longer available:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420096734681972

National trends should still be useable—will integrate once finished with variants chart updates:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112498161535953724

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Highest core-based statistical areas for two weeks ending 6/22:

Moderate (Lvl 7):

🟧 Cape Coral/Fort Myers
🟧 Houston/Woodlands/Sugar Land

Moderate (Lvl 6):

🟨 Jackson, MS

Low (Lvl 5):

🟨 Bend-Redmond, OR
🟨 Moses Lake, WA

Low (Lvl 4):

🟩 Albemarle, NC
🟩 Bismarck, ND
🟩 Kahului/Wailuku/Lahaina, HI
🟩 Hilo, HI
🟩 Rapid City, SD
🟩 Santa Cruz/Watsonville, CA
🟩 Santa Rosa, CA

❖ #BirdFluBegins #influenza #AvianFlu #BirdFluBegins #CovidIsNotOver

Top counties by site-level percentiles weekly high, for two weeks ending 6/22 (first map above):

High:

⒈ Mchenry, IL—93rd
⒉ San Francisco, CA—87th
⒊ Knox, IL—84th
⒋ Jackson, OR—80th

Above Average:

⒌ Cook, IL—77th
⒍ Plumas, CA—75th
⒎ Linn, OR—74th
⒏ Sangamon, IL—74th

⒐ Honolulu, HI—71st
⒑ Johnson, KS—69th

❖ #BirdFluBegins #influenza #AvianFlu #BirdFlu

While headlines declare mystery of H5N1 in Michigan wastewater, half dozen Illinois wastewater sites pop high or above average flu. Oregon and California also feature.

#CDC has applied a thick black border to markers on wastewater map, making it much harder to read.

Illness data again showing Houston/Sugar Land area as hotspot, on map that did not the week prior. Cape Coral/Fort Myers continues to ping.

❖ #BirdFluBegins #influenza #AvianFlu #BirdFlu

Now that CDC has assumed control of hospital capacity data, we no longer have public access to facilities level data:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112505690372394194

This despite the fact that hospitals are still voluntarily reporting that data.

This means that we no longer have ability to roll up facility-level capacity data to county-level choropleth, CDC having determined public only has a right to state-level data.

Below chart thus only maintained as a historical document.

CDC now withholds voluntarily reported hospital capacity data, previously available on a weekly basis from HHS:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112430074444014571

Excluding not only facilities level data, but also pediatric capacity data. Making below map impossible to maintain.

Only information CDC deigns divulge is pediatric covid-19 admissions, yet not pediatric influenza admissions—despite tracking such otherwise:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420575972530938

This map retained as historical document.

"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."

Statistics, as always, are structural.

If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.

That said, HHS data didn't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds—as of May, we don't even have HHS data.

Now a historical document.